From a New Book. CAUSES OF WAR
National commotion!? are the product of violent political emotion. Revolutionary leaders depend on that emp- . tion for their power. They are bound to stand before the people as the apostles of a new political gospel, the harbingers of great and beneficent change, the destroyers of old unhappy things. And when their hopes and promises are not fulfilled the temptation to lay the blame on some foreign race or foreign system of government commonly proves irresistible. Speeches with that object may be relatively harmless to the audience which actually hears them. But in foreign ears they sound very differently, and speakers have not yet learnt how close we are all to one another nowadays. The result is general fear; increased by the universal economic difficulties, put down by interested parties in each nation to the. machinations of the foreigner. No wonder the air is full of rumours of armaments and alliances and other preparations for war.—Lord Robert Cecil in “Challenge to ! Death.’’
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 112, 5 February 1935, Page 7
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168From a New Book. CAUSES OF WAR Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 112, 5 February 1935, Page 7
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