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Although it has been emphasised everywhere that Baron Werner von Fritsch, the new Chief of the Ger- man Reichswehr, is a soldier and not a politician he is a strong sympathiser with the Nazi move- of ment. He is an old friend Hitler's. He is, of course, pre- cluded by his position from joining | the party officially.
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1934.
COMMUNISTS AND FASCISTS
FALLACIES SHARED BY BOTH PARTIES
SEEK TO
END FREEDOM
(By Harold MacMillan, M.P.)
Fascism and Communiam have mystical ideal of a perfect society
common.
They and they would prostitute this
of some things in man He is good-looking medium height, slightly grey with both reject the idea of any form of idealism to the horrible purposes of a rosy complexion, clean-shaven representative and democratic gov-violence and of war.
RESOLUTE OPPOSITION jupper lip, and eyes of German blue. ernment.
They both hold that the conflicts Movements of this kind cannot be He is one of the few German staff officers who do not wear glasses or of capitalist society cannot be re-frustrated by a merely negative xt- conciled without resort to force-titude. Nor can they be thwarted a monocle,
He was born in the Rhineland either for the coercion of "interests." by the vilification of their leaders, for the leaders are often sincere, in- 133 years ago on the day on which or for the abolition of "interesta."
They believe that the only reality jasmuch as they deceive themselves Britain declared war on Germany!
in the present situation is the as well as their followers. 33 years later.
power. We must challenge them with
their
3 positive alternative.. Our con-
policy must be adequate and com- prehensive. It must satisfy the impatience which has been engen- dered by years of futility delny.
in
and
He began his career as a "gun-struggle to capture State ner," and served in the Intelligence They have little belief Department of the General Staff ability to achieve power by
and therefore stitutional means, during the war.
they prepare to seize power by re- volutionary action and civil war. -
REPRESSION OF FREEDOM
We must prove in action that the When "Play-Acting" Ends Having seized power they would problems confronting us are capable of solution without bloodshed and abolish political liberty in order to
violence, or the sacrifice of those liberties to which we have become A cuusin of his, who began his gain freedom from interruption in career in the Saxon Uhlans and the task of establishing economic so accustomed as hardly to remem-
To maintain their power ber their value.
The Other Fritsch Barna von Fritsch belongs to ani distin-f old Saxon family with a guished record in German military) history.
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then switched over to the Horse order.
If it is agreed that properity de- Guards, was the talk of Berlin 20 they would entirpate every opposing!
pende upon equilibrium between years ago because of his exploits, element, whether the opposition was He
known everywhere as physical or merely intellectual.
supply and demand, production and Freedom "Flier
of speech would be consumption, and savings and in- Fritsch" or "Flieger.
not because abolished except for those who were vestment, then the maintenance of | Fritsch." This was
repeat the formulas these equations must be the object he was an air pioneer, but because content to
which had been approved for the
of economic planning. The set so swift a pace in living.
being by the group in only two ways in which that object were afraid of the sacrifice off
When he grew older, he became time
struggle to The China Mail
their assets which would occur, known as "F. F."-a German slang authority.
jean be served. countries as it occurred in
If we fail to create a structure term which may best be translated|achieve power they would prometr
the "virile" elements among their of industrial organisation which as "First-class Fritsch." Hong Kong. Monday, Feb. 19, 1934. Europe when the settling up was forced upon the Government.
followers to whom the positions of will enable industry to respond vio-easily and intelligently to the price The feeling of distrust.
Your Daily Smile.. leadership in a movement of recent would be reinforced by
ience would naturally belong. indicator. then we will be forced And after all this play-acting and into the adoption of artificial devices taking over of the control statistical publication by
demagogy has had its run; when the such as quota regulation, price-fix- de-Government. As some interpra-| termined to accept the option tation of statistical data by the Zealand lake threw up hundreds intellectual and cultural expressions|ing by Government Committees, given him by Congress and de- Federal Reserve Board in its of columns of steam and mud." It of every individual have been pro- Consumers' Councils. &G. value the dollar. The amount of monthly survey of economic con-must have been almost like a book tituted to the service of a vague my devaluation is variously estimat-itions of the United States did of memoirs. ed at 40 or 50 per cent. The not please the powers that hej latter is the limit authorised by an order was issued that hence Try This Yourself the Legislature. Financial mea-forward all interpretations of sures taken by the President toifigures were to be issued by the new faces here this evening." said riculum has been "cleaned up" and Intelligent anticipation and" res- aid in the recovery of the United Central Statistical
apthe vicar, "und after the meeting States seem at this distance tolpointed by the President's Exe- should like to shake hande be experiments successively un-cutive Council, An analogous them." dertaken and then discarded, beinstance is the placing of
Dollar Devaluation.
