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The China Mail, docisive leadership, required here elsewhere? If they can, the British public will not have to Hong Kong. Friday, April 13, 1934. choose between a Parliament and a
putsch. There is every
reason to believe that Britain can and must)
The Parliamentary Way its own answer in its own way
HERE, THERE, EVERYWHERE
Civil Servants in Clover
The Jugoslav Civil Servant lives like a Pasha compared with his British colleague.
This is the conclusion of Mr. W. Petrovitch, who was First Secre-
THE
FRIDAY, APRIL 13, 1931.
HE IMPORTANCE OF
SINGAPORE RE
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GUARDS
VAST TERRITORIES
BASE NOT AGGRESSIVE THREAT
tary in the Jugoslav Home Office. He was one of the occasional ex-i
Recently, the eyes of the world jhundred miles and each of these aminers for Britain's Civil Service were on Singapore, and in more places is well out of striking dia. Commissioners in London.
than one country. they speculated tance of Japan. Singapore is, in The Jugoslav Civil Servant gets as to what was discussed at the fact, nearly as far from Japan as three hours off for lunch. After Naval Conference. But it wil Gibraltar is from New York. This his siesta he is served with Turkish rest as speculation, as the Navy fact' is perfectly well realised in coffee in his office. When he has can be trusted to keep its secrets. Japan and no Japanese even pre- put in ten years' service he can re and there will be no leakage from tends that Singapore is in any way tire with a pension of 40 per cent. the flagship anchored by thoseja danger to herself. of his highest salary; if he serves wooded shores. 25 years he can claim a 100 per cent. pension.
There is no entrance examina- tion, and opportunities for back
akiah abound,
In
the Jugoslar Civil every prospect pleases; only man; is vile.
The British Navy exists not to
On the north of the island lie attack anyone but to protect the straits that divide Singapore British territory and trade in all
from the native State of Johore. parts of the world. We have now on the mainland. It is in these a Navy which, because of the in- Service straits, which are only a few hun-crease of the size of ships and the {dred yards wide and spanned by a lack of modern docking facilities, causeway, that the naval base is is unable to protect the area which contains the major proportion" of being built, The number of honest men in
You motor to it through rubber the territories, peoples and com- The service, according to Mr.
of the way, youmercial interests
British Petrovitch. is "Comparatively low," Plantations all the
is being see the carefully guarded site of Empire. The new base the new base, the anchorage in the constructed solely to enable the Navy to fulfil its defensive func- wharfs straits, the work on the "The Three Letters”
Itions. And
could no place and docks being pushed forward, Reports that the Soviet Ogpu is the houses of civil engineers, naval more suitable. to be disbanded should not be officers and the future storehouses
Singapore in the gateway of the Pacific; through it passes trade taken too literally.
and depots.
from the Far East, from Australia.
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This is part of a campaign to
com-
The Washington Conference of 1923 trled to eliminate all
treaties
round which
lies
area.
Thousands of native workers enter daily, but barbed wire keeps New Zealand. It commands the
Indians Ocean It was in this fashion that the lout the casual visitor. From the Cheka was disbanded in 1922, virgin rubber forext is being three-quarters of the land terri-
O.G.P.U the full title means curved out the great graving dock, Lories of the Empire. Unified State Political Police-is one day to be capable of accom-
Three-quarters of the population the correct abbreviation
of the molating the greatest battleships of the Empire live in the
10n any day of the year £160,000,- name of this force.
in the world. Anchored # short In Russia it is generally known way out is the floating dock now 1000 worth of British shipa and cargo is float on the oceans that as G.P.U., or, in the conspirative already in use. Russian manner, as "the Three
Why these great works, this Singapore commands. From this Letters."
jarea England gets 97 per cent. of Conference? Menzhinaky is the present head Since the war the balance of her tea, 97 per cent, of her jute, of the G.P.U. He is a lawyer and naval power has changed
[96 per cent. of zinc ore,
90 per to its new problems, and that the
cent. of her rubber, 89 per cent. of a comparatively mild man.
pletely. The Germany navy no
ther woni, 86 per cent. of her janswer can and should comprise the
longer exists; the three Powers The internecine party battles, runtinued genuine use of Parlia-
Let There Be Lights
who count navally are, Great Bri-nitrate, 77 per cent. hemp, 76 per often indistinguishable from civiliment. As Mr. Baldwin pointed out, į
tain. the United States and Japan, cent. manganese ore, 71 per cent (war, which have blazed up in many Britain cannot, even if we would, being urged to make it illegal for and the Pacific is now the focal in ore, 63 per cent, rice, 50 per
cent. cheese and butter. In addi euntries are not without their les-"more at the same pace in economic a Bulgarian to light his cigarette point.
tion to this a large proportion of son for Britain. As Mr. Baldwin experiments." In Britain charac-from somebody else's.
our frozen ment, supply, oils for pointed out in a notable speech at'teristic political evolution has pro-
pos- food and industrial purposes, and Preston recently, they are one moreįduced co-operation between states- swell the Exchequer by increasing sibility of conflict. The
25 per cent, of our imported petrol piece of evidence of the desire for men formerly associated with dif-the sale of matches, which are a signed constituted a comprehen- ļa spectacular issue from economic ferent parties. In France a similar State monopoly in Bulgaria.
sive bargain, designed to regulate come to us from that area.
