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P
EAGE plans, security plans, League Reform plans, om- ciai or unsmcial, ara in this harassed time as plen- tiful as rain in summer.
But there
is no sphere in which the business of planning in so dim- cult (sometimes, one despair- ingly thinks, an futile), as in that
of international relations.
It is easy enough to take pen and paper and draw up a plan, to contribution" (B sketch out the
cachi the
fashionable word) which State must make towards establishing or peace, to outilne a better covenant, to decide and allot responsibilities and so on.
But the trouble is that no plan maler can dictate, that there is no body that can even legislate.
You have got to secure the consent of separate, voluntary
And it A every state concerned. Gay" "Sorry, I can't do this," or B says "It A won't do this, I can't do that." It is no use fuming or shouting or getting angry. have just got to try again.
You
Above all, you must not say; "Well, there we are. Pepco plan- ring has falled. Now there's noth- ing for it but just wait for war to come."
Don't Just Wait
The other day I heard a famous statesman say a very wise thing. This Five-Power Conference," he had remarked, "may be the inst chance
at
general getting a
European settlement."
ft," said another minn, “you really think this is the last chance of averting war.
"Half a minute," said the states- man, "I didn't say that at all. You might not get a general settle- ment: but all the same Europe might keep the peace for a cen- tury.
Duw keep on shouting that war i just round the corner, and will certainly come unless such and such a plan comes off. That is a sily and dangerous sort of inverted Coudian.
So on the whole I do not attach any particular importance to par- ticular poace plans," drawn up by particular individuals.
They are rather like private members' Bills: the odds against them being even discussed are too heavy: heavier still if the drafters are not even private members, but Just private people.
Read These..
But for all that, I want very strongly to commend the reading of two recent sixpenny pamphlets, cach of winch ends in a plun: not tor the sake of the plans then- aelves, but for the sake of the thinking behind them.
One is Mr. H. N. Brailsford's (New Towards a New League Batesman. The other is Allen of Hurtwood."Peace in Our Time (Chatto and Windus). have much la common,
And they
Both Brailsford and Allen sce clearly (what so many people miss) that you cannot look at the pro- blems as though they belonged to 1938 alone. The trees right in the foreground obscure the wood.
We can hope," says Brailsford, "to eliminate irrelevant factors only in a much wider survey."
And, superb craftsman that he Is, he gives us that survey in a chapter on "Sixteen Years of 1113- toty, which fur concision, for width of range, for balance of Judgment, is unsurpassed in my ex
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H. N. Brailsford, old-time Radical, now well-known
Socialist writer.
perlence of pamphlets, Allen does not attempt this. But he nees, as cicarly as Brailsford, the unity of the period; that we are still in 1938 grappling with the problems of 1019, and that what we are really after is "a new peace settlement."
It is odd to think that in 1910 there did exist for a few months a body capable of planning peace, and possessed of the authority to put its plans into force.
The Big Four in Paris were the nearest thing to an interna- tlonal government that the world had known.
And the "Big Four" did at any Between them they rate plan. produced two plans;
The series of peace treatles whleh laid down a new order for Europe.
(1) The Covenant of the League Intended to safeguard at the same tline the peace of the new order,
Not Permanent
Now, if one thing should have been obvious. Rt was that the Plans of 1910 could not in the nature of things be a permanent, untouch- able.
unchangeable settlement; that, as with every other plan. whether of a continent, or of a mechanical toy, experience would Inevitably show the need of change, the possibility of im- provement,
But, instead and calamitously. the Treatles were declared to be perpetual, sacrosanct, unalterable,
To sateguard them and enforce them became, for one school at least, the prime task of policy. The
Revision means" terrible siagan war" was coined.
Brailsford gives the discredit to Barthou: but I believe the phrase came from Poland,
The treaties were to bo inviol-
Name Chart-
BEULAH
Symbol:
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THE index of this name stands for
order out of chaos, beauty from ugliness, success from future.
Sunday is the most fortunate day. and the hours, of 5 p.m. and B p.. are the bucklest.
The best day of the month Is the 5th.
Pale yellow or rich hymns are the mast harmonic colours for the of Beulah.
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LEAGUE
able and unchangeable. There was
a "peace system."
There might one day be an
to
* aggression fan attempt change the 1919 order by force), Against that the League and the subsidiary alliances would provide a barrier.
