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us understand that for every added arm there should be added effort at real appeasement.
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Every new ship should be fol- lowed not by a new suspicion but by recognition of the good in
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ARMED APPEASEMENT
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What About the Ocean?
..
A lady is just reported to have lived for eighty-eight years in a village in Bedfordshire, without ever having seen the sea. It.. would be interesting to have her reactions to that remarkable nat- ural-phenomenon. Her...long- maintained indifference suggests she is the person to put it in its place.
The Munich settlement
The sea, of course, has been the evoked a redoubled race in arm subject of a good deal of com ments. The Hitler Chamberlainment in its time. Most of it has agreement by which Britain and been adulatory → indeed, almost Germany were to settle all dif sycophantic, Sailors have treat ferences peaceably has been folled it with respect, and poets with lowed by-new-British defence admiration and awe. They have preparations and sharp German emphasized its vastness and its
grandeur. attacks on those preparations,
The multitudinous he sea ” said Aes- laughter of the sea,” s Armed, appeasement does ap- chylus more than a score of cen- pear a selfcontradictory policy. But in the search for workableuries ago; and poets have gone peace measures, let us not be on like that ever since. It must all be very trying to whatever thrown off by words. Armed ap- "peasement is not an impossible sense of modesty the sea Has...
polioy the second half of the The balance has, however, been team keeps up with the first. It somewhat restored by the obser is plain that the very number and vations of several London County destructiveness of weapons has Council school children who re- caused statesmen and peoples to cently gazed on the majesty of strive · harder for adjustments the ocean for the first time. One, without war.
of a practical turn of thought, instantly regarded it as a branch Yet, the choice of guns instead of plumbing, and exclaimed, “'Ow of butter is no people re-do they fill it up, mias?" lishes. And the longer the peo-
When Neptune next meditates ples go on making it the
the magniloquent praises of the ready they become for desperate
poets, the comments of these ventures. It tends also to result children should be a useful coun- merely in everyone having two terweight to his vanity. guns instead of one. Such a con-
more
dition may permit adjustments||
under, threat of war which are Vouchers for Vagrants yet better than war. But it heals no hates, makes no genuine peace. Among several suggestions for And where much of the world ap dealing with vagrancy in Britain, pears divided over ideals of gov- put forward at a recent confer- ernment and separated by ence in London, was a plan for antithetical ystems of trade, issuing a passport," complete armed appeasement can exist with photograph, to each person only
the greatest risk who could satisfy the authorit if it is to be aggravated ies that he was genuinely tramp- Most of continually by warlike words. It ing, in search of work. becomes then merely armed irri-those "on the road" belong to this tation This fast gives force to category, and no doubt the scheme the words of Ambassador. Ken-would serve to draw a distinction Return: £76 nedy at the Trafalgar Day din-between them and the sturdy ner of the British Navy League: beggars," the real Wandering It is true that the democratic Willies, whose sole motive is to and dictator countries have im- be found in a gipsy instinct, which portant and fundamental diver- leads them to evade the restraint gencies of outlook, which, in cer- of a settled life. tain matters, go deeper than poli- Admittedly, these raggle tag- tics. But there is simply no sense, gle nomads are a very difficult common or otherwise, in letting problem. But to regard them these differences grow into unre-merely as "work-shy, unduly lenting antagonisms, After all, under the influence of laziness, we have to live together in the and hence as not so worthy same world, whether we like it consideration, is an attitude that or not.
may be justified in some ases, It might be well to recognise but on a general balance that in the present stage of hum- to be unfair. They obey a deep. anity's development every coun rooted Instinct, and one that try is going to arm if it feels it universally recognised. self threatened.. Until nations lind Perhaps those misfits," who a way to make collective work they may find the dictions of arméd
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but...” who are men of intent and character, might vouched for too, to this extent,
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