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Reynolds Portrait Sold.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 28,
EUROPE STEADILY DRIFTING TO WAR
PARIS IN STATE OF
MORAL SEIGE
NAZI
MENACE IN AUSTRIA
(By George Slocombe.)
London, June & farinament Conference foundered.
tour, by railway and airplane, of But two men in Geneva appeared the danger zones of Europe. In the to believe in the possibility of a course of this journey I have visit-real Disarmament Convention. One ed: Paris, Geneva, Munich, was Mr. Arthur Henderson, im- Innsbruck, Vienna, Warsaw, Danzig perturbable, unshaken by pessimism, and Berlin.
confident of the triumph of reason.
I have just returned from a rapid upon this rock".
The director of the Brera Art] I have had frank conversations The other was the bland and bril- Gallery at Milan, Commendatore with statesmen and diplomats in all Hant young politician, Mr. Anthony Ettore Modigliani, has acquired the these cities. I have twice flown Eden
Of the other delegates or officials Reynolds portrait of Lord Donough- over the Polish Corridor, that end- more for that collection.
lets source of curiosity, speculation.at Geneva 1 could find, like Lot in of the Plain, ̈ ̈not one ...the Cities This picture, for which the protest and intrigue. Italian Government has paid £2,500, I have witnessed the conquest of guiltless of the sin of pessimism.
And this although the mild skies was painted between 1778 and 1780, the Free City of Danzig-the fa Reynolds's best period and re-League's lost dominion in Europe-if treacherous air of Geneva have a hypnotic effect on presents the young Lord Donough- by the Nazis. I have witnessed the notoriously. more as an officer of the Irish fr-frenzied celebrations in Berlin of men's minds. regular forces.
the German naval victory of Ska-
Austria It was much admired when sold gerrak, that most discussed sea fight in the Ruffer sale at Christie's last, which we regard our own Ad-
year.
*
A Whole Town Doomed,
Santiago.
In
Across the Austrian frontier the miralty's. difidence at the time harsh realities of Central European notwithstanding as a victory for politics are more insistent.
Innsbrück, in the Austrian Tyrol, I the British Navy, **
"And I have come back to London found the Nazis actively preparing, The Chilean town of Recoleta is with the conviction that, in spite of with the overt encouragement and doomed. It will soon be submerged our own oficial optimists, in spite aid of their fellow-Nazis in Bavaria, under the waters rushing in to fill of all the tragic lessons of history, an armed insurrection to establish a a giant reservoir made by a new heart and reason, Furope is silently Sea to the Danube.
in spite of all the judgments of pan-German Empire from the North dam, said to be the largest in South and steadily drifting to another war- America.
The cross on the church will be!
France
In Vienna, that smiling, gay, im- provident city, on which the years accumulate in beauty and in grace, to as-30 feet below the level of the water, In Paris I found a capital in the diminutive Chancellor Dollfuse, The China Mail Government may have
sume." Comrade Cole is at least and Recoleta will not be seen again state of moral alege.
the hero and the leader of the Aus more candid than Comrade Cripps.except perhaps by divers.
The recent developments in Ger trian peasants, declared to me with The dam will be half a mile long, many have taken the French with pathetic courage ha intention to Hong Kong, Wednesday, June 28, 1933. Recently Sir Stafford expressed
annoyance because the Trade Un-220 feet high, and 800 feet wide, less surprise than ourselves. They resist the Nazification of Austria, ion leaders who are to find the and will hold in check a lake of have a long memory, and a long ex-with force if need be.
And on the same day the, tiny voters to mount these pinchbeck about 1,500 acres. The water will perience of Continental warfare. Dictators on horseback and pro-be used for neighbouring towns. For them victory does not mean Austrian army of 20,000 men was
peace. They were taught in the reinforced by 15,000 men
of the Revolutionary wars of the cigh- Heimwehr, trained in the teenth century the terrible lesson arms and sworn' in as that eternal vigilance is the price police.
Socialist Folly In England.
vide the money with which to
fight the crucial election refuse
both the programme and the
Your Daily Smile
"LUNNON."
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· Poland
-use of
Buxiliary
There are serious dissensions leadership. They refuse because in the British Socialist camp as they know this little clique of Biggins visited London for the of peace as well as of freedom
After surrendering during the egotists, and realise the electoral first time, and on his return was to the leadership, direction and madness of their plan. Mr. Cl-asked by his friend Smith, what past few years with credulity but in Warsaw I found the sales programme of the Labour party- trine, therefore, the general se struck him first about the Metro and Herriot school of pacifism, they and prudent reserve that I had re
without conviction to, the Briand curious mixture of apprehension Do they reside, and are they to be cretary of the T. U. C., observes polis. sought in the great Trade Union in the current issue of the "La- "The traffic, replied Biggins; acknowledge with chastened feelings marked in Paris. The Foles believe the triumphant if neglected logic of in the possibility, nay, the pro- section, or among the so-called in-bour Magazine" that "a clean-up and my next impression was
of the Labour Movement is in cool hand on my brow, a smell of
Clemenceau's injunction to pursue bability of war with Germany.
But they do not believe that it is telligentsia who founded last progress," and pointedly refers antiseptic, and a voice asking me peace with the methods of war. The year an organisation called "The to the "singularly untimely and I felt better."
