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AFA Milne, writes in the Daily News as follows

"But you said 'defend."" "Attack," put in the Major, oracularly, "is the best defence."

* Exactly.”

I hinted at the possibilities of blockade. The Colonel was scorn- ful. Sitting down under an in- We were resting after the first salt for months and months," he battle of the Somme. Naturally called it, until you starved the all the talk of the Mess was of enemy into surrender. He want after-the-war. Ours was the H.ed something much more pictures- Q. Mees, and I was the only que, more quickly effective than subaltern; none of us was under that. (Something, presumably, thirty. With a gravity befitting more like the Somme.) our years and (except for myself) our rank, we discussed not only restaurants and revues, but also Reconstruction.

The Colonel's idea of Recon-

"But give me an example, I said," of what you mean by

insults' and 'honour.""

Whereupon he gave me, this extraordinary example of the need for a large army.

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"And so re-establish England's honour."

Quite sa

I sea. Well, Sir, I really Think my way is the better. To avenge the, fifty murdered: Ea- glishwomen, you are going to Hill (say) 100.000 Spaniards who have had no connection with the marders, and 50,000 Englishman. who are even less concerned. Indirectly also you will causs the death of hundreds of guiltless Spanish women and children.: besides destroying the happiness of thousands of English wires. Surely my way of murdering only fifty innocents-is just as effective and much humane.

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"And the other is war."

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haven't answered my question."

"What was that, sir?"

"What you would do in the case I mentioned. Seriously."

"Oh! Well, I stick to my Erst answer. I would do nothing- except, of course, nak for an ex- planation and an apology. If you can, apologise for that sort of thing."

"And if they were refused ?"

Have no more official rela- tions with Spain."

"That's all you would do?" "Yes"

And you think that that is consistent with the

bon. our of a great nation like England !"

sir

"Perfectly."

"Oh! Well, I don't."

An indignant-silence followed, May I ask you a question now,

I-eaid at last." “Well?"

Suppose this time England begins. Suppose we mardes all the Spanish women in London first. What are you going to do

as Spanish Premier?"

"Er--I don't quite—” "Are you going to order the Spanish Fleet to sail for the mouth of the Thames, and hur! itself upon the British fleet

struction included a large army He did not call of conscripts. them conscripts. The fact tbst he had chosen to be a soldier himself, out of all the professions open to him, made it difficult for him to understand why a million I thought for a moment, and others should not do the same then said that I should probably without compulsion. At any decide not to take my wife to rate, we must have the men. The Madrid until things had settled one thing the war had taught us down a bit. was that we, must have a real Continental army.

"Well, supposing," he said, that all the English women in Madrid were suddenly murdered,er what would you do?**

I asked why. Theirs no to reason why" on parede, but in the H. Q. Mess on active service the Colonel is a fellow human being So I asked him why we wanted a large army after the war.

"I'm supposing that you're Prime Minister," said the Colonel, "What is a little annoyǝd. England going to do?"

Aht... Well, one might do nothing. After all, what is OL to do? One can't restore them to life."

"Of course not. She has no cet."

Then do you agree with the- Spanish Colonel, who goes about saying that Spain's honour will never be safe until she has a fleet as big as England's ?**

*"That's ridiculous. They couldn't possibly."

"Then what could Spain do in the circumstances ?"

"Well, she-er-she could-eż --protest."

"And would that be consistent with the honour of a small nation like Spain?"

"In the circumstance," said the Colonel, judiciously, “yes.”.

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The Colonel, the Major, even this. Honour only demands tha Of course, he might hava said the Adjutant, expressed their you should attack the other man "Germany," had it not been de contempt for such a cowardly if you are much bigger than he is HOW CRIMINALS ARE MADE. energy creatively, he will find an cided already that there would policy. So I tried again. be no Germany after the war.

When a man insults my wife, 1

"Well," I said, "I might decide look him carefully over; if he is He did not like to say "France," to murder all the Spanish women a stone heavier than I, then I seeing that we were even then in London, just to even things enjoying the hospitality of the most delightful of French villages,

up."

