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A Prince On The Foreign Legion.
The French Government will be grateful to Prince Aage of Den- mark for an address he recently gave to the American Club in Paris on the Foreign Legion,
Prince Aage, himself an officer of ten yeara' standing in the Le- zien, made a spirited and amusing defence both of the system and of the men
He denied the old story that the Legion is largely recruited from
THURSDAY, MAY 18, 1933.
HOME LIFE KILLED
BY HIGH TAXES
HOTELS PREFERRED BY
NEW GENERATION
NATIONAL CHARACTER SUFFERS
(By A. A. B.)
London; ¡life, the American and the English.
The House of Commons has often We are now. forced by ever-taxation the criminal class,” “The bulk of been compared to an elephant's to sink back into the lower plane of our recruits," he said: “have had trunk, that can rive an oak and can the American."
trouble with women and come to pick up a needle. So from high. It is not easy at first to realise us to seek peace. The Legion in themes like India and Russia it slid the deteriorating effect upon the Ja a military monastery.""
easily to the consideration of the national character which this Hotel and Restaurants Bill, pro change of habits is bound ultimate- posed in a sensible speech by Mrily to have. The jolly terms of hos- Bracewell Smith, the new Member pitality with which Thackeray' and
Dickens.. have familiarised
for: Dulwich.
The Legions' Earthquakë. Prince Aage was frank about the drinking habits of the Legionaries. They are the most sober body of men in the world except onca
The B proposes to extend the "come and take pot luck,” “stretch- fortnight, on pay day. Then they hours when drink can be served fug one's legs under a friend's ma- In A generz- beat it up..
from 11 p.m. to 12 in London and to hogany," will
be read as the quaint They have a certain drink. It 11pm. in the provinces, provided tion
not language .of. A primitive *nd is not a cocktail, but a special con-always, as lawers say, that ccction called "An earthquake." more than 60 per cent. of the trade extinct race. The traditional Bri- It is half very strong Spanish wine done in the house comes from into tish character is grave, reserved, and half Pernod, and its effects, xicants, correspond to its name.
Handcuffs are the only cure for
a couple of "earthquakes.”
*
A Noury Minority.
Sir
the
dinner,
meditative. It is astonishing how many of our great representative men. Wolfe, Nelson, Tennyson, A very moderáte extension, Rhodes, have been bred in the should say, a priggish relaxation; rectory or Danse. Are #Jane Indeed, far too much attention is Austen or the Bronte sisters likely The Paris Embassies. paid to the fanatical teetotallers, to weave their fancies in the noisy Another embassy famous for its who are only a noley and well-bustle of a great modern hotel? splendid Empire furnishings is organised minority, as the Ameri- Not that they are to be pitied, the
They new generation. that of Germany, formerly the pa- cans have at last found out.
prefer, lace of the Beauharnais, family, Isidore Salmon spoke from his ex-under existing conditions, hotel and Pictures by Italian and Polish Perience as a caterer when he said restaurant life. Nearly all women
that the greater the facilities the delight in a restaurant artists are the principal ornaments munist outbreak at the begin of the Polish Embassy, while the less they were required; and Mr. where they can see and be seen, blare of the band Ining of this year was a more Spanish Embassy is very proud of Potter, the Member for Eccles, con- and
saves them from the mental serious business; but that, too, wo paintinge by Goya and a col-tributed his quota of common sense
of conversation. Or Hong Kong, Thursday, May 18, 1933. was soon suppressed. The ex-lection of tapestries woven from by declaring, that men and women effort
Goya's designs.
should be treated as reasonable per to put it more charitably, the cessive and indefensible severity The Spanish Republic. village of Casas Viejas, where aurat, but the Russian Embassy It was left to a sour malignant like the modern servant.
Jused by the police at the ancient/ At the Italian Embassy the de- sons, ind that all these ridiculous majority of women have not the coration is principally architec- restrictions, should be swept away strength for the daily battle with As for the rebel known as "Six Fingers" and still retains some of the treasures Mr. R. J. Davies, a Labour member, younger women, they are simply too Spain recently celebrated the nineteen of his followers were second anniversary of the pro- killed, shocked the public, and of the Tsars, including glorious to make the interjection that the lazy to keep house,
the affair was a serious embar-coloured Sevres vases,
Aubusson carpet and delicately drink trade and the Tory Party
Leaving The Castle. were one. I thought that gibe had. clamation of the Republic. rassment to the Government; The Japanese Embassy, with its left even the Little Bethels. But the astonishing thing is that Everywhere the celebrations but the attempt to exploit a na Japanese rooms and examples of There was one argument in sup the squire and the lord seems, too, passed off peacefully. in at ral indignation for party pur-Japanese art, is almost the only port of the measure, used more in to be glad to exchange the manor world of political uncertainty poses failed. and Senor Azana one in which any attempt is made the Press than in the House of house and the castle for the hotel
easily defeated a vote of censure. to introduce the national style of Commons, that impressed me deep- or the restaurant,
Not so surpris and economic distress it says There are, no doubt, many dis- the country represented.”
