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NIGHT EDITOR: DENNIS FLANAGAN
The editorials published in The Michigan
Daily are written by members of the Daily
staff and represent the views of the writers
only.
's UpTo'You . . .
y OU ARE ONLY ONE of 11,366 stu-
dents on this canpus. But today you
ve an opportunity to emerge from that inco-
rent mass and express your opinion on every-
ng from dormitories to the foreign policy of
United States.
Today, for the second time in the history of
e University, the student body will have an
portunity to make its voice felt in University
incils-in the shaping of the curriculum,
;ulation of fraternities, in real student self-
vernment and the preservation of academic
edom.
roday, for the second time in the history of
e University, the student body will have an
portunity to take its stand on labor relations,
government regulation of utilities and the
rbing of monopoly, oh farm legislation, relief
d social insurance, on the anti-lynching bill
d civil liberties, on neutrality, collective secur-
and isolation.
[oday, for the second time in the history of'the
iversity, elections will be held under a system
Proportional Representation for the Student
nate. Among the platforms printed in Wednes-
y's Daily and among the candidates listed in
lay's you will find a spokesman for your views.
rhe Student Senate elections today provide
ining for democracy, for intelligent citizenship.
T'he mechanics are simple: bring your identifi-
tion card to the polls. Balloting will take place
:30 to 2 p.m. at the Law School; 9 a.m. to
0 p.m. at the Engineering School, the Library
d Angell Hall; 9 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. at the Union
d League.
You have the facts. The rest is up to you.
piling up of these armaments, the economic
threat to world peace is incalculable.
It isodoubtful if any economy can support a
huge war machine and still adequately feed,
clothe, and house its people. Goods; resources,
skilled labor, technical management, capital,
power, and transportation facilities are limited
and cannot be tapped endlessly. Germany, in
building up her war machine, has reduced her
standard of living 25% below its level in 1932,
which then was scarcely adequate.
The average citizen looks at Germany and
Italy and sees everyone apparently employed.
He reads in newspapers that the armament pro-
gram will create a demand for steel plates and
castings for battleships and tanks; that this
will cause a boom in lagging capital goods indus-
tries which will absorb a major portion of the
unemployed by 1940. He forgets that these men,
in the final analysis, can only consume what they
produce, and American workingmen have so far
shown no appetite for armor plate or gun-powder.
Factories built to manufacture gun carriages
can hardly at the same time turn out electric
refrigerators. Steel to be used in tanks must be
diverted from the manufacture of needles, razor
blades, and automobiles. Hence fewer of these
peace time commodities can be produced, and the
price will necessarily be higher. The net result,
of course, is that the people will consume fewer
of them. The choice is inevitable.
Prosperity? For the munitions manufacturer
perhaps! His profit will swell far higher than
prices. For the rest of the nation, no!-unless
merchandisers can induce American women to
adopt steel helmets, raise their offspring on nitro-
glycerine, and drive to town in armored tanks
instead of automobiles-an absurd presumption,
perhaps, but sufficiently carried to its logical
extreme.
Any attempt to induce taxpayers to swallow
the heavy armament pill by sugar-coating and
placing it in a box labeled "recovery measui!"
must be felt in time. After the sugar-coating has
worn off, the bitter effects of the dosage will be
evident-in the lower real income for the work-
ing people of America.
Whether to arm or not to arm is not the issue
raised here. The issue is the dangerous one of
peddling an armament program as a recovery
measure. It is by means of such subtle propaganda
that democracies are led astray.
-John Canavan
T he E dito r
Gets 'TLold,..
Vote Today
To the Editor:
Today, from 9 a.m. till 5:30 p.m. student body
of the University of Michigan will again have
the opportunity to elect members to the Student
Senate. At the present time there are 16 vacancies
in the Senate, one half of the total membership,
which means that by holding semi-annual elec-
tions the Senate will be a constantly revolving
body. Such a plan was hit upon so that at no time
would it be necessary to elect an entirely new
body, there always being present 16 old members
to more or less initiate the newcomers to their
duties. Although at this time there are only one
half as many positions to be filled as formerly,
there are proportionately twice as many caldi-
dates, which goesto indicate the interest which
the student body is taking in the organization.
