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Peace Offensives

largely due to two factors:

1.

thin

and Italy-not to mention the Scandinavian states,

almost dletute a peace.

LJATA

November. 9, 1939.

FORGOTTEN

CORRESPONDENT, who hag

returned to England after

a long residence abroad, has been making inquiries about a number of things that were prominent in the news before he left home.

NEWS

after the first week or two? Who, except the correspondent to whom I have referred, is "What happened," he asks, interested to-day in "the Horn- It has had "about Joanna Southcott's box 7sey poltergeist ?" What was the solution of the its day, and since then we have! Hornsey poltergeist mystery ? had plenty of other unsolved Is the Fat Boy of Peckham still mysteries to puzzle us. alive ?"

As for Joanna Southcott's

box, some day, no doubt, it will He has put these questions to be in the news again. It is not one friend after another, and possible to be interested in the nobody seems.

to know the box all the time, but it is easy answers. There are probably occasionally to revive one's in- hundreds of thousands of people terest in the religious faith of living in England to-day who the people who believe that the have never even heard of the Fat box contains revelations that will save that world when it has Boy of Peckham or of the been opened in the presence of Hornsey poltergeist or of the great Joanna Southcott herself.

The truth is, the public soon gets tired of a sensation as it gets tired of a music-hall song Sensation grows cold with time, like love in the ballad:

O waly, waly, but love be

bonnie

A little time while it is new; But when it is auld it waxeth

cnuld

24 bishops.

Joannu, it may be thought by some, was a poor prophetesa, since she did not foresee that the English bishops would refuse to take part in a "ridiculous"

ceremony.

One bishop did con- sent to be present at the opening of the box, and a few years ago a box, said to be "the" box, was duly opened at the Church House, Westminster. Alas, it And fadeth away like the contained no revelations, but there were found in it a dice- morning dew.

called "The Surprise of Love, or box, a lottery ticket, and a book

An Adventure in Greenwich

Park."

GRIN AND BEAR IT

By Lichty

Nichlas

WELCOME CORN GALL TOP 274

"You just foller mo in, an' I ain't tellin' you what you'ra pinched for-gives you time to think up too many excuses!"!.

The Story Of

A Great Empire's

Power

IN times of danger the British race displays qualities which

means

we

or

EMPIRE

PIGGEST group of centrics in

the world.

Area: 13,000,000 square milles. ·· Population: 408,000,000.

Population increase, 1911-1938:

B0,000,000.

Hlas 20 per cent of the land war-

face of the work,

Contains: 22 per cent, of the

world's population. Controls 31 per cent of the

trade.

It is impossible to go on being interested day after day even in THAT

HAT tulk of peace should already the physical, proportions of a resound above the guns on the Fat Boy. He suddenly recedes Western Front is only one of the re- from the limelight, and his place

Followers of Joanna Southcott markable things about war.is taken by some other nine maintain, however, that it was are regarded universally by That there should be this recurrent days' wonder, such ns the the wrong box that was opened; mankind as unusual and heroic. This means physical courage, question of "peace offensives" is Quintuplets. Alas, I have al-and the Panacea Society was not a courage that shrinks from FACTS ABOUT THE

ready lost interest in the Quint-long ago agitating for the open- nothing. It

that ing of the real box in presence should always be found ready to The neutrals hold a buiance of uplets power. Russin, the United States It may seem ungrateful to of the bishops. Another society, fight to the last ditch on a clear

distinct from "prestige," Japan, lose interest in this fashion in the Fishers of Men, however, question of national honour, as to our exis- Spain, one who, like the Fat Boy, once object to making overtures to

against a threat Rumania, Hungary, Belgium, Latin- filled our thoughts. How many the bishops, believing that they tence.

