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Lessons

May 20, 1941.

of the

GREAT RETREAT FROM COLLECTIVE

IT

SECURITY

on to say:~~-

"I believe all these defects would

If Viscount Cecil had addres

needs a stout heart and Geneva as in the Foreign geographical remoteness or other indomitable faith in the Offices they had left behind considerations. Then he goes sad himself more to a clear ex-

them.

position of his "conclusions": midst of such a war as this

than to the drafting of his to take a hopeful view of Will it be so to the end? be lessened if there were, inside the sweeping Indictment of Minis the League of Nations..

I do not care to prophesy framework of the League a contedera ters for missing the boat at tion or confederations of geographical critical conjunctures," and com- But that it will be so for a ly related. Powers with appropriate

confederated organs. Shall we witness a joyful very long time in the years

mitting, as he thinks, so many "The most obviously necessary of inexcusable timidities and cow. return to the great palace after this war is sure. these bodies would be a European ardly retreats, his book would "Nurse no extravagant which ar wuld be the preservation of

Confederation, the central object of have been made more useful. at Geneva when the strug hopes" might usefully serve European peace. gle is over and the world

Lot a single example serve! as one of the humbler mot- "It should be open to European After stating and rejecting the makes its new start?-Will toes of any future League on the principle dust ression is excuses made for the lamentable the nations write off as a of Nations. As the author an international crime and are pre- handling by the British Govern-

pared to use all their strength to pro- ment his teet victims of it in Europe. sorrowfully hints

of Italy's partial or total failure the last page, where he distin- "A European International General

aggression against Abyssinia, the author great experiment which was guishes between "the region Staff and a Secretariat would be need-

says: begun after the last war? of political reform and that Contederation would not be subject to from the start

"No! The feebleness of the diction Will they try again on new of spiritual regeneration," authority, but would remain in close sion were not due to any reasonable and, perhaps, less preten- the spiritual and moral at- touch with the League and act there- fear of the consequences to us and in

mosphere of Europe has not improved in the first four progress, including possibly a common tually, though not explicitly, in Britain

tious lines?

Hongkong on the date of publication by the United Press Association, who re- tion. serva all rights and forbid republications, either wholly or in part without previous Arrangement.

AN

BALANCE SHEET

attempt to

strike

beginning in the early part of

the last decade, can be merged

one

on

members of the League who fully ne

ed and possibly other orguns....The "the control of any other International abandonment of resistance to aggres

and the subsequent

with in closest co-operation.

France of League action against Italy. It was the result of the view held at "Questions of social and economie the time vigorously In France and ac-

By J. B. FIRTH

ening storm.

Such questions may seem

that to regard prevention of war, by force it necessary, as our highest in- vain to many when our one

terest and duty was a piece of vision- ary nonsense, and that nothing of the immediate concern is to

kind should be attempted unless some beat the enemy. Yet some

decades of this century, currency and a common lariff polley, fragment of national territory or a and it may be a Confederation flag, section of nationst trado WIS also whatever may be said of would doubtless arise. If, as is vital Hreatened." of the best brains should be

the old "iniquities"-the for permanent peace, a scheme of in- That is too bitter.

ternational limitation of armaments is

The truth thinking ahead in view of

Balance of Power, Secret adopted, it might probably involve an would seem to be that as the in- eventual Peace Conference Diplomacy and the dynastic trol of the European General Staff." faith in the efficacy, if not in the international air force under the con- ternational situation worsened, lest important decisions ambitions of Kings.

This brief outline can be filled doctrine, of collective security should have to be taken The most important chapter in out by reference to a Memóran- dwindled fast. The determina- without adequate considera- this book is the last--in which dum submitted by the author to tion of most nations to keep out Viscount Cecil draws his "con- the League of Nations Union of the next war was strengthen- clusions." As might be expect last year which is given as an ed by each recurrent crisis and Europe is certain to be ed, he utterly scouts the idea of appendix to the book. He there whatever politicians might say abandoning in despair the basic insists that whatever territorial on publle platforms people were extremely war-weary when principle of the Covenant-the and financial arrangements are coming to the conclusion that the last shot is fired-vic- prevention of war and collective made the two vital problems to unless some vital interest of

security against the aggressor. be solved must be the Main their ators as well as vanquished. He assumes that there must be tenance of Future Peace and threatened prudence counsello

country was directly balance in the progress of the It was so in 1918. War- a League of some sort which Economic and Socin! Reconstruc- them to keep clear of the threat- greatest war in history shows weariness does not conduce embodies that principle, though tion. that the democracies have to sound constructive possibly built on different found-

ations.

