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"SATURDAY, MAY 13, 1933.
TERRORISED M.P'S.
OF BRITAIN
THE BOGEY OF NATIONAL GOVERNMENT
CLOAK FOR ALL PARTIES
(By A. A. B.)
Londos. won, is still there, though under the The word National is in every patronage of the Socialist, who was body's mouth: we hear little or no-janathema maranatha to Sir Warden thing of the, to my mind, preferable Chilcott in 1918. Except for the word" Rational. "..
addition of Mesara, Simon and Run- My objection to the name Na- ciman, who broke up Mr. Lloyd tional is that it is that most danger-George, the
National Government ous thing in controversy, & ques-seems to me like all other Coalf-
tions...... |tion-begging_adjective. P
No party can claim a monopoly Stay, there is a difference. Mr. by Profesor Einstein, to whom of Nationalism any more than of Baldwin bas told Sir Robert Horne Every Briton would that he is prepared "to sacrifice deny indignantly that his policy brains to party fidelity." All party Mr. Lansbury leaders think this: but Mr. Baldwin
It is understood that M. Herriot will visit Britain in June to receive the honorary degree of D.CL. from Glasgow University.
M. Herriot will be accompanied
Glasgow has offered a similar dis-patriotism.
tinction.
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Since his return from America was anti-National. Einstein has been staying with would repudiate loudly the charge is the first statesman who is in- that the Socialist Party was not a nocent enough a proclaim it. Per- friends, in Brussels. He in now
National Party. Indeed, their haps the sacrifice is not so great as looking for a quiet cottage on the
claim to take the places of the pre-it sounda. Belgian coast, where he proposes
Still, might not Mr. to live until a change of regime in sent Government is that the So- Baldwin risk the experiment of re- cialist Party is the true representa-leasing a tiny does of Conservative Germany makes it possible for him|
brains cautiously, of to return to his old flat in Berlin tive of the nation.
course; Nobody yet has the courage to safety first, you know-even though hoist the standard of the Rational, it exposed him to the danger of Einstein In A Palace?
Party, a party, that is, broad-bearing, a few blunt truths from Mr. King Alfonso's former palace in bottomed in sobriety, argued truth, Boothby, or one or two biting sar- Madrid, is to be utilised by the plain and intelligible principles, no casms from Mr. Brendan Bracken? Spanish Government for a variety class war, in short, in reason, not on of official purposes.
A Glasgow audience the other shouting at public meetings and the day acclaimed Mr. Baldwin as "a If Einstein, who has accepted aa bribery of the electorate. offer of Spanish citizenship and hos-|
jolly good fellow," What meaning The first things that a Rational the worthy Glaswegians attach to pitality, is nominated to a Chair at Government would do are these! the University of Madrid, he may
those two adjectives. I do not know. It would prohibit the use of the But he certainly is a very find himself allocated residential
costly prices are established in world
card vote by the trade unions Vot-fellow, for he has tied round our quarters in the palace, for a large ing by proxy was a privilege longnecks for 60 years a necklace 2,000 markets and because American portion of the building and its many ago taken away from the peers farmers are dependent on foreign annexes will be used to
It millions, payable, in biennial in trade to absorb from one-fifth to modate students and professors of tic age to restore this privilege to help thinking he would have been a accom- has been reserved for this depoera-atalments, in dollars. One cannot one-half of the wheat, cotton, the University. tobacco and lard they produced
the trade unions, but in a much jollier and a better fellow if he had more dangerous. form.
learnt the rule of compound Interest, for If we carry out the bargain, of
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One wing of the palace will be World Markets. in the "parity" period of 1909-reserved for the
use of the Pre- 14, questions of tariffs, curren-sident of the Republic, Senor Alcald The United States Senate fin-cies and inter-governmental debts Zamora. Another wing, it is ex- A trade union secretary will ap-which he seems quite proud, we ally passed the Farm Relief Bill are fundamental factors in the pected, will serve as a muscum for pear at an important meeting of shall have paid twice the amount of on Wednesday, but in the Con-rehabilisation of agriculture.
