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Let us and the development National fight it. "It cannot be claimed," disagreements that were known
and control of civil aviation and Congress, has been said one of the nuvoentes of this to
view, "that in the following of
the preparation of plans for the ARE THE HORSE
As the Congress proceeded, it settlement and assistance of re- meeting in Bristol. this policy there would be no
appeared that there were two fugees and we have a policy of AND CARRIAGE Attended by some 750 dele- risk of war."
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Many have pledged them of all shades of opinion felt able which it would be a difficulty for
the use of to combine. The first is a policy anybody to find fault.
removing the economic Have you been using the same auto ranging from supporters of force as an instrument for gain for
League simply through the
of Nations ing their ends, even if the ends causes of war.
Secondly, there is the need for vigilance in the matter of our force of habil. Don't use a Union to members of the be righteous. You cannot, they
Of the many causes of war, liberties. The memory of the It is no longer necessary to work all Peace Pledge Union, from say, demonstrate superior right
It is concrete, tacle of the dictator countries to representatives of the South by superior efficiency in-slaught. none will deny the importance last war is still vivid; the spec-
of the economie. RUB and RUB, in order to allain a Wales Miners' Federation
it is real and it is one which can all too clear. Each serves to re- It is on these lines that the in large part be removed. It mind us of a danger-forcibly to delegates from the Con- Try WHIZ LONDON COACH WAX gregational Churches, from pacifists have argued, and their should be the part of the con- brought out by Mr. Kidd, Secre- worker to retary of the National Council for case, too, hus force, as one of the structive peace. automobile and less work for you. Communists to Baptists. supporters of "Collective move it.
Civil Liberties-the danger lest The variety makes for excite- Security" conceded by implica-
By what methods? They in seeking to increase the coun- Gonement, but it also makes for weak- tion, when he confessed, "What
ness. The weakness comes most dislike about this fellow have been stated over and over try's efficiency in war, we may from disunity, for--let us bo litler is that, to withstand him, again, most recently and most hand over our destinies to those
authoritatively
the Van who care for nothing but war Trank about it-there is no gen- have to become like him."
Zeeland report. Without nc- efficiency, eral agreement as to the steps But it is idle to say-the clear- cepting all the provisions of this
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Hongkong Telegraph. Czecho-Slovakia, the Scandina- other country adopting it. More trading agreements on the lines presents a step in the regimenta-
FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 1938.
MUDDLED DIPLOMACY
There are proposals afoot, for example; compulsory participn- Ever since the Abyssinitu
tion in the National Fitness affair, the pence movement has
Campaign, compulsory partici- been split on an issue of funda- ****** mental importance. Should we that the pacifist policy con- self in sympathy with its gen- Pation in Air Raid Precautions schemes, plans for industrial pursue n policy of Collective stitutes at the moment a prae- eral conclusions.
conscription, for the dilution of Security; form, if necessary, a tical method of avoiding war. First, the democratic nations labour in munitions factories, new League of the peace-loving For one thing, there is not the must take the initiative and in- for the suspension of trade union democracies, Britain, France, slightest prospect of this or any stitute among themselves free regulations, each of which re- vian Powers, attach Russia and over, it is hard doctrine to preach of the Oslo Agreement and the tion of the nation in the interest build upon this nucleus a united to men indignant over the be- Anglo-American Trading Pact. of military efficiency. front to oppose aggression? trayal of Spain, horrified by the The raw material resources of
rape of Austria, appalled by the the British Empire must be The Congress was unanimous. made available for all the world ly resolved not to allow our liber- sweeping across the world; that with equal trading facilitics, free ties to be lost at home in order For Fascist aggression, it is they should fold their hands in from embargoes and restric- that we might be in a position to tions, for all nations. Economic defend ourselves against, the The unexpected has happen-argued, must be halted now or it stead of clenching their fists.
will be too late; halted, that is
and financial assistance should danger to liberty from abroad. ed. Russia and Japan have to say, before Spain and Czecho-
be rendered to the stricken coun- Here then, is a lowest common agreed to patch up their dispute Slovakia have gone the way of
tries of Eastern and South- denominator
upon which all the dictators,
Eastern Europe. Korean-Manchukuo- Austrin, and
those who care for peace can 31 triumphant over prostrate for two years or more has rent Soviet border. Each side claims Europe, turn their attention to
of the the peace
But The mandate system should be combine. The removal
causes which are that the understanding is based the British Empire.
practical spirit has informed the strengthened and internation- economic present Congress, which has atised and applied to all those driving the nations to war, and upon the terms it offered, but
It is a strong case, but there thought it more important to countries which are not im- the vigilant defence of the liber- it is of no great consequence is another side to it. To stop discover the agreement that mediately ready for self-govern- ties of the citizen against the
the acceptable Fascism we must be prepared to might exist than to exploit the
on
the
who hit upon
formula. It is sufficient for] gratification that the danger of extensive hostilities, and pos- sibly the embroilment of other powers, has been avoided for a
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NEWS
that is of barbarism
This is the controversy that
movement.
A
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war machine.