President Psevelt has
a
Board.
of
the!
the
SIMILARITY
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cause the object sought for was German Statistical service underworst Joke But One not achieved. On his part hehe Minister for Propaganda. A ball is to be held for septus- would claim thut he has The Central Statistical Board of genarians only. This must be one! followed well-defined path.the United States would be called for these old folk dances. that he has applied the least upon to interpret the effects of removed from convention, and what increase of note issue had be that as he has found fallure fol- taken place. There would
A purser on a big liner says low he has adopted its more little confidence of an honest in-
an during a holiday cruise no fewer drastic successor. The people terpretation being given if who mattered refused to take ad- honest interpretation did not than fourteen couples became en vantage of an attempt to extend support the plans of the gaged. We always pray for those credit facilities to the extent per-Government. Whether the dan-in perfi on the sea.
Europe mitted by gold holdings. Theygers experienced by would not borrow. Then came during its inflation period would!
in
States
the United
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AMBITIOUS
SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY Re-Planning of Production
If, on the other hand, industry is
stleism called "the cause," beaten lout of them with rubber truncheons] or sweated out of them in concen- tration camps; when the school curso organised that it is capable of salute rather ponse to the market conditions in- children taught to than to think; when all this has dicated by prices, then these bureau- been done they will be faced with cratic methods of regulation will be For this reason the precisely the same economic pro- unnecessary. blems as those which confront us policy of industrial reconstruction and co-ordination is seen to have an to-day.
Importance for greater than appears on the surface.
POLITICAL ADVENTURERS
We are
It is true that the degree of vio
It enables us to mark the limits lence will depend to some extent on of Planning. The retention of the whether the leader with authority price system is the real dividing is a Mussolini or a Hitler; a Lenin line between Socialist and non-So- thatra Trotsky; but whoever he may cialist ideas of Planning.
be he will be faced with the neces- able to secure the benefits of order and equilibrium in our economic life action, of enlling out these reckless without incurring the dangers of sity, If he adopts this elements in the struggle for power bureaucracy. which he will flod difficult to die-
(Continued on Puge 10) card when power has been achieved. No doubt there are circumstances
the bidding up of the local gold arise
The forger who is determined to price, with the hope that the through a diminishing of the make a name for himself. dollar would 50 depreciate in gold content of the dollar would foreign exchange that it would depend upon whether gold were Another Absent-minded Professo1
To de- give great competitive strength given a free market.
Stary
to the export trade, and so invalue the dollar in theory only.' "That's a lovely baby your wife
em-to maintain the paper currency has, professor." crease manufactures and
conversion "Dear me, 80 it is. ployment. The dollar depreciat- and not permit its
ed with a run, but there has into gold at its face value for the where she got it?" been an increase in costs, which purposes of international trade,
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when men of intelligence who are JERUSALEM MURDER
also men of action could hardly be
expected to resist the temptation to
use the ignorant passion of the mob
MYSTERY
to assist them to achieve power. American Dancer's Body There may have been justification movements
I wonder for the revolutionary
Facts You Did Not Know.
was
Found After Riots.
which grew out of the chaotic con-
LETTER SOLVES PROBLEM ditions following upon the collapse of authority in Italy in 1922 and in)
Hyderabad State. Russia in 1917.
