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COLOSSAL ARMS PROGRAMME

The door to statesmanship is not, therefore, finally barred. . It needs but the faith to act and the courage to persevere.

About Dukes

Are dukes as ducal as they used to be? In March the dukes of England will attain their 600th anniversary, and already there seems to be some doubt as

The true import of Great to whether they occasion

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by

Britain's momentous decision to rise to the great re-arm on a scale staggering to manning the battlements of their all but the incorrigible Jingo istancient castles and hurling de- beyond the scope

assessment to day accurate fance at their tenants.

template the tragic

tatesmanship which

may con-

It was on March 17, 1337, that sterility

has creat Edward III conferred the duke dom of Cornwall on his 8-year- ed the atmosphere demanding

old son the first-of-412 duke such

speculate programme,

doms which have been conferred upon the possibilities of

since then. Time was when formance before catastrophe shocks t world, but the events there were great magnificos themselves alone can demon-among the dukes, but the mo dern strains seem to be of a strate its historic

humbler stripe. The eighth Duke

Hope is expressed that those of Devonshire, for example, is events will be favourable, that frequently remembered in the Britain will be permitted to House of Lords. It was one of carry through her programme to the proudest moments of his its bitter end, that her new-life, he once said, when one of built Might will then shout its his pigs won first prize at an own clear challenge to would-be #gricultural show.

breakers of the peace. But And there was the father of there is strange confusion of the present Duke of Norfolk, thought in this doctrine of justi-who was once ordered out of his fication. If there exists good own grounds at Arundel Castle reason to fear an outbreak of on a visitors day. He dressed war, of a nature compelling with notorious carelessness, and urgent measures, a £1,500,000, 000 programme over two years would still find us caught

woman who saw him fussing about his own roses burst out, "It's the likes of you as loses the privilege of visiting the castle

and

American opinion puts the for the likes of us." The duke situation in a nutshell. If non meekly dropped his roses

left. alarmist Britain is rearming to sach an enormous extent, the European situation must indeed be explosive. And, sad though the thought, it is not difficult to go on from there to the further assumption that a European All in a Day "Now I'll have to war is "coming before very clean up the room again. long."

What is to be feared is that Britain's proclaimed

TO-DAY'S QUOTATIONS

Charwoman in a room of Madrid'e telephone building, after a Rightist shell had struck.

Spiritual Weapons: "Many great

may precipitate events. In a speech in November last, Mr. Anthony Eden expressed the evils in these days have fallen view. It is better to exaggerate e scourge, on humanity, on the risks of war than to over-civil society and on the church. *** look them To-day there must we have called attention to the be a feeling in many that the British Gove taken thist

ready

its face value. A certain conse

ence is further, feverish

iction in every count elter skelter race to get

to keep ahead It is quite rue to Britain did not be and has no tions quite true is bec

one

say that the

real remedies of truth, justice and brotherly love, of which the Catholic Church is the sole depository. Pope Pius XI.

Caution have dismissed from my vocabulary the custom of keep ing any literary s of anything.

Father Divine:

RULED OUT. "I still happen to be of an age when I should have to fight if our country's safety threatened. Bat I certainly woul innot fight on the question of what government was to rule Germkay WH not bejor Russia Oliver Stanley, ot on that gident of the British Board of Edu-