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that war will not break out at

WHO SHALL OWN THAT SOUL?

Whon

Real Division Drives Deep.

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fact that the League Covenant re-

developed her civilisation. The Aim of

Bolshevism

Hitherto, we know, the first

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 desi of chaff compared with a little golden critic, Louis Unter-meyer.

grain. Peace brought back but few of

There was never a more salu-

It is not good verse; it is bad verse."

CAN AGGRESSION BE PREVENTED ?

In the course of a recent re- ference in the House of |Commons to collective security, Lord Cranborne, Under-Scere-

must be governed by whether or for .Paul Whiteman's Orchestra. tary

Foreign Affairs,

cognises economic not the mode of life called Bol- shevism is preferred to the mode .Tommy Dorsey's Orchestra.declared: "The forces of law and

of life under which Europe has order should not be merely

pressure to be as much a strong enough to win

a war weapon of war as tangible That would not be nearly arms tends to mislead some enough, because, once war broke minds into the view that out, the world would be plunged entities or friendships are into chaos and misery. The forces matters affected only by of order should be so strong economic considerations. aim of Russian Bolshevism has the younger poets....It is im-

The death struggle in Spain been the downfall of the British possible to calculate how much tury thing said than the reply of all.". There could be no better 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 amateur. summary of the viewpoint of tion of who shall own the nn- ed by the founders of the Soviet, death of these singers.

We also know that the rise of

One after-effect was particu- those nations which want to see tional wealth but on who shall

He said, after long thought: "Madam, there is poetry and such a measure of co-operation shape the national destinies and the European Fascist States was larly noticeable. English litera- the outcome of the sweep of Bol- ture suffered not only from in-

there is good as will guarantee that the forcesLown the national soul.

shevism on to those countries dividual losses but from general there is verse: which stand for a system of The attitude of neighbours after the war. Europe's trou- shock. This shock affected the verse and there is bad verse. international law and order are 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. stronger than those who are

economic conse- matters of surface friction or verted where it did not arrest temporary against it. Unfortunately the

the current of contemporary quences when the real division petty personal ambitions but ideal seems difficult, if not im-drives deep into human emotions. matters as profound as the trou- verse. It threw Masefield back bles that marked the religious to the classic drama of half a possible, of attainment. The Britain has no desire to be

cleavages of the Middle Ages.

century ago; it silenced such of principles involved are definitely drawn into the quarrels of other

If this is realised both states- its war-poets as refused to con- set out in the Covenant of the nations or races. But sympa.

men and public in this country tinue to write about "the collec- and yet could League of Nations, but attempts thics felt by individual citizens will think well before allowing tive madness"

hot think of little clsc.... to put them into operation in for either side in any struggle temporary irritations or

words to influence policy.

It is true that with a great rules of life, major crises have so far utterly

It is a rare week that does not The touchstone of judgment many young poets the war was failed. Mr. Attlee, the leader of the British Labour Party, in

must be whether the future of an inspiration that nothing re- bring to me a request for some to putting collective security

European races shall be under placed. But it is also true that simple recipe for "making good." speaking of Japanese aggression,

The golden rule of success is into force a dead wall of ob-the Red regime, which shatters after the high emotional tension in Parliament recently, touched

war there was not the that there is no golden rule. struction is encountered. The all cherished traditions, or under of the

As the Americans of the roar on this aspect of the question

very system implies united national governments cach cater- same receptivity for poctry. when he declared that if action

pressure against the wrongdoer, ing for the temperament and the such as Japan is taking in

but experience has shown the tradition of its own race. China is permitted to соп-

✩ tinue without anything being apparent hopelessness of at- tempting to get the champions done to stop it, the result will

of the weak aligned 10 ду 10 be abrogation of all treaties and

prevent aggression, or to stop it of the Covenant itself. Treaties,

when it has once begun. It is pacts and convenants, he

this circumstance which lies at WHEN in the early years of "the bard spells bankruptcy." serted, are useless if in times of. crisis they arc ignored. The fact that these things pass without any effective protest," The added, "encourages and gives

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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."

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The first Lord Leverhulme the Great War there came

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duct a business conversation without a witness present," apprehension. If the rule of trenches a law is not to be enforced, chaos poetry such as we had not known

No more bitter satires exist

It was a hard saying, coined and anarchy must follow.. No since the days of the Elizabe

thans, Gilbert Chesterton said: in the language than T. W. H. from hard experience.

A Dominion statesman invectives against "It is hard to know if it is Crosland's

This is fact which

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public to afford an audience to wise man will never write a let- ter if he can avoid it, and will. pugnacious pacifists overlook. Many of the soldier poets those true singers whose own certainly never destroy one.

The first Lord Goschen used The problem is to get a sufficient were killed in action or died as purses cannot subsidise their

the result of illness contracted wares and to whom no patron to rest on a sofa for half an hour measure of co-operation as to

on service, as died poor Rupert offers himself in aid.

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The average lover of good day, an excellent rule of life for cun that be done? There is-continued their music when

But the flood-tide verse will acck it in anthologies guarding against too hasty deci- now a scheme, to come before peace come.

waned and ebbed.

and magazines, but will not buy slons and half-done jobs.

Perhaps the best general rule next the

Assembly,

it by the volume. Mr. Unter- la never to waste time and de They Did strengthen the League Coven-

meyer might as truthfully have stroy self-confidence by regret- wenken the position of all those ant. If this falls, the task may

written, "It is impossible to cal- ting yesterday's mistakes, re- elements who are against this as well be given up. Its fate|

culate how much is lost to Eng- membering always the saying of kind of aggression." The argu-will rest, in the last resort, on As a man of the common kind lish poetry by the neglect of Frederick the Great that "overy

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