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Lord Derby's French. Lard Derby was described by Bir Robert Horne, at a recent dinner to M. Doumorgue, as "the most popu lar Englishman in the world.” be
FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 1933.
MAKING OF YOUNG
COMMUNISTS
ENGLAND LIBELLED IN
SCHOOL BOOK
NURTURED ON LIES
To cover his confusion Lord Der! by promptly told a story against himself. A "senior officer," he said, once asked him bluntly: "Are you
No one can really understand the cussing the food situation with a as big a fool as you look, or do you Russin of to-day, or form a picture high Soviet official. Even then it look a bigger fool than you are of what may be the
Russia of to was apparent that the harvest would Lord, Derby did not reveal his
not: be sufficient to feed the people own choice between these alterna-morrow, without some knowledge of adequately. Said the foreigner: tives, but he made one shrewed re- the mental atmosphere in which the flection on his own notorious ignor people live, writes Martin Moore in ance of the French language-an the Daily Telegraph. Ignorance which did not prevent him from being the most popular Ambassador this country has had in speak for the present and the im- the country during the coming Paris for many years.
War By November. "You laid in very large reserven of grain for the army last year. Will the Government be able to re- Economic facts and figures can lease any of those reserves to feed.
mediate future; but the mass-mind winter?
At the Peace Conference, he re- now being created must influence The Bolshevik considered for a lated, a very bigh British person-events for generations to come.. moment, and then replied: age was convinced that he knew! The creation of this mentality is French, and an equally high French a phenomenon unique in world his personage was convinced that he tory,
"It is possible. If there is no war by November, we shall regard the danger as temporarily past; then some of the army food re-
knew English. Each Insisted on. The minds of more than 160,000,- speaking the other's language, with 000 people-few of them with any serves may be released." the result that they failed utterly background of previous education to reach an understanding.
M. Painleve's Industry.
Much more serious than the pro-
are being nurtured almost entirely paganda by radio, paster and Press on lies and half-truths, as far as the among the adult population is the outside world is concerned. Com-distorted picture of the world pre- M. Plainleve, the French Air munist propaganda abroad is mere sented to school-children. England Minister, who collapsed in the purposeless talk compared with is especially singled out for school- French Chamber recently, has, re- Communist propaganda at home. book calumny. covered his normal good health.
The Best Thing
I reproduce without comment the But his friends are insisting that Do not expect to find inefficiency following extract from an English in future he will avoid the over-in this department of State activity. primer which
I was fortunate work which led to his collapse. It is the best thing the Bolsheviks enough to obtain in Moscow, despite M. Painleve is probably the riost do. After all, they have had only the strict precautions taken to pre- Industrious statesman in the world. fifteen years' experience of govern-vent such books from falling into For some years past he has worked ing, but all the leaders have had a foreigners hands: at mathematical researches until lifetime's training in the technique "In England and Its colonies to those who are acquainted with four o'clock in the morning, and of propaganda.
children begin to work in mines the facts. It was certainly grant-riaan at seven to resume his minis- From early morning until he goca when they reach 12 years. Hun- ed before the establishment of terial activities.
to bed, in every phase of his life, dreds of children parish in ac- Hong Kong, Friday, Jan. 27, 1933, Parliamentary government; but Ever M. Poincare, who is at his the Soviet citizen is assailed by cidents in the mines every year."
ita publication almost directly desk every morning at five o'clock, propaganda. It comes to him over Great Wall of Lies after the conclusion and signa- takes the precaution of retiring the ether to the remotest villages." Several of the lessons in this book Persia And The League. ture of the contract provoked no early and obtaining at least six Propaganda shouts at the citizen take the form of letters supposed to
such hostile criticism as had com- hours' sleep.
from the walls of his factory, his be written by foreign children to The Anglo-Persian dispute has pelled the Shah and his Ministers
dining-room, his club, and most of their young comrades in Russia. entered upon another, and it may sions. Nor, when a Constitution to annul certain previous conces-)
the public buildings. He reads We get letters from America, Eng- nothing else in the newspapers. He land, and other capitalist countries be hoped a final, stage at Geneva was granted and a Parliament set
heara propaganda from the talking that tell us about child-labour this week when the British case up thanks, largely, to the sup-
screen and from the stage." : there," says the book, "how children is presented formally before the port of the then British Govern- The golf novice who said he as Much of this propaganda is mere: must work for twelve and fifteen
ment, who incidentally saved theja tuft customer.
ly designed to teach industrial and hours a day in factories and in League Council. Reference of
life of the present Persian Minis
agricultural eficiency, and much of mines; they have no time to read, the matter to the Council of thejter of Finance by their interven- League of Nations is the method tion was there any serious Par- Even the best short story writers of settling disputes to which the liamentary criticism of the terms can't succeed in telung their wives
of the D'Arcy concession. The the tale. civilized world has pledged itself, subsequent more or less Consti
Your Daily Smile.
• critic.
TRUTHFUL.
PHILOSOPHY:
鲽
JUST THE SAME.
TRAGEDY.
**Little
when
it pursues the comparatively harm- they have no time to think even." less aim of glorifying the nets of Here is a typical exaruple : the party and the Government. But Hyp in Liverpool. I am the whatever concerns the outside world daughter of a textile worker. I am especially Britain and America 14 years old. I work at a shoe- is based upon falschood. By maker's. I begin my work at 7 a.m.
(Continued on Page T.)
