TOPICS OF THE DAY.

Waikato Times, Volume 118, Issue 19765, 21 December 1935, Page 6

TOPICS OF THE DAY.

The British Way “Not until Mr Anthony Eden was rebuffed in Rome in June did it seriously occur to the British public that Mussolini was not blufihm or that the Italians, besides challenging Geneva, were impinging outlie preserves of the British Empire. It is characteristic of the British mentality that neither Government nor people awoke to the full implications of t ho. Italian move on Ethiopia before (lie breakdown of the three-power negotiations in Baris. England feels her way | on „. |] lo solid power of I lie most masculine of nations is (lie triumph of an instinct strangely feminine. The Englishman is a very complex person who thinks lie is simple, lie does not rationalise himself and his motives as Ihc Frenchman does; he is hard lo interpret because, even to hitnself he cannot explain himself. The French leap to conclusions; the rush of their logic carries I hem so swiftly toward the remote consequences of evouts that they often stumble orer (lie, next step. The, British concentrate on the next step; such foresight as their policy exhibits is intuition, but expert, intuition, a sensitiveness developed by long and wide experience,” —Anne Haro ;&J.cConnell, in the New York June* Mogazinfe,