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Iconsidered the keystone of suc- cesses of totalitarian force. That the issue is "bigger than Dan- zig" apparently is recognised in. London as well as Paris to-day.

This is hardly a sign that ap- peasement will come from Lon- Kong.don before the international at-

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mosphere is cleared of the threat of force. When it is cleared, Lord Halifax promises, the problems which lie back to German and Italian discontent can be discuss- ed-even colonies.

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This is not the first time suggestion of appeasement has crept into an otherwise firm Brit- ish statement, and there is danger it will again be misinter preted as a sign of weakness. Yet. it is necessary to underscore the willingness of the European de- mocracies to accept wise and just changes through peaceful not necessarily for insertion but as means, lest the very point of the

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democratic peoples' willingness to make sacrifices be forgotten in the emotional excitement which: develops in nations suddenly con- scious of their full powers.

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What must be aimed at to-day, at the very outset, is such peace. Reminders of its import- ance are not necessarily signs of a return to appeasement. Indeed, the most visible straws current ly blowing in this direction the statements in the German press that there is really no cause for alarm over Danzig now, and that this summer is going to be a politically uneventful one.. Berlin denies the cause of the. apprehension felt in Paris and The certainty with which pre- London, and such denial is good' dictions of a new Munich are still diplomacy. If it does not put being voiced is a measure of the those capitals off guard then it task

which British statesmen can be cited as explaining why no have before them of convincing great events followed reportedly German public and official opinion extensive preparations for them.. For* that Britain means business this This is all to the good.. time. The signs are stronger after all, if peace is to be.re-- to-day than they were prior to established short of war, appease- the Sudeten crisis that Britain ment must come from both sides.. has drawn a line behind which there can be no retreat.

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Yet are German leaders read- ing these signs? What of the] calling up of additional hundreds of thousands of reservists by Ber-on lin, the pouring of National Socia list forces into Danzig?

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Mr. Harold Nicolson's recent address to the Institut Francais

"Anglo-French Misunder-- standing" might be supplement- ed with some examples from both sides of the Channel touching the Evidently the best reports of differences of temperament and which governments

avail outlook between our neighbours themselves are disquieting enough and ourselves. In the Goncourt to warrant public statements the Diaries is the record of a conver- nature of which makes retreat all sation in March, 1865, with Her-- but impossible by those respon-zen, described as "one of the fath-

ers of the revolutionary move... sible for them.

ment in Russia." The conversation. What cannot now be overlook-included "curious stories about ed, though it may have been over-the manners and customs of estimated in the pre-Munich England, which he loves as the- weeks, is British public opinion, land of liberty. An English ser A year ago this was confused and vant for whom Turgenev had divided. Numbers may have been found a place with the Viardots, on the side of firmness; but in and of whom he asked the reason. fluence was on the other side. for his giving notice, said to him: Now this opinion is solidly com- These aren't well-bred people... mitted to the ideal of an anti-Not only the mistress but the aggression front. Munich educat-master too speaks to me ed the man-in-the-street to the table."" There were other stor- reed of making his views unmis-ies, and then the entry concludes: takable to his own government. "And as we tried to unravel It evidently educated the men in French, and English characteris- Downing Street to the need of tics Herzen said: 'An English-- making British views unmistab man summed up the two charac- able to other governments.

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Guarantees of a most sweep that the Frenchman eats cold ing nature to Poland, to Rumania, yeal hotly but we eat our hot beef to Greece, and atop of these con coldly. Lord Chief Justice scription in Britain these are Coleridge's father encountered some of the factors which make Mme. de Stael when he toured this situation different from that the Continent after the Napoleo- nic Wars. He remarked that of September, 1988.

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none of the changes in France

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taken place not simply because ence, ," she answered, "between British, leadergnin desired it, but you and us seems to be mainly because the British people, had this: you are a proud people and achieved among themselves that care for liberty, we are a vain. oneness of aim which is so often people and care for equality."