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The very antithesis of Herr Hitler is the Mahatma Gandhi: and the report from Oslo that the Hindu saint-politician is to
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ACKNOWLEDGMENT
the person who shall have most or best promoted the fraternity of nations, the abolition or dîm- inution of standing armies and the formation and increase of peace congresses. His mildest critics will not be in a mood to concede that Mr. Gandhi, by his advice to Congress on office ac- ceptance and its consequences, has contributed materially to fraternity between Britain and India. But his creed is essen- tially pacifist, and he may still decide to support Mr. Lansbury's Mr. A. P. Greaves and family proposal for a friendly confer- wish to thank all friends und Terence between the Government and the Congress Teaders tions for their kind expressions of
for the evolution of a sympathy in their recent sad be- reavement, and for the many floral formula, upon which the smooth- tributes sent and attendance at the tion could be based. Even if the er working of India's constitu-
suggestion comes to nothing, and the Mahatma proceeds to brood philosophically over the failure of every conceivable compromise, non-violence re- mains the pivotal idea in his pro- gramme for achieving national freedom.
In this sense, his claims to the those of any candidate who he
peace prize excel
funeral.
Hong Kong, Friday, April 23, 1937
DEFINITIONS OF
PEACE
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One of the primary tasks of that growing group of practical pacifists who would seek to tablish the reign of law through-lieves in armed might as an as- surance of tranquillity or as the out the world, is to secure uni- versal acceptance of a single de-only weapon in the struggle for finition of what constitutes quality of rights or independ peace. If we are to judge from London reports of yesterday,
ence.
Britain's current interpretation The President's Jesters
which she permits herself to America's droll college jesters make as a result of the Lansare at it again. The muse of bury-Hitler conversations is satire takes charge of Yale and demands nothing more urgently the result is à Roosevelt-for- than an agreement for exchange King movement. Launched eat
of budgetary information on re- Yale, the monarchist drive has armament programmes. This been endorsed by Princeton and may possibly be a severe criti- Columbia, which have asked for cism of the British Government's chapters. The President is to response to such opportunity as become Franklin I, and erowns has been offered, but as far as have already been devised.for can be seen, it does encom- the King and his beloved Queen pass the limits of that res- Eleanor." Governor Landon be- ponse, and it does serve to show comes "pretender to the throne," how far the politicians are re- and his seal is a wilted sunflower moved from idealistic concep-on a shield of gray. King Frank- tions of what is possible if suffi-lin's seal sports lusty roses, fif- cient determination is made teen in number, with only nine manifest,
showing, since the remainder
In itself, that cannot be re- have been ploughed under. garded as particularly surpris- So confident of victory are ing. We need but to recall Nobel these monarchists that they are Peace Prize recommendations to mapping coronation plans. Ob- discover: how muddled are minds|viously there is a substantial
on this seemingly simple ques-section of the collegiate world tion of peace. In the postwar whose reaction to the contempor- years the most unexpected canary scene is in the m mordant vein didates have been suggested for of Voltaire. It was So when the prize. Recently, for instan- the American colleges levelled ce, Herr Hitler, having waved their volleys of laughter at the the olive branch vigorously in veterans' lobbies and initiated public, protestations of peaceful the "Veterans of Future Wars." aspirations, was hailed by at Perhaps Yale meant to carica- least one foreign admirer as a ture the President's political in- fervent apostle of world peace. tentions and methods. Perhaps And that claim is likely to be they meant to caricature the peo- given fresh impetus by the recent ple who evoke extreme and hör- conversations in Berlin, even rendous shapes of dictatorship while those less disposed to hero- and fascism. One never knows in worship may meekly suggest that the case of satire. "Gulliver's if either deserves it, the palm Travels" is still read placidly in should be awarded to Mr. George the nursery.
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Lansbury, Moreover, it appears Happily these Voltairian bur- to have been forgotten that the lesques suggest that América is Fuehrer has himself decreed that still wholesomely free from the Nobel prize cannot be accept- much of the more serious tension ed by any self-respecting · Ger- that grips some other nations. man, an announcement made by When Americans doff their sat- way of protest against the un-ire to don the grím business of happy choice of an ex-detenu for red or green 9
shirt movements, the award of last year's prize. there may be cause for alarm.
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