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"The

Man-on-the-Sidewalk” Royalist America!

HAVE crossed the American con- tinent four times, My first crossing was in 1929, my last a couple of weeks ago. And the United States have changed a great deal in seven years.

In Chicago I went to an hotel that I know, and said, not without diffidence, that I would like a drink. Six years ago one had to enlist a bell-boy in illegal, expensive, and embarrassing conspiracy in order to procure a little whisky for the stomach's sake.

But a fortnight ago I was directed to an elegantly furnish- ed bar, and for the reasonable sum of twenty-five cents Inc- quired a very robust and well- flavoured dry Martini,

"How are things In Chicago?" I asked.

"Pretty good," said the bar-

man.

"Any shooting in the nowadays?"

Loop

"When

everywhere I was conscious of amiable feelings toward Great Britain; an amiability, for which we are largely indebted to King Edward.

"The people of the United States are our good frienda... but they are naturally averae" from any overt and official alliance with Britain because of their fear that such an alliance word entangle them in European politics and sooner or later embroil them in a new war."

by Eric Linklater

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Mr. Roosevelt is at present being attacked with particular venom. Part of the Republican Press is talking heatedly and admiringly of

tradi-. Rugged Individualism; # tional American virtue, it anys, which Mr. Roosevalt has done his wicked best to destroy.

Wall-street presumably favours the very Rugged Individualism, but so also do many Americans whose financial Interests perished with the boom years. They say, perhaps with reason, that the New Doni has been anti-democratic and unduly restrictive of liberty and initiative. But Republican victory next year might result in the formation of something like a Left Front.

It would not be very far to the Left, but its opponents would paint it as red as the cowpunchers used to paint Laramie and Las Vegas; the American talent for exaggera tion makes them seo the hideous threat of Moscow in dons that be-' came familiar to Britain about 1906.

THE recent floods. how- ever, were more obviously wasteful think a lot of you Britishers look than Presidential politics, I saw like stuffed shirts, But you're a good deal of them.

shirts now.

right about the King. He Вося

Enormous areas were sunk be- make a difference, and we feel there's a man among the stuffed neath brown, wind-ruffed water on which ice foes-drifted, and the ri- vera, carrying wreckage on their Royalist America! During my tide, had invaded fields and city hurried crossing of the continent strects and were shaking the forn- and in short visits to Chlengo, dations of great bridges. The Philadelphia and New York 1 talk Delaware was a terrifying sight, ed with dozens of people, and every- and little anonymous streams had where I was conscious of amiable become swollen torrents. feelings towards Great Britain; an under-state- amiability for which we appear to be largely indebted to the person of King Edword.

"That "Why, no." he said.

I was on my way from Chicago is were you here lost?"

ment," I replied.

to Philadelphia when the rivers grew dangerous, and the train had "In 1930."

I saw him on the pictures

The people of the United States reached the outskirts of Pittsburg everything's changed the other day," said the bar- "Oh,

before the danger became acute. are our good friends, and they are Then we turned tail and headed for RITCHIE. At the War Memorin since then. There isn't no man. He was in Glasgow, or excellent friends to have. But they Buffalo, 200 miles to the north, hay- Hospital, Hongkong, on May 17, crime to speak of now, not since some place. The folk started are naturally averse from any overt ing discovered that the safest, if to Mary, wife of A. Ritchie, the bootleggers lost their job. clapping and wouldn't hardly and official alliance with Britain be not the shortest, line between two Chicago's a nice respectable atop. I haven't ever heard sucli cause of their fear that such points was three sides of a rec- place that anybody can live in a lot of clapping at a movie be- alliance would entangle them nowadays."

European politics and sooner

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tangle. It was like going from London to Newcastle by way of

most na wet. Milford Haven and Belfast; and al-

Then he asked after the state "A man from Seattle told me later embroil them in a new war. of Britain, and I in my

turn the same kind of thing," I said, an eventuality Amerier would pull And they suspect that in such answered, "Pretty good.

But the Americans on the train And "He told me the people there to plums out of the European pic, it would be even better if we stood up and cheered when but merely burn its fingers.

showed no signs of witnessing a could get away from all this they saw the first news reel of

They have plenty of troubles of national tragedy. They were in- talk of war."

the King."

their own. Their unemployment terested in the floods; they were exelted by the brawling, wreckage. "We certainly think a lot of figures are still fantastically high strewn rivers; they were mildly

their Eastern States from New him here," said the barman.

"I guess you're right," he said. "You're nearer to it than we are.”

Publication of the main fea- tures of the methods likely to be adopted in Hongkong to cope "You're lucky there," I said. with the remote possibility of

"Well, the last war didn't do air raids has aroused consider-us much good." able interest. The value of publicity in such matters is that the public is aroused to a Martini.

