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tion with American, territorial defence and that the first line of

American defence of the moral values it cherishes may have to be held by Britain and France, has made it possible for the French and British Governments to count heavily on a more com fortable partner than Soviet Russia.

Announcement of United States Government co-operation in help ing France to repair its aviation deficiencies is only the one sign among many that a world balance of power against totalitarianiem has become virtually a fact. Thus British and French warnings to the dictatorships have a more substantial background than those issued prior to the Czecho slovakian tragedy.

Should Italian troops remain in Spain and Spain become the jumping-off ground for an axia campaign against French posses-

Hong Kong, Tuesday, Marchi 7, 1939.sions in Africa, a colonial issue

SPANISH WAKE

might easily be opened which would involve vital interests for two great empires and, less di- rectly, important interests of a The flight of Dr. Negrin from third great economic Power. Madrid în consequence of seizure

of control by the National De-For The Future Citizen fence Council' and the abortive

but significant insurrection at} In these days of rapid social Cartagena mark the rapidity of change, methods of education disintegration of Republican re need to be constantly thought out sistance in Spain. Opposition has, afresh and revised to suit new for all practical purposes, been conditions. The future citizen is futile stubbornness since the being made in the schools. Edu- overrunning of Catalonia and the cation has its valuable traditions; main issue is no longer the result but it may be too much hamper- of the conflict in Spain, but its led by tradition, too resistant to effect upon the international si- what is new and progressive. tuation:

Some thirteen years ago the Signs are not, wanting that a Consultative Committee of the new crisis in the Mediterranean British Board of Education pro- is threatening, which may or may duced the famous "Hadow Re- not equal that of September last port" dealing with the later year. Happily, there are other stages of elementary education. signs, too. Added up they sug- Now the same body, under the gest that whatever the propor-chairmanship of Mr. Will Spens, tions the crisis may assume, it is has produced an equally authori likely to be resolved in more equal tative report on secondary educa- terms that those which emerged tion, which is likely to have from Munich.

profound influence on the school- The French Prime Ministering of boys and girls in England could hardly have called atten- and Wales.

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tion to the navies of Britain and The Spens Report states that France e as a key to solution of the arrangements for the whole- the Czechoslovakian crisis, as he time education of boys and girls recently called attention to the above the age of eleven in Eng- presence in Mediterranean waters land and Wales have ceased to

the with or near Mediterranean waters of correspond a large concentration of fighting structure of modern society and ships of both nations.

with the economic facts.” What Nor could British spokesmen happens at present is that the have based their statements in cleverest children in the English September as Sir Samuel Hoare elementary schools pass on to the now can-on so solid a public secondary (grammar) schools* opinion as has been manifested and the curriculum is too much in Britain on the question of co- governed by the Universities lonies. There were influential which most of the children never Britons who apparently felt reach. Other children and important...mouthpieces technical schools which prepare their opiniong which prematu

them for special occupations in ly hinted at the acceptability of industry. The secondary schools drastic solution of the Czech are deficient, in preparing boys German dispute.

and girls for self-support, the And even as to the outcome of technical in training their gener- the war in Spain, British opinion, al intelligence. though numerically strong in The present system tends to favour of the Loyalists, had yet the over-production of "intellec- powerful sections which at the tuals" for whom there are not outset made no secret of their enough available jobs, and an un- belief that an Insurgent victory der production of highly intelli- might be safer for their own inrent boys and girls specially pre terests. It was not a Francopared to enter industry. triumph to which they would ob- The Committee recommends ject, and their only objections to drastic re-organization. On the Italian aid for him arose from technical side it proposes the

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