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The Blue Shirts.
his subsequent suppression of lawlessness which extorted his dismissal last February from Mr.
HERE, THERE
and
EVERYWHERE
The Chinese Junk
A Chinese junk had been special- ly made for Plymouth Navy Week. It was claimed that this is the first time such a' craft had been seen in. home waters, but this was not the case.
DAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1993
NATIONALISM LEADS THE WORLD
WHERE WILL IT END?
COSTLY ERRORS OF ECONOMIC SELFISHNESS
(By J. B. Firth.)
In 1848 a real Chinese junk ap- peared in the Thames and lay off
Patriotism, I read the other day, humanity," which nervously sees Blackwall. Later she was moored is "artificial"; Nationalism "a them as armies in being. The near Waterloo Bridge and, with her crazy and criminal delusion."
world is watching the uprising of |native crew, became one of the at- As to the former, let me quote afthe German nation-irresistible un-
tractions of "the season." This line or two from Lucian: "A man lees it is split by its excesses. quaint and tiny vessel had crossed is fain to be at home, though the is reaching out for wealth, power, the Indian Ocean and sailed round homa be but an islet. Brighter to and dominion. It is ridding itself the Cape of Good Hope without him the smoke of home than the fire violently of all alien bodies and as mishap..
of other lands.":
far as may be of alien ideas. It is
her was
£6 old
It
Among the thousands who visited Is it to old Lucian or to the rejecting whatever it cannot Charles Dickens, who young modernist that the heart re-assimilate or whatever refuses to be wrote: "Nothing is here but China.sponds? We can safer trust the incorporated wholly into itself. It How the fowery land ever came into universal instinct of mankind. may suffer in the long run by these this latitude and longitude is the Nationalium
as violences, but in the meantime the first thing one asks and whe-Patriotism, if one regards the na-great rage blazes furiously, furor thar the fierce old ocean could ever tion as the larger tribe. And it arma ministrat, and so far as tran- have been in earnest with this float was never so powerful for good and quillity, and serenity are concerned ing toy-ship or had merely played evil as to-day.
the hands of the clock are brus with it in lightness of spirit.”
It is Nationalism which has just quely thrust back, beyond all power brought the World Economic Con-of Geneva to pretend that things ference to An adjournment re are going well. *
Modern Hunger For Wealth President Roosevelt a few weeka ogo said; in one of his pontifical
Your Daily Smile
[
CASH ADVANCES,
+
infecta-which may be translated
at will into any one of the innumer- able synonyms for failure.
“A young man should always ap proach one of his parents when he Inspiring_And_Tigerish_Force" world utterances, that it would be Nationalem seems monstrous to suppose that any na-
[a
ia in financial difficulties" advises writer. A good opening is "Mother, can you spare a dime?”
•
• JOKE.
•
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The same
The pre-
effectually to have pulped the Draft tion thought of extending its ter Convention of the Disarmament ritories at the expense of another. Conference. It created and it Disraeli, on the contrary, once said, Bustains Fascism. It has just no less confidently, that it was brought to the birth not only Hit-"natural" for a great nation con- Wise spending, it is sald, will end ferism, but a New Germany. It acious of its strength and its power the depression. Now is the time to animated the Peace Treaties, It to desire to expand. There are two say farewell with good buys. richly fed the roots of the Great directly and at bottom irreconcil- War. It is the soul of worldjable statements. Opportunity for A WOMAN'S WEAPONS
politics. It is also their Devil. territorial expansion has indeed "England should make more vac "The most Inspiring and tigerish much narrowed since Disraeli's day, Hong Kong, Friday, Sept. 15, 1933. De Valera. It shows high cour-of her water power."
force in the modern world is not to but that the impulse to expand re- age on the General's part to start] "Tell my wife that. She knows be puffed away or brushed aside. mains who doubts? la rival organisation against these all about it."
