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Hong Kong, Tuesday, Sept. 28, 1937 found by any violent process of

STOCKTAKING

It is helpful at times to draw aloof from the welter of pro- paganda that besets the citizens of all nations and indulge in little stocktaking the actual world situation.

cutting the knots, but rather by the more patient and laborious process of unraveling them, we can count this also as gain, and look forward hopefully to the future

Britam And America's

The balance sheet has some Past Iserious items on the debit side, but after due, credit has been given to the constructive events or at any rate plans under con templation-there remains balance which may definitely be regarded as profit.

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Certainly Great Britain is terested in America's present. American plays are to be seen at half London's theatres, Ameri- can films are to be seen in all Britain's cinemas; an American inovel like "Gone With the Wind

hot cake fgoes m Britain like

But is Britain interested m America's past?

Mr. Neville Chamberlain, Prime Minister of Great Britain, in a recent speech observed how easy it is for different nations The answer is yes, but various to agree with one another, if educational anthorities are advo they only approach the subject cating that interest should under consideration in the right increased and developed by spirit. It is in this aspect of the widespread extension of the facilities for studying the history situation that the principal gain of the United States provided in is to be found.

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British universities and colleges. There has long been a femtful There are two undeniable fac-interchange of personnel between tors in the current situation. English and American university lent The first is that in every country institutions. Britain the paramount desire is that the Profs. Harold Laski and Gilbert

Murray and many others

to government of that country shallUnited States; and in return be found to be a workable con- America has sent numerous dis- cern, and the second that in no tinguished scholars to Britain. country does there exist the be-

Meanwhile the world ingen- lief that war can be embarked eral might well pay some atten- upon with any prospect of pro-tion to the way in which English fitable result.

and American historians of each other's countries. ifact of common wled

If these two factors are cor Britain and rectly stated as we believe they the United St are they point to a measure of rather violent unanimity which has hitherto has been noted that,

pute, the case most been lacking m international to England can be found Propagandists employ American texts while ed to work in the supposed in the most eloquent terests of their country begin to fenders of

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ant

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iters. The historians of every country is not the sincerely desire