TOPICS OF THE DAY.

Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 19894, 25 May 1936, Page 4

TOPICS OF THE DAY.

The Hindu “Nothing can destroy the Hindu or his race—neither famine nor diseaSC, pestilence nor the perils of war. His is no race of conquerors or of conquered. Something proud and patient in the Indian lives on, imperturbably confronting all the suns that rise over Asia. Something magical and unconquerahle in his destiny, some secret race-consciousness of parentage with the dust of humanity that lies undisturbed at the foundations of the world, some triumphant memory of his past in the dim beginnings of time, make him at once the humblest and the proudest of the sons of earth. His hour is fast approaching. The vast, uneasy land moves and means in her sleep. There is a stirring of veils and a growing fire in the darkness. A voice rises in a. long lament that goes wailing down the passes of the Himalayas to the dead temples 3000 miles away in the dark and violent South. There is a. low murmur in the bazaars of Delhi, of Lucknow, of Agra, Cawnpore—of all the towns with names that are like stains of dried blood on the pages of history. A murmur of voices in prayer or hope or foul.’ and the oonvivtimi that the page of history has turned at last and the splendour of India. is not irreooverahly beyond recall.”—Mr George Slououihe, in The Tumult and the Shouting. All. Appeal to Hitler “If. with the League Council adjourned at d the Lonarno Powl 91-5 dispersed,” points out the Spectator, “collective negotiations are suspi‘ntlml for some weeks, it is vital that those weeks should he (II'VUiCII to some constructive effort. Certain elements in German policy can he tested. llerr Hitler in every speeeh repeats that he is offering Europa (\\‘enuutivo )‘oarx' pence. Yet. in every speeeh ho lnnkpg some attawk on Russia, a. leading member of the League of Nations. whivh he is proposingln rejoin. There can be no EuroPmm 1‘94“,” that is not a general European peace. There can he no stable grave without, the spirit of peace. The immediate interval, jf interval there is to he, may profitably be. utilised to elicit from llerr Ilitlm' a (le‘lfil'Hlifin as to whether his policy toward Russia is one nf pmwo or war. That is one point on which HE’rr Hitler has it in his 1.0“ .3); to gin: assurances that would do much to clear the