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ABYSSINIAN

DOCUMENTS

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Magic Moves On

At a dinner in London in Those who wish to have before honour of Sir James Frazer men- them for future reference the tion was made by Professor tragic story of the Abyssinian Malinowski of sympathetic magic dispute, with all the relevant and the savage's idea that, if documents on the subject, cannot they are to act as effective do better than obtain the second charms, words and things must volume of the Documents on be like the qualities which they International Affairs, 1935, are intended to stimulate; soft which has just been published by words and sweet things are need- the Oxford University Press un-ed as love charms, harsh words der the auspices of Chatham and hard things... as magic that House. No good purpose would will have an influence on war- be served to-day by recalling în fare. It was also indicated that detail that wretched conflict, the Europe could still see the same facts of which are familiar, but kind of underlying ideas in magic the official documentary record at work in mass suggestion and which is here provided from the propaganda for commercial, na- most authoritative sources, must tional, and military purposes. always remain of vital import- ance in the history of foreign fortable flavour of possibility The suggestion has an uncom-

affairs during the period from about it. Sir James Frazer has the end of December, 1934, when indicated with incomparable skill fighting broke out between how magic bore within it the Abyssinia and Italian troops at seeds of science and has dwelt in Walwal, down to the end of the 'some memorable passages on application of Sanctions in July "our debt to the savage" as the last. The volume has a perman- first explorer of mental ent interest quite apart from the cesses which still have their in- pro- fate of Abyssinia, for the whole fluence on human affairs. tragedy, shocking enough in it-Nowadays, and to those who can self, involved issues of far reach-

see a little below the surface, the ing importance.

debt becomes rather more ob- vious than ever.

Italian aggression confronted the League with a test case. The nations of the League decided unanimously that Italy was the aggressor and after prolonged

delays, sanctions were imposed. In Polished Places But reading through all these

long documents, in which the Sir Samuel Hoare's political case for Italy is stated as fairly preoccupations may have moved as is the case for the League and about a bit from India to the for Abyssinia, the main impres- Foreign Office and from the For- sion derived is the dilatoriness eign Office to the Fleet, but. in and ultimate futility of the his personal relaxations he re- League's opposition. In these mains persistently and publicly pages we may see that whole faithful to "skating (silver. fiasco developing until owing to medalist),*** as "Who's Who” the wide divergence of views puts it. In the past he has given among the nations of the demonstrations of his skill in League, Italy bluffed her way that direction on London rinks successfully through the sanc- and for the benefit of charity tions period, to emerge trium- which is more than even the phant with the annexation of the versatile Mr. Winston Churchill ancient Abyssinian Empire and has ever done. And recently we without very material injury to saw photographs of him "fea- her resources, owing to the half-tured" and poised in the com- hearted and belated application pany of some of the most accom of sanctions. No doubt the na-plished competitors for the Bri- tions of the League were obsess- tish women's figure-skating ed throughout the whole period championship. That, again, is a of the crisis by the fear that a degree of grace which has not great war in Europe might be yet been reached by Mr. Anthony called into being as a result of Eden, who is apt to be regarded the effort to prevent or to limit by some as the Cabinet's real a small war.

model of masculine elegance. But

The total result has been, from how Sir Samuel Hoare, with his, the League's point of view, mastery of edges and activity on that, rapidly robbed of its the ice, has managed to avoid the authority, it has ceased to be nickname of "Slippery Sam” is regarded as that factor in one of the minor mysteries of securing the peace of the world public life. There was

once a which it had been hoped to "Soapy, Sam,”” and a bishop at create when the Covenant was that, who acquired his sobriquet signed at Versailles. Confronted with much less visible justifica- with a test in which all the moral |tion.

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