THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 8, 1941.
CHINA MAIL
WINDSOR HOUSE
THE DEMOCRATIC
PEACE
If the dangerous idea still ling- ers anywhere in bomb-torn Bri- tain that it might one day be possible to make with the Ger- man Army the peace which can- not be made with Hitlerism, Mr. Anthony Eden does not share it. If the illusion persists that Britain can weaken the Nazis' hold over the German people by promises of future leniency, the Foreign Minister's latest version of British "peace aims" gives it little sup- Jurt. He is rather more empha- tie than any previous spokesmani British in his declaration that pence terms "will be designed to prevent a repetition of Germany's misdeeds; that Germany is "the Worst
has yet Europe known" and must "never be in a Fo violate position"
master
European
It is not Hitler of peater agam whom he speaks, but Germany. The words foreclose any defilious pence of appeasement with an unbroken German military power. by whatever une it might called. They give no guarantees In the Germans and imply a total victory, or defeat.
be
Nothing else is possible to-day. and it is useless tu dream of any ! easier exit from the immensur“
ich able
Hitlerism savagery has forced upon the world. Either Germany must make the future or the democracies, and which- ever wins the right to do so, the olher must and will be put be- yond the power of forcibly over- throwing the
The structure. issue has passed beyond promises of leniency to the vanquished the only promises that power;
can now be made are promises of the the kind of future which
victory of one side or the other will hold out to all the peoples. There Mr. Eden places the possi- bilities of a British victory beside
"We are fading I think, My Gertie!”
"Why?"
"Well, we aren't attracting the blitz boys any more."
Wanted A Fresh
Air Plan
those offered by the totalitarians. SEVERAL weeks
of
—
is driven im-
man
was
Gradually the wreckage cleared, and now I pass the gap with a disposition to thank that unknown enemy. He let in light
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By H. N. Brailsford
grasped.
made by draining and ploughing|| through thirty centuries.
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all
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❤ That is what we are now destroying every year with sui- cidal speed in our unplanned countryside. We are
aware that the speculative builder is ruining the He is beauty of our landscape. doing something even worse.
of his The ribbons
tedious villas follow the roads and roads tend to the most numerous where the land is
fat and fertile and well-worked.
Round a Chiltern village
been watch- know well I have
ten ing for
years this rapid
wealth. destruction of
One by one the best flelds are sold for building, and the dwindling farias produce less wheat and thinneri milk, while the man who sells, the land grows rich.
While some of us (with my warm sympathy) will plead with Mr. Greenwood that theyament- ties of the country shall be re- national plan. I spected in his. want to plead for the wealth of the soil.
have WE
I think we may trust Arthur Greenwood to remember this in his planning.
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But is that all we mean by the countryside?
Of all claims on the land, the first should be the farmers, and when, we assign to it its future use, our first care must be to protect the old pastures and the ploughed fields.
ago ü Nazi chaotic past and plan anew with health and Where Hitlerism
bomb destroyed three houses modern notions of
transport. periously to ravage everything a hundred yards from my door.
So long as it is towns we have 1; within its reach,
At first, as i passed them, what! "it
Movement I felt was a blend of anger and to plan, our Labour obvious that
no have we
Three homes lay in brutal has sound instincts. In one sense, motive self-interest promptity.
it cares about the country beading too, and ing us to economic exploitation confusion--books
Even round London, before it is .of Germany or of the rest of toys and bricks.
On the top of the houp was a too late, we may save as our play- Europe." Where Hitlerism carries
torn from Mr. We.is's "Out- page privation wherever it goes, a Bri-line of History." From under his
tish
immediately bushy brows Neanderthal victory wil
all surveyed our elvilisation. open up to Germans and to Europeans the mounting stores of the British Commonwealth and the Americas. It is to the British interest to restore political and and air, and he set me planning. ground the Chiltern woods and A. I realised more sharply than the Surrey hills. The country us spiritual freedom, to restore fruitful international exchange of ever I had done before what ab- a park in which we may walk on goods, to avert the starvation and|ject victims we all are to property a Sunday is an idea want into which such vast areas and tradition.
