SERVICE, NOT WAR DECLARED TEST OF NATION'S WORTH
Service, Not War Declared Test of Nation's Worth Civilization Conference Is Told That Teaching of Military, History Fosters Belligerent Ideas. War WILLIAMSTOWN. Mass. National greatness Is...
...Service of one's country thought of as fighting against sorr other country...
...l{ tory is generally nationalistic...
...Lord Meston...
...Speaking of the treatment of India by the English government...
...Burns...
...former lieutenant-gor-ernor of British India, another speaker at the conference, stated that the so-called nationalism in India is reahy Hinduism and that the "art of the demagogue has been exploited with no mean skill...
...spoliation, tyranny, and brutality are manufactured for export, to th» United States and elsewhere and are not meant to be serious...
...Ing of history in the schools and frc the vague memories of school hlst'd which survive in the newspapers...
...On account of such instruction in the schools, war and preparations for war become important, said Prof...
...Children are taught that j chief contact of their wn coun...
...and be] cose...
...National greatness Is measured In terms ol service to ether people and not in military victories, declared C. Deiisle Burns, professor of the University of Olasgov: in an address this week before the Inte of Politics here in its general conference on the progress of western Prof...
...Monuments are raiser everywhere, not to poets, but to so: dlers...
...with foreigners has generally been r torious...
...Lord Meston said, "Accusations of misgovernment...
...Burn* said that men lean about their country "from the t«acl...
Vol. 1 • August 1930 • No. 38
