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No More European
Commitments.
1
Another Fact?
The German Government have already Bonded Dr. Benes, the Czechoslovakian Foreign Minister,
MONDAY MARCH 19-1834
ARMAMENTS MEAN PEACE
BRITAIN DE BASED TO A SECOND-CLASS STATE
about his country's willingness to RESULT OF MUDDLED
conclude with Germany a 10 year no-force pact on the model of that
already signed with Poland
Dr. Benes has replied, that Cze-
choslovakia would not refuse to sign such a pact, but that before
THINKING
(By Viscount Rothermere.)
London. Jus weight in the councils of the
One-Sided" disarmament has de-nations, but the might, of the Bri- it can give a definite answer it based Great Britain to the stand-jtish Fleet. Our predominance in
what was then the decisiva.arm must consult its allies-France, ing of a second-class State. Rumania and Jugoslavia: jop
Our part in the affairs of Europe was a guarantee of international. Under the constitution of the has declined to that of a go-be concord. The insignificance of Little Entate, to which Czechos-tween. The British Foreign our serial strength, which has now lovakia belongs, any member of Secretary acts as a runner among become the decisivé arm, is expon- the alliance is precluded from other Governments that haveling both this country and all signing i pact with an outside more importance because thay Europe to a real risk of war. State without the consent of its have more power.
World-conflicts come by blun- In the House of Commons re-der rather than design. The. partners.
cently Sir John Simon gave an start of the Crimean War, eighty account of his huckatering. The years ago, illustrates the hopelasa one thing it made abundantly clear ineffectiveness of that "immediate
Perfect Teeth
and less bread.
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The Nedical Research Council's report on the effect of diet on was that no nation in Europe pays consultation for taking what steps. any attention to what either he or are right and possible,” which Sir ́ teeth recommends the consumption the present British Government John Simon recommends ai of more milk, cheese and butter. thinks, says, or does. We have precaution against future wars
publicly announced that we are Our pacifists" assume that the The people with the best teeth disarmed to the edge of risk." aggressor is always the first to in the world are the inhabitants
The practical, realistic rulers of strike. Yet, at the beginning of“ of the lonely faland of- Tristan' da other countries can consequently the Russo-Turkish crisis in 1858, Cunha, in the South Atlantic. afford to leaya us out of their an international Conference held in ` Two years ago their teeth were calculations. It is a very grave|Vienna, on approved League-of- examined by Mr. J. B. A. "Moore, circumstance that at this most Nations lines, drew up a settlement president of the Dental Society of critical time, when the shadow of that completely satlafled the the Cape Province.
impending war lies even blasker aggressive party, Russia. It was Out of 156 persons, ranging i
across our path than twenty years Turkey, the weaker Power. that' age from infancy to 92, the teeth ago, the most peaceable of all the proceeded to declare war, “ of 131 were entirely free from de- Powers has ceased to count. Futile attempts at pacification cay. The oldest man on the is- Britannia, armed with spear and were then made by the British land, Samuel Swain, had a com-shield, could perhaps prevent Prime Minister, Lord. Aberdeen," !plete act.
European conillet; with only *but, as he, like our present Minis- tish interests. Events
The islanders live chiefly on pacifist. umbrella she certainly ters, had convinced everyone that Britain would never fight these move rapidly, or there may be a potatoes, fish, milk and eggs. The could not.
peculiarity of their diet is that Muddled thinking by well-mean-were unavailing. lull. The new regime may be they eat only one thing at each ing people has brought us to this come consolidated by a wise use meal. If the dish of the day is plight. Ministers, of its victory over the Socialists, potatoes, they eat them "bare" nouncing war, went on wrongly to in the Black Sea-the same sort of with no alt or other relish. They denounce armaments. In the mind futile step as might occur under now broken and proscribed. On do the ame even with penguin's of the nation, as in their own the British Disarmament Scheme... the other hand, though strong] eggs.
they confused two things that are It had no effect, and the con- with the force of military, power This is believed to be the secret separate and distinct, Armaments sequence was that, after Bussin sre not a cause of war; rather are and Turkey had been at war for they a curb and check upon it
may
If there is one cardinal maxim today, it may be reduced to the of their dental perfection.
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Next followed a joint · French. rightly de-and ́‚„British” naval demonstrition
Illogical Arguments
six months, both Britain and
: France were dragged into a most costly campaign which lasted two
years.
of foreign policy on which all position of a minority in opposi
Your Daily Smile. political parties are agreed it is tion in, the near future, and in that Great Britain shall under the circumstances it might still
SHAMELESS take no more Continental com-remain the only party pledged to
The Impecunious club-member Even if the recent | Austrian Independence. mitments.
