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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1936,

NEW LOCARNO

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In his reference to the nation's military obligations last week, Mr. Anthony Eden made it clear that Britain is still anxious to see Ja new Western European settle- ment concluded, to take the place of the Locarno Pact, which Germany has denounced. A well-known commentator, writing Scheherazade (Symphonic Suite) from Home, however, hazards the Album of Songs

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RACE PURITY is

HE word "Race" has come into much prominence of late, especially amongst those who have keen nationalist view.

It Is one, moreover, which has caused considerable confusion and which is frequently very loosely employed in argument. The ordinary man does not usually go deeply into these niceties, and that is all the more rea- Jon why, when We argue, we should clearly denne and correctly use our terms,

But before we can dis- cuss race, we must say what we mean by it. What is a race?

To start with, a race is not a nation.: A nation is a political organisa- tion. A Negro born in England belongs to the "British nation, but can- not be said to belong to a British race,

Race Is an entirely physical term. It is used to classify people in Recordance with their complexions, colour and texture of hair, colour of eyes, height, build, and, in particular, shape of head.

Anthropologists, in fact, treat the races of man very much as they might the various breeds of dogs and placons, But while the breeds of dogs and pigeons have dif- ferent points which can 'be nicely sorted out, un- fortunately this is not the case with man,

JUST A MYTH

says Lord Raglan,

who has made Anthropology a life-study.

with fair hair and blue eyes. The last two, taking markind ns a whole, are very uncommon characteristics.

ONE OF THESE EIGHT PEOPLE IS ENGLISH: WHICH?

Above, from left to right: A girl from Soviet Russia, a Finnish athlete; Miss England, 1934, and the head of the Krupp munition works in Germany. Below, from left to right: An Austrian quarrymaster, a Danish beauty queen, the president of the Swiss Confederation, and a girl athlete from Hungary.

It would be most con- venlent for our cinssin- cation if all black men were short; if all yellow men had round hends: and If all white men had falr hair but this does not happen. The Negroes include the Nilotes and the Pygmies, who are the tallest and the shortest people on earth. Most of the yellow peoples are round- headed, but quite a lot of them are very long-headed. In Europe many people combine a very white skin with very black hair.

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It has to be recognised, then, that there are very few people in the world who can be said to be of pure race. It is clearly absurd, therefore, to lay down the law about the mental qualities of par- ticular human groups while even their physical characteristics aro l-defined and little understood. The politician and the patriot rush in where the scientist fears to tread.

Roughly speaking, anthropolo- vists divide mankind into six races.

Of these two are black, the Negrold and the Australoid, distinguished from each other by the Negroid having woolly hair and the Austra- loid wavy hair.

Then comes the yellow or Mon- golold race, which includes the people of Eastern Asia and the

Indians" of America. This race has a yellow or tawny skin, high checkbones, and black, straight hair.

Coming nearer hone, we find three races. Of these the most numerous is the Mediterrancan of brown race with a sallow or Hght brown skin, short and slight body. black wavy hair, and a long head with a narrow forehead and thin sharp-featured face. It is found in

Northern

India, Persin, North Africa, and Southern Europe, and has many representatives in the British Isles.

*The Alpine race 11 found mughout the inland parts of Europe and Asia Minor, and 13 pre- dominant

in many European countries, including Franco and Germany. In Britain, though less common, it is fairly numerous. Its members are usually short and mther squat, with round heads, snub noser, and straight dark hair,

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The last race, the Nordle, much the least numerous, and is almost confined to the shores

of the Baltic and the North Seas. Its members are tall, long-hended.

view that the prospects of a new Locarno being negotiated are not too bright. There are two ele- ments in the proposals for the new Treaty that to British eyes seem of vital importance. First, owing to the advent of air power, Britain is no longer an island, invulnerable to attack, and there- fore, though ten years ago sho was quite willing for the sake of Western Europe to peace in guarantee others' security with- out obtaining any reciprocal guarantee for herself, to-day she is asking that obligations of this ebaracter should be equally bind- inig on all. In the second place. it is realised that it would be a mistake to tie the hands of France and Great Britain by a Western Pact in such a way as to leave Germany free in Central and Eastern Europe. Moreover, Italy appears to be definitely op- posed to making the guarantees of the new Locarno reciprocal and Germany to allowing any reference to Eastern Europe in a pact that Herr Hitler contends should be confined to the Weat

