UNSETTLED WORLD

Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 32, 1 November 1933, Page 9

UNSETTLED WORLD

Growing Junker Spirit Among Nations SIR PHILIP GIBBS’S FEARS London, October 30. In a copyright message to the North American Newspaper Alliance, Sir Philip Gibbs says:—-“I ahi convinced there is no danger of war in Europe for several years, but this is not good enough to convey a sense of security. We are advancing steadily toward war. Secret alliances for a new balance of power are being arranged, espionage is resumed, armament makers ate busy, naval estimates are being revised, and the censorship is j tightening. The Junker mind within and without Germany. voicing the ideals of blood and Iron, is beating the jungle tomtoms. Playing for time before the struggle, Japan and Russia eye each other sullenly. All hopes in the League of Nations are failing owing to the revival of faith in force. “Possibly when the commanders issue recruiting papers there will not be the same rally of youth as in 391-4. Civil war may accompany the declaration of international war. There is a strong youthful pacifist movement in all the Social strata of England. The French general’s view that if war with Germany is inevitable now is the dine to strike is not shared by Radicals and Socialists nor by youth remembering 1914. French opinion w,;s swinging toward a ■ more liberal attitude toward Germany until Nazi brutality created a recoil.”