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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1988.

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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1938.

A SECOND SPAIN?

ROBERT LYND ASKS A QUESTION

WAS glad to read Lord Tweedsmuir's eulogy of modern youth. I have long been of the opinion that there. is nothing the matter with modern youth apart from the young men and young women and boys and girls with whom there is some- thing the matter.

What Is

Modern

The reason why there are so about many different opinions modern youth is that people are thinking of different specimens of modern youth when they make their generalisations.

Youth Anyway?

with

A PART from

such

well authenticated generalisation as "All men are mortal," I can think of no generalisation about human be ings that I could not contradict with a good conscience.

If you say, "Young people have better manners than they used to have," I am inclined to

But I never modern of them as

young

He would have concluded that Most of them, I think, were agree with you, but I have scen One elderly gentleman,

ill-mannered brought up in the pre-cocktail modern youth was on its way to honest, fair-minded, generous, enough

WAH lazy, good-humoured men who said people though not only young age, goes into a bar and sees a the dogs-that it

revolt what they meant, men you could number of young men and wo- lounging, lie-a-bed, in men drinking side-cars and against discipline, untidy, soft- trust in difliculty. In fact, they people on the roads to make Bronxes and talking more noisily muscled, and soaked in nicotine. seem to me to have been as fine out a strong case, if I wished, than any human. being should A youth of the time once said a set of youths as ever breathed on the other side.

If you say, "The young are talk, and on the strength of this to me good-humouredly about the planet.

thought he expresses the opinion that myself and the friends

youth.

more pleasure-loving than they modern youth is empty-headed, whom I most consorted: “I al-

used to be," again I agree with frivolous, self-indulgent and ways think of you and your pals I doubt whether modern youth vulgar. Another elderly gentle as a lot of wall-polishers. You was ever conscious of being mo- you; but I know so many serious and self-sacrificing young people man meets a number of young know the way fellows lean up dern youth until after the war. men and women who take the against the wall of a public-house It was then that the gen- that I believe I could almost serious things of life seriously at a street-corner, and the way cralisations about modern youth, persuade you that the younger without losing their sense of the wall gradually takes on a began to be flung about reckless- generation today is the most. humour, and he immediately con- polish at the height of their ly. Never before had there idealistic younger generation cludes that the present younger shoulders

they have been such an orgy of cocktails.

where

If the decision for War or Pence in Czecho-Slovakia were in the bands of the statesmen who are striving to avert a cataclysm in Europe, prospects for Peace would be brighter to-generation is the most delight- leaned against it.

I never see and cigarettes and powder and that the world has ever known. Whether modern youth is day than at any time since the ful, courteous, intelligent, idealis- that polish on the wall without paint and pleasure. Never be was modern youth SO tic, physically and intellectually feeling that you and your pals fore

had more benefited by our praise or by people who courageous younger generation should be there-leaning against trounced

the wall, never doing a hand's never even seen a young woman our blame, or whether it is in- able and forbidding portent I, myself, hover between these turn, and talking from morning drinking a cocktail. Not even fluenced by it one way or the

till night."

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All has never been

IF he had been an older

was right. Modern youth was minds. man he would WHEN I think

na sound as a bell apart from a I confess I like to hear modern dern youth na it doubt have written to the papers number of young men and to the pence of Europe. Millions

youth praised, but I do not like existed in my own youth, I denouncing modern youth as a women who were by no means as

to hear it flattered. It seems of men have been mobilised, realise the difficulty of making generation of wall-polishers. sound as a bell. camouflaged though the pro- infallible generalíantions on the I myself simply do not know

to me to be as foolish to say, was like

Another generation of modern "All's right with modern youth" cess may be by calling it subject. I imagine I was at the what modern youth

time a sort of representative of when I was young. I enjoyed youth has come into existence "manoeuvres," and they will re- modern youth myself. Suppose, ita company immensely, but since then and we are paying as it is to say "All's right with main under arma so long as however, a greybeard had based modern youth consisted for me it the dubious compliment of the world." there remains a single possibili-his opinion of modern youth on of hundreds of individual youths continuing to generalise about right with modern youth since al! sorts of different it. We could not stop doing so the beginning of time. Much

been sometimes

right. ty that their services will be what he saw of me, how hope with

and even if we wished. There is has lessly wrong his opinion would characteristics. - heroic required. Оле careless or have been!

timid, humorous and solemn, something in the human mind That is as far as we can go. irresponsible act-the acciden-

obedient and rebellious, hard- that forces us to make generali-. working and indolent, truthful sations about human beings even tal discharge of a rifle, un-

know that ali human have ended eighteen months and not so truthful, good-look- though we witting trespass across

ago. To-day it is not a war ofing and grotesque-looking tall generalisations about frontier, a

covert "insult";

beings are at least partly false. and short. race against race, but of Totali- dozens of possibilities

aro tarianism against. Democracy, brought to mind-would get with Great Britain almost the them at each other's throats, as only bystander. it set Japanese against Russians [in the Changkufeng incident.

LA

pared to afford the two sides in

It is not difficult and not! pleasant to foresee what would be the result of intervention in To-day, however, the greatest Czecho-Slovakia. The assistance danger is not from these armed rendered to General Franco in menaceu to civilisation, standing | Spain by Germany and Italy, at ease with their deadly and and to the Loyallst Government destructive weapons of war, but by Russia would be infinitesimal from the mounting list of bor-compared with the assitance 'in- der clashes between Czechs and terested nations would be pre- Sudetena. So far, happily, the a Czecho-Slovakian civil war. clashes have been sporadic, but Hemmed in as it is by nations they may develop from isolated who are either openly hostile or incidents to organised riots, avowedly friendly to the course from riots to insurrection and she is espousing (Spain at least! from insurrection to full-dress has a lengthy coastline and a civil war. International inter-neutral Portugal across which munitions and mon do not flow), vention is synonymous with Czecho-Slovakia would rapidly civil war, as Spain has found to become the battlefield for a con- her sorrow, and intervention|flagration which no power on would be forthcoming more cafth could prevent from spread-1 rendily in Czecho-Slovakia than ing across the entire face of was the case in Spain. Had the Europe. It is a dreadful pos- sibility, made more terrifying to Spanish peoples been allowed to onlookers by the impotency of settle their differences, the war statesmon and dictators to halt that has tord that hapless coun- this Frankenstein monster they try for over two years would themselves have created;

GRIN AND BEAR IT

By Lichty

rpends ja

-in booki sforts, it's the

comes

AS for modern youth to-day, Lord Tweeds- muir's tribute luckily under the category-of praise, not of flattery. The danger of flat- tery is that it may produce com- placency. The virtue of praise is that again and again it is an incitement to effort.

Modern youth certainly de- serves praise because, having been flung into a more bewilder- ed and experimental ago than has ever been known since Chris- tianity was introduced into Eng land, thousands of the young have shown qualities of intellec- tual and physical courage, that - would have ennobled any perfod in history.

I often disagree with modern youth-I do not, as I have said, quite know what modern youth Is but I think it deserves all the praise that Lord Tweeds muir has lavished on it.

If only it agreed with me about politics, religion, conduct, litera ture, music, painting and a few other matters, – while retaining that glorious intellectual and physical courage, I could become quite enth

slastic/about-