Evening star., 1933-06-11

nationalist. Socialist, radical as the
premier of a nationalist cabinet and
without profound convictions in the
economic and monetary sphere Except
that the world in the last resort can
only be saved by socialism, to which it
will doubtless come in due course, any,
way, unless world bolshevism inter-
venes) confronts infinite difficulties.
His eyes. deep-.set In that long, rugged
or smile kindly behind horn-r trimmed
spectacles. But never far away is the
wary glance, the sudden, suspicious
glance, the shrewd. Scrutinizing, meas
uring, willy look of the professional poll
tician who has to watch his step, who
has to guard his back as we'll as his
front. who has to maneuver every day
OF his life. Behind this official facade
Of his. what does he wantp He wants
to see world brotherhood with all that
| implies. Only his Scotch common sense
balances him and keeps him In touch
with the realities and working within
the conditions as he finds them instead
OF flying off into the stars or running
head on into the morass of communism
in the Russian manner. which in his
view is only exchanging one form of
tyranny for another. When he dreams
and he dreams frequently in private II
not In public-he sees the World Eco
nomic Conference as another step along
the broad road that leads to the pro-
gressive and peaceful dissolution of ma
tional barriers and to the growth of
new and splendid world order in which
all men will be free, happy and equal.
Fears Two Results.
He also sees in the failure Of this
peace conference Qor 1t Is peace con-
ference, the war being none the less
ferocious and sanguinary because it is
waged with currency shells. tariff tanks
and exchange restriction bombs a great
.L ana perhaps a final move toward two
things which he fears and hates. One
OF those things is an intensified nation
alism which would give stimulus also
to an aggressive and predatory i'm
perlalism: the other Is complete break
down. which in Russia produced boil
shevism and which in the Old World
brought the night of the Dark Ages
which lasted 400 years.
With this basic outlook he puts his
passion BEND the conference and
leaves it to his colder and less world
dreamy cabinet colleagues to bargain
and negotiate and find the necessary
practical ways and means to produce
success for the conference within the
framework Of the essential interests of
the state in which he IS py the grace
OF King George and the political lead
ers to the right of him, the executive
head
Those men in the aggregate are
formidable team Not one of them.
except perhaps Stanley Baldwin. could
have met Franklin D. Roosevelt and
established the quick, genuine personal
contact and understanding which the
Scotch international Socialist managed
to achieve. Their minds are not so
supple. their political instincts are not
so keen, their interest In the moral
progress of mankind, as distinct from
the material advantage of one insular
and imperial section Of it, is not so deep
rooted.
List Of NatiOnalists.
| The chief among them are Neville
Chamberlain, chancellor of the ex-
chequer; Lord Hailsham, the war min
! ister; Stanley Baldwin the Tory party
leader: Walter Runciman, the shipping
banking and insurance man who sits
| intrenched in the minister's chair In
the Board of Trade department, and
Jim Thomas, the bluff Labor leader,
who is dominions minister.
All these men are Nationalists. Even
Baldwin, who is regarded as half Social
ist by the Tory right wing, is insular;
and when he" looks at the big globe
of the world in his library he sees that