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explained how the Assembly can really hope to give effect to this provision. There would pre-
HERE THERE
EVERYWHERE
Mussolini For Moscow?
An official Invitation to Signor | Mussolini to visit Moscow as the guest of the Soviet Government is expected in Rome early this year,
· It would be extended to the Duce, as Italy's Foreign Minister, in re turn for the hospitality offered to M. Litvinoff.d
TUESDAY, JANUARY
IS ROOSEVELT AN OLD TORY?
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POLICY FAR FROM REVOLUTIONARY
N.R.A. EFFICACY DISPUTED
Legislature is
London. agree, by the Minister of Agricul "The opposilon in the United ture. States to President Roosevelt's But he cannot. appeal to ther Reluctant as he is to travel-he policy is extremely loud and, across Courts. Our sovereign Parliament has not left Italian soil since 1926- the breadth of the Atlantic, we are has ruled that.out. Mussolini would like to visit Mos-apt to hear the tone of voice in In America the Cow. He has always shown which it is expressed rather than not sovereign. There remains the curiosity in the Bolshevist experi- the facts on which it is based," Constitution, which is interpreted: maat.
writes a special correspondent in by the Supreme Court alone. We The spectacle of the modern the London "Evening Standard." have yet to see (no doubt we shall Napoleon making a triumphal entry! The President is à Socialist, a soon see) what the Supreme Court. into Moscow would fittingly symbo- Communist, and Heaven knows makes of the more drastic applica- lise the reconciliation between the what else. He aims at turning the tions of the N, R: A. [two dictatorships.
economic system of America (and In the second place, the measures therefore, in the long run, of the taken for the improvement of con-
His International Cabinet
treaties.
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If the Moscow visit becomes an world) upside down. It will be aditions of labour were long ago accomplished fact one of the most good thing for us to discount the commonplaces here. The N. R. A. Important subjects to be discussed tone of voice and to examine the lays it down that employees shall
facts. will be the Italian proposals for a
have the right, to organise and to It is true that he has depreciated bargain collectively. But next drastic reorganisation of the League the dollar to an extent that was not year our T. U. C. will be celebrat- of Nations.
Mussolini wishes to create an in-]
generally expected. But we in the ing the centenary of the "Tolpud ternational Cabinet of the Greate way depreciated the pound. dle Martyrs," who suffered to win At its the right only now conceded to even if not quite so far. Powers, free of the cumbersome lowest point the dollar was down American workers. In actual fact, methods of the present Assembly
by 40 per cent. að against gold, ând except in odd pockets and corners and Council.
The detachment of the League down 35 per cent.
sterling, at its lowest, was only of Industry, the principle of collec- tive bargaining has been taken for from the Treaty of Versailles, on
On the other hand, dollars fell as granted in this country almost as which he lays stress, is understood against the pound-sterling less, in far as the memory of living man to mean a redrafting of Article 19
[relation to the old parity, thanean go. It won a final victory of the Covenant. This gives the sterling fell against dollars.
when the Fair Wages Clause was power to consider the revision of The old parity was 486del, to inserted in Government contracts the pound sterling. At one time the as long ago, as 1909, The State Under the new plan revision of ¡pound went to 3.14dol. The then took the line that it would not the Treaty of Versailles of which lowest to which the dollar has deal with employers who forbade the Covenant is Itself a part, wouldi be laid down as one of the League's 11.72dol. below
"gone has been 5.53dol, We were their workers to organise,
the old parity, Britis. Parallels To Codes chief duties.
America has never been more than The N. R. A. also sets out to 0.67dol. above it,
abolish sweating. But we have There has been depreciation, to had our Trade Boards, now cover- Hong Kong, Tuesday, January 16, 1934. sumably first have to be agree
be sure. It has even gone further ing more than 1 million workers ment that a treaty had in fact
than it looks on the face of these in unorganised Industries, since become inapplicable; and it would, of course, be ridiculous to main- last week."
