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COMMENCING SUNDAY, 29th Oct.
AN
ALL
ON THE STAGE
STAR STAGE SHOW
THE MIDNIGHT FOLLIES
i
OF 1933-34.
A MODERN SINGING DANCING REVUE
WITH 15 ARTISTE
THE SEVEN STYLISH STEPPERS A BEVY OF DANCING BEAUTIES
FRANK BRAIDWOOD.
MUSICAL COMEDY-PICTURE, STAR
BETTY
and ARLENE
ACROBATIC DANCING MANYBI
HERE, THERE
and
EVERYWHERE
The Milky Way
Prohibition in America is tumbl ing down, as fast as the State legislation can knock it, but it still stands firm in one or two unexpect. ed quarters.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1933.
IF MUSSOLINI AND HITLER UNITE
ALLIANCE OF FASCIST
STATES FORESEEN
DEFINITE SIGNS IN EUROPE.
A last stronghold is the Americau Embassy in Mexico City, where Mr Josephus Daniels, the man who is President Wilson's time nade the American Navy drink milk. now when Hitler attempts to realise eighteen-seventies.
Germany's claim to rearm? Upon She has never accepted volun- never will accept
(By the Hon. Quintin Hogg.)" →→ What will be Mussolini's attitude been unlike that of France in the
Ambassador.
Recently one of the secretaries the answer to this question may do tarily, and she was being transferred, and, accord-pend the issue of peace or war involuntarily, the Treaty which dis-
Europe,
armed and dismembered her and ing to custom. his colleagues gave
European wars are not caused as Germans believe, formally de- him a parting gift. Their selection
simply by the preparation for war clared her to be burdened with was a cocktail shaker.
When they went to the Ambas-or the talk of it, nor even by inter-moral responsibility for the war. and mixunder-Fifteen years after the Treaty Ger- sador to ask him to present the gift national hatred and to subscribe to its cast, Mr. standing To these causes another man feeling is bitterer than ever
these
jover the question of the Polish Daniels tightened his hold on his understanding. To
were of another factor must be super-add- Corridor and equality in armament. Cock-tail shakers
Meanwhile the policy of Franca the devil. He would neither sub-ed which alone makes it possible scribe to nor present an obnoxious for a single trifling incident like has resembled that of Bismarck so that at Sarajevo tu be the occasión closely that one is tempted to won- a gift.
of a general outbreak.
der whether the paralelism is con-
ригне.
In the end he compromised on gold cigarette case.
Original Chartreuse
monks
3
Стиве
It was the presence of this factor scious or is simply due to the irony in 1914 which gave to the Great of fate.
War its appalling universality, and Country Without Allies
at the кате time deprived the Like France in the 'seventies, The Carthusian
have Grent Powers of any effective hope|Germany has been kept wholly manufactured a liqueur under of authoritive mediation. This without alhes. France has created their game ever since 1607, when factor consists in the grouping of the Little Entente, all the nations the recipe was given to them by the Great Powers into tun hostile of which are active supporters of the Marechal d'Estrees.
for potentially hostile ramps like the her hegemony. Italy and Czecho-
COB
Now at last the connection is Triple Alliance or the Triple E'n-slovakia have Germany minority ended by a decree of the Spanish tente of the years before the war. problems, which, effectively keep Government forbidding religious The absence of this factor in them from close friendship with orders to engage in trade.
post-war Europe has been, per-the German States. Austria În The Chartreuse liqeurs have ex-haps, one of the main causes of the largely dependent on French perienced many vicissitudes of for-preservation of peace. How long money. tune. In 1793 the monks were will it remain absent in the future? For money time It appeared like- driven trom their home near There is a strange parallellem] ly that Germany would ally herself Grenoble, but they returned in between
post-war Europe and with Soviet Russia, but, since lay end of July. Free State export
1816 and continued to distil the Europe as it was immediately afte-Buccess of Hitler, France has auc- trade with Britain this year
essence until 1901, when they were the Franco-Prussian War. In each cended in restoring Russia to her showed a decline of £6.500,000. finally expelled from France. case the victors have been faced old understanding with herself, Hong Kong, Thursday, Oct. 26, 1933. compared with the first seven
arrangement Tarra with the problem of preserving and this They sought refuge at
has been months of 1932, and trade with gona in Spain. There they
peace and at the same time retain cemented by the visit of the affable Ulster a fall of £1,500,000.