The more our decadence is America and the Netherlands-could thousands of breakfast tables are commanded to "stand vali-

All have he brightened in the days of his antly in their own faith, and prophesied as it has been for tremendous interest in peace for a glory! Yet not one in a hun-wait until the bishops call them the past two or three centuries -the more we reveal ourselves are profoundly affected. War hus dred of those who once gaped and entreat them”

capable of confounding the pro- made collective insecurity so un-in wonder at his photograph The public appears to be in- phets. ultractive that they may be more could tell you that he grew up different for the time being. It ready to move collectively for such and married, that he worked in has had enough of the box, and

ALL this the world and ourselves article. Meanwhile, let us ponder the population of the a péuce as would provide some hope the films, and that, at the age of only a change of policy on the faccept In the light of truth, and the one-that

in the Empire has grown fact that it is so exercises a moral British 32,-his-waist-measurement had part of the Archbishop of Can-Influence on the course of history short space of 25 years by 20,000,000

which can scarcely be exaggerated, "scuts. increased to four feet and a half. terbury could reawaken its in-Not only our courage but the whole

If you place this against the state- material and spiritual resources of the ment "the greatest Empire the world The fact is, we have only a terest.

greatest empire the world has ever has ever known," does not the ma limited capacity for wonder. If Even in regard to matters known come to our aid. And while Jesty of its truth awaken in you, as solemn pride, a sense of you lived beside Niagara Falls that closely concern its well- this is a staggering and comforting well as

thought and a source of strength in urgent responsibility? you would gradually come to being, the public passes quickly any emergency, it is even more im

For the significance of the thing is parently is convinced she can win take them for granted and be from excited interest to indif-portant to remember that neither

war har peace does the Empire that to the Empire has been added, more by perce than war, while the able to look at them without ference. It is only a few years pause in its forward march.

in the course of nature, a population United States is nwakening to the

any thrill of astonishment since everybody was reading There was, indeed, one anxious as great no the bousted millions of the pause at the end of 1930, but even a Third Reich. All parts of the Em- continued war,

the increase. great dangers of whether or not she is able to keep perhaps, without the slightest about the wonderful cures said sudden change of monarch was not, pire have shared In

Atrico, British Malaya, the

havo Straits Settlements

almost: sufficient to loosen the bonds which South knit the Empire together. If any doubled their populations. Canada's thing, the event served to emphasise before the whole world the essentials Increased from 7,206,000 to 11,- unity and resilience of the Common-120,000, Australia's from 4,445,000

to 6,850,000... wealth.

Whether In spite of or because of

of_security.......

Russia so far has appeared to profi by war, but no other neutral has. And Moscow must be questioning seriously what further profit it can derive from hostilities. Italy

op-

interest.

to have been effected through out, Scandinavia БОСЕ the possl-

Consider the fate of the Loch Dr. Abrams' "magic box." bility of being encircled by sub- marines and made the economic Ness Monster. What a figure he Euger as most people are to read vassal of Germany and Russia. cut in the world's news a little about curès, however, they are More clearly than in the World War, over a year ago, and yet we have really excited about cures only

caro even while they are novelties. It has become evident that neutrality already ceased to will be difficult and dangerous.

whether he was real or not.

The neutrals are not organised and Even those who live on the may not agree on what would make shores of Loch Ness, I imagine,

The Abrams' box, I imagine,

*

Stute of Westminster of 1931,

which gave legal form to the inde-

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asound pesce, but daily their in-have by this time ceased to look has by this time vanished from have collapsed under the weight of problems which only a race skilled

out nervously over the water

Бел- this former prince of serpents.

terest in peace becomes clearer. And

extent that very few people any proposal of terms which offered for the sinuous splashings of the public memory to such an could tell you whether the claims made on its behalf were justified or not. Ordinary people simply ceased to care and have

reasonable hope of genuine peace would enlist powerful neutral sup-

port.

2. There is in all countries a

mental resistance to war which in-

sists that before the flight Koes farther there should

clearer be

result. The

भ

vast

INDIA, "held" by about 50,000+ pendence of the Dominions, the Em- troops, hos Increased hers from 302,- pire was revealed as having undi-995,000 to 330,110,000.

