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Men & Things
Abroad by W.NEWER
P
EACE plans, security plans, League Reform plans, off-
cial or unofficial, are in thin harassed time as plen-
tiful as rain in summer.
But there is no aphere in which the business of planning is so dim- cult (sometimes,
ong
despair-
ingly tlunka, na futile), as in that of international rotations.
It is easy enough to take pen and paper and draw up a plan, to sketch out the contribution (a fashionable word)
each Which
tho Blato must make towards establishing of peace, to outline a better covenant, to decide and allot responsibUltics and so on.
But the trouble is that no plan maker can dictate, that there is no body that can even legislate.
You have got to secure the separate, voluntary consent of crery State concerned. And if A says "Sorry, I can't do this," or B says "If A won't do this, I can't do that," it is no use fuming or You shouting or getting angry. have just not to try again.
Above all, you must not say: Peace plan- "Well, there we are. ning has failed. 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 wine thing. "This Five-Power Conference," he had remarked. may be the inst cliance of
Keneral Reiting a European settlement."
"If," said another man, "you rently think this is the last chance
of averting war...
Half a minute," said the states- man. "I didn't say that at all. You night not get a general mettle- ment: but all the same Europe might keep the peace for a cen- tury."
Don't let us keep on shouting that war is just round the corner, and will certainly come unless auch and Euch a plan comes off. That is o silly and dangerous sort of Inverted Coucism.
Bo on the whole I do not attach any particular importance to par- tealar "peace plann, drawn' up by particular individuals.
They are rather like private members' Bills: the odds against then being oven discussed are too heavy: heavier still if the drafters are not even private members, but just private people,
Read These..
But for all tint, I want very strongly to commend the reading of two recent sixpenny pamphlets, each of which ends in a plan: not i for the sake of the plans them--- solves, but for the sake of the thinking behind them.
One is Mr. H. N, Brailsford's "Towards a New League" (New Statesman), The other is Allen of Hurtwood's" Peace in Our Time' (Chatto and Windus). And they Have much in common.
Both Brailsford and Allen seo clearly (what so'many people migs) that you cannot look at the pro- blems, as though they belonged to 1036 alone. The trees right in the foreground obscure the wood.
"We can hopo." says Brailatord, "to eliminate Irrelevant factors only in a much wider survey,"
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
WEDNESDAY, " OCTOBER 28, 1936.
NEW LIFE
H. N. Brailsford, old.time well-known Radical, now
Socialist writer.
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perience of pamphlets, Allen does not attempt this. But he sees, as clearly as Brailsford, the unity of the period; that we are still in 1038 gmppling with the problemts of 1010, and that what we are really after is "n new peace settlement."
It is odd to think that in 1919 few months a there did exist for body capable of planning peace, and possessed of the authority to nut its plans into force.
The "Big Four" in Paris were the nearest thing to an interna- tional government that the world had known.
And the Big Four" dld at any rate plan. Between them they produced two plans:
(i) The series of peace treaties which laid down a new order for Europe.
(1) The Covenant of the League Intended to safeguard at the same time the peace of the new order.
Not Permanent
Now, if one thing should have been obvious, it way that the Plans of 1919 could not in the nature of things be a permanent, untouch- able, unchangeable settlement: thal, as with every other plan, whether of a continent, or of a mechanical toy, experience would of the necd Inevitably show change, the possibility of Im- .provement.
But, instead and calamitously, the Treatles were declared to be perpetual, sacrosanct, unalterable.
To safeguard them and enforce them became, for one school at icaki, the prime task of policy. The terrible slogan "Revision means war" was coined.
Brailsford gives the discredit to Barthou: but I belleve the phrase came from Poland,
The treaties were to be inviol-
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able and unchangeable. There was
u "peace system."
There might one day be ILM "aggression (an attempt to change the 1919 order by force). Against that the League and the subsidiary alliances would provide a barrler..
It was so simple. It beemed so possible in the days when Britain and France could, for all practieni purposes, dictate their will, since they had in arms, in money, in economic force, an unchallenge- able superiority.
Put the sixteen years have shown most thoughtful people that neither the Treaty System nur the League System was perfect, that both noed overhauling, since the one has produced a bundle of problems and the other-when evory allowance ля mado--has failed.
A Twin Job
"The League," 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 System.
Wo must, says Allen, "deat simultaneously with force and Jaw on the one alde, and change and rovision 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 can be changed."
towards
"It is right," says Brailsford, "that
lawless and one-sided thrusts
readjustment should be forbidden and prevented, but the corollary is that 'n peaceful mechanism of change should exist and function."
For sixteen years the endeavour to keep the Treaties sacred and un- revised has gone on. And yet re- vision has come.
Because chango is in the nature of being, change has come: with creaks and jolts and breaches of the law and dangerous crises.
