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THE CHINA ‘MAIL, NÓVEMBER 27, 1939

MIRROR OF WORLD OPINION

AMERICAN DREAM

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him. He asked him what he was in civilian life, about his home, and in- terests, and tastes.

The American dream has had and as he lay gasping on the floor in three main ingredients

half-shattered Christian "

farm building idealism, political union, and

Saxon came and lay down beside nomic freedom. Americans bound to think in those terms. whatever settlement is

made there will be need for their reliance on what Lord Lothian called the "ever- lasting arms of justice, mercy and love" essentials of peacemaking that nothing fosters so well as Chris- tianity.

Already in peace plans there is prominent mention of federation, either of democratic peoples or of all the nations. Here American experi- ence should be useful in finding practical forms.

"Do you know our Goethe, and Schiller?" he asked. "Our Mendels- sohn and Wagner?”

"The poets only a little," the Bri- tisher replied, "but the composers very well."

"Ah, music!" said the German. "That is a common language to us all. It is our common ground. And we read your Shakespeare, too. We like many of the same things. live much as you do. I understand much of your life. I have no enmity toward you, yet here we are trying to kill each other."

We

Two Saxon soldiers went to the kitchen of the devastated farm and produced cups of tea for the British co-operation. soldier until a shell hit the stove, and there was no more tea for any of them.

One of America's most essential contributions to the peace should be co-operation in economic disarma- ment and economic federation. For whatever the hopes of political union, they must necessarily be harder to achieve than economic America in her own experience has proved the tre- mendous value of freedom of trade ainong her states. Indeed, political federation for the United States has been rooted in economic union.

THE DECISION

“Unless we are beaten in this war, the very Idea that lawless International violence is tolerable will have to go; and those who are not ready to help in making sure that it shall be abolished, may find themselves outside the pale of a union of peoples deter- mined that they will not tolerate this abomination In future. So, in neutral countries, set your minds to work and make them up on this question: 'How far are we ready to go in the direction of sacrificing our unlimited national sovereignties as members of a union set for freedom and for a strong, assured, and internation- ally helpful_peace'?"-Wickham Steed.

But America has not $0 far effec- ively applied this lesson in the in- ernational sphere. Her tariff barriers lave been among he worst offenders n the economic warfare which has denied freedom of zconomic oppor- unity and access to raw materials to lations that have become warmakers. In any peace planning this fact must be borne in mind and Americans may well attempt to promote in a new international order the economic 'reedom which has been so vital a part of their own national strength.- 'Christian Science Monitor."

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There are some who are still urging that the Western Powers also should revise their plans and propose a conference. But the chances for a conference depend not on the state of the world outside Germany but on

the

The British soldier said to him- self.

"This will never happen again, When the good women of the world know what this war really is, in what horrors their sons are fighting and killing other mothers' sons, they will band them- selves together, and make it impossible for it ever to happen again."

If women could get the point of

view of those two "enemies," if they could realise how much the women of all countries have in

common, they would surely understand how much greater are their mutual inter- ests than their paltry antagonisms, and see to it, even at the sacrifice of some of their national prides and prejudices, that that soldier's faith in them was not misplaced.

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When this article appeared years ago an indignant woman wrote to the Homemaker should editor demanding to know why the commit such an infamy as to place be permitted to

those horrible Huns. our dear boys in the same class with The comment when he heard of this, was: of the British soldier of the story,

"Hell hath no fury like a non- combatant!" "Globe and Mail," Toronto.

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MUCKRAKING HISTORY

What is apparently a new formula for keeping us out of war has been devised by Senator D. Worth Clark of Idaho.

The Senator seems to have con- cluded that if the American people can be made as disgusted with Eng- land and France as they are with Nazi Germany, we will achieve a real state of neutrality by loathing both sides with equal fervor.

temper inside Germany: the character, that is, of the Government that would speak for Germany at a conference. This truth is overlooked by a good many of those who are pressing for a conference. For them a conference is' a conference and that is enough. But let us - picture a conference in which, as Hitler put It, "the fate of the Continent is to be settled for centuries," conducted by the Great Powers under present con- ditions. We have had two great con- ferences for settling Europe in the last century: the Congress of Vienna, which met after the Napoleonic Wars, and the conference that met at Paris after the last war. At the first only the Great Powers were represented, und we know how they mishandled The British record in Ireland, he the rest of Europe. As to Paris, tells the Senate, is "ten times as nobody who has read Mr. Lloyd brutal, ten times as savage, ten times George's book "The Truth About the bloody," Germany's record Peace Treaties" will forget his pic- against Jews and Catholics. Britain, ture of the struggles between Italy he says, is the "most outstanding and Yugo-Slavia and of the tension example of aggression the world has

And so on. between England and France, To ever known." expect a constructive peace settlement from a conference in which Hitler, his power intact, intrigues with one State after another, plays here on the fear of Bolshevism, there on this or that ambition, is surely the height of folly.

"Manchester Guardian.”

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BETWEEN THE LINES When a British soldier lay, badly gassed, for Ave days between the Allied and German lines, under shell fire from both sides, he thought some "long, long thoughts." There, were

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It seems to us that there is enough mischief going on in the world to- day without muckraking history for centuries back in search of atrocity stories. If such research is germane, Senator Clark might as well interest himself in our own-conquest of the Indians,

The Senate debate--would ‹be, more, fruitful if it were more consistently confined to, the instant issue of Amer- ican policy, with fewer excursions into white heat and hate, whethers of one side on thesothera--- “New York World-Telegram: