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tarian State, prestige is, almost of necessity, a dominating con- sideration since it provides the communications intended for mainspring of popularity at should be addressed to home. The chief danger appre- and be accompanied by hended is that if the Italo-Ger Name and Address, man counter proposals, condemn for insertion buted by Britain as inadequate, are tes of good faith. rejected, considerations of pres- tige may lead Germany or Italy to commit some deliberate act of intervention in Spain which neither France nor Russia would tolerate. It would be the very height of tragedy if this should happen when the steps taken to insulate the rest of Europe from the effects of the Spanish strug- gle appeared to be bearing fruit, and when the Anglo-French offer to carry neutral observers their patrol ships furnished complete guarantee of impartia- lity. Nothing is more certain than that Britain does not pro- pose to be frogmarched into re- cognition of the Franco authorit-

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No good purpose can be served by minimising the gravity of the latest turn of events in the Span- Dispassionate

on

being

ish civil war. Ever since that unhappy conflict began It has

Admiring tributes are hung like the sword of Damocles paid in France to the men who over the peace of Europe, and take the notes for the French there has always existed the dan- of our "Hansard." Their im- Chamber of Deputies' equivalent ger that something might hap- perturbability, it is said, sets pen to snap the frail hair of in- an example. The recent serious ternational co-operation by which enw in the Chamber, when for

the sword is held aloft.

was

of members”. were scuffling and kicking each other for several minutes amid a bedlam of vituperation, was re- ported thus (Divers an

ments, prolonged noise.)

move-

in order to avert this danger that the Non-intervention Committes was established, and that agreement was reached through the labours of its members On the day when the anarchist whereby the Powers undertook Vaillant threw a bomb into the throw an international cordon midst of the session their report also was merely: (Divers move- around Spain in order to prevent ments, prolonged noise.)

And the infiltration of any further when the Archangel Gabriel foreign assistance to either side sounds the Trump of Doom, in the struggle.

to

should the Chamber be in ses- sion, it is prophesied, the inter- In accordance with this

am-ruption will be similarly record- bitious scheme, British, French,ed as the roof falls in. But, German, and Italian warships after all, Shakespeare's (Alar- were despatched to patrol the us and excursions)

much by-play. Spanish coasts, while a corps of international observers was tablished to control the Spanish

es-

covered

frontier on land. There was good Vitality of Age reason to hope that these pre- cautions would preclude any fur-

Another champion___ for the vitality and activity age rises ther serious risk of the war to combat the assumption that spreading beyond the borders of advanced years necessarily bring Spain. First the Deutschland on a slow down of mental capabi- incident and then the conflict over

lities. The nation, that, man's mental potentialities may

be what should be done to express measured by years, says Dr. disapproval of the Leipzig tor- Nicholas Murray Butler of Gol- pedo affair, have, however, in- umbia, leads - far from truth. tervened to blast such hope and Many a young man of 30 becomes to create a new and highly dan- so mentally "set" that he ceases gerous întemational situation mentally to grow, but the which will clearly make heavy alert, vigorous, well-disciplined demands upon the goodwill and mind, bent upon the achievement the good sense of all concerned of high ideals

is yout if the hardwon principle of non- by nature no matter how many intervention is to be preserved. years have passed over it..

It Britain and France have offer seems that more people are com- ed to fill the gap in ses control by ing to realise years are but undertaking sole responsibility measure of time but time is ne in view of the Italo-German with- measure of intelligence.

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