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Hokitika Guardian, 12 February 1938, Page 4

In a letter to the Times which is headed “The League and the Lawless,” Professor Gilbert Murray says:—“No nation is wholly gangster, none wholly law-abiding; and every course of a'tion which can induce them to co-opt rale for lawful and beneficial ends has a value far greater than the immediate concrete result that may he attained. Nine-tenths of the League’s work is really of this character, and it would not he too much to say that at present almost every part of it is starved. The Intellectual Co-operation knits together both members of the League and non-members, such as the United States, Japan and Brazil. The expense is almost entirely borne bv France, with important help from America anct other countries. It does seem to me odd, considering the general aims and spirit of British policy, that no contribution whatever is made by the British Government! Of course, to the mind of • a soldier, nothing matters except war ; to the mind of the politician, nothing much except polities and economies. Agreed, by all means; those considerations come first. But there are other things of some consequence in life, which all nations pursue, arul in the pursuit of which they can be friends or fail to be friends with one another ; art. science, education, social studies; the development of universities, museums, archaeological expeditions, national academics, even journalism itself. I will not continue the list. He was no fool who said in simpler days than these ‘Let me make the songs of a nation and I care not who makes its laws.’ It is in the making of their songs or the modern equivalent of their songs that the Institute of Intellectual Go-operation enables nations to co-operate. Surely this is a work deserving some public interest and some national support.”