The Hare System of Proportional Representa-
tion, under which the election is being held,
operates to give every faction and group on
campus a voice in the workings of the body. For
the system to function properly, however, it is
very necessary that enough students participate
in the balloting to give a fair cross section of the
various trains of student thought represented
on our campus. You should, therefore, consider
it your duty to participate.
Last March 1700 students, a record turn out for
campus elections, took part in the voting. It is
evident, however, that this nowhere near approxi-
mates the number of students that should vote,
to adequately represent a student body numbering
some 12,000. It is therefore with great sincerity
that I urge each student to make use of his right
and fulfill his duty by casting his vote in today's
Student Senate election.
Tom Adams, '40
President, Student Senate
ffeeinr to Me
1-eywood Broun
An Italian newspaper which naturally speaks
for Mussolini, has begun a campaign to convince
Italian cinema fans that the Marx Brothers, the
Ritz Brothers and Charlie Chaplin are not funny.
And when a Fascist mouth-
piece editorializes for the
benefit of its readers it isn't
just arguing with them but
telling them where to get off.
When the Duce frowns no
one in his empire is supposed
to smile. Obviously a rejec-
tion slip from the head man
in Rome implies no lack of
artistic merit but merely an Aryan deficiency.
And this may concern America rather more inti-
mately than we imagine at the moment.
I am not suggesting that the marines be landed
in Venice to preserve disorder when Harpo is at
his riotous best. Still it might be possible for Cor-
dell Hull to arrange a compromise in the matter
of the interdiction placed' upon the comic gifts
of Groucho, Harpo and Chico. Mr. Hull could
remind Mr'. Mussolini that Zeppo is no longer
acting but has become an agent. And yet per-
haps there isn't even so much as a small facet of
anything funny in the whole business.
When Churchill said, "The lights are going
out," he spoke of a domain even wider than the
British Empire upon which the sun has begun to
set. The repercussions of foreign censorships
do touch us here. This is particularly true of
motion pictures. In the creation of an expensive
film-or any one at all, for that matter-the
producer likes to figure that he will get part of
his costs back from the foreign market. There
are certain ideas and themes which will be banned
in the Fascist countries. Motion picture mag-
nates are likely to shy away from them.
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Censorship Knows No Limits
One of the best- known motion picture writers
in Hollywood has just completed an anti-Hitler
story. He has put it in the form of a play for
the legitimate stage. He knows perfectly well that
few if any of the studios would care to handle it,
no matter what its merits.
And it is well to remember that the territory
over which Hitler can exercise at least a partial
censorship upon other matters as well has been
vastly augmented. In certain cases he can pass
the word to the Chamberlain Ministry, which
will pass it on to the American State Department,
which may prove obliging. This seems to have
been the double play by which John Strachey
was barred from this country. Neither Hitler
nor Chamberlain wanted him to have an op-
portunity to criticize the Munich pact before
American audiences. And so the Communist
bogey was paraded as the ostensible reason.
The radio is freer than the screen at the mo-
ment, but hardly untouchd. Dorothy Thompson
and several other well-known figures have made
slashing attacks upon Hitler over the air in the
last ten or twelve days. But usually both the net-
work and the sponsor prefer commentators who
take no sides at all in controversial questions.
A well-organized writing campaign will scare
the life out of an advertiser, and'foreign agents
can organize such a show of hands without the
slightest trouble.
* * *
Press Must Carry On The Fight
Our best hope lies in our press, but even if
every newspaper in America were 100 per cent
unbridled-and I would hold out for a somewhat
lower estimate-there would still be the difficulty
of getting accurate information from lands
where a correspondent is sent home as soon as he
tries to cable or mail an unpleasant truth.
I do not think this problem is neatly solved
by one of our great factual journals which bland-
ly prints the Italian stories sent by a correspond-
ent who is also a member of the Fascist party.
In spite of the Atlantic Ocean we will have to
fight to keep the crippling hand of the Munich
monarchs off our own screen and radio and stage
and press. For my part it involves anew responsi-
bility. I am not among the most ardent admirers
of the humors of the Ritz Brothers. But now
whenever they appear in a motion picture theatre
I mean to go and laugh my head off just to show
Mussolini what I think of him.
land's greatest mistakes was her part in the
Treaty of Versailles. All the indications are that
she is traditionally and methodically atoning for
her more flagrant violations of the law of nations
and working toward the establishment of an even
more stable balance of power for the future.
