TOPICS OF THE DAY.

Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20271, 13 August 1937, Page 6

TOPICS OF THE DAY.

Britain and America. “We of the United States and of the British Commonwealth of Nations have the most precious heritage among all the nations of this earth —a heritage of freedom, a right of the individual to order and justice —and I believe that a tremendous and valuable contribution to the peace of the world has been made by the British Empire and ourselves patiently rearming. The British nation and ourselves patiently, sincerely and earnestly sought to bring other nations of the world in the pathway of peace. We did it so sincerely that we did it not only by precept but by example. They would not listen to us. While wo waited and hoped and laboured, they built up these great armaments. For what? For aggression. No nation requires bombing aeroplanes, great mobile artillery, and heavy tanks unless they intend to plunder and murder their neighbours. We of my country and the British Commonwealth, realising that argument, suasion and example have been in vain, have determined that we must protect our own." —The American Ambassador to Britain, Mr Bingham.

The Person Inside. “All sorts of funny things show the onlooker what sort of person lives inside, and how he has gone about the world," writes G. M. Ramsay. “Take the way he walks; there is the purposeful walk, the lounging walk; the walk apologetic, the conceited walk; the sloppy walk, the athletic walk; the quick flitting walk; the walk of the blusterer whose feet plant themselves in the lives of other people; his very boots are aggressive. Apart from special walks such as thal of the sailor or ploughman, we recognise our friends from afar by their walk long before we can see their faces. Voices, too, are terribly expressive Have you ever listened on the telephone to someone trying to deceive you or to an incorrigible hesitator? We can arrange our faces to candour, or put on a bold exterior to hide our inward tremors, but the voice gives us away. It has hesitated too often to take on firmness now.—■ —G. M. N. Rnmsav, in “Comrades in Adventure."