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THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 19, 1939

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The movement for the estab- lishment of a National Theatre in London has suffered many vicissitudes. It was started 31 years ago, and owing to a suc- cession of misadventures it has so far failed to fructify. But a year ago it seemed that at last London would be able to remove the reproach of being almost the only great capital in Europe without a national home for the Armaments are often likened drama. The time had come to insurance. But the analogy is when its sponsors felt that they far from complete. John G. Win- could start a big drive to secure

the necessary support for ant's foreword to this year's re-

But as it turned out, the cam-. port of the director of the In actual building. - ternational Labour Office

paign coincided with the period. Geneva should emphasise this of international crises, and it is fact. The character of arma-probable that till this is over the ment investment is very different from that back of the citizen's appeal will not meet with full success. Once again the building: endowment life-insurance or

and opening of this theatre are policy.

likely to be delayed. Yet, as the Back of armaments is a great dramatist James Bridie has been

- as the non-productive effort:

urging, it is precisely at such a Winant foreword makes clear →→ time as this that the intellectual. while back of the average insur-and moral nourishment of great. ance policy lies systematic in-drama is most needed. vestment in productive senter- Provision of the means to such prise: in the process of increas-satisfaction is among the duties. ing a nation's real wealth, in of an enlightened community. building up facilities for satisfy- Mr. Bernard Shaw remains a lit ing human wants and needs. So tle. cynical; Mr. Bridie, enthusia. great is the difference between tic; the National Theatre Com this investment and the $16,000,-mittee persists. One is compelled 000,000 Mr. Winant reports is in- to admiration of its decision that. volved annually in the piling up amid the din of war preparations of arms, that a point may come it will still endeavour to make when defence expenditure will its voice heard and plead the: cause actual starvation in the cause of culture as one of the lower income groups.”

greater causes which the coun-- Armament, like war, rarely ac-try is called on to defend, complishes the purpose to which

it is dedicated. The German and Mothers and Air Defence Italian Governments have said

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that their object in intervening The reluctance of mothers in the Spanish Civil War was to with children under the age of keep Russia out of Europe. But five to register themselves the result of German and Italian the official evacuation scheme in war policies has been to cause London is causing the British Britain and France to invite Rus-Government to consider seriously councils of whether its plans for the passive sia back into the Europe as their equal. Armament defence of the country in the pos-- in Germany and Italy has been sible event of war are giving sat-- dedicated to improving the liv-isfaction.

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ing conditions of the German and They involve, should the neces Italian peoples. But there are sity ever arise, the removal of signs that the achievement is some 3,000,000 persons,.. school- unequal to the sacrifices required children, teachers, expectant of these peoples. The resultant mothers and the like, from vari arms race has in fact produced alous large cities into safer areas sense of insecurity which in turn in the country. Evacuation on has caused, business the world, sorgiaatch-scale, would, italiS over to stagnate and those very thought, monopolise the trans- markets which German and Ital-port facilities of the nation for ian producers need so badly to three or four whole days, Finah- dry, up and disappear. 13. cial adjustments have been odicú..

"It is widely felt," says Mr. lated so as to cover the giĝantie Winant, that any stabilisation cost of these measures; and all of the international situation went smoothly untilor an official would see a revival of private in-effort was made to persuade the- vestment and a continuation the upward movement."

mothers of the very youngest : children to promise to accompany them. Many preferred to stay in London.

The nations are now, ag Mr Winant aptly puts it, engaged in "near war. The consequences The British Government recog-

with. of this condition are in many res nises that they pects similar to those of actual peculiar problems. Most of them, war. Values are being destroy-belonging to the popper sections. ed even while the material sym- of the community, do not wish,. bols of them for a time, escape even in an emergency, to leave destruction. It is becoming plain their husbands without help.. to millions that the economic Many of them pressures, which are impelling they could nations toward war are not being the whole removed but on the contrary-in-

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