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spokesmen for their failure to "grasp the meaning of the new order in East Asia."
It seems doubtful however whether the nature and scope of Japan's continental ambitions, as formulated by her present leaders, are seriously misunder- stood in responsible quarters on either side of the Atlantic.
In this context it is perhaps the Japanese who can be more justly charged with a lack of imaginative comprehension.
H
AVE you ever exa- mined your fellow bus or tram travel- lers and noticed, among their other depressing quali-
ties, how many were wear-
ing glasses? I did yester day.
Three out of eight youngishi moh wore spectcles. One out of seven women had rimless pinec- riez. One lifted a lorgnette to pay her fare. A third screwed up her eyes as she left the bus and fell off the step.
What is it all'about? Are we all going blind, or turning into peering Wellsian creatures wear- ing lenses from birth to death? I consulted several experts, all- smugly bespectacled. Here is their story.
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factories, better print and vast ly better standard of eye trent- ment.
.
The increase is not a "true" increase. And, in a few years, scientific preventive and curative treatment may turn even that. into a decrease. Eyesight is likely to improve.
One rather sinister factor, which demands action from the authorities is that of the people who are needlessly ruining their Right by wearing completely un- sultable glasses. Thousands of Chinese in Hongkong ruin their eyes in this manner by buying glasses over the counter or from hawkers in the streets, without first having their eyes tested.
Eyesight changes, and it is only sensible to consult ocullst once a year.
your
The British optical industry,
In this country the number of people who wear glasses is at its cent. are faulty. And (con-number of readers of this paper highest to-day. About 38 per tradict the experts, not me) not wearing glasses would be að- cent. of the population either all the people over 46 have eye vised to wear them if they con- once sadly myopic, is now wak- wear or need to wear them. defects and need occasional or Roughly one-third of us actually permanent glasses.
do use them at some time or other.
were
sulted their oculists. And that ing up. In 1931 of the spectacle
sold hero most foreign. But to-day frames. they. and lenses are British. And also Britain is turning out some
And this does not take into ae- figure is over and above those frames The statisticians have-divided count the remaining children too who already know that
young or too difficult to classify. need them. ús into three groups. In the Many of these who should Well that seems schoolchild group, a total of ten wear glasses do not--for one of
a fairly de- excellent new gadgets which will
Look at One of the biggest new inven- countries. The United tons is that of "plastic glass”— about their sight, I very much States with about 120 million a synthetic product made, I be- doubt whether the actual spec- population wears 45 million spec- lieve, from coal tar, which is tacle-wearing proportions are tacles-a slightly higher per- easily moulded and worked, very
same. Women, especially centage than in Britain. France light and almost
would rather has 16 million spectacled, Ger- Also it is more transparent than grope through misty lives than many (not including Austria, the finest optical glass. sen through glass.
per cent, have defective sight. two Vanity or insor pressing story, but it isn't really make life easier for us giglamps. Of the people between 15 and 45 ance. Though 60 women for as bad as it seems. years of age as many as 15 per every 40 men consult oculists other
the
young women,
ance.
sands
unbreakable.
especially
to
Sudetenland and other odd- ments) ms 18 million, which suggests slightly better sight or
It is likely to revolutionise the making of lenses of every Then ignora Guns Before Spectacles policy.
Thou- So we don't seem to be parti- sort and to reduce grently the imagine culurly C3 in sight compare price of previously costly specta-
cles. their sight is with other places.
Interesting Is our eyesight progressively perfect when really they are deteriorating? Superficial figures raining it for would seem to show it. But women, sportsmen and people lack of specta- oculists believe that it is remain- like me who break their frames cles.
Recently ing much the same, but that every week, is the contact lens' the army
au- more of us are wearing glasses a minute saucer-shaped bit of authoritics at because more of us realise that glass the size of a sixpence which
actually fits on to the eye-ball. Home announced we need them. Also--a that 11 per cent. important factor-more of us of a six-months' can now afford them. batch
of en-
most
Slipped each morning beneath the eyelids it sits secure and com-
In the bad old days countless pletely invisible over the eye and listers were thousands were unable to buy, or naturally gives a perfect field of turned down be- replace broken, glasses.
vision. It is said to be unbreak-
cause of defects Some forms of eye defects able in the eye.
I have never tried these lenses in sight. Yet are, it is true, increasing. these men would not have tried Rapidity of movement, the eine as they are expensive and some- to enter had they been aware ma, excessive smoking may harm times demand many "fittings" of these defects.
the eyes.
But against that we before they fit the eyeball exact- I'm sorry to do a bogey act, must set improved lighting, ly. But they should make many but probably a tenth of the total larger windows in homes and converts.
Language No
The "new order" of which FROM time immemorial, diplo
mats have spoken a langunge they speak has not been ex-
own. Two thousand
tablished: probably no Japanese of their would pretend that it had. Its years ago, it was Greek: the
Apostle Paul, fighting off only reality is as a conception-trawling crowd, evoked from vague but ardent-in the Japan-
one Asiatic Governor the Bur-! ese mind.
prised query, "Canst thou speak It is the weakness of this Greek?" conception, this vision of the The Greek civilisation of Rome future, that it is somewhat declined, and the young nations parochial. It postulates (though used as their lingua franca and official tongue, Latin. its sponsors occasionally protest their that it does not) the entire sub-Queen Elizabeth, though no Ro- jugation of China for the ex-manist, roundly abused one of clusive benefit of Japan; and by the Ambassadors to her court in
the Roman tongue. corollary it dismisses Europe and America from the Western Pacific.