BUDAPEST
The speaker was Socialist By W. Horsfall Carter
A
In regard to foreign polley, of course, there is nothing new in Ger-
Hungary's "National" Government
GRIN AND
BEAR IT
By Lichty
Dr. Imredy has made good use of the wireless in his few days of power and has certainly stopped the ro which set in after the shock of the Austrian coup. And if Hungary's problem were reonomic, the helm of more capable
hosts.
the Nazl steam-roller lacking in Austria.or in the Balkans. The im- pression is true enough,
time at least; although com- In six months' time, if you mentators are generally agreed come back to Budapest, you'll that this is merely a postpone-find US completely Nazified. ment of the inevitable. What I
journalist. The species still appears to have happened is survives in Hungary, provided many calling the tune. The Itallan the people, and the governing class it could that Japan has made a diploma- he is suitably tame. But it is support on which the Regent and the throwing up no leader strong enough hands. But Dr. Imredy, like his Daranyi Goverminent hat leaned in to achieve in time social and econo-predecessor, lacks plebs-appeal, and an ardent Catholic, he has no taste tic retreat, and has accepted the what every Hungarian is feeling recent years has turned out to be a. mnie reforma sufficient to stem the for the new demagogy.
in his secret heart. And the broken reed. But there is also trou- rising flood of discontent, Russian contention that the nearer the prospect is seen the ble brewing from the Hungarian Naz!
A visit to Budapest just now is factions which have rallied behind negotiations to demarcate the less it is relished.
Major Francis Szalasi under the sign ean devise no better expedient in the thus a rather depressing experience, human kindliness and Manchukuo-Soviet frontier shall
gathering storm than to try and take for all the Hungary-46 per cent. of whose of the arrow-crass.
the wind out of their opponents lavish hospitality of one's Magyar be based on the old Sino- foreign trade is with Germany- This typical "crisis" movement has sails.
where the process of ideological as its cells throughout the Administra- Hence the new anti-Semitic legie: Russian treaty and maps of similation has been going on steadily tion and the Army. It derives its lation which requires that Jewish formity of the
Superficially, the disciplined unt- totalitarien State over a period 1860. Previously the Japanese through the virtual monopoly enjoy-duced to proletarian status by the tion shall not exceed 25 per cent. astonishing variety of tones,
of years, not least
Past mass-strength from the farmers re- control of any business or organisa-seems very far away. With its its Government refused to recoguised by the Information news agency slump in agricultural prices, asso- Hence, too the Pressenovelle, rein- cultivated Intelligent ruling class of (alias D.N.B.)hus only now come ciated with the million or so land forcing the Governmental control of
land-owning aristocrats so unlike the validity of these documents, to realise her utter dependence on less labourers, and the impoverished the Presa and extending it to the the Prussian Junker type-its abund and it was here the deadlock Nazi Germany; only now that, after bourgeois who have nothing to lose book trade, hitherto unmulested. ance of newspapers, reviews
the liquidation of Austria, the Ger- but their brains.
books of differing political shades, occurred. Now Japan is willing man colossus looms up within strik-
Another expedient is the Five to look at the evidence. That is distance of her capital.
since the war has been the same as armament, which to the work of Dement, etc.-Hungary would appear The history of Hungarian polities Years Plan of public works and re- the eight and sometimes twelve-hour
Parlia sittings of an overworked that of the other countries that have Imredy, the very able Governor to possess a capacity of resistance to sensible. At one time it seemed
succumbed to Fascism: Parliament the National Bank, and now Prime: that neither side would make
losing touch more and more with Minister. the alightest concessions or moderate its stand in any way for fear of losing "face" and factory to both. The matter of weakening the national prestige.the sovereignty of the islands But all along both Russia and has simply been avoided. They Japan must have recognised will be available in perpetuity that their differences could not to both Britain and the United be settled by "isolated fighting" States in the development of air | and that no matter which side transport in the Pacific.
And had obtained an advantage, it after all, what does sovereignty would not have brought about a matter in a case of this sort? permanent peace. For this If ever that question must be settled, since it is conceivable reason the Russians and Japan-that the islands might become ese since it is impossible to strategically important in time blame one side more than an-of war, it is simply a matter for other have left themselves further negotiation and adjust- open to criticism for short- ment. An obvious solution sightedness, stupidity and waste-would appear to be for the
to claimants cach take one fulness in life and money, and
Greed Jaland.
and jealousy a blundering diplomacy which
must be kept out of diplomatic could admit for a moment the dealings if they are to succeed. possibility of a solution being Unfortunately those elements swan found by force. Great Britain still remain in the relationship and the United States can point of Russia and Japan. Until with some pride to the peaceful they are eradicated frontier dis- and practical settlement of their putes and all other misunder- dispute over the sovereignty and standings may lead to just such future utilisation of Canton and stupid, dangerous episodes as Enderby Islands in mid-Pacific. that which has been written in- By sano negotiation they have to the muddled history of the
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There can be no question of on- nexation of the Itclch. German domination, on the other hand, seems unescapable. With Fleld-Marshol Racz s Minister of War, the Army in any case can be relied upon to be an obedient Instrument of the Ger- man will, and in these strategie" days the Army's role is decisive.
cause
By opening the sluices to German influence, for the sake of securing n powerful champion of the national of treaty revision, the Magyar ruling clusa has undoubtedly pre-
its own discomfiture, perhaps indeed dug its own
grave.
More significant perhaps than any political trend is the fact that Hun garian owners of property are eager ly seeking protection from the wrall to come by securing foreigners as tenants at ridiculously low rate.
Fear stalka abroad and Hungary fels completely cut off from the West. The shadow of Herr Hiller spreading like a huge shroud over what remains of civilisation in the Danubian basin. Not so much mill- tary or economic strength bs" atmos
here" is what counts these days in
Is
Europe.
And the Western Powers remain the victims of their own Inertia, In- eapable, apparently, of bullding up the diplomatic, economie and mill- fary barrage for which thinking Hungarians pruy.
That is why in this anniversary year of St. Stephen, who made Han- gary Christian, n charming, civilised people seems doomed to take the Arst steps downhill towards a bar- borous Paganiam.
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