M. Herrlot. The tinued to make liqueurs, which ing the fruits of victory.
In the seventies of the last een-
England, until Hitler's success sole offact against this was a however. lacked thr authentic
of Prussia left the most sympathetic of the Allied beggarly gain of £280,000 in flavour in the absence of certain esry the victory
France helpless but vengeful, and nations to the German claim to re- trade with other countries, or asential herbs. The Freach
it was therefore a prime object of vision, bas realised well enough Government some £7,700,000 - Mr. de Valera having himself net loss
also manufactured
German policy in the years that that the likely price of revision is deplored the fact that the con over a mittion a month, and Chartreuse on the old site,
followed to keep her faelated and war, and has continued to support his own likely rather to increase than to without the old recipe.
friendless until such time as she France in the main aspects of her {tactlesness could only be paral-, recede, Is there any consolation Chartreuse" left in the world to this end Heled in Bedlam. his opponents in the thought that Britain too have been quick to fasten this has been caused some trifling natural label upon his whole loss, & mere fleabite in compari The Whole episode is a policy. No doubt the term will son be bandied to and fro between treatise on the economics of hate.
Policies Of Bedlam In Ireland.
tradictions caused by
Q
There is very little
but
"original bad forgotten her wrongs. With polier.
day. The last large consignment, appeared at a sale in 1924.
fetched 160 a dozen.
*
Stalin And Shakespeare
In view, Bismarck wan So far history has repeated it- çareful to remain on terms of the self. How much further does the closest friendship with the pria-analogy gol iciral nations of Europe so that. France should have nowhere to
turn to find an ally.
1. Germany Helpless Certainly this far, that Germany
is helpless without an ally. For
So long as he succeeded in his disarmed as she is, she is at the
propagand-secure.
them. "Only a lunatic," says the bringing forth the natural fruits The Bolshevist chiefs profers! "Saturday Review," "and an in-of vindictiveness and dishonesty. keen interest in writers other than aim the peace of Europe remained
The author of all these injuries their own present-day experienced lunatic al that, would predict either act or con- now finds grievance in the fact ista. sequence in Ireland." Yet even that some think he ought to have so it
Lenin's literary taste was severe-
would seem that Mr. de wrought even greater havoc.ly classical Stalin is a Shakespearu Valera's fail is drawing near. He while others would prefer that lover. faces the force of a growing dis-jane and reasonable course The other day, a young Soviet frontent. the responsibility for which he in his folly calls "sur- dramatist, greatly daring, took the
which is his entirely. The Eng-j
render." Among these last are Soviet chief to task for us lack of Įlish newspapers regard his plight many agriculturiste, once pros-interest in modern writers.
Stalin put down his pipe and took perous,
facing ruin.] They
have joined General up a volume from his desk. It was time they have done. In the O'Duffy in thousands.
Not that a copy of Richard II. to-day's problems,
"When "the O'Duffy-Cosgrave party is in
with detachment, as for
midst of
some
but
now
petty tribal feud is of small ac any sense pro-English. Its lead- Laked.
-
wus this
written?" he
The young dramatist gave the
"I'm." said Stalin. "I read it!
Įdate.
Facts You Did Not Know.
in Russia. Russia and Austria watches, and and were, as it were, natural enemies, political move.
murcy of both French and Polisb Invasion. Junt as the peace of Europe remained secure so long as Why Germany Failed
Germany remained allied both with The polley of the victorious Ger-Russia and Austria In accordance mans fafled in the end for two rea-with the policy of Bismarck, so, un- Isons.
less Germany can find an ally to The first was that France never form a group of nations at least It is difficult potentially hostile to France and forgot her wrongs. to persuade a great people to sub-the Little Entente, the prospects of mit forever to a insition of con- a European war remain remote. scious Inferiority. The party of Will she and such an ally? patriots led by General Boulanget Tere again history points to a is it perhaps too fanciful to com-possibility. Just as the two pillars pare them in some respects to the of the Bismarckian policy, Austria Nozis?) constantly inflamed public and Rusain, were naturally hostile, count. The chief interest, in-lers are not so foolish as to won
opinion against the Treaty of the policy of postwar France has deed, of the English Press com.the electors under any semblance
Peace. The loss of Alsace-Lorraine involved menta now arriving is that they of "Garrison" tendencies.
