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January 30, 1939

New Order

THE GOVERNMENTS

and

peoples both of Great Britain

and of the United States are

constantly rebuked by Japanese

spokesmen for their failure to "grasp the meaning of the new order in East Asia."

It seems doubtful however whether the nature and scope of Japan's continental ambitions, as formulated by her present leaders, are seriously misunder- stood in responsible quarters on either side of the Atlantic..

In this context it is perhaps : the Japanese who can be more justly charged with a lack of imaginative comprehension.

A

In this country the number of

CAN YOU

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people who wear glasses is at its cent. are faulty. And

FEET

factories, better print and vast ly better standard of eyo treat- ment.

The increase is not a "true". increase. And, in a few years, scientific proventive and curative treatment may turn even that. into a decrease. Eyesight j Hikely to improve.

One rather sinister factor, which demands action from the authorities is that of the people. who are needlessly ruining their sight by wearing completely un- suitable glasses. Thousands of Chinese in Hongkong ruin their eyes in this manner by buying glasses over the counter or from hawkers in the streets, without first having their eyes tested.

Eyesight changes, and it is only sensible to consult your oculist once a year.

(con-number of renders of this paper highest to-day. About 38 per tradict the experts, not me) not wearing glasses would be ad- The British optical industry, cent. of the population either all the people over 45 have eye vised to wear them if they con- once andly myopic, is now wak- wear or need to wear them. defects and need occasional or Roughly one-third of us actually permanent glasses. do use them at some time or other.

In 1931 of the spectaclə sulted their oculists. And that ing up.

sold here most were And this does not take into ac- figure in over and above those frames

But to-day frames аге British. And The statisticians have divided count the remaining children too who already know that they foreign

alao Britain is turning out some us into three groups. In the young or too difficult to classify. need them.

Many of these who should Well that seems a fairly de- excellent new gadgets which will schoolchild group, a total of ten wear glasses do not-for one of per cent. have defective sight, two reasons. Vanity or ignor-

pressing story, but it isn't really make life easier for us giglamps.

it seems. Look at Of the people between 15 and 45 ance. Though 60 women for as bad as

One of the biggest now inven- years of age as many as 16 per every 40

countries. The United tions is that of "plastic glass"--- men consult oculists other about their sight, I very much States with about 120 million a synthetic product made, I be- lieve, from coal tar, which is doubt whether the actual spec- population wears 45 million spec easily moulded and worked, very are tacles-a slightly higher per- light and almost unbreakable. taele-wearing proportions the same. Women, especially centage than in Britain, France Also it is more transparent than young women, would rather has 16 million spectacled, Ger- the finest optical glass. grope through misty lives than many (not including Austria, see through glass.

Sudetenland and other odd- ments) has 18 million, which suggests slightly better sight or

It is likely to

cles.

revolutionise

Then ignora Guns Before Spectacles policy. the making of lenses of every ance.

Thou- So we don't seem to be parti- sort and to reduce greatly, the sands imagine cularly C3 in sight compared price of previously costly specta- their sight is with other places. perfect when

Interesting especially Is our eyesight progressively really they are deteriorating? Superficial figures women, sportsmen and people ruining it for would seem to show it. But like me who break their frames lack of specta- oculists believe that it is remain every week, is the "contact lens"

cles.

,,

to

Recently ing much the same, but that

a minute saucer-shaped bit of the army au- more of us are wearing glasses authorities

actually fits on to the eye-ball.

most

us

Slipped each morning beneath. the eyelids it sits secure and com-

at because more of us realine that glass the size of a sixpence which Home announced we need them. Also-a that 11 per cent. important factor-more of of a six-months' can now afford them. batch of en- listers

In the bad old days countless pletely invisible over the eye and were thousands were unable to buy, or naturally gives a perfect field of vision. It is said to be unbreak- turned down be- replace broken, glasses.

cause of defects Some forms of eye defects able in the eye. in sight. Yet are. it

I have never tried these lenses is true, increasing. these men would not have tried Rapidity of movement, the cine- as they are expensive and some- to enter had they been aware ma, excessive smoking may harm times demand many "fittings" of these defects,

the eyes. But against that we before they fit the eyeball exact- I'm sorry to do a bogey act, must set improved lighting, ly. But they should make many but probably a tenth of the total larger windows in homes and converts.

Language No

The "new order" of which FROM time immemorial, diplo-| they speak has not been es- mats have spoken a language own. Two thousand tablished; probably no Japanese of their would pretend that it had. Its years ago, it was Greek: the Apostle Paul, fighting off a only reality is as a conception brawling crowd, evoked from vague but ardent-in the Japan-one Asiatic Governor the sur- ese mind.

prised query, "Canst thou speak It is the weakness of this Greek?" conception, this vision of the The Greek civilisation of Rome future, that it is somewhat declined, and the young nations parochial. It postulates (though used as their lingua france and Latin. its sponsors occasionally protest their official tongue, that it does not) the entire sub-Queen Elizabeth, though no Ro-

manist, roundly abused jugation of China for the ex-the Ambassadors to her court in clusive benefit of Japan; and by the Roman tongue. corollary it dismisses Europe

one of

More recently, the language of

and America from the Western diplomacy was French. Secre Pacific.

