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MONDAY, APRIL 2, 1934,
QUEEN ELIZABETH'S
REIGN
WHAT ENGLAND OWES TO
SPINSTER SOVEREIGN
(By Rebecca West.)
-They are producing in Japan, ac-:]. cording to an, observer who has re- turned to Britain from Tokyo, an exact facsimile of the Peters edi-will wish that Professor. J. Eed this convention. tion of piano and other music: Nezle's "Queen Elizabeth" (Cape, The only thing peculiar to Eliza- Both the publisher's numbers and 9s. 6d.) - was a word less than its beth's dilemma was that, as Profes. the familar pink covers are used. 390 pages. The book, which is pub sor Neale points out, each of the "We have heard of this,” Messrs.lished to-day, is an ample, detailed horns of this dilemma meant a Petera's London arents stated. and most admirably readable work further horror than itself. It "Not only Japan, but also-Russia the most pleasing' amalgam of meant that she had to submit to... and America are offenders. Some scholarship and literary brilliance, political' impotence, while handing times the edition is imitated in It avoids the prime error of most over her power to someone who- every particular, sometimes the biographies of Elizabeth, and does would almost certainly be inferior music is just printed without. of not make a mystery where there is in intelligence to herself, and who course, fee or, acknowledgment. [none. simply because she was a would have to deal with financial Our only remedy is" to proceed[woman. Professor Neale shows problems that drove even her- against the impostors when we can her as a complex of characteristics genius nearly demented. find them.".
quite logically assembled by an ex- ceptionally lively germ cell to meet the demands of her environment.
She was a Renaissance woman;
Only the incurably light-minded never fell till Louis XVI, disregard-
Scissors In Shantung
"No national debt; no long- term loans; annual income В quarter of a million, increasing under stress by a further sixty per cent only with this in mind can the story of the war period'
Her advisers were of little, help. characteristic, of seeing life as in-When she tried to balance her
General Han Fu Chu, whose policemen are shaving the heads of she answered as did every ardent all, women with artificially waved spirit to the call to learning which hair in the capital of his province, ang through Europe in that day;be appreciated.""
gest.
is a more enlightened autocrat than and she had that other Renaissance this particular measure would sus finitely malleable, as material to be Budget. Walsingham sighed: "I hammered into all sorts of strange would she did build and depend on shapes, by all sorts of Instruments, God" Cecil was sometimes ne un-- Jof which craft and lying were not helpful, and Leicester, sent abroad
particularly discredited.
with an army, raised his own and
He once stated that he insisted on all the high officials of bla pro-j ¦vincial government taking | some form of violent exercise at dawn every day. He also obliged them to turn up at their offices on time-an (unheard-of thing in China.
Born And Bred Amid Danger his officers' pay to an extent that She was a woman born and bred wrecked her schemes for financing in danger. Professor Neale's-early the campaign. Her suitors, from
Han Fu Chu is a sturdy, rather, chapters describe how uneasily this Philip of Spain and the Archduke bull-like man. A peasant by birth, poor child of a beheaded mother lay Charles down to Arundel and he is very modest about his quall in the lap of her step-sister's dis- Pickering, were even less promising
alds. fications 45 4 ruler, Actually pleasure: how the romping com-
of
Elizabeth's reluctance to marry
well as herself in making her Shantung, under his control, is one panionship her step-mother, Policy In The Marriage Refusals' aggressive stand in demand for of the best-run provinces in China, Catherine Parr, and her new hus-
and virtually independent of the band, the Admiral Seymour, was had, therefore, Professor. Neale doubled with the darker stuff of holds, largely politicni ex- a new international respect in Nanking Government. Europe and America for the
[danger; how, Catherine being dead planation; and there is not much. Asiatic The charges against
in childbirth. Seymour declared sense in writing as if Elizabeth's himself Elizabeth's suitor and was constant willingness to consider Japan To-day.
her are, as a rule, founded in
immediately killed. -
marriage plans," and her invariable ignorance and prejudice and pur-
Fear and its anti-body courage custom of baulking at their fulfil- Considerable interest has been sued with hostility. Allegations I hereby award the gold medal determined Elizabeth's character; ment, were signs of a neurotic dis- aroused by the authoritative of dumping on foreign markets for absolute, sublime, unapproach the rhythm of their succession ran position that was particularly un-
Your Daily Smile.
