Breeding revolution
THE Western world today is trembling on the brink of a crisis precipitated by powerful movements in the financial, the commercial, and the industrial worlds. Unless by wise counsels and sane action the crisis can be averted, there is an alarming prospect of a war to the bitter end, culminating in financial panic, commercial depression and industrial unemployment. This menacing situation is an aftermath of the war, accentuated since the cessation of hostilities by a reaction of apathy and an almost universal
greed of gold. This apathy and greed have combined to create a tension which, as the days and weeks went by, became more and more intolerable and which failing remedy was bound to find vent in an outburst. The danger of the moment is that the whole structure of compromise and evasion may be swept away by a front of human passion, unwilling to listen to reason and seeking satisfaction in bootless revenge. In brief the Western world, and with it the British Empire, stands on the verge of revolution, unless, at the eleventh hour some way out of the impasse can be found. The British as a nation are a peaceful people, yet they are being caught up in the wellnigh irresistible current of anarchy and Bolshevism which is lapping the shores of the Western world.