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NEW WAR RACE
"A new armament race is be
ginning," declared the chairman
ot 'the Bureau of the Disarma
ment Conference at Geneva; Mr.
Arthur Henderson, yesterday.
This is a cheerful summing up of
the s.tuation after :neary sixteen
year 'ocf 'peace; and after, two.
years of intensive campaigning,'
particularly by Great Britain, with
peace as the ideal. "Mr.'Hender
son, however, refuses to be dis
couraged, and: believes t'hat pres
sure of public opinion and states
manship will yet turn the grave
emergency intoa' great opportun
ity. It is sincerely; to :be hoped
that there will 'prove 'to be gr und
for his faith,-'but it looks as if 'the
world, "by reason of the- triumph
Hof brute force, 'the murk' of sus
picion and. .nationalismi .over
grown, is .drifting_ into another
state 'comparable- with that. of
19 13, when ;because 'a fool suc
cessfully threw a 'bom'b .in' the
Balkans, two or three- million
lives were lost in the, hol;0 caust'
that followed.. Since the war we
have been. trying to build up a
social .structure :of organised in
ternational ipeace, and 'the .results
have been manifestly' discourag
ing. 'Mr. Henderson did not go so
far as 'to say what, ihe might well
'have said. He seems rather 't
be' cloaking' his, feelings. On the.
last occasion .he. wasin the picture
he was 'threatening 'tbo;throw the
whole -thing on one side .because'
i seerried impossible ;'to "fight
against he' infiuences th't: were
ma'king`for war. The British dele
gate, 'Captain Anthony Eden,
said theret.were great difficulties
to- be surmounted, ;and that the
British: prop'osals. would require'
further modi~fications. : .Germany
complains that she' is' `'grudged
the right to protect her. peaceful
people. She has 'been grudged
this right for ' sixteen' years and
no one has attacked 'her. 'What
more effective . protection could
an army equipped' with the latest
n death-dealing weapons givef?
lhne tr. uible, is that ever since'
President Wilson 'sailed .across. to
Europe with 'his.' cry concerning
the rights of 'the small nations., o
be. independent, -.we have been
suffering froin an. overdeveloped
sense o'f :nationalism. "We. are
masters, of materialI: nature,"
writes Profess':i Arnold J. Toyn
'bee,' Research Professor of nIter
national History in~ the University
of London. ":We can 'build giant
housesand 'gian't.;ships an'd giant
guns when we, wish; and we can
fly.across the Atlantic. Bu't, while
we 'have 'become adepts in .this
mastery 'of' inateria9l things, we
feel ourselves more helpless' and
inept in managing 'c'ur 'human re
lations with'one another':than our
fathers were 'before: us.' Aiid;: ac
cordingly, "like baffled -and ill
tempered 'children, we are, now
in a mood to-: throw. up, inter
nationalism in disgust: and to drop
back into cur. old iation'alistic
ruts 'again." The vorld is niea? the
edge of a cataclysin nd that is
what .pro:mpts Capain: de:i to:
say tha't it isa 'faIllacy to. suppo?se.
that 'ime is on the side . of'. an
agreeient. I. a :isarmameit
convention :is to ibe reached it
.must b`e ,reached soon i he de
clares,; an d aptain: Anth ony
Eden, Sir. J,?clhn;i Simona?i ',second-:
in command is an ablIe: man who
know what he' is talkinig -about:
Many .reputation's h'ave-,been smur
red in :'the present Einglish Pa rlia
ment, says :one iauthority- ;,. very;
few have! been m`;ade :ibut among
the elatter category minust be ifi ud
ed a,'t of: Cap tain Anth ony'Eden
Even his Socialist ?; opponents' dei
scribe him ase s t'e; 'th besti siortf
Tory.:aWhen 'Sir. John Simon- has
returned to:idi Enfglan`d' fr om' inthe
Con'tinent Captain<f Anthony ;Eden.
.has renrainedaanddone the work:.
It was he who visited all 'the'cap
-itals 'in: an endeavour: to gather
up .thes trings, and, he has arrived
wod.sai.He:'has:leard although
parting'of d;thew ays, ne of which
w:ill lead t?, peace and the other
to a war worse 'than the last, the
en'ds, of 'hich :n: one; however
great his'imagination,can foresee.
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