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Professor Hearnshaw outs it in the National Review" for October "Since the League of Nations, collapsed, the most urgent need of the Continent has been the revival of the Concert of the Great Powers

No Concert of Europe is possible, and no reign of law is conceivable, un- less Germany, France, and Great Britain are in cordial and

inti mate agreement" Last Angust "The Times conducted a first-

Hong Kong, Tuesday, December 7, 1937 class debate on Anglo-German

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relations. Professor Trevelyan summed up the point with in the words "Germany and England must learn to folerate, though Were world statesmen

they cannot envy or initate eac position to supply an accurate other's form of governmen answer to the question propound they must live side by side ed yesterday by a correspondent, peace, or civilisation is doomed. Where Will We Find Uncle Sam? Another world war would the world situation to-day would shatter Western civilisation An alfrance be immeasurably easier At Anglo-Franco-Russian the moment it is questionable against the German-Japanese whether developments can safely italian group would spur on the and probably be predicted for forty-eight hours armament race ahead. Almost anywhere, at any head the world for just such time, there is a possibility of another war. Not only would the spark that would end the civilisation be crushed, but the

high tension by the way of dis-survivors would be left without t

aster. Not since 1914 has the assurance against a repetition of state of international politics the slaughter and destruction 25 looked so ominously grave, and soon as (on the present example) one of the vital factors in this the vanquished in the struggle For situation is the uncertainty, re-were ready for the effort. garding the policy of the United the European Powers now to re- States, how she would use her array themselves in the hostile tremendous influence, east or groups of 1914 would surely mean Western west, if the crucial test came. the bankruptcy of

It is evident from local com-statesmanship. Mere expediency ment that the full implications suggests that before taking any of the Anti-Comintern Pact re-such dangerous path, Britain cently concluded in Rome are not should at least be sure that the realised here as they are in Lon- Franco-Soviet pact really offers don and Paris. The importance compensations which outweigh attached in the Foreign Office to in the balance its obvious irrita- the signature of the protocol, tion of European politics. Must however, should have been made we take as sound the thesis-upon plain by the immediate effort, which the Franco-Soviet pact is through Lord Halifax, to sound erected namely, that France out German policy and by the and Germany must forever fight sharp change attitude on the each other? That the times are Colonial question both in London serious and the prospect uneasy and Paris. This was the alter- cannot be denied, but it is still native to the main line of French possible to exaggerate the men- thought which would have urged ace, and, strangely enough, the upon Britain a closer entente be Liberal Labour voice in England tween Britain and Russia as is more bellicose than any other. against what was viewed as clos-For the moment the - most în- er alliance of the central P

rs.fhential factor even in this situs- ignor This plea, howev

tion is the United States and her tendencies. of ritish actions are impredictable. presem

policy, plainly enunciated

is to join no blocs, either anti-Army in the Blues this or anti-that, but to seek by that exclusion of side-taking. Apparently "true blue" is not the colour for the modern sold- the emination

Britain has never accepted any ier, and Mr. Hore-Behaba may obligation to support the Franco-have another little problem to Soviet pact. Participation in any solve in finding 2 hu war arising from that pact has ly is popular for a The chief object constantly been excluded commitment by successive Brit ish Governments Whiteh clear announcement, Eden repeated it ag

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