The first of these two prob- emerged fairly well from the thought.

lems was faced by the Pence He rejects the various Federa- Conference of 1919 which pro struggle to date when full con-

tion schemes which are finding.duced the League and the

Belgium's withdrawal from sideration is given to their utter

support in some quarters. They Covenant. It will have

to be

her Locarno obligations was unpreparedness. The first wars,

Those who would refresh would be no more acceptable, he faced anew and the practicabl significant. States stood by col- memories almost necessarily thinks, to the countries concern- lity of the suggestion of new lective security in principle, but ed than was the scheme of Im- confederations of geographically they sought safety in Pacts of Non-Aggression and-counting. for the sake of convenience into confused by the swift pas- perial Federation which the late related Powers should certainly

long diplomatic struggle sage of exciting events and Lord Milner sponsored a quar- be thoroughly explored before. without Hitler-in neutrality.

hand.

But the extreme brittleness of which the democracies lost all perpetually recurrent crises ter of a century ago,

The Dominion statesmen em- Russia presents special dif. collective security was never ex- along the line-in Manchuria, should turn to Viscount

phatically turned down that pro- ficulties: Japan still more, es- plained to the public when they Abyssinia, Spain, Austria, Cecil's "A Great Experi- nosal on the ground that their pecially if she maintains her were asked to make it the sheet Czecho-Slovakia and Munich. ment," published recently countries would never accept the claim to dominate the Western anchor of British foreign policy, rule of any Imperial legislature Pacific. These two Powers, in- and the eleventh hour was well. On the field was lost the Battle by Jonathan Cape (16s). or executive in which they deed, may take up an isolationist advanced before the National of France, the Battle for Nor-Few can have been better would each have only a minority attitude. Till the state of the Government began to grow _way_and_the_Battle_of_the_Bal-acquainted with what went voice. The Constitution looked world at the end of the war is seriously alarmed at the grave defects in the national defences. on behind the scenes than fine on paper, but it would not known all is guess-work.

march. How can it be supposed, World economic conditions also Those grave defects, indeed, We won the greatest victory he. He attended the birth therefore, that Great Britain, or may be catastrophic; and many, of the war ten months ago of the League at Versailles the United States, or France, or like Viscount Cecil, are demand lay at the back of all the timidi- ties and delinquencies of British PYE. BAND SPREAD RADIO

the Battle of Britain. With in 1919 and, as it were, indeed any country, large or ing that economic nationalism Prime Ministers and Ministers adopted the child as his small, would accept a Constitu- shall be "broken down." in their relation to collective tion under which it might find It is easy to talk of "breaking MARCONIPHONE. ALL WORLD RADIO can count the Battle of the At-special charge. He took a itself committed to war, or to it down and easy to hold up the

security. foremost part in many of free trade, against its own wish, prospect of 4 common tariff The fighting services had been its triumphs and some of its by ก combination of other policy for Europe. But the idea scandalously let down. Great disasters.

will probably prove as chimerical Britain was in no state to go to The author himself lends sup- as would be that of a common war and the Aggressors traded clouded despite the brilliant suc- For the League he aban- port to a totally different plan of climate. The World Economic boldly upon her unreadiness. If cess of our troops in the north-doned all other political in- reform. He attributes in large Conference of a few years ago, Viscount Cecil had been as fear- Д terrible flasco, less an advocate of rearmament east because of two factors: the terests. In season and out measure "the lack of solidarity which was

Economic as he was of Collective Security of season he was its untir- and esprit de corps in the League should be a warning. uncertainty with regard to the ing champion and advocate. Powers which should have in- nationalism cannot be "broken his bitter indictment of British duced them jointly and almost down" without breaking down foreign policy during the last Arab peoples and the possible Though he calls this book automatically to resist an attack every other form of nationalism. ten years would come with swing of French Africa against an autobiography, most of on one of their number" to a But it ought to be greatly modi- greater persuasiveness and us by allowing the enemy to use the story is monopolised by want of imagination caused by fied.

weight, the League, as though he The fact that the Bulgarians himself did not begin to live

WITH THE ITALIAN FLEET are being asked to police more until he found his real call- territory to free Nazi troops ing and election in the ser- coupled with the activity of the vice of the League. Royal Navy round Gibraltar

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It is not a thrilling story. are preparing some very strong The spectacle of an medicine for the enemy in the Middle East. The defences of thusiast playing on his Britain have reached a stage ravaged heart-strings is al-. when we can afford to release ways sorrowful. Nor is he troops for the Middle East from even now "to sorrow re- where, indeed, it is not incon- ceivable that invasion of the signed." When his indigna- continent might be made to sub- tion is not ablaze it is due Italy, if not to effect a final smouldering, and it is direct blow.

ed almost always against Though the loss of the Suez British Ministers. He does Canal and Gibraltar would not accept the view-which never reconcile us to defeat we many find easiest to accept shall make a great bid to main-that the League was born tuin ourselves In the Mediter- rancan. We have won

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