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-but Pacifists
■HIS úrticle is addreased to Pacifiste in England, to
those convinced of the pro- found wickedness of dis- embowelling little children be- differ one happens to СЛИВО politically from their parents.
To those who hold that con- viction the present writer (who has, in his time, contributed something in the way of certain. economic elucidations to the strength of the Pacifist (msc) - has always said, and still says:
Stick to your, jaith... Continue....... to preach the principles of Pact- Ram; support them by reason and argument; do not sacrifice one fraction of your conviction; continue to work out all possible
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But to go on preaching that doc- trine is not all that you as a Facl- fst must do.
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You must also decide which of Sir Norman Angell
two (or more) non-Paelfiat policies
will bring Pacifist goal nearer, and which make it more remote; otherwise you may, by bad judg- ment, betray the cause you have at heart.
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ERY soon now, in a year or two, the issue will be presented to
you electorally.
In most constituencies there will be no Pacifist candidate, and you will have to choose between one whose policy is that of the Attlee- Dalton-Noel Baker-Cecil - Gülbert Murray order (the matter goes beyond Party lines), and another whose policy is of the Beaverbrook- Rothermere - Amery - Page Croft - Londonderry order.
For what will you vote?
Both stand for armed defence. But one means by defence some- thing which is compatible with peace, and the other something
which will make war inevitabic.
The Government group stands for a policy which, however much its real nature may be abscured by Up service to peace more or less sincere. and however little its nature may be realised by some of its spokesmen, nevertheless sim- mers down in fact to saying to other nations:-
We arm in order that, without any interference from you, we can carry out any policy which, with- out consultation with you, wa think to our advantage-Prefer- ences, closing the Empire, tarifs Found our Crown Colonies, what not-whether it injures you or
not:
and in order that, if we should cut into a dispute we should be able to enforce what we believe to be our rights.
That is to say, to be judge of any quarrel arising between us.
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·ND, by arming in order to be judge in' their -own cause, they arm in order to dony to some other nation the very right of judgment they claim for themselves. If both
Nobel Peace Prize Winner, 1933.
sides to a dispute insist on being its judge, the outcome obviously must be war. By that method there can be no equality of right.
Attlee-Dalton-
The other group Noel Baker - Ceell Gilbert Murray group-stands for a conception of defence based on the exactly con- trary principle of equality of right, for the defence of rights which, it claimed by both parties to a dispute, must lead to peace as certainly as the other principle must lead to war.
The policy of the Attlee group boils down to saying to foreigners:
We do not ask you to take our verdict in any dispute between us, since we are one of the parties to it. We offer you the umpire principle, arbitration, which is equal for both.
We shall not use our arms in order to be your judge: only to prevent you being ours; not to ensure that the status quo is not changed; only to ensure that it is not changed by war at the irre- sponsible dictation of the victor.
We will дght only for that right of impartial judgment. pacific settlement, and peaceful change which we offer freely to you.
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NDER the former of the policies outlined above, if the foreigner wants the same rights of security our Government claims for this nation, he must fight for them.
Under the latter polley, if the foreigner wants equality of defen- sive rights with ourselves, he need not fight at all, for they are freely offered to him.
Which policy is the more likely to produce war? For which, there fors, if he must choose, should the Pacifist vote?
Note that it is not a question of what you, with Pacifist convic- tions, should or would do about armed force.
It is a question of what those who have not Pacifist convictions. but have convictions about the
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duty of armed defence-which, however mistaken, are just as sincere as ours should do in order to make the application of their convictions to policy as little. dangerous as possible.
What, then, do you decide? Voto for neither? Even if the effect of withdrawing support from the less evil policy is to cause the moro evil to triumph?
Even if by refusing to support the Dalton-Cecil side you hand over the control of the country's foreign policy to the Rotbermere- Beaverbrook - Londonderry side, and so make war more probable?
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ETURN to the old 1914 anarchy would then be due, not to the fact that ́there ́ ́ was" a "majority-for- that course, but to the fact that the majority agairist it could not agree upon the alternative,
And would the universally pro- olalmed fallure of the collective system bring Pacidem nearer? Would that failure be followed by something more Paclist than the
LONG OR SHORT ENGAGEMENTS?
IN spite of the rush of modern missible to deduct that what was his engagement, will exert himself to
times, the hurry and bustle of our judged suitable some fifty years ago the utmost to daily existence and the strain of would not fit into the censeless activity, engagements before things now. marriage are all the fashion. But whether an engagement should be
please his fancee, scheme of These pretences, if pretences they should be, cannot, however, be kept up indefinitely-he is sure to give
A long engagement must engender himself away at some time or ather,
of long duration or short has not only a mutual knowledge of each person been a bono of contention for ages concerned an invaluable asset when "Marry in Haste..
the close companionship of subse past, but remains so stil.
