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Changed Outlook In
HERE, THERE
and
EVERYWHERE
Eighty-three, Not Out
respect.
MONDAY SEPTEMBER
1933,
BOOKS OF THE DAY
IDEAL WORLD IN
125 YEARS
MR. WELLS FORECASTS NEW CIVILISATION
(By Harold Nicolson.)
Few men to-day set a finer ex-l ample of clear thinking, hard rid-|| ing, and plain living than President] Masaryk of Czechoslovakia, who`at| the age of 83 has vigorously reiter-f ated his views on frontier revision. In a Europe torn by hate and die- cord, no man enjoys more universal The Shape of Things to Come. By "War, Unless..." (Gollancz. 5a).
H. G. Wells
Mr. Huddleston is not dealing in The President still does, his
*(Hutchinson. 106. 6d.) dream-history; he is dealing, from "physical jerka". every morning. War, Unless. By Sisley Huddleston. a basis of wide experience and after rising at six, and can still
(Gollancz. 58.) knowledge, with the condition of touch bis toes without bending the The Pantomime Man. By Richard Europe at this moment. It is true, knee.
as he says, that there is to-day a On one occasion, in his room in
· (Rich and Cowan, Ta. 6d.) grave menace of another European the. Hradcany, a year or two ago Sea Wall.... By L A. G. Strong war. It is true, also, that this The Maharajah of Patiala, who was present, called attention to the beauty of the carpet.. The Presi-1 dent at once.bent down and examin- {ed its texture, carefully for several minutes. Many men half his ag would have gone purple in the face.
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Back To Gallipoli
Glory
Middleton.
(Gollancs. '78, Gd.) menace cannot be exorcised by the By Francis Stuart. methods of the new · diplomacy. (Gollancz. 78. Gd.) The open covenante, pacts confer- H. G. Wells's new book, "The ences, and communiques of de- Shape of Things to Come," is pub-moratic diplomacy have.
only lished by Messrs Hutchinson for diminished the credit of inter- the price of 10s. 6d. It is written national contract, whereas the in the form of a dream-history and theory of- equality as between the describes the decline and fall of, Great and the Small Powers has re- The Royal Naval Division Asso- capitalist civilisation, the ensuing aulted only in obstruction, re ciation is promoting a visit to Gal-period of frustration and collapat, gionalism, and confusion. lipoli, to be made next May. Three the return of prosperity under the What, therefore, is to be done? years have passed since members Air. Directorate of 2010 A.D., and Mr. Huddleston affirms uncompro- of the Association revisited Ant the final evolution of the Modern misingly that the Peace Treaties werp, a place that must have stir State in 2059 A.D.. By placing him- must be revised. "The choice," he red lively memories; when they go self at a point 100 years removed writes, "is not between revision and back to Gallipoli profounder from the present moment, H. G non-revision. It is between the chords will be touched.
Wells in able to propheas, poke fun, two kinds of revision--by agree-
avoid
war
of
a war whole
The veterans of one of the war's and readjust proportions with in- ment or by arms." most memorable campaigns, with finite gusto and complete dignity. Obviously, if we are to their friends, will make the jour- He tells us how the Soviet experi-Wells's Polono-German ney in the Montrose, and their dis-meat deteriorated owing to exces-of 1940, something has to be done. ambarkation from her will be more sive dogmatism, how the sky-Mr. Huddleston contenda that the pleasant than was the dash from scraper was succeeded by the cara-difficulties are not insurmountable the old Clyde nearly 20 years ago, pace roof-line, how the United if only the four Great Powers can But it will be to the same famous States Treasury even by 1939 were achieve a united conviction that the the speech. After referring to beaches; and the visitors will find unable to pay their Navy, of alternative to revision is the soundness of the financial that time's ravarages have not yet Kovoet's Permanent Death Gas, of which will destroy our position, and the excellence of erased the trench lines on Suvis, the great pestilence of 1955, of the civilisation. I question whether Hong Kong, Monday, Sept. 25, 1933. Indian credit, Lord Willingdon Holles and Antec. The Turkish deserted ruins of New York and Europe and America could ever held out strong hopes of the set. welcome will not be so immediate Monte Carlo, of the landslide which achieve a united conviction. Yet ting up of a Reserve Bank soon our men get to Constantinople.
as it was; it will be posponed till destroyed Central London, of the Mr. Huddleston's premises would jintroduction of Ogden's basic Eng- not be questioned by any serious becoming practicable-a measure
lish and of Homer Lee Pabst's student of International affairs. which is one of the financial
kinetogens, and of the slow emer-And he leaves us with an inter- conditions-precedent laid down in
vence of a planned civilisation over rogative which has got to be faced. Lord Willingdon's address to London for the establishment of
a depopulated and famished world. "War," Unless..." is one of those the joint session of both Houses Indian self-government. He made,
He readjusts the proportions of rare books which appear equally, of the Legislative Assembly re-too, emphatic reference to go out. "gay, sister, is my gat on London Economic Conference, our the amateur.
