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in the every "have-not" Writer's Name and Address, not necessarily for insertion but were to present a simultaneous demand for colonies, we might as a guarantee of good faith.

realise the fallacy of our assump- tions. For the "colonial ques- tion" is not just a wrangle be- tween Great Powers; it is a ques- And tion of right and wrong. ultimately its solution depends on the realisation by ordinary people that colonial empires are not a divine right.

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WORLD ECONOMIC

CO-OPERATION

The Divine Wind

Mr. Cordell Hull's plea for world economic co-opération has

The Divine. Wind" continues created a profound impression in Germany, where a new impulse her epoch-making flight from to study the problem afresh has Tokyo to London and having ar- become manifest. Dr. Schacht's rived safely at Athens, has every visit to Belgiumis invested prospect of setting up a brilliant with new interest, for his discus-new record. Never before in the sions with M. van Zeeland cannot history of aviation has anything. well leave out of consideration so spectacular as has already the precise scope of the recent been accomplished been placed Anglo-French approach to the to the credit of a Japanese air- Belgian Premier with regard to man, and the sincerest hope of fall following the flight is that trade barriers.

It may appear that Germany Mr. Hunma will pilot his machine is guided largely by self-interest, to Croydon in triumph. The but she is open and frank about significant features of the ven- it, pointing to her extremely un-ture are two. In the first place, favourable position to-day in the the flight is privately sponsored, way international trade, for without Government assistance. monetary and other reasons, is Even more important is the fact that Mr. Iiunma is flying a ordered. It will not have escap- ed note that the matter of Japanese-made machine, which has already proved her excel- Colonies is again brought up, as it will be on every occasion when lence both in power and perform-

· Disposition in foreign economic standards are brought ance.

to doubt to the forefront. There is, in quarters has been

Japanese adaptability to the deed, a suggestion in some quar handling of aircraft and

not ters, derived from the Anglo French bid for co-operation with without some justification. For Belgium, another large colony that very reason, the success of possessing country, that an at-the "Divine Wind's" flight, even tempt will be made to meet this in the remote possibility that it problem

proceeds no farther, must be a squarely. Something has to be done. The problem greater feather in the cap of its cannot be escaped by endeavour pilot than had the plane been in the hands of a foreign expert ing to avoid it. It will never be

with great experience in the pro- solved by adding one nation to the list of "haves" and subtract-blems of long-distance flight. ing one from the have-nots.” Germany is not the only claim- ant. Japan and Italy have al- ready taken something, and will one day ask for more. Poländ already has her

TO-DAY'S QUOTATIONS

FEDERAL AID: "I repudiate "Colonial the implication that the Constitu- League” which stimulates the tion renders the national govern- ment powerless to relieve distress cry for colonies,

and suffering of the people.”- -Sen-

SOURCE: “Modemontes who

There seems to be only one final solution. And it is that welator Robinson. extend the mandate principle with the ultimate goal of inter- national administration of all would hold back the tide of social backward territories until they change fail to realize the rising in their turn can stand alone, itide springs from the fundamental Empires are not a natural pheno-yearnings of men for abundant liv-

Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam. menon, like millionaires, they ing. are the rich fruit of a period

BROTHERS: "Communism of which is already passing. And

socialism and the just as most modern thinkers Russia, Nazi s hope that millionaires may be fascism of Italy have this in com- come extinct without a violent mon- they lead straight to the of civilization: Nicholas revolution, so they should work suicide that empires may disappear Murray Butler. without

International ad-med

ministration is certainly difficult, QUERY: “I wonder if the motor and more than usually difficult firms will apply the right to work They did without a strong League of Na-in the lay-off periods. tions, but it is possible. As yet not worry about that in the de- it has only been tried in a few pression."--Homer Martin. petty cases, and then not wholly without success. But to imagine

NINE MEN: "The less the [Su- that we can go on as before, com- premie] Court can maintain its su¬ fortable in the possession of a perhuman position of being above gigantic empire, to imagine even criticism, the more it needs to '68- (as some people do) that the tisfy the very human requirement British Empire is the strongest that it be at least above suspicion. guarantee for peace in the world,Senator Guffey.