No doubt the dominant feeling of those ho. experienced the deny of the good-natured' crowes which thronged the rote of Shanghai on Monday. was one of great stmicne ton for "the organization and dis. Eiptine- of the police. of the nternafinal Settlement. "Oamcers "and ren layed "remarkable. balance {pveen"ewmness and eympatty with occasion iti al te mote sat factory therefore to. trid tat Sir Sarna at no tine eying to the Ghaltman of the Shoot. kal Municipat Council an lo quest xpresion of this general vision The tubule hac been well deserved, made for emergent conditions are not unknown to other countries in a time Of acute malaise. But it will be essential obviously to have some precise definition of the future intentions of the German Government toward the collective settlement of ite Europ-can relations.
It 4s important to preserve historical accuracy here. Whatever may have been the shortcomings of British Mtatesmanship at that critical period, neither it nor the nation behind It entered upon the War ina spirit of "wild enthusiasm', modern generation Is apt to be misled, perhaps, by post.war interpretations of That was quite apart from temper of the men who "Joined up" in 1914 or the statesmen directing, heir patriotic. There was just the quiet feeling that the testing time ad come and that war, beastly business, though it might be, had to be faced. Young City men, clerk: artisans, yeomen, peasants, simp presented" themselves for the "Army Decause they felt that their duty lay there. In short, "the House of Commons splendidly "reflected the national attitude in the dignity and reluctant grimness of its salute to the passing of the hours of peace,
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