jart treasures for which no room the T.U.C.. with a card vote of, say,
the original debt. gress debates little attention has
fcan be found in the Prado,
2,000,000 from the coal miners, or And then, quite in the jolly good been given to international as-
1,500,000 from the wool-combers or fellow style, he made a present of pects of the problem of putting
Facts You Did Not the railwaymen. In this way the the vote to 5,000,000 girls under 30 American agriculture on a profit
trade union officials will proclaim without so much as consulting the Know. able basis. The purpose of the
a phase of adventure rather than of
ja strike carried by a majority of existing electorate, or even the (measure adopted by the House is
to restore "parity" between prices portance with the work
science. Yet it must rank in im-
millions, though not one in ten of midinettes themselves. Saws with teeth composed of the card voters know what they are: Sir Warden Chilcott, when he of farm commodities and those physicists and chemists are doing hard enough to scratch sapphires to do our thinking for us," the men market place, makes several very: that the tungsten, carbon and cobalt alley voting for. "We pay our officials leaves the temple of worship for the non-agricultural products. in tearing bits of matter apart in have been For this purpose the price ratio order to discover of what the earth wood that has been treated with in a most
invented for cutting will say. This is voting by proxy pregnant and original observations. existing in the period from 1909 and the stars are made. It is fireproofing chemicals or preserva- ought to be abolished.
dangerous form, and Instead of splitting up the Austro- to 1914 is taken as the norm. science at its empirical best.
Hungarian Empire into uneconomia But particularly during the later live on a planet, small as celestial
We ❘tives.
The second thing our Rational fragments, on the childish doc years of this pre-war period for bodies go, but huge to va-go huge
Government would do would be the of self-determination, the Versa.... eign markets were an important that only a few centuries ago were State Ministers of Transport willed the publication of the division North
A conference of Federal and revival of the old law which regard Treaty should have split up the influence in maintaiing the
German Confederation, "parity" which the House now ants we are still busily crawl- to solve the problem of co-ordinat tary privilege. The ballot, or Bavarians, Hanoverians and Wur we aure of its globular shape. Like be held in Australia to endeavour late as a breach of parliament known as the German Empire. The Jeecks to re-establish. In 1912, ing over it, poking into strangeling the control of rail and motor secret voting, was enacted some temburgers would have been de for example. American exports nooks and crannies that turn transport throughout the Common sixty years ago to protect the voters lighted to escape from the domina- of wheat amounted to 145,000,000 bushels, or about 20 per cent. of jungles and swamps, skirting de
out to be fjords, wriggling through wealth.
from undue influence on the part tion of Prussia, and Germany would the domestic crop. Last year aerts and fastness that we fear to
of their employers. To-day it is have been far more effectually dis- America's sales of wheat abroad
For protecting concrete piling the elected who require protection armed then by any Réparations or Jenter. The passing of Prince and its steel reinforcement against from their employers, the electors. Conference rules. It may be too were only 82,000,000 bushels, or Luigi Amadeo of Savoy, better the action of sea water a method In no other way will you get the late to do it now, but the proposal less than 12 per cent, of her pro- known as the Duke of the Abruzzi, has been developed that removes independent and sincere opinions of is original and sound. duction. In the difference be reminds us how much crawling real moisture in a vacuum, then fill the M.FS. tween these figures lies one im-mains still to be done. In his life the pores of the concrete with portant cause of the debacle in time he held two records--one for liquid asphalt.
What remarkable results, you farm prices. Some of the in-
|would get by: secret, voting in the fluences which have curtailed for-destined to beat and the other for a "farthest north" that Peary was
House of Commons! On the Lon- To foster the development of the don Passenger Transport Bill, for eign markets for American farm having climbed to the unprecedente lumber industry in eastern Peru instance. A general election would CONSUMPTION KILLS products were in evidence before ed height of 22,650 fect in an un- and to subsidize river transporta lose its terrors. the depression. Competitive successful attempt to scale Mount tion to the west coast the rovero-|
MORE GIRLS. production of cotton, tobacco and Godwin-Austen or K-2 in the ment has increased the import Quite impracticable! people would Depression Blamed For other staples was increasing in Kashmir Himalayas.
