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A London store recently made an amusing and instructive an- ism" of the past. William Pitt, thology of the "uproarious optim-

one of the most famous of Prime Ministers, declared, "There is scarcely anything around us but ruin and despair." Wilberforce, who accomplished so much in the fight against slavery, struck more personal, but not dissimi- ur, note by stating, "I dare not marry, the future is so dark and unsettled."

The invention of the airplane has meant a great deal to Bri- tain; and there is a tendency to contrast the present strategic position of the United Kingdom unfavourably with its situation in the past. This tendency is both unhistorical and illtimed. Great Britain has in fact long been secure, because it has not been

Hong Kong, Wednesday, April 5, 1939. invaded for close on nine hun-

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dred years. But that does not mean that it has always seemed secure to the people actually liv- ing in it. When Napoleon, the greatest-reputed general the Senate debate over the United world had ever known, for exam- States' new arms programme is ple, was building has camp quite rightly centering more on Boulogne preparatory to launch- policy than planes. Arms should ing an attack on the south coast, be determined by aims, not aims it did not seem secure; nor did it by arms. And there is urgent seem secure when the vast need that the American people Armada was majestically sailing and their Government, keeping up the Channel to meet an ap- pace unwillingly in a world arms parently laughably inferior fleet. Įrace, should clarify their aims. Yet on both occasions its se Two dominant purposes are discurity was actually assured; for closed in every

discussion of in the one case the attack was planes or policy: 1. To keep out never made, and in the other it of war.

2. To defend national was repulsed. A contemporary ideals and interests.

of Drake or of Pitt would have thought the England of to-day, In recent months opinion hag with its enormous wealth and turned more and more

toward huge navy,' a haven of refuge in comparison with the England of

the conclusion that the first pur pose can be best accomplished his own time. by more vigorous pursuit of the second. The assumption has been that an increased arms gramme and support of interna-

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tional law and order (usually in The Careful Great terpreted as Britain and France) with every means "short of war" Mr. James Joyce, the author would prevent a war from which of "Ulysses," who is stated - to the American people are increas- have spent seventeen years over ingly less sure of remaining the sequel to that work which is aloof. But this view is now being shortly to be published, may be challenged and the ensuing deable to claim a record for slow bate should clarify the issue. workmanship in this age of ra- Senator Gerald P. (Neutrality) pid writing, but his method re- Nye has put the contrary view calls that of many of the great most sharply in declaring that masters of the past. Milton plan- with "the least bit of encourage- ned “Paradise Lost" when he ment" from the United States was thirty-two, brooded over it the democracies would be "quite until he was fifty, then spent apt to accept the challenge" of seven years of blindness on its the dictatorships "and go to composition. Gray devoted eight war." There will be no war, he years to his brief "Elegy in a aid, unless the United States Country Churchyard". The "Di- eggs Europe on to it."

vine Comedy occupied Dante Many Americans have felt at from his thirty-fifth year 'until times recently that some of the his death at sixty-six. Goethe Ickes and Pittman verbal belli-wrote the first draft of "Faust" cosities were not making peace: at twenty "and finished the last Yet Mr. Nye himself favoured at eighty Virgil devoted eight abandonment of the embargo on years to his Georgics and over munitions for Spain. And there eleven to the "Aeneid." - Among are evidences that the more vi- the novelists, Cervantes gave live gorous foreign policy of the Unit- years to writing "Don" "Quixote,' ed States, the furnishing of and Le Sage took eleven to write planes to France and England, "Gil Blas", but the palm proba- the plain manifestations of publy "to Flaubert who spent blic antipathy for dictatorial, op, s pressions and aggression

hod a calming effect.

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