Modern Review December 1937

The preven tion of war end the establishment of settled peace in the world must always be the most vital interest of the British people and the League is the instrument which has been framed and to which we look for the attainment of these object.. [...] the League would art swiftly and thinly to stop the bloodshed in.byssinia That %vt)* a fortnight Iwinre the General Election - and it was on the faith of the Government pledges which 1 have quoted above and Illc speeches from the two heads of the Forei..11 (►ce that the Government was able to syrup second !cam of office. [...] Arthur Henderson wrote that the Peace Terms dictated to Germany which offered the German people no possibility of economic recovery no guarantee of justice or equality would play straight into the hands of the reactionaries on the one side and the extremists on the other. [...] The array of uniforms and the glitter of diamonds in the House of Lords during the reading of the King's Speech cannot altogether hide the festering sores both at home and abroad. [...] They want to go to the front with the Army in the Front Service Corps" doing propaganda among the troops and the peasants against the Japanese.