Now these large desiderata Affairs, Under-Secretaries, Am-
More recently, the language of diplomacy was French. Seere- taries of State for Foreign
French.
One
Can Understand
"Unofficial Soviet circles point out ..
What effect is such phrasco- logy likely to have on the son of an Italian blacksmith, on a Geor- gian peasant, on an house-painter?
Austrian
It is all to the good that these polite fictions should be blasted out of existence by the dynamite of genuine oratory. There was no language of diplomacy in Mussolini's "If I advance, follow me; if I retreat, kill me; if I die, avenge me" none in Hitler's "One People, one State, one Leader;" still less in Stalin's un- speaking firing squad, purging treason from his union of repub- lica.
It is good that polite fiction should be replaced by-the truth. That a German should speak Ger- man and an Englishman English.
But if the truth is to be
are possible developments on bassadors, and even attaches proposed plan to delimit the de- his resignation of the Admiralty There is even with interpreters paper; but to a balanced mind whose job was to send flowers to finitive clause to include the ex-to the House of Commons said:-less likelihood of misunder- 1711 at 13.00 Nova It cannot appear probable that the right people and wear the port of graphite, as well as of "The Prime Minister made a standing.
be unwise for anyone to count spoken, it must be spoken open- 17th at 12.00 Noon in practice they will come about. right clothes on the right occa-lead, pencils. This has resulted guarded statement that it would 31st at 12.00 Noon It might be well for Japan if, in sions, all were required to do in n gratifying detente."
To-day diplomacy is conducted on our keeping out of a war. ly. The promise of Open Diplo- laying the so far unimpressive one thing whatever else they did foundations of her "new order," not do: speak-even think in through interpreters. Most diplo That was not the language dicta-macy, made 20 years ago and dis- mats, whatever their other quali-Lors understood. They talked in honoured like so many idealistic FEB. 3rd at 9.00 pm her lenders were to remember) FEB. 3rd at 12.00 Noon
About the meetings and con-fications, are not men of such a new language and such guard-pacts made since 1918, is still trusted utterances...meant nothing the greatest safeguard of a de- FEB. 17th at 12.00 Noon that their country, though her versations of statesmen a whole education that they can FEB. 18th at 0.00 pm destinies
The language of diplomacy are high
and her crop of French phrases grew up. themselves to speak a language to the mentality of Herr Hitler cent peace, power considerable, is neither One made a demarche. One con- not their own. Many diplomats and Signor Mussolini."
When Chamberlain spoke to landed us in the war of 1914- alone nor foremost in these two cluded not an alliance but an at the heads of nations to-day
ontente. One was relieved not have not only "little Latin and the House, he said that certain when Edward Grey refused to respects,
by a lightening of the tension, less Greek," but little English messages were not given to tell Prince Lichnowsky that Bri- Hitler "in case they should have tain would, certainly and definite- What Fear Did
but a datente. One wrote, and and less French.
the opposite effect from that ly, fight on the side of France. The language of polite fiction even spoke, in the third person
which was intended." ERE is a fable from the in the French manner.
They have not been trained
What he meant was, that the put Abyssinia into the lap of East:
The average diplomat of the An Arab in the desert met old school would report in some through years of experience to messages in question might send Signor Mussolini who does not Pestilence. "Whither are you such fashion as this: "I have know what is meant by a the German Chanceller, into a peak it; Austria into the hands
speak it China going?" he asked, Pestilence the honour to inform Your Ex-demarche, or a conversation. To- neurotic passion and induce him of Herr Hitler who does not answ red, "I am going to Bag-cellency that I made a successful day, they are all lumped together to declare war out of nervous (Achilles) heel of Japan, who demarche and conveyed to His as "talks"-conducted through rage instead of keeping the does not speak it; and now has given all, and more than all, he dad to kill five thousand."
Excellency, the Minister, Your interpreters! Later the two met again. Excellency's instructions. I was They do not know, the Hitlers Mr. Chamberlain's is the lan-demanded less than a month ago. of diplomacy; the lan-to Herr Hitler, who understood Said the Arab, "You have not favoured with a subsequent in- and Mussolinia and Stalins, just guage kopt your word. You slew not terview at which we had a con-what measures are implied by guage of evasion and subtle im-only one British speech--the mo-
UACH to bilisation of the Navy five but fifty thousand." versation in which I expressed to "grave view" as against "gravest plication-and this he
If we talk to the dictators, wo "No," answered Pestilence. His Excellency Your Excellency's possible view." They are not to his own people! Frankly, it
leaves the man-in-the-street in must talk their language, for "I killed five thousand. Fear view that H.M. Government the language born,
they cannot speak ours. slew. the rest.”
would take a grave view of the Alfred Duff Cooper, justifying something of a fog.
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