CAST-IRON CASE
able, incomparable
survey of Japanese industry made have been made by representa- the fellow who put the "80"
optimism to through her moods till her dying balanced on the subject of sex
exposed as unfounded the charges
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Sunday Afternoon Thought
Husbands If there's one thing every hates doing, he does it when wife tells him to,
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of sweated conditions in Japan. FOR HUSBANDS ONLY
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BAMI
For every time she chose to an
op day.
This was, perhaps, the cause of nounce her willingness to marry t her love of dress,, her wardrobe of had the same effect on the Courts for 3,000 costumes; for it may be re- of Europe as a herring 'thrown to a marked that the women. most flock of gulis, and so long as she man famous for extravagance have been did not marry `she still had the
his those, like the Empress dosephine, herring for next time.
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That nalted her whole life. It fire of most peculiar flame. But it made her able to convert the lying is Professor Neale's particular vir- letters princes must need write into tue that he shows how she kept this: comic_masterpieces of humbug, and fire damped, how her genius usually- diplomatie conversations into wild bad the upper hand of her oddities.. "rage." That she might have been! He shows special- shrewdness in a dramatist of the first order in the case of Leicester and Essex,
hinted, by the comedy, played not who are known, beyond all shadow with imagined characters, but with of doubt, to have been Elizabeth's real people out of the Spanish favourites, We will never know Courtship.
which senas of the word can be
by the International Labour Or-tives of trading countries which the speedometer of my car. ganisation of Geneva. Japan's have not hesitated themselves to remarkable advance into the practise dumping, and which are ranks of the world's foremost prosecuting in general economic military and trading Powers is war with all force and much hypocrisy. The International, of universal interest. In some
who have lived for long in peril of Surely Professor, Neble goes a quarters there in a disposition to Labour Organisation's survey has
their bodies. It was certainly the little too far when he likens Eliza? regard this new energy as belli
cause of her abundant posacasion of beth's supervision of the morals of "If anything is repeated often jirang, that laughing sister of afficher Court to that of Queen Victoria, cose. Critics, especially in those ese factories, and has revealed enough it becomes an accepted tion sent from above to comfort Without doubt we must allow that countries which feel the Japan the remarkable development of fact," declares a paychologist. So the brave.
in Elizabeth there was a burning ese competition keenly, point to industrial co-operation, self-help, If at first you don't succeed-lle.
le again. Japan's military action In Man-self-reliance, and mutual credit churia, her sustained naval and other aids, among and be- New Disarmament Plans building, her abandonment of thetween Japanese employers .and Going great guns. League of Nations, her hard-workers. The country is rapidly
Another Lie About Scolland pressed invasion of foreign mar organising as an efficiant modern As dizzy as a Scot after drop- kets with cheap manufactured State through popular education, ping a penny in a revolving door goods, and particularly in this founded on age-long principles of
domestic loyalty. Nations that Fable last her copying of foreign styles]
regard themselves as superior Once upon a time a producer gave and patterns for the purpose
can find something here to learn. a bathing belle a fob in a production The picture presented as a whole Unquestionably this development because she could swim. is one of aggression, and from is manifesting itself in a strong that the indictment is easily and forvent spirit of nationalism.
