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THURSDAY, AUGUST 12, 1937.

CAN AGGRESSION BE. PREVENTED?

of

a war.

WHO SHALL OWN THAT SOUL?

When

Real Division Drives Deep

T

HE fart that the League Covenant re- cognises economic

must be governed by whether or not the mode of life called Bol-

shevism is preferred to the mode

of life under which Europe has developed her civilisation.

The Aim of

Bolshevism

By Collin

Brooks

al recreation and refreshment, I

Having said so much in de was struck by a paragraph or fence of English poets, I am im- two written last year by a dis- pelled in justice to say also that tinguished American poet and there is a pitiable deal of chaff critic, Louis Unter-meyer.

compared with a little golden grain. Hitherto, we know, the first

Pence brought back but few of aim of Russian Bolshevism has the younger poets....It is im-

One after-effect was particu-

There was never a more salu-

In the course of a recent re- ference in the House

pressure to be as much Commons to collective security,

weapon of war as tangible Lord Cranborne, Under-Secre- |

arms tends to mislead some tary for Foreign Affairs,

minds into the view that declared: "The forces of law and enmities or friendships are order should not be merely

matters affected only by strong enough to win

economic considerations. That would not be nearly

The death struggle in Spain been the downfall of the British possible to calculate how much tary thing said than the reply of enough, because, once war broke

is not being fought on the ques- Empire an object openly avow- was lost to English poetry by the the famous critic who was asked to criticise the poems of a lady qut, the world would be plunged

tion of who shall own the na- ed by the founders of the Soviet death of these singers.

amateur. into chaos and misery. The forces tionnd wealth but on who shall We also know that the rise of

He said, after long thought: of order should be so strong shape the national destinies and the European Fascist States was larly noticeable. English litera-

the outcome of the sweep of Boi- ture suffered not only from in- "Madam, there is poetry and there is good shevism on to those countries dividual losses but from general there is verse: The attitude of neighbours after the war. Europe's trou- shock. This shock affected the verse and there is bad will not be changed by fear of bles at this moment are thus not writers of every school and di- This is not poetry; it is verse. temporary economic conse- matters of surface friction or verted where it did not arrest It is not good verse; it is bad

the current of contemporary It threw Masefield back verse. quences when the real division petty personal ambitions but. drives deep into human emotions. matters as profound as the trou-

bles that marked the religious to the classic drama of half a Britain has no desire to be cleavages of the Middle Ages.

century ago; it silenced such of drawn into the quarrels of other If this is realised both states- its war-poets as refused to con- nations or races. But sympa- men and public in this country tinue to write about "the collec- thies felt by individual citizens will think well before allowing tive madness" and for either side in any struggle temporary irritations or hot think of little else....

words to influence policy.

It is true that with a great rules of life. The touchstone of judgment many young pocts the war was

that war will not break out at all." There could be no better summary of the viewpoint of those nations which want to see such a measure of co-operation as will guarantee that the forces which stand for a system of international law and order are! stronger than those who are against it. Unfortunately the ideal seems difficult, if not im- attainment, The possible, of principles involved are definitely

own the national soul.

verse,"

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Searchers

For Success

verse.

yet could

YOUNG

men in search of suc- cess are ardent collectors of

It is a rare week that does not bring to me a request for some set out in the Covenant of the weaken the position of all those must be whether the future of an inspiration that nothing re-

elements who are against this League of Nations, but attempts kind of aggression." The argu-

European races shall be under placed. But it is also true that simple recipe for "making good." The golden rule of success is to put them into operation in ment and its implications are all cherished traditions, or under of the war there was

the Red regime, which shatters after the high emotional tension

not the that there is no golden rule. major crises have so far utterly irrefutable, but when it comes national governments each cater- same receptivity for poetry. As the Americans of the roar- failed. Mr. Attlee, the leader to putting collective security ing for the temperament and the

of the British Labour Party, in into force a dead wall of ob-1

The speaking of Japanese aggressionstruction is encountered.

system implies united in Parliament recently, touched very

such

tradition of its own race.

☆ * ✩ Poetry From

The Trenches

It was not the mood of the ing forties used to say, "Let each poets but of the public which gent skin his own cel."

But there are one or two rules changed.

that help to guard against failure

My experience is that every or trouble. generation is thronged with poets who never have a hearing. From the publishers' viewpoint

on this aspect of the question pressure against the wrongdoer. but experience has shown the when he declared that if action apparent hopelessness of al- as Japan is taking in tempting to get the champions China is permitted to con- of the weak aligned SO H to WHEN in the early years of "the bard spells bankruptcy," tinue without anything being prevent aggression, or to stop it done to stop it, the result will when it has ounce begun. It is from

the Great War there came training camps and

be abrogation of all treaties and this, circumstance which lies at trenches a

apprehension. If

flood of English

True Singers

But Poor

From Hard

Experience

The first Lord Leverhulme once said to a friend of mine, "If you are wise you will never con- duct a business converantion without a witness present.”

It was a hard saying,.coined from hard experience.

A Dominion statesman of

of the Covenant itself. Treaties, the root of present-day world poetry such as we had not known the rule of since the days of the Elizabe

No more bitter satires exist parts and convenants, he as-law is not to be enforced, chaos thans, Gilbert Chesterton said: in the language than T. W. II. serted, are useless if in times and anarchy must follow.

No "It is hard to know if it is Crosland's invectives against of crisis they are ignored. one nation can Assume the soldiers singing or ports fight- the refusal of publishers and eminence laid it down that the publie to afford an audience to wise man will never write a let- "The fact that these things pass burden which should be shared, jing."

ter if he can avoid it, and will fact which the Many of the soldier poets those true singers whose own certainly never destroy one. without any effective protest," This is

The first Lord Goschen used [he added, "encourages and gives pugnacious pacifists overlook. were killed in action or died as purses cannot subsidise their

The problem is to get it sufficient the result of illness contracted wares and to whom no patron to rest on a sofa for lialf an hour power to the more reckless ele-

of co-operation as to on service, as dled poor Rupert offers himself in aid.

in the afternoon and review the ments, and unless there is

stop the aggressor, But how Brooke. A fow-but very few

The average lover of good day, an excellent rule of life for greater feeling of respect for can that be done? There iscontinued their music

sions and half-done jobs. international law, and unless now a scheme, to come before Peace came. But the flood-tide verse will seek it in anthologies guarding against too hasty deci

and magazines, but will not buy waned and ebbed.

Perhaps the best general rule it by the volume. Mr. Unter- is never to waste time and de- next. Assembly, there is a feeling that the world the INC.¦will not sit by and see innocent strengthen the League Coven-

They Did

meyer might as truthfully have stroy self-confidence by regret- States suffering from aggres-ant. If this fails, the task-may

written, “It is impossible to cal- ting yesterday's mistakes, re- Not Return

culate how much is lost to Eng- membering always the saying of sion, it will be a continued in-as well be given up. Its fate citement to these gambling and will rest, in the last resort, on As a man of the common kind lish poetry by the neglect of Frederick the Great that "every

man has his reverses." who reads verse for his occasion- these singers." adventurous elements, and will international sincerity.

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