England to Washington have lately annoyed at being late for business ROYALIST been a battlefield, where humanity appointments; and they were de- America was tragically ill-used by enormous lighted when the restaurant car an-

nounced free meals. of That is another of the new floods and the saddon release

THEY have a THE "It's a way that war has," I phenomena. With the excep frozen rivers; and they are facing

great capa. said, and asked for another tion of a few die-hards, the the bitter and fruitless strife of à

new Presidential election. people of the United States had

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city for punishment. As the box- TT is not an idk ing men say of a fighter who can. recognition of the fact that "That new King of yours a large affection for His late when the time arrives for put- seems pretty good," said the Majesty--I saw thousands in

comparison, stand up to heavy punching, "They Times Square waiting patiently this juxtaposition of a Presidential can take it."

election and the flooding of Pitts- And, in spite of tho depression for the latest bulletins of his burg. American politica nre say that is still with them, they ure n

llness-but about King Edward age and expensive, and unprofitable. intent as ever on making the world essential. There is, of course, I NOTES OF THE DAY they are almost as enthusiastic Republicans and Democrats both a gayer place. Tailors, for ex-

ns Londoners,

spend one year in four in the selec- ample, are trying to make men as He is a constant topic of con- tion of a candidate and the neces- fashion-conselous and brilliantly

hued as women. versation and invariably the object sary campaign for his election, of admiration and respect.

For his four years' tenure of There is a new magazine adver Thinking I might benefit a little office the President must ride a tised as a magazine for men that a Repub gives many pages to the display of in all parts of the world consider For a long time successive British from the overflow of his popularity pantomime horse-with

a Democrat the orchidaceous male fashions." advisable. Preparedness is es-Governments have felt, and deplor- said to a girl in New York--a lean In one end and

If the tailors succeed, American a matter. Ined, the need for new Government very charming and intelligent girl in the other-whose antics are em- England at the present time, big effices. Nearly twenty-five years "I think you like us all rather more barrassing to any but the most in- men will soon be as brightly plum- schemes are in hand for instruct-lago

sensitive of men. And during his aged as goldfinches or a cock phen- IL proposal to build these than you used to."

"I'm not going to admit that." last year of office the President is sant; and the Yale Club and the ing the people in self-protection. offices over the gardens between Indeed, the London classes for Whitehall and the Victoria Embank she said. "I've seen those news Invariably the target for missiles Harvard Club will look like tropical

aviaries. medical officers and ambulancement, up to the extreme limit to-reels you talk about, and I still from all parts of the audience, members have grown so large wards the river, was put forward that a whole hotel is taken at and stopped by Parliament. Now a more definite scheme has been week-ends for training. Hun-advanced, and approved by the dreds of people have received Cabinet. The new scheme is instruction, and these will hand again for a building in Whitehall] on the knowledge they have ac- Gardens, but this bailding will quired to doctors, police, firemen, not absorb the whole of the pre sanitary officers and the public. sent open space. The "green.

died. But what will be the results In another big city, Sheffield, a break in Whitehall will be pre-FOUR and a half years of homicidal

of that policy a generation or two and suicidal mania were followed few weeks ago, the city corps of served.

by seventeen of more or less actue

answer; but meanwhile there the St. John Ambulance Brigade The new offices will be one of neurosis during the last reign. A human bodies is altogether excessive from now? Time alone can give the marched through the streets the largest blocks of Government the start of a new reign our civilisaat any rate, in time of peace; for:

wer with profound apprehension. wearing gas-masks and carrying offices in the world, and the cost tion is showing symptoms of physical we still think it right that progress many who look forward to that ans It is only recently, however, that Again, what price is being paid for stretchers. Classes for the in- is estimated at about £1,750,000. and mental disease even more alarm should have its fill during war-time.

dia- we have, as a nation, begun to sce the urbanisation which science and struction of the people in that The first section will be completed ing than those which were

that man's mind is no more made for industry have made possible! Dors The new reign opens upon city are to be opened when the about 1940-11, and the whole cernible before 1014. authorities have selected build-about 1945-46. It will house the momentous question will the disease technology, than is his body, and that, a place like London offer its in- environment at for valuable habitants an Air Ministry, the Ministry of be allowed to run its course, or shall conversely, technology ings which can be turned into Labour, the Board of Trade, and we decide that it is time to begin only in so far as it helps men to cul. fully human beings? Or consider first-nid stations. This does not the Ministry of Transport, all of new epoch of history and try to cure tivate salty and goodness as well an modern transport. It saves us from bodily health. Morcover, we now using our muscles; creates and then cover all the preparations being which are at present inconven- the present symptoms and prevent begin to suspect that many technolo allows us to satisfy a nervous craving

recurrence?

for going somewhere else and being region, for a Territorial bat- other. It will accommodate 5,360

from place to place that we cannot talion is to be converted into an Civil Servants, as compared with worse than when George V. came to wholly beneficial may have their bad in a crowd: it carries us so swiftly

the throne, and a good deal better, as well as their good side. anti-aircraft unit.

