Timely Topics

Northern Advocate, 11 October 1938, Page 6

Timely Topics

“I think it would be possible to write history to show that races have prospered just in proportion as they have been refreshVALUE OF NEW cd with ' new BLOOD. blood,’’ writes Mr J. A. Spender, in another contribution to the “Yorkshire Observer.” “The excess of nationalism is sufficiently dangerous without being aggravated with racialism and antisemitism. The countries with stationary or declining birthrates must keep their doors open, the countries with ■an excess of population must have ! outlets. If there is not this voluntary | give and take and mutual reciprocity ' between nations, the causes of strife I will multiply and there will be no [hope of lasting peace. Not to be less f but to be more hospitable to the \ strangers within or knocking at our | gates is one of the lessons, which the \ world most needs today. ” The most \ practical conclusion for the moment [is that we must all do our part ih.solving the terrible refugee problem.”

In view of the impending visit of the King and Queen to Canada, and possibly to the United States, the following from an ediROYAL VISITS, torial in “The Times,” when Their Majesties returned from Franck, is particularly interesting: Their Majesties were in any case assured beforehand of a warm, reception from a great and friendly people with whose destinies our own have Dately become more closely linked than ever before in time of peace. But it is universally agreed that the warmth of the reception transcended all expectation. The authorities had made most elaborate plans for the success of the visit; but the contribution of the people of Paris was nevertheless the greater—which was fall the more remarkable because the thorough precautions of the police made the proportion who can actually have seen the British Sovereigns relatively small. Their good humour and good will combined with official forethought to make the visit a very memorable occasion in the history of the two countries. Popular enthusiasm seems to have got the better of the protocol altogether on Thursday night, when a huge midnight crowd cheered the King and Queen on the balcony of their temporary Paris palace in a frenzied and long sustained acclamation. And when Mme. Lebrun bade farewell to the Queen, she must have been truly speaking for France when she assured Her Majesty that she had won the hearts of the whrie of Paris and of all French people. Oh this side of the Channel the uppermost feeling is one of pride and respectful gratitude to Their Majesties that in their first mission abroad since their accession they have so well and so nobly sustained the character of the British Monarchy.