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|has dealt with Germany, and that the policy should be adjust- ed so as to be less "foolish.” Mr. Eden and Sir Robert Vansittart are believed to lead the group sup-

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BRITISH POLICY

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present policy. If there is any. hidden significance to Lord Lon- donderry's criticism, it may “be that it could provide some sort of a clue to the importance of Sir Robert Vansittart's new job, which has been described by "The Times"

imes" as "experimental, The job may mean a victory for the collective group, since it en- to

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Nothing is more incalculable ables Sir Robert Vansittart than the shape that British for communicate his views direct to the Cabinet instead of through eign policy may assume in the next few weeks. The true mean-the Secretary of State. On the ing of developments in German other hand, he is now in a posi

tion in which he may be directly is not yet properly underse for complication is furnished by attacked from various quarters, with the possibility of the posi- Signor Mussolini's more accOT: modating attitude on the Spanish tion being squeezed into one question. The suggestion of small importance. It is balley- a Foreign Office switch of focused, however, that Sir Robert is, indeed, in this matter, very position, because he expected

Vansittart accepted the strong, going rather towards you

justifying Lord Londonderry' reasonable chances of firmly en- recent sarcastic description of interpret Lord Londonderry's at- trenching himself. Some critics the present policy as "opportun-tack as proving that Sir Robert [ist.”

Vansittart has scored a substan- It is interesting that his at-

reor fluential Conservative section ganisation of the Foreign Office and the appointment of Sir Robert a whittling down of the import- seems to urge protection against Vansittart to the new post

ance of the job by suggesting Chief Diplomatic Adviser, The reshuffle came as a complete sur not be sent round Europe fre- that Sir Robert Vansittart should prise to the public, which has not yet received a full explana- to the Cabinet.

quently, but should remain close tion, and it is being thrashed out Whatever the truth, this much privately whether that change is certain: open diplomacy is fast too presages an alteration in the being relegated as suitable only course of Britain's policy. Signor in a world where sweet reason Gayda's comment that the lines rules, and the first knowledge of British policy "are often al-Britain and the Empire is likely tered by internal considerations, to gain of the meaning of recent such as Parliamentary pressure manoeuvres will be provided and tactics," is being discussed when the result is presented as with animation.

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It is a fact that the lines of Britain's policy are. not bold.

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Primarily they are dictated by Rhodes's Dream considerations of Imperial inter- It is instructive at the present ests-and-also the maintenance of time to consider what Cecil- certain traditional friendships Rhodes said at various periods of and the cultivation of others, im-his life on universal peace. portantly related to defence and 1877, in a letter to W. T. Stead, Imperial interests. Supporters of he set out his political creed: “I the British Government are split contend that we are the first race on the question of which is the in the world, and that the more best way to

strengthen the we inhabit the better it is for policy. At present, foreign the human race. The absorption policy leans towards a form of of the world under our rule sim- collective security, with France ply means the end of all war. as the first and indispensable He states that it is his object to ally. It is a principle opposed to work "for the bringing of the bilateral agreements, except in whole civilised world under Brit- certain specific cases, such as the ish rule, for the recovery of the Anglo-German Naval Agreement: United States, for the making Nevertheless, there is room to of the Anglo-Saxon race into one believe that important influences Empire." In his first will, made are working for the breaking up in the same year, he provides for of the policy of collective security a secret society, on the model of in favour of something akin to the Jesuits, to promote this end. an understanding between Brit- "The whole continent of Afri- ain, Germany, Italy, and France ca, says a biographer of this in other words, a reversion, to modern Loyola, "is to be settled Power politics, by the establish- by Britons, and also the whole ment of either a three or four continent of South America, the Power bloc.

Holy Land, the Valley of Apart from appearing to urge Euphrates, the island of Cyprus the Foreign Office advisers to and Candia, the islands of the take greater notice of Germany, Pacific not heretofore possessed Lord Londonderry's comments by Great Britain, the Malay do not lead anywhere, being Archipelago, the seaboard of purely destructive criticism, and China and Japan, and, finally, the would be of little value but for United States. In the end Great the fact that they merely under Britain is, to establish a power line the astonishing state of so overwhelming that wars must uncertainty among many people cease and the millennium be rea- in high positions as to what is lised “

"

the

the correct course that the policy This ideal Rhodes further ela- should pursue. A denunciation borated in a series of wills made of Britain's policy by Herr Hitler at various periods of his life, till could not be more severe in its at last his air-castle took mun- essence than Lord Londonderry's. dane shape in the Rhodes Scho- Lord Londonderry is a member larships. But how fantastic, of an important group favouring how much in the manner — of. better treatment of Germany on Aristophanes, must appear

at the ground that, so far, British the present hour that touch about diplomacy has showed itself al- the "seaboard of China and most at its worst whenever it Japan"