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Nobody has more admiration and affection for that genial giant, Van Loon, than I have, but I will confess that my first impulse, after reading this The Studebaker astonishing statement, was to
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all those big heavy boots march- ing and countermarching. better off, but nobody will pre- The European democracies are tend that they are making very great contributions to world culture at the present time.
ed from the war, ecoms to be France, which never recover- queerly sterile, though still pro-
handa. It is one thing to give shelter to distinguished exiles, the roots of whose art or know- During these last few years I ledge lie cleewhere, and it is
of absence, I have seen my coun- seems to mo, one snag that Van returning home, after months music, histories. There is, it have travelled a good deal, and world's
another thing to write the
great novels, plays,' try with a fresh eye. It may Loon has overlooked. be that the eye is really any."
thing but fresh, and it may be America is still a new and soured. that I am growing old and rather, raw continent. It is But the and fact re- still a mixture that has not mains that during these last been thoroughly mixed. That
By J. B. Priestley
ducing good minor work in all few years, when there ought to branches. Our own country, have been a New Britain and which is also still suffering from there wasn't, it has seemed to its old war casualty lists, is not me that our national weak- so much sterile as trivial. It is nesses have been more pro- not without widespread cultural minent, than our national vir- activity, but that activity lacks tues. size, weight, drive, and com- pares unfavourably with its pre- war production.
On reflection, however, I can see that though Van Loon's is a very wild generalisation, he is by no means without a caso. The cultural drift towards America, which began just after the war, when America What is wrong with us, the was bursting with money and British? At the moment, of Central Europe was starving, course, we are living in almost has been flowing a full tide the worst of all atmospheres, during these last few years, the crisis with war - just - when Central Europe has been round-the-corner, enough to put IT IS a curious fact that the one vast madhouse."
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ters, not Italy. More than ordinary interest The Russian, should, therefore, attach to anRachmaninoff, article in the "Kokumin Shim- bas
lived | bun" yesterday, in which It was America
stated that the Totalitarian years: systems in Germany and Italy Excluding have not appealed to the Japan- Bernard Shaw, Lese imagination; that Japanese who represents people are not necessarily a much older adorers of Hitler or Mussolini; generation,----I that friendly sentiments towards suppose the
the Totalitarians will quickly most distinguished living drama- disappear if the latter aids tist is Eugene O'Neill, an China; and that "Japan is ready American. And the most in- to befriend Britain if the latter fluential English writer of my abandons her self-imposed has been living in America for own generation, Aldous Huxley, guardianship of the old order in the last two or three years, and, East Asia."
I gather, does not intend to re- What the "Kokumin Shim-turn England. bun" is trying to say, in effect,
So, you see, Van Loon is not
is that Japan will soon desert quite so outrageous as he first her new friends for her old appears. There can be no friends if the latter will play doubt that the cultural tide is ball in China. What Japan de-strongly flowing westward sires is the establishment of the across the Atlantic.
and a
and
n Michelangelo or Beethoven off his work. But I am thinking not of the last few months but
In other words, what I have noticed more and more are the things I dislike about us,
it will develop and is in the rapid process of developing→→ a new civilisation of its own, I would not deny. But it will be more time beforo that civilisation, which is still in: the earliest, engineering, big- building stage, produces a magnificent culture of its own. And the anag is this, that so far the best products of Ameri-.
can
it is generally admitted, are our Our most outstanding faults,
culture, the genuine complacency, hypocrisy, snob- American contributions to the- bery and stupidity. I submit world's atore of good things,. that during these last few have been regional, coming al- years our national life has most out of the new soil. been riddled with complacency, hypocrisy, snobbery, and stu- pidity.
Never before have we made so much fuss about trivialities. Never have we congratulated
"New Order in East Asia", This is only to be expected. which would extend over the Artista and scientists whole vast area remaining to scholars need secure conditions China the same military occupa They cannot work properly if of the last ten years. Some ourselves so often with so little
wealthy community. tion which Japan employed only the secret police are pestering where, in our recent national cause for congratulation. in the Northern provinces when them and their families all the history, there ought to be a clue. hostilities began.
time.
