TWO GOVERNMENTS

Hokitika Guardian, 8 January 1930, Page 5

TWO GOVERNMENTS

“Mr Baldwin’s Government pointed the way so unmistakably in foreign affairs that the objectives were not in doubt, but consciousness of dangers on the road prevented-them from completing the journeys. The Labour Government, rightly we think, took the view that the dangers of the road would multiply rather than diminish if they delayed, and each of the jouineys which Sir Austen Chamberlain in effect planned has been accomplished. When Mr MacDonald faces domestic problems, however, this difficulty aid be much greater.”—“The Spectator

POLITICS AND LITERATURE. “The path of the modern writer on political or economic subjuects is beset with jargon on every hand. Technological barbarism takes him captive; for he must, to some extent, npodt the technical terms and phrases which have been part and parcel of the tradition of his subject,” writes Mr G. D. H. Cole in “Politics and Litrature.” “If. as a literary pursuit, lie sets out to avoid them, he only makes his task impossible. For they have become the familiar shorthand or symbolism o! political and economic science. Attempts to steer clear of them involve endless periphases, and compel the reader, instead of building on a common foundation of languages, to learn a new set of languages with every book lie reads.”