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Socialists Labour rightly or country is in

fionary poli-

result is that

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The fact is that domestic dis- putes have shrunk in importance compared with the vaster dispute between the democracies and the dictatorships The conflict be tween the doctrines of the free state and the totalitarian state overshadows everything else. The vast majority of members of al sin Britain are on the side emocracy, and as long as ntroversy persists in Europe there is little disposition to press the differences of party beyond a certain point.

As long as Labour feels cóm- pelled, as it does, to support the

Government, the country can see no reason for displacing that Government. The British Mimis- try to day is strong, not so because its qualities endear the electorate as because country feels it cannot in

Hong Kong, Monday, August 30, 1937. mam policies of the National

BRITAIN'S NONSTOP

GOVERNMENT

Substantially the same Gov- ernment has been in power Great Britam for six years, yet there

dissension The stolo

with

O signs that the counch Britain supports or toler the mood to withdraw ates its National Government is its suppo Mr. Neville Chamber the British reply to the entrench- lain, the Prime Minister, pomtedment of the dictatorships. the other day

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Pressure by Britain upon Japan s not been stronger, Mr. An- thony Eden hinted in answer to a question in the House of Com- fmons recently, ause neither.

ative who United States nor Japan is unced his readiness to sup

member of the League of port the Government. The La-Nations. The explanation is not bour and Liberal polls have been together persuasive.

shaller than in the last general

election, and though the Conser-

Americans might well recog

vative totals are also reduced mise that nations intent on es- they have been sufficient to sure easy victory.

tablishing international law in the place of international war

It has been a very rare thing might have found their task in British politics that a govern-

easier had the United States as ment which has been in power

sumed obligations in the interna for six years should continue to tional sphere commensurate with face elections with confidence. It its position: But Mr. Eden is is clear, then, that there are stating the case incompletely if, some exceptional factors at work as reported, he attributes British which are serving to strengthen hesitancy in the present crisis

the National Government. One is reluctance on the part of the

tempted to conclude that there is United States to join in strong more reality in the claims of the pressure for peace in the Far

Bast. Government to be "national than

is admitted by the Opposition The League of Nations' weak Certainly the weakness in the ness was first indicated w

the personnel of both the Oppositions Manchuria fell prev

While withholding has arisen from the fact that so ese

their forme

embership in the League, many of have been absorbed in the Minis-United States believes that at try. On the other hand, if the that time she at least displayed a

sitive interest Chinese spirit of the Opposition had been

ind the pre- strong enough, surely by this toral integrity time it would have developed new servation of the open door leaders.

whic

The decline of the Liberal Party is due to the fact that both in the other parties have been an a Ede certain-degree Liberalised.

dechir

the British Government, esented by Sir John Simon

occupied refused to support. If the the Lea began then,

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