"I hear you were married one day figures, since was depreciated as 1909. Their rulings, which go in- against gold and America as to great detail, are enforced by tain that any of the Peace Trea- ties had become wholly inapplic-to be exact."
Second Film Star: "Two days—against the paper pound. But no Government inspectors and are ef- one could call it reckless or revolu- fective. The N. E.-A., has yet to The fundamental obstacle to able. One of the difficulties is
tionary depreciation.
prove its success in this direction, progress of the Disarmament that none of the vanquished Trouble in Store
For one thing, America is, the] One has only to look at the var negotiations is that Germany de European countries has yet mands equality of status in all formulated in a moderate and held at the village hall, and old kind of experiment. She is
A Christmas concert was being country best fitted to make this lous codes set up under Nird to find: the innumerable instances of concen- respects; and, since armaments sensible manner the points in John Briggs had been put on the largest creditor nation in the sions. Thus the code for the bitu are the expression of her present which it bolleyes its Treaty of door to collect the tickets. world, she has by far the largest minous coal industry provides that. inequality, she asks for a sub- Peace to have contained injus Just before the show commenced stock of gold. a favourable, trade wages must be paid in cash, not in stantial and immediate Instal-tices. Thstand there has been in John left the door and went in balance, and is almost entirely self-tickets on stores belonging to the ment towards
that equality,most cases headstrong and im-search of the organiser. He found supporting. "
employer, Our Trucks Acts date either by the reduction of the moderate agitation against the him at the back of the stage. Furthermore, there has been, so back to 1831, heavy weapons of other nations Treaties as a whole. The coun- "I say," said the old fellow, evi-far, no use of the printing-press. Again, under the same code, it is or by an increase of her own de-tries, therefore, which have most dently greatly perturbed, "I think If that should come, America will laid down for the first time that the fensive weapons.
For one reato gain by their reconsideration you'd better get out quick, sir." surely be able to control inflation, miners have a right to check son or another no other country are at least as much to blame for "What ever do you mean?" asked for the reasons which I have stated welchta of their production so that is wiling now to reduce its arm-the failure to come to grips with the organiser, puzzled, Jaments further. Most of them this all-important issue As the
"There's goin' to be trouble for believe and Britain has at least countries to whom the Peace you, and no mistake," went on as good a reason to believe it as Treaties are the charters of their Briggs breathlessly.
"Explain yourself, man," said G. FALCONER & CO (HONG KONG) LTD. any that they have already re- free existence, and which are
duced their strengths to the therefore profoundly disquieted the organiser. "What sort of trou lowest level compatible with na-lat.the prospect of their being ble is it?" tional safety. The consequence fundamentally called in question "Bigamy!" gasped out the of this attitude is that Germany In the light of these considera doorkeeper. I've let in two wopression, the Sherman Anti-Trust Įregarded as revolutionary in so far Ger- tions it becomes intelligible that men who says they were the orLaws encouraged "weak selling he is attempting to do in two or establish Signor Mussolint should wish to ganiser's wife now there's a third and cut-throat competition, since achievements of a hundred.
three years something of our equality with other countries, get the negotiations away, not wantin' to come in."
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they may be sure that they receive N.R.A. Shortcomings
the proper payment, Our miners Nor is the mysterious organina-firmly established this right in
1887, and tion of N. R. A., or Nira, in reality}
now regard it (as do - their employers) as something in any more revolutionary. Its pedi the ordinary course of nature. gree showe it to be a hybrid. · '..
