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OUR FRENCH PROBLEM.” THE MIDDLE OF OUR GALLIC (NÉIGHBOUR.

IS IT INSOLUBLE Y

Recently Professor Gilbert Murray, writing in the Manchester Guardian asked, with ference to our relations with France. "Why does one like them so, and why is it, so in possible to get on with them! That is the question in the minds of most Englishmen after spending wook or a year or even hall a lifetime in Paris. And there must be some answer to it

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Abyssinia, with an area twice the aisa of Germany and virtually untapped sources, offers a standing temptation to three Powers-Great Britain France, and Italy, who hold all the was rolinding territory. But only once has ber inde pendence been seriously challenged, with results disastrous to the Italian army which undertook it, and which suffered the bloodiest defeat ever inflicted upon independence of Abyssinia, which the modern by native troops. The absolute Italians were forced to recognise in 1890, has never since been formally challenged. But the Emperor Menelik, who thus administrators; they are artists. Observa i Anything to combat night cluba, they signally asserted his sovereign rights, typical English and French statoman mak all agreed, should not be attempt till a was fully alive to the possibilities of ex-ing a speech. The Frenchman will, of course, full investigation was made and full ploiting his country through foreign make vastly better spooch; an artiste proof collected. agencies, and granted railway and other. Pour at the

wall phrased, well reasoned, with

A number of social workers and one police offloor, interviewed by a Daily fail representative, in the course of enquiries into night clubs, which have appeared in Bombay some time now agreed that night clubs did not make for good, and disapproved of the concession given them to sell, liquor till a later

that one cannot get on with them; it is in

For one thing, it is in politics and business our than ordinary clubs and shops.

One social worker, thought Turkish | them. I suppose the truth is if one mhibition of the employment of girls in society and art and literature that one likes bathe more dangerous. She suggested e

strict surveillance of clubs and the pro-.. axaggerate the contrast for the sake.... alearsamthat we are business man- and | baths,

concessions to French, British, and and: and he willing and motion at the

Italian interests. The usual complica

sit down amid genom! feeling that

tions followed, and in 1906 a tripartita' Rami ith a clear conscience / But they are also more internationalist Wol

this there was nothing unusual. It was, in fact, typical of the methods by which the Great Powers at that time sought to regulate their conflicting ambitions with out coming to loggerheads with ons an- other and without too obviously or sud- denly encroaching upon native rights In the course of time circumstances could be trusted to give them an opportunity to convert a special interest into a more definite title of suzerainty, and perhaps of ultimate sovereignty.

is done. The t typical

saying

be

come

her a

ta

Convention was signed between these will begin by three Powers, which, while pledging them say it a goat many times. He will take but that is irgely because we so saldom

"Erho will

do not in the least degree hate foreigners; to maintain the "integrity of Abys: care to state the particular thing that he think about them. Paris is always thinking sinia, also bound them to recognise each wants stated, but there will be no form or about them, despising them, attracting them. other's rights over existing concessions beauty about his speech partly because such welcoming then, resenting them, and teach and not to push future claims to the dis things are not in his rinking about his

them. She loves and helps thville advantage of each other. In language cause ha is not really

to her rectual capital of 1 which was doubtless intentionally obscure speech but about the policy to which it la Lumiere," the int

Еагора the Convention also recognised certain intended to load. He rite down thinking The intellectual rebuilding of Europe is of parts of Abyssinin as apheres of interest about the next step. that is to say, as areas in which one or students from all the world troop to a knows or cares that, the Rumanian Govern. In Paris there is art everywhere, little account to England. Who in England other of three of the Great European to study art, just as they go to London to

having no money the peasants them- Powers occupied a privileged position study economics. And woll they may. The

olubbed together to give so many as compared with the other two.. In all whole city is full of art; the vistas, the work to build elementary schools, and i

days' gardens, the palaces and the monuments soem That sort of thing may leave Bir Austen

actually built nine

of them? to be the work of a people that understands them and is proud of them. Talk to a con And consequently the French Govor

cold

but it thrills Briand or Herrict. merge at any old and interesting house, and you will find him full of its history and of out of its poverty contributes anecdotes about ita famous denizens, and the cause of international Intellectual Co.

A building and two million franes a year ready to swear that, it is the finest honse of operation, while Great Britain and the its style in Paris Watoh any social coro Dominions, in their comparative prosperity, mony. At all the critical fund

junctures, when

vote solidly against the spanding of any we stumble and do not know what to say, money at all on such an unimportant and they have the right phrase ready at the aliadowy object i right moment, and turn the introductions

The world is very mixed. That was the old methad, and it is per- occasions of artistic enjoyment. "Are they and apologies and rotes of thanks. inte haps fair to add that there, was not at sincere?" You might as well ask whether a that time any other machinery by which graceful bow is sincers in a drawing room, er the restless imperialism of the Great an eleguat service sincere on a tennis-court. Powers could be satisfied without provok. It is not a question of sincerity or in ing a clash between them. It was a sincerity, it is a question of doing a difficult choice between unbridled rapacity and thing with grade ranch more intellectual

or without grace. at least the appearance of ordered "de- than we are. The French read books. Not velopment." But it is a different matter if the Great Powers intend to pursue the merely the current novels, as our people do rame policy to-day and to assume the poetry. They rend Pascal and Fasteur and