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But the artistic exlica, leav- ing Europe to sink, flock into the cities, especially New York, and the New York spirit, smart, slick, rootless, disillusioned, is: not one that will produce great works. Its characteristic clever- ness is the enemy rather than the friend of greatness..
Thus, the drift towards- New York is as bad for Ameri- can culture, as. the drift wards America. is bad for Euro
pean culture.
to-
Nor do I think we are so hopelessly lost here aa Van Loon imagines. We stand be- wildered among menacing shadows; we pass empty days and nights uneasy with dark still at home and our nourishing roote are not yet severed; so that even yet, with a little clear sun- light to help us, we may do good work.
dreams; but we are 118. "Let foreigners go moving
Our ruling and official classes over at any time had much respect for any form of cul- ture, but recently they have had less. Every triviality of mind is encouraged, and any-
Palestine Plan: Protest Likely
Some sections of our Press It is not the first time Japan The concentration camp is a
have been absolutely nauseat has indirectly appealed to Bri-poor environment for culture.
ing. If we all awoke one morn- tain to reverse its policy in Great works of art will not be
As I see it, the rot set in when ing to find ourselves paralysed, China. But Britain, as the conceived and executed under the post-war period ended in these papers would congratulate skies dark and noisy with bomb- nothing, or, if you like, in mak about," they would say, "but largest investor and one of the
ing squadrons. largest traders in China, and
ing-do and muddling as a sub- the ordinary decent British the United States, as the largest
stitute for creation. A tradi- citizen has wisely decided to tion, based chiefly on a profound trader and one of the Inrgest The cultural history of the feeling of security, perished in stay in bed." investors, have both the best of totalitarian States is almost a the summer of 1914. For the reasons to regard with appre-complete blank. Mussolini brags next five years It was a matter hension attempts to create about his bayonets, not about of struggle and endurance. "Now Order in East Asia" which his philosophers. A screaming
Goebbels would reduce China to the what a serene Goethe could do.
cannot accomplish
London, May 12.- status of a Japanese colony No matter how powerful and
Then came the post-war thing likely to make men think The new Palestine plan, the pro- rigorously guarded
visions of which are be set out in against efficient your dictatorship is, period, when weary returned and feel deeply is discouraged. Western
a While Paper, was, the subject of penatration. That how supreme your Will, you soldiers hoped something would We still go on telling our- discussion between Mr. Chamberlain penetration, unlike
tho Japanese cannot command into existence happen, but had to start their selves that the most wonderful and Dr. Weizmann, leader of penetration, had been wholly
lown lives over again, and the thing that can happen to an
Jewish Agency" to-day. PAN peaceful in method, as well as Burma, and the recent British youngsters were all cynical and Englishman is to own the horse
It is believed: that international Jewry will shortly start a campaign. in aim, during the years that and American credits to China, disillusioned, the Arlen-and- that wing the Derby. And we of protest against the British Govern the new China has shown her are facts confirming, the con- Coward era, and the elderly no longer even play our games ment if it is true that the new plan power of maintaining order. In- tinued independence of creased Chinese resistance in the neighbour.
our mon, some of whom are still very well. All wo do is to chat- means the abolition of the Balfour
Declaration.Trans-Ocean. with_us, thought they could put "ter, chatter, chattor about them. face of Japanese nir-raids on the No "New Onder in East Asin" the date back to early 1914, 3. What contribution to the cities gives no warrant for Bri-imposed by Japan is within Out of this post-war period of world's culture can come out of tain to seek leave from Japan sight, though Japan may con- chaos should have sprung & this half-baked mess? THE HONG KONG & SHANGHAI HOTELS, LTD. Chinese Government.
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-Indeed, the now road and massacres in Chungking is her gone for over, but alert, pur But I am not very sure about money and clothing valued at
order as exemplified by the much of its old leisurely charm railway linking China with unaided work.
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