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World's Best Seller
Herr Hitler is making history as an author as well as a politician.
His autobiography, "Mein Kampf,"
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1933.
U.S. UNLIKELY TO FORGO WAR DEBT
EUROPE CAN NEVER PAY BACK"
is stated by his German publishers PRESIDENT to have already sold close on 1,500,- |-"
1000 copies, a world's record for any
book by a single author.
The English translation, which appeared just over a fortnight ago.
ROOSEVELT'S PROBLEM
(By Victor Gordon Lennox.)
Properly to appreciate the casea- The European Trower of wheat has provided only 8,000 of these,tials of the War Debts revised act-land manufacturer of goods was
but is said to be still àelling well.
1932.
tlement which British and Ameri-otherwise engaged. His machinery. Yet at frat sales were slow. The book appeared in 1923 in an evolve in Washington. It is neces-want
can negotiators recently sought to lay idle, his fields lay untilled for of labour, while hla man edition of 10,000 copies, and these sary to clear the mind of confusion power, consuming and wasting ab- were not exhausted till 1926. By which is inseparable from the com- normally, was dissipating all forms 1930 the total sale had reached only plicated bookkeeping entries chalk-of produce at a stupendous rate. It 62,000; in the following year 52,000 ed up during the course of the past was into this void that Ameries coples were sold, and 80,000 in sixteen years in the records of the poured her new output,
But with the war ended Treasuries concerned.
For the layman it is well-nigh more normal conditions returned. true gravely impossible to appraise the justice Europe's man power, of the claims advanced by creditor reduced by the scythes of battle, and debtors from a study of the jeame back to work. The abnormal amounts involved in the labyrinth demand was passing and normal of cross payments and transactions supplies were returning. Logically which have taken place between at that juncture America, now a America, the European Allies, and creditor nation to the extent of the ex-enemies during the period some 6,000,000,000 dollars instead the war in of the pre-war debtor nation of some 500,000,000 dollars, should
This means that approximately 1,300,000 coplas of the book have been sold in the nine months since the author seized power.
No French Version This record-breaking book, like another famous best-seller, "The Pilgrim's Progress," was written in prison.
Hitler
at since America entered Incarcerated WES Landsberg after his unsuccessful 1917.
For опе reason and that Bhave contracted her output and set Bavarian Putsch In 1929. During the following year he dictated the poktical one, as I shall sock to show about national réorganisation on that the experts the basis of accepting imports in first volume of the book to Rudolf is necessary
familiar with all these excess of her exports. Hess, then a fellow prisoner, and should be now second only to the Leader in figures and from them should be President Roosevelt's,
the Nazi counsels
soon to just,
able to argue the logical basis of Danish, Italian, Swedish and the settlement which they consider Spanish translations are follow the English, but the author (When Europe "Hired Lo said to have refused to sanction The Money" a French version of the book, and [of this disgust, which has provok-none has so far been made
ed expression of views labelled extreme pacificism in some Eng- lish universities. The fervouri
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and then entered the Insurance
Your Daily Smile
Dilemma
Instead she sought to increase her
progressively exports and closed her own market to the for- eign importer, subsidised her ship-
tions.
TA-
But for the man in the street, uoping against the foreign' competi- less in the United States than in tor, and closed her ports to the Britain, the first essential for an would-be foreign immigrant. Thus understanding of what is possible by her own action she refused the The Strennous Life
is an appreciation of the hard fact sole means whereby Europe might Hong Kong, Fornday, Dec. 5, 1933. and impressiveness of the Armis-
Dudley Cates, hammering away that the debts never can be paid in have repaid its war-time obliga- tice Day celebrations in the at his job of Assistant National cash Old Country-Remembrance Day Recovery Administrator for Labour, Tell that to the TILLAS of the
To-day it is too late. The on- Fears Of War.
they call it now-mark no de-often works until one or two in the American
and they willj people,
Boundness
has of her policy cadence in the traditional racial morning. Tall and slender, he has reply, not unnaturally, that here is
brought its own inevitable sequel.
