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Germany.
·
mans are
In Germany at this moment certainly been remarkable. There
are
HERE, THERE
and
EVERYWHERE
Hermitage Treasures.
Leningrad.
The Museum of History of Cul- ture and Art in Leningrad, former ly known as The Hermitage, is one
of the greatest institutions of its kind in the world. It ranks equal- ly with the Louvre and the British Museum.
SATURDAY, JULY 22 1933.
PROFESSOR MOLEY DESCRIBED
ROOSEVELT'S SHADOW
THE MAN FOR WHOM THE CONFERENCE WAITED ·
(By C. V. R. Thompson.)
London, June 25. used to rag him about it. They
The museum contains an unique | A young high school teacher could not understand when they saw
aft á tramcar at collection of west European paint stepped
ahum lying under a shady tree on a ings. Its beautiful art gallery is corner of one of the darkest streets bright summer's afternoon, reading, famous for its Poussins, Claude in Cleveland, Ohio. Two gunmenjalways reading. Lorrains, Rubenses, Van Dykes, followed him
and
As children will, they taanted
t
Rnd unrivalled collection of Rem- Presently he felt a revolver in the him, but he took no notice of their
brickbats. brandts. The original Hermitage pit of his back.
"Stick 'em up!" said one of the He takes no notice of brickbats collections have been greatly sup
{ now. He thrives" on attack. He plemented since the Revolution by gunmen. collections formerly 'belonging, to The young teacher was annoyed. loves a fight. the Stiglitz Museum, the Stroganoff He turned round suddenly
The young Moley, want to college. Palace, a number of large private knocked, on of the toughs to the He parents could not afford it, but must make collections nationalized after the ground. The gunmen were astound-they realised they Revolution, and by valuable artled at his unexpected strength and sacrifices to educate their son.
Brain Trust treasures collected by various ex-[fied in terror.
That young high school teacher is He did his share. With his usual peditions.
The primitive art section is ex-jin mid-Atlantic to-day. He is no thoroughness be set out to learn interesting longer young. He is no longer a basketball, and when he had master- ceptional, including and unique specimens found in high school teacher. But he stilljed it he joined a professional team All Stars. He was paid a Scythian grave-mounds in the has that unexpected strength-called south of the US.S.R. Antique art, moral rather than physical,, now-pound for every match he played. is represented by a rich collection which makes his enemies fiee in Those early schoolfellows of his used of red and black vases with paint-terror.
come and cheer him. Young led designs, and the works of Poly-| He is Assistant Secretary of Moley got a kick out of that.
Head of the "Brain Trust," be cletes, Undius, Lisippus, Scopasus State Raymond Moley, who is on his -famous sculptors of ancient way to London to save the Economic has little time these days to indulge in exercise. Twenty hours' work a Greece,
Conference from stalemate.
day does not leave much time to
•
Splitting The Atom.
Leningrad.
As head of the "Brain Trust,"
Ito
the
The eastern section contains col-i
The Shadow lections of art treasures of ancient President Roosevelt himself might indulge in long walks, in which he Egypt, Assyria, Babylon, the Can-just as well be coming to the con-delights.
His amusements now are confined casus, Persia, Turkey, Middle and ference, for Moley is Roosevelt's Central Asia, China, Japan and
to reading and the theatre. Crime shadow. India, dating from the IVth There are some who contend that fascinates him. He reads scores of German prestige abroad. Ger-century to the XIXth century and Roosevelt is Moley's shadow, and detective novels merely to attempt
fact judging later.
mind of The Museum has been that Moley is the real President of to get inside the themselves by different stand-greatly expanded in recent years, the United States.
criminal. ards than those by which they and now the west European ani
He had to indulge in that queer Be that as it may, Moley is al- are judged which is one of the section alone occupies 100 rooms. ways at the President's elbow, and hobby almost immediately after be disquieting symptoms of the
he is the most feared man in the had narrowly escaped being shot growing isolation of German
when mad Zangará tried to assassin- United States. public opinien. Some of the
Whenever an Important decision ate Roosevelt at Miami last yeer." achievements of the regime have
The Assistant Secretary of State Work on a huge apparatus de- has to be made the former school-
spent hours in the wretched man's the main current is undoubtedly has been, in the words of a vast signed to split the atom is proceed. teacher is summoned.
"What do you think of that, Ray 1" cell trying to get inside his mind, trying to discover what leads a man set towards "self-sufficiency." and impresssive simplification. ing here satisfactorily, and it is That slogan is part of the Nazi Herr Hitler is more complete-expected that shortly it will be asks the President.