It may be concéded that Prosi- old employers, who felt that, in a de-
The first intention was to help dent Roosevelt is perhaps to be
and to demand revision of the only from the DisarmamentTM Con- Treaty of Versailles, by negotin-ference, but also from the League Original tion if possible. If the demand of Nations. He is the principal She: "Every time I look at you for diplomatic reconsideration author of the Four Power Pact, I think of a great man.” obtains no response, then the the original purpose of which; He:
"You flatterer! Who National Socialist leaders want was to take in hand the question 117′′/
is
they stood in the way of rational
Mr. Roosevelt's attempt is to run co-ordination of industry, '. realised at once that the freedom His great chance of success in that The President and his advisers by stone over a period of years: up this edifice in a day, not stone
demand would be subject to abuse and can see, before he begins, what implied in the concession of this he has our example to guide him were it given without supervision. sort of edific he wants. But, I
They proceeded from this to the view of our example, nothing that proposition that this necessary she has so far proposed can in the pervision is to be used to improve absolute sense, be called revolu- conditions of labour,
This is Itionary,
at least to be in a position to en- of revision; and he would clearly: She: "Darwin.” force their claim by war. It be-prefer that at the present dif- comes plainer with every succes-ficult moment the general direc Collected sive phase of the Disarmament tion of the discussion should, be Doria: "Yes, she was furious Conference that no substantial in the hands of the four leading about the way in which the news-what has shocked certain sections progress is likely to be made un-European Powers. In favour of paper reported her marriage." til the question of revision, is the auggestion is the fact - that
boldly, faced and settled in one they include Germany; against age"
Helen: "Did it allude to her (notably the section represented by
Facts You Did Not Know.
In the first place the efficacy of the N. 1. A. Is disputed." In Flori- | da recently an application was made to restrain a cleaning, and dyeing firm from under-cutting the
MILITARY TRAINING ABOLITION
America Summoned To
Take Lead
PEACE ASSOCIATION'S URGE
Philadelphia, ◊
The World Alliance for Inter-
of opinion in the United States
sense or another. So long pa a it is the fact that the countries
Wall Street): and it has raised the mere negative is returned to the most closely concerned with, the Olde and Mr. Yale were married, judged by our own experience, they "Indirectly. It stated that Miss cry of economic revolution. But, desire of Germany and her issues of revision are not repre- the latter being, a well-known col-are extraordinarly mild wishes are shared by the other sented in the Pact, at all. It is lector of antiques." countries which were vanquish-Impossible to suppose that Po-] ed in the War and forced to ac land or Czechoslovakia, for ex- cept dicated Treaties of Peace-ample, can accept decisions taken there is likely to be no relaxation without them on subjects which of the tension which is tending to directly concern them. In spite divide Europe into opposite, sus- of its deficiencies the machinery For recovering gold and other re fixed by the Code for the picious, and mutually hostile of the league still appears to be precious metals from old ore dumpe territory in which it operated. The camps. The British Govern- more suitable for the purpose in a process has been invented that judge held that, while the new law national Friendship has called on ment have repeatedly shown an view than the Four Power Pact, utilizes gases to make the valuable might be applicable to commerce the United States to take the lead open mind towards the question In any case It is extremely reminerais soluble in water,
between States, yet the Federal in fostering peace by strengthen-. of substituting, a negotiated for grettable that the League of Na-d
Government had no power to ring the Briand Kellogg pact and the dictated peace; and the Ita- tions should be violently attack- An aquarium that can be illumin, gulate purely local business, even abolishing military training in
educational institutions, WAS lian Government have come out ed at a moment when its friends ated with electric lights has been in a declared emergency M with even greater frankness in might be expected to turn their invented to be inserted in the wall
Britain Differs mends that the nation chill an The organisation also recom favour of revision. This Isud-attention to strengthening its au of a room to form an animated able objective is perhaps a res thority or perhaps reforming picture, son for the present violent agita- some of its processes. It still tion against the League of Na provides that: "minimum of uni- An tions in the controlled Italian ty in Europe for which Signor PressThe rule of unanimity Mussolini appealed in the sama which necessarily obtains within speech in which he called the the gue, and the academic League absurd." Public opin- equality which gives Albania or ion in Britain inay agree that its Slam the same vote in the machinery might in son Assembly as Great Britain, make peo modified with
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