BRITAIN AND FRANCE

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 10 April 1934, Page 2

BRITAIN AND FRANCE

INSEPARABLY LINKED

“With Hitlerism across the Rhine and Fascism across the Lower Alps,” write Mr J. L. Garvin in the “Observer,” “it seems almost impossible that the traditional methods of French parliamentary democracy can be maintained for long. The change, we think, is bound to be on the side of authority and discipline. There can, be no mistake about the force which will bring it about. The continued rise of German super-nationalism —the doctrine of racial self-worship seeking as never before in the world to turn a whole people into a unified machine—these things are sure to become the most f owerful influences on French spirit and organisation. We in Britain are pretty certain to experience equal ell'eets in a somewhat different way. There cannot again be a dominant Franco any more than a dominant Britain. Each of these countries will have to experience a new awakening of patriotism) They will have to exert their utmost if they are to have any chance of holding their own. But let us be sure that for the peace and stability of the future a strongo France is no less necessary than a strong Britain. The fates of the two democracies on either side of the Channel are inseparably linked. They will stand or fall together. In our firm opinion nothing but definite mutual insurance will be a sufficient guarantee for their liberties and their lives.”