TOPICS OF THE DAY.

Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20255, 26 July 1937, Page 6

TOPICS OF THE DAY.

British Railways The year will see new standards set up for speed and comfort by the British railways. On the London, Midland and Scottish Railway a new train, the Coronation Scot, is to perform the journey between London and Glasgow, a distance of 401 miles, in 64 hours. The first of the high-speed, streamlined engines weighs over IGO tons, is 74 feet long and is expected to travel along a considerable section of the West Coast route drawing a train weighing 297 tons at a speed of over 100 miles an hour. A novel feature is the provision at the back of the tender of a steam-operated coal pusher, which will push the coal forward to within reach of the fireman, thus saving considerable manual labour. This month the London and North-Eastern Railway will introduce a new high-speed service between London and Edinburgh to do the 392-mile journey in six hours. The locomotives which are being built fer this service will be streamlined. Another train which will be started late iu the year will be the West Riding Limited, which will run between Bradford, Leeds and London and will do the ISO miles between Leeds and London at an average speed of 08 miles per hour. /The British railways already hold the record in the way of regular non-stop runs which are the longest in the world. The new train between London and Glasgow will be the fastest long-distance steam train in the Avorld for the journey between London and Carlisle, the only stopping place. Nazism in America.

“American opposition to Fascist principles is praiseworthy, but only strictly effective within the boundaries of this country. If this is a counsel of impotence, Americans nan find justification in the facts that German Nazism presents no serious threat to this political scene, and, furthermore, that its native characteristics will necessarily limit its spread in Europe; its essentially German traits and its fallacious economic basis will prove more effective stumbling blocks than all the propagandist imprecations breathed from abroad. Finally. Americans who realise that a European war cannot leave them unscathed and resent Nazism as a threat to peace, should apportion the blame for this pathological growth among the nations who helped bring it about through their greed —and Americans have not themselves been entirely innocent. For it is premature and undiscriminating for a professedly pacific people to deliver quick-trigger judgments upon a whole nation with whom there is no inherent basis for antagonism—for strategic, racial, or economic reasons. —Current Opinion. —,— -