With its pressure on the economic minished the power of decision of a single unit.

resources of the Empire, and its tax A system less stable and less en-or the gigantic administrative ma- has created dowed with political virtues would chinery, this increase

in government could face unfloching- 17. We have faced them, and if we the blow.

have not solved them all, we have át.

ourselves to them least addressed this Always,

of group peoples eternally young, terrifyingly with an energy and wisdom bom of dynamic goes on building up relent centuries of experience. Indeed, the less, irresistible power. Each day, each smoothness with which the Empire hour, something is added to its re- has taken all these problems in its Even where a sensational

serves of wealth, its WILL to survive stride is sufficient proof of the vitality and fulll its incredible mission. Our of its whole system at government, derpocratic, there mystery remains unsolved, we forgotten.

history in times of peace has been which is here It is the same with Cous. For one long Odyssey of victory, which necessarily autocratie in the interests become apathetic about it in

of the natives themselves has written itself triumphantly in

The achievements of the British in definitions of what kind of peace will time and are content not to a year or two his faithcures the world's story, as the power of

federal scheme of self-government British and

French know the solution. Many of the were the talk of the world. The Napoleons, Tsars, and other despots India alone, culminating in the great Even more than the evidence of embodied in the India Bill, challenges people-If not indeed the peoples of haunted house mysteries are cures themselves may still be crumbled in the dust. ol the democracles-endorse

Mr. never solved, but who cares going on, but the public seems history do contemporary facts afford comparison with those of any other reassurarico an the unquenchable race from the beginning of time. Be- to bo no longer interested in vitality of our race and its unique alde it the conquests and administra Chamberlain's rejection of a "peace"

them or

even in the question capacity for renewing its youth. "Yet tive successes of the ancient Roman cosmic forces in the way we spend of county council And I we ruthless conquest and set the stage tries, it may become necessary for duces the results claimed for it. our energies on the work of civilisa- riceded another example from form for further aggression by threats or

tion: while keeping enough In reserve one that typifies the practical forms violence. If there had

It is no wonder that the re-to meet any challenge. This arises in which the Imperial gentus of the turned Englishman discovered the Immensity of the Empire's British rece expresses itself, it is the ruble and Imperishable work of state- strength hidden beneath its mass.

It explains why the Empire must croft aral engineering, the greatest in always win one battle--the last. But the world, will in time feriuse a re- and Frenchmen who have lived started. The Times and many in. lost all interest in Joanna South- through months of insecurity and dividuals spoke of such terms. They cott's box and the Horsey to make that fully true we must give glon an big as the entire cultivated outrage before' war began would not included features of justice and poltergeist. The Ackleminded to the word battle a much wider area of Japan. call a mero return to that condition stability, which could win the up-ness of the human race is beyond significance than

port of world opinion. On the one measuring. Its greed for novelty They sense in general terms what condition-that Hiberiam is aban is as boundless. Even sea sor they are fighting for. But if theydoned they would now make a pents and quintuplets pall. This, are to resist a peace offensive which splendid alerting point for peace dis- I think, may be a rather good inight offer general disarmament-und elsalons Cariation Selence Monitor. thing.

which would merely consolidate a have wide support in neutral coun-whether the Coue method pro- there is something of the mystery of Empire seem no more Uman the work

their

own

been

countries to launch a no counter-offensive and state in further

efforts at appeasement the issue detail the pence alma for which they that his fellow-countrymen had population had the myrlad springs of Lloyd,barrage across the Indus. This

would be less clear, but Englishmen Aght. In Britain before the wor

peace,

prowess.

usually possusace,

in

WHEAT crops will be quadrupled, NOW we are not speaking of the rice doubled. Over 1,000,000 more Empira's

war. Her acres will grow cotton, and the crop peace provide a will be trebled. At a cost of R1D, achievements in grander theme, a more absorbing and 000,000 the scheme employed for Brilling tale. Some stupendous facta nearly six years 40,000 men, and two, 'are not out in a separate space in this PLEASE Turn To Page 5.