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one
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characteristics for it
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theless, it is
hinkable.
How deeply the idea of a Lea- que as r00
bumanity was hown by an illustrious prede or of
British premiership, William Ewar Gladstone, who in 1859,
he
Geneva organiza- dreamed of, pointed out
his “Homeric Studies" the a conception of a
ver nown gest ppear
Mr. made without
migh well
of
the
sign
that
that
and pub-
was not un-
It would
not
-be riate cause, of redress
once
with some confidence that Chamberlain is backing and that the wrong horse in Britain in his made it the dirty of the injured policy of publicly dismissing the o come to terms. Hence the League of Nations as a futile affer of Paris (to fight Menelans achronisma at every oroortunity n single combat) is at Last week, when challenged by eadily accepted, and hence
Phillip Noel Baker on the rises Agamemnon's fear, at the manian Polish dispute, he noment when he anticipates the cornfully dismissed the idea that eath of Meselaus, that by that the League could accomplish any-vent the claims to the restor thing. Previously, he is report- ion of Helen will be practically led to have said:
disposed of, and the Greeks will have to return home without re-
aration for a
What is the use of saying for the thousandth time that we be lieve in the principles for which Gladstone peaks of a primi- the League was founded and ive age of warriors, before trea that our policy is directed toties were even committed to. make those principles effective? writing. Yet, as the pages of If the League is temporarily Homer's had clearly show, dis- funable to fulfil its function putes between nations were car- what is the use of repeating, parried on according to rules, which rot-like, that we believe in the their leaders felt themselves.com League?
pelled to obey. On soil such as There is logic in this retort, this a world League of Nations but there is surely something can always be raised. Shall it more than logic in the question be said that after all its vaunted of the League of Nations there mechanical devices for killing is the matter of faith For those space, setting the most widely who do not honestly believe that separated nations at each other's the world is ready for the Leadoor, the world is to-day less gue, it is naturally right and ready for a system of collective proper for them to say so. One security than these primitive opportunity for the British Gov-nations of thirty centuries ago? ernment to have said so would
have been in November, 1935, Authorship and when, Mr. Chamberlain being then Chancellor of the Exchequer,
Civil Service
it went to the country solicited It is amouneed that, "in votes for a policy of preserva- attempt to bring to light h tion of world peace through the literary talent among Britain's League of Nations." Another op- 350,000 civil servants," the Soc portunity would have been iniety of Civil Service Authors is February, 1936, when it obtain-promoting a competition for the ed the support of British Labour best book written by a civil ser to its policy of intensive rearma-vant during 1938. Such a com- ment on condition that the Gov-petition would have created some ernment "confine itself to com- surprise a few years ago, mitments inside the League.”
when one knew nothing about a poet Those Britons who do confess or novelist or critic one assumed to a faith in the League of that he was a civil servant, for Nations idea would no doubt the ranks of writers of distinc have much preferred the Gov-tion were crowded with Rea ement to state its true attitude and Dobsons and Gosses toward the League at some earl Lampsons and Walkleys ier stage rather than at this cri-Jacobs and Merivales and so on. tical juncture in world affairs, Indeed it is possible that the un- and after the influence of the kind legends about the League had been so disastrously ngly short hours worked by civil undermined by such moves of an servants may have been associa avowedly pro-League Britished with the remarkable outout government as the Hoare-Laval of some members of the agreement on Ethiopia and then various departments of litera Simon disavowal in May, 1934, ture. Perhaps also people wh of any British responsibility of ppreciated good writing helping China when Manchuria content that it should be so, was invaded by the Japanese hat.
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