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MONDAY, JULY 25, 1935.
TRIBUTE FROM FRANCE
GENEVA'S FAILURES AND THE FUTURE OF PEACE
A Study of League History and Personalities
HERE, at a timely hour, while doors are still open though already in nct to close and mis- takes can still be rectifled, comes an Illuminating; perhaps even a saving, book.
TRIBUTE TO AN ARBITER
AT GENEVA
evento.
years
were
By J. B. FIRTH
to cross he strong aggressor's path is
sheer suicide.
The author, therefore, contends that
new
We
come very soon
To save the peace
of the world I think the correct action would be for the French, British and Belgian armies, after duc| warning. to reoccupy the, Rhino)
Why Not bridgeheads. Germany is incapable Be A
of resistance and so long as we held the Rhine we have a bastage for her
good behaviour"
But what would have been the
mny.
LAVAL, MUSSOLINI
Millionaire
(Viscount Corvedalo)
were in 1914 with many deep differ- templated the use of force and that port course, most of us would like ences, no doubt, but with one pivo ad confined themselves to expelling to be rich in a material sense in order
that
If they ΟΙ
n
Married Bliss
It explains why the machin ery of the League of Nations A high-quality, permanent fuld that must be re-designed before it, the future of the League lies in the reaction of British and world opinion?
prcecrves Hydraulic
can be started again, why the direction of strictly regional pacts, There are some things which de Contains no water or
Disarmament Conference broke involving for most States a limited moucles cumot do though dictators By Oliver Baldwin
Instead of a universal callective WHIZ NON-EVAFORATING IIX-down so helplessly and achieved security, though it is hard to see how
HAVE never met any moneyed the nothing except the acceleration the obligations of
world-whie
AND ABYSSINIA
millionaires, and 1 do not know of armaments, why Geneva has Empire like ours can fall much short
Even In March, 1936, when Ger- whether such people are happy or been the grave of so many re of universality. He says that if the
15 League
to be worktable, many reoccupied the Rhineland she not. Many people I have met aro putations, and why so much real "Germany, Italy und the US. musi was in no condition to fight." Gen. millionaires in other ways, but our upon Temperley says, "I know that in the strange world does not look good-will foundered in conflict at be members" with so much fear, stupidity— are back once more where we first 48 hours the French hud con- those ways as being of striking in- and worse.
the army was ready. point of similarly. That i "Germany Is the heart of all the the German troops it would probably to satisfy our needs, to fulfil long- tangled web and upon her ultimate have caused the downfall of the Nazi cherished schemes, or to help others out of financial difficulties, but few It is not written either in Justifica- mov
issues depend the
I pence and regime." moves
author charges Mr. Laval with of us devote much time to becoming Lion or in condemnation of uny policy
Herr Hitler will give the final war or theory; it is not designed to inain- word either for war or peace when being the evil genius chiefly respon-rich in other ways, and it is about I wish to write. that fur comes. For sible tan a thesis: on the contrary, it is an the
the League's failure in those other ways decisive mament
At Rome he I know millionaire in friends. impartial and objective narrative while the occasion may arise in any respect of Abyssinia. from which the conclusions Bow as one of half a dozen different ways, had promised the Duce a free hand, Not one with a million friends, but one whose gift of keeping and mak- If they, too, were actually observed Germany is concerned-or may con- and so he set his face from the start
friends has made him truly rich The author, Major-Gen. A. vern herself-in all.
against the imposition of oil sune-ing
He draws people to- tions, "even at the of a betrayal
cost
affection. C. Temperley, well known as Military
of the Lengue and the sacrifice of wards him, and gives forth more than Correspondent or The Daily Tele- THREE TO ONE CHANCE
Gen. British
Yel friendship."
he ever expects to receive in servies, graph and Morning
aince his Peal
OF PEACE
and good comradeship. Temperley equally holds that after loyalty, retirement from the Army, was for
The author's ten
view is that while Sir Samuel Houre's strong speech at Financially, he is in the £3-a-week nelor in the leading
re- Geneva we ought to have blocked class; ethically be pays double super- the even a 3 to 1 chance of peace behind though dramo,
thing. "we ought to reject the the Suez Canal, even at the risk of tax, if there is such scenes, for he was Military Adviser mains,
do not say he is always happy, war and make a of
war with Italy, since this would have to no fewer than four British Secre. Inevitability
for happiness is another and special taries of State for Foreign Affairs. supreme effort to negotiate a settle save the League.
