1939-09-11 — Page 8

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SPAIN AND THE WESTERN POWERS.

not listening to a moonstruck idealist; rather you are hearing counsel that is ag significant for health as advice

"Trade with Germany as possible, but about diet. The appeal to banish en- for many essential products-notably Vy, to learn to rejoice in the good for- cotton, rubber, and petrol-Spain is tune of others, is, if you only knew it, a voice whose message bears directly. dependent on countries other than

which Germany. The German trade misalon not only upon the saintliness headed by Herr Wohltat which visited you do not seek but upon the health The Beatitudes are exactly Spain recently had only a very limit- you do. ed success. Spain is in urgent need of what their names suggest, beatific at- titudes. Those who practice them are foreign..currency, which is, of course

the blessed--Methodist Messenger. unobtainable from the Axis Powers.

Economic forces are therefore com- pelling Spain to engage in closer re- lationship with the Western Powers, "Economist."

HUNGARIAN DIVERSION?

Whereas Russia in the World War could concentrate its military, effort, which still remained inadequate, on the European front, the Soviet Union to-day cannot leave out of account the possibility of a Japanese attack on its Far Eastern provinces. This is a fac- tor which has undoubtedly influenced

the Soviet Union in its dilatory and tortuous conduct of the negotiations for a pact with Britain and France.

A German attempt to absorb Hun gary would be very awkward for the

As for the United States, the chang- democracies, as it could probably claim much Magyar support. English ad- ed attitude of Japan would certainly. visers, if not French also (though this tion in the event of a European war. affect very appreciably American ac- is less probable), might press upon During the last war, in which Japan Rumania the advantages of handing

back Transylvania to Hungary and the was on the Allied side, America was Dobrudja to Bulgaria in the interests able to place its entire navy at the of European peace-counsels not very all American troops from the Philip- disposal of the Allies and to withdraw likely to strengthen the Peace Front.

At best, even if the Magyars closed pines. This would certainly not be so their ranks when they felt their inde- to-day, when the first action of Pre- sident Roosevelt during the April war pendence threatened, the democracies would have a difficult hand to play in scare was to order the American fleet to proceed to the Pacific. In short supporting their resistance. And the moral readiness for war-especially in one is living in a world of "circles." England which is less used to military be the most effective and which will Only experience will show which will preparation-might weaken. Hitler is

be the easiest to break through.- shrewd enough to allow for this chance

"Christian Science Monitor." and give it time to develop.--"Time and Tide."

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MILITIAMEN MAKE- HISTORY

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HE RESPECTED THE LAW

It was as Sir Esme Howard, not by the title given him after the end of his The War Office, three months ago, service at Washington, that Americans were faced with a colossal task, and knew and best remembered him.. everyone concerned must feel grati- . He had known many capitals before 'fied to see the re-

he came as Am- sults of their la-

bassador to the bours taking

United States. shape. Record re-

Those six

years cruiting figures

(1924-1930) of his of the last two

stay were the gol- months prove that

den days of Mr. the public are now

Coolidge and the realising in in-

not so golden days creasing numbers

of Mr. Hoover. the

is care that now given to the

welfare soldier.

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SITUATION IN EUROPE

a

clear to anyone

It should be that reliance on help from either Moscow or Berlin for the policing of Europe la hopeless. Being the height of folly, being patently Imbecile, that is exactly what groups of men in this country da....... aire to do.

One group says: "I will get Moscow Communism to work with us for peace." The other group says: “I will get the Third Relch to help us work for peace.” Elther choice is an Idiotic as a contradiction in terms,

man.

The new Am- bassador acclimat- ed himself quick- ly. He was an ac- complished gentle- He at- tained a popularity that recalled Jus- serand and Bryce. He made consider- to able sacrifice the then custom of He the country. made the English ship, and the greatest tradition of all, Embassy as dry as President Hayes's namely, the tradition of Service. table of fity years before. It was a bit "Defence."

The spirit of the Militiamen shows the unity of the nation when our liberty is threat- ened. The Militia- men are the in- hertlors of great traditions of duty and comrade-

It is not a choice betwɑon two forms of disease; It is a choice of two poisons, each of which lo mortal-Hilaire Beleoc.

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EMOTIONS AND HEALTH

of conscientious compliance with American law and the American Con- stitution. Many multitudes of Ameri- were less scrupulous.-"New York Times,"

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"HAPPY DAYS"?

The problem of health is often an emotional problem. Wrong emotions entertained, indulged, repeated are po- tent causes of illness. When the

On May 28, the Imperial Japanese preacher talks about loving your headquarters announced that an enemies, the man on the street is apt estimated 2,300,000 Chinese had been to dismiss the exhortation as unem- killed or wounded in the “China In- durable plousness, as a counsel of per-cident." No less than 036,345 dead fection which has no meaning for im- `bodies of Chinese; it was stated, had perfect men in an imperfect society., been counted on battlefields. But the fact is the preacher is telling you something which is one of the first laws of hyglene as well as ethics. No man even for his body's sake can af- ford to indulge in hatred. It is like repeated doses of polson. When you are urged to get rid of fear, you are

In the recent issue of the Japan Times Weekly, we and this: “We don't know how the song Happy Days Are Here Again' sounds in Chinesej. but the Chinese (certainly must be singing it now, with peace and new, Ute at their doorsteps."! "New York Post.”