The December Reviews
ouR troubles are international and the remedies to be applied must be international. Such is, in effect, the text of the series of thoughtful and informing articles in The Round Table, beginning with " Great Britain and the Financial Earthquake," going on to the American aspect of the crisis, and then con- sidering the world-problem. Our Government, it is urged, must take the lead " in seeking a new foundation for the world's credit and banking system." The situation in germany is fully described ; it is said to be very grave but not yet hopeless. The usual records of events in the Dominions are of special interest this month. The Irish chronicler incidentally declares that " the Irish language has now virtually ceased to be a language and has become an industry.", Two Liberal members, Mr. Mander and Mr. Shakespeare, write most cheerfully in the Contemporary on the " Political Prospects." Lord Olivier discusses, on the whole not un-, favourably, the report of the Joint Committee of both Houses an East African policy. Sir_ William Barton contributes a
thoughtful article on " Caste and the Indian Military Problem," in which the inability of the Hindu majority to contribute more than a small proportion of the recruits needed for a native army is pointed out and explained by the caste system. An article on Herr Adolf Hitler, the German " Nazi " leader, is worth reading.
In the National Mr. L. J. Maxse asks " Will History Repeat Itself ? "—that is, will the National Government throw away what he regards as a heaven-sent opportunity for establishing Protection just as Mr. Baldwin, in his view, threw away a similar chance in 1924-29 ? Mr. Maxse is impatient : he dislikes the "inevitability of gradualness." Mr. Becket Williams has a timely article on " Winter Sports in Britain,". and Miss Dorothy Crisp draws attention to the very interesting " Under Forty " movement.
• Sir John Marriott expresses his delight at " The Answer of Demos "—at the polls—in the Fortnightly. A corrective is supplied by Mr. Roger Chance, who recommends a course of "Plain Living, High Thinking" to the Conservatives as the best answer to the Socialist denunciations of " the idle rich." Mr. 0. D. RaSmussen's account of " The Chinese Soldier," usually a half-starved peasant who enlists because he has lost his all and who plunders because he is not paid, goes some way to explain the present chaos in China.
The recent hurricane in British Honduras, which destroyed Belize, is adinirably described by the late Governor in Blackzioods. Sir John Burdon made his official farewell to the colony on the morning of the day when the hurricane struck the town. Nothing could be better or more topical than this paper in the famous " From the Outposts " series.
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