House of Commons lest " month, brought "his logical mind to bear on the essential technique of peacemaking. Nowadays there is a tendency to belittle the efforts of every kind of worker in the cause of peace fas if the term "pacifist" were derogatory. 'Mr. A. A. Milne, in his own fhimitable fashion, tilts delightfully at this pose in his' book reviewed on another' page. There is also. the equally dangerous pose of those who believe that the cause of peace is helped by axellable attacks on all concerned with the due preservation of national defences. Mr. Milne is a satirist, and tt is @ curious coineidence that Sir John Simon in the speech partly reported tovday, quoted from another satirist of the Vielorian era to press his appeal for a balanced judgment in dealing with the dificult problems entrusted to modern statesmen. Tt. may be Salutary for some of the fierce castigators of Governments and nations in this twentieth century to note that a nineteenth century novelist was no less ardent in pursuit of peace and no less effective in exposing the puerilities of war. Water-Too Is poignantly and ironically summed Up in a brief sentence expounding its bearing on the lives of the poor "puppets" of "Vanity Fair."
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