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American sincerity and efficiency is likely to be made by Japan in in connection with the notes of Hong Kong, Monday, Feb. 13, 1938. Secretary Stimson, endorsed as they were by President Hoover, protesting on the part of the
Handicapped Diplomacy
American Government that no
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Princely Box Exporter Ensign Lennart Bernadotte, for merly Prince Lennart of Sweden, who renounced his Royal rights through his romantle marriage to Miss Karin Nissvandt at a London Régistry Office, is to become inter- ested in the export of wooden boxes and cases.
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The Ensign le the son of his mother, the Grand Duchess Marle. That is to say that he has grit and that he is adaptable.
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1933,
SILENCE IN NATION'S INTEREST
CABINET SECRETS KEPT
INVIOLATE
WHO REVEALS CONFIDENCES ?
By J. B. Firth.)
- London. lection-as Lord Hailsham exhort-
The effect on the public mind offer the model Minister to do-like- the rather ponderous discussion in material for a piquant paragraph for his almost daily letters to the the House of Lords on Cabinet Countess of Bradford or the Coun- his income by writing the book Secrecy may well be other tess of Chesterfield! for and producing & Stockholm ea-
For some time he has added to
These ladies of course, were the
baret show. Now he is founding a than that which was designed.“ company which has been registered It was manifestly, intended to re-souls of aristocratie discretion, But under the name of "Svensk-Engel- affirm the sound constitutional would that be taken as a valid ex- ska. Lodkompaniet," which in En-principle of Cabinet Secrecy, to cusc in a charge under the Official
Secrets Act? glish means the Anglo-Swedish Cas-strengthen the base of its column.
How many prosecutions might |ing Company.
and to repair the stucco, which as is the way with stucco-had in have been laid fifteen months ago, Socialist ex-Minister Marmalade and Marie-Malade places cracked. The French Press has once again. Lord Hailsham and the Lord after another revealed Cabinot see- proudly exhumed the old French ex-Chancellor, in particular, strove to rats at Transport House before the planation of the origin of marma-restore the column to its original whole posse of trade union and Socialist party leaders sitting and lado. The alleged derivation is Ionic "rigour and inflexibility,"
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Your Daily Smile.
when one
that when Mary Queen of Scots' The public, while duly impresa-acting as Grand Inquisitoral
And did not the ex-Solicitor appetite needed tempting she was ed, will ask what has occasioned given a compate of oranges. The this solemn chant round the Tem- General, Sir Stafford Crippa, re- compote was called "Marie-malade," ple of Silence, and will wonder cently incite Sir Herbert Samuel to later corrupted into marmalade. what are the secrets which might commit a misdemeanour by pressing This story has no historical foun- escape if certain half-opened lips him to reveal what alde he had taken on a certain subject in Ca- dation. In 1530, twelve years be should open wide.
binet, and did he not say that he Who Reveals Secrets? fore Mary was bort, William Tyn-
At whom was Lord Hallsham should interpret his silence in a dale, the translator of the Bible, re-
In that case ferred to marmalade in his "Ex-pointing his heavy artillery when he particular manner? posicion upon the Vth, VIth, and said that the revelation of a Cubinet the stucco came right away.
secret is a misdemeanour rendering
A Premier's Curiosity VIIth chapters of St. Matthew."
The word marmalade, which is the guilty person liable to two years* Cabinet Secrets, It is said, are found in seven European languages, imprisonment?
the King's Secrets, and his Majes- comes, in fact, from the Portuguese) Not at Civil Servants, for they ty's permission has to be asked and marmelo, a quince. It was appar- certainly do not reveal Cabiner obtained before a Minister may re- ently first made as a confection of secrets. It is not they, but their veal even such differences with his superiors, who prattle to Aspasia, colleagues as have led to his TO- quinces in Portugal.
as in the legend, fact or fiction, of signation. Mrs. N.
I have also heard it questioned Minister What would another learned ex- whots even the Prime Lord Chancellor Lord Brougham, himself can consult these sacred have said to such threat of impri- archives proprio motu, and take scoment? He who was strongly out a volume for private reading as suspected of passing on secret Ca- he would take down a book from the binet information for publication shelf. Canopic Agures, as it were,
cage Lord Brougham.
gers to Hp... Would have said that no gaol could guard the corners of the safes, fin- Sit modus in rebust Let some In one of the states of Ruritania, due sense of proportion be kept, where a similar rule of Cabinet sec- even about Cibinot secrete. Most recy prevails, a Prime Minister.
explosive qualities after ten years. predecessor. had taken on a certain Or at least they require a new de-dificult question of policy. On [asking the Keeper of the Archives No doubt the Prime Minister for the volume he was told that to showed sound judgment when he a firm order for its production there refused to allow publication of the could be no refusal. Usage, how- records of the Cabinet proceedings ever, requested the consent of his in 1922 relating to the despatch of predecessor, while the satisfaction. the Balfour Note and the "instruc-of his own curiosity would almost. tions" given to Sir Robert Horne certainly excite the curiosity of his as to the funding of the British successor into the Cabinet perfor
mances of himself and his collen- Debt to the United States.