That
« highly controverslal form of wealth; but he makes others must knowledge Now he is free to record his in ment, and if we are to go any dis-
tance as mediators we shall have to thesis: what is beyond serious con- happy, and this pressions and they carry the stump of recognise that Germany, as well as tradiction is that if the League had come to his help in times of strain qulet, coal conviction.
the the others, has grievances,"
Imposed Sunctions upon Japan at and worry. Mr. Eden, in a brief preface to
He flads i difeult, for example, time of her Manchurian aggression
whole brunt
waged the book ("The Whispering Gallery
of war, "We loved their courage, their
an many others do, to make out a the of Europe," published by Messrs.
case that a great Power like Ger- 11,000 miles from home, would have
I know two millionaires in hoppl comradeship and their idealism," Collins, ut 159), says "Your patience, many is to be permanently prevent- fallen upon Great Britain, in condi
They ed from having any colonies at all, tions necessarily involving the im-ness; one a mon, one a woman. said M. Albert Lebrun, President experience and impartiality
destruction of the weak have been married fifty years and everywhere recognised until you be
and he recognises the equity of the mediate
never had a quarrel. They of France, after His Majesty the came something in the nature of an German demand, while not forgetting British Chian squadron and probably have
arbiter at Geneva in your own in- that we are not the only Colonial the loss of Hongkong. What a start have a large and devoted family and King had spoken in proud and portant sphere
here of dutles."
seven most excellent grand-chlidren, Every
who are neither too old to be adored efumpter justifies the compliment, and Power and are not the sole manda- to be retrieved!
lories of former German colonica.“ glowing tribute to the men of
the author concludes his arbitrales
not too young to understand Το return to the narrative of WHY DISARMAMENT with
adoration. considered EFFORT FAILED a few cautionary events, it is the author's the Australian Imperial Forces statement
that the last chance of
of mak- opinion who gave their lives in France pages of great earnestness and power
The brief character sketches which ing the Dieurmanent Conference and Flanders during the Great he intersperses in accord with the success was missed on April 22, 1932, ter: "The French never intended to material leve been lucky in their with almost plenary disarm until it was too late: and the material success; yet I know they economic security came Into their War, at the ceremony of the ably those of Sir Austen Chamber- powers, were
time like a taxi-cab that is kept dedication of
They the Australian lain, Aristide Briand, Sir John Simon, at Geneva and--adjourned.
I know an old man who lives in waiting at the door." Always the lives. Mr. Ramsay
MacDonald and Mr. were MacDonald, Stimson, Bruning, French wanted Recurity first, and Oxford city, and who at the age of memorial at Villers-Bretonneux
Arthur Henderson. He does full Tardieu and Grandi.
their idea of security involved pledges
BO is still creating beauty. He paints on Friday. It is unfortunate justice to their best qualities, but Dr. Bruning,
the German stating inds then all lacking in something, ease, asked only for an increase in of automatic action on the part of birds and flowers and reads that no cabled version of the
cessantly, and though he lives alone the Heichswehr to 150,000, a reduc- this country which no British Gov-
never lonely. Of studious French statesman's address GERMANY THE "HEART tion in the length of service from ernment could give. Whenever
OF TANGLED WEB"
12 years to mix, and permission to promising new start was made it was instincts, his life has always been
In the company passed in the reached Hongkong, for it was
of dons and erele militia of 50,000 with three sure to be bedevilled by some unex-| of political con- one of the most moving pieces Yet even if they had lacked nothing years' service, while as regards types pecied worsening
the post--for his favourite reading or in Austria or, as in 1931, in Great
tell you of oratory, heard over the radio, one feels that the results would have of arms he required "samples" only, uitions either in France, in Germany professora, and, though his world is
is history-he will been much the same, because there ever delivered by that brilliant
whatever the future may hold it will And
to statesman.
AND AFTER
only be a repetition. overcome the ill-will, and because those upon
Atatesmen falled to come off. Sir
That is not as hopeless an attitude the nations of the League were not Australians who understood it, permeated with the lofty spirit of the
wonder that MacDonald and Austen was "ton obviously Franco as it sounds, for he gets much happi-
phile" Sir John Simon wos too
millionaire by his environment of it must have created an impres-] Covenant. They were sei too hard Stimson were favourably impressed pusly the eminent lawyer: and Dess from his certainty. He
ย task-the more ambitious that of and there was vague talk of unciber sion so deep as to be imperish-urbing
But it never came Mr. Henderson was unable to cope books and his power to create things their
ambitions, the con- meeting in May.
the with technical problems out of his which give picosure. went back ta able. Lebrun followed King querors that of being generous to the off. Silmson
Tardieu
into 自
alek plunged
ken and far beyond defented.
man's States;
20 Could there have been George at the ceremony, and
general election in which he was
was powers.