AN you read the works of Dickens,] taste. Here, again, I am afraid I am word with awed attention, remark- alone. There have been long classic novelists, from cover to cover, Thackeray, Scott, and the other delays in the negotiations, but the wim complete enjoyment? ball is kept rolling by occasion- Neither can I. al notes of enquiry from Italy

Can you walk through any great few weeks, two events have cc-admiration at the pictures which curred which are likely to have rank in the opinion of artists as a profound effect on the future tasterplees of the brush? Frankly. I of the new Locarno. Belgium has made a striking announce- I do not brag about my want of ment about her own foreign appreciation of the work of the great painters. It is a defect in my policy, which, whatever else it education. All my life I have been know that a man's genuine likes or may signify, clearly reveals her too busy at my own particular jou dislikes are bis own, not to be altered of execptional intellect or culture, dislike of regional agreements to acquire sulllelent knowledge of by copying the habits of other people, but just an intellectual snob. Tho and her determination, so far as the principles and traditions of art and that to stick to the things he lengths he will go to in order to keep genuinely enjoys is the only way to up his pretence of intellectuality are her own armaments can secure to caloy myself in an art gallery, get his rightful share of the pleasures almost beyond belief. There

people who parade in their bookcases that end, to remain neutral in While, as I say, this is nothing to of life.

the works of authors who are "nice "the next war." She will abide boast about, it is certainly nothing

to be ashamed of, and

to know," while stacking hidden cup- 1 refuse by obligations already incurred.

boards with the books they really like and especially the League of

absolutely lo apologise for my

reading which do not bear the classic not add to them-especially in the

Dare To Be A Lowbrow

No?

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ignorance of things which I have to learn.

a hopeless Philistine. I would rather! Ing when he is finished talking that ent n tasty saveloy than the choicest he is "too. clever for them" and his caviare and I like cabbage far better conversation "above their. heads." thon asparagus. When it comes to Such compliments as these he swal- drinking, the only beverage 1 really lows greedily. enjoy is beer.

Whether these racial types are due to diverso origin, to mixture of earlier races, to eliniate, or to chance variation, is disputed. It upprare, however, that if what- ever causes operated in the past to produce these vartelles are still oper- ating, their movements are too slow to be par- ceived.

It is possible, for ex- ample, that binckness of skin was developed as a response to a hot cli- mate, but it is quite cer- tain that people who migrate to a hot climate do not develop a black skin, even in thousands of years,

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Parts of South America are as hot as any purt of Africa, yet the Indians who have lived théro for untold centuries are not black, but yellowish brown. Conversely, the Tasmanians had Uved probably for many

10 thousand years .climate NEO that of England, yet they were black, or nearly 80.

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In Europe, there ore no real racial divisions: The Germans and the French are two political groups of mixed racin) type. The Germans are, roughly, two thirds Alpine and one-third Nordic, while the French are something like half Alpino, one-third Medi- terranean, and one-sixth Nordic.

The original Cells, who conquered half Europe, were largely Nordics, yet the British "Celts" of to-day are chicly Medi- terranean, whereas the Brotons are chiefly Alpine. Similarly, the Jows of Europe, who are mostly de- scended from converts made by Jewish missionaries at the be- ginning of the Christian era, are of very mixed but chiefly Alpine type.

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The whole idea that there are innate mental differences between people of different races is based upon prejudice rather than upon fact. This applies not merely to.

alleged differences between Euro- pean races, but to alleged differ- ences between whites, blacks and yellows,

Intelligence tests carried out in. Australia and Bouth Africa have shown that black children are not interior in intelligence to white children. These results have caused some surprise, but there is no ren- son why they should. Intelligence in children is the result of quick sight and quick hearing.

Every child born with good eyes and good cars is born Intelligent, though in most cases the child is soon made stupid by disease, duil surroundings and dogmatle tonch- inc.