If the tolerant attitude of Great Britain toward
Germany were, ridiculously enough, the result
of a choice between the lesser of two evils, and
she chose to encourage Germany in the hope that
she would thus be placing an insurmountable
obstacle in the path of Russian expansion, then
I would agree that British foreign policy is
"stupid, inept, and near-sighted."
But has Germany gotten out of control? Is
there any reason to believe that she will go any
farther than Great Britain is willing to let her go?
What great sacrifice has Great Britain made to
effect a compromise with Hitler from which she
will not derive benefits a hundred-fold in time to
come? Thus far Great Britain has "lost face"
only with a sterile class of soft-hearted liberals
whom "perfidious Albion" will long survive.
-F. 0.
"Every college student today should learn
whatever he can from teachers, courses and
books about human relationships. They are far
more important just now than the control of
You of M
By Sec Terry
ENROUTE TO NEW YORK CITY,
Oct. 20 (Special)-Last time this
writer visited Gotham, we were sixt
months old and extremely impres-
sionable Broadway then was charg-
ing $2.00 a play, and drayma critics,v
who doubled in brass as baseballa
writers and obituary compilers, ravedf
about "Seven Keys to Baldpate," andt
Montague's hilarious "Potash and s
Perlmutter." Calloused bankers chilled c
their assets when William Fox spentt
$800,000 to make "Neptune's Daugh-a
ter," with Annette Kellerman screened
in tights. U. S. Steel sold at 60, Gen-
eral Motors at 90. Ty Cobb flittedf
along the American League base-s
paths like a cloud of dust, and Theo-I
dore Roosevelt struggled vainly toU
overpower a fatal jungle fever.
Overseas, infernal imps were whis-
pering into the ears of heartless mon-
archs; the Hohenzollerns, Hapsburgse
and Romanoffs flourished, and ther
words, "communism" and "fascism"a
were as yet unknown. Manhattan
burghers were still stunned by the
tragedy of the Cunard line's cracks
ship, the Lusitania. The Minsky bro-
thers hadn't yet invaded the theatre, "
Dutch Schultz was a petty punk on
the East Side, and a man could get
a husky corned beef sandwich free
with every drink.
Beyond that we don't remember, be-o
cause things are a bit blurred at six
months. Father didn't want to spoil
his callow kid, so he hustled us backt
into West Virginia, where the Alle-
ghanies could shield us from the
verities and barbarities of the big
city hurdy-gurdy.
Last year, when-disguised as a
sports writer-we covered the Michi-U
gan-Pennsylvania game at Philadel-a
phia, we came perilously near return-$
ing to New York. Joe Mattes, who
accompanied us, fell in with a rowdyp
alumni group in the Benjamin Frank-
lin Hotel, and to guard the impetuous
Mattes from telephoning to Spain, or
assailing the house detectives (cops
are always anathema to M), we stayedn
close by. Later in the evening, Mattes'i
welfare was a matter of little concern(
to us, and when he grabbed a phonee
and called Stanley Walker at Bleeck's
in Gotham, we cheered him lustily.C
We planned to hop over to New YorkA
for a threesome of small talk, but
when we checked the books, Mattes1
shouted, "We've been robbed!" We
might have been at that, who knows?
At any rate, we were forced to spend2
the rest of that particular night in
comatose Philly--with the alumni. C
-But now as we draw nigh Holland
Tunnel, mingled expectation beset1
us. What's the big burg like now?
The papers report its mayor wears 1
a black sombrero; a former music
student has become a racket busterC
and gubernatorial candidate (Tom
Dewey); an uncloistered pedant
(Thornton Wilder) is commentating
in his sceneryless play, "Our Town;"
Flushing swamps are being converted
into a fragile city of the future (or
is it a mirage?); one cafe (El Mor-
occo) requires a mortgage and that
you be "a friend of Yancey's" before
admitting you; and the natives still
think the United States ends at the
Hudson River and that Chicago is a
place which got in the papers for fourf
days this Fall because of a hillbillyc
named Dizzy Dean.F
It will be quite a thrill to get back
after all these years and note the
changes.
