BRITAIN AND THE WORLD

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 77, 23 December 1937, Page 4

BRITAIN AND THE WORLD

"In the modern world experience goes more and more to show that while war forces the citizen to a temporary surrender of certain liberties, it is only States resting upon consent of the governed and their willing participation in all measures of defence and decisions of poliey, whieh can survive the appalling strain of scientiflc warfare. On the eve of the Great War, and still more ainid the conflict of ideolOgies to which it has given birth, Britain occupies a middle path, in which social and political progress are to be slowly and steadily built up by men of practical experience upon old and well-tested foundations, imposed neither by the whiin of an autocrat nor by the decree of some inhuman doctrinaire. Her interests are more worldwide than ever before, and her need for peace is correspondingly greater; this explains the eagerness with which men spoke of 'the war to end war.' Adversity has on the whole taught even those of us who genuinely believe in Democracy to admit that it is a phrase capable of much misinterpretation, and that Britain stands above all for representative institutions — infinitely adaptable to each individual case — and freedom of thought, speech and action, alike in the religious, the intellectual, the political, th« aocial aod thf MOBomic Dr. Seton-Watsoh. ^