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Hitler And The Catholics There is certain parallel be tween the present conflict between the Catholic and the Nazi Youth organisations in Germany and the long struggle between the Fascist Balilla and the Catbolic Youth in Italy, which ended only in 1931.
In itself the Hitler Youth organ-} isation is an imitation of the Fas- eist Balilla. But here the parallel ends.
for. the
· THURSDAY, MAY 17, 1934.
ROMANCE OF BRITISH PARLIAMENT
RECALLING ITS PLACE IN HISTORY
LONDON PAGEANT. IN JUNE ·
(By John Buchan, M.P.)
A Papeant of Parliament is presolute to change when it is cop- being organised, to be presented vinced of the necessity. The Civil at the Albert Hall next month. War brought out the full implica- tions of what was meant by Eng-
Signor Mussolini has made his "HE Pageant of Parliament" island-in-Council. peace with the Vatican. He bas a phrase which has been, per- The Stuart Kings fell heir to a furnished satisfactory guarantees haps, too lightly used. There is a new England, which at first did not The King Catholic instruction of great truth behind it, but it is a quite understand itself. Italian youth. Moreover, the popu-truth, which needs exposition. I had hitherto paid for the expenses lation of Italy is overwhelmingly welcome the forthcoming Pageant of government out of his Royal ea- Catholic, and there is, therefore, at the Albert Hall as a means of tate, and only asked Parliament ́for funds in special emergencies. Now little clash between the ideals of enlightenment. [Church and State.
The pageantry of the governance the increased cost of government
Herr Hitler's difficulties are therefore infinitely greater.
In Germany the Catholics are in of Britain is recalled to the ordia-compelled him to ask for more, and a minority. The spiritual ten-ary man only at odd moments-at to ask for it frequently, and Parlia- Rew age, dencies of the. Hitler Youth mem-the State opening of Parliament by ment, conscious of the
on would, only grant funds on terms. bers are in absolute contradiction the King, or by some debate
The English Temper with the fundamental principles of which hang fateful issues.' the Catholic religion.
Not much colour or romance is Parliament was the true revolu found by the casual visitor' who tionary in the matter, for the Eng- listens in the Commons to a languid|lish people can always break com- discussion on some minor estimates.pletely from precedent If the need or to the half-audible voices from is proved. The Long Parliament In the scarlet benches of the Lords.its early days was fully representa- A Catholic in Germany gives an Some imagination is needed to real-tive of the new England. Long be- account of the technique of Catholicise the poetry beneath the prose, and fore it perished it had ceased to be Youth persecution in that country the vivid history behind the drab representative, and, therefore, Crom-
There is a Nazi order against modern actuality.
well could destroy it with little mur- physical interference with the
muring. Catholic Youth. The Germans, 'be-
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Noisy Critics.
There is no drearier subject to But England could not long do
the letter of the order. This isost people than constitutional his-without a Parliament, since it was tory. Stubbs's "Charters" have for her sole means of self-expression. struggle with Nature, and the youth organisation arranges
how it is done. When a Catholic many a young man not opened the The result was the Restoration. helplessness of the individual outing the Hitler Youth form op in hurry to bang and bolt it out of the subject. "In the government of door of the past, but made him Cromwell left some wise words on across the road sheer boredom. The thing is Hong Kong, Thursday, May 17, 1934. has had in it that touch of na-fa wide formation
dulljuntions that which is to be looked ture that makes the whole world along which the Catholics have to most people because it is a for in the affection of the people." kin. Only in the Twentieth Cen-planned to march.
chronicle of abstractions, a sort of The affection, or at least the tolera- When they arrive they are met formal logie" of history. Under tion. Catastrophes. tury have we realised that even
with jeers and waving of fage. more disastrous calamities lie.
auch-conditions--the-most human The eighteenth-century Parlia- |Being, ordered to avoid any conflicti
ly elected assembles, but they were Inhumane.
