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HERE THERE
EVERYWHERE
How Robeson Began.
An interesting story is attached
to the beautiful "spiritual" that
Mr. Paul Robeson sings off-stage in "All God's Chillun."
TUESDAY MAY 30, 1933.
DANZIG SPELLS
DANGER
POLAND AND GERMANY
IN DISPUTE
It was Mr. Robeson's accidental FREE CITY VIEWED AS THE
singing of this song in the original Provincetown production of Eugene O'Neill's play that led to his own subsequent musical career.
The author had intended that the spiritual should be whistled off-stage, but Paul Robeson, being unable to whistle, decided to hum;
CRITICAL SPOT IN EUROPE
(By George Slocombe.)
Three. men have
met almost And, finally, there is the tiny
the air. Later, at a private party secretly in London this week to dis-detachment of Polish troops, 80 in Provincetown, his friends asked cuss the relations between Poland strong, entrusted with the protes him to sing more spirituale. He and the Free City of Danzig,
tion of the Polish Government's munition depot on the Westerplatte, One of them is a Pole, Count in the Danzig harbour depot
sang them, was invited to repeat them at a concert in the Province- town theatre, and so made his Lubiensky, of the Foreign Office in chiefly used to store war material debut as a singer without any pre-Warsaw,
during its passage up the Vistula vious training.
[from the Baltic.
Mr. Paul Robeson is not only
The second is a Dane, M. Rosting,
The Effect Of The Nazis Triumph.
anxious to play the name-part in the Acting High Commissioner of "Boris Godounov" at the Moscow Danzig.
The third is a British Foreign tioned is sufficient to guarantee the Not one of the forces I have men- ¡Opera, but is now engaged in writ-]
ing a play dealing with the Rua Office official, Mr. Carr
international character of the Free sian poet Rushidin, who, like Alex- andre Dumas, had negro blood in his veins.
Your Daily Smile
All three of them, called together City against a determined assault to interpret the Warsaw Convention by the Nazis. If the elections on in the light of recent and future the Nazis or a Nazi coalition, con
May 28 result in the triumph of levents in Danzig, have been an-flicts between the Polish minority xiously concerned with the immin-in Danzig and the German majority, GLASS APART. 30,000 tons of dirt falls on Bri- ence of May 28, a date which on the one hand, and between the tain in a month. This does not in-threatens to acquire a dangerous Commisioner,
Danzig Parliament and the High on the other, are ¡clude modern novels.
significance in Eastern European sooner or later Inevitable. history..-
Have I Any Friends?
Burglars at Bromley, Kent, stole On that day the elections to the a piano, I read. Notice to all Danzig Senate take place, and for burglars: The plane at my house the first time since Hitler triumphed is quite near the front door, and his party will attempt to conquer
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PROUD.
sion of any of the offices in for-the door is never locked. eign Capitals would almost cer- tainly be accompanied by an in- crease of the Staff in Geneva. The man who requested the wolf This particular measure might to go round to the tradesmen's en therefore in the long run hardly trance. The League Office. In reduce expenditure at all; and by
London.
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of
the disappearance of these visi-Leave That to Him. ble symbols of its existence in A gossip says that a man such places The finances of the League of
as Berlin, Tokyo, forty owes a lot to his tailor. Well, Nations will shortly be subjected suffer definite diminution.
and London the League would don't rub it in. to their annual scrutiny by the suppression of the London post Commission of Control, which
The
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HELP!
WARNING. A ·
the local government of a region lonee incorporated in the German ¡Empire.
Any violent incident-in Danzig which disturbs the present signi tween. Germany and Poland may ficantly quiescent relations be-
be the starting-point in the inevitable Nazi campaign for the recovery of the Polish Corridor. garded as valuable by Germany. For in itself Danzig is not re-
Before the war its annual trade was The Nazis in Danzig, encouraged, no more than two million tons, as subsidised and even directed by "gainst the 51⁄2 millions recorded during the past year in the teeth headquarters in Berlin, are confident of the competition of he new Polish of victory. If they do not obtain port of Gdynia. jan absolute majority in the Senate It has, strangely enough, actively of the Free City, they are con- benefited from its separation from sidered certain by competent obser- whereas in 1914 its commercial both Germany and Poland, for
would be particularly unfortun-j After a football match played by very properly passes every item ate at the moment when Sir Erie prison warders recently, one play-vers, to become the strongest party hinterland was inhabited merely by expenditure through the Drummond is about to relinquisher was heard to observe that he in that assembly, and ultimately, in a population of six millions, and it most searching test before it is the Secretary Generalship, for to was a better gaolleeper than allowed to appear in the League's his French successor, M. Avenal, goalkeeper.
