Timely Topics

Northern Advocate, 16 May 1939, Page 6

Timely Topics

‘Wh'at is going to occur in the future? Mechanical science has run miles ahead of political wisdom,” said Lt.-Col. MooreBrabazon, M.P., in the House of Commons. “It would sec-m to me that we are drifting towards Kipling’s conception of the A.B.C.—the Aerial Board of Control—some international combine of air Powers which will eventually dominate the woxTd from the point of view !of a police force. I do not see how [ else the thing can ever end. * “The competitive system of armament building of the aeroplane type is so fantastically absurd that it* must end eventually in the League of Nations idea embodied in some other stronger body, like a combined j international force. If we could get I Germany, ourselves, and the United j States together, we could stop today | every form of war throughout the t world. The three of us could be the ? policemen of peace for ever. It is i probably premature at . present, but ? the world must drift finally toward f that sort of combination. I “When does the time come for | someone to say halt, who is to say t it, and at what time do negotiations f for the stopping of armaments occur? I These questions must give very sleep- ? less nights to the governors and the f statesmen of the world.” J Si BJj, » . ®

WHAT OF THE FUTURE?

“The possibility of Russia again taking up her role as protector of the Slavs is a sobering thought of real

THE PROTECTION OF THE SLAVS,

value,” writes Mr J. A. Spender, in. th e

(“Yorkshire Observer. ‘VWe are very ill-informed about Russia, whether, in its internal development or its external policy. “In the past, few days I have read articles by writers who have covered the same ground, giving diametrically opposite accounts of what they have seen there. Px T e-conceived ideas seem to make it impossible to‘ arrive at any conclusions which can be certified as the truth about Russia. “But the evidence seems to point to certain conclusions —e.g., that the army is recovering from the ‘ purges ’ which so greatly disabled it last year, and that German threats to conquer the Ukraine |iave rekindled the national and patriotic ardours which had been discouraged by the international doctrine of Communism. In much of their rhetoric on this subject the Germans seem to have forgotten that, in spite of its many viccissitudes, the ‘ Ukraine Socialist Soviet Republic ’ is a constituent member of the ‘Russian Union of Federated Socialist Republics.’ The Russians do not. forget it.”