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The Paradox Of Armaments
S
TRUBE, the London Daily Express car- toonist who is the
the the greatest
in
world
Mr. Hamilton Fish, a member of the United States House of Representatives, hus raised his voice in revolt against President Roosevelt's new appropriations which are to be used for making ready
defences of the United States, against potential because he is the most enemies. Mr. Fish, apparently, highly developed apparatus is not impressed with the pro- for sensing what's going on nouncements recently made by that even this immense the President and his colleagues news-gathering organisation which aver that unless the possesses, has created a new United States builds armaments character.
as fast, if not faster, than the
Meet him, "Major Crisis." Major crisis is the villian of rest of the world, she will be-
He stalks about the come a prey to any rapacious the peace. country-powerful-enough-to-dos-stage of the world uttering fear- ful threats of war and death-and- troy her. Mr. Fish believes that desolation, and darting looks of the peace of the world could be hate and rage upon the good folk. just as secure with smaller of all nations. navies, armies and air forces,
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ONCE upon a time Major Crisis had a terrify- ratio to the needs of the particu-ing effect upon us. His shadow lar nations, as by the huge so- had but to fail across our door- called defensive forces which are step and we trembled for the being feverishly built to-day.worst.
Audiences in the theatres that
What is more, we realise that
BOMBSHE
Meet Major Crisis
-the villain who no
longer fools the audience
by
FRANK OWEN
than half an inter-State war, for
sound judgment and sturdy com-
mon
to Benge the situation. Perhaps, like John Wesley; when he surveys
the state of mankind, Strube "fears and grieves, but does not fret."
At all events he keeps his head, and, putting things into proper perspective with his. magic pencil, he helps the rest of us to see more sanely.
Strube's cartoon in the Daily
re-
WHY? In the first place we are too strong. We have the most powerful Navy in the world. Our fleets could blow out of the water any other armada or combination of armadas that would be likely to
Our Air Forco in strong and grow- ing, stronger, despite certain lament- able hillches in the expansion scheme. Our Army is efficient and adequate for ita immediate purpose.
The theory, as a theory, ap- our fathers know accepted the us that peace is indivisible, and tire army into the field on the Express each day is a surer in- pears to be equally as justifiable stage representation of this that a war anywhere means a side of one of the combatants, dex to conditions than the bob- as that propounded by its op-sinister figure with complete war everywhere, that every and another has provided the bing barometer of the London.
Stock Exchange prices. battle between two rival States 'planes, the tanks, and the best ponents. What is more, it ap- sincerity.
For though the world They hissed him, and booed must inevitably develop into a of the guns for the other.
We behold another war raging sounds to-day to the tramp of pears to enjoy the additional
him, and in the more forthright world war. value of suggesting that more parts of the kingdom they threw And then we remember that in in the Far East, with mighty legions, and the bellowing of the
and whole practical and beneficial use could eggs, cabbages, and cats at him, 1920 the Russiaus and the Poles fleets and armies
barking of the drill sergeants, be made of the huge sums of as I remember myself in the fought, and in 1922 the Turks populations geared up for a vast Strong Men is heard above the money which the armaments little border town of Monmouth and the Greeks fought, and in struggle. Yet the British pub yet the shrewd judge does not 1932 the Japanese and the Chi-lic remain calm. The ordinary accept the view that war is com race demands from those com-twenty years ago,
Nowadays the theatregoers nese fought, and in 1933 Bolivia man and woman simply cannot ing for the British people. peting in it. If it is shown that billions of dollars can be raised laugh at this menacing Man In and Paraguay fought, and in believe in Major Crisis.
The Cloak. They know that 1936 the Italians and the to manufacture armaments, the though the frail, sweet girl is
Abyssinians fought-and still ONLY the City, believe in him, and goggles productive value of which is nil, bound hand and foot in the there was no world war. Burely it would be equally mountain shack, and the candle We look around our own day with fright at him. Very sensi- fensible to raise
the same is burning low that will fire the and we see a civil war going on tive to all information are the revenue for purposes which will trail to the gun-powder barrel, in Spain, which is already more City, like our cartoonist.
The only difference between Virtue will Triumph in the end. produce additional wealth for the people?
the man who plays the part of one great country has put an en-them is that Strube applies his, come against us. However one may cling to the the monster behind those twir belief, rightly or wrongly, thating mustachios will subsequent- ly be found taking a quiet half- In nation can be defended only can of beer in the local, a very
by more and more armaments, decent sort of fellow. the economics of the altuation Just as we don't believe in a different Major Crisis when we seo him appear to call for
They have the men and the guns Economically speak on the boards or on the screen,
went WHEN
to Scotland It popular with wives, but the Scottish answer,
and the planes that make them ing, no nation has a right to in- at last we are wise to his real
formidable, and would perhaps make and tossing the caber. But I was not tired of it.
Hin favourite joke is the old chest them dreadfully dangerous at the vest its capital in unproductive character in real life.
prepared for the foibles of a Scottish
nut that marriage is a "raw deal" for Brat onset. But, they do not com- interests. America's position in
THAT is, Most of Us aro. husband.
to be the most | men. How he enjoys rejecting the and the resources of wor material, He seems to me Most of the ordinary this respect is no more, and no
spoliing is done very subtly and care Ileur his guffaw when he informa ntory-power) that could sustain them Icas, untenable than that of people of this country open their spoiled husband in the world. The invitations of his bachelor friends! food, money (and In one case, fac Great Britain, Japan, Italy, newspapers every morning and fully, for nothing must disturb his complete stranger that Monday is his in a struggle with the great demo- France, Germany and Soviet end of Stalin shouting at Musso-illusion that he is a tough, all-weather "night off the chain," lis wife may cracles.
feminine codding not see the joke, but then "women | lini, Hitler abusing Stalin,man, impatient
Winter underwear, Acarf, and trave no sense of humour." Russia, but this does not justify Mussolini roaring that he won't unbrella must be pressed upon him one, or the other. To the true stand this or that in somebody in order that he may assume the An Interesting Experience
role of a martyr. to womanly fuss.
He can be amusingly casual at economist, the spending of vast else's country, and so on."
But he enjoys the protection; and his
very Interesting Then we learn that last night wife if she is wise keep the joku tunes. I had a sums of money on war materials,
experience once at a Scottish hotel is catastrophic, and can lend only Mr. Eden went to Paris, or this to herself.
And then there is his mother, "My We were a week-end party and the to destruction. So far the morning M. Blum will be going
The menfolk made a hosty rush forly economists have failed to con- to Prague, and the situation to poor old mother" is one of his pet Saturday morning was glorious,
phrases and it usually precedes some vince the world of this. Per- grave. •
nostalgic reminiscence of the days the golf course, rushed back to lunch, haps. Mr. Hamilton Fish will be Then the League of Nations' before he settled down." Of all and out again for a second round. In
(Continued on Page 4.) more successful.-S.A.0.
spokesmen and advocates assure-domestic- topics this is the one least
THESE SCOTTISH HUSBANDS!
By An American Wife Wwas prepared for tartan, porridge, husband-bless him-never
grows
And the second reason for sleep- ing soundly to-night in that the pos sible challenges in the bloody lists of world war are not so strong as they look.
Nor do we believe that any future war can be determined in a few days. of atr Aghing and raiding before the war machines of these grent indus- trial lands could be set in motion.
And thirdly, and Onally: None of the Powers, either of the dictatorships or the democracies, WANTS war.
Even Japan doesn't want it, and if she had been faced by n ̈resolute-
organised. China she would not have begun it.
So be calm, and laugh at the antice of poor Major Crisis.