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GENEVA'S FAILURES AND THE FUTURE OF PEACE

A Study of League History and Personalities

HERE, at a timely hour, while

doors are still open though alrendy in net to close and mis- takes can still be rectifled, comes an illuminating, perhaps even a saving, book,

TRIBUTE TO AN ARBITER

AT GENEVA

By J. B. FIRTH

moment

come very soon To save the peace of The world I think the correct action would be for the French, British and Belgian armies, after due warning, reoccupy

the Rhine bridgeheads. Germany in Incapable of resistance and so long as we hold

good behaviour."

But what would have been the

There

may,

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for

the

Why Not Be A Millionaire

By Oliver Baldwin

It explains why the machin to crass he strong aggressor's path is the Rhine we have a boslege for her

sheer suletde. ery of the League of Nations

The author, therefore, contends that A high-quality, permanent fluid that must be re-designed before it the future of the League lies in the reaction of British and world opinion?;

are some things which de- can be started again, why the direction of strictly regional pacts, Disarmament Conference broke involving for most States a limited mocracies cannot do though dictators

n universal caflective

(Viscount Corvedalo) HY-down so helplessly and achieved instead of

security, though it is hard to see how LAVAL, MUSSOLINI the nothing except the acceleration the obligations

met ny HAVE never

moneyed ♫ world-wide

AND ABYSSINIA of armaments, why Geneva has Empire like ours cam full much short

mullionaires, and I do not know He anys that if the Even in March, 1938, when Ger- whether such people are happy or been the grave of so many re- of universality. IN

new League to be workable, putations, and why so much real "Germany, Taly, and the U.S. must wash ne condition to Bght" Gen. millionaires in other ways, but our 11, many reoccupied the Rhineland she not. Many people I have met are good-will foundered in conflict all be members"

Temperley says, "I know that in the strange world does not look upon with so much fear, stupidity---

We are back once more where we first 48 hours the French had con- those ways as being of striking im- and worse.

were in 1914 with many deep differ- templated the use of force and that portance,

If they of fur

course, most of us would like ences, no doubt, but with one pivotul the army was ready, point of similarity. That that had confined themselves to expelling to be rich in a material sense in order "Germany is the heart of all the the German troops it would probably to sailsfy our needs, to fulfil long- fangled web

and

upon her ultimate have enused the downfall of the Nazi cherished schemes, or to help others It is not written either in justiflen moves depend the issues of peace and reglum

out of Bannelal difficulties, but few tlon or in condemnation of any polley war

The author charges Mr. Laval with of us devote much time to becoming Herr Hitler will give the final

rich

about or theory, it is not designed to main word either for war or peace when being the evil genlus chiefly respon- in other ways, and it tain thesis; on the contrary, it is an the devialve

comes. For sible

League's failure in those other ways that I wish to write.

in friends. I know a millionaire impartial and objective narrative while the occasion may arise in any respect of Abyssinia. At Rome he

one with a million friends, but from which the conclusions flow as one of half a dozen different ways, had promised the Duce a free hand, Not if they, too, were actually observed (ermany la concerned-or mity con- and so be set his face from the start one whose gift of keeping and mak- events. The author, Major-Gen. A vern herself-in_a}l.

against the imposition of oil sune- ing friends has made him truly rich Clons, even at the cost of a a betrayal in affection. He draws people C. Temperley, well known as Military Correspondent of The Daily Tele-

of the League and the verifice of wards him, and gives forth more than British graph and Moring Post since his

Yet friendship."

Gen.

he ever expect to receive in

and

good Temperley equally holds that after

comradeship. retirement from the Army, was for

The author's view is that while red he's strong speech et Financially, he is in the £3-a-week yours * leading actor in the drama,

though behind the

3 to ver B

1 chance of peace re-

Geneva ought to have blocked einss; ethically he pays double super- ought to roject the

the Suez Canal, even at the risk of tax, if there is such a thing. scenes, for he was Military Adviser malts,

of war and nake #

I do not say he is always happy, to ao fewer than four iritists Secre- inevitability

saved the League.

for happiness la another and special taries of State for Foreign Affairs supreme effort to negotiate a settle war with Italy, since this would have ment, and if we are to go uny 11A-

That is 1 highly Now he is free to record bis im

controversial forn of wealth; but he makes others what is beyond serious con- happy, and this knowledge 177246£ use that Germany, as well as Lecognise

he others, has grievances."

Sunctions upon Japan at the and worry. He ands it difficult, for example, time of her Manchurian aggression | is many others do, to make out a the whole brunt of war, waged that a great Power like Ger- 11,000 miles from home, would have

I know two millionaires in happi- many is to be permanently prevent- fallen upon Great Britain, in condi-

from having any colonies at all, tions necessarily involving the im- ness; be a man, one a woman. They

of the mediate and he rerugnises the equity of

destruction of the weak have been married fifty years and

Br

They 03 quarrel. German demand, while not forgetting Thritish Ching squadron and probably have never

What a start that "we are not the only Colonial

have a large and devoted family and seven most excellent grand-children, who are neither too old to be adored such nor too young to understand adoration.