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There is yet another argument in As each generation differs in its sideration. It not only enables the outlook, views, and ideals from the man and woman to discover each favour of the long engagement. It provlous, so must its accompanying other's virtues and vices, but affords allows for the possiblity problems, customs, and habits re them ample opportunity, and, above Illusionment coming before marringe. arrange themselves in accordance all, gives them adequate time in It is infinitely preferable to realise with the rising youth and react to which to drop all pretences. It is a a mistake in time and break an en- the tone of the time. Thus it is per- well-known fact that a man, during Engement than to rush headlong into
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matrimony and repent at leisure, or seek a remedy in the Divorce Courts.
On the other hand, the engaged state hardly allows of the personal knowledge that marriage does, and the risk of misunderstanding through ignorance is therefore much greater. The man, when he proposes, and the woman when she accepts, are both desirous of marriage. Why, not then get on with it while the enthusiasm ia high?
Fatal Boredom
The most fatal of all things is bore- dom, infinitely more possible in a long engagement than in a short one. An engagement, after the first excito- ment has worn off, becomes daily less rosy and Idyllic, ending more often than not in sheer undiluted boredom.
Again, the pir of proprietorship which man subconsciously adopts towards his fiances, leads to her former malo friends appearing · Iess eager to take her about and spend their hard-earned cash upon her; she is, therefore, lett to her own, devices to a far greater extent than she was prior to her engagement, and she be- comes bored.
Also many engaged people, genti- Jitely fond of each other, will qua rol irreparably over, some, triving eldent which, “weck, they baps ried, would, on Recount of the dec understanding and sympathy Bett
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We may disagree about the right answer to some of these questions. But the Pacifist must try to find the right answer, not go on saying that he does not need to answer at all; or repeat as answer the state- ment that all force is oVAL
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OR though that be per- fectly true, It is no A answer at all to the question whether force used Attlee would use it is na avil and dangerous na force used LA Beaverbrook or Rothermere would
use it.
To decide, after careful exami- nation, that the Beaverbook- Rothermere method is less likely to lead to war than the collective method might be an intellectually' honest decision, however mis- taken.
But to say that, as a Pacifist, you do not need to examine the quer- tion at all, that you have no obliga- tion to examine which is the less dangerous because bath involve force, is to evade not merely decl- afon upon an abstract question of ethics, but, to evade an urgent duty of citizenship, that duty which do- volves upon all of us to do what we canto
overwhelming prevent disaster and immeasurable evil.
Here S true story:
A
young man, who, during his fathor's absence, and against the father's strictest injunctions, had taken out the family car One even- ing to go to a riotous party also forbidden him--asked a neighbour.) who knew the country, which of two short cuts was less dangerous.
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(OW the neighbour knew one to be much more dangerous than tho other, but knowing also that the young man was engaged in wrong- doing, and fearing that the father might resent what could be inter- preted as 'acquiescence in that wrong-doing, refused to answer the question at all.
That young man was killed.
And the father held that neigh- bour in part responsible for the death, a responsibility not much lessened
by a highly moral inten- tion.
Many Pacifists will say: “But of course a Pacifist would vote for an Attlee-Cecil policy na ngainst a Beaverbrook-Rothermore one,”
Then, in that case, the same con- ditional support to the Collective Bystem as against the old one must be given by Pacifists at times other then election times.
Which decision it is the object of this article to urge.
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You Believe In
LUCKY NUMBERS?
THE · more I study, the subject. Tot lucky numbers, the more
I am convinced that there is some- thing of greater import in it than many imagine.
Numbers are invaluable as clues to the character, outlook, and future
to of the person
they belong,
whom
The late King Edward VII was all his life lotiuenced by his ruling num- ber, 9. He was born on November His marriage occurred in the year 1803, and those numbers when added together reduce to 9. His Coronation was fixed for June 27. Add those figures together and they reduce to 9. Actually he was crowned on August 9.
His secondary number, Ó, was also Unked with many outstanding oventa, (The figuro 6, you will note, is an in- verted 0.) King Edward died at the age of 69 on May 8.
From Your Name
MENTION this case because it
concerns someone known to all, but in your own life you should not have to look far for evidence of the fact that one or two numbers are ominous for you too.
Look at your Name Number. It is not difficult to calculate.. All you have to do is to jot down the numerlent equivalent of each letter in the name you are known by.. That, of course, is more likely to ex- press your real self than your bap-
amal name.