Scientifically duties on various kinds of lumber gay. Everything la thought ime certain countries. Per capita more important was his conquest of and wooden furniture, consumption of wheat had been the Ruwenzori range Ptolemy's decreasing in Western Europe legendary Mountains of the Moon. for some years before 1929. But where the Nile was supposed to have these influences did not vary its source.
He must be regarded A letter of thanks has been re- people at a general election, and let An increase in the number of erently in affect from your to not only as the lineal descendant of celved by the local St. John candidates, he elected therean, How tuberculosis cases among young year. Of much more immediate kings but as the spiritual descen- Ambulance Brigade, from Mr. J. they carry out their duties must be women is reported by the clinical importance were developments dant of that long, line of bold, suri-Beng Liu, Chairman of the Red left to the honour and the intelll-officer at the State Tuberculosis initiated by the depression. Purous and restless men who pushed on Cross Society, in Peking, for the sence of honourable members. chasing power was reduced in into the unknown and thus stilled medical supplies sent to the North
Bureau. This is attributed to foreign countries which had some nameless; faner, racial urge to from Hong Kong. A special fund A pamphlet is before me by Sir "So many young women who General Strike "Challenge". the economic conditions of the hitherto been large purchasers carry on the antlike exploration of is now being raised for the pur Warden Chilcott, who came into
depression, of American cotton and food-the terrestrial surface. Was he pose of providing disabled wound-Parliament on the wave of the stuffs. At the same time many the last of the great roamers, halted with artificial limbs, about $10,- Coalition in 1918, and went out of of these countries found them athlete and half scieniet? A 000 being required. selves deprived of the foreign though the airplane and the Zep. loans on which they had depend-pelin have added more to our topo-
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Absurd! A counsel of perfection!
practicable until it is done. In mo. other way, can you make the world | safe:for-democracy. Let the parties lay their programmer before the
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Increase.
Melbourne, Victoria.
work in factories," he says, ""go- off in the morning with a very it in 1929; generally because, as he
light breakfast. They return at tella pa, he was sick of party Toy.
night, have an inadequate din ed for adjustment of their inter-graphic knowledge in a week than who wander through them. And disapproved of the American war or dances." On the whole, how- ernment, particularly because hener, and go out, tired, to pictures national balances. In order to we could hope to gather. In a century what shall be said of the Amazon debt being funded in terms of gold, ever, there has been à decrease reduce the consequent demand of tedious crawling, we cannot yet Valley, still hidden in upon their currencies, they adopt-expunge the words terra incognita jungles and deadly
teaming and because he thought that "the
in the number of tuberculosis ed one or both of two expedients from the geographical lexion. Half Central Borneo and New Guinea are unions at the time of the stri
mas? challenge flung at us by the trade cases notified and in the number The first was to increase their the Arctic and the Antarctic are mere names, The Congo la but should there and then be taken
of deaths from tuberculosis, tariffs, devias "quota"» system still unmapped. In Alaska are half explored. In Australia we and fought to a definite conclusio
Reuter and by other means restrict the mountain-blocks almost as mythical have the anomaly of ontinent of two excellent reasons fortified flow of imports. The second was as was the Ruwenzori range until which the interior is se dark a mys time. -
to subsidize domestic Industries, the Duke of the Abruzzi climbed it story at was the region west of I am therefore a little puss particularly agriculture, in order region of incredible tales spun the Appalachiana. În Jefferson's the enthusiastic; adorat to enable, their own producers to by Indians and Eakin sell at low prices In foreign mar- of the kets and thereby obtain on inter- rumoored cas
national balance funds needed
for the payment of obligations In owed abroad. Both processes were deflationary; and
had a profo
tunes of
effect on the Lor
since 1929, Beck
art time.
Northern Bechuana and the National Government ta lands abon Lake Ngami swalt another, Abrural? trudging of 3.Dr. Schw
ica Warden
calls upo
all to dles and fon
by
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