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

Monday, July 25, 1938

TRIBUTE FROM FRANCE

“We loves! their courage, their conwadeshup and their idealism," stud M1. Albert Lebrun, President

of France, after His Majesty the King had spoken in proud and

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THREE TO ONE CHANCE

OF PEACE

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service.

pressions and they carry Ike stangs of lance as mediators we shall have Aim is that if the League had come to his help in times of strain

I quit, eaud conviction.

Eden, a brief preface to

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We

| the book "The Whispering Gallery of Europe,” pubhshed by Messrs Collins, at that, says Your patience,

Impartiality experience everywhere recognised until you des camé samellung! in the nature of a arbiter at Geneva in your own me portant sphere

Fle

hin

Every

OF TANGLED WEB"

defeated.

and

Gen. Temperley's

wrles of former German colonics."

"fundamental

general

went

Tardieu

imposed

lo be retrieved

ditions either in France, in Germany

ur In

statesmen fulled lo

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re-

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motor

glowing bribate to the net off chaple: justile the compitinent, and Power and are not the sole manda. he loss of Hongkong

the author enthudes

arbitral TS

To return 1) the narrative of WHY DISARMAMENT the Australian Imperial Forces | statement with a few cautionary N

EFFORT FAILED

Both have worked hard all their who gave their lives in France

pages of great earnestness and power, events, it is the author's considered

opinion that the last chance of The brief clanrurter sketches which the Disarmament Conference R It is bluntly said in another chap-

Ilves. and have been husky in their they and Flanders during the Great he intersperses in accurd with the success was missed on April 22, 1932, er: "The French never intended to

were happy in the old days before rexlern fashion are cleftly done, nut- when five men, with almost plenary disarm untk it was too late: and the material success; yet 1 know War, at the ceremony of the ably those of Sir Austen Chamber powers, were Rathered round a table German terms kept ticking up all the economic security come Into their

that is kept dedication

421 lives, of The Australian Jain, Aristide Brland, Sir John Simon, at Geneva andartjourned. They me like a taxi-enb

waiting at the door." Always the memorial at Villers-Bretonneux Arthur Henderson

Mr.

I know or old man who lives m Ramsay

were Maclonald, Stimson, Bruning, wait MacDonald and Mr.

French wanted full Tardieu and Grand.

security first, and does

1 Oxford elly, and who at the age of of rity Involved

security

pledges on Friday.

He paints beauly It is unfortunate Justice to their best qualities, bul

80 is still creating Dr. Hrusting, stating the German their idea

and reads in- that no cabled version of

finds them all locking in something, ense, asked only for an merease in of automatic action on the part of birds and flowers the

the Reichswehr to 150.000, a reduc- this country which no British Gov cessantly, and though he lives alone French statesman's address GERMANY THE "HEART

give. Whenever he IN never lonely Or studious tion in the length of service from ernment could remehed Hongkong, for it was

years to six, and permission to promising new start was made it was instincts, his fe has always been one of the most moving pieces Yet even if they had incited nothing cresite a militia of 50,000 with three sire to be bedevilled by some unex-passed in the company of dons and

years' service, while as regards types pected worsening of political con- Pas

professors, and, though his world is of oratory, heard over the radio, heen much the same, because there

one feels that the results would have of arms he required "samples" only. Austrin or, as in 1831, in Great the past-for his favourite reading Is history he will tell you that over delivered by that brilliant

was not enough goodwill at Geneva BEFORE HITLER'S ADVENT Britain.

whatever the future may hold it will Again, une after

the other, our only be a repetition. statesman1. And upon those to overcome the ill-will, and becausD

AND AFTER

come off. the nations of the League were not

That is not as hopeless an attitude Australians who understood it, pertented with the lofty spirit of the No wonder tha MacDonald and Austen was "too obviously Franco-ns it sounds, for he gets much happi-

Simon Was too il mmt have created an impres- Covenant. They were set too hard Strason were favourably impressed phile"; Sir John ston so deep as to be imperish curbing their

task-the more ambitious that of and there was vaque talk of another obviously the eminent lawyer: andness from his certainty. He

ambitions, the con- meeting in May. But it never come Henderson was unable to cope millionaire by his environment

back to able.

with Lebrun

the followed King querors that of being generous to the plt. Stimson

technical problems out of his books and his power to create things ուն plunged States, Gerge at the ceremony,

aken and far beyond a sick man's, Which give pleasure. election In which he was

Love of Work Could there have been u was powers. while His Majesty spoke smooth-bellef after 10 years of intimate asso- pred

heavily defeated. Bruning was re- worse stroke of Fate than Henderson's

Grandt's

I know an engineer in a ly, with well-chosen words, and ciation with the League is that its pired by von Paper and a Cabinet appointment on