alliance with the Centre party, to Buffered from the keen rivalry of
Riga and Konigsberg, it now canal Budget Among the expenses the office here would probably
control it altogether."
act not only the trade of the Cor Then will come the first direct ridor, but it also acts as the north- challenge of strength between ern, port of Czechoslovakia and the leaders of the Nazi Bevolu-Roumania, and 48 million people are tion in Germany and one of the linked with it directly or indirectly.. uneasy pillars of the European
In this sense the old Hanseatic system created by the Treaty of port has fulfilled the predictions of Versailles No greater political anomaly have already mentioned. It has re- those medieval-minded young men I exists than Danzig. Endowed at the verted to its ancient role of oper Paris Peace Conference with a
ho scrutinized are those required form a specially valuable link The greatest cause of indigestion for the upkeep of League offices with British public opinion. No is too hasty eating. This is known in London and few other Capi doubt the retention of the office
tals. The abolition of these posts might be accompanied by econo- as exceeding the feed limit, is one of the proposed economies. mies in London as well as in
Facts You Did Not Know.
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was made, but the decision was bour Office in addition to the held over for a year; and now office in Northumberland Avenue. there is reason to believe that The two might with advantage
Japan has become the second
the London office is particularly be amalgamated and be housed largest rubber consuming country separate entity, added to the already door to a tenement-house inhabited mentioned as a suitable sacrine perhaps in rather less expensive in the world, ranking next to the long if fictitious list of hunter States by many and diverse families. nomy in disregard of the fact no permanent representative of
quarters.. At present there is United States.
to be offered on the altar of eco-|
The British Motor
Industry.
by the medieval imagination of the Unfortunately, as is the way with bright young men to whose roman-tenement-houses, the Corridor, to
A soil perforating tool operated tie spell President Wilson. Mr. Which that door gives access is dis-
at ence.
Cars
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But the anomaly does not end
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CHEUNG CHAU NOTES.
Baptism Ceremony On Long Beach.
that Great Britain pays the the League in London; but his largest individual share of the vacancy, which it may be hoped by foot presaure has been invented Lloyd George, and even M. Clemen-puted by two families on the ground League's expenses: Beveral reasons for making ad- the opportunity to send succes-lawns.
making art is only temporary, is providing to admit moisture to treas roots in ceau alternately yielded, the oldest floor, and although almost worth- mittedly desirable economies in sive officials from Geneva to ad-
of the Hanseatic ports has not clean in itself an arid, sparsely: other ways; and, if reductions of minister the office and establish
ceeded in achieving a real independ-populated waste leading to the even Staff are judged to be wise, they fresh contacts with British pub-road speed on rollers in a device -The lovely city still Kes under the/of West Prussia-It is considered
Automobile wheels revolve
more sparsely populated wilderness should at any rate be effected lic opinion. where they would least be feft.
invented by a Seattle mari to test enchantment of its lost mercantile both families an adequate sub- The London office in Northum-.
cars. thoroughly in garages.
ject of altercation. dominion. Its narrow streets, its berland Avenue is administered
quiet canals and 'quays, its aver
There is no doubt that the Polish by two or three officials, with as
Corridor and its relationship with hanging 16th-century · houses, its many more in the Economic. Sec-
become necessities without ceasing ancient guilds and churches, respond the economically dependent if tion; and a reduction of person-
to be luxuries. Better still, the to no quickening impulse. It is s politically independent city of ¡nel would almost certainly in-serves well if only because, in these still newer models has-beer stimu-chanted in a tale of Poc, and system of Versailles.