Henderson's Gen. Temperley's while His Majesty spoke smooth-beller" after 10 years of intimate asso-plared by von Papen und
"fundamental heavily defeated. Bruning was re- worse stroke of Fate than Hend
Grandi's 20- I know an engineer in a a Cabinet appointment on ly, with well-chosen words, and ciation with the League is that "its of Junkers. Herriot, who succeeded commendation-as President of the factory who earns between £4 and although his expression of pride fellure has been due to the ingrained Tardieu, would have jumped at so Disarmament Conference when Mac- £5 a week, and he is a millionaire.
reluctance of any Government to run reas
Smuts, and gratitude for Australia's the risk of war and all the suffering med fan offer, but it was not Donald's candidate for the post was for he loves his profession and is
for "Germany always raised Gen.
who possessed supremely content. If I were to be and loss that it brings to its own her bid and the French were always Henderson's enthusiasm for disarma- too particular i might call him prig- people in order to preserve another
and not thoughtful enough of gish and ment and genius besides? too late."
that State from aggression, unless its own
soon after Herr I would conclude by saying
those A year later,
less fortunate, but he is a professional strictly
services
husband rise to
profess
and Hitler's interests are also at stake."
power, Sir John the
of feet
very good father. by Gen. Temperley at
He knows his wealth, and la grate- The enthusiastle idea which in- Simon, evidently at his wits end, rendered
Geneva cannot spired President Wilson that after the addressed to Gen. Temperley the
have been greater Great War the democracies of the startting question: If you were God, than his latest service in setting ful for it, and I do not think he
down this plain narrative of lost op else in the whole world would be moved with what would you do?" He replied:
There must come a time when we portunities, and the continual triumph one accord by such a deep hatred of
the worse over the betier war that they would rush to the as- shall have to act, if the Germans do of sistance of any State unjustly attack- not change their methods. It may argument. ed was opposed to all past experience and asked too much of human nature.
service to the Empire and the ideals for which the Empire fought, was heart-stirring, be- cause he is a Briton he could not
possibly approach the French-
man's effusiveness and flowered phraseology. To an English- man, perhaps, a translation of Lebrun's address would
seem
It is bluntly suld in another chap-
such
Both have worked hard all their
modern fashion are deftly done, not- when five mckered round a table German terms kept ticking up all the were happy in the old days before
was not enough goodwill at Geneva BEFORE HITLER'S ADVENT Britain.
Again, one after the other, our
artificially effulgent, unless it
"States," Boys the General, "are
No
were toned down from that more likely to fulfil their obligations GRIN AND BEAR IT high-pitched, emotional height when they coincide with their in-
tereats." He "loather this
conclu
which Britons would think sion," but he cannot escape it, and grandiose. But actually, for its cyricism now that war has be
after all it is surely relieved of halt sheer beauty of expression come so horrible and
and devastating and perfection of descriptive that no State care think of plunging into a "sympathetic" war unicss both power there is no language honour and interest leave no loop- like the French; and
if hole of escape and unless it is fully Lebrun seemed unusually emo-
equipped at the start and ready to go on to the bitterest end. Otherwise tional, it was because he was deeply moved and not ashamed
to hide the fact. Praise from the site of one of the most the French is very sweet, and terrible and splendid battles in understood can never be em- the history of British arms, barrassing. even to the most where the Australians stood and phlegmatic. Where an English-held against a fearful attack, man would say: "Well done," and saved Amiens, that thero and Frenchman would shout were tears in the eyes of the
ANY ROUTE, ANYTIME. something much more elaborate; Frenchmen who heard him:
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and If the Englishman were to tears for the uncomplaining think a little he would find that courage of men who died in he probably meant the same agony; tears for the unhesitating thing, but was, for some valour of men who fought, in reason deep buried in his sub-exhaustion, against almost cer- conscious perhaps, inarticulate. tain death'; tears for the darken- Lebrun's address was particular-ed homes whose fathers and sons ly beautiful because he is not will always lie in France. only a master of his most ex-such emotion there is no cause pressive language, but he has a for shame. This tribute from power in sincerity which holds | France is another golden link his hearers spellbound. One can between the people of that land imagino that while he spoke on and ours,
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to spread
and ho
hot
its germs over the whole of his little family,
and in his house there is an atmosphere of rest and peace which must act as a tonic for the breadwinner who returns tired from his labours.
Then I know a little middle-aged spinster who is a millionairess. She has cast aside, the worries
of the material world; for she has taught herself not
not to fear them. She does little acts of kindness to her neighbours, and is able to do them because of a
of a great burning her little body. fatth
In her She has found the religion which parti-
sults her, and although her cular brand of faith is not mine, it has brought from selfishness to self- sacrifice and has done great things for her. She is rich in spirit, and, Dg she says herself "beyond the dreams of avarice."
Of what use would 'millions of bank notes be to her? They would crush the, split within her and make her a harassed old woman, fearful of this world's thieves and sharks.
A Sense of Real Values
Young people can be millionaires in the very joy of living; the old in the range of their understanding; and as I grow older I know which Is the richer quality, but I do not tell
you
lost
the young should become discontented and the old regretful. Even the poorest among us in the financial sence are rich in something, and many of us are very rich indeed. If we had a bettor sense of values' wo should appreciate such riches more than material possessions, and our whole attitude towards life would be. far less, worrying.
It does not require great depths
of philosophle knowledge to realiso how little money cảh mean, in” our daily scheme of things.