but real books; histories and memoirs and absolute validity of pre-war Conventions Chateaubriand and Racine and Moliere; and which contemplate the ultimate division I have just seen two shop windows full of between them of territory belonging to translations of Plate. True, they do not othora. The news that Great Britain read books on industrial history and prices, and Italy have further defned the wages and profit-sharing and the gold spheres of influence which they enjoy over standard, as our working class does. I faney Abyminia under the Convention, of 1000 it would make them sick if they did. They raises the question for the first time in cannot be bothered with economics; and con an acute form. It is not made the loss sequently their economics are behind the Acuto by Bignor Mussolini's recent times by a century or so. speeches claiming a larger colonial fibre POLITICS AS MELODRAMA. for Italy in Africa. The purport of] these speeches had been raising lively speculations, but the Anglo-Italian Con- vention doubtless supplies the authentic key. Abyssinia is to be the first outlet for Signor Mussolini's imperialistic am bitions. And our own Government is to

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Their politics generally have something of side my, window is full of the posters of s local dection which is not yet decided. There are ten parties; of whom, judging by the posters, about six appear to be by ordinary standards, sane. But these have be the aider and abettor, seeking, no all been defeated on the first ballot, doubt, partly to placate Signor Mussolini and only the Reactionaries and the Com sud partly to control the Blue Nile munists are left in the field. They have

waters, which flow through some hun- dreds of miles of Abyssinian territory In the sacred name of development each

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their opinions of one another; but there is And

already not much loft unsaid, and the pos ters all read like melodrama. Perhaps the

fact is that, unless there in drame in the d'A

in dealing with somebody else's property. Where, then, does France come in ordinary

they be in polities. When France, of course, will not be forgotton. Gariin English Liberal-a Manchester She will perhaps get her price in the generally thinking of some scheme, wise or

-talks about politics, he hinterland of French Somaliland. And unwise, for improving ordinary social con where does the Longue of Nations come ditions: about Free Trade; or family endow int Not much difficulty seems to be ex-ment, or education, or some international pected there either. The League, it co-operation for good objects. When seems, is to be presented with a meno Frenchman talks of politics ho means the rial explaining the incompetence of the Hungarian conspiracy, or the latest Fascist Abyssinian Government and the ready murder in Italy, or the military value of welcome it will give to foreign "

German "pro-

factories, or even, with Increasing Loction."

of the secret understanding of Abdel zwen Krim and the Pope with Lloyd George, or Abyssinia is not only a sovereign State whether the fall of the Frano is due to the but a member of the League, of Nations. passionate and unanimous attachment of the She has, therefore, the right to appeal Governors of the Bank of England to a cer- to the League against any threat to her tain exiled princess. There I SOMO integrity. But if she chooses to forgo about politics of that sort. And, besicles, this right and to acquiesce in what will they do not call for any wearisome study of amount to a limitation of her sovereignty Brideher, excopt in the yellowest news

Isots books of

or

Yet the averago reference. (although this intention is, of course, papers, never shows any concern about these officially denied) it certainly will be conspiracies. He never believes in them difficult for the League of Nations to in when he is told about them. The French torvone. The broad result may be mach man stands wondering whether wo aw the same as if the League of Nations did really so simple, or whether in reality, like not exist, and the old scramble for other criminals, we are merely denying our African possessions may be renewed by own crimes.. the Great Powers under the forms of the League with almost the same danger to themselves as they ran before the war and certainly with no less to the native States of Africa. But the Langue of Nations can and ought to see to it that the Abyssinian Government really makes war we had little spy-manis among the

THE TWO ILLUSIÓNS.

By European standards it is we, not thoy, who are odd. We have been bred in the illusion of severity. We think of wars and traitors and conspiracles as things to read about in novels. Even in the middle of the

a free choice and is not being Enjoled or educated classes. Temperamentally and browbeaten into giving away what it historically we do not believe in such things,

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does not want to give A Reuter telo while to most Continental peoples they are comprise only a few of the attractions calling insistently to gram speaks of the "concessions of an not only possible but real. We probably

economic nature." which Italy and Great gain finitely more than we lose by this those who seek relief from the weariness of a Hongkong Britain had long demanded from the determined blindness, but we must remem summer. Abyssinian Government," and which ber that is only centuries of peculiar security

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manda, now being backed 1. If Abyssinis considering how they can were a mandated territory the League to their friends in trouble. We think about would have to safeguard the well-being fair play"; they think about loyalty. of its people. Its development would be remember hearing of an Irish leader whe a scored trust of civilisation explained why he hated English Liborala The obligations of the League towards The Tories are our open enemies; one of its members can hardly be leas is all right. But the Liberals are with on than its obligations towards a mandated as long as we are in the right, and torstory. Yet it seems to be asumed don't need them, and against as when we tatt in virtue of an agreement concluded are in the wrong, and do need them. That before the war and allocating special

no tiso for such

French rights to themselves in territory over must feel about us just like that. which they had no legal claim the Qrant and they the illusion--if it be an illusiori

We have the illusion of perfect security; Powers can now proceed, with only of constant danger. They are so desperately formal reference to the League, to the afraid of war that they are always thinking first steps in the dismemberment of a about it; and we in sheer blindness, ca country whose integrity and independent altem militarisk They are, perhaps, more sovereignty they profess to uphold nationalist, than we, at least un the rurfacer Manchester Guardian.

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