Many wise men have been busy of the world are so rapidly sink-
in drafting a new version of the ing and must continue to sink
rights of man. If I had to do it under a Hitler empire. And these I know what right I should put are Britain's peace aims, and what Arst-the right to fresh air and the world Germans, as well as sunlight, the right to a long vista Englishmen or Greeks or Ameri- of space, the right to see green
If such notions, govern our plan- cans or Japanese may expect grass and trees.
ning, we shall destroy our island
That means. a revolution in of a British victory.
We are pitiful slaves if we allow and falsify, our history,
Land is earth into which men our urban values, and it sets us They are not precise; it is
if any plans for the the landlords and the lawyers to drive the spade and the plough. the task of raising the country doubtful
rob us of these things,
Land is first of all the soil in which man's standard of life-his cot- future could be drawn with pre-
We have all been reflecting in.
grass and wheat and potatoes tage, his school and his recrea- cision now. But they are very this style since the bombs began spread their roots. Land is food, tions as well as bis wares-up: great aims, What Mr. Eden fails to fall:
to the townsman's level, I defy anyone, even
But how, when we try to pre to do, as other British spokes-Colonel Blimp, to visit the devas but, above all, land is labour.
Do not let the Book of Genesis- meg have failed, is to make them tated area round the docks with-
and in every villager's garden man use as tillage, are we to meet the Much of it is "ripening" for glow with the tremendous possi-out wanting to sweep
sale to the builder. Are we to We all realise that if these mean is, the creator who made the dry
land them a dull, a negative, and al-
two-storeyed streets, gave way to
Have you ever asked how the pay an endless ransom in com- most apologetic cast. He promises buildings even four storeys high black earth round some venerable pensation, so that we may steri that Britain will not repeat the we could devote half the space thatched cottage got its colour? Lise" it? economic follies of the years after they cover to lawns and dower Generations of peasants made it The thing can be done on un adequate scale only when urban 1918, will not return the poli-beds it wo, built them: eight or through the centuries, tico-social chaos of the pre-war twelve storeys high, every docker
Patiently every winter they land and agricultural land are world. He does not, show, how might live in a park forked into it the dung, and the brought together under the com-
Shall we do it? Some of us are wond ashes that gave it fertility: mon ownership of the nation dead that system already is in
brave enough to plan, the future their hoes let in the air and the What we lose then by for Britain, how great are the real city-so
broke. what they had bidding building on fertile fields creative powers of democracy. We have all been congratulations what
we shall balance by what we gain not just to refrain from past ing first of all, the architect, and
In some regions of England man in site values by our urban im errors, but to strike out for new then, the City Council of Coventry, has been making the soil for three provements.
Given-national ownership of political and social inventions, because they have had the quor four thousand years. From out
age, and intelligence to sween airmen's photographs the archaeo-the land, it will be possible to to suit Mr. Eden does not show it, demo-away the entire wreckage of the logists can tell us how the ancient transplant Industries. cracy as a whole, placidly sure of itself, has failed to show it to which the Nazi propagandists have Britons, drove their ploughs at changed-conditions and even to the world.
successfully bemused so many Urst round little square fields and root up and replant a derelict afterwards, over long strips. town: what we lose here,” we These are great aims, all the minds. It is not more precise
these an- make good there, embodied in a precise plan to be requires. It is the energy and in a wilderness, drained the ever drastic, can vio with the
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peoples to collaborato in their modern communication, by every Wealth: what is wealth? The case for it on that foundation and realization. "Democracy has peace appeal to the Imagination and townsman thinks it is money: state it with good tempor ao men light, I sometimes dare to think alms – fat máre, it has peace the enthusiasm of men, the Im you can make that by speculat- who love the earth and the sun
Eing in building siles.
carry it by general possibilities which now, already,mense promise which it now. The countryman knows, better. we might
Wealth is the filth good mon havo consent. are dazzling beside the tinsel with carrion.
KONG
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