The Chicago gun-girl prepares to the European War. Karl Marx, the admirable both to the expert and to cently touched upon all outstand-matter of a very different order:
straight?" ng features of the existing situa-the use of serial bombing in
He Indulges in incidental" but 1éx- Richard Middleton was not, I on in India. The aspect of last month's minor operations
|Always Learning,
tremely spirited junges against think, a very important poet. He on the North-West Frontier. The deepest interest to British opin-
"Two hundred thousand people bankers and armament Arms, Hitler wrote memorable lines; case for this use of aircraft in demonstrate in Bucharest," states and Mr. Ramsay McDonald, "And men and women ion is, as always of recent years, certain outlying regions" has a headline. Heavens! I'
old never Bloomsbury, and Bernard Shaw,
without regret, m the question of the maintenance been completely established in knew there were so many vacuum James Joyce and Senator Borah,
Dreaming of love fulfilled. were of law and order. The time has Geneva and elsewhere. Although cleaner salesmen in the world!
lovely yet. been, and not so long ago, when the Disarmament Conference
India.
Diet As A Mental
Your Daily Smile
ETERNAL FEMININE.
·A·REAL SURPRISE
present police system, and Fascist.
And he showe us' history “aša] string of accidents with an increas-Yet as a link between the nineties no one speaking of that subject would never be allowed by the
ingly disastrous trend" leading our and the nineteen hundreds he was with knowledge and responsibility British Government to break A patient rang the bell of a doctor, well-intentioned but Inery civilisa-not as significant as Dowson and could have given a promising down on this sole issue, the The doctore wife opened the door tion towards the final catastrophe. not as gifted as Alfred Douglas, account. Lord Willingdon now situation as it stands is such as "Can I see the doctor?" asked the And finally he promises us the He died young and tragically. A emergence of "a comprehensive certain aura, hangs around his can say and it is largely due to put out of the question the patient.
"Couldn't you come to-morrow faith in the modernised World name, And Messrs. Rich and the merits of his own administra-abandonment of a weapon of {night?” asked the life,
State, Socialistic, cosmopolitan, Cowan may well be justified · in tion-that the country is fo-day] authority for which there is so
publishing a collection of his much to be said on all accounts. patient.
"Is he that busy?" inquired the and creative." more peaceful and more "free
This happy consummation of a articles and stories under the title from disaffection than it has
"No," said the wife, with a win-world in which sage men and wo-of "The Fantomime Man" (7, 6d). '- been for many years. Terrorism,
ning smile, "but you are his first men live noble live for ninety. The book is interesting, if only by greed, in that it has elicited from Alfred patient and I'd like to surpriss him years untroubled though still a menace, is "well
to-morrow, as it's his birthday.".
fealousy, or sex complications, in Douglas a critical introduction. Yet in hand." It is a special and]
uot achieved till 2059 A.D. In the in itself it is meagre stuff. Adole- separate police problem, local to
saterval we and our grandchildren scent sentimentality, mingles with a Bengal, and without roots in of Control with respect to improve the beach today is the woman who to believe in disciplined planning
If the suggestions of the Board Yesterday's Moan is To-day's Mode are forced to suffer atrociously for crudity of critical judgment which Just think how fashionable on the ineptitudes of those who refuse
(Continued on Page, 11). general popular sentiment. But ments in the dietary of patients In as for Mr. Gandhi's movement of British public mental hospitals are
"hasn't got a rag to her back.
FIRE CHIEF IN civil disobedience Lord Willing-jcarried into effect there will be just
FLAMES. don sums up what is the univer-cause for envy among those who A writer says it is not generally
Pardon Me, Girls, sal verdict of those entitled to have not had the good fortune stealised that telephone girls are speak of the matter when he least at meal times of belag certi- civil servante. But not very, declares that "the popular judg-fed as mentally unstable. The iden
Stimulus.
ment has really discarded its that patients will benefit by less Motte for. Gold-diggers.
Blaze Right In His Own Pocket.
Attack on Inertia Everything that Wells: writes is gent. Yet, under the Imaginative stimulating, suggestive, and Intel- vivacity, the underging Intellectual energy of this book, there is a erious and, indeed, impassioned, purpose.” Wellä - has always pÕK-
About the hottest fire that ME bistory.". He has from his earliest John A. Throckmorton Chief of days fought a majestic battle the local fire department, - ever against slack thinking. His pre heard of was right in his two
It has been a very serious dan-monotony and regularity in the diet. Presidents make the heart grow assed the mental conception of Mount Holly, New Jersey ger. Now it has become, as these three-weeks dietary is snug-fonder, Secretary of State expressed itrested instead of a weekly one, the
In the House of Commons recent argument being that patients will Taking No Chances. ly, a matter of altogether second-brighten visibly at the sound of a «It is announced that stronger sent book is something more than a pocket, derde d
dinner bell if they do not know measures are to be taken to prevent sound diagnosis of events. It is The Chief, while watching a Bry importance. Those who what fare will be wet before them smuggling by holiday-makers. For something more than satire on ball game, placed a lighted pipe practised civil disobedience have. They remember a weekly rotation of England expects every man to fry or criticism of our present worried in his coat pocket. So absorbed fully learned the lesson that no meals, and it depresses them; a to dodge his duty,.. terms would ever be made with three-weekly rotation, will", leave anyone rejecting the ordinary them guessing. Occasional surprise obligations of law-abiding citi-dishes, are also recommended. For zens. At the same time, the
example, a chand-froid might start evidence of the sincerity of Bri
conversation as "to
Facts You Did Not Know.
optimism. One has the impression was he in the game that friends that in this "volume Wella kai
jhad to tell him he was on fre-- gathered together, all his know
Beuter. A ledge, all bis fierce indigation, all his passionate sympathy, and all Jhis talent, in a concentrated effort to force upon his : conta poraries
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