On. Its who, writing a cheque for another tragic events of the last few days guarantors, in such an event, year's sub called it his might as well urge that because could be carried out instantane
annual."
"We have outlawed war by such documents as the Kellogg Pact," argue, our illogical leaders, "there- Ther fore we must disarm."
"Inviting Attack" ang Complete disarmament, If. It
in Vienna had never been, or it would be thrown the impossiblo
we have made burglary illegal we ously to-day would vastly intensify. [the danger of war in Europe, for-- Dr. Dollfuss
should abolish the police force. had triumphed task af holding Austria, and
Had One Already
confer "overwhelming The will-o'-the-wisp of universal it would without bloodshed, the project Germany apart, if an unmistak It was early morning when the peace leads the dreamers who power upon the country with the discussed in Paris recently of a able Austrian majority declared travelling salesman knocked at the pursue it into grotesque positions. largest population and the best- Now that the Disarmament Con-equipped chemical and engineering Joint declaration by Great Bri for union. From entanglement cottage door.
The harassed householderar-ference has plainly falled, the industries, tain, France and Italy of their in such an imbroglio Great Bri-rived at the door with his six-editor of a Liberal newspaper re- The most formidable offensive determination to maintain Aus-tain will resolutely hold aloof. month-old baby in his arms, trian Independence would have
cently appealed for the reduction weapon is now the aeroplane.: : It. The salesman unfastened his of our armaments to the level can strike a decisive blow before stood no chance of British ac- By Air All The Way, bag and displayed its contents, but prescribed for Germany by the any other form of armaments in before he could say a word the Treaty of Versailles, and this at a ready. Yet of form of armaments Yet, of all, arms, the father indicated the bady and said:time when all authorities agree is ready,
"Look here. Do I look as IC at the German nation has once aeroplane is the easiest to produce ...more become one of the most for-swiftly, and secretly. The only needed an alarm clock?"
military Powers in effect deterrent to seriál aggres...... The chemist was in a bid tem-midable.
lafon is the certainty of retaliation. per. He had told his assistant to Europe.
Itorious,
“You'ra'm fool,” he said.
an
(Continued on Page 11),
SULTAN OF JOHORE LEAVES COLONY.
Holiday Trip.
The revolt and its]. ceptance. suppression, the bombardments
Signor Mussolini has lent a and the tale of the dead and
sympathetic ear to Lord London wounded, have put even discus derry's representation that the sion out of court The Chan train journey between Paris and have a sign painted outside the Tf the misguided pacifists who in kind. cellor's Dictatorship must seem Brindisi is nowadays a reproach shop, and when he saw it he was thus clamour for the renunciation
of national 'defence AS. perilously insecure to Italy and to flying. On the other hand,
"example" to other countries would France if they think it is wise;
an air route across the Alps is
"But the sign is beautifully read the Gospel according to Bt to buttress it by a joint declara mot yet feasible, and as the moun- done," said the other.
Luke which can hardly be re- tion, palpably addressed to the tain barrier cannot be crossed it "It may be," said the chemist, proached with militariam-they' Nazis of Germany and to them is to be evaded. The air route, when our sign reads, In making ing truth that:
"But who's going to rely on us will find recorded there the abid- alone. Great Britain is assuredly which is to be brought into up prescriptions we dispense with. When a strong - man- armed interested in the maintenance of br
operation in the summer, will be care Austrian Independence, but not from Paris to Marseilles and to the extent of becoming thence via Rome to Brindisi. one of its guarantors in the when it is open, passengers to major sense obviously intended. Karachi and Cape Town will tra As a party to the Treaties of
vel by air all the way. The now
So contrary is the case that dur The Sultan, and Sultana, who Versailles and St. Germain, she
arrangement will save a day on
ing the hundred years from 1816 are on route to Japan, will make has given repeated proofs of her
that to 1914, whereas France and Gar a holiday tour in Europa, going the journey and will encourage Here's a parson saying sympathy and good will. Any the air habit. It will help to marrings "alogan." Well, how considerable European wara Greate
parsons, ought to devise: new many were each Involved in three vis Los Angeles and New York to suggestion, however, of passing balance our ideas about com about Money back 12 not satian Britain fought one only, and that Their Highnestes from 'ordinary diplomatic support
to the language of rohibition. addressed to another out of the question:
have, indeed,
inys Customs Union
municationis.
and telephones destroy
absurd that perso neys should be meas
ather than dayas will benefit from:
keepeth his palace, kis goods are in peace.
Were it true that armaments
ng the promin
through the
Their
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and the Sultans, lead to fighting, the period when Salt Before: She was his dream the British Navy - was twice - as who were passengers on
strong as any other in the world 8.8. Fushimaja) Marn, which After: She was his nightmare, would have been full of warfare, here on Saturday morning (an
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