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Yesterday readers of the Hongkong Telegraph read that of the most advanced powers of the world-advanced, that is, in commerce, in culture and in science--were plunging headlong into a naval arma- ¡ments race. The accusation is not far-fetched. And there is scant satisfaction to be derived from the fact that Great Britain

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love, and every love story is dif- ferent from ali its ancestors and predecessors.

It is not true to say that the more it is different the more it is the same. The contrary is true. The more it is the same the more it is different.

Yet his life held for him what many people, if not most people, regard as everything, or nearly everything, that mukes life worth living. He had a beauti- ful home and wealth beyond the dreams of the majority of the

human race.

wife?

by

JAMES DOUGLAS:

scarch of the joys that nature more pity for him than for her can bestow in her sunniest self. climes and her fairest scenes;

It is the heart of the un- employment nightmare which haunts the great middle class as well as the working class.

These husbands who have nothing to leave to their wives have no dimculty in solving the problem. They do not wish to die before their wives, whose sole means of support are their precarious salaries or wages.

BUT in the case of hus- bands who are able to leave their wives a competence the problem is almost insuper- able.

The selfish husband some- himself against times insures the injury of his jealous pride

marries after his death.

Thou need'st the little solace,

thou the strong?

She asks herself whether it is the wonders of art in its multi- selfish to wish to leave him to form variety, the delights of bear the burden of his grief love or friendship, the consola- through the empty years. tions of service to humanity, She is perplexed by the prob. FOR example, there is a the companionship of the mas lem. Is it kinder to him to won by penalising his widow if she

sharp newness in the ters of literature and music; all to die first? Or is it kinder to

It seems to me to be the acme love story of the man of sixty- the pleasures of the table, good him to wish to die Inst?

of mean stinginess for a hus- three who shot himself three food and good wine, all the arti weeks after the death of his in- ticial distractions of sport and

DOES he think the same band to attach to his will a pro- valid wife, who was a few years amusement.

secret thoughts? Does vision that his widow will lose older than her husband.

But life without love had lost he wrestle with the unanswer- his money if she falls in love a second time. I am in favour of "Now that she has gone," he all its savour. The things that able question? said before he died, "life holds money can procure meant less

Undoubtedly. The problem is legislation making such wills nothing for me.”.

than nothing to this man with a as hard to solve for the husband illegal. ·

it is for the wife. How In the case of the wife the broken heart.

He looked at them all, and would he choose if he had the problem is complicated, by the thought that her husband, after turned away disconsolate.

power to choose?

A hypothetical question is one their lifelong love, may find hap- THIS love story suggests which admits of no decisive piness in a second marriage to As Brown- one of the most insolu- answer.

a younger woman. Who can tell whether it is ing's wife puts it:- ble problems of human life, a

Is the remainder of the way so problem which vexes the sessions nobler to desire to escape from

long He was a poor man and his of silent thought in the mind of grief than to accept it as a duty wife was a rich woman. Out of every loving husband and every to the beloved?

Where a wife is dependent her wealth she had made their loving wife..

her husband's carning It may be stated crudely, bald- upon beautiful home.

death and where his They had been happy in it for ly, and nakedly in the question: power, the sixteen years. During her last Would you prefer to die before would sentence her to the priva- re-years he had been her constant your wife? Would you prefer tions of poverty, the answer to

and devoted nurse.

to die before your husband? the question is easy.

Husbands She bequeathed her wealth to

and wives arc

NO husband who loves him, the great sum of £119,618, afraid to ask each other this

his wife would choose but it was naught in his eyes. question, although it is hard to

his life her evade it as life draws near its to die first if his choice left her

penniless. Without her in money to him was a mockery. It close. could buy him nothing he desir- They seldom debate it to- He would prefer to work on ed.

gether, and when their fear for her rather than forsake her thrusts it upon them they shrink and let her bear the misery of LET those who imagine from the pain of choice where penury alone.

This is the supreme tragedy of that wealth is a pass- there is no choice.

the poor man. port to paradise ponder over

He cannot afford this exposure and refutation of IN her secret heart a to die and let his wife face the Back to the heart's place here their delusion or illusion.

I keep for thee! discovers the misery of widowhood in poverty. to the My postbag testifies

But many a widower and Here was a man with an as- secret desire to die before her sured income of five thousand a husband.

magnitude of this dread in the many a widow are faithful and She would spare herself the mind of the ageing husbands not faithless. Their love holds little year for the remainder of his

fast until "the life. He might have lived in. anguish of being the last to go. who are unable to save enough them luxury for another ten or fifteen She dreads the harvest of griev- to provide for their wives in the minute's sleep is past."

After all, it is a merciful bless- twenty years,

event of their death, and who, persuading ing loneliness. time to heal his sorrow.

In her guarded thoughts she are struggling to keep jobs for ing that no husband and no wife He might have tried all the plans her departure and prepares which they are growing less fit can foretell and foresee which

of the twain will die first, anodynes of riches-travel in for it, although her heart holds every year.

or

wife

Watch out thy watch, let weak.

ones doze and dream!