"Some wires miss their framed. It is the more easily Let that country where national bands," says a writer. Others [propagated by Japan's caemics-self-sufficiency is not a modern learn to throw straight.
and she has them-because of creed cast the first stone at
¡Japan. It is becoming more and Matrimonial Murmur Juniverzal ignorance of Japanese more appreciated, that what has My dear, why did you not
circumstances, difficulties, and been indicted as sheer aggres- my advice on this matter?" point of view. Broadly speak-Ision in Japanese political and in- “I intended to do só, as soon ing, there is no country, so little dustrial activity is actually in- had made up my mind what I was known; travel in Japan has only evitable in the circumstances in going to do!" recently begun to offer induce which Japan finds herself, The ments to visitors; the turning in mendous numbers at home is so difficulty of sustaining her tre Japan from a long tradition great that Japan is driven to in- against offering such inducements dustrialisation. Japan has since Circular disks used instead of Is only of recent date; and to 1927 been annually importing him fn a new motion picture pro- to treat with this woman, who I Hungarian Landowner'sTM acquire facility in the language, much more than she exports sector for educational and adverthink must have a hundred thou- andesrocally" in reading and balance" in ten years represents enough to be shown 10,000 times telling me that the yearns to be
The aggregate of the "adverse tining purposes are claimed by sand devils in her body, notwith
their inventor to be substantial standing that she is for ever writing it requires in most value of 3,000 million yen without damage.
Dudapest. foreigners a lifetime of applica From the outside world Japan
nun and to pass her time in a Joseph Marcus awoke one day in ceff Draying
1925 to find himself in a London The dilemma in which Elizabeth hospital, found herself regarding marriage is He had received a head wound often spoken of as if it existed only while serving on the Western because she was a woman, if it Front during the War, and bad re- were only becauso she was, a female had no knowledge of his surround-
Bovereigo Hát, should she chosis a inte since.
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Philip.of Spata, widower of her fitly applied to them; and it is pos dead step-sister Mary, kindly pro-sible that Elizabeth herself hardly posed to marry Elizabeth, both be knew from day to day. Here it cause he would thereby bring back may be we are dealing with a situa
URUAI! England to the Papacy as a service tion that falls under no husto God. and because he had found categories. sooner exceedingly attractive when he For Elizabeth must have thought- came over to attend gloomily his masculinity a very odd thing. She bride. Elizabeth had not the was herself a most truly feminine slightest Intention of marrying Woman; she was one of the very ask him, but she wanted him as an ally, lew women who have been born in
so she played a subtle and madden-a position where they could deter as]ing game with his "Ambassadors."
mine their own lives, and look in Among those who came to Endards, and who have the brains to their own hearts for feminine stan- land' after Philip had, in despair, married the King of France's use that opportunity daughter, and there was only the political alliance to arrange, was Archbishop Quadra. He wrote;
Facts You Did Not Know.
arw pho
tion. Nevertheless, if the world must draw food and raw mater- Invented by a Swedish engineer, wants peace and not war, the tals: Her own supply is deficient. huge tanks have been erected at world" must somehow come to She can only pay for them by Copenhagen power plant, to store
her exports. If the world, is po- steam when more is pr understand Japan, and Japan is ing to refuge those exports as
needed and ralente showing wisdom in the new matter of economić, pol
be-quired. evidence of desiring to assist cause they displace loca that purpose. Much of the an manufactures, whether tagoniam manifested against the cheap, then Jepara dem BESTienda accommodation must be Japanese is due to ignorance, and gressivo. Se will be f the rest of it is probably the re- such military enterpr |sult of fear. One thing is cer of Manchukuo, and tain: the nineteenth century claiming superior
sethods of "Western" Powers in with China For
quire the 26odatúni avan Eastern Asia will not apply In
cotton and wool the -- twentieth. "Japan ·
needs, i hólmunt, export caporsed", the cause, of China as pay for them.
Your Lordship, will see what
a fretty business it is to have
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MAN WHO FORGOT
WHO HE
WAS.
Plight.
spouse, abroad,... her country might Even when he awoke he did not | fall under}fomigu, influènes, and, pow. who he was or where ho
should, she thone
civil came from. So he went out to
fars: might start! umilios she had slig
Yet that
ong the great Ceylog to carva, out; a 'career for.
Chorohmaelf, M
All of & audden he remembered that he had been a landowner fa Hahzary before the War. Ife set on for his native, village) on
Now She has arrived thereto, and he had been declared legally: dead, that "Kim wife; had Bold" the 40176drà farm, ' re-married and: moyed to an unknown "addrpas,
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