The voyages of the Elizabethan tolerated, and on the whole trusted, Bailors would be a dreary business because the oligarchy was never out If we had only a summary of their of tune with the national temper. The Soviet Government have log-books. Yet the story of the Great Parliamentarians arose, too,
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It is really very difficult to latent in the works of man's own with the Nazis, they have to return topic would become desiccated and ments were far from being popular- think of anything else in Hong hands. The chemical Laboratory thome. Kong to-day in face of the has invented formulae by which havock of the gas explosion, and the harmless contents of bottles! yet how trite are all the reflec-standing on a shelf can be so tions that can be made on any combined that with a slight con-
even the
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such catastrophe. We do not cussion, they will make an arti-pointed their youngest admiral Constitution can be in the highest who in a crisis could interpret the know the cause; and even when fetal Earthquake, or a conflagra-
as Naval Attache to Washington. degree romantic if we once realise deepest instincts of the nation. The This Is red-haired Rear-Admiral the brilliant, many-coloured life out assembly in St. Stephen's reflected the Enquiry is finished, and if the cause should be discovered. the flash at West Point.
tion as sudden and disastrous as Pavel Oras, as stockily built young of which it grew, for then abstrac-what was best, and a good deal of And man of 37. He speaks seventlons take on flesh and blood. We what was worst, in the English tem- it will at most be possible to do
in the face of such man-made languages and handles English see it not only as a logical process, per, but it was always representa- something to
Live. prevent similar
more disasters, knowing well that the much
fluently than his but as a pageant. happenings in the future. The
Ambassador.
That is one thing which we hopej Among other things it reflected sudden death of a well-known cause can only have been com-
In Russia Oras is not called Ad.to do in the Albert Hall in June the economie condition of the coun- that purpose and muun like Mr. Lam Tung makes pounded for
miral. The senior naval officers to show how human a business our try. When land was the chief form
has a noticeable
brings used of malice prepense, there is have no naval titles, but are rank-Government
been. of riches it had a preponderance of gap, and
always home to all those who knew him nothing to make the whole world ed from Nos. 1 to 13. His rank-There is another purpose of some squires, but as new forms of wealth the sense of personal loss; but kin; there is everything to leaveling, No. 11, 'corresponds with public Importance. Criticism of appeared it acquired new types of only a lack of imagination pre-a Fast for vengeance which Rear-Admiral. Iis uses this title parliamentary methods is loud in the member.
of kinship vents us from recognising with makes talk
sound for convenience when abroad. In world to-day, and the British Par- It had the wool-staplers in Tudor [equal particularity in how many jake a honow mockery.
the Russian navy he is addressed liament, the original inventor, has times and the new merchantry in
not escaped.
Stuart times. In the eighteenth cases the unknown dead may; The weapons of the chemical as "Comrade Chief." The appointment have been in the life of their Laboratory are not
century East Indian nabobs and of Admiral Oras is an earnest of Soviel de- humble family or
other worst some
It is true that legislators have West Indian grandees aut 01 the perversions of social circle the centre round science.. We have endowed Lesire to win the good will of the not yet fallen into so dire a con-beaches. With the industrial revo-
United States. which everything in the daily boratories for
tempt with us as elsewhere, though lution it acquired a crowd of manu- Biological Re-
The new American Export and Mr. Chesterton has written: Istruggle revolved. And how in-search to enable us to conquer the Import Bank for Russian credits
It is a fortunate instinct of our "The men who rule in England adequate is any relief or con-germs that are less spectacular declared that no crèdits would be
people that when they grow rich they desire to have a hand in government. pensation or consolation!
enemies than the convulsions of forthcoming until Russia made It is not as though we could Nuture, but more insidious and some settlement of her American
The Scotsman, it used to be said, be content to mutter "Kismet" more widely fatal; and the devil-debts.
