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authorities which show that such rights, as they are now coristitut- ed, do not fit Japan's concept of a "new order in Asia.”

Americans have begun to rea- lise that a Japan all-powerful in the Far East could menace also the flow of a strategic raw mat- erial for peace or war purposes

to the United States. The United States is pulling nobody else's chest-nuts out of the fire when it takes an interest in Far affect the legitimate position of Eastern developments which

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An unusual speech emphasising that neither in France nor England do the masses, of the people feel any instinctive sym- pathy for the thoughts and habits of their neighbours across- the channel was made the other day by Mr. Harold Nicolson at: the Institut Francais in South.

Hong Kong, Tuesday, August 1, 1939. Kensington.

BALANCING PEACE

He said that although geogra- phy, politics, strategy, and com- mon principles had rendered An- glo-French co-operation virtually In the absence of collective a law of nature, yet if the vast security, balance of power be-machine of military and political comes a next-best bulwark of action were to be properly lubri- cated it was essential that the peace. But the balance of power to which peace-seeking nations two peoples should strive to un- must look to-day is a world derstand each other's point of

view. He declared that there were superficial similarities be... tween ourselves and the Ger- visitor to mans, and that any

balance, as distinguished from a European balance. This is ୫୫ true for the United States as for any nation. And in a world from which the United States Germany would be impressed by cannot float off into untroubled German criety to address him the trouble taken by all classes space, Americans should begin in his own language and to min- to realise that they have to face, ister to his own habits. whether they wish to or not, the fact of their own interest in law and order.

France, on the other hand, was The Englishman who visits

often left under the impression Few reports reveal more em- that the French are so convinced phatically the interdependence of the supremacy of their own of communities geographically culture that they sincerely do not remote from one another than believe any other culture can that which covered the recent exist. Mr. Nicolson might have. agreement between the United said the same of the English.. States and Great Britain to ex-He thinks that there are two dan.. change respectively cotton for gerous fictions which ought to rubber. The cotton is as unwant- be disproved that the French ed in America as the rubber is are a gay and volatile nation and wanted. And the agreement the English a cold and unsympa- covers only a fraction of the pos-thetic race. The British should sible economic collaboration concentrate upon the amazing which could be accomplished be- heroism of the French people and tween the two countries.

upon their solid and unbending

The facts implied in this agree endurance, and the French upon. ment have bearing on the Con-the gentleness of the English. gressional attitude towards character our shy sympathy, American neutrality. As "un-our dumb intuition, our extraors- fortunate" as M. Bonnet's ex-dinary tolerance and kindness." pression of à French desire to

have America in the "peace

front" may seem to isolationist When Competitors Help. |opinion, objections must still be tempered by an increased recog-

Stage players in Britain have nition that the interests of the discovered new rivals. In the

United States even those touch-past they have survived much ing on its supplies for self-de-powerful competition from bear-- fence are i

interlocked at import-baiting, cinemas, radio, lawn: ant points with those of the two tennis, and summer time. But leading European democracies. how a new class of competitor is . It is not merely a matter of presenting itself. It consists, ideology. Strong speeches and oddly enough, of stage players. reports of intensified war pre-These players are amateurs and parations in Germany, point to foreign professionals, Organisa-- the possibility of a new crisis tions representing the interests over Danzig in the near future, a of British workers in the theatres crisis which would apparently be calculate that their clients lose. timed to take full advantage of 67,226 working weeks every year- British soccupation in the Far on account of this new competi

But Britain's difficulties tion. Yet there is other side

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