EUROPEAN ASYLUM
AIR BALDWIN’S OBSERVANCE
LONDON, June 4
“1 feel 1 am living in a madhouse,” said Mr Stanley (Baldwin, speaking at a meeting yesterday. Mr Baldwin pictured what a satirist of the twentyfirst century might write about this age. He might write that a war had left the Constitutions of Great Powers damaged and convalescence was protracted and chequered. There were frequent setbacks, fever set in, tpmqer.'ilures rose above the normal, sum-- limes to dangerous heights, and I here wore sometimes anxious moment- when it looked as though the whole trouble would break out and infect all tho .victims with tlvo virulence of the plague of 1914. l)i •ugs and plasters were administered at Paris and Locarno.
Tim patients were still alive, but none- could be said to be enjoying 'tiv, - mal and robust health. Eaeli lmd rebelled against the treatment recommended by the practitioners of Versailles. No one was willing to undergo the major operation of disarmament. Some said the cure for armaments was to have more. Others eontended that the whole disease was a figment of the imagination and would be cured if it was ignored. One remedy had. been proved to be worse than the disease. It spread like wildfire —economic nationalism. Some even tried a drastic medicine called dictatorship, and to walk through Europe was like walking through the wards of a mental hospital.
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Hokitika Guardian, 7 June 1935, Page 5
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