BLUE LANGUAGE.
Passenger: Why did you have treaty of annexation based upon It is a candid friend of the military conquest would be ac-your car repainted blue, Vi?
Driver: Well, you know how knowledged as valid by the United States, M. Andre Sieg-
United States. Probably the keen.I am on colour schemes, fried, who has been reviewing the diplomatic efforts and activi- issue will not be raised in prac-matches the pedestrians' language. ties of the United States in tical form until after March 4. Europe since the war. He was But sooner or later the question doubtless moved to indulge in will be asked and pressed whe- this retrospect by the failure of/ther the United States means to/gaged to be married): You roof them entirely lost their high-once wished to see what course his
Science And Beer.
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WELL. FITTED. Grandma (to grand-daughter en
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JUSTIFIED FRIGHT, "Why do you continue to go with
to
It is quite likely that things guea. were said on that occasion" about
Whereupon the Ruritanian states- American pressure on Great Britain man replied, "God forbid!" and to fund which had better not be passed to the Order of the Day. exhumed at the moment, when we
Gladstone's Trap are asking the United States
Sitting Still "revise" the funding terms.
to
The everyday justification of the rule of Cabinet secrecy la not the safety of the realm: it is the con- The national consideration is far ventence and safety of. Ministers-
the French Government to secure trent what is solemnly put out in young, dear. Do you feel you are Granddaughter: Perfectly, from Washington a concession to the form of a fixed American itted for married life? which it thought itself entitled: "doctrine" merely as a brutum grandma-I have seventeen gowns tonator to touch them off. regarding the war debt of France. fulmen without doing anything and three costumes. M. Siegfried's conclusion is: "I whatever to execute it. is to be hoped that hereafter we shall entirely refuse to recognise
Jack? He's a bad egg." these "observers," "experts," these "advisers without respon- When is a man intoxicated? How "I'm afraid to drop him." sibility. They/constitute a farm much alcohol does it take to make
HOT CHA! of diplomacy which is the most him drunk? The American Con-
"What kind of a party was it?" dangerous and, let it frankly be grees must weigh these questions if said, the least open; that inter-the Volstead net is to be amended to "Well, at about one-thirty the au- national politics has ever known." permit the sale of stranger beer. tomatic fire sprinkler started This is not a soft impeachment Already the battle of the experts work? of American foreign, policy, but has begun and scientists are con-
IMPROVED VISION. to deny that it has a certain fusing public opinion in the United
Caller (slightly tipsy): Mias, force would be difficult. It does States by the diversity of their not cover all the facts. In the views. The other day Professor d'yuh think I could shee the man- recurring questions of naval dis- Henderson of Yale told the House ager?
Secretary: I don't think you armament, for example, the Ways and Means Committee that it United States has been ready not, is virtually impossible for a man could now, sir. You'd probably see more important than the personal the smooth working of the King's
Robert Horne, and Sir Austen Cham-interest. only to tell others what should be to get drunk on 4 per cent beer. A him all right if you come tomorrow. Interests of Mr. Lloyd George. Sir Government, itself a high national
berlain. They have made their
(Continued on Page 11.) done but to do something itself.vast literature backs aim up. Yet This willingness to perform a here is pharmacologist Hyman of
"I know how to settle this unem-brief ex-parte statements. The that four Columbia inferring well as preach was shown cons- picuously at Washington in 1922, glasace of 4 per cent brew have ployment problem," said the club Prime Minister judiciously declines as also later at Geneva and Lon- possibilities that may not be ig-wag. "If we put all the men of the either their merits to disclose or
Turn to Dr. Benedict, world on one faland, and all the alternatively to "draw their frail- don. But for the rest, it must be sored.
neither would cause much ripple, on | DAVIE, BOAG & COLM admitted that America has been famous for his researches on the women on another, we'd have every-ties from their dark abode. Yet
more disposed to lecture Europe conversion of food into energy, and body busy In no time."
"Well, what would they be do the broad Atlantic.
