A CANADIAN VIEW.

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 43, 6 March 1937, Page 4

A CANADIAN VIEW.

" Either the United StatM will 30m JBritain in proposals of peace to the warring nations or Britain will join her in the isolation policy (says the Montreal Witness). Britain undertook more than her share of the world'* troubles in the Great War. And she learned from that not to play the grandmother to humanity unless Uncle Sam would be the granddad. She does not want all the honour for herself. And it may possihly work better this time, for if all the other great Powers destroy each other in a general melee, Great Britain and the United States will be in a position to act as referees in arriving at the terms of peace altogether different from those of the Versailles folly. "But if — if some Powers in Europe and the Orient succee'd in mastering others, what then? If there was a Fascist Europe with Hitler and MussolM in eontrol of north and south respectively, with the reversion of the territory of either in the event of death to the survivor, ruling over some 500,000,000 people, and if there was ft Japanese oriental empire of some 500,000,000 people— what would become of the British Empire or the United States of Ameriea if either were the object of envy or enmity hy the two great dictatorial powers aoting like a pair of nutcrackers? Too late then for either, Britain or the United States, or even for both, to oppose force with force, The then greater Fascist forces, dual or triumvirate, would take Britannia by the ear and Uncle Sam by his goatee and stand them like children in corners for their show of temper, or perchance "against the wall" according to Fascist faney. What Anglo-Saxon-4pm could have done the day before yesterday with a wag of the admonishing finger, would to-day take clenchecl. fisis, qr tremendous . sao?ifice of pride^ privileg^ ^nd.properfcy^