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Marshal Lyautey's Courage
SATURDAY AUGU
1993.
BRITAIN SHOULD CUT
RUSSIA
BALANCE OF TRADE UNFAVOURABLE
NO COMPENSATION FOR SOVIET
ANNOYANCE
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(By A. A. B.)
London. Mr. Mark Patrick has been at-
and
Sir John Simon is off to Brazil to tached to the British Embassy at Some idea of the market valus of the MSS. of three of Charlotte from the effects of the humble pie means of watching the pulling of recover, as we all hope he may, Moscow, and has had exceptional Bronte's famous novels conveyed by the fact that alx forced him to eat in the company of Mr. Patrick has observed might may be which our patriotic Premier has the Soviet wires. But surely what leaves of one of her writings M. Litvinoff. The cold remains of also have been observed by his brought £250 five years ago.
As for Browning's MS. of the
that dish he has left to Mr. Runci- Majesty's Ambassador and have "Ring and the Book" and his wife's man, the President of the Board of been known by the Foreign Office. sonnets, "From the Portuguess,”
Trade, a strait-laced Dissenter, to
Indeed, not the least disgusting the book world still remembers the discuss with the ambassador of the part of the whole business is that sensation in 1913 when
regicide Soviets. the
all through the weeks that Mac- original love letters of the pair donald reached London a few days subjected to the incredible horrora When Messra, Thornton and Macdonald and Thornton were being brought £6,550 at auction.
ago the British Press, headed. by and torture of examination the "Times," exclaimed with smug cross-examination by G.P.U. methods Mona Lisa's Smile In Court.
complacency, "The Moscow incident to induce them to confess, the Bri- Many an English art lover who is now closed." With all deference tish Ambassador, the Foreign Office, has pondered over Leonarda
da to the daily Press, England cannot the Foreign Secretary, and the Vinci's famous "Mona Liza" at the wash out in this easy manner the Premier, who must have known." Louvre, and watched her enigmatic record of one of the most shameful what was going on, were afraid that smile, will pity an artist who finds and humiliating incidents in the if they remonstrated the prisoners a painting of his to be the subject whole history of our foreign policy would be shot! Such is the value: of a legal dispute. A woman who "The moving finger writes and, of British prestige! One more turn ordered the artist to paint her por-having writ, moves on"; but it will of the screw and the embargo will trait refused to accept it when, it take more than the "piety and wit" be lifted! was finished, alleging that it did of Messrs. Ramsay Machonald and Just before the curtain fell on. not reproduce her smile.
Baldwin to cancel half a line or this third act of Bolshevism the Bri- "I particularly wanted my smile wash out a word of the memory of tish Ambassador was in the portrait," she told the ma-this scandalous traffic in the liberty from a stage which he has failed to withdrawn gistrate, "but the artist has com- of British subjects for the sake of dominate; or perhaps it would be pletely failed to get the right ex-ja few millions of imports.
faiter to Sir Esmond Ovey to say The China Mail seeing things from many angles, pression. My friends have always
that, he has failed where success agree almost without exception told me," she added somewhat As I pointed out a fortnight ago, was impossible, unless for a Sir in sensing the existence of a bashfully, "that I have Mona Lisa's either the prisoners in the Russian Stratford Canning, a breed of diplo Hong Kong, Saturday, Aug. 12, 1933. vast majority entirely enslaved. smile."
State trial were innocent or guilty. mat long extinct. The author of the just-published The magistrate, feeling that the If innocent, they ought at once to To succeed with the Russians, as "Russia's Decisive Year," a task of passing judgment was have been released with apologies with the Turks, you must "treat 'em The Gospel Of Servitude. young American journalist somewhat onerous, placed the mat-and compensation. If guilty, they rough," for, like all uncivilised
named Ellery Walter. conveys this ter in the hands of an expert.
were bound to take the punishment peoples, they mistake civility for "The world," said Mussolini. Mr. Walter went to Russia, es impression throughout his book.
of the country into which they had weakness. It is to be hoped that gone to make money, and England, we shall not make the mistake of "has heard too much talk about he tells na himself, an academic
by every canon of international law continuing the Moscow Embassy, jliberty." Perhaps so; yet that sympathiser with Utopian prin- which the Institute of France has in the result.