friendship with two But, remind us that the O'Duffy epi-compared with Mr. de
only a fortnight agu. Do you think as, they said, to be an "ever-open States of naturally divergent in-
Iwound," and, so soon as the op- tarests:Jugoslavia and Valera anyone will be reading your dramas
Italy.' In sode which may easily turn and his colleagues, they seem in 2233 7"
portunity occurred, the Freach must the event of a clash France would out to be the main story now almost to embody sweet reason.
indulge in a "war of revenge." prefer` Jugo-slovía, and her friend- counts its history in weeks. The They have two main objects —|
The second factor in the fallure ship with Italy is, therefore, es- sole change, of course, since apart from the minor one of put-
of Bismarck's policy WAL that sentially unstable. Italy distrusts those comments were published ting down hooliganism and
France in the end secured an ally France, and Signor Mussolini has been the coming together of these they propose to seek by
counters ber every Cosgrave and O'Duffy groups, into peaceable means. They desire to Powerful radio telegraph one party. That has caused the effect a fair understanding with telephone stations will be establish- and German statesmanship ulti- Now, it is obvious on reflection Government to enter on a closer
the British Government about ed in Mecca by order of the Kingmately proved unable to remain that Italy, Austra and Germany the land annuities, and also to of the Hediaz, who was set up flying friendly with both. So Bismarck's have much to gain from a mutat Agreement with the Labour party, the leader of which de suasion. The first of these cau
win over Ulster by gradual per-schools for native aviators. clares that he has been promised be easily and quickly attained,
Venezuela by a new law large sums for various social without going back to the days restricted the circulation of services. He does not say, and it of Oliver Cromwell. The second coined gold. certainly is not apparent, where is a perfectly legitimate thing to the money is to come from. But attempt, but it will not be An, auger driven by compressed his vocabulary at least has either so easy or so rapid. The air has been invented for boring caught the Fianna Fail infection. Six Counties might conceivably post holes. for he speaks of resisting a Bri-jbe induced to reconcile them- tish "challenge," aksumed as selves to many changes, but About 50 per cent of the paint). gratuitous. A little more talk, there does not: at present exist used in Japan is manufactured in and these people will come to be the slightest likelihood of their that country. lieve it. Careless of inconsis being converted to Republican tency meanwhile, Mr. de Valera notions. That is the final obsta- An electrically operated machine continues to proclaim his "eco-cle which (were oven the many has been invented to grade text nomic war.". It is undoubtedly] others removed) would appear to papers in schools,
be almost, an insuperable one, his, for be it never forgotten whether by threat or by placa that he has, boasted of having tion. fired "the first shot." And, ho scarcely ever makes a speech
But at least those wh profess their intention of pu suing the latter course are taoruj
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understanding with the Czar went understanding. Hiller would be by the board, and Imperial Russ enabled to re-arm in peace, Italy followed her destiny as the partner would gain greater security against ha of the publican. France in an En- Jugoslavia and France, together un tente Cordiale.
with peace and quiet upon her From that moment began the northern frontier. Austria would grouping which led to the war. be freed from reliance upon French
and English money,
Brazil, has more than 8000 regis- tered establishments for the manus facture of footwear.
without referring to it. At entitled to any man's sympathy Expansion" of' gas formed by Cork, one half of his complain than those, who lean rather to chemical combination drives ings, was against those extrem- the methods of Hitlerism.
motor for modėl airplanes. Gen- ists who, perversely believe that eral O'Duffy, has the facts of the his Government is not prosecut case on his side when he claims lished, between Sweden and Tunis, ¦ Telephone service has been estab- ing this kind of wartare with that only by the overthrow of Algiers, Colombia and Peri sufficient, vigour, Such critics the man who has brought the AK MA sestrely give the statosinan suf- Free State nearly to ruin can Weighing only three pounde, e Adent credit. He can chim re any recovery, be expected, ex-Ing device completely checks sub-
Up to the ternally or within
wheel; and axle
Since the Treaty of Versailles the position of Germany has not
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