EACH TO HIS TASTE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 183, 20 August 1937, Page 4

EACH TO HIS TASTE

« Lerthe doctrine he rejeoted at the outset, bluntly and emphatieally, that there is any reason to limit ourselves to a choice between Fascism and Communism. If there are some nations ■who firid themselves unable to comhine political and personal liherty with the security of their national independence or -with the economio wellbeing of their people, that is their affair and not ours. If they think # well to subordinato ahsolutoly the freedom of the individual to the myth of a living State, let them do so if they must. We may see in that process merely a trcnd toward an insect eiyilisation. A true patriotism will not be content with a merely negative policy, although a policy may demand sacrifices. The need for a revision of the Treaty of Versailles becomes increasingly obvious. " Goethe said in one of his conversations with Eekermann : 'It is not to be jmagined that reason can ever he popular. Passions and feelings may become popular; reason remains the sole property of a few eminent individuals.' Yet that need not be so among nations where education is widespread and the citizens are accustomed to fulfil their responsibilities. After all, the enthusiasm of the ordinary man and woman need not be stirred only by violence, ruthlcssncss, the will-to-power; by ideas that are belligerent and policies that boast themselves irrational. Peace, Liberty, Reason, Stability, Social Justice— these also may have their appeal."— Lortl Samuel.