Those who would destroy it must British Imperialism at the mo desperadoes, and even higher on "la she an engineer?"
equip themselves with dynamite.ment is under a cloud, the part of his recruits that join "No, but she gets what she wants Thus the Bolsheviks are right when valling mood of the United King- The Free State
Executive it. But they are splitting, not from me by her tears.
they any that to overthrow Na-dom is that quite enough of the ¡Council a long time in uniting, the Opposition by Fascist
W&6
tionalism one requires not Interna-world is painted red, There is a plucking up
utterances and vague talk of new To-day's Falry Story.
tionalism but a Red International, growing dislike of costly mandates courage to issue a decree of outlawry upon Gen, and un-Parliamentary methods of There was once a humorist who operating through World Revolution which bring in little return, whe- O'Duffy's Blue Shirt organisation, government being required to never said a naughty girl should and creating a novel and frightful ther in revenue or gratitude. the National Guard. No other rescue Ireland from her pro-be sent to the seaside to be tanned. form of Caenarism-a junta of Subject nationalities are increas-
Mr. Do Valera]
tyrants at the top, and millions of jingly hard to rule, not because the course was open without flagrant sent plight. self-stultification. For parades of a manifestly afraid of being
State serfs at the bottom, fast-yoko upon their necks is necessarily thrown back varying size and character were
on a resort to It's not enough to have the fich bound to the soil or the factory, oppressive-it is often most widely held throughout the Free force, and talks of the duty of to succeed; you must be up to forgetful of if they ever heard beneficial but because it is shap State, some furtively, as in the all to accept "the democratic rule"scratch."
the name of Liberty.
nd, like a yoke and they cannot free- Dublin area, others openly. The of the majority in a strain very
With all its faults and vices Na-ly follow their impulsés to kick up tionalism is a thousand times pre-a dust and go to the devil in their
own way. the During the latter half of
The great root of veil, however, nineteenth century, Caesarism, the in present day Nationalism is not eternal antithesis of Nationalism, the spirit of territorial aggression. was fighting almost everywhere a The spirit of Irredentiam carried to losing battle. The gradual dis-preposterous lengths is far more The desire for or the too memberment of the Turkish Em-menacing.
Italy and of Germany-these por-pansion is infinitely more dangerous tents were resounding triumphs for still. This has grown as the spirit Nationality and, in the main, for of Jingoism has waned. In the re- cent case of Japan both Influences Wilson's Self-Determination were at work simultaneously, and Nationality was to save the world, the grave preoccupations, and em- from the Autocrats, and therefore barrassments of the Grest. Powers
TONIC TALK.
of
defiance of the Government order, different from that which he em-History Made Simple, however, was flagrant and deployed for ten years as an uncon- Cricket, we are told, was played ferable to that, liberate, and so the organisation!
stitutional Leader of Opposition. in the middle itself was banned, and a Military himself of his more disreputable bowled. That he would now like to rid course,
ages. This, was when knights were Tribunal of Five immediately set associates of other days is cer Jup with summary powers to deal with offenders under the Act
tain. He would gladly draw away. the youth of the LB.A. and enlist
#
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which Mr. Cosgrave's Govern-hem in constitutional volunteer-many does not necessarily mean he Pire in Europe, the unification of imperative need of economic
ex-
LITTLE THOUGHT. Because a man has a wife ment passed in order to punishing. But that compact force of is a bigamist. similar offenders belonging to fanatics and desperadoes lives the IR.A. Gen. O'Duffy's judi- clous and non-committal comment)
for the day when it hopes to set is that "he awaits the verdict of up an All-Ireland Republic and the people." To what extent the re-parcel out the land of Ireland Government will use this two-among the true Republicans. Mr. edged weapon is doubtful. They De Valera is one with them in
spirit, but as Head of a Govern-in The stem of a new tobacco pipe from tyranny, oppression, and war. supplied an opportunity too heaven. know the danger of making ment which daily has to com-making it easy to carry in a small/Corruptio optimi pessima, Germany sent to be missed.
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[political martyrs in Ireland.
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promise in order to live he can-pocket without danger of breaking, ment. Instead of consolidating
The hunger for wealth has grown provided the bitterest disappoint- much. The Blue Shirt Chief has would. At the moment, however, not be as intransigent as he
voracious. The intended power peace Nationality sowed the of production has led to an inter China expects to harvest a much dragon's teeth, and few fields es-necine struggle for markets. tion will neither dissolve nor be the high cards against the larger winter wheat crop this caped the sower.
