Nov. 6.
The British people are quaintly impervious to suggestions that their national policy is machiavellian or torturous. They are quite prepared fo believe that their statesmen are gullible and short-sighted. The picture of Great Britain remorselessly moulding the world to her own will may acquire respect abroad, It simply is dismissed in Great Britain as fantastic. Mr. Podsnap could not more determinedly wave it out of his sight than his descendants of the present day. So Is to be feared that Senator Borah and Father Coghlin between them must be satisfied to secure what domestic "approval they can earn for their respective contributions to the discussion of the international crisis over Ethiopia. If cynicism were & salient British characteristic, it would have full play at moment in contemplating foreign versions of the policy for which Sic Samuel Hoare has so eloquently pleaded. Not so very long ago Great Britain was accused of being lukewarm in her support of the League. Circumstances well un= derstood by students of internal
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