"Rap" approves; and that de- to assassination.
Young Moley, with his usual creed.
The prevailing fashion ly the master of Germany than ready to put to the test, thus bring- of National-Socialism is to decry ever Bismarck was. The parti-ing nearer the solution of a pro-cision stands.
He disapproves-well, the exec-desire for being at the heart of everything foreign, if only by cularist privileges of the feder-blem that for long has baffled the
tive of the United States has the things, was one of those who gave
chase to the assassin. contrast with that pure Geral States have been swept away. scientific world.
Part of the apparatus to be em-right to change its mind. manism which has in every con-The new State Governors
Crime led him into the greatest nection to be exalted. Germany dictators in their own dominions, ployed in splitting the atom is a
With his usual way of wanting to is nevertheless a member and but responsible to the dictator in giant electro-magnet, the casting that strange body of professional controversy of his career. a most welcome member of the Berlin; and their powers cover of which has been completed by a advisers which Roosevelt has gather-
Leningrad plant to the order afled round him, Moley has a finger in set wrong things right. Moley start- Economic and of the Disarmament every activity of daily life. It
{ed attacking everything connected Conferences; and among the is difficult indeed for an obser. the Radium Institute. The rest of every Presidential ple.
His quiet, lackadaisical voice is with the control of crime. He at many reasons for which success ver to grasp the extent to which the apparatus is expected to be
ready very shortly.
heard every day by the innermost tacked judges because they were too at both of them is profoundly private idiosyncrasies have been]
walls of the White House. His lenient and spent all their time to be desired is that Germany crushed out in the present rage
Facts You Did Not keen, humorous eyes look die going to dinner and playing chess. will thereby be helped to remain for unification. Even the mem-Į
passionately from this great height] He attacked the grand juries system in her proper place in the family hers of a chess club have to de-
Know.
on the problems of the nation at because it wasted time. He attack- of nations. But at the moment clare their repudiation of Marx-
least twelve out of every twenty-led New York's district attorney because he thought he was the most many of her links with the out-lism; and the wearing of an un-
Bark from a South Sea, island four hours. side world are being snapped.jauthorized badge or a shirt of the tree is used in Japan to make shoe] "Ray is, in effect, Assistant Pre-inefficient for twenty-five years. Her delegation in a fervour of wrong colour may bring dela-sples and otherwise as a substitute sident of the United States. And ill-feeling from the International tion, arrest in the night hours for leather, which it is said to yet Moley is not a politician.
He began crime surveys all over Labour Conference. Foreign and indefinite confinement in outwear.
He is still primarily a teacher, the country. He prepared scores of internment newspapers are excluded by the an
land a teacher of women, too. Ofjintricate graphs and charts which the at- score from the country-sixty-methods savour of Bolshevism. A new spring arrangement for course he is a professor now. Not showed every crime and six Czechoslovak newspapers, for So
far as
the technique of automobiles automatically holds the the absent-minded, umbrella-drop-tempts made to solve it. instance, have been banned. and government is concerned Ger-load in suspension when cars strike ping kind of professor, but a vital (Continued on Page 13.) the Czechoslovka Government many is indeed in the grip of a bumns in roads. increasing riding force on the lecturers rostrum; a have prohibited over a hundred Bolshevism that differs from comfort.
vivacious instructor who makes wo-"BIRKIN BOOTS” FOR Iment students who listen to him German newspapers and maga-that, of Russia chiefly by being {zines. True foreign opinion on national instead of international In its first 18 months, the Greek fascinated by his subject. German affairs is hardly pene-as the Soviet variety at least aviation company operating between He is a man who itches to bring trating at all to German minds. professes to be. The financial and Athens, Agrinion and Jannina about reforms, but hates to be called Sweep Winner's Tribute In every way Germans are find- economic position is undoubtedly carried 10,950 passengers, 222,500 a reformer.
To Famous Motorist. ing themselves cut off from inter-critical. The Budget deficit 18 pounds of baggage, 235,700 pounds Moley has always despised politics course with the outside world. estimated to be somewhere Infof goods and 17,550 pounds of mail and politicians. His lips have often
Impería, (Italy). They are
discouraged from the region of £100,000,000. Many
curled contemptuously as he has dis-
"Birkin Boots" "and"Lord travelling abroad; Bavarian of the most experienced leaders
cessed the legislators of his country. Birkin Shoes are likely to be on officials receive extra holidays if of industry have been dismissed
A Cynic they spend them in Bavarian or resigned, and many posts
Mr. and Mrs. D. H. McCathie and His natural air of dimdence has sale here shortly as a result of holiday resorts. Touring fajhave been taken by men whose Miss H. K. McCathie left Hong Kong added to his biting cynicism, as beSir Henry Birkin's success in the Tripoli Grand Prix which has Austria has of course been stop-qualifications are political rather yesterday by the s.s. Taiping for has said that they are not worth brought £13,000 to six citizens ped by a prohibitive visa-fee; than professional. Profits are Australian porta.
the money they are paid, even as of. Imperia who drew his name in. and even the field of sport has dwindling. External trade is
humorists, or some such biting com- the Tripoli Sweep.
camp. These
+
Personal Pars.
