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is standing on its head. The Orkneys and the Hebrides, where all the tweeds come from, will be bumping Spain!

Need any more be said? Eng- land will have been operating her historic foreign policy. Even

Garrick Street, London, WC2 while she is professing to work for non-intervention in Spain, she is actually engaged upon a

Notice To Contributors. All communications intended for long run for the game. People publication should be addressed to may say that at the rate of a the Editor, and be accompanied by mile in 500 years the manoeuvre will take perhaps 300,000 years. the Writer's Name and Address, not necessarily for insertion but But when it comes to dealing with intervention and non-inter- as a guarantee of good faith

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BRITAIN MOVES

In The German Navy

Another apparent consequence of the armaments race in Europe appears to be the reaching of a point at which the German Navy seems to be cracking under the strain. Things have come to such a pass that the Minister The American Senators who for War, General von Blomberg, rushed the Neutrality Bill has issued a decree authorising through the committee stage on naval ratings to cease address- learning of Britain's rearmament ing their officers in the third have, doubtless, person and to use the pronoun programme known all along that eternal "you" instead. vigilance is the price of net- trality. But even they may re- cently have realised with a is illustrated by the official shock that you cannot be too Gazette for Naval Ordinances." For example, under the old eternally vigilant

it. about Scarcely have they put through usage a German sailor who their neutrality, plan to keep wanted to summon his captain to the telephone, would have America from getting involved jumped to attention, saluted in any outcrop of the new race smartly and spoken thus: The in arms when involvement

Herr Captain will be pleased to

The practice of this decadence

rushes in from another quarter. come to the telephone" Under This time it is Scotland the new decree he goes through Scientists at Glasgow Observa-the motions as before but, ac- tory have been taking measure cording to the "Gazette," the ments and they report that in correct words now are: "Herr the last seventy-two years Scot Captain, will you please come to land has drifted 700 feet to the the telephone?” west. All the stark implications can be judged with a pencil and a piece of paper.

In the old Imperial Nayy there would have been a court-martial for such behaviour!

TO-DAY'S QUOTATIONS

Scotland is headed west at the rate of ten feet a year. This means 500 years to cover a mile. To cross, roughly, 3,000 miles of the Atlantic will take no more than 1,500,000 years. At the end of that time the United State will have Europe literally tion not by black shirts, but by or- sitting on her doorstep. Only dered progress and free discus- the fatuous optimist will say this sion. Sir Samuel Hoare-

is some time off. The true friend of neutrality knows that pre- cautions can never be too early.

HOARY—“We destroy revolu

REALISM?..."Pacts and treaties are of use only when they corres- This menace of a drifting pond to the actual feelings of the Scotland is all the more serious people who have to implement them because it is wrapped up in the Otherwise they are a dangerous usual British propaganda. Thus hypocrisy."Sir Francis Freman- the Glasgow astronomers have tle. MP. no sooner let the cat out of the

bag than they hasten to explain HAVE YOU HEARD THIS?- it away. They assure Washing England is slow to awake, but ton that Caledonia's" westward when aroused she follows on to the motion is not really a drift but end." Mr. W. H. Yerburgh.

a swing around a fixed point.

While the northern part of

Great Britain, inhabited by the

LANGUAGE"Propaganda.

Scots, is going west, the south serves as a substitute for history. ern part of the island, inhabited in the political world and myths in by the English, is standing pat, the religious world" Rev. M. T. in the characteristic English Dunlop.

human

fashion Actually, therefore, In the course of public activi- Scotland is not emigrating to the ties one becomes inured to United States. She is revolving foolery and stupidity in all its counter-clockwise around the forms. Mr. A. L. Rowse

alk cliffs of Dover.

Even if this second version of Scotland's mysterious movements should turn out to be true, the consequences are sure to be momentous.

west

THINGS TO COME- "The world

upside down and sick of grievous malady which threatens become graver and more dangerous

The Po

still

to

PESSIMIST OR "The One need only look at the map. Scotland will continue to pivot problem now confronting states- uth until she hits men and citizens of good will all

two will then over Europ how to a on revolving more psychological drift towards the sec-

the south until ond World

clinch

the

Commander