Dismal prospects
and spirit in Britain. aparse, before the pride
dark hair and
Her unemployment has reached a close ʼn blatant, shameless example of bad
alarming proportions. To lower adjourned Disarmament Confer Amid the conflict of political cropped moustache. He wears faith on a scale hitherto undreamt ence in Europe, and the revival opinion there the common deter- pisce-nez glasses for reading. of: that Europe could pay if she her tariff walls and sccept debs to: that to default when payment in goods raust only in- of acute and aggressive nation-mination is unmistakable, and it After leaving the University of cared alism among Continental Powers, is the mainstay of the present California in 1911 he became Amarica is in her moment of direct crease the number of her people
out of work. have aroused uneasiness as to Government to work unflinch
an officer of a San Francisco bank need is to aggravate the offence. the maintenance of peace. Pre-ingly for peace. We must keep
and for Eurone instead to squanderį The same would result from the the money cautions in the name of security our heads and our engagements,
on armaments for an-freer admission of foreign im- business in Chicago. have been the first result, and said the Under-Secretary for
other war is to add insult to injury.į migrants, though these, by remit- Such arguing follows with suff-ting to their homes, would do some- the rearmament preparations to Foreign Affairs the other day.
!cient reason which Mr.
from the fluzion, thing towards adjusting her balance Arthur Henderson The reassertion of her authority draws attention "indisputable through the restoration of the
sedulously fostered over a decade or of invisible trade. A similar more, that "Europe hired theluctance to lay up her silpping pre- as the grave." he says-are not navy as an arbiter of peace may
money" one of those torse, if vents her from allowing foreiza to be concealed. Doubtless the yet enable Britain to call other
There was a terrific crash. The fundamentally unsound, mots for nations to carry her trade ACTOLS sigris observable are the accom-Europeans to their senses. paniment of reaction from a too-assistance in maintaining that grocer hurried out of his shop and which ex-President Coolidge be- the aena.
And so, logically, America must confident presumption that force authority is in minor degree the law his plate-glass window shatter-came famous. For that is exactly of public opinion would serve to duty and the other dominions ed to pieces, while down the road what Europe did not do, and hence decline to be paid. But that's the why Europe cannot pay back the rub. President Roosevelt, if he has prevent war. That has been also. The hardest task is likely ran the obvious culprit.
д
Without wasting much time, the
seen the problem shorn of Ita money. popular belief in England. But to be the saving of the Washing-
him streaked after
and The grocer the spread of the fashion for ton treaties in the Pacific.
What Europe hired was goods- treacherous falsities-and there i
billion no clear evidence that he has-- government by dictatorship, but-rising quarrel between Japan and caught him at the end of the road. goods to the tune of ten
"Now, then," he said, shaking the dollars, manufactured and grown by might say to Sir Frederick Leith- tressed in each instance by in-Russia is very ominous, and the tense propaganda, has led to the recent conference of the Institute boy vigorously, "what do you mean Americans and paid for through Ross. "Tell them in London that. suppression of public opinion. of Pacific Relations at Bauft in by breaking my window and run-the medium of the Liberty Loans America does not wish to be paid. raised from the American people-Our goods which we gave you be-- We have seen this happen in Canada disclosed grave misgivning away?"
to the tween 1917 and 1920 were our con- The boy raised two pleading though loaned, on paper. Russia. Italy, Spain, Germany, ings among the delegates.
tribution tp the winning of thị war. European Allies designs are eres. Austria, Japan, and the United Japanese military
Let Europe set them against the States. Such differences la de Arousing anxiety, and her trade
two and a-half years when she bore gree and aim which can be dis war in a wide range of markets bear to see my bali go through all tinguished do not affect the prin-shows the same ruthlessness of that pane."
Every penny of that ten billions the burden unsided."
Unfortunately there is little rea- ciple that in all these countries policy. So, also, in a different
and more was expended in the
son to believe that Preatient Roose- public opinion, for what it may way. does the Roosevelt experi-very Doubtful.
United States, as it was known have been worth as an influential ment in the United States in its A second-rate theatrical star from the outset that it would be.velt can, or will, say any such voice, has been either suppress disregard of effects upon econo-walked boldly into the manager's ed or forced to support the policy mic stability elsewhere in the private office,
But
Tender-Hearted.
