Timely Topics

Northern Advocate, 10 December 1940, Page 4

Timely Topics

Once more the junior population ; of the United States' has replied reassuringly to the oft-voiced question of its elders, “What MUSIC , OF THE is the rising genHEMISPHERE. eration coming

to?” In this instance the answer comes, appropriately, through the All-American Youth Orchestra, a group of 100 young men and women recently returned from a conspicuously successful tour of South America, says an American newspaper. The young musicians,' with a skill acquired through playing in high school orchestras,, applied themselves so assiduously to the task that they were able to go on tour after a fortnight of rehearsals, appearing in twenty-one concerts, radjQcasting 17 times and being received, to quote press comments, “with explosive enthusiasm.”

No doubt many ( South Americans who saw these young Americans > are finding it somewhat difficult to reconcile them with some of . the less serious juveniles they have seen on the screen.

I $ if * # || The new order which Germany, II Italy and Japan are to join in establishing in Europe and Asia is in " truth the oldest of oTHE BRIGAND all old orders, .the " TRW. tyranny exercised 111 by those wh6 thirik < themselves strong enough to tyran!|nise, says the “Spectator.” II The new order in Europe is represented by the forcible subjugation of ” Poland, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, 11 Norway, Holland, Belgium, France, ' and the capitulation under menace of Rumania. In Asia it has involved aggression against Manchuria and China and the threat, as yet unfulfilled, of aggression against the Dutch Indies, together with the exaction under menace of concessions from Indo-China. Where it will lead, or is meant to lead, is not entirely clear. The oact in which the new agreement is embodied is simple. It has only one operative clause of any consequence. By that the three signatory Powers “undertake” to assist one another with all political, economic and military means if one of the three contracting parties should be attacked by a Power at present not involved in the European war or in the Sino-Japanese conflict.’’ There is therefore no immediate extension of belligerence, merely an agreement that joint commissions for the discussion of various technical military questions shall be constituted.