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VOL. 169 No. 5046

LONDON JANUARY 23rd, 1937

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PRINCIPAL CONTENTS

THE WORLD WEEK BY WEEK

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THE BLIND EYE ; FRENCH GLOSSES ON ENGLISH SPEECHES ; GENERAL GOER1NG IN ROME ; THE TALL RED POPPIES; A SECOND INAUGURAL ; THE IRISH ANNUITIES ; THE STILL HUNGRY FARMER ; THE SPECIAL RIGHTS OF AGRICULTURE ; THE FLEXIBILITY OF BRITISH FARMING ; HISTORY ON THE FILMS ; THE INTRUSIONS OF REPORTERS ; HOW TO GET AT THE TRUTH TRUTH IN THE MODERN WORLD . 112 THE TRUSTEESHIP OF NATIVE RACES .. 113

By ARCHBISHOP HINSLEY THE CONDEMNATION OF ANGLICAN

ORDERS ( I ) .................................................117 By the Rev. E. C. MESSENGER, Ph.D. THE RECOVERY OF HISTORICAL TRUTH

(II) ............................................................ 119 By W. J . BLYTON

ROME LETTER .......................................... 121 THE CHURCH ABROAD .............................. 122 THE RESTIVE CATHOLIC FLEMINGS . 125 BOOKS OF THE WEEK .............................. 126

MAITLAND : SELECTED ESSAYS ; GERMANY’S COLONIAL PROBLEM ; C/ESAR IN ABYSSINIA ; ST. FRANCIS DE SALES ; HOPE’S EDUCATION ACT, 1936 ; PURGATORY ; YOUNG Mr. DISRAELI LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.............................. 132 THE UNITY OF FAITH AND REASON . 134

By PROFESSOR G. TEMPLE TOWN AND COUNTRY .............................. 135 APOSTOLATE OF THE COUNTRYSIDE 139 CHESS AND CROSSWORD .. 140 GRAMOPHONE NOTES .............................. 141

THE WORLD WEEK BY WEEK The Blind Eye

Mr. Eden had little difficulty in the House of Commons on Tuesday, in justifying the ban on volunteers for Spain by explaining that the Government, in this action, is primarily protecting simple young men in this country from the activities of recruiters. The French Chamber has unanimously passed a similar law, but it is very doubtful whether the motive in their case is not simply to make a political gesture. Everything turns on the attitude of local authorities in the south of France, who so far have kept the frontier completely open for the passage of volunteers, and for every other kind of assistance for Red Spain. The Echo de Paris has been publishing the stories of French volunteers who have succeeded not only in reaching Spain, which proved easy, but in returning alive to France, which has proved very difficult and exceptional. Large numbers of French volunteers have been recruited with promises of good pay, and have been bitterly disillusioned when it was too late. The survivors describe the International Brigade as containing far more Frenchmen than any other single nationality. The Russians are, in the main, technical experts of one kind or another, and there are small numbers of Poles and Czechs, of exiled Germans, and of British. It is this kind of assistance that it will be very difficult to control without the wholehearted co-operation of the French Government, and legitimate doubts about that co-operation are not disguised in the German and Italian attitude to Britain's proposals. French Glosses on English Speeches

It is embarrassing for Mr. Eden that whenever he speaks about Europe the French Press exaggerate what he has said in an endeavour to twist it into a declaration of solidarity between the “ two great democracies of the West.” His speech in the House of Commons, like his speech at the Foreign Press Association dinner, was immediately hailed as expressing what the French had hoped to hear. We think it will be a very good thing if the Foreign Secretary makes it very plain next time, that the oft-repeated declarations that the British Government will take no part in a war of “ ideologies” extends to the French ideology as well as to those of Germany, Italy and Russia. We dislike the idea of a Europe divided between Left and Right, of Fascist and Communist camps, and we are right to dislike oversimplification of what is really a much more tangled position, but it is every bit as false and crude to pretend that there is an antithesis between “ the democracies” and “ the dictatorships,” and that Russia is to count as one of “the democracies.” General Goering in Rome

The visit of General Goering to Rome has been followed by an announcement that Germany is to share in the development of Abyssinia, but the new friendship, the new Berlin-Rome axis, does not seem likely to become the starting-point for a new Four Power Pact with France and Britain, which will exclude Russia from the affairs of the Continent. The battle for the good will of Britain, the tug-of-war to keep Britain out of, or to drag her into, the Franco-Russian camp continues unabated. The Tall Red Poppies

From Russia itself comes the news of a second mass trial of leading Bolsheviks, chief among them Radek, who has been to Stalin what Signor Gayda is to Mussolini, the lively and energetic mouthpiece in the Press, and Sokolnikov, who was ambassador in London. The charges are the same as in the Zinoviev trial, charges of deep treasons aiming at the overthrow of Stalin’s régime in the interests, either of the “ Right,” by which is meant the Kulak class, or of foreign Powers.