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WHO LAUGHS AT THE VICTORIANS?

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The League's Work

Whatever may be thought generally of Mr. Eden's contribu- tion to the foreign policy debate, it is just as well that he remind- ed the House of the successes as well of the failures of the League Abyssinia and Man- chukuo survive long in the mem-

Had the League failed to deal

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We who live in the Twentieth Century (which we always spell ory Because no disaster ac with capitals) have too long in-crues, it is easy to forget the dulged in the stupidity of look-occasions when disaster has been averted with astonishingly little fuss. ing down on the Victorian Agel (which deserves to be spelt with capitals). When reminded that a leading public school in the satisfactorily with the forties made great publicity play andretta dispute, for instance, with the fact that boys had to all the world would be talking of wash their faces, hands and another League failure. Scare necks once a day, their feet once headlines or perhaps the a fortnight, and their heads gravity of the news conveyed "when necessary," our shudder- would not warrant the use of the amusement implies that the adjective would be telling us early Victorians were barbarians of a new war danger. As it is and that we, in our enlighten the settlement of a dispute, in ment, are infinitely their super-which the word war was heard iors. Which only shows how frequently in the corridors at stupid we are, for we are con- Geneva, has been passed by fusing attainment with capacity.with singularly little notice. Judged by what they started Bad news makes good headlines. with, and how they ended, the Good news seldom does. It is Victorians were a very much well for this fact to be borne in greater race, intellectually, mor- mind by the Dismal Desmonds. ally, and even physically, than

The terms of the settlement we are. They started with a be lief in the literal truth of Genesis of the Alexandretta dispute are and in the chronology of the briefly that the Sanjak is to be Right Reverend Bishop Usher. a separate entity and will con- They ended with the theory of trol its own affairs through its evolution. They started with a town elected parliament. It will, Parliamentary system which gave however, have no army and no representation to the privileged arms works, foreign affairs be- classes, and ended with an en-ing in the hands of Syria which lightened democracy. They is shortly to become an indepen- started with a fixed idea that dent nation and a Member of the woman's place was in the home; League. Customs and monetary and they ended with women do-arrangements will be the same ing all sorts of good works in all as Syria. sorts of places (though not yet

în Parlament). They started The Sanjak has a population with the most iron-heeled ex- of 220,000 of whom the great ploitation of labour (adult and majority are Turkish, the Tur adolescent) in factories and kish Government putting the

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mines, and ended with very sub-proportion as high as eighty stantial concessions to the theory cent. that the labourer is worthy of protection from the State.

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The importance of the settle- Mr. G. M. Young has paid rarement is emphasised when it is tribute to our grandfathers and recalled that it is acedite great-grandfathers in a book ranean problem and the Mediter just published ("Victorian Engranean has become one of the land: The Portrait of an Age" world's danger spots. Published by the Oxford Univer- sity Press). This book 18-ac- tually an enlarged version of a chapter contributed by Mr. Young to the volume "Early Victorian England,” which was published by the Oxford Press in 1934, but with the additions it is well worth republishing. Mry Kidder. Young, although a strong

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