So-called racial differences, 60 far as our evidenco goes, are merely differences in upbringing. Nationalism exists and thrives on

It is all very silly, because ten to When I was younger I used to feel one he has been spouting a lot of FE little ashamed of my failure to rubbish about science, philosophy, or appreciate the things which superior literature, winning the respect of his the entirely false belief that these people told me were beyond all ques- audience because he has a smattering tion the best. Somehow I felt that 1 of these subjects of which they know was a low fellow with vulgar tastes. nothing at all.

But I have lived long enough to

"TOO CLEVER"

Of course, if you follow my plan never had the time or opportunity you will sometimes be ancered it. By fools, it is true, but they will sneer. The sacerers will be, people called highbrows. You have no doubt met

A HOPELESS PHILISTINE

Ilke any kind of joyful noise. Seldom can I give a name to any piece of music unless I have been

breed,

In fact, the highbrow is not a man

stamp.

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artificial, and often non-existent. differences are innate and alterabic.

How is it, then, that we often can, or think we can, tell a Jow from a Christian, or a Frenchman from a German? The answer is that every human group, whether religious, linguistic, or oven pro- fessional has its characteristic incial expression.

them. They are a peculiar with and education ought to display on and raising their brows; and we

of

Womending

Do not confuse a a man, or it may be lotty taste and culture, wide and profound knowledge. For, you see, no man ever colls himself a high- brow. It is an epithet bestowed upon him by ordinary chaps like you and me.

A man I knew, when he married and set up a home, went and asked a; clergyman what books a man of taste

his shelves. Suitably advised, he some bindings. That was ten years straightway bought the lot in hand- go, and there the books are to-day, good its new, never having been opened except perhaps once in a way by visiting friends.

form of regional pacts. The

It is the same with music. I listen Italian and German Foreign on the wireless to all sorts of more Ministers have met in Berlin to or less tuneful sounds, but for the tell whether, see how far their conflicting in life of me I cannot terests, c.g. in the Danube Valley, Judged by the ear of the expert. the tunes which please me are good may be reconciled, and how far music or bad. harmony can be achieved in their respective foreign policies. It is very probable that Belgian cold- ness and Italian and German

If we meet him in a public-house veiled opposition to the new

It is not that this man dislikes read- fold it beforehand, Several times I or a club, shall we say, wo insting ing. On the contrary, he devours Locarno may result in the whole have listened to playing which has tively dislike him. Something in his several books a week. They are idea being abandoned, Though delighted me, and been told after-speech and manner freezes us. In mostly of the thriller" type, detec this may appear at first sight to wards that it was something fram

always wonder where the tive stories, and so on. These do not be a disaster, it could be a bless- Chopin or Brahms. No one was more If he is in the company of really in- editions of Shakespeare, Milton, and

highbrow en posibly feel at home. ing in disguise, if it brought the musical taste goes it might just an surprised than I was. As far as my peace-loving nations away from casily have been a merry jingle from reliance on regional pacts back Jack Hylton or Henry Hall. to the League of Nations, which,

Even as regards cating and drink-

tellectual people he is just as uneary Carlylo stand in all their splendour. there. They like him no better than The best joke of all is to see this pre- we do. They gauge to a nicety his clous humbug show his friends round mental calibre, which is seldom high. his library. He has learned a few

The highbrow is happiest when he

If faithfully interpreted, would ing there, are similar conventional can gather around him a group of wlaceracks, and just enough llierary!

give all that the

promises-and more.

Ito obey through inborn superiority of selves, who will hang upon his every

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Many Jews have a trick of draw- tng up the corners of the non- trils; many Frenchmen havo a trick of slightly pursing their lips

have our own tricks by which foreigners recognise us. In the same way Mohammedans tend to have a rather gloomy, tatalistic expression.

Anyone can stand in front of a looking-glass and make himsel look like a conventionat French- man, Jow, or sergeant-major, but it is impossible for a man of the Alpine race to make himself look liken Nordic, oven If he is Hitler himself.

A.

-To-day's Thought

PEOPLE ofil, whose common ties are gone; Who, mized with every race,

are lost in none.

-GEORGE CRABBE,

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