Timely Topics

Northern Advocate, 24 July 1939, Page 4

Timely Topics

Says the “London Evening News”; “The Archbishop of Canterbury said: 1 1 somethimes think that the cry of

-1 I SOUND AND | EMOTION.

the curlew goes to my heart more than any sound in creation.' There >are sounds, de-

i tached from sight and heard across | wide spaces, which can stir or uplift | human hearts almost more than other t influence. One has to be,.very insensi- * tive to resist the echo of a bugle, I heard across a summer dusk from a f distant camp; or in the London night [the sudd-en hoot of a tug going up- * river on the tide; or the sound of f church bells across fields; the sleepy f lap of water 'against a dinghy; the I thrum of telegraph wires in the wind; I the song of the lark, the jingle of a \ barrel-organ, the laughter of chil- * dren, and all the soft little whispers |of an old house on a quiet night."

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“There is a conflict in the American mind, for the very American who believes in isolation is the same

THE AMERICAN MIND.

man who, when confronted with world issues, takes sides in the prob-

lems of Europe (says Sir Frederick Whyte, of the English-Speaking Union, in an 'address at Leeds).

“He would say that events in Europe constitute such a threat to society that he ought to take some part. Cne aspect, that of isolation, is intellectual, and the other is a moral feeling. Underneath the apparent carelessness to what happens in the rest of the world is a constant liability to respond to whatever does happen. The manner in which this moral feeling is going to mature is difficult to see, but we can note that Whatever the United States thinks today or does tomorrow will be done for American ' reasons. President Roosevelt is making unmistakable signals as to the way in which the American mind is moving. He is not saying that he is going to intervene directly, but is warning the Dictators to remember 1917. His attitude is not to make commitments but to warn Europe that America cannot remain indifferent. In the interests of co-operation, it is for this country to show that it appreciates the honest historic reasons at the root of isolation.”