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kes. In this twi- tween peace and nceivable weapon, actual employment is being brought al military and 'na- ns, demonstrative lidarity and anta- nic and financial to an accompani nfire of propagan-

has still been

no

"war of nerves," blogical endurance r way. A newcom- struck by the pre- e in German quar- will be no war. to interpret this

gn is soon dam- alization that Ger- future Munichs, etty much what it

fighting.

are counting on drive wedges into hich is assuming hem. They pro- that Poland will to the financial ning over a mil- rms indefinitely, ation of military agreements will asive with the

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the A.F.V.

maintenance

tank throw-

AND

WAR

A smart line in beach attire snapped by our photographer at Repulse Bay.

Balkan states than British and of the dictatorships may not can- French subsidies, that in Britain vass the dangers of war with the and France, at the last moment, freedom of newspapers in demo- a disinclination to fight on an cratic countries. East European issue will appear.

4.

So there is far less likelihood The war of propaganda is not, than there was in 1914 of simply of course, a one-side affair. The blundering into irretrievable con- French state of permanent par- flict. There is a strong impulse tial mobilization, the British adop for both groups of powers to pro- tion of conscription, the British long the period of manoeuvring and French naval movements in for position, to make no move the Mediterranean-these are that cannot be recalled. One is all counter moves. in this des very rash to risk predictions in of swift and violent perate game of world political an era chess...

change, when one's best informa tion of to-day is set at naught by the surprises of to-morrow. But there seems to be a reason. pro-able probability that Germany, if

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THAT such a game is in

not yet out of control are two land would mean a general war, considerations which may per will not attack Poland, at least haps reasonably diminish the until more favourable circum- anxiety with which the average stances arise. There are always American looks at the European points of less resistance to work headlines in his daily newspaper, on: Spain, perhaps, or Hungary, although long-term optimism or Yugoslavia. would still seem unfortunately

than

premature. For war is a tremen- The two greatest dangers of a dous risk, and this is just as true slide toward war rather for the dictatorships as for the peace in the present ambiguous democracies, and is, just as well and critical situation would seem realized by Hitler and Mussolini to be a miscalculation by one side as by Chamberlain and Daladier, of the other's strength and de-

even though the controlled press

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strained race of national endur- ance, in which morale, arma-

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