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THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 20, 1939.

MIRROR OF WORLD

OPINION

PAYING FOR

DEMOCRACY

It was a policy of this kind which blinde our present Government to the mounting dangers in Europe and Will democracy in "America have let it procure, one must say against fall of Czecho- the courage and self-discipline to tax its own will, the itself sufficiently to survive? Mr. Slovakia. But in democracy a peo- for Roosevelt himself once observed that ple cannot escape responsibility liberal governments too often have what its rulers do. Dr. Benes's speech come to grief on the rocks of loose was not à homily for politicians; it fiscal policy. The history of repre- was wisdom for the millions who sentative government shows that its elect politicians, setting the high besetting weakness is the tendency of standards by which they should judge the people to lean upon it rather than leaders and policies to the end of be- support it.

ing represented as they deserve.— "Manchester Guardian."

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WINGS OF CLAY

Among papers to be read before the British Association this year is one on the Future of Flying.

The answer to this question may be embodied in what the next session of Congress does with Senator Robert La Follette's long-pending proposal, nar- rowly defeated in the Senate this year, to broaden the base of the Federal in- A subcommittee of the come tax. House of Representatives is to consider recommending to the next session a lowering of exemptions and a flat rise of 1 per cent in the rate for all brac- kets. A wider tax consciousness would

Pride in flight will revive when a do probably more than any other one thing to brighten the prospect

of benevolent scientist has discovered a genuine economy and of an American way to neutralise the aeroplane as a Government living within its income. war-weapon.-"Daily Mirror."

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Strange, that the greatest invention of man should have turned out to be

curse. Looks as if the. his greatest

too-much gods were jealous of our knowledge.

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PRECAUTIONS IN EIRE

Two proclamations have been made by the Government, the effect of which is to empower the Ministry to set up special criminal court for the trial of persons under the Act and also, in cer- tain circumstances, to Intern such per-

in obscurity. These proclamations may be

TO HER ACTS Though Japan has stated that she will not deal on any basis with Chiang Kai-shek, peace without Chinese con- sent is not within the realm of pro- babilities, and the Chinese Govern- ment was never less inclined than at this moment to discuss terms. Japan's sons. aims remain shrouded Originally she would probably have been content to establish over the five northern provinces such a control through puppet govern- ments as she had obtained in Man- chukuo, but mill- tary ambitions have passed far be- yond that point, and

the world is left to judge of what Japan de- sires by her actions.

REMEMBER MR. GLADSTONE

"For my own part, I am not ashamed to say that if ten years ago anybody had prophealed to me the success of the co-opera- tive system as illustrated in the towns in the north, if I had boon told that man would so associate together for their mutual advan- tage, I should have regarded the prediction as absurd.—Mr. W. E. Gladstone, in the House of Com. mono in 1864.

is

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garded as matters of departmental routine, but there no doubt that the Eire Govern- ment has been in- fluenced to some degree by the

changes in the in- ternational situa- tion. Mr. de Valera has always taken the view that in the event of a European war dis- affected elements In Ireland in other words, the I.RA.—might be expected to give

rather than the words of her statesmen. To her acts must be ascrib- trouble. The great danger, of course, ed the tension regarding the situation is that they might make some kind of in the Far East. The worth of repeated third assertions that the rights of Powers in China will be fully respect- ed would be greater were it not the fact that those rights have been dis- regarded wherever the Japanese arms Tele- have won success.-"Daily graph."

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violent demonstration against the six counties of Northern Ireland, and it way be assumed that the Eire Gov- ernment had this possibility in mind when they decided to invoke the pow- ers with which they have been en- dowed by the Offences Against the State Act.-"The Times."

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HUNGARY'S HUNGER THE POLITICIAN

The occupation of Ruthenia by the the To the world's good fortune

Hungarians brought about a common President of Czecho-Slovakia, unlike

Polish-Hungarian frontier. The sold- the Chancellor of Austria, escaped

lers kissed each other when they first the his enemies, and in him

free

met in the shows of last winter; since still be voice of his country can

then they have been sullenly prepar- heard. The noble speech Dr. Benes ing for action. To complicate mat--

made to the Liberal Summer School ters, the former Slovakia was given a

at Cambridge on Monday showed

he

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very peculiar status. It was a no-

mind unharmed by the temporary man's-land between Hungary, Poland, disappearance of all that had and Germany, and nobody took res- worked for; his is not a spirit that ponsibility for the frequent border in- can be stopped in its course by ma- cidents. There is little doubt that terial disaster, He stated his ideal of the Germans stirred up anti-Hungar~ the democratic politician-for him, as lan feeling there, because they hoped for the Greeks, the greatest of all to use the troubles as an excuse to artists. It Is true that few states- bring pressure on Hungary to adhere men in history could fulfil his de- more closely to the Axis. finition of a man of iron, character and Hungary, only a "bleeding heart" of | high morality, of brilliant intellect its former self, undoubtedly wants balanced by great imaginative power. more lands back. In the main square As he suggested, the imagination will of Budapest four statues stand draped overwhelm reason in a mystical dieta- in mourning to keep fresh in every tor, while intellect, unlit by prin- Magyar mind the feeling of, resent- ciple, too often turns a democratic ment at the country's dismemberment On of them politician into a cynic who waits upon by the Treaty of Trianon. opportunity. But for his ideal Dr. has been uncovered since the Hungar- Benes would wish no more than that fans shared in the loat from Czecho- it was steadfastly pursued. He de Slovakia, but this is only a beginning. manded that great foresight which The present Foreign Minister, Count can only come from Intellectual leader- Csaky, has always led the irredentists, ship:

and he is much more concerned with

́It is not sufficient to administer, to redeeming the provinces, acquired by let events have their course, to walt Rumania and Yugoslavia than with patiently, and to settle things as they linking up with the Axis on ideologi- turn up....

cal grounds. “Mindent, vissza!” is his That is a vice to which our Gov- slogan."Everything back!”—“Sydney` ernments have been peculiarly open. Morning Herald."