Genuine possibility of peaceful revision is an essential of pence. The process may be a dificult one. It will have to be gradual; it may have to be piecemeal, not by way of a now
general settlement."
But it must be. Some "mechan- Ism of change must exist and function."
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THE KARNEST ATHEIST By Malcolm Muggeridge
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NE puts down Mr. Mug- geridge's book about Samuel Butler wondering what on Darli càn be the reason for his ex- travaganza
of peevishness and spitefulness.
He has made the surely not very startling discovery that Butter was the con of his falker and the product of tits environment, or, as he pliranes it ini tits cliema-captious style, that "his Reshi mocked fiis spirit.**.
Having reduced Butler's rebellions. ners to its narrowest, and most personni terms, he would persuade us that, therefore, it was of no account,
It is delighted to be able to remind us tint Buller was oftcn'a bit of a prig and sometimes a humbug. that the hind bad manners and was a Victorian..
But we are given no important new facts. Mr. Muggeridge merely re- arranges the old well-known ones 80 that they throw as bad a light as pos- alble on the object of his clalika.
And lie spices them here and there with a vicious adjectivo, or a smugly patronlalag reflection.
The book is written in the worst style of popular historical fiction-a slyše which revlowers aro sometimes in fery
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self-defence tempted to call brilliant but, as Butler liimself remarked, "there is na bore like a brilliant bore."
There are some bright spots, though: actual quotations from Butler's own writings. The inclusion of these was Mr. Muggeridgo's greatest mistake. For, In them, wordiness suddenly gives place | to Butler's characteristic directness of statement, his mocking provocativences and his swift dashes of intuitive observation,
I think Mr. Muggeridge must be a very unhappy man, Perhaps he ought
to visit a paycho-analyst.
Or, perhaps, he disapproves of them and thinka that they also are descendants of Butler's malignant genius! STUART FLETCHER
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a MacDonaldite.
ternal as well as in internal affairs, breeds violent revolution. Systems must adjust themselves,, or they collapse explosively.
The League, or.....
On the need thep for the "two developments" which must go hand in hand. Brailsford and Allen are agreed. That the ma- chinery for both must be sought in the 'Longue, they are equally agreed.
Despite failure, says Brailsford, "to abandon the Genova Lenguo and with it the idea of universality would be a disaster." 'Unters we how give life to the League," says Allen, peace and democracy will perish. Both
see, too, the danger of the League breaking down into alli- ancca, the danger of "regional Jincts
..
ts" which profers to support the League, but which may "he- come death-traps."
Both but why should I provide you with summaries of two pain- phlets, when what I really want la that you should spend a shllling, buy them both, read them both, The and think over them both, shilling and the thinking will each be a very good investment.
ROUND
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The Showman
THE young man's fancy bay-
ing lightly turned
T
to
thoughts of lovo, let us hope
it is by now firmly hold.
Bome men, of course, are shy about cotifting, but there was a good old English rustle way of dealing with such laggards when I was & boy. Perhaps it stili oblains round Abbot's Snorting. "Jarge," Molly would say, "do se Love Ol?"
* Aye."
"Than, for mercy's sake, the great goop, who doan't" ce ast" Oi, to wed theep"
And with that, she would whang him on the head with a bucket. When be came round she would be crooning softly over him, and 'bathing a bump the size of a duck's egg. His frit conscious words always were "Tell parson!"
Happy Ever After AND 80, to paraphrase the Intrait- able Burton, the Muses sany and the Graces danced not only at "their wedding but nii their days long. Thele hearts were coupled; no anger ever bes fel them. She never called alm other- wise than "Sweetheart": he gave her no other name than “My Light” or "My Joy,"
If he had, she would have promptly whanged him over the head again with her bucket.
Parable
Once upon a time a Alm refor and a film actress lived in Hollywood,
They had been happily married for 20 years.
No one ever heard of them.
Lissen, Youse Guys! AMOROCCAN student has written
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My favourite tenture in that news paper is written on these lines:-
Guess who's in town? All right, we'll tell. Cleo van Toot; she's "our great i gat of mellerdrammer. Dut she made us pledge not to tell where she's hangin' up her hat. She's play- ing a game of hide-and-secrecy. It's O.. by us, Cico,
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I AM told that the secret behind
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our novelists' sleek villaina and beautiful bejewelled sples to work under strike conditions.
"Already," said one Barones", "I have the foolish Englishman at my fcot. He gazes into my green eyes and trembjes like a jelly, yes? I arrange a leelle doner for two-whnt. ho, I think-at which I will r-rob bim of the Flans. And then you tell me. no leetle dinner, no champagne. right, no dirty work!"
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A Head For Triggers
All
Did you read how Franclado Per nandes shot at Antonio Lotte in Par- tugal? The bullet "bounced back” off Autonio's head, leaving a slight scratch and wounded Francisco in the face. Yes, bounced.
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