The object of the Osiris Prize, and comity, was bound to acquiesce which, if it does no harm, certainly scarcely a reason for ciples. He travelled 15,000 miles just awarded to Marshal Lyautey,
through White Russia, Siberia, is "to de homage to a Frenchman trial and to ridicule the trial itself to be acting with vigour and dis- banishing the subject altogether. the Urals, the Ukraine, Georgia, who has rendered his country, the as a "frame-up," to allow two Bri-cretion. The way in which Stalin But to denounce the methods of Stang, the First Secretary, appears does no good, and is expensive. Mr.
Admittedly large numbers of and the Crimea-without, be it most eminent services." people have shown themselves noted, an interpreter—and,
tish subjects to remain in gaol as and Litvinoff have walked round our unworthy of the boon; but should he naively puts it, "the book French newspapers recall the way in and Sir John Simon were bargain our self-esteem.
In commenting on the award the guilty while Mr. Ramsay MacDonald Government is not, comforting to: everyone therefore lose it? That, tirely different from what I had within a decade in pacifying Mor Soviet Dictator Stalin would take to turned out to be something en-which Marshall Lyautey succeeded ing with Litvinoff as to what the and nothing less, is the threat planned," Within a few miles occo and transforming it from a set the men free "and no questions to-day. The destruction of of Moscow itself he discovered land full if internal strife into a asked," has an ugly resemblance to freedom, the abolition of privacy.¡men, on a collective farm, were animeus conclusion is that only a called, In the blunt language of our
that the workers, nearly all wo-rich and orderly country. The un- dealing with a "fence," which is What do we get out of this Russian is the chief phenomenon of the sullen and underpaid slaves; man of extraordinary bravery could law, compounding a felony.
trade to compensate as for the an- Age. Individual rights that and in the Mascow Institute of have accomplished the task.
noyance and dirt? Nothing. Modern Languages his lectures
Surely the British Foreign Office
Why don't we cut the Russians? were taken for granted a genera-were summarily cut short be-lage, it is stated that when Lyautey humiliating compliance with a Gov-Į violation of Ottawa and of the whole As a minor example of his cour has no record to compare with this begin with, the treaty is in flat are nowadays denied cause he told the pupils certain was War Minister in 1917 one of ernment both in fact and in theory. The plain facts about freedom of the things which troubled him most transaction is only comparable with pire. Are there no fr
of brigands. Indeed, the policy of free trade within the Em- attack, openly proceeding, on the publication in America which was that during Cabinet Councils the ransom paid by anxious relatives Scotland and Canada or hardwoods Parliamentary system is
the Communist directors did not smoking was prohibited. M. Poin- to Chicago gangsters or Chinese in British Gulang? Why is the the
welcome. This, he says, was his care observed this rule with the brigands. That is an affair between tected by allowing the dumping of plainest phase of this process. first inkling that all was not free eagle eye of a schoolmaster.
British timber importer to be pro- All new schemes which hope to and equal in the Soviet Union. ing deliberations one day a very transaction between two
Dur-private individuals.. This is slave-cut wood? succeed that system provide for It was not his last. Wherever he grave question was put to Lyautey.ments, and the price is flaunted in bour at Archangel. In days gone
went he found either complete He remained silent a while: then, the eyes of the world.
We know all about conscript la- the regulation of every citizen's failure, or a partial success pur- writing a brief note, passed it to every action from the cradle chased at the revolting price of Poincare. It read: "Before I can
by Gladstone lashed England into a Moscow Trial. to the grave. Men
are spirits utterly crashed.The Five reply I must smoke. It is my cere-his smartness in not lifting the for which the Turk, according to Mr. Baldwin seems quite proud of horrors and Armenian massacres, fury of indignation over Bulgarian either to have
Year Plan has definitely failed, bral serum.. I need it!" по wages at Jall, or to spend them as they the whole world sees it now. For Marshal, bearing the words: "Ap-land Thornton in Liverpool-street.
of course. He saw that early, as The note was tossed back to the the arrival of Messrs. Macdonald ed out of Europe."
embargo on. Russian imports until the Liberal Party, was to be "kick- are ordered. Socialists state that he gives seven reasons: fear proved-Raymond Poincare."
Messrs. MacDonald and Baldwin, that under their regime there which checks initiative, lack of
Shades of Castlereagh and Canning, representing Labour and modern would not be allowed even the skilled labour, lack of equipment; Facts You Did Not
[of Palmerston and Disraeli! right to express criticism. They eign technicians, lack of funds,
Conservatiam, take the perpetrators lack of co-operation with for
As two of the prisoners were of worse horrors than those of Bul- Know..
found guilty after trial by a Rus-garia or Armenia to their bosom in are logical, as well as candid, in lack of executive leaders, and
kjan-judge and jury and sentenced a treaty of commerce, avowing so much. The only subtle sabotage by the masses. In front of a new electric fan is
to a term of imprisonment, it is there is not wonder is that many are slow to not accomplish miracles.
