One of the harmless, if rather futile, witticisms that used enliven, or otherwise, the form of amusement served up by what were called "Christy Minstrel wont to consist of-the posing of a conundrum. It may be that the most venerable was: "When is a door, not a door?" After this profound problem had been duly pondered over, and the subtle explo Whereupon the audience, if those who constituted it, acted' as. they] were expected to" do, went into paroxysms of merriment. Far} graver and more serious is the which bly presents When is a war not a
itself when the position: in north Manchuria is considered. Both' war.
Yet, for over three months, constant acts of war, as the expression is usually understood, have been committed. Each side blames the other, but endeavouring to evade tthe initial responsibility'has no real bearing. It is notoriously dificult so to frame a law that it cannot be evaded; hence the saying about driving a coach and four through an Act of Parliament. At the present time tanks and aeroplanes are being almost daily driven through the Kellogg Pact, and the only explanation offered is that there is no war. trol, including organizations in ceipt of any financial assistance from them, from any act, overt or other, which would be liable in any way whatever to endanger any part of the British Empire or the Union of the Socialist Soviet Republics."
looser paragraph, having in view the end desired, could not very well be drafted, particularly with egard to the portion italicized, Tt would seem to us that a perfectly good, but cynical reply of the Soviet would be, if, propaganda were again found to exist, that it was not endangering any part of the British Empire, but in. their view actually making it safer, even if it were only for democracy,' 'The danger of ade Jectivally defining the kind of pro-Daganda, especially in a document of this, nature, is too obvious to require emphasis, and it' seems though the British Foreign Secret Jary has left a convenient opening [through which the Soviet can drive its horse and coach at its own cone venience.
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