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FRIDAY, JANUARY 21, 1938,
The Paradox Of
Armaments
Mr. Hamilton Fish, a member of the United States House. of Representatives, has raised his voice in revolt against President Roosevelt's new appropriations which are to be used for making
TRUBE, the London Daily Express car-
toonist who is the
ready the defences of the greatest in the world United States, against potential because he is the most enemies. Mr. Fish, apparently, highly developed apparatus is not impressed with the pro- for sensing what's going on nouncements recently made by that even this immense the President and his colleagues news-gathering organisation which aver that unless the possesses, has created a new United States builds armaments character. as fast, if not faster, than the rest of the world, she will be- Major crisis is the villian of come a prey to any rapacious the peace. He stalks about the country powerful enough to des- stage of the world uttering fear- ful threats of war and death and troy her. Mr. Fish believes that desolation, and-durting-looks-of- the peace of the world could be hate and rage upon the good folk Just as secure with smaller of all nations. navies, armies and air forces,
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ONCE upon a time Major
ratio to the needs of the particu-ing effect upon us.
Crisis had a terrify- His shadow lar nations, as by the huge so-had but to fall across our door- called defensive forces which are step and we trembled for the being feverishly built to-day.
of this
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CRISIS
BOMBSHE
Meet Major Crisis
the villain who no
longer by
fools the audience
FRANK OWEN
sound judgment and sturdy com-
mon
the
Benso to situation. Perhaps, like Joh ̄n-Wesley, when he surveys.
the state of mankind, Strube "fears and grieves, but does not fret."'
re
At all events he keeps his head, and, putting things into
his. proper perspective with magic pencil, he helps the rest worst.
of us to see more sanely. Audiences in the theatres that The theory, as a theory, ap
Strube's cartoon in the Daily our fathers knew accepted the pears to be equally as justifiable stage representation
us that peace is indivisible, and tire army into the field on the Express each day is a surer in- as that propounded by its op-sinister figure with complete that a war anywhere means a side of one of the combatants, dex to conditions than the bob- war everywhere, that every and another has provided the bing barometer of the London ponents. What is more, it ap- sincerity.
battle between two rival States planes, the tanks, and the best Stock Exchange prices. pears to enjoy the additional They hissed him, and booed
For though the world value of suggesting that more him, and in the more forthright must inevitably develop into a of the guns for the other.
We behold another war raging sounds to-day to the tramp of world war. practical and beneficial use could eggs, cabbages, and cats at him,
parts of the kingdom they threw And then we remember that in in the Far East, with mighty legions, and the bellowing of the be made of the huge sums of na I remember myself in the 1920 the Russians and the Poles fleets and armies and whole Strong Men is heard above the money which the armaments little border town of Monmouth and the Greeks fought, and in struggle. Yet the British pub- yet the shrewd judge does not fought, and in 1922 the Turks populations geared up for a vast barking of the drill sergeants, race demands from those com- twenty years ago. peting in it. If it is shown that
1932 the Japanese and the Chi-lic remain calm. The ordinary accept the view that war is com- Nowadays the theatregoers billions of dollars can be raised laugh at this menacing Man In ese fought, and in 1933 Bolivia man and woman simply cannot ing for the British people.
The Cloak. They know that
and Paraguay fought, and in believe in Major Crisis. to manufacture armaments, the though the frail, sweet girl is 1935 the Italians and the productive value of which is nil, bound hand and foot in
Abyssinians fought-and still the
ONLY the City believe in him, and goggles surely it would be equally mountain shack, and the candle there was no world war,
We look around our own day with fright at him. Very sensi- feasible to raise the вате is burning low that will fire the and we gee a civil war going on tive to all information are the
trail to the gun-powder barrel, in Spain, which is already more City, like our cartoonist, Virtue will Triumph in the end.
What is more, we realise that than half an inter-State war, for
The only difference between
revenue for purposes which will produce additional wealth for the people?
the man who plays the part of one great country has put an en- them is that Strube applies his However one may cling to the the monster behind those twir belief, rightly or wrongly, that ling fnustachios will subsequent- a nation can be defended only can of beer in the local, a very ly be found taking a quiet half- by more and more armaments; decent sort of fellow.
the economics of the situation Just as wo don't believe in appear to call for a different | Major Crials when we see him, answer. Economically speak-on the boards or on the screen, ing, no nation has a right to in. at last we are wise to his real vest its capital in unproductive character in real life. interests. America's position in
W
THESE SCOTTISH HUSBANDS!
By An American Wife
men.
WHY? In the first place we are too strong. We have the most powerful Navy in the world. Our fleets could blow out of the water any
other armada or combination of
come against us.
armadas that would be likely to
-
Our Air Force is strong and grow- ing stronger, despite certain lament- able hitches in the expansion scheme. Our Army la effelent and adequate' for its immediate purpose.
ctacles,
And the second reason for sleep- ing soundly to-night in that the pos- sible challengers in the bloody Hats of world war are not so strong as they look. THEN I went 10 Scotland I popular with wives, but the Scottish
They have the men and the guns him--never
grows was prepared for tartan, porridge, husband-bless
and the planes that make them and tossing the caber. But I was not tired of it.
formidable, and would perhaps make prepared for the foibles of a Scottish
His favourite joke is the old chest them dreadfully dangerous
at the THAT is, Most of Us are. husband. this respect is no more, and no
Most of the ordinary
He seems to me to be the most out that marriage is a "raw deal" for first onset, But they do not com- How he enjoys rejecting themand the resources of war material; less, untenable than that of people of this country open their spoiling is done very subtly and care Hear his guffaw when he informs a tory-power), that could sustain them spolled husband in the world. The invitations of his bachelor friends! food, money, (and in ono caso, face Great Britain, Japan, Italy, newspapers every morning and fully, for nothing must disturb his complete stranger that Monday is his in a struggle with the great demo- France, Germany and Soviet road of Stalin shouting at Musso-lusion that he is a tough, all-weather "night off the chain," His wife may lini, Hitler abusing Stalin, man, impatient of feminine coddling not see the joke, but then "women- Mussolini roaring that he won't umbrella must be pressed upon him
Winter
and have no sense of humour," stand this or that in somebody in order that he may assume the An Interesting Experience clse's country, and so on.
role of a martyr to womanly fuss.
He can be amusingly casual at But he enjoys the protection, and his Then we learn that last night wife if she is wise-keeps the joke times. I had
a very interesting is catastrophic, and can lead only Mr. Eden went to Paris, or this to herself.
experience once at a Scottish - hotel. poor old mother is one of his pet Saturday morning was glorious, phrases and it usually precedes some The menfolk made a hasty rush for nostaigle reminiscence of the days the golf course, rushed back to lunch, before he "settled down." Of all and cut again for a second round. domestle toples this is the one least (Continued on Page 4.)
Russia, but this does not justify one, or the other. To the true |cconomist, the spending of vast sums of money on war materials,
underwear,
Rearf
to destruction So far the morning M. Blum will be going And then there is his mother. "Aty We were a week-end party and the economiats have failed to con- to Prague, and the situation is vinco the world of this, Per-grave.
haps Mr. Hamilton Fish will be Then the League of Nations' more successful.-S.A.G. 'spokesmen and advocates nasure
In
Nor do we believe that any future- war can be determined in a few days of air fighting and raiding before ine war machines of these great indus- trial lands could be set in motion.
And thirdly, and finally: None ofTM the Powers, either of the dictatorships or the democracies, WANTS war.
Even Japan doesn't want it, and if she had been faced by a resolute- ly organised Ching she would not have begun it.
So be calm, and laugh at the antics:
of poor Major Crisis. B
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