The Adjutant laughed. But So after a little hesitation, he the Colonel was taking it too

Spain."

seriously for that. like

"Do you mean it ?" he asked. "Well, what would you do.

At least he put it

this: "Of course, we must have an army, a large army,"

"But why?" I said again.⠀ sir?" "How else can you-can you

defend the honour of your country?"

"The Navy."

"Land an army in Spain," he said promptly, "and show them what it meant to treat English-

women like that."

"I see. They would resist, of

"The Navy! Pooh! The Navy! isn't a weapon of attack; it's a course ?** weapon of defence."

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satisfy my honour by ignoring him. But if he only has one leg, and is three staus lighter, honour demands that I should jump on him

"We're talking of nations," said the Colonel, gruffly, "not of men. It's a question of prestige" Which would be increased by a victory over Spain?".

The Major began to get nervous. After all, I was only a subaltem He tried to cool the atmosphere a little.

BY MAX PLOWMAN,

inhibition in his efforts to do so. caused by the fact that the fear of being beaten and the use of that energy will, by that, time, have become permanently co.

Tim was eight years old, and he related in his mind."

My small boy is hardly three had deliberately thrown a stone at the glass of a lamp-post. He years old. He is too small to had succeeded in hitting it, and break the glass of lampposts, so was taken by a policeman in the be won't be tried in the Children's very act. Tim's mother was laid Court yet. This morning we up with influenza, Tim's father went shopping together. I bought bad fought in the Great War, but some picture postcards, which I gave him to tarry home for me. was now out of work.

So Tim was not sent to a His interest in the cards made, reformatory, but his mother who him loiter. So I took the cards dragged herself from a sick bed from him. He protested, but I hid to make Tim's defence (he having the cards and caused him to for nope to make for himself), was get them.

woman

"I don't know why poor old Spain should be dragged into it like this," he said, with a laugh. "I had a very jolly time in let off with a heavy fine-heavy, When we arrived home the with table was laid for funcb; and his that is for a Madrid years"ago.”

"whose separation first act was to throw the knives "Oh, I only gave Spain as an induenza

and forks all over the fooT. HE example," said the Colonel, allowance has suddenly ceased. casually,

But unless Tim has been then went into the bedroom. It might just as well have severely thrashed I am afraid seeking what he could destroy: been Switzerland ?" I suggested.justice has not been done. That and having again littered the There was silence for a little. he was the only culprit is not dis-floor, began to tear the wallpaper. *Talking of Switzerland-I

"Queer things, children, I puted. What has the psycholó-

"This has said, as I knocked out my pipe.

e says, thought. gist to say about it? Oh, go on," said the Colonel, first, that in throwing a stone at a happened until today." with a good-humoured shrug lamp-post Tim was showing Then I remembered what T "I've brought this on myself." destructive activity due to some believe the psychologists call

Well, sir, what I was wonder-inhibition which prevented Tim fixation of interest, ing was What would happen to from using that energy creatively. the honour of England if fifty He wants to know what toys the remembered the cards and gave

them to hum Englishwomen were murdered in child had

A Quite muddenly he began to Chamonix,

"Ard, adds the psychologist began like a small bank in beating the child stone and entirely ceased from beb throwing, and all that it betokens, the embodiment of tractiousnet will have been constellated by

The Colonel was silent.

However large an army we had I went on.

The Colonel struck a match.

It's a funny thing, honour, 1 said. And prestige."

never

ahle a member of the community Tim with his mother as the pHe became as amiable and se holder of Authority with the

laswell -89. §/20 This father and

Patiently, wrote pardes note to: Inviting Her

The Colonel palled at his pipe. police, the Court, and the magle- trate, as agents of that power fancy I murmuređa

and finally with Law and Order iss can do what they like ith subjects in Switzerland, can't et them Yet

themselves.

Tim's hatred of his physical not pain will be transferred to

those objects and persons in the form of fear, and upon liday in will seek to be reven

throwing will be thuis his conscio

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