*
Crime Surveys
ITALY.
been invaded by this miserable diminishing. The financial fu- Mr. and Mrs. T. Mitchell were ment.
One of the winners. Giovanni spirit of niggardly nationalism. ture is even more obscure than passengers on the s.a. Talping which In spite of his attitude he was a
Massabo, a shoe-maker, has de The first three of the famous in most countries. Germany pos-left Hong Kong yesterday for Aus- politician himself early in his cided to call his latest model in twenty-five points of the Nazi sesses in her Finance Minister, tralian ports.
career. It was soon after he had boots and shoes after the Eng programme are all directed, in Count Schwerin von Krosigk
left college and adopted the career lish "Lord" as Italians call him.
Another of the lucky six has He was the school superinten decided to buy a small motor
one way or another, against for- and in the President of the Mr. and Mrs. J. Esmonde and of pedagogue." eign countries. They demand Reichshank, Dr. Schacht, two Miss K Esmonde were passengers the "reintegration" of the whole financiers of the very highest on the 8.5. Taiping, which left the dent of the little town of Olmsted boat which he will call "Lord German race, the abolition of ability. The chief hope for the Colony yesterday,
Falls, in Ohio, when they asked him Birkin," while a thirt, who plays the Treaty of Versailles, and the country seems to lie in their abi-
to run for mayor. He laughed, bot
in the town band, will buy a sil- return of the German colonies;lity to conduct German finances
Dr. and Mrs. R. Graham-Brown he stood as candidate for the fan of and it would be the greatest on orthodox lines, and to keep and Mr. and Mrs, L.-G. Godfrey the thing. He laughed again when er cornet, Reuter,... mistake to suppose that, even if the German system in close were also passengers on the s.a. he was elected, but as soon as he these objects may sometimes ap-working contact with the estab-Taiping for Australian ports. pear to be put into the backlished international machinery of bei DE ground of German polley twojcredit and trade. It is distinctly Mrs. F. E. Cameron arrived in at least have been notably in the ominous that a high official, who the Colony yesterday from Nagasaki foreground lately they there- had just been attending the Con by the Kamo Maru fore, cease to form part of the ference of Nazi leaders with Herr
Nazi creed. On the contrary, Hitler in Berlin, should have
reached the town hall he threw] himself body and soul into the job.
"Solomon," the townspeople called
News In Brief.
The Convention between the of him. His reputation for wisdom United Kingdom and Poland regard- spread like wildfire in the borough, ing Legal Proceedings in Civil and They used to flock to him with their Commercial matters, which was on August 26, troubles, and he always seemed to signed at Warsaw
the Hitler regime is trying to stated that one of the sims of into office, is carrying him much have the answer to their problems. 1981, has been extended to this carry though with remarkable the New Reich was "the cutting farther than he meant to go. Now he treats his first experience Colony as from Mr. 3, 1933, states faithfulness the programme of every international tle, what The well-known aphorism, said in politics as a joke. His favourite the Government Gazette. which it set itself, over ten years soever." The creation of the to have been made by Talleyrand trick is to boast mockingly of his
It is notified in the current, issue ago. It is merely addressing itself people's commonwealth" was an-to Napoleon, that you can do any ability to balance the budget of his first to its home problema. There other. Yet another was the thing with bayonets except it little village of the Government Gazette that an is still a wave of public en-abolition of the Uberal and capit on them might be adapted to Her There were less happy moments order for the closing of Sta thusiasm for the new regime, alist economic system,? Some of Hitler and to the methods of die in his earlier lite. There was not Cemetery and the Christian Chines which has undoubtedly
these purposes give the impres-moment by saying that you can much money. He had to study while Cemetery at Stanley was made by the lost self-respect; of
sion that the revolutionary fer. do anything with emotions Ex- he was at school and not behave like His Excellency the Governor. In
school-boy-/ His fellows Council on July 15, vour which carried Herr Hitler cent settle down on them:
even though it has not enka