DRAGON'S TEETH SOWN
Henceforth the eternal problem of peace and security has to be tackled in new terms if any safe and honourable settlement by consent can yet offer an alternative to catastrophe (writes Mr J. L. Garvin in the,London Observer). Former catchwords and Ehrases about Versailles have exausted their practical relevance. This journal 20 years ago predicted the consequences that all the world sees to-day. We wrote that the dragon's teeth had been strewn, and that they would spring up as armed men. From the very outset,we urged revision of the peace treaties. We did this partly to maintain the democratic regime in Germany and partly to save the League of Nations. Deafness and blindness, lethargy and fatuity, prevailed. Successive British Governments neglected revision and yet Jeopardised defence. In the last few jears the former kinds of favourable opportunity have been swept away .throughout the world. There nasbeen a grim revolution in the circumstances. To-day, for the very sake of our highest ideals, we must look the worst realities in the eyes. We have to face them now without a particle of weakness and without a shred of delusion.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23882, 9 August 1939, Page 16
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