TOPICS OF THE DAY.

Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20268, 10 August 1937, Page 6

TOPICS OF THE DAY.

From Left to Right. “ What you do find ns you get older, and as you get office and responsibility, is that there are more difficulties in the way of your ideals than you ever believed. It hurts you to find you have made promises that can’t really be carried out at once —or anything like at once —in practice. To that extent I suppose it is true to say that ns we grow older wo become more conservative in mind. That may look like defeat, but it isn’t. Remember Gladstone, suffering the same sort of disappointing hold-up. Read his famous speech. I forget the year, but what he said in effect was that, in spite of all, the great social forces march on. That’s true. Nothing can stop the forward steps of man to his better destiny. We were once completely communal, and, in the cycle, must return to something like that, though capitalism, properly applied, may well remain as part of the system.”—The late Lord Snowden. The Anglo-Saxon Nations.

“America has awakened to the knowledge that new situations require new policies to meet them. Isolation is not enough. Having attempted with success a reorganisation of her internal economy, the United States still has an unbalanced Budget. In seeking to change that isolation American statesmen are looking beyond the borders of their own country. For the moment the eyes of America are fixed on this country. Nowhere will there bo a readier response to any movement that promises to increase international trade and lower the impediments to a freer exchange of goods. If to the impatient mood of America negotiations between the two countries have appeared slow in reaching the point of agreement, there must be recognition on the American side that in this matter we cannot act as if we were a single country and not a vast Empire, with great countries interdependent in matters of trade and primarily anxious to foster their piutunl well-being.”—Daily Telegraph (London) t ‘