Junkers

Herriot, who succeeded commendation as President of the factory who earns between 24 and although his expression of pride reluctance of any Government to run ruble an offer, but it was not Donald's candidate for the post was for he loves his profession and 18. falture has been due to the ingrained Tardieu, would have jumped at se Disarmament Conference when Mac- £5 a weelt, and he is a millionaire, and gratitude for Australia's the risk of war and all the suffering repeated, for "Germany always raised Gen., Smuls who possessed ull supremely content. If I were to be service to the Empire and the and loss that it brings to its own her bid and the French were always Henderson's enthusiasm for disarmaton particular I might call him prig-

late." people in order to preserve another ideals for

ment and genius besle

besides? which the Empire State from aggression, unless its own

Rish and not thoughtful enough of later, A year

I would conclude by saying that those less fortunate, but he is a per- fought, was heart-stirring, be- Interests are also at stake."

Hitler's rise to power, Sir John the

strictly professional

fect husband and a very good

father, cause he is a Briton he could not The enthusiastle klea which in- Simon, evidently at his wits end, rendered by Gen. Temperley

He knows his wealth, and is grate- cnnout Gen. Temperley the Geneva spired President Wilson that after the addressed

have been greater ful for it, and I do not think he- possibly approach the French- Great War the democracies of the startling question: “If you were God, than his luteal

service In setting

would cha

change his lot for anything man's effusiveness and flowered whole world would be moved with what would you do?" He replied: down this plain narrative of lost OP else in the world. Contentment is

une accord by such a deep hatred of There must come a time when we portunities, and the continual triumph gift beyond price, and he has. phraseology. To an English war that they would rush to the as- shall have to net, if the Germans do al the worse Over the man, perhaps, a translation of sistance of any State unjustly attack- not change their methods. Lebrun's address would

seem artificially effulgent, unless it

*ys the General, are Loned down from that more likely to fuit their obligations GRIN AND high-pitched, emotional height terests." He loathes this conclu- when they coincide with their in- which Britons wouk! think sion," but he cannot escape it, and grandiose. But actually, for after all it is surely relieved of half

its cynicism now that war has be sheer beauty of expression come so horrible and

devastating and perfection of descriptive that no State are think of plunging into a "sympathetic" war unless both power there is no language honour and Interest leave no loop- like the French; and If hole of escape and unless it is fully Lebrun seemed unusually emo-

equipped at the start and ready to go on to the bitterest end. Otherwise tional, it was because he deeply moved and not ashamed

were

WAS

ed was opposed to all past experience and asked too much of human nature.

"States,"

to hide the fact. Praise from the site of one of the most the French is very sweet, and terrible and splendid battles in understood can never be em- the history of British arms, barrassing even

to the most where the Australians stood and phlegmatic. Where an English-held against a fearful attnek, man would say: "Well done," and saved Amiens, that there and Frenchman would shout were tears in the eyes of the

ANY ROUTE, ANYTIME. something much more elaborate; Frenchmen who heard him:

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and if the Englishman were to tears for the uncomplaining think a little he would find that | courage of men who died in he probably meant the same agony; tears for tho unhesitating thing

but was, for some valour of men who fought, in reuson deep buried in his sub-exhaustion, against almost cer- conscious perhaps, inarticulate. tain death; tears for the darken- Lebrun's address was particular- ed homes whose fathers and sons In ly beautiful because he is not will always lie in France. only a masier of his most ex-such emotion there is no cause pressive language, but he has a for, shame. This tribute from power in sincerity which holds France is another golden link his hearers spellbound. One can between the people of that land Imagine that while he spoke on and ours.

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managed to spread its germs over the whole of his ille family, and in his house there is an atmosphere of rest and peace which must act as a tonic for the breadwinner who returns tired from his labours.

Then I know a little middle-aged spinster who is a millionairess. She has cast aside the warrles of the material world, for she has taught herself not to fear them.

Sire does filtle acts of kindness to her neighbours, and is able to do thern because of a great burning faith in her little body.

She has found the religion which sults her, and although her parti- cular brand of faith is not mine, it has brought from selfishness to sell- sacrifice and has done great things for her. She is rich in spirit, and,

she says

the

as

dreams of avari "beyond

Of what use would millions of bank notes be to her? They would crush the spirit within her and make her a harassed old woman, tearful. of this world's thieves and sharks. A Sense of Real Values

Young people can be millionaires In the very joy of living; the old in the range of their understanding: and as I grow older I know which to the richer quality, but I do not tell you lest the young should become. discontented and the old regretful.. Even the poorest among us in the financial sense are rich in something, and many of us are very rich Indeed. If we had a better sense of values we should appreciate such riches more. than material possessions, and whole attitude towards life would be- for less worrying.

our

It doen not require great depibr

of philosophic knowledge to realise how little money can mean in our.. dolly scheme of things,

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