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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 7, Issue 1 (May 1, 1932.)

Clouds Nearer Home

page 51

Clouds Nearer Home.

There was a time when the recent fighting in China would have claimed almost a monopoly of European newspaper space; when the prospect of Russo-Japanese war over Manchuria and Mongolia would have been a ruling topic; when the Hellenist outbreak in Cyprus, and the Italian outburst in Malta, and the renewed Anglophobia in Egypt and India would have provoked a new spasm of anxiety concerning the Empire's Mediterranean-Suez artery. But it is a changed world that reflects itself in newspapers to-day—a world striving first and foremost for economic recovery. The depression strikes too near home to stimulate public curiosity in adventure oversea. This quiescence does not mean that the diplomatic sky is cloudless. It only means bigger clouds confronting everybody in his own back-yard.