BUT she overcomes her jealousy of the other

women:-

Re-coin thyself and give it

them to spend-

It all comes to the same thing

at the end,

Since mine thou wast, mine

art, and mine shall be, Faithful or faithless, scaling:

up the sum-

Or lavish of my treasure, thou

must come

was probably the last of great nations to speed her urmament. Rather it has be- come a matter for criticism by the masses, this attempt at pacifying the peoples of our times by scrapping war vessels and delaying their replacement. That-policy,-commendable_as_it may have been in theory, was destined to die a quick death in the heat engendered by friction fin the machinery which

was supposed to safeguard peace. the Far better, perhaps, had allied nations which were in a position to make the rules, set themselves up to govern the world by force. Better still had they sunk their fleets, blown up their guns, burned their planes and degenerated into non-com- petitive Inactivity of mind and minds admitted, that that na- body than to have arrived at tion is safest which puts its this state on non-co-operative faith in its leaders. No blind in which faith, mark you, but a trust progress, and they think in terms of bombing based on the accomplishments born of calculated judgment,

There is a theory, widely put about ranges, anti-gas defence and of the elected chiefs. The IT is distinctly exasperating, to these

by those who hold it, that the Peace 60,000-ton warships.. But the trained mind is sanost in a who endured the privations and

Treaty was an iniquitous blunder. I to contend that the world had not the courage to be jcrisis. The mob mind makes miseries of the Great War, to have a

slightly port post-War generation Forgotten Aspects of t going

statesmen who framed it at Versalles wise-or the wisdom to be cour-mistakes, terrible blunders, asking whether it was worth while.

were in all respects well inspired. The

quito simple, the Great War

But how much substance is there in ageous.. And so it has pro-shouting: "We want war."

Thanks to the steadfast and devoted

the argument that, hod France treat- The world is faced with an self-sacrifice of some millions of good By "AN OLD STAGER" gressed.

ed the early German Socialist Re- of

public ΠΟΣΟ sympathetically, race, and knows it is fellows, arauteur soldiers most Nor is there any sense in the

wrong. But even this know them, who hated the job,the roots of

not yet Because the pretty notion that this should have had no Hitter and no public's condemnation of this ledge is not strong enough to been completely destroyed in Europe, island could exlat as another Switzer Nazi symptoms in. Germany?

The German War Lords had them- Cene usualy finds that those who land, keeping remote from all Con- selves let loose in Eastern Europe the situation. It is the mass mind stop the hammers in the ship' which is to blame, more than yards. Parliament, all parties, are most insistent in asking whether tineral quarrels, ja just vilinge Idiocy virus of Red Communism. Is it not

the 1014 adventure was worth whlie, With a dismembered Empire our

any event, the statesmen and the cabinets, has decided that rearmament ur not emphatic in declaring it to home population, which is more quite certain that, in

is necessary. The people must have been a colossal piece of lunney, densely distributed than any other in Bolshevism would have invaded Ger- behaved towards her late despollers,. [After all, in democratic coun-Anccept the decision and pay thenre those who most dislike dictator- the world, would simply have to many, however kindly France had

tighten its belt and starve. tries at least, the people have a bill, even though they suspect ship and totalitarian government,

Two premises therefore emerge, and that the Teutonic revulsion from. voice. And It will be remem-that the next step will bring 1 Great Britain had not thrown bored that volco was raised in disaster. That is the risk we her weight Into the conflict on the First, we could not have kept out of that menace would have taken some 1914 whilo Sir Edward Grey run. But wo dare not be alongside of the Allies, there is not much the Great War, with any intelligent such form as the present regime-in. dispute that Germany and the Central regard for our own immediate ma-In fact the German Revolution was (later Lord Grey of Fallodon) in defencelessness; dare not be Powers would have won the War. Lerial and intellectual future. Second ate. The spirit of the German people was pleading with the Govern- pacifists.

Our responsibility is in that event the critica of those who ly, if we had not won the struggle, merely a change of German director- 1014 and the years preceding that ment's of Europe to use their too great. The solution is in fought for freedom twenty years ago we should have been reduced to the remained just the same as it was in reason and keep the peace. strength.

would now be performing unpleasant level of taxpaying helots. genuflexions and giving the Nazi

A victorious Germany, as the re-aminous date. Outside the gates of Bucking-

salute by, numbers.

cords of 1070 prove, would not have

That is proved conclusively by the ahuffing and enthusiasm with which Hilller's re- ham Palace, we are told, a vast

tolerated any of the

the dodging that we have done in

gime has been hailed by the over- crowd chanted: "We want war!" Majesty's. Government will not

case of our vanquished enemies. We whelming majority of all classes in And His Majesty King George, misuse this power which the

Does anyone believe that, having should have been saddled with a pro- Germany to-day. Huller did not

and Indemnity,

Germany

crente flint frame of mind. He mere. troubled, appalled by the great, people put into its hands. It is

and conquered digious

uttermost ly helped it to express itself. hoarse shout, put a hand to his our faith that the weapons Russia, Germany would have been would have exacted the

It is the old firm with a different hend and retreated from the which wo forge will be for the content to stop short at a partial kopek of the

So, when we survey existing con-board of directors in charge, but im- balcony where he had gone to protection not only of the Em-hegemony of Europe?

The United Kingdom would have ditions with critical disenchantment, bued with just the same policy and his people.

was pire but of the little countries fgreet

Britain's leaders, not the people, of the world whose only rampart been reduced to the condition of a let us reflect also how much worse ambitioria as the old rulers of Ger-

Systematic Evasion who fought for peace at that against invasion is the League small varsel State, and made a dump- they might have been had the 1014 many.

The Bellah Empire, moreover, Change of Directorate time. And so it was in some, of Nations, in which Britain is ing around for German merchandise, issue Kone the other way.

From the very first there was no at least, of the other European pillar. It is, it must be, our would have been broken up, and the

to

that Anglo-Saxon tradition would have But thero is a further question, sincerily in Germany's observance of responsibility capitals.

the co-operation which has become a relle of history. In these How comes it that the "war to end the peace terms. She had to aur

circumstances what would have be- war" has to signally failed of its render her feet, but her disarmament Again and again it has been built this Empire will not be come of all our elaborate and costly avowed objective? That is another gesture was a pretence. She pet her-

social "Mervices?:

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