LOST PRINCIPLES.

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 88, 30 April 1937, Page 4

LOST PRINCIPLES.

" It would be relatively siznple to say what men ougkt to do and events ougkt to teach if oue eould assume certain ends to be stable; that men desired, say, eoonomic security, or welfare, or physioal well-being. As it is, some of the ends for whioh yesterday men gave tkeir lives have beoome to-day ends which the same men regard as worthless and oontemptible. They conld as readily to-morrow regard them as onoe more the supreme purpose of life. Deolarations of principle, or even policy, have .become quite meaningless. That fact is strikingly illustrated in the past few months. Ever since the advent of Hitler, internationalism in Germany kas beoome almost a proscribed doctrine, its profession a sure qualification for the ooneentration camp. Intense nationaliam and racialism, material selfsuffieiency and morai isolationism, Germany as an island of totalitarian order in a'sea of ontside, non-Nordic anarchy — tkese have been the articles of the political faith to which ever-obedient Germans have heen «cropeUjSd la C9Hfqrm.'7r-Sir Norman ADgell, in For«%n Affafes.j , . i .