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The Makings of Democracy in

THE supreme paradox, per-

haps, of the present Far Eastern scene lies in the fact that a nation theoretically par- liamentary and democratic is the aggressor against nation theoretically one-party and dic- tatorial. But in Japan the 1899

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China

By Paul M. A. LINEBARGER mired by society at large. They

Assistant Professor of Political Science, Duke University

great part because they were not sufficiently respected and ad-

had too little prestige instead of too much. In Japan the army is able to defy the rest of the state and from a historical point of view, warlordism a torm

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Constitution fades away like a ing, making money and enjoy- ously in practice, just as an more nearly applicable to the dissolving dream; even as it ing the good things of life American business man might Japanese continental forces than. fades, however, it casts a glow both vulgar and esoteric-to feel any-in the same breath-that to the Chinese. of freedom upon an empire an inward horror of themselves "all politicians are crooks' and Last of all, and perhaps most which hastens, toward ambiguous and a sharp, driving urge to that he would "die for the Con- 'importantly, the Chinese are so- totalitarianism and unambigu- sacrifice themselves on the altar stitution." The Chinese are cially democratic. Hereditary ous ruin. In China, contrast- of an all-embracing God or an free in throwing out their family distinctions mean

Cause. ingly, vast armies and tight- all embracing

The leaders, perhaps too free, and more in China than they do in closed doctrinal parties, provide Chinese.similarly are peculiarly are able to forget a political orgy America. China is a sort of by common.consent a forcing devoted to enjoying life as it is once they have had their fun out vast Iown, not even a Massachu- ground for a new working de- and reluctant to forcswear living of it. In the middle 1920's the setts.

for dreaming. mocracy in continental Asiu,

(The most deli- Chinese anti-imperialist

cam- With these foundations the It might seem at first glance ciously prepared squab which the paign blazed forth in wild undemocratic politics of China Five years later may be transcended in a demo- that it would be easier to con- writer ever tasted was served to fanaticism.

ashes, not embers, cratically oriented society; the centrate on saving constitutional him after a preliminary air-raid it was

Chungking. His This might be compared constitutional politics of Japan democracy in Japan than in Warning in

the riso of by-pro- are A facade upon the creating it, brand-new, in China; fellow guests did not let patriot- with no doubt some such hypothesis ism spoil their zest for cookery.) duct politics during President world's most beautiful and most The Chinese, like the Americans, Roosevelt's first term when anachronistic absolutist hier- --expressed or unexpressed- lies at the root of the United are fond of religion, but not Coughlin, Townsend, Hucy Long, archy. Out of the mobile and States' nine years' appeasement fond enough to murder their Lemke and others were looked highly secular society of China about it. The on by many as beaters of the there may emerge a democracy, of Japan. Such a policy is not neighbours of itself a bad policy, especially Japanese by contrast identify tomtoms of incipient Fascism, whatever its forms, which will on the other hand, prove its genuineness by vigor- if the rest of the world happens their Emperor with God and In Japan, to be prosperous, good-humoured then themselves with their Em- fanaticism becomes canalised,.ous practicality in material suc

organised and systematised in cess. On the other hand the and sane, but it is a very short- peror.

cliques, secret societies and Japanese in the twentieth cen sighted policy in that it em-

government sponsored institu- tury

themselves the phasises formulas instead of

Again, in the matter of atti- tions. The Japanese dispose of prisoners of a prehistoric men- social realities.

tude toward government, the recalcitrant leaders through as- tality. Perhaps Japan's freedom No one acquainted with both Chinese are always complaining sassination.

lies beyond catastrophe and Chinese and Japanese peoples in about their political institutions With respect to the army, the social revolution-From their native lands would ques- and yet adhering to them tennel- Chinese armies have been bad in "Christian Science Monitor”. cations Ordinance, 1936. Such newstion the fact that the Chinese

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BRITAIN'S BUDGET

are

are incomparably the more de- mocratic of the two. To attri- bute democracy to Japan would; be to insult Japan, for the vir- tucs of the Japanese are virtues only to the extent that they are anti-democratic in effect. The Sir Kingsley Wood's 1941-42 undemocratic and racialist im- war budget, so grimly realistic, plications of nationalism, which yet revealing once again the as- have been exploited in Europe tonishing clasticity of Britain's by Adolf Hitler, form an in- tegral part of the Japanese finances, sufficient to turn mentality. Japan is, essentially, Hitler green with envy, should Japan-worshipping with the Em- that smug, self-complacent man pire conceived of as a great superior family of divine origin. bother to study the figures. The Within this family and its code essential features

that of values lies all the intense, Britain is not only going to the that is Jupan-its' precise de- almost heart-breaking beauty

fullest lengths possible to pay licacy, its rigorous admiration of for the war as it progresses, but chivalry, its magnificent disci- pline, its spirit of self-sacrifice,) is also providing for the impor- its spiritual drive toward co tant.post-war period_when_a__operation and_unity. nation's resources are usually at its lowest ebb. Under the 1941- 42 budget, Britain is to start building a sinking fund which is to guarantee her economic and social security when the days of peace are here again.

For his previous war budgets, Sir Kingsley Wood was accused of lacking boldness and vision.

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Serial Story

BETTE DAVIS-CHARLES BOYER

in ALL THIS,

and HERVEN TOO

Warner Brot-First National Picturization of the Novel by RACHEL FIELD

Serialized by HARRY LEE

find

the

other "Truly, Madame, no thought has ever been in my mind, and I assure you I will

be more careful in the future!"

"The future," sighed the Duchess, "ah, yes

who knows!"