The British Motor Industry de-desire to use and enjoy newer and dead city, asleep like a town en- Danzig are the weakest links in the volve the total suppression of the difficult times, it has not despaired lated. It has been said that the only travellers leave it with the feeling only representation of League proper in London. This sales-it has increased its output, out with hard service. That is cer-ling of unquiet wonder and regret.
the of the future. In a world of falling way to possess a car is to wear it that a tale of Poe arouses-a feal- form of retrenchment could sure-sold more vehicles, and tightened its tainly not easy where British cars ly be practised with less disturb grasp upon the export trade. It are concerned. But the good work
Not A Free City. ances among the 637 members of has accomplished this service in the la being stimulated by the tempts- the Secretariat in Geneva. The face of such difficulties as perhaps tions offered each year by manufac-there. The very term Free City-in) League office is a valuable dis no other industry has been called on turers. Englishmen are learning a misnomer. The only feature of seminator of information and to surmount; difficulty has served that old cars are not economical Danzig which is free is the dull salt documents, and supplies a living to evoke powers of invention and to and contact between London and stimulate perseverance. The British ought to be kept continuously in
that consequently new
water which washes fts shores. Geneva. The provision of authen car has turned what might have use.
Its hinterland is Polish. Ita tie texts may be particularly been defeat into victory because it policy is increased trade, in a ger- Venice, and, like the modern Great activity has been witnessed.
One of the results of this population is hybrid”: like that ́of serviceable to provincial and combines in itself qualities which ersi sense; another is increased Venetians, descended from a curious there during the past week, consider American newspapers which do the whole world now recognises production of cars; a third may be mixture of bold pirate and timid able interest being centred on the not have Correspondents in Not the least part of this achieve seen in "damps" for old cars. Un-merchant, cut porse and purse Dragon Boat crews, who are now Geneva and official representament is the education of public doubtedly the ideal condition would proud. It is ruled by a Dane appracticing for the annual race. tives of foreign countries and of taste. Few of all those who now be a rapid using up of existing pointed by the League of Nations The Rev. A. K. Refton, Superin the Dominions have found it drive small cars realized their need models, their sale as "scrap" and Its very harbour is controlled by a tendent of the Peniel Mission, useful to have this means of until the need had been supplied, or, their reappearance thereafter, with Swiss. It has no army (which does assisted by the Rev. 3, Larsen of the keeping in touch with the work if they realized it, believed, that it in as abort a time possible, as not prevent it from being a threat same mission, held a Baptism cere- of the League. Moreover, an could be met in the triumphant new models, There are signs that to the peace of Europe), but it has mony on the water at the Long experienced official in London can manner with which every country is the British motor industry is ad four distinct police forces. do much to interpret currents now familiar. Nevertheless the vancing, towards this ideal Those There is a State police force of making open profession of their Beach, nine men and 10 women of British opinion to the authori- secret of success is simple. It re-who buy, second-hand cars, and they about 1,000 men, nominally con- faith. A Communion service was ties at Geneva, and to make areides in engineering of a supremely can be bought very cheaply at pre-trolled by the High Commissioner, later held in the Chapel The Rev. rangements In London for the good character. British manufac-sent, soon experience lively desire but responding more directly to the Lef Shlu-kwel alsp admitted a visita of League officials, who turers have worked on the principle to possess new cars; and this desire orders of the Nazi Minister of young man to the Church by have to come fairly frequently that if the mechanism was right grows with what it feeds on until interior on international business, econo-everything else would come right. Another Ideal--the new model every There is a special civilian conducted at the other Chapel.
Baptism, the ceremony being con mic, financial, polfical, or con- They began, in the salesman's year is attained. Manufacturers stabulary, or Einwoknerwehr of nected with the social services, phrase, by making a car that might do well to give still further 3,000 men with military discipline, broke over the Island at 8 pm, on The heavy thunderstorm - which If these visiting officials were done, they, proceeded to make that encouragement in this direction by arms and uniform, and largely Nat Bunday brought much, welcomed compelled to provide their secre- car as attractive and, as comfortable offering to make contracts on in character tarial staff and make their own as possible. The result of that especially attractive terms, with There is a small force of harbour-The demand for houses still con
Train and a cooler atmosphere. arrangements, the League would policy has been that for most Bri ople willing to exchange their old police, Controlled by the Inter- tinues, and it is feared that many incur additional expenditure and tibera, and indeed for most users models for new opes at regular national Harbour Board, and num will be disappointed - Our Own It is admitted that the suppres of British vehicles their cars have
bering about 100 men.
Cheung Chau, May 30,