TOPICS OF THE TIMES

King Country Chronicle, Volume XXX, Issue 4874, 23 July 1936, Page 4

TOPICS OF THE TIMES

A Breeder of Evil.

“Economic distress quickly translates itself into social instability and political unrest. It opens the way for the demagogue and the agitator, foments internal strife, and frequently leads to the supplanting of orderly democratic government by tyrannical dictatorships. It breeds international friction, fear, envy and resentment, and destroys the very foundations of world peace. Nations are tempted to seek escape from distress at home in military adventures beyond their frontiers. And as fear of armed conflict spreads, even peace-loving nations are forced to divert their national effort from the creation of wealth and from peaceful wellbeing to the construction of armaments.” —Mr. Cordell Hull, United States Secretary of State. The Strength of the Crown. “The politicians,” assert the “Morning Post,” “being immersed in sectional interests and factional quarrels, require someone well above these burning affairs to restrain the extravagance of their pursuits and animosities. Mr. Bernard Shaw, for all his modernism and rationalism, made these virtues of a monarchy manifest when he handled the subject in his ‘Apple Cart.’ The King . . . is a referee whose decision is not always obeyed, whose whistle is not always heard above the clamour of the contest; but without him the game is apt to degenerate into a lawless scrimmage. But it would be immodest for the Englishman to claim any theoretical superiority for a system. The strength of the Crown lies less in reason than in instinct. The slow-growing affections of an ancient people, centuries of accumulated good will, an abiding loyalty, which only appears on the surface now and then —these are the deep and strong foundations of our monarchy. It is not mere commonplace to say that the King is enthroned in the hearts of his people.”