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The working classes, from whom sacrifices will be expected, are unwilling to shoulder all the kicks of patriotism while the re- lieved opponents of the buried Front Populaire-make off with the ha'-pence. Their reluctance is neither unnatural nor unjustified. and M. Daladier must overcome it if he is to set France to work confidence."Man-

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Among the most striking of the "political implications" attaching to Anthony Eden's visit to the United States is the apparent futility of denials that such im- plications attach to it.

Yet it is just possible Mr. Eden simply accepted an invita- tion to give a speech on a subject in which he is vitally interested

Hong Kong, Saturday, January 14, 1939 to an audience vitally interested in the same thing. Neither the invitation nor the acceptance need MIRROR OF OPINION have been inspired in Govern- ment circles. Yet such a visit as We have to ask ourselves Mr. Eden's, and such a speech, whether we have been pursuing and such an attitude of interest from the first the right idea. in things American as he declar- Many people thought that the ed before the N. A. M. and has first thing we had to get was exhibited in his sightseeing the disarmament. I never took that last few days, cannot be without view. I have said and I think meanings that are all the strong- I have been proved to be right-fer for being unofficial; cannot be that you will not get peace without implications which through disarmament. You will "political" in the better sense of only get disarmament through that word. The question may re- peace. You have first to per-main' moot as to intentions; it is suade people they are not going already being answered by "Christian Science to be attacked, and then they will effects. put down their weapons of their Monitor." jown accord. -

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We have, in the stern and ter It is hard, of course, to hold our rible days in which we are liv-heads in face of the persecutions ing and with which we are fac-that are going on abroad. But ed, to make up our minds on let us not fail to remember that this fearful problem whether the good we can do. in helping there are things which are even find refuge for the afflicted car more shameful than war itself. be great through peaceful pro- The country that goes into cesses, but that resort to war negotiations with the determina-would only multiply a thousand- tion that in no case will it fight fold the hardships of those al- is at a helpless disadvantage ready afflicted, while increasing against a country which goes in-a million-fold the number who to those same negotiations with would pay and pay and pay, la preparedness and willingness to with life and limb and health

fight under certain eventualities. and money.

When the statesmen of the world Hate is an emotional thing. It meet together round a confer- doesn't solve problems. Let's con- ence table and one is prepared to fine our hating to hatred of war fight and another is not, if the and use our heads to keep out of other is never going to be pre-war.

pared to fight then that country. - Looking around us to-day we is doomed to a gradual diminu-think the time has come to re- tion of all its powers and prestige, print once, again what Mark and it must gradually go down Twain in his "Mysterious Strang- the hill, and then must be dis-er" wrote, years before 1914, armed.

about war: We should be sure, above all, "There has never been a just of our own motives, and we should one, never an honourable one- be sure that what we yield to on the part of the instigator of reason we will never yield to fear. the war, I can see a million years While seeking to promote peace ahead, and this rule will never in every possible way, we must change in so many as half a be prepared with courage to face dozen instances."- "New York the fearful alternative in order to World-Telegram.' maintain our

own liberty and freedom-Alfred Duff Cooper, The belief that genius. goes former Lord of the Admiralty. essentially with a large brain, and even with a large skull, has

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At the moment it must be ad-often been exposed. The brain mitted that French opinion and of Anatolf France, to take опе French policy are in a state of well-known example, weighed only complete flux.

the three-quarters as much as The wide hostility to Fascism, average brain. to the anti-Parliamentary lea- A blow from concussion or a gues, and to the big trusts, which fragment of shell-splinter has gave the Front Populaire its ear-often been known to destroy a ly driving power, still exists even memory or a complete character, if it is more bewildered than it and it is possible, that the X-ray was two years ago. There may may in time tell us something be a feeling of impatience with about the "good man gone wrong” Parliamentary government, but as well as the unfortunate whose there is very little sympathy brain (and mind) have been with those politicians who would criminally malformed from birth.- make their own capital out of it. The growth of an obstructed Dominating all doubts and an- brain may yet prove capable of xieties is the fear that France is encouragement by mechanical weak_and" "growing relatively means when the patient is treat- weaker with regard to Germany. ed young enough, much as the For the moment this fear is con-orthopaedist encourages

the centrated on the Air Force and growth of a backward or warped air defence

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