NEWS AND NOTES.

Hokitika Guardian, 5 October 1929, Page 3

NEWS AND NOTES.

MAHMOUD PASHA’S EGYPT. ‘ “Mahmoud Pasha has several main objects in view. 'First he is determined to crush at all costs the class of pro-, fessional politicians who enter political life for the sole purpose of lining their own pockets. Secondly, he is concentrating his attention on improving the conditions of the fellaliin arid the workers in the towns, who together make up the vast mass of the people of Egypt. Thirdly, he intends to prepare the way for a return to constitutional government as soon as the country is fit for it. The progress made in internal affairs should place iEgypt in a better position to shoulder certain responsibilities without which further concessions cannot be contemplated by the British Government; and should establish in this country, a firmer confidence in the capacity of the Egyptians to manage their own affairs.' , The process of enlightenment, resulting from a clean system, of education, a clear exposition of political idealities, and improved conditions of the fellahin and workers, should enable the people to see the direction of their true interests.”—Mr Poison Newman, in the “Contemporary Review.”

£2OO A MINUTE FOR WAR; 2s 6d FOR PEACE.

“We threw out a thought some months ago which struck attention at home and abroad and did something to stir the human conscience. That was no merit of ours. The effect, likeall the soundest effects of argument, sprang from the statement of a fact. We pointed, to the simplicity and mockery of a fact—that" Britain is spending £2OO a minute on armaments as against about 2s 6d for peace, apart from the other purposes of the League; and that what is true pf this country applies with the same terrific satire to America, and to every great nation in the. . world except Germany; Even Germany, though relatively disarmed, is by no means so inexpensively helpless as is often supposed. There is not a statesman nor a free elector in the world. but should •feel that the sense of this fantastic mockery will fall like a shadow upon their souls until the cause is . removed. The present scale of the world’s expenditure upon organisation for contingent war revolts reason and conscience alike. It cannot, be maintained in the name of women in Britain and America who have at last the surest moral and political power that lias ever been bent to destroy the murderous superstition of war, and establish the reign of peace.”— Mr J. L. Garvin in the London “Observer,” ■