It was said in more than one ing either, for when you cannot much for the vigour and ability conte id persons in Spain; but,
paper that this relaxation of licen- afford to pay the requisite number of the ruler of Spain, Senor for t. present at least, the Your Daily Smile sing restrictions was more than of gardeners and keepers," the place Azana, that the new system would resort to force seem to be extremists on either wing whe
ever needed now because for so half kept up loses more than half many people the hotel and the re-its pleasure. It is a mistake. tu. should have been so quickly con- checked. Senor Azana's im-Value for Money.
staurant had become their homel suppose you cannot get servants fTM- solidated. His Government has mediate difficulties derive chiefly "Did you know, dear, that the Think of it! The pity of it is, 'tis these days. But their wages and Its enemies. On the Right from rival party ambitions, tunnel we just passed through was true. Owing to the exorbitant board cost three or four times what
miles The sweeping land reform scheme, two
long and Monarchists; and, has not yet been put sufficiently £2,000,0007" said the young man dearness and scarcity of servants, there are
cost figure of rates and rents and the they did before the war, ***
But if an impoverished upper though they
not may
be into practice to appease the to his sweetheart.
the hotel of all sorts, dear, dreary, class do not object to the change, dangerous, 98 they are land-hungry peasant; the pro- "Oh, really, did it?" she replied, with cheap food, and the last cry in why should anybody else? Because weakened by the discouraging mises made to the Basque and as she started to rearrange her luxury has taken the place of the the owners of these great houses, other regionalists have still to be dishevelled hair. "Well, it was English home for thousands of the which are now derelict or are being disillusionment they suffered at fulfilled; the conflict between worth it wasn't it?^~
upper and middle classes..
sold to schools,^hold their posses- the sudden collapse of the Church and State has not been
It was not always so. Until the stons on trust for posterity. Al Monarchy, they are, neverthe-finally resolved-there were
HARD FOR HER.
war a cultivated and commodious leas, unfriendly.
(Continued on Page 11.). There are also Holy Week processions in Seville "Lonise has a very difficult role home life was within the reach of Conservatives who doubtfully ac-this year, but the remarkable in the play."
the majority of the clerical and pro- cept the Republic, but with an fervour of the worshippers in "Difficult! Why, she hasn't a fessional classes. In Victorian allegiance strained by the bur-the churches of the city is signi-word to say.”
daya your "£2000-a-year man could den put upon their Catholic con-ficant-and, though relations] "Well, what could be more difficult have a comfortable house-in-Bays- sciences by the Government's with the Vatican seem to be im, than that?"
water or Kensington, could keep drastic treatment of the Church. proved, the Government cannot
three or four servants, and could On the Left there are much more altogether ignore the religious
even on occasion hire a brougham to dangerous enemies, The Syndi- sentiment of a Catholic populace. MANN: There goes Dundreary-take his wife to the play or to calist and Communist extremists, All these are serious matters for human dynamp if there ever was, dinner. undismayed by the failure of the the Government; but they are one.
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Soviet system in Russia, have not for the moment acute. It ROYCE: Hard worker, ek! not abandoned hope that a "pro- is in the field of party politics MANN: Net him. Everything letarian Republic may yet be that the Prime Minister's more has on is charged. forcibly imposed on Spain. In immediate perplexities lle. Not
A SEPARATE REASON.
I remember an official of an American rubber “company, sayinir
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New York he to me: "How I envy your £2000+ New York is welcoming beer
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Irish or black biddy.".
What The State Takes
All that is gone, with the snows A society editor of a New York of yesteryear. It requires three paper has received a silver- times that income nowadays. In crested Invitation which started riled couple.” I hear you and Joan are a-happy order to pay modern waged (three of this way:
Yca, the judge has fast promie double the rate
men to do the work of one, and Will you come to an informal and all beer party to meet Mr. and Mrs. that included "in" social services' and public aduc The owners of one luxurious tion, the State takes 25 per cent of apartment are building a tap. "I worddn't cry for the best man your Income, if you have £2000 room with boards from a fam-
"No need to,"
between there is the reguler long ago Senor Azana formed PUTTING A STOP TO IT. Opposition, which must be cajoled an alliance of Left groups ed "Good heavens, girl, you are get. or coerced Here there is un-mittedly consequence of the ting uglier, every day!" questionable devotion to the Re-movement among the SocialletWell, at least that's something public, but equally unquestion-rank and file to withdraw their you can't do.” able reluctance to sit down in-three Ministers from the Cabinet definitely under Senor Azana's and he has a solid bloc of 150 dominance. And in the Cabinet Deputies directly behind him. itself the Prime Minister has re- But the Opposition has been stive Socialist allies to placate, showing signs of more active The Socialists are the strongest hostility, and there is always of lo ziva ne zdivaren.” buttress of the Republic, and some uncertainty about the Bo- without their support Senor cialista. The four principal Azana would find it difficult to Republican parties of the Opposi govern for long. But they have tion have now formed an alliance to be always careful not to let of their own against the Gov. their Syndicalist rivals outbid ernment Fear of consequences them in popular appeal; and they they cannot foresee makes them might therefore, if he were not hesitate and it seems unlikely skilfully firm press him further that they will screw themselves to the Left than he wishes to go, up to the point of trying to get In spite of the difficulties of such he Cortes to revoke the unlimit
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have the im the paneled oak interior and of and wise the thousands of tankards of ale have consumed within its shelter, it
Facts You Did Not Know,
} pudence to Kyou
(too
* political field, He continues to ed powers by which Benor: Azanál To raise a health and education go forward steadily on the Left rules; but it is evident that the fund. razil: bas", Impõsed, a stamp (un) Incline" he has marked out for Cortes is not to be as docile as it tar on documenta himself, and if in his march he was tramples on freedom of speech not he defends himself by declaring be that "ment {appear, in
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