The mystery surrounding the cir- But to suggest that we should deliberately seek a repetition of cumstances of the death of the Ame- rican dancer, Miss Joan Winters, these conditions in Britain ap peals neither to the reason nor and Mr. Syed Mahomed Kirmant of the emotions of Intelligent, men.Hyderabad, near the Garden of Our task is to avoid collapse; to Gethsemane in Jerusalem recently put forward our constructive sug- is cleared in a letter addressed to gestions now, and to offer co-opera-Syed Ahmed Ali Kirmani, the de- gas tion and help to whatever set of ceased's father, by Mr. Marmaduke
House, Hyderabad..
has to an extent offset deprecia- would not stabilise the dollar Another Lie About Scotland tion effects on export prices.in its foreign exchange value. Did you hear about the Scot who The loan policy for the construc- The exchange would then depend ran from Aberdeen to London with tion of public works, and the upon supply and demand, arising the wind behind him? He taking over of mortgages, and not only from trade transactions, chasing his hat. for affording other relief to pri-but also from the estimation in [mary producers, may have as its which people in the United corollary the devaluation of the States and in which, foreigners, dollár, a diminution by 40 perfwho held United States Invest cent of the gold content of the ment, held the Government of metallic legal tender money. the United States. But if it was The exploitation of natural That money, or its equivalent known that for a certain amount resources in Rumanis has been leaders will adopt a policy adequate Pickthall, Warden, Civil Service gold certificates, would .be of dollars or dollars worth held made a state monopoly. almost doubled Or quite in the United States a set quan- doubled, according to percentageļtity of gold could be obtained, or
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Wooden figures are used to teach flation these days gives rise to tained, the dangers of Inflation panicky thoughts, The nations would be obviated. The right to all the points of horsemanship in which have not experienced it export gold would correct any a school in a German esty. to a marked extent remember, tendency of prites to rise beyond
as well as the nations concerned the gold price as expressed in
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In the course of the lofter Mr. Communism are Fascism and movements of political revolution, Pickthali says: "I had a talk with The Sir Akbar Hydari this morning, which rest upon passion. policy which one would oppose to who in the course of conversation, them is one of economic evolution, told me the following factsIn one day's rioting in Jerusalem four: resting upon an appeal to reason.
However' plausible' and attractive persons were killed; Two of them. the economics of Fascism and of were not natives of Palestine. ware.-tele- Pressure of 2,500 pounds to the Communism may be made to sound, therefore their names
it is the political part of their policy graphed to London together.
"Your", son's name was thus What Europe suffered through the devalued dollar, and so the square inch is used in a new pro which must be borne in mind. The the use of the expedient to make area of inflation would be Umit-cess for making various kinds of
whole conception of political up coupled with that of the American good budget deficiencies in the ed. So long as the Government building stone from pulverized heaval as a prelude to any action dancer, though there was no con- ten years, succeeding the war. refrained from taking steps quarry waste. Millions lost the savings of their which would Impair confidence, lifetime, and the people of movements of gold would be con- smallest means suffered most trolled by trade requirements. because they rescued the least and there would be a stable back-Meanwhile, we should remember tical adventurer on the one hand prAs Mr. Kirmani was known to From the wreckage. It is the ing for the currency require that the President is not a dic the dreamer of Utopias on the other, be a Hyderabadi, the High Com feeling so arising that President ments. If these are the Intentator, however, much legislation These mystical conceptions of the missioner, in Jerusalem telegraph- Roosevelt has unsuccessfully tons of President Roosevelt, the may seem to have made him: so. future of society are foreign to the ed to the Hyderabad Delegation: in combated in his measures hither statement of Mr. Morgenthau, He is, controlled by Congress, practical mind of the ordinary adult London for instructions as to the to: The people in the United Junt, his Secretary of the Trea which takes its cue from the British citizen. Their danger, lies disposal of the body, and the cost): States with anything to lose re-sury, that any danger of car clamorous, confused opinion of arin the appeal to the romanticism of of proper Muslim funeral was fused the extension of loans rency inflation, has been definites population, more diversified by youth. They call for sacrifice, for borne by the Hyderabad Delega which he offered, because they ly eliminated, is ": "explained, descent than in any other nation, a crusade, for devotion to some tion."-Reuter,
with regard to the practical bread nection between the two casualties, and-butter questions of the day is and the two bodies were found in typical of the mentality of the poli- different places,