* * *
TOMORROW, we drive up to New p
Haven, Conn., where the Michigans
and Yales meet after 55 years ofE
peace. In 1883 the warriors of Old b
Eli swamped the Wolverines, and ita
must have been a decisive victory, fort
an ancient survivor, Horace Pretty-
man, who now resides in Ann Arbor,
can't seem to remember much about
it. "My memoryiwas pretty much
jarred by that licking," Prettyman t
recalls. However, even the provincial
Eastern writers rate; Michigan anC
odds-on favorite, and the Yales them-
selves are not unmindful of Jerry
Ford's alleged telegram after the
Minnesota game. Ford, who scouted
the Michigan last week, wired: "Con-
gratulations on sinking the Navy, butE
advise cancellation of game next Sat-c
urday." The wire was never producedI
but it makes good reading. Michigan
12, Yale 0.
Plato, A Fascistt
Was Plato the first Fascist? Pro-
fessor Shatkin of the Moscow Electri-
cal Institute makes the electrifying
announcement that Plato was not1
only the Father and Founder of Fas-
cism but,,what is even worse in Russia,
a Menshevist, and, in all probability,
a Trotskyite Buchanarist.
This dreadful news has exicted de- {
bate even in Russia. The Comosol4
Pravda, organ of the Young Commu-
nist League, denounces Professor
Shatkin as a "mountebank" and com-
pletely inverted on his dialectical
materialism. It is obvious that the
Young Communists regard Plato as a
good Old Communist who advocated
the first Athenian soviet through the
socialization of property and the com-
munity of wives.
Mussolini will never accept Plato as
a Fascist. He was not even a Roman
citizen. But the Nazis know he was a
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ties on Wednesday evening, Oct. 26,C
in the ballroom of the Michigan,
Union at 8:30 p.m. The receptionp
will take place from 8:30 to 10 o'clock,
after which there will be dancing
from 10 to 12. It is especially hoped
that new teaching fellows and in-
structors may be present and thei
chairmen of departments are askeda
to be of assistance in bringing this
about.-
Students who were promised books y
from the Textbook Lending Librarys
should call at the Angell Hall Studyp
Hall this week. Most of the books
which were ordered have arrived. t
E. A. Walter.
Rackham Building: Open every day n
except Sunday from 8 a.m. until 10'
p.m. for the use of graduate studentsP
and graduate organizations.
Candidates for Rhodes Scholar- C
ships: The University Committee will a
meet on Thursday, Nov. 3 in 118 Ha- ,
ven. Candidates are asked to make s
appointments in the History De-a
partment Office, 119 Haven Hall. R
n
Michigan Wolverine: There is an d
opening in the personnel competition
or a student who intends to be in
chool for at least this year and next,
to act as Assistant Treasurer in the
present year, and succeed to the of- 1
fice of Treasurer in the school year n
1939-1940.
Compensation as Assistant Treas-
urer willsbe Board and $3.00perdweek;
s Treasurer it will be Board ands
$7.00 per week. Only highly quali-e
fied men need apply. Applicantse
please call at the office of the Wol-b
verine, before Saturday evening ofa
this week.
The University Bureau of Appoint-
ments has received notice of the fol-A
lowing Civil Service Examinations:
(Last date for filing applications giv-
en after each).
United States Civil Service. Deputy
United States Game Management
Agent. Salary: $1,800, Nov. 15, 1938.C
Multilith Operator. Salary: $1,440, T
Nov. 14, 1938.-it
Michigan Civil Service. Hearings r
Stenographer. Salary: $130-190, Oct. p
28, 1938. 1
Numeric Bookkeeping Machine
Clerk. Salary: $80-100, Nov. 1, 1938.
Elevator Operator. Salary: $80- t
100, Nov. 15, 1938. r
Bean Inspector. Salary: $115-190, d
Nov. 7, 1938. v
Bridge Engineer. Salary: $250-310,
Ot. 29, 1938.
Bridge Operator. Salary: $105-125, a
Nov. 7 1938 i'
Complete announcements are on 0
file at the University Bureau of Ap- w
pointments, 201 Mason Hall. I
University 'Bureau of Appoint- t
ments and Occupational Infor-1
mation. 201 Mason Hall. t
Office Hours: 9-12 and 2-4.
