The New Review June 1941

I LIOP \ 'IIL tilO uixteenth OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS BOMBAY CALCUTTA MADRAS When writing to 'Advertisers please mention The New Reyir" FROM THE WORLD OF JOURNALS The Sinews of Peace The President-Chancellor of the Third Reich is fond of stating that when this war is over and won the settlements which mark its formal closing will be signed not in the Hall of Mirrors within the formal gardens of Ve [...] Nazi Germany is not a new develoment it is the logical inevitable and complete fulfilment of the forces of 1648 drawing all nations into an ascending spiral of concentrated authority and power tre increase theFROM THE WORLD OF JOURNALS V strength of the state not for the benefit of the people but as an instrument of destruction.' Reconstruction in Ireland The following is an extract from t [...] Rural depopulation the unparallelled decline in the marriage rate the ever-growing concentration of population in the cities the economic insecurity of families the grinding poverty and malnutrition of hundreds of thousands of our people—all these and many other social wrongs which spring from them are rooted in a lack of remunerative work in the rural areas. [...] The planting of forests on a national scale the draining of marshes the reclamation of millions of acres now lying useless the exploitation of mineral and peat resources the develoment of fisheries the building of rural homes—all these and kindred works would increase the country's prosperity spreading directly and indirectly through the whole rural community (including the now dwindling [...] At the end of it all is the dream of a superstate : 'to spread the Protestant religion to be the shelter for the afflicted the support of widows and orphans the sustenance of the poor and the judge of the unjust' It was an extraordinary letter ; more extrordinary still is the fact that before his death he realised his plan to the full.