"Oh, sir," he replied, "I couldn't
from One Pocket
*
To Another
Shid the Chairman of Ways and thing. He has not the power to At bost he canʼinaka a ̈re- settle. Means during the debate on the
commendation to Congress. And first Liberty Loan Acte
"They will be fihting with our being, fret and foremost, a good money their battles and will be politician, who dare not and must not shatter his party or destroy hjs fighting with our money-
own prestige, his recommendation battles. tool. Most of must be limited to the maximum" this money that loan to the Allies for the which, in his estimation, Congress may be persuaded to recept.» Aýð purchase of their arms will have Congress, never let it be forgotten, that
we...
our
will
to be expended in the United Stabes."
of the Government concerned. It world. The nations which joined "Well?" asked the busy man. can be no mere coincidence that in the Washington treaties fought "I just thought you might like to the influence of the League of in the Great War together. In know that a firm of tobacconists is Nations has declined as the areas this international region at any going to name a cigar after me," of this national despotism have rate there was no embittered ex said the actor, with a haughty air. extended. And treaties and enemy to work for dissension: The manager sniffed contemp- pacts made among the nations Yet to-day the chief Pacific.zuously.. generally, in more optimistic Powers are arming as though it Thanks for telling me,” he times, towards some ideal goal were a foregone conclusion that plied. "I only hope that it !!! of. international brotherhood, the Washington treaties cannot draw better than you do." have consequently depreciated in be renewed. The markets of value. It is an uneasy outlook, China are still the bone of con- redeemed at the moment for tention, and reports of the ten- Britain and the Empire, at any sion between Eussia and Japan rate, by the reflection that our cannot be minimised. For near own conscience in this new at-ly two years the Soviet has been mosphere of suspicion is clear, steadily concentrating forces on We have no onemies, where most the Manchukuo border, especially the leather footwear used in Nor-ferred from one set of American other nations are anxiously cast- a fleet of hundreds of bombing way is of domestic manufacture, ing up the list of their enemies, aeroplanes. The violont anti-
Facts You Did Not
Know.
Approximately 75 per cent. of
Britain's obviously sincere reduc: Japanese speech reported from Perforated tubing to fit bath tion of her own armaments, how the president of commissars in tub rims has been invented to ever risky, and her devoted work Moscow matches recent speeches convert the tabs into shower for the League's advancement In of the Japanese Minister for War etlis Geneva and in every caplial of on the textWe intend to head
Europe, have at least established straight for our goal. But all vanliga dalis her sincerity. In no other realm commentators upon the position By grafting a Canadian farmer does free public opinion still en in recent English reviews stress is succeeded in raising 90 varieties able democracy to rule as does the weakness of Russa in face of apples on a single tree. under the British fing. Com of the Japanese, challenge, and to [ments in the British Frest show despe lon-in Moscow in ascribed
that, whereas on the "Continent the
the excesses of Hitlerian; have)
| inspired anxiety and fear
England they have produce chiefly disgust-disgust, at the open
zerness of the Soviet to
endship, with al opern naighbours, That eakness, ^^ 1f exposed by confict with Japan, may
That Is precisely what happened, with the result that not one penny of the money rälsed by the people of Ametien för the war, needs of the European Allies ever, went out of America. It was, merely trans-
pockets to another from that, of the inventor to the Liberty Loans to that of the grower of cotton and wheat and tobacco, to the manufac turer of munitions and machinery.
profoundly.convinced Europe "ired the money.”
(Continued on Page 11)..
SCOUTS RUN CITY FOR ONE DAY.
Sydney's Lord Mayor Steps Down,
Sydney, N.S.W Following the recent action of the And Pecause Europe never did Lord Mayor in making arrange hire the honey Europe can never ments for 4 Boy Scout to discharga pay back the money, What Europe his own dutles st the Town Hall for could have done would have been to a day, two city stores appointed pay back in good. In transport Scouts to ope-day executive". Jobs. services,, and in immigrants. But Patrol Leader W. Stevena, of the to any such ea Amertcu turned Double Bay Troop, was "managing the coldest of thoudera, en director of Davis Jones, Ltd, for. Were it possible in normal times the day, and said he had thoroughly to envisage so huge and sudden an anjoyed it. Increase Enation's expert trade Farmer and Co., gave Patrol-
that which América enjoyed dür-Leader W, 1/0sła Brown, of the- ink thong way and, frmediate post. Bockdale Troop, animilar job for war years which, of courad. It fa the day. The Sconta”. Anacciation ng- not the affect on the world mar hopes that ultimately members.
now lawn sprinkler sprays În squares instead of circles,
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evidence of Indiference in Xarope izad to another upheaval in To zion Inventors
towards the fate of Wasen European, Rasais, and the crumb action Frans ir planing to extend kata yould be so catadramic la to be attached tot ew hour (N civilisation. It is not almely lacking of Central Europe struce the life of patents from 15 to 20 become evident immediately. But to such organisations. Al the 2 para- of patriotism, but some evidence|tura.
times were not normal, and Ambulênes Brigades-E
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