Trend of World Affairs

The doctrine that there must be no sitting on the fence on the part of those who wish to combatwar was propounded by Mr. W. N. Pharazyn to a small family gathering of the Anti-War Club on Monday, 30th March. The situation to-day, described by the speaker as "an absolute horror," is in no respect different from that which produced the cataclysm of 1914-18.

Mr. Pharazyn attributed the emergence of the Entente Cordiale in 1904 from a condition of potential emnity between France and Britain, not to the Efforts of Edward the Peacemaker, but to the thrusting on the markets of goods labelled "made in Germany." the two colonial powers banded together in conjunction with Russia to protect themselves against the growing ambitions of a landless Germany, a ramshackle Austria and an awakening Italy. In 1911 the strength of the Enterte was great enough to humiliate Germany at Agadir, and that insult bent Germany's destinies to war.