By a Boswell Print ing @ Publishing Ca, Lid, London, tin ewig of the Mrs, Webster is well known for her exhaustive and persistent examination of the activities of sub-ver sive movements, especially relation to the British Empire. Her researches are exceedingly. valuable and her work is remarkable for its documentation. She has, obviously, strong political views and they may by some people be considered as detracting from the value of the conclusions at which she arrives, This view is not altogether justified, although there must be necessarily a very critical examination of the general thesis which Mrs, Webster seeks to establish, namely, that the present conservative policy of seeking solutions by 33 of conciliation rather than by independent opposition cannot be logically maintained, if it be assumed that logic is ical "method of regulating yuman conduct. Mrs. Webster's con-paragraph indicates the extremity of her views ing: the attempt to compet With, fo" comeliate, their Socialist" oppon= ita, will return to the path of sane feel at "reform thole progenitors red with so" much honour. in the. pa Ath wil coe their stand courageous {yon the eaedinal doctncs of thee hra faith, they may set rally country around. dhole standard and fave the apire."
It may be suggested especially, at this present moment, that if hor theory were accepted. the National Government could never have come into existence Broadly speaking, the proper way to regard Mrs, Webster's book place it in the same category a the report of an. Auditor-General administration. Anyone rudied a document of that Apecial Kind will admit that to the 'Auditor-General there is no grax dation of offences against the canons of accountancy, In other swords, the man who spends money Under' one particular Head when it ould have been spent. under "an-wer head is a3 critical as the who deliberately "conceals receipts marder. to. transfer' those receipts into his own pocket. The Giscriminating searcher for crime, when tackling an Auditor-General's Faport, has aivays to keep a very tight rip on accepted principles Fenrally peeauve the. "AUdtorentirely disregards -moratity and "in its place. substitutes what to the layman often seems ebltrary and pernicketty rules of fisanciai' decorum. So. with Webster, 'She has havelly' any 1 Detween a women's club which tries discuss, "daringly. advanced theories of political science and a beerer. society which aims at crea {ng cheon by the simple process of Srholeanle assassination. This is Tesignedly put in the most exagerated form in order to apply the Secessary corrective to. study, 0 this very case book, The arly part of it deals with the pacifist movements in. the Great, War shows how, in. the author's Spinion, the fruits ut victory were fished from the "Aug, Heal intrigues and misgutde ontalityand. then proceeds fack the League of Nations on the following hues:
League of Nations, backed by eartteieof the Conseevalives Sees, teat po allen out its "Executive, Socialist people for whom provides Tacrs:
joyment and five trips to the antarlly ave the chore From the League itself it isa short step to condemning Briand's scheme for the United States of Europe, which Mrs. Webster regards as inimical to the existence of the
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