To appreciate the effect of such a campaign of untruths against for [eign countries one must realise the complete isolation of the Russian
people: Never since before Peter SPANKING JUVENILE
the the Great have they been an.com- pletely cut off from the outside
His car had been stolen and
world.
All the news they get is either
BEER DRINKERS.
New Punishment in Victoria B.C.
and it is right that Britain tutional Governments never con- Have You Heard? should give so conspicuous a lead. tested the validity of the Anglo- The necessary steps were taken Persian Oil Company's title until the dyspeptic's song, by the Government under Arti doctrine that a change in the Then He Sharpens Up.
last November. In any case the Mary, quite contrary.”
cle 15 of the Covenant of the form of the Government of a One chap ands most trade League, which provides for the State justifies the unilateral re-
: submission to the Council of any pudiation of contracts previously things are dull, and that's
recognized by law as valid is not knife-grinder.: dispute between members of the accepted outside Soviet Russia, League which is "likely to lead to and does not furnish a very at-
In Shakespeare's time the word bad news or false news, and even a rupture," No other course lay tractive or convincing preface to open to them, since the Persian the other charges brought "daughter" was pronounced "daf- those who are able to read foreign against the company. Some of tor. Which just shows you that papers can neither buy them in Government had formally refus- these appear to be inspired by no they had modern girls in those Russia nor have them sent in from (Reuters Special Mall Service).
abroad. En ed to admit that the present dis- thing more substantial than days, too.
Victoria, B.C.- Two fundamental beliefs are A spanking for every round of pute was justifiable by the Per-jealousy of the Government of
drummed into the minds of even the beer is Attorney-General Pooley's manent Court of International Iraq, which recently obtained bet Mystery Repeats Itself.
"The unjority of modern thrill- tiniest tots at school-firstly, that latest innovation to curb beer drink- ter terms from the closely aa80- Justice at The Hague. This re-clated Iraq Petroleum Company: Jere are very much alike, declares the collapse of the capitalist world ing among British Columbia's
is Imminent; secondly, that a war of younger bloods. fusal might indeed have been an others by a reluctance to accept
aggression against the Soviet Union
The new punishment, designed to ticipated. When Persia ratified the formal Agreements of 1920,
is in active preparation
chasten beer-awallowing boys with her acceptance of the Optional which set out the basis upon
England Breaking Up out conning them in gaol with which the Persian, Government's Clause of the Statute of The royalty was to be calculated, and there was a petrol can in It held Many Russians honestly belleve common criminals, was devised by that the complete break-up of the Attomey-General when called in Hague Court she made a number settled outstanding Persian finan-paid two shillings on.
Western civilisation is merely to review the case of two young- of reservations, and one of them cial claims, as binding instru
matter of months. Every Item of stera. The boys had considered it was held by her Government to ments. To further charges
news from abroad a designed to the smart thing to take girl friends cover the present dispute. It ex again, which raise large questions
minister to this belief. Every to a beer parlour in the town... cepted "cisputes regarding ques of policy, the company can no
strike or lock-out, every minor Because they were minors and not tions which under international doubt oppose a strong defence - With only 901,000 gross tons of brush with the police, every un entitled to enter beor parlours, the law fall exclusively within the on the ground that their interest merchant ships under construction employed demonstration, every May local magistrate said they must pay jurisdiction of Persia from the in securing a market for Persian on September 30 the world total Day parade in every corner of the 250 apiece or apend three months in Court's jurisdiction. In the light oil against foreign competition of recent precedents it would be necessarily involves them in in has falled below the millonton world is magnified and distorted gool. Mr. Pooley said he would
Imminent revolution
if their parents would do it under easy enough, no doubt, to tra-portant and often costly under mark for the first time in more until it appears the forerunner of commute the sentence to a spanking verse the contention that a dia takings outside the borders of than 50 yasza. -
A particularly widespread belief police supervision Just to make sure pute between a "Sovereign State Persia. One personal point, An implement consisting of a about Britain is that 3,000,000 unit hurt. and a foreign commercial com- which recent events have number of rods projecting from a employed receive neither money nor pany operating in its territories made abundantly clear, deserves handle has been invented for break food, and have been turned out of is not justifiable by The Hague to be emphasized Persia is no- Court, But nothing could be minally a Constitutional Mon-
ing cakes that are too fresh to be their homes to sleep in the streets..
Almost every Russian with whom fent po gained_ty- attempting to per- archy, but in fact the Shah
I talked made one of two remarks. suade the Perslans to change wields dictatorial powers, and An airplane carrying an insect A young person would say their minds, and the British has established an ascendancy trap is being used by Honolulu must be terribly bad in England!" Government's recourse to the over his Ministers which rendera League Council has one obvious it most difficult for them to show health authorities in seeking out From a man or woman old enough advantage. The Hague Court any hesitation in obeying the and destroying mosquito breeding to be a little sceptical usually came the question Tell me, are things can pronounce judgment only on Royal commands. In the present places
really to bad in England? the purely legal lasues involved instance, there can be little doubt
Genuine belief in the imminenco in the dispute.The Council of that the Government and the the League may be expected to local representative of the com
wark was force behin
Plan appoint a competent neutral Company might still have been nego
Fear of mission to examine the equities tiating over the tails of the
as well as the juridical aspects of
Gove
give
ersy. The Persian fed: Note doen at least of
the pany, and mood
and mpounder
Facts You Did Not Know.
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News In Brief.
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