It was so simple. It seemed so possible in the days when Britain' and France could, for all practical purposes, dictate their will, since they had in arms, in money, in economic force, an unchallenge- able superiority.
sixteen But the
years have shown most thoughtful people that' neither the Treaty system nor the League Bystem was perfect, that buth need overhauling, since the one has produced a "bundle of problems and the other-when 13 made-hos every allowance falled.
A Twin Job
"The Lengue," says Brailsford, has been a power for inertia and conservatism, but other power it has had none." That is too harsh! but not much too harsh.
The twin job has to be done. Re- form of the League is on every glib tongue. But reform of the League must be linked with reform of the Treaty. Bystem.
deal We musi, says Allen, simultaneously with force and law on the one side, and change and revision on the other.
These two developments must go hand in hand, because you can- not get respect for law unless all nations are equal before the law and are satisfied that the law cau bo changed."
"It is right," saya Brallaford, "that
lawless and one-alded thrusts towards readjustment should be forbidden and prevented. but the corollary is that a peaceful mechanism of change should exist and function,"
For sixteen years the endeavour to keep the Treaties sacred and un- And yet re- rovised has gone on. vision has come.
Because change is in the nature of being, change has come: with creaks and jolta and breaches of the law and dangerous crises.
Genuine possibility of peaceful revision is an essential of peace. The process may be a difficult one. It will have to be gradual; it may have to be piecemeal, not by way of a new general settlement."
But it must be. Some "mechan- Em of change must exist and function."
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THE EARNEST ATHEIST By Malcolm Muggeridge
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NE puts down Mr. Mug- geridge's book about Samuel Butler wondering what on carlh can be the reason for his ex- travaganza
of peevishness and spitefulness.
He has made the surely not very starting discovery that Butler wan the son of tile father and the product of his environment, or, as ho pfirases it in hin clema-captious style. that "kis Beal mocked his spirt."
flaying reduced Datier's rebellious. nos to its narrowest and most personal terais, he would persuade us that, therefore, it was of no account.
Ife in delighted to ve able to remind us that Butler was often a bit of a prig aos ometimes a humbug, that he had
bad manner and was a Victorian.
But wo are given no important, now facts. Mr. Muggeridge merely re- arranges the old well-known ones so that they throw as bad light an pos- sible on the object of him diistike.
And he uploss them here and there with a vintõus adjective, or a smugly patronizing reflection,'
self-defence tempted to call brilliant- but, as Butler himself reinarked, there is.no bore like a brilliant bore."
There
some bright spots, though: actual quotations from Butler's own wrkings. The inclusion of these was Mr. Muggeridge's greatest mistake. Fur, in them, wordiness suddenly gives place to Butler's characteristic directness of statement, his macking provocativeness his swift flashes of intuitive observation.
und
I think Mr. Muggeridge must be it very unhappy man. Perhaps he ought
to vialt a psycho-analyst.
The book is written in the worst style of popular historical Action-a slyle ~whileti reviewers are sometimes in laky -----
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ternal as well as in internal affairs, breeds violent revolution. Systems mus adjust themselves, or they collapse explosively.
The League, or.......
On the need then for the "two developments " which must go hand in hand. Drallsford and Allen are agreed. That the ma- chinery for both must be sought in the League they are equally
agreed.
Despite failure, says Brailsford, "to abandon the Geneva Lengue and with it the idea of universallty would be a disaster." "Unless we now give life to the League," says Allen, peace and democracy will perish.'
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Both see, too, the danger of the League breaking down Into ill- aners, the danger of "regional pacts which profess to support the League, but which may "be come death-traps."
Both-but why should I provido you with summaries of two pam- phlets, when what I really want is. that you should spend a shilling, buy them both, rend them both. and think over them both. The shiling and the thinking will each be a very good investment.
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HE young man's fancy hav- ing lightly turned to thoughts of love, let us hope
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Bome men, of course, are shy about courting, but there was a good old English rustic way of dealing with such laggards when I was a boy. Perhaps It till obtains round Abbot's Snorting, "Jarge," Molly would say, "do ce love O17"*
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Happy Ever After
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If he had, he would have prompity whanged him over the head again with her bucket.
Parable
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AM told that the secret behind the settlement of hotel strikes on the French Riviera was the Bat re fusal of our novelists' sleek villains and beautiful bejewelled sples to work under strike conditions.
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