Laries of State for Foreign Now these large desiderata Affairs, Under-Secretaries, Am-

One Can Understand

"Unofficial Soviet circles point out

What effect is such phraseo- logy likely to have on the son of an Italian blacksmith, on a Geor- Austrian gian peasant, on an house-painter?

It is all to the good that these polite fictions should be bluated out of existence by the dynamite of genuine oratory. There was no language of diplomacy in Mussolini's "If I advance, follow me; if I retreat, kill me; if I die, avenge me" none in Hitler's "One People, one State, one Leader" still less in Stalin's un- speaking firing squad, purging treason from his union of repub- lics.

It is good that polite fiction should be replaced by-the truth. That a German should speak Ger- man and an Englishman English. are possible developments on bassadors, and even attaches proposed plan to delimit the de- his resignation of the Admiralty There is even with interpreters paper; but to a balanced mind whose job was to send flowers to finitive clause to include the ex-to the House of Commons said: less likelihood of misunder- would But if the truth is to be 3rd at 12.00 Noon it cannot appear probable that the right people and wear the port of graphite, as well as of "The Prime Minister made a standing.

be unwise for anyone to count spoken, it must be spoken open- 17th at 12.00 Noon in practice they will come about. right clothes on the right occa- lead, pencils. This has resulted guarded statement that MAR 31st at 12.00 Noon It might be well for Japan if, in Bions, all were required to do in a gratifying detente."

one thing whatever else they did To-day diplomacy is conducted on our keeping out of a war. ly. The promise of Open Diplo laying the so far unimpressive not do: speak-even think in through interpreters. Most diplo. That was not the language dicta-macy, made 20 years ago and dis- foundations of her "new order," French.

mats, whatever their other quali-tors understood. They talked in honoured like so many idealistic her leaders were to remember

About the meetings and con-fications, are not men of such a new language and such guard-pacts made since 1918, is still that their country, though her versations of statesmen a whole education that they can trusted utterances...meant nothing the greatest safeguard" of a de- FEB. 18th at 0.00 p.m.destinies

The language of diplomacy arc high and her crop of French phrases grew up. themselves to speak a language to the mentality of Herr Hitler cent peace. power considerable, is neither One made a demarche. One con- not their own. Many diplomats and Signor Mussolini."

When Chamberlain spoke to landed us in the war of 1914- alone nor foremost in these two cluded not an alliance but an at the heads of nations to-day respects.

entente. One was relieved not have not only "little Latin and the House, he said that certain when Edward Grey refused to by a lightening of the tension, less Greek," but little English messages were not given to tell Prince Lichnowsky that Bri What Fear Did

but a detente. Ono wrote, and and less French,

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Hitler "In case they should have tain would, certainly and definite- the opposito affect from that, fight on the side of France. The language of polite fiction which was intended."

What he meant was, that the put Abyssinia into the lap of The average diplomat of the An Arab in the desert met old school would report in some through years of experience to messages in question might send Signor Mussolint who does not Pestilence. "Whither are you sucht fashion as this: "I have know what is meant by a the German Chancellor into a speak it; Austria into the hands speak it; China under the going?" he asked, Pestilence the honour to inform Your Ex-demarche, or a conversation. To- neurotic passion and induce him of Herr Hitler who does not of nervous (Achilles) hoel of Japan, who answered, "I am going to Bag-cellency that I made a successful day, they are all lumped together to declare war out

demarche and conveyed to His "talka" conducted through rage instead of keeping the does not speak it; and now has dad to kill five thousand." ;

given all, and more than all, he Excellency, the Minister, Your Interpreteral Later the two met again. Excellency's instructions. I was They do not know, the Hitlers Mr. Chamberlain's is the lan-demanded less than a month ago Said the Arab, "You have not favoured with a subsequent - and Mussolinis and Stalins, just guage of diplomacy; the lan-to Herr Hitler, who understood kept your word. You slew not torview at which we had a con- what measures are implied by guage of evasion and subtle im- only one British speech-the mo fiva: but fifty thousand.”

versation in which I expressed to "grave view" as against "gravest plication-and this he uses to bilisation of the Navy. "No answered Pestilence. His Excellency Your Excellency's possible view." They are not to his own people! Frankly, it If we talk to the dictators, wo "I killed five thousand. Foar view that HM Government the language born,

leaves the man-in-the-street in must talk their language, for slow the rešt.”

they cannot speak ours.” Alfred Duff Cooper, justifying something of a fog, real would take a grave view of the{

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peace.