TOPICS OF THE TIMES

King Country Chronicle, Volume XXVIII, Issue 4634, 11 December 1934, Page 4

TOPICS OF THE TIMES

Our Rights.

"The great mass of our rights are our own. We do not need to have them given to us; we possess them already. All we need is to know about them, and to use and develop them. To my mind they outweigh the rights granted us by others," writes Mr. Eustace Miles in the "Contemporary Review." "There seems to be a notion that a right is not a real right unless we are given it by others; in fact, some rights are looked upon as necessitating a demand. Our finest rights are in the hands of no one except ourselves. Yet we have the right to know—to be told authoritatively, as an integral part of our education —that these rights are our rights. And our obligations. Every one of them is an obligation, a duty."

Hands Across the Atlantic.

"I think the welfare of the British Commonwealth of Nations and of the United States is inextricably bound together. Neither can be happy nor prosperous if the other suffers from poverty and depression. Despite the progress of our own countries, the condition of the world at large is grave indeed. Whatever the advance within Great Britain and the United States within the last two or three years, I believe that few of us can feel that we are out of danger. All of us must recognise the menace of the hostilities and the antagonisms and excesses of nationalism existing throughout the world. There are dangers which confront us beyond the economic situation. We are the protagonists, the very guardians of freedom, of the rights and the dignity of individual human beings. The welfare and the interests of our countries, in my judgment, are intimately associated, and, in a large measure, interdependent. You may be able to conquer your difficulties alone, and so may we. I am not sure. But I do not doubt that with proper understanding* and co-opera-tion we may not only protect and further our own interests, but may play the magnificent role of aiding a world ill nearly unto death."—The Hon. R. W. Bingham, United States Ambassador to Great Britain.