►

The Duke did go to Corsica with his wife and son. In a few days, however, he came back to. Paris with the boy, and with Louise, who ostensibly had a toothache. Louise had often begged her father to take her to the theatre, and since Mlle. Henriette, finally.confessed that she herself had never seen the great Rachel act-the Duke in- sisted that she go with himself and Louise.

When King Louis Philippe

THE STORY THUS FAR: Mademoiselle Henriette, governess in a titled Parisian family, is tried for the murder of her employer's wife, and ac- quitted. Through the aid of a young American preacher, Henry Field, she secures a position as teacher of French-in-an-exclusive-New-York-bowed-to-them-from-his-box,- girl's school. Her puptis discovered her past and taunt her with it. Her Louise was in a state of wild impulse is to leave but Field urges her to tell her story to her scholars, elation. The King, Rachel, the thereby demanding their respect. They listen breathlessly as she tells of theatre, the crows, the orchids, crossing the stormy Channel to France-of meeting the Duke and Duchess Father, Mile Henriette. It was. de Praslin and their children and of the insane jealousy of the Duchess." almost too much to be true!

All these things, however, deny the democratic assumption that the individual man is some- how more important than the shadow of the masses of his

Mile Henriette, who had gone fellows. Assertion of indivi-

Chapter III

to be sent there. Madame la dualism in Japan is, when fos-

Duchesse, in another mood, sent against her better judgment, was horrified to read in the logically, a negation of humun tered operatively rather than everchanging mania of

a letter to the governess, enclos- morning paper: Madame la Duchesse was ing a brooch, "May this small life itself. Characteristically, again in the tearful stage, token," the missive read, "ask

"The fact that the Duc and Confucianism, which in some "Don't leave me, Theo!" she sob- your indulgence toward one who Duchens de Pr have not ap aspects is conservative and bed, "I must talk to you! If I has been too cruelly hurt to in peared in public for some time This accusation can no longer be hierarchical, Buddhism, which promise never again to torment flict like pain on another." has given rise to rumours of dia- made. It is doubtful if any proclaims the "ecstatic annihi-you with my anger and unres-

sension between them.. The Mile. Henriette hastened to Duchess is understood to be in thing more sweeping or com-lation of the soul," and Shinto- soning mistrust of that-that

the South for her health.. prehensive in the way of obtain-ism, which is a worship of the woman-won't you try to love the great lady to thank her.

The Duc's box was not without sights, sounds, and smells of me as you once did! Please,

"You know, I presume," the its feminine adornment, how- ing required additional revenue Japan, are eminent in Japan's please, Theo! I beg of you!" Duchess began icily," that the could have been suggested than faith. Taoism, which is liber-

tarian, anarchical, cynical, amus-|

The Duke already late for an Duke and I are going to Corsica er, for, beside his daughter, he his increased income tax which | ing and wickedly frolicsome, hng! appointment at the House of this afternoon!" She said the was accompanied by a very at-

tractive Mademoiselle D. operates from one end of the made very little headway in Peers, and exasperated beyond words, the Duke and I, gloat who is said to be a governess. It means Japan, despite its enormous in- measure by his wife's vagaries, ingly, then added apologetically, The King, who was present, was left the room without replying. "Of course, Mademoiselle, any seen to smile and bow at them, It maddened her. "Oh, how I mother has a right to come first was this, we ask, a sign of royal

scale to the other. that the nation, to a man, is to make his contribution towards

ultimate victory.

fluence in China.

It would, perhaps, be a splen- hate him," she shricked, "how I in her own house, with her own did thing for mankind to save loathe him!" A black-robed children, and surely with her the Japanese as a museum piece figure glided from the shadows husband!" The knowledge of the new for some lator, democratic world a thin hand caressed her hair. sacrifices to be made by the wherein their strange, intense "Have patience, child," the Abbe virtues could be exhibited as a Gallard murmured, “and you will people of England must surely part of the perverse beauty of be rewarded!" stimulate Hongkong to accept, the past. But a feudal relic

rendliness and equipped with the world's third The fragile Raynald had de- with greater humility, the comparatively

largest ficet is too far outside veloped a heavy cold but in spite the category of a cultural trea of the objections of Mile. Hen- slight calls upon our purse- sure to make it safe for preser-riette, the Duchess took him for strings. And it should set an vation. To leave Japan alone is a drive in the chill spring air. example to those who have been rather like keeping tigers in the Such a desperate illness ensued guilty of evading, or attempting city streets instead of the zoo. that the doctor ordered windows closed and room darkened and' to evade, their duty in respect In contrast with this, Ameri- the Duchess summoned the Abbe of contributing to the Empire's cans who go to China, after their Gallard to. administer the last war effort. In comparison we

first shock at meeting a more rites of the Church. are very lightly taxed; by the backward technology than any

The garden was in bloom and same comparison our giving has after getting used to the alien Milo. Henriette took it upon not been made with that willing- manners of the Chinese, find herself to open the windows and ness and cheerfulness which so themselves in a strangely fami- let the child see the sunlit world. characterises the people at Home | liar environment.

The Duchess stormed, but Ray- nald, as if by a miracle, got and elsewhere. Those millions

First of all, the Chinese at well; :

seen in the Western world and

of people, who are in the front titude to the fundamental isauo line of the battle, not only for Britain, but for Democracy, have set a new standard of "giving. till it hurts". Let Hongkong do likewise.

of faith is similar to that of During the sickness of Ray- Americans. The United States naid his sisters had been sent to has many churches, but little Corsica to the home of their the Marechal fanaticism, and its people are grandfather, too engrossed in cating, drink- Sebastiani, and now the boy was

approval?"

(To be continued to-morrow)

Sunlight outida and the garden in bloom!.

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