Sociology 147 Social Psychology
(last semester). Make-up for June
inals in this course will be givenT
Saturday, Oct. 22, 9 a.m. Room 115 I
Haven Hall. F
Exhibitions ,
An Exhibition of Early Chinese v
Pottery: Originally held in conjunc-c
ion with the Summer Institute of tI
Far Eastern Studies, now re-opened
by special request with alterations
and additions. Oct. 12-Nov. 5. At
the College of Architecture. Dailyn
(excepting Sundays) 9 to 5.F
Ann Arbor Artists' Exhibitior.: 16th
Annual Ann Arbor Artists' Exhibi-
tion, held under the auspices of thea
Ann ArIlor Art Association, in thec
Galleries of Alumni Memorial Hall,
Daily 2-5 p.m., through Oct. 26.
Lecturess
Public Lecture: Dr. Elzada U. Clov-
er will give an illustrated lecture, in
color, on "The Nevills Colorado River
Expedition," at 4:15 p.m., Friday,
Oct. 21, in the Lecture Room of the
Rackham Bldg., under the auspices
of the Department of Botany andr
the Botanical Gardens.
Actuarial Review Classes. Will meet
on Tuesday at 1 o'clock and on
Thursday at 3 o'clock in Room 3011
Angell Hall. beginning Tuesday, Oct.-
25.
University Lectures: Dr. Albert
Charles Chibnall, Professor of Bio-
chemistry at Imperial College of Sci-
ence and Technology, University of
London, will give the following lec-
tures: under the auspices of the De-
partment of Biochemistry:
Nov. 4, 4:15 p.m., Amphitheatre,
Horace H. Rackham School of Grad-!
uate Studies, ,The Preparation and
Chemistry of the Proteins of Leaves."
Nov. 4, 8:15 p.m., Room 303 Chem-
istry Building, "The Application of
X-rays to the Study of the Long
Chain Components of Waxes."
Nov. 5, 11 a.m., Room 303, Chem-
istry Building, "Criticism of Methods,
macology of Ergot" on Thursday,
Nov. 10. at 4:15 p.m., in Room 165
Chemistry Building, urder the auspi-
ces of the College of Pharmacy. The
public is cordially invited.
Events T oday
Junior Mathematics Club. Will hold
its first meeting o the year today
at 4:15 p.m., in Room 3201 A.H.
Dr. R. M. Thrall will give a
short talk on "Some Elementary
Ideas about Groups." Plans for the
year will be discussed. All interested
students who have had or are com-
pleting a course in the calculus are
cordially invited to attend and to join
he club.
The Delta Epsilon Pi fraternity will
meet today at 7:30 p.m. in the Michi-
gan Union in Room. 319. Members,
please be on time.
Luncheon Discussion: Dr. Abraham
Cronbach, Professor of Jewish Studies
at Hebrew Union College, and noted
as a pacifist and social reformer, will
peak on "Judaism and World Peace"
at the Union today at 12:15 p.m.
Reservations for the 35c luncheon
nay be made at Lane Hall. Those who
o not wish to attend the luncheon
are welcome for the talk at 12:45.
The Suomi Club will have a "kahvi
kekkeri" at 8 o'clock tonight in the
Upper Room in Lane Hall. All Fin-
msh students are cordially invited.
Recreation Night at the Interna-
tional Center: Although some of our
students will be away on the week-
nd outing at Patterson Lae this
evening, the International Center will
be open as usual. The ping pong
and bridge tournaments will continue.
Stalker Hall: The class in "Through
the New Testament" led by Dr. C. S.
Brashares will meet at 7:30 o'clock.
At 9 o'clock a group will leave on a
Treasure Hunt returning to the Hall
for refreshments.
A Hayride will be given by the Stu-
dent Fellowship of the Congregational
Church this evening at eight o'clock.
There will be refreshments and danc-
ng afterwards. Price 40 cents. Make
reservations before Friday noon at.
Pilgrim Hall, or call 2-1679between
1:30 and 5:30 p.m.
Open House tonight at the Presby-
erian Student Center, 1432 Washte-
naw Avenue. All Presbyterian stu-
dents and their friends cordially in-
vited.
All Students interested in the ASU
are invited to the Progressive Club's
ocial tonight in the new social room
of the Lane Hall basement. There
vill be dancing to records, including
nixer dances; also refreshments. The
ime is 9 to 1, and the charge is only
10c apiece. Come and have a good
ime. Freshmen are specially invited.
