The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-24
THE NEW BRITAIN

TT cropping, slipping, often wavering Britain over
which King Edward VIII has been summoned to
rule. The next five years may go long way toward
making or breaking his mighty empire.
England since the war has been in the hands of
tired vain old men," distinguished Briton said re-
Gently. Most of her grief, at home and abroad, is
traceable TO that fact Her leaders refused to break
with past they did not know was dead.
England" he went on, Jumped an entire genera
ton because the flower of that missing generation
now fill graves in Flanders. Those to whom fell the
job of running things, therefore, were mostly cid
men-men with pre-war ideas"
Now, new crowd is preparing to climb into the
saddle-a crowd facing forward instead of backward
crowd of whom Capt. Anthony Eden, present
foreign minister is representative. And the
ereign.
Great Britain, therefore is on the eve of battle
to recapture her former glory with young King
her throne whose every tie with the Victorian past
blown to bits by the shellfre which made the
world shambles couple of decades ago.
That "the tired old men, do not represent the
England of today and still less the England of to-
morrow, may be seen from what happened to the
Hoare-Badwn peace project for the Italo-Ethopian
war 1t was rejected by the Edens with such force
that all but overthrow the Tory government then
scarcely fortnight old.
TT remains to be seen just what lines the new
Britain will take. But three moves are almost GER
tain.
First, Britain Is expected to take the lead in re-
organizing the peace of Europe, either with the
League of Nations pivot, by multilateral pacts
between herself and the principal powers of the
tinent.
Second, by important moves in the Far East
diplomatic or otherwise.
Third, by building the worlds greatest navy and
great air force, not for purposes of imperialism
the Victorian sense, but to cement her vast empire
together protect it against threatened attack and
bolster its waning prestige.
Edward VIII is against balances of power-groups
of alliances, offsetting each other-save as last
resort. He is against encircling Germany. He wants
Germany inside the new European peace ring if that
be managed.
Britain is also uneasy over Japan. Nippon's naval
demands together with her steady partition of China
are seen as serious threat to the empire Britain,
therefore, is expected to reach a diplomatic under
standing with Japan safeguarding British interests
that part of the world, including Australia else
make herself strong enough to defend them
THE United States likely will be factor in Far
Eastern developments. Britain may seek
gentlemen's agreement with regard to the western
Paci1c-not an alliance-because both soon may be
poweress in that area.
The postwar peace group in Britain is favorable
to big navy and a large air force 1t admits the
League can not maintain peace unless mad-dog
nations know it will do something besides hold de-
bates when aggressions are committed. The new
King is believed to share this view.
Economically he is known to hold that the world
can never stage a comeback and abolish universal
unemployment until international trade is freed
from its present letters 1t is believed he will
courage revolutionary changes in British industry
and in the relations between British capital and
labor