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AN INTERNATIONAL CRITIC.

EPISTLES TO AMERICANS. "I. Americans," By Salvader de Madariaga. (Oxford University

Press, OH.).

The "Americans" to whom these Epiation are addressed are not solely Transatlantic. The author tella us:---

By "Americana" I mean persons whatever their nationality-who do feel the new world spirit and the now world faith yet find it hard to part with the old tribal prejudices and cosy Insularities; people like you, dear reader, or like me. To them, Americans of all nationa this is dedicated.

He is himself a world-citizen; he would have no quarrel with Rabind- ranath Tagore's conviction that nationallem is a curse, the mother and defender of crimes. But he tells us, "I am u patriot myself," a patriot, he goes on to explain who

WORLD RUINING

ITSELF.

THE TARIFF MANIA.

Mr. Ramsay Muir, chairman of the Liberal Party Organisation, nd- dressing Southampton Liberals, re- contly, said:

"The tariff polley of the world is one of the main causes of the suf foringa of the world to-day. Yet we have the wineacres in England saying that because other peoples selves and damaging us at the same in the world are damaging them-

e time by their tariff policies, the beat thing we can do is to put on account and tariffs on our own damage ourselves as well as damag- Ing them at 1 more.

"If we want to bring sanity back to the world it is just as important that we should try to take a lendi in an international movement to- wards lower tariffs; ns it is, we should take a lead in an internation al movement for lower armamenta."

The four elements In the Liberal were I to give an account of policy for dealing with the present European and world affairs strictly altuation were 1112 International from the patriot's point of view, polley. the maintenance of free would have to become patriotic on trade, economy and a bold construc- behalf of several dozen father-tive policy about unemployment. lands in succession.

He Is a patriot also in the nar rower sense, a fervent lover of his (Le, the existence of a definite aim own land, Spain. This, too, la for the violence used), not San- right, and, indeed, Inovitable. Just dine's mon

but the American

as to-day the pacifists are the most marine might at least by a hur fiercely belligerent, like Whittier-led people-be mistaken for Preaching brotherly love and brigands. For they, at any rate, then driving it In

are using force with a clear aim in view-namely, to guarantee that! the Nicaraguan election shall come up to the highest possible standards, any, those of Chicago.

To the brain of the tough old Goliath of ain, so it is among the internationalists that you will find the most excellently typical nationalists: In Gilbert Murray, tho

Idealiste wear their rue with a most English of Englishmen in difference. Some of the noblest Rabindranath Tagore, the most Indian of Indians; in de Madariaga, have carried their burden with a the most Spanish of Spaniards. gravity of countenance that spoke of the heart's oppression. Abraham Now these things are a parable. and are meant for our comfort in Lincoln tightened his sorrow with these most discomfortable days. uisterous and often Rabelaisian making it possible to believe in a jesta. Matthew Arnold hid bis

earnestness in irony. timo

When nationa may 18 foresta

grow, Wherein the ook hates

not the pine, Nor beeches wish the cedars woe. But all, in their unlikeness.

blend Conferderate to one golden end. Ever since its course began, the Gospel has had a preference for converted ainnera as its emissaries,

This book will be read first for its gift of mischief. If Professor de Madarings had been a Scot we should call him pawky. But there of

Professor de Madaringa's grim anxiety that war and racial hatred, should vanish runs through his gulety like a glitter of steel. For him "the main world event in the twentieth century is the birth of exist the world," which "did not before." He is a good Spaniard; but he likes the Englishman and the American also, for all the im piety of his mockery of them; and

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he would have you come conviction, that the things that sever nations are folly and shame, and the things that bring them to mutual respect are the only wisdom is in Professor de Madaringa's and the highest beauty. pawkiness a glinting devil African defiance and laughter. He does not take us Nordica na seriously as he should; is amused even by the British House of Com- and mons and by Senator Borah the Prohibitionists. You read his Epistles, and you delightedly up- prove of a home-thrust at Uncle Sam, when suddenly what is this? The Spaniard is making game of John Bull, who has given the whole world such an age-to-age exhibition of dignity, calm, sense of fairness, Helf-control, and law. In this the kind of thing they encourage at Geneva and the frivolous use

contribution which our League of Nations is pat? For example, a writer in "The Rouni Table" (December, 1927) came out with the eminently just observation that the British Empire "is the Sermon on the Mount reduced to political terms, a society organised on the theory that the duty which each of its members owes to the rert is beyond measure." Could any comparison be apter or more this neatly put? Yet note what Hediticus Latin in our midst dares to do with it! He first of all fin that quibbling уду foreluncus have) remarks that

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The reduction of the Sermon on the Mount and its destruction arr bound to be Identical operations.

Flis innate земне of decency ought to have told him that this was enough; he should have stopped here, and hoped that we should overlook it. But does he? Lot

the reader control his rising In- dignation as I put before him this arrant and manifeat blasphemy:--- The facts are that the white part of the British Empire is a loose combine of commercial firms: John Bull and Co., Canada and Co., Aus- tralin and Co., New Zealand and Co., and Ireland and Co. The combine la no doubt casler to run tha and more cordial owing to family ties which unite the dire Itors of the several partners in it.

tho At this point we niust tell writer very plainly that he has of grossly misunderstood, that which hu treats. What makes his lapse the more deplorable is that when he is not blinded by envy he can see so clearly. For example, In connexion with what is a com- item in American news-

mon papers-

That Nicaraguan brigande have attacked a few American marinea who happened to be out in, the bushy hills analysing Nicaraguan votes to test their purity. he comments like a man of sonse and Impartiality:

Indeed, were we to judge by the criterion of brigandage just defined

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