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...Candor is the keynote to the trend of the literary world of today," said Major Ian Hay Beith, noted English author and playwright, in an interview with a CRIMSON reporter yesterday afternoon...
...SHALLOW END-Major Ian Hay Beith-Houghton, Mifflin ($3.00). This book is dedicated to "the average British crowd"-God bless its sensible heart! Stimulated by the thought that "the shallow end is often much deeper than we think," the gallant Major considers, among other trivia: Midnight Revels (at home and abroad), Legal Cruelty (English courts), Universal Uncles (radiorators), A Rest Cure (English billiards), Graven Images (Madame Tussaud's famed waxworks), Royal and Antient (droll golf talk), The Springs of Laughter (Musical comedy). The vein employed is gentle satire of patent absurdities. Manners are mildly abused; the reader mildly amused...
Major John Hay Beith, the British author and soldier well-known as Ian Hay, states the case against pacifism with great justice and forbearance. As a rule, military men do not hesitate to condemn pacifists in strong and unmistakable language. Major Beith discusses the effects of non-resistance with becoming restraint and logic. But there are still several loose ends...
...only real fault which can be found with pacifism is that it is not yet universal. Obviously, if it were, there could be no fighting. As Major Beith points out, the laboring classes of Europe have about reached the point where they will refuse to fight for any cause. And inasmuch as armies are usually built around these classes, any large military operations on the continent will be seriously hampered for some time to come,--until that time at least when the horrors of war have lost their vividness...
...spite of logic, which says clearly enough that if no one will fight there can be no war, Major Beith and those who argue with him, have their feet firmly planted on the unassailable fact that there are still plenty of people who will fight with great joy if they have half a chance. There are few commodities cheaper than excuses for war, when the desire for war exists. Unfortunately then, as long as any considerable nation remains martial and aggressive, all the rest must follow suit, no matter how strongly reason urges them to pacifism. If it were universal...