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MR. CHAMBERLAIN'S

POLICY

idea, an unshakable determina- tion not to get involved in war. This surely a noble ideal; there could be none nobler. But the National Government does not discuss nor advance it in terms of idealism. It tends to represent the search for an es- tablished peace as something for which cherished convictions and essential liberties, may have to be sacrificed. Thus, Mr. Cham- berlain's policy is put by his sup- porters, and even by himself, in such a way that generous and chivalrous instincts tend to re- volt against it. In the heat and stress of the moment it is diffi cult to get things into perspec- tive. advantages

A journalist has not the of the historian, either in personal detachment or in unrestricted access to mater- ials. Yet the journalist should try to approximate to the his- torian's coolness of judgment and impartiality. In this case it is possible but not, perhaps, more than possible that the historian of the future will consider Mr. Chamberlain's present policy, not as a somewhat cowardly exhibi- tion of opportunism, as many liberal thinkers to-day regard it, but as an honest and courageous

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Hong Kong, Wednesday, Oct. 5, 1938. effort to apply to international

affairs the fundamental princi ples of traditional British ideas. What exactly the fundamentals are to which British policy the past has conformed it is not easy categorically to set down. The name of Great Britain to In this matter the British way day stinks in the nostrils of every of doing things is sharply differ- good Czech. There is an unplea-ent from that of many other sant and most unpalatable fact countries. In England there is which all the oratory of Govern- no Monroe Doctrine setting down ment: spokesmen in the House of briefly and decisively Britain's Commons cannot remove, nor inalienable territorial interests in conscience salves represented by regard to foreign powers. No ten million pounds sterling Were authoritative, binding, and suc- it possible to share the confidence cinct account of the fundamentals of Mr. Chamberlain that recent of this aspect of policy has ever events constitute the beginning been made. Yet a broad con- of better things, those who see sideration of English history re- nothing but humiliation in the veals certain long-standing ten- Munich Agreement would agree dencies which underlie and unify with the inevitability and rea- the often confused and apparent- sonableness of its immediately contradictory manifestations of cost to our pride. But it re- British action on isolated occa- quires a completely new reading sions.

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of the history of the past five Among such tendencies may be years to assume that Herr Hitler noted a determination to prevent will now settle down into a docile any strong hostile power from weaver of a permanent peace controlling the Channel ports, a fabric.

dislike of any Continental nation

One of Britain's troubles is, as establishing a hegemony in Eu- someone has said before some rope, and a resolution to preserve where, that Mr. Chamberlain is naval supremacy in European the most misunderstood states- waters. Beyond these, a fur- man in Europe to-day, and that ther tendency may be discerned. the man who misunderstands Wherever possible, "Britain has him most is Mr. Neville Cham- attempted to put the opposition berlain. Mr. Chamberlain calls into a good temper. himself a realist. Now a realistInternally, she has met the is a man who looks facts in the uprising demands, of the working face, burking nothing, however classes, not with refusal and re- unpleasant. But the facts must pression, but with friendliness be all the facts, not just a selec- and conciliation. She has met tion. A realist recognises a the growing desire for freedom tornado when he sees one; but it and independence on the part of the is equally true that a realist per- her chief possessions. with ceives that the grass, is green, granting of Dominion status, and that the sun does sometimes thus saving her Empire by the shine. The tragedy to Czecho- most daringly brilliant methods slovákia is a fact. But honour in history, consisting in the vir- and justice are facts, also, and if tual giving away of the very Great Britain would put her thing she desired to preserve, heart into the matter collective resulting in the discovery that security might be a fact, and a this was the most effective of all

If this means. of preserv every potent fact, too.

is so, then Mr. Chamberlain, ac Conciliation, then, has formed cording to his opponents, who in- fundamental of British polley clude many of the most brilliant

past. - Mr. Chamberlain is and honourable men in the couns trying conciliat to-day. It may try, is not a realist; for he ignores be likely

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