For example, technicians have made observe the details of the intervening A much 1,185 housed on the present site. Worse because, thanks to technolo more complicated problem is the it is to be a single block with gical progress, a lunatic world is in possible the multiplication of many landscape. What price, physiolog

kinds of novel amusements and discal and psychological, are we paying provision of protection for the three Inrge internal courts, and a position to do itself much more tractions, from the modern newspaper for railways, cars, and planes? inhabitants of crowded city dis- there will be eight main storeys than it could do a quarter of a car to television. Feople enjoy these Factory production makes possible

But that does not mean the multiplication at a cheap rate of*** tricts. While every house can above the basement. The length tury ago. It is worse also, because the physical condition of, the patient have its gas-proof rooms, there will be about 550 feet; the breadth is less satisfactory than it was be altogether good. People also enjoy best factory a proper environment for are, humanly speaking, innumerable objects. But is even the is the task of providing sufficient at the widest point-300 feet; fore 1914.

It is better, because self-satisfac- hashish and opium, when these tre fully human beings? And is

made available. It seems possible any sense in encouraging possessing safety points in working hours, and the height 87 feet. The total Then there is the question of an floor area will be sixteen acreation has disappeared and increasing that we are paying a heavy spiritual evar increasing numbers of unneces- yd.

And what are wo paying, us In- the civil population. However, or unnecessary decoration; and begun to realise more or less clearly price for our new-found amusements. sary bits of matter?

the exterior is to be so designed what is wrong.

The disease from which our civilian-dividuals and as a species, for some Unanswered Questions excellent progress is being made as to conform to the dignity of tion auffers may be described in

medical technique? This brings us to a series of yet in all aspects of the problem, whitehall. The offices will be few words. Since the necession of cological and

Tho market is flooded with now more fundamental questions. What Victoria there bas and it has just been announced built on the steel-frame principle, Queen that some thirty million masks and so planned as to make the enormous and accelerating techno- drugs. Is this one of the reasons is the price of industrial prosperity

Machines and the why the number of doctors has What psychological states are

doubled since the beginning of the related with different Incomes? What "the loped out of all recognition.

which exalte what Hitler calla But, unfortunately, we and our increased by only about a

As for the doctors they are horoic conception of wealth" in fathers before us have persisted in Then, of course, there been devoting detailed study to regarding technology as the Pharisees engaged in activities which are in other words, the idea that money the main of obvious immediate benefit must be made for its own sake,

a symbol of power? to individuale But what of the merely as a have been frequent experimental the problem is most reassuring. regarded the Sabbath. We have be

*It long-range effects of their activities? mock raids carried out in big So far from creating scares, haved as though man were made for

because auch questions were. Eminent authoritics have warned us never answered, and,

now civilisation towns at Home and in other knowledge of what is being done, technology, not technology for man.

that the wholesale finoculation against over asked, that the now parts of the world. The whole and what will eventually be ex- Sacrificed To Moloch

infectious diseases will probably which grow up so rapidly under Vic- object of these schemes is to ac-pected from the public, should

In the first half of Queen Victoria's result in the survival and increase of teria and Edward VII. came so near quaint the public of what might have the effect of inducing a

which reign technology was a kind of those human strains which have no to perishing under George V.

What will happen during the reign be required of them in time of feeling of confidence

Moloch to which human beings were congonlial resistance to the disease Hongkong, there might otherwise be lacking acrified in the most brutal way. In in question. This may mean that we of Edward VIII.? Shall we at last. emergency,

are now proparing the ground for decide that technology is made for experience gained fore, though

expecting Moreover,

mine, factory and slum, the lives of

wo do this, and begin to put the prin enemy invasion, does wise to locally by residents would obvi- countless thousange of men, women, future epidemics on a scale hitherto man, not man for technology? If

were offered up undreamed of.

to come into line with what is being ously be of value in times of and children

No le immediately beneficent isciple into practice, the reign, should elsewhere, should Industrial progress. We have come

pro-be a happy one. If we prefer to go done elsewhere. The mere fact emergency that a committee, including ex- they at any time leave the to be shocked by such manifest im our present medical policy of

molation and think that the claim serving weakly and disease-prone on as wo are going now, there is no

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