These interests, which affect the fund political difficulties which hasjappeal to the sense of national unity The spearhead of the campaign For-Eastern questions, and the
employment and livelihood of svent democrues away throughout is now upon trial. The failure or is the prohibition of the sale of naval question is one. First Japan mort of Europe and which has time impossibility of party co-automatie lighters.
was given naval supremacy in Far every town in England, cannot be protected by a fleet based од swept Mr. Roosevelt into quasi- opération in other countries has led
return for au This has been tried in France. Eastern waters in
Maita, some 31 days' sailing to the dictatorial
(embodied United through stalemate to violence. So The French put a 15 franc tax on undertaking
the in power in the
West, States. Britain has not and could dong as the co-operation does not all lighters.
Nine-Power Treaty) not to expand
by bi*
its share of economic mean a cancelling out of policies¦ But French matches are
even on the mainland of Asia, "to res- adversity, and commumic adversity(and does mean a broader basis for more unreliable than the most pect the territorial sovereignty and has brad in Britain not only a government, the question whether capricious of automatic lighters. administrative integrity of China." genuine need for vigorous action on it should be consolidated in a new and the tax was avoided by a constitutional lines but also that party may be left in abeyance with system of contraband. desire for the spectacular which the note that though the logical elsewhere has destroyed or reduced arguments for such a course may [to impotence the system of Parlia-jappear strong, the practical and
mentary government. There can psychological objections to it are Old Jokes at Home be no doubt that the British publie{formidable. Co-operation between: retains its affection and much of its parties, therefore, is the setting for honoured, private jests."
"Every family has its respect for the institution of Parlin-action. It has already produced an social observer. |ment. The conventional and tradi-fenviable stability in the national tional Конкір which represents finances, which is an essential pre- [Parliamentary leaders as self-seek-{timinary, if no more than a pre-
iny incompetents is nothing, in its liminary, to the active organization are to hold a contest. The idea of trade through Singapore is 28 proper base at Singapore is an ag
English and French mannequins present form and volume, compared of a national revival. It has also apparently, is to see whether with the charges which Burke produced an economic polley based
miss is as good as a mile. brought with much better reason upon the clear principle that though against Parliament and its leaders it is no business of the State to run jupire Put out With Beer" in his day. It possesses no sub-industries, it the business of in-} fstance and it gains little credence.dustries to run themselves and the The desire to continue the genuine duty of the State to make possible use of the Parliamentary method is efficient self-government in indus- "He's quite an institution, you evident. But it would be a mistake try. The principle can be
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Stragetic Position Singapore, by its geographie position. Is the one point from. which the whole area can be pro- Gateway To Pacific
tected; and if it fell into enemy In view of this the United hands there is no other point from States agreed not to fortity which any part of that area could Manila, this country not to fortify be protected.
Hong Kong, which are the only It in the only port by which a bases from which attacks could be battle fleet could reach Australia time-launched against Japan. Singa and New Zealand, and give them pore was purposely excluded from the same armed assistance in a this "demilitarlaed" zone; Great crisis as those Dominions gave Britain and the United States re-freely and generously to England tained the right to fortify Singa-In the Great War. A glance at volume the facts and figures show that a pore and Honolulu, The
great as that through Suez ogressive threat to no one but is Panama.
essentially defensive of vast Bri- Now the effective radius of actish Interests,
bad
to suppose that Britain has a working in agriculture, coal, cotton."You mean monopoly of affection for represen-iron and steel, and shipping; and voluntary contributions."
he's supported by tative institutions and enjoys the its practical application consists in certainly that there alone they will the offer of fiacul or other assistance .' THE EXPLANATION Burvive automatically or without conditionally upon reorganization A divorced couple response to the perils of a new sgc. being carried out by the industries married in London recently. Both Other countries, in which Parlia-nasisted. These are all stages in a apparently. have rather ments for all practical purposes (great and comprehensive series of memories for faces, have disappeared, once loved and experimenta which, as Mr. Baldwin fought for the very institutions showed in his references to land
THEIR LIVELIHOOD that they have now overturned. In settlement and to housing, aim at
Research workers hope soon to Britain there are groups, not al-securing ultimately an' expansion of produce a banana without a skin together negligible, which, under production and of trade even Music-hall comedians look like the most conflicting labels, are though the construction of a sound being thrown out of employment moved by the common incentive of basis for expansion may mean here by the thousand. reducing Parliament to a cipher and and there' a temporary restriction
their political opponents to silence. or redirection of supplies. It is
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The practice common among British easy to be impatient: It is even. An author says that he has just Iparties of the Left of. consider-legitimate to point out that here made $35,000 out of his latest Ing Loft Wing revolutions elsewhere and there progress has not been so book. Which Just goes to prova as excusable, if not encouraging, rapid;, as it might be. And there that write is might. und Right Wing revolutions us morejare examples of initiative or re-
outbursts of barbariem has its coun-sourcefulness oversea which the from finished; but it has been well terpart. Sections of parties of the public will wish to see studied and and truly bagun with surprising] Right hold views upon foreign up-followed in so far as they are ap-comprehensiveness and rapidity; heavals that are in form the exact plicable to British conditions. But and though the public clearly ex opposite but in spirit exactly the the fact remains that the activitiespects as much energy to be shown same. The public nood never con- actually set on foot during some in the future as in the past there is cern itself with the decision which, years of reconstruction, here com- nothing either in the past or in the If either, of these views is correct, pare on the whole very favourably future to shake, confidence in the if the right answer be given to an both in volume, "and in effect, with general loyalty to Parliamentary all-important question. The ques- those earried through in any other government as the British way of tion in Can Parliament and country under any other system of getting things done alike in fair) Parliamentary ders, give the government. The task is very far weather and in foul.
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