(Continued on Page 10). driven underground. It is not General, who has probably shown year than last and also has increased Later, a mad world became mad- illegal, he says, because a blue his hand and challenged a trial acreages in cotton and tobacco. shirt is not a uniform and of strength too soon,
der when President Wilson, in one OLD BOYS IN THE of his most ecstatic moment, flung Controlled by a thermostat, an the phrase Self-Determination: Into
FAR EAST. electrical device has been invented an areas already soaked with blood to keep the water in a home as a guiding principle for those who aquarium at any desired temper-should frame the peace treaties....
Self-Determination was interpret fed to mean that any collection of ****** | people" which proclaims itself to be
his, followers neither possess arms in secret nor carry them on parado. Proclamations, however,
are dogmatic, and summarily end
Recovery Codes.
Gift Sent To Isle Of Man College.
. London:
all argument Another shrewd Just over two months after theatre. atroke was aimed at the Blue passing by Congress of his Indus-Plat Shirt movement when the Ministrial Recovery Act, President Roose member defence warned every velt has registered the greatest the last card with which the Act nation has an indefeasible right to Old Boye of King William's member of the Army Reserve success attained so far for the polley has furnished the Government the be a Sovereign State and shape its College (Isle of Man) who are that "membership of any military which that Act was designed to pro- power to imposs code in the course at will. The reckless assump now in the Far East have sent a or semi-military body not lawful- mote He has put his signature to absence of agreement. The ownSA VE
[tion again was that with Self, gift to the College Trustees, ly maintained by the Govern-air competition" codes for the were suddenly informed by Gen. Determination for large and small It is a tea service made in ment is forbidden to officers and foundation industries on the opera Johnson that "N.L.B.A. had itself nations, Democracy, and a League China, and was presented dur men of the Reserve, as is also tion of which the economia life of drawn up, a general code for the membership of any secret 80-the United States depends. To all industry, any objections to which
of Nations, the world was rededicat- ing the Centenary Celebrations ciety."
ed to moderation, reasonableness, of the College by Mr. H. W P. A threat against pay, of them are now applied the central must be notified by the following and good sense.
McMeekin, of Shanghai,
Twenty-five old boys had join weight. This seems to have met remedy for Industrial depression- the inevitable. That may not mean Fallure was foredoomed.
led in this presentation-Reuter. with immediate success, for the expansion of employment by the admission of final defeat in trouble with staleman is that they FATTY ARBUCKLE'S members of the Reserve in the the shortening of hours of work; this and in other Industrias ignore history in its application to National Guard have been thank- the Increase of general purchasing threatened with imposed measures the
problems which confront
CHINA EMPORIUM LTD. pension, and privileges carries principles of the Rooseveltian morning. The owners accepted World Watching Germany
GRAND
OPENING
SATURDAY, Sept. 16th.
FORTUNE.
ed for their services by a special power by the raising of minimam of regulation, there is serious talk of them The trapple with Demo- order and advised to obey the wage rates; and the imposing of applying to the United States cracies is that they are too latest Former Wealthy “Star” Minister's decree and quitumit on price-raising. In the Supreme Court for a ruling that on on Technically the same decree cases of the steel and off industries this point, the Recovery Act la up- should veto membership of the the fight between the employers re- constitutional. In the
Leaves $2,000, L.B.A., but since - Mr. De Valera presentatives and the National Inconceivable event of such an applica came into office that force has dustrial Recovery Administration tonucce suffered no molestation. “Fiya has been prolonged. It has been
Ing the
thousand men of the LE
paraded through the str
Dublin last-Aprili
that number paraded-In
of Wolfe Tone, one of the
of 98, in Co Kildare, as
the middle of June. It was
LBA frozen hatred of O'B
for his efficient marvice
of Star in the Free State during the Civil War of 1922 and
wared over the terms of the code
which each industry had submis
to the Administration as bufted
own needs, while carr
thrown from:control
that
and, the next meal, of Nations ever pretending to Dain-spoken once told
1:the General Goo
time
June