French are, I honestly believe, the within Germany's present Intentions most profoundly pacific people into provok a war, any more than it Socialist League?" This League politically inept propaganda" of
Europe-like all nations of land-is within her present capacity to has been issuing a series of pam-a policy which "requires the ex-
ANOTHER FREE, MEAL
owning peasants, they desire but to pursue one.
The Polish Government attaches phlets, which under the name of ercise of powers of dictatorship."
Diner: Three years ago 1 dined cultivate their falda and to possess Constitutionalism preach an un-may be remembered, two months not pay the bill, you kicked me out.
The National Joint Council, at this restaurant and, as I could in peace the profit thereof.no undue importance to Chancellor disguised Socialist Revolution to ago issued a strong manifesto, be brought about virtually in a headed "Democracy v. Dictator-I beg your pardon.
Manager: I am very sorry, single session after a single vic-ship," which denounced Dictator- Client: Don't mention it you tory at General Election. Every ship, whether Red or Black, and thing that stands in the way is to]
stood firm for Political Demo just do it again.
me- cracy and Parliamentary be scrapped--House of Commons thods. The Cripps programme is procedure, the Cabinet system, Communism with a poor veneer the Parliament Act, the House of and a spurious polish. The "clean you looking Lords, the Crown. All this is cool-sweep" should send back these braggart mice to their mouse- ly and impudently described as holes. "the adaptation to the require- ments of a Socialist Government Wiser Counsels At
Teheran.
of the administrative structure
of the Crown, the Cabinet, and
But their very passionate pacifiam Hitler's recent declaration of friend- sir makes them, by the history of the ship and pacific intent to M past as by the prevision of the Wysocki, the Polish Minister in can fature, a people apprehensive of Berlin. This declaration, like the war. They have not stared for Chancellor's speech in the Reichstag, nothing for ten centuries at the is believed in Warsaw to have been IN A BAD WAY
Germanie peoples across the Rhine, inspired by notions of expediency It does not change the Debt Collector's Wife: What are They remember the old envious pro-alone.
throins into. 80 worried about verb of the Germanic tribes: As situation, merely
happy is aged in France. And relief, rather than conceals, the Horuce?
Debt Collector: The landlord's be- they reflect that the Bhine still fundamental political and racial come a client of our firm, and if I separates from Germany a long- animosity between German and don't collect my rent I get fired for contested territory that the Ger Pole,
(Continued on Page 11.) ineficiency.
Poor Old Heinz...
mans but lately owned,
In Paris, then, I found the fear, if not the talk of war. Wer talk Connoisseurs of cheese have a has been rigorously excluded from
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ANDORRA caro is to be taken that no appeal ment of the dispute between the Paris restaurant. We triumphed in Germany. The French is possible to the Law Courts. Persian Government and the An-Though this achievement beats Press indeed, with but few excep Those inconvenient persons, the glo-Persian On Company may or Mr. Hein's 57 varieties of some tions, has freated events in Ger Judges, with their tiresome no-may not state the terms accur thing or other by a complete cen- many with a prudent, a significant Tiniest Republic To Be ately. But it shows at least that tary, and thereby constitutes a fear restraint. The many French organs tions as to the rights and liberty the matter is being discussed in ful blow to the industry of the which owe their Inspiration in mate
CONCESSIONS GRANTED. of the subject and what is con- a friendly and practical fashion, United States, there are at present ters of foreign polley to the Min- stitutional and unconstitutional, and that the League of Nations no indications that it will lead to istry of the day betray a diligent
Madrid. are to be dodged. Sir Stafford acted wisely last February in ad- hostilities between the two nations and admirable desire to avoid all sources of friction with Germany. Cripps, ex-Solicitor-General, is vising the parties to settle their concerned.
Nevertheless, their secret preoceppa. Andorra, the world's tilent most emphatic on this point. differences by private negotia-
tion with the menace of an ultimate and quietest republic may soon be The complete severance with all tious, Bir John Simon's speech traditional theories of govern- of January 28 had put before the, We hear that in some of the German revanche was never more turned into a gambling centre
Latest
obvious. The French Press is al and pleasure resort space-saving two-m ment," he says, is to be accom-world the British case against plished by Orders under an Emer- Perslas cancellation of the old motor-cars, the engine worn ways more to be read for what it It is announced here that a Franco Spanish syndicate hem gency Powers Bill which "must agreement with the company, strapped round the driver's waist. hides than for what it reveals. T
Relations with Germany at pre been granted a 76-year lease of be incapable of challenge in the and it was felt that the Persian:
Bent dominata internal political ground for the building of a Courta." Only a few weeks ago, authorities should be given the Facts You Did Not Hires, the Budget deficit, un vast Casino, hotels and the lay- in the House of Commons, he opportunity of withdrawing
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efficient Minister of War France This, he says, will be quità con- tion for her claim to repudiate a
Inown for years stitutional, But the charge of contract of thirty years standing A Paris scientist has invented And the For Dictatorship shocks him, and he which has brought many milions water dezles it as "a fundamental mis- into the Persian Treasury Back chlor understanding, whether inten-ward regions would joole in vain
Honal or not," of his programm
Where is the misunderstanding
for Western capital and technical the advice if agreement could be nulɔ
Sir Stafford should read what his lifed at any moment without re-
brother pamphleteer,
says about Dictatorsh
Carinot says Mr. limits to the degree.
power which under. the emerge
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ed at Taheran, and that the long and-
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