TOPICS OF THE DAY.

Waikato Times, Volume 113, Issue 18926, 21 April 1933, Page 4

TOPICS OF THE DAY.

The China of the Future. Pearl S. Buck, author of “ The Good Earth,” speaking at the annual dinner of the Milbank Memorial Fund, in New York,, said: There is growing in the West an appreciation of the potentiality of China and o hcr people. For long she was an unknown country. Then for long she was a country unreckoned with, a country fit only to bo despoiled. But China has lived on until now she is beginning to be understood as a nation great not only in the past but in tho present, great enough to bear civil war, disorganisation, catastrophe, invasion—and still endure. Gi’eatest of all is her potentiality for the future. No one can doubt that China is one day destined to be among the most powerful of modern nations. We of the West, if wo have any wisdom, must begin to build for that day. We must build not so much in treaties and diplomatic relationships, which change with the exigencies of time, but in those other deeper relationships with the people, relationships at once more intangible and more solid. We must share with the Chinese the best we have of education, of public health, of science, of all modern equipment for the acquircing of knowledge, for such manifest friendly co-operation will he the soundest basis for future international peace and understanding. Parliament, on Trial. “Tf (his National Government fails, it is Ihe end of our Parliamentary institutions,” said Mr Edward Doran, Conservative member for Tottenham North, in the House of Commons, in a speech on unemployment. “ The people will never trust a government of any shape or colour. Tf (his Government fails we are going to put Communism into the saddle or bring about a dictatorship, and this country does not require either. “ We have midget Mussolinis, neurotic Napoleons, and washedout Wellingtons at every corner. The time has come when real men have got to assert themselves, free from any party, and tell tho country where iis salvation lies. “All governments arc ruled by permanent officials. Between the Minister who has not (lie courage to act and the permanent official who will not take a risk the people of England are being crucified. Until we have independent men in our governments who will tell the permanent officials where to get. off you will never make an inch of progress. You will he in 40 years exactly where you are to-day.”