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A famous American University pré-pleasant climate and have to start life sident tells me that one of the fore- over again? most statesmen in Europe' lamented to him recently that "all the 'trouble in the world is being caused by about fifteen hundred people."
Whether the British Cabinet was to be included in that number, Dr. Murray Butler did not say. I should be included myself to say "Yes." For a large part of the trouble Lord Bald- win and Sir John Simon are certainly to blame.
If they as Prime Minister and For- eign Secretary, had joined the United States seven years ago 'in halting Ja- panese aggression against China, the crimes which have followed one an- other since then would have been prevented.
However, that needs no arguing; everyone knows it. What I want to do is to emphasise that statesman's explanation of the frequent crises that disturb us. They are not crises due, as many suppose, to national ambi- tions, or national duplicity or national alarm. They are caused by a few ami- bitious, double-faced, or genuinely alarmed persons blowing up national pride or fear with the bellows of ora- tory and hard lying,
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They cannot at pre They are being used s à clever monkey. Arti is created. They live i xiety-just because it a precarious throne t are dying for German] All they want, all that people want
The rubbish that · 1 everywhere, outside the fifteen hun- "nationality" and "my dred or so, is to live in peace and exploded by Bismarck quiet, to earn a decent living, to ex- that, If his country took tract what enjoyment out of life they perty, it would no longe Is it impossible for all to get try. It was really his pro together and secure these advantages for. not "the Fatherlan for everybody?
Lots of Russians marck's fashion when
at th was confiscated They fought against they adopted other nat did all they could to Many Frenchmen assal
For no reason except that one dict" tor has harshly tried to Italianize them; and another, afraid to demand justice for them, makes a bargain to take them away..
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Another event which illustrates the exploiting of the many by a few has drawn the world's eyes to Danzig, Here the inhabitants of an ancient, beautiful city wish for nothing but to be left alone. They do not care what the Government of the city is--Ger- man, Polish, or League of Nations-- so long as they can go about their business and feel secure.
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valution there.
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How little it matters son has this fatherlan shown by the readines
Future of Party
If the economic contro-
Some months ago I saw signs (and mentioned them here) of a re-stoking of patriotic fires. This process has now gone much further. Not only the dicta-versy were the fundamental tors, but the German and the Italian issue, if everything else real-
nations are denounced.
The Labour Movement's appeal to ly turned on the question Germans came just at the right time. whether private property It shows that we have no ill-will to-.
should be preserved at costs or absolutely abolished,
wards them. In other quarters such ill-will is being I am afraid de- liberately worked up.
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When our Tory politicians say "We are the greatest people in the world" (Sir Samuel Hoare), or "This is the
finest country to live in, the most pow- erful or formidable still left on the globe" (Mr. W. S. Morrison), the in- telligent smile-sadly or cynically ac- cording to their temperament, -
But there are still vast numbers everywhere who are deluded by talk about "national" this or that, and humbugged into fancying themselves superior to everyone else. Here is one of the most active and persistent
causes of war:
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Nothing could more convincingly. prove that rulers exploit nations for their own advantage than the plan for transferring to Germany a quar- ter of a million German-speaking in- habitants of Tyrol (formerly Aus- trian, now Italian).
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then there would be an end of party government.
We have had in the past in Britain, Tory and Whig, and Liberal and Conservative, parties alternating with each other, but we can hardly al- ternate between Socialist and Capitalist States without tumbling into chaos.
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will of the men who hɛ given moment to get State.
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time, more so than an about Socialism or
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and on this issue there agreement among all of we may reasonably ho
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It is not only necess should be a party, stro form a government; it sary that there should But the assumption that what most Opposition in the House people most care about is the economic if there is not the ver factor is unsafe, and so is the assump- grows weaker. That a tion that our parties are as essentially parliamentary debater d Capitalist and Socialist as they some- sarily prove that he w times accuse each other of bing; there policy or skillful in adm may be some issue even more funda- it does make it more 1 mental than the Capitalist versus So- Opposition is not effect cialist issue, and on this deeper ques- be formidable, and if Go tion they may be at one. I believe that dorities are very large a there is such an issue, that the fun- Government can permit damental issue of contemporary mote men for other rea Apart from its reducing to absurdity politics is one which may be labeled liamentary effectiveness: Hitler's claim that Germany is too Constitutionalist versus Totalitarian, if one party stays in p crowded already, this inflicts mon- | Tradition and Consent versus Force all the backbenchers of strous hardship on thousands of fami- and Fashion, the issue between those the easier chance lies who own small farms in Tyrol. who would subordinate every human themselves in debate whi
backbenchers enjoy. There the ancestors of these familles concern to the mere will of the State have lived for centuries past. There whether based on class or race or equally "of course," th are centred all their sentimental asso-philosophy or religion, and those, on of the Opposition party ciations. Why should they be carted the other hand, who believe that Law whatever official experie off to a strange land with a far less is more than the mere uncontrolled more and more out of o
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