THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES.

Hokitika Guardian, 20 August 1923, Page 2

THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES.

Tub Wau—And Arm:. Groat Britain and her Allies went into that war, it any nation did, on the side of ins lice and of light; and it therefore comes with a disappointment all tin* more hitter to realise that Britain and her Allies are now. with till the world, on angry witters and dangerous straits. We iati say to-day, without pharasaism. hut looking hackward with .dear eyes, as Sir Wm. Watson said for us nine years sgii: "Our hands are pure; for peace, lor peace we have striven!” And the tragedy ot it, and the pity of it. i.-. that though we cry “Bence! Peace!” there i~ no peace, and little prospect of it. (hrmaiiy is at a grave and niorinl crisis; the wily and complacent Turk has regained his seat in the Hast, to the discomfort —not to say dishonour—of the West ; Russia breeds a savage danger to the wot Id; Spain and Greece know internecine strife, and there is now — as always —“trouble ill the Balkans." Labour and economic troubles are rampant everywhere, and the insistent problem of the "rising tide of colour" clamours for solution in three continents. But. above all, and worse than all. perhaps, is the fact that the alliance between (Treat Britain and France is in grave danger oi being broken—Sydney Paper.