Here is the "Alphabet of Numero- logy":
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ABCDEFGHI JKLMNOPQR
STUVWXYZ
And now let us take an example:
NEVILLE
5 5 4 0 3 336
Total of numbers 34
Add 3 and 4
7
CHAMBERLAIN
3 8 1 4 2 3 9 3 1 9 5 Total
60 5
Add 5 and 0 Add Christian and surname.... 12 Add 1 and 2 to reduce to single
digit
3
So Mr. Chamberlain emerges a "3" subject, and, in fact, comes out rather well, for it is one of the happiest numbers to be born under.
The Lucklest One
SURPRISING amount of in- formation can be ascertained from the Name Number, and more still from your date of birth.
It was not an accident that you were born an, say, the 5th of the month, and it is not an accident that you possess certain traits of charac- ter which are typical of that number, So, having worked out your name, find your Birth Number by adding the digits together. If it was the would be 2; if 11th, your number
would 10th, then it be 7.
Then look your number up, and unless I am sadly mistaken, you will agree that it, too, represents another phase of your personality.
Your Birth Number should be your most lucky one. Employ it wherever possible and it will prove wonder- fully effective. You do not believe it? Well, try it and see!
Table of Numbers
I These people show independence, originality, ambition. Inclined to domineer, but get things done. Often Self-confident, obstinate.
opportunists but genorously, scrupulously fair. Generally frst-
class salesmen.
2 Will co-operate, pool resources, Bacrifice themselves. Very adapt- able, but not consistent. Friendly, sociable, dislike "scenes" and will do anything to avoid them. Need plenty of rest, relaxation. Emo- tions frequently rule attitude.
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Keynote: Expression. The type who can never stay long pent up- must manifest themselves in some way. Very affectionate, imagina- cheerful tive, artistic. Take a view of their difficulties,
4 Like to be "different," but their
are methods
staunch, rellable. Dislike change, novelty. System atte, sincere, but often incking imagination. Hard workers.
Brilliant Minds
6 Mercurial, dual-natured, change- able, Can argue for and against at the same time. Hard to pin down. Brilliant minds, clever at imilating Ready grasp of un- familiar ideas, suggestions. Friend- ships not lengthy, owing to fre- quent change of heart and mind. Most "homely" type. Domesticat- ed, settled, and kindly outlook. Steadfastness and ready under- Sometimes given to standing.
Not "money- over-indulgence. grabbers." Inclined to be very set, and rather conventional, In views.
7. Intullive, contemplative, and some- what reserved. Very loyal in friendships, but unready to for give or forget injustices. Like old things: furniture, paintings, any- thing which has a history, Necd cheerful company, apt to be de pressed. Penetrating vision. Good confidants.
8 Busincas ability strongly marked, Very willing workers, but apt to "drive" others. Great enthusiasts. Very determined, courageous, dor- Formidable competitori, un-
... sentimental..
9 Very broad-minded, and likely to
make many self-sacrifices. Fre quently socialistle in outlook, but entirely unpractical, Very Inter ested in other people's affairs. In
• Strong artistic sense. Not Stivin & bargain Understandin and highly sympathetla nature, Dimcult to dictate toy but quickly
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ACROSS 8 A number meet death in anaky
fashion (8).
9 Much har been written on this
(8).
10 A decorative tree (8).
12 Where composers of acrostics
put their bright Ideas (6). 15 If this was the result of a cric- ket fnnings it would seem that "there were eight "ducks" (10). 19 An Eastern river in a ravine
(4).
21 A cetacean (7).
22 Not fairy but false locks (7). 23 He saved "rhino" but made no
money (4),
24 Machine that may work though
part of it is lost (10).
27 "Events" (ansg.) (6).
30 Though an assistant he seems
to ask for assistance (8).
32 Foreign clonic (0),
33 This Lower came first it is said
from the East (8).
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1 I saw is the making of this.
Red Indian (8).
2 Abstract yet get again (6).
8 A supporter of Royalty (4).
4 That schoolboy friend
much changed (4).
now
& Part of a revolver but not of
an automatic pistol (0).
An Admiral would be on this ship (4).
7 Worship (4).
11 Weird but no Scat apparently
(7).
13 The sort of progress one makės by butting through (7), p.
14 A canny Scot may get this ma- terial for a path from his glen (7).
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15 Old news (7), |-16. Liberate (7).
17 The noise that might come from
a screech-owl perhaps (4)
18 Rebuff concerning some vege-
table food (7).
20 ̊0 down as a flower (4).'
24 Can a girl in her little bed be allowed? The prude says it this (0).
25 Barrows (6).
26 Country of Europe (8)... 28 Implement (4),
29 Not a bad thing to have în a
workshop (4).
30 Is this horse handy with its
hoofs (4).
31 This tree is used by builders
(4).
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