POLITICAL ATMOSPHERE

King Country Chronicle, Volume XXXI, Issue 4954, 11 February 1937, Page 3

POLITICAL ATMOSPHERE

o MARKET PROBLEMS. EASING THE TENSION. , “The difficulties of raw material supplies, of access to markets, even of over-population problems, are the creation much more of obstacles to the normal movement of goods and people than to the maldistribution of political control of territories. Remembering the war mythology of the Fascist countries, their psychological insistence upon prestige through colonial ownership and the political and economic stresses inherent in their forms of government, it would be too optimistic to suggest that an improvement in international economic conditions would alone be sufficient to remove all danger of war. But at least such an improvement will remove important causes of conflict and by lessening the tension within the Fascist countries —tension due in no small extent to fear of economic collapse and the belief that war may offer the only alternative to collapse —make for the creation of a political atmosphere more favourable to peaceful policies.”—Francis Williams, in “Time and Tide.”