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Lessons of the

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on to say:

"I believe all these defects would

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Let a single example serve! be open to European After stating and rejecting the

of Italy's aggression against Abyssinia, the author'

Shall we witness a joyful very long time in the years return to the great palace after this war is sure, these bodies be a European ardly retreats, his book would "Nurse no extravagant Chich should 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. Your waxing troubles, like thegle is over and the world as one of the humbler mot "t should

makes its new start?-Will toes of any future League members of the League who fully ac-

cept the principle that aggression 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=

sorrowfully hints on his Paced to use all their strength to pro- ment

ieet vlectims of it in Europe. partial or total failure the

last page, where he distin- "A European International General great experiment which was guishes between "the region Staff and a Secretariat would be need- Bays:

ed and possibly other organs, The

"No! The feebleness of the action begun after the last war? of political reform and that Confederation would not be subject to from the start and the

Bubsequent the control of any other international abandonment of resistance to aggres- 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 to

with in closest co-operation.

France of League nellon against Italy, tious. lines?

mosphere of Europe has not

It was the result of the view held at and economic the time vigorously in France and ne- improved in the first four."Questions of spelat

progress, including possibly a common tually, though not explicitly, in Britain Such questions may seem

that to regard prevention" of war, by force if 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 It should be attempted unless como

trade Wh also and it may be a Confederation flag, action of national

That is too bitter. The truth

international_ale force under the con- ternational situation worsened,

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under the provisions of the Telecommuni- cations Ordinance. 1936. Buch news an on the date of publication by the United Press Associations, who re-tion. serve all rights and forbid republications, elther wholly or in part without previous arrangement

bears the indication "Up" I received in

By J. B. FIRTH

beat the enemy. Yet some decades of this century, currency put a common tariff policy, fragment of national territory or

whatever may be said of would doubtless arise. If, as is vital threatened." of the best brains should be

the old "iniquities"the for permanent pence, a scheme of in- lernational limitation of armuments is 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 effiency, if not in the 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 Memoran- dwindled fast. The determina- without adequate considera- this book is the Inst-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 strengtheu- clusions." As might be expect-last year which is given as an ed by each recurrent crisis and Europe is certain to be e, 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 public platforma 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 country ators as well as vanquished. He assumes that there must be tenance of Future Peace and threatened prudence counselled:

directly attempt to strike balance in the progress of the It was so in 1918. War- a League of some sort which Economic and Social Reconstruc- them to keep clear of the threat- greatest war in history shows weariness does not conduce embodies that principle, though tion.

ening storm. that the democracies

possibly built on different found- have to sound constructive

ations.

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

leme was faced by the Pence struggle to date when full con-

He rejects the various Federa- Conference of 1919 which pro- sideration is given to their utter unpreparedness. The first, wars, beginning in the early part of

AN

kans.

BALANCE SHEET

was

tion schemes which are finding,duced the League and the Belgium's withdrawal from support in some quarters. They Covenant. It will have to be her Locarno obligations was Those who would refresh would be no more acceptable, he faced anew and the practicabi- significant. States stood by col- thinks, to the countries concern-lity of the suggestion of new lective security in principle, but the last decade, can be merged memories almost necessarily 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 without Hitler-in neutrality. one long diplomatic struggle sage of exciting events and Lord Milner sponsored a quar- be thoroughly explored before-

hand.

But the extreme brittleness of which the democracies lost all perpetually recurrent orises 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,

her were asked to make it the sheet Spain, Austria, Cecil's "A Great Experi- posal on the ground that their pecially if she maintains 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 fine on paper, but it would not known all is guess-work, defects in the national defences. on behind the scenes than 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, lay at the back of all the timidi- of the war ten months ago of the League at Versailles the United States, or France, or like Viscount Cecil, are demand- ties and delinquencies of British 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 special charge. He took a itself committed to war, or to it down" and easy to hold up the foremost part in many of free trade, against its own wish, prospect of a common tariff The fighting services had been lantic won, though we must

its triumphs and some of its by combination of other policy for Europe. But the idea scandalously let down. Great continue to suffer some losses.

disasters.

States?

will probably prove as chimerical Britain was in no state to go to In Africa the issue is still

The author himself lends sup- as would be that of a common war and the Aggressora 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 feat- Was 巍 terrible fiasco, less an advocate of rearmament cust because of two factors: the terests. In season and out measure "the lack of solidarity which

of season he was its untir- and esprit de corps in the League should be a warning. Economic as he was of Collective Security 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 swing of French Africa against an autobiography, most of on one of their number" to 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.

the League, as though he The fact that the Bulgarians himself did not begin to live 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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would seem to indicate that we It is not a thrilling story. are preparing some very strong The spectacle of an en- medicine for the enemy in the Middle East. The defences of thusiast playing on his Britain have runched 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-

signed." When his indigna- tion is not ablaze it is smouldering, and it is direct- 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 tain ourselves in the Mediter- before the world was ready rancan. We have won Bome

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