A land of mental oppression will a fabric covered wheel that when worth inquiring of what they were ciprocity, perceive it, even when proclaim- mere fact that the Red Czardom air in a room.
The saturated with water humidifies the found guilty.
seems
tion ago
Jed.
AN
They persist in thinking requires a secret police is enough to condemn it. Mr. Walter re-
Govern-
These men were charged with
Annoyance and Dirt. »
The question which suggests it- self to me is, Where do we come in?
trees in
in which
even a trace of re-
Trade Losses.
Rabotage, with espionage, and with What is the meaning of it? The that Left Wing stands for liberty cords the relief, as his ship left) Air Ministry has adopted a one way are very grave crimes and desery.Russians goods worth about £9. mil- impairing the efficiency of the ma- balance of Russian trade to heavily whereas it means, and must Odessa, to feel that he was no traffic rule for airplanes flying over ing of condign punishment. But do
To prevent collisions the British chinery they had erected. These against us. In 1932 we sold to the mean, the most crushing 'des-longer watched
As everyone London.... Russia is. He had had.] SAYS, three tremendous
potism of all. Mr. Bernard Shaw in has admitted that Socialism cuti he only function through forced disillusionments the first when A method has been developed for labour, with death for disobedf- the learned that the truth shredding waste leather and press ence; and years before that was second when he found the for many purposes.
could not be spoken, the ing it into sheets that can be used said, thinkers had seen its neces-peasantry thoroughly unhappy, faity. The later development of and the third when he met Rus- Fascism in various forms is, in sin's leaders and learned that covered in Ecuador that combines A species of fruit has been dis- some senses, a preventive war. they were "not altruists, but in-characteristics of the orange, peach. fare, provoked by the wish to comforts and in a class snobbery
(dividuals interested in their own lime and tomato.
get in first.
So from Eight, as equal to that of Romanov Russia
they not refute themselves?
These engineers were sent out under contract with one of the first engineering firms in the world to crect, and work certain machinery, Supposing Messrs. Vickers to have employed the most corrupt servanta in the world, what possible: interest ery they were sent out to put up? had these men to spoil the machin Who, would or could have bribed ¡them to do it? Or are we to sup-
(Continued on Page 12).
NO BEER FOR RED INDIANS.
Unbroken Policy Of Federal Government.
Washington.
Red Indians are not to be per pose that they were such strong mitted to purchase 8.2 per cent
or bellarists that they acted from coun- The Secretary of the Interior ex enough. The trial was such a farce that sale or transportation of liquor on plains the laws prohibiting the
well as Left, is freedom assailed. Professing an indifference to A California inventor's automatic anti-Bolshevists or such keen beer on their reservations. ⠀ The leader and exemplar has, of wealth, they strive ruthlessly fire alarm sounds a siren been Russia. There, for power. In a chapter neatly when heat becomes Intense first of all countries, the men who headed "Caviare Tours" he to melt a kad wire
course,
scathingly exposes the sorry
||ter-revolutionary motives?
one is forced to accept the explana Indian reservations contain expressTM tion of Mr. Mark Patrick, M.P, in prohibition of wine or beer.
do not believe in any individual shams by means of which "poor Held on a corner of a card table his very remarkable book, just out. These enactments are numerous, rights whatever have had their old Mr. Shew thought he was by wire clips, a combined ash tray that "the frame-up" is Stalin's last and were passed at dates as remote chance, and richly have they ex-seeing filthy, dirty, underfed, and and beverage glass holder has been card, and that the Civil War, the as 100 years ago. They express ploited. It Whatever their illiterate Russia." It is true invented. many failures have been, they that strange crimes have been
New Economic Policy, and the Five long-established and unbroken Year Plan having all falled the policy of the Federal Government, done in liberty's name. But the European countries account for Dictator is planning, a new depar-and are unrelated to the 18th have at least succeeded in es- world has little to hope for from two thirds of the world's export ture, of which the first move is to Amendment or to the recent statute tablishing the world's largest any regime which begins with trade In chemicals Mave-pen. Visitors to Russia, liberty openly disallowed.
and Allied-pro-shift the blame to the shoulders of permitting the sale of 8.2 per cent docta.
England.