Coming Events
German Table for Faculty Members.
The regular luncheon meeting will be
held Monday at 12:10 p.m. in the
Founders' Room of the Michigan
Union.
All faculty members interested in
speaking German are cordially in-
vited. Professor Otto Laporte,. re-
cently returned from a trip around
the world will give a brief .informal
talk.
Cercle Francais: There will be a
meeting, Monday, Oct. 24 at 8:15, in
Room 408, Romance Language Bldg.,
to receive thenewrmembers. There
will be a special' program with songs
and refreshments, and Mr. Koella will
welcome the new members. If you
cannot come, please call Mary Allison
at 2-3225.
Alpha Phi Alpha: There will be a
call meeting in the Michigan Union,
Monday night, Oct. 24. The room
number will be posted on the Union
bulletin. All members are urged to
be present at 7:30 p.m.
Sphinx Club of Alpha Phi Alpha
will hold its first meeting of the term
Tuesday night at nine o'clock, Oct.
25, ate the Michigan Union. The
room number will be posted on the
Union bulletin.
Chemcal Engineers: There will be
a district A.I.Ch.E. meeting in Fern-
dale, Wednesday, Nov. 2, during the
afternoon and evening. Program in-
cludes a plant trip, illustrated talk,
and banquet. Dinner will be $1. and
transportation $1.25. Group will
leave at 2:30 and return at 11:00.
Will all those interested in attend-
ing please sign the list on the bulletin
board opposite the East Engineering
Library before Monday morning.
Graduate Outing Club will have an
over-night outing at Camp Tacoma
on Clear Lake on Oct. 22-23. The
group will leave the northwest en-
trance of the Rackham Building at
2:30 p.m. Saturday and will return
Sunday afternoon after dinner. Each
person is requested to bring his own
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-S. R. Kleima
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iild Recoveloy
Sa
AS YOU hastily thumbed Sunday's
Detroit News for the sports page,
you may have stumbled across a headline which
screamed; "Six Billions To Be Poured Into Re-
covery." Perhaps Dad told you a new coat would
not be forthcoming unless business got better, so
you read the story. If so, you were impressed with
the claim that this new prosperity was to be
the result of a large scale armament program.
If you made a mental note that the coat would
be tweed, you might better change your order
to U. S. Steel armor plate. You stand a better
chance of collecting under the circumstances.
For no machine has yet been devised to turn out
both tweed and a sheet of armor, an automobile
and an armed tank, or face powder and a high
explosive.
The average citizen is prone to overlook this
point in his sublime faith in an "economy of
plenty." The fact is that we do not live in an
economy of plenty. Despite' our mines, forests,
factories, and wheat fields, we still have our'
millions who are ill-fed, ill-clad, and ill-housed.
Far from supplementing our still scarce supplies
of raw materials and capital goods, a rearmament
program can hardly help but diminish them. Even
assuming that we have sufficient idle plant and
labor capacity to float such a program without
diverting productive resources from consumption
goods, it is difficult to see how the use of idle
European Diplomacy
To the Editor:
Monday, last, an erudite contributor gave an
exclusive account of the intimate aims and ideals
of Europe's reigning diplomats. Without attempt-
ing at all to discredit his "speculations," it might
be well to question the validity of his premises
and possibly to request a few corroborative facts.
The scheme as carefully and particularly laid
out by the writer fails precisely by reason of its
logical consistency. We are dealing with nations
which, like human beings, act primarily on im-
pulse, and cannot be made to fit into any minute-
ly defined pattern. Everything has been planned
according *to some preconceived notion in the
writer's mind, and there is just a faint indication
that his well-reasoned probabilities have been
slightly skewed on the side of personal prejudice.
Otherwise why should the busy maneuvering
of British diplomats in recent days, be construed
as a "face-saving act" any more than as the
brilliant execution, in typical British style, of a
concerted plan for the rehabilitation of Ger-
many? Assuming for the time being that it has
always been the policy of Great Britain to shift
its weight back and forth so as*to maintain a
balanced state of affairs in Europe, which would
be more conducive toward the creation of an
equilibrium in Europe today; to join her strength