There is strength in sitting still, than to join her effectively in learn that one and a half ounces of
and in Silence a rare poulticing Pursuing their investigations in carrying out what has been advo-pure alcohol may be drunk with iming?"
"Why, boat building."
property.
coqpection with an attempted arm- cated. Too often the United unity at one time. This means nothing to psychologist Hollings
The episode shows that those who, ed robbery at the Sing Hung Tong States has appeared to European worth of Columbia. You may be
Facts You Did Not
like Mr. Asquith, were doubtful of Nunnery, Castle Peak district, on statesmen very much like the old able to say "methodist episcopal"
Know.
the wisdom of the quite modern in- January 26 last, Police arrested Punch cartoon depicting, Lord and "royal artillery brigade" alibly,
novation of taking an official note two Chinese males, who are now in John Russell posting a placard, but he may decide you are under "No Popery," and then running the "influence" for all that. Re-reathed such a scale that none has more foolish sticklers for the old
Production of wheat in India has of Cabinet proceedings were not Custody.
An aged core-taker at the Nun- fast as he could. search has convinced him that even been imported since August of last ways.
nery, was slightly injured as a re- Americans have,, in fact, shown 2.75 per cent beer has Its
When no nate was taken theresult of the attack. themselves too complacent and definite effects in large doses Year.
was nothing to appeal to, no evid- even patronizing in pointing out effects of a kind to inter-
eace on which to convict.
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NUNNERY ATTACK.
Two Chinese Males In Custody.
Personal Pars
or being told--that within the pre- Mr. W. G, Hall, Second Vice-Pre- sent century a certain Minlater, now sident of the Earnshaw Docks and deceased, used to take down copious Honolulu Iron Works, 18 en route to
A alde car for a second-rider or to other nations the way in fere with Industrial efficiency to carry packages has been invented which they should go, and then or prove a menace to person and to be attached to any standard refusing to go a single step with property." Professors Mellanby
bicycle. them. This has not been due to and Miles, to mention but two of a an incessant spirit of meddling, whole school, are all for measuring or to national arrogance, Ameri- the amount of alcohol in the blood Netherland. exporters are using private notes of what passed. Who Honolulu by the i.x. Prealdenf Jack- can intentions all along have and letting that decide whether or carbon dioxide ise to keep flowers he was and whether he printed, I been excellent. But American set a man. is drunk. Wherent Pro- fresh when they are shipped long will not hint, hut the "Chiel" was diplomacy has been weakened, fessor Abel of John Hopkins scoffs distances. and sometimes made to look fa- little and asserts that the effect
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M. Peyronnet, newly oppoint-
there, and his habit was considered unpleasant.
Bd Vice-Consul for France at Tien- Disraeli's Letters.
tein da passing through Hong Kong tuous, by the complexities and of alcohol on the brain and nervous The management of a German
Only the Prime Minister was sup with his wife bound for Shanghai difficulties of the governmental system must be studied. The un-airport bas Installed a flock of structure. Even when the Pre-steady galt, the thick tongue, the sheep to keep grass trimmed short posed to take notes, and that solely and Tientsin. They are travelling sident of the United States com-genera) contentment with sit at less expense than men could cut for the purpose of sending to the by the President Jackson,
Sovereign a due account of what mits himself to a given course of ting on top of the world it. action, there is no certainty that that mark the man in his cuga
had taken place at this" Cabinet Mr. J. J. Elizalde, accompanied
the Senate will give him its apare not there the signs of rays, the nucleus of the atom and and most Prime Ministers at any by his wife is on his way through proval. If his authorized and paralysis of the nerve centres A the expanding universe stem elerate before Mr. Gladstone-were Hong Kong to Spain. Mr. Elizalde constitutional conduct of foreign pint of beers day is all you can matary compared to the bafting much too grand-seignourish to is a prominent Spanish busineas- relations is subject to such fre expect from Abel. But Dr. Kelly question: What is intoxication? make copious precis of long Ca-man of Manka, being the President quent rebuffs, what can be ex- of Baltimore is even stricter. He Unless beer is mily Intoxiciting binet meeting. Imagine Palmers of the Spaziah Chamber of Com pected in the case of America's meets the Dye more than half no one wants it. In the end, weton or Derby plying a labouring merce of the Philippines and o Director of Yuchaust and Co,. observers and experts dealing way by branding alcohol any are concerned with human be gull on sugh a menial task! with European conferences at amount ns a proved poison. Thehaviour, and that is, beyond scien- Or, equally, imagine Disraeli be- merchants and ship-owners in Man
ing told to banish from his recol-la. arms length? A test case of problems presented by the cosmic tile measurement.
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