At the worst we are inclined to when he got his head above water, and resume aur ordinary routine.ish thought occurs "why only use
Ambassador Bullitt has already be a little ribald about them indivi-made for land; the Englishman has We have learned how to harness these cultures as preventives of come to a tentative agreement with dually, but for Parliament as an in-always made for St. Stephen's. Up A debt-liquidation stitution we have still a wholesome till the end of the Victorian era a many of the forces of 'Nature
Stalin's ap- respect. That is as it should be. themselves to remove mitive men merely hostile. They]
Our proval, which may or may not be In countries where Parliamentary enemies ?" In a small way the forthcoming.
institutions are new and not organi- are good servants as long as we
cally knit with the life of the people) use them with constant vigilance happy thought has already been
there is some reason for their going and precaution; but they are al- acted upon; it is merely playing
out of fashion. But that is not so ways on the watch to turn and with the greatest problem of our
with our: British system. rend us if we give them the day to ignore the prospect that it Daring smallest opportunity. There was may be some day used on a Dare to do right, dare to be true; a time when men used to sacri- wholesale scafe. Desperate men dare to do others or they'll do you fice to the Winds, - Boreas, and are apt to be desperately logical. Radiator
the Russians.
that must have appeared to pri.death, why not use the germs proposal now awaita
Your Daily Smile!
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Auster, and the rest, —and a In recent cables we are told The first thing which strikes the hig step forward was taken that Paraguay and Bolivia, after pedestrian about the modern car.
when they found that sails would killing each other for over, two
make the winds do the work of years without any definite settle-Instinct.
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In stately conslave met; Alas! alas! for England,
They have no graves as yet."
For our people to despise their themselves. Parliament has always Parliament would be to despise
been in the fullest sense representa tive of them. In each age they have had the Parliament they deserved.
facturers.
(Continued on Page 11).
INSTITUTE OF COMMERCE
Results Of Local Exams Received From Home.
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22 STUDENTS SUCCESSFUL
The results of the Institute I use the word "representative", in Commerce examinations, held on Burke's sense. I do not mean that March 18 last, under the supervision.
of
slave rowers, and do it better. But ment of the disputed ownership What tells a woman 'she is right our Parliament was always popular-of Messrs. E. Hawkins and K. M.
we still are vulnerable when the of the Gran Choco, an almost whether she is or not.
winds conspire to send a typhoon waterless tract of country that
merely as the
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ly elected, but I mean that its mem-Au, have been received from 'Eng- bera always represented the tam-land by the local representative' of perament and creed of the average the Institution, Mr. H. K. Yew, a Englishman of the day. For a man F.C.I.
The results are as follows: to be a good representative there is (no nord that many should vote for Accountancy-Leong Kam Chen-
A member elected by half aand. Chu Kar Chun. dozen elderly gentlemen over a bowl Handwriting-Lob Tsong Wah
Commercial Correspondence Chu
if there is no shelter handy might well be divided by any Kindly Old Lady: "My poor man, Electricity was for ages known judicious arbitrator, have fail was there no one to stretch out
thunderbolt of ed to agree about the proper hand to you?" Ex-convict: "Yes, an angry Jove until it was tamed food ration to be allowed to pri- mum, that's how they got me."
* to light our drawing-rooms and soners of war. As a mere incl- carry our messages; but "it is dental argument one of the par- Some glis prefer, boneless fish? of punch may be a very good repre- and Chu Kar Chun.
Ever Noticed?
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The one thing required in a mem-Kar Chun."
still possible for a caroless metics threatens to bomb the an- chanic to turn a wrong switch cient and populous city of Asur- Mrs. Montmorency: "I thought and flash death along the wires. cion, and the other party you loved your pet dog so much ber is the representative character: Business Trading-Chu Kar Chun. Nobody has yet found a use for naturally threatens to retaliate. Mra. Poulton; "So I do, dear: but whether everybody has a chance of Commercial Arithmetic —
Leong the Earthquake, which in a cou- These are no empty threats, my husband is doing so well in voting for him is altogether beside Kam Chee
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ple of minutes can lay a great Seventy years ago Paraguay business now that we can afford the point. If he has not the right Typewriting-Leong Kam Chee city like Messina or Tokyo in fought her neighbour on the one with a better pedigree !" character, adult suffrage will not Commercial Arithmetic (Elemen- rains; but in volcanic regions other side in a war at the end
make him more representative. In tary) Chu Kar Chun, boreholes are sunk for oil to of which the proportion of sexes Lady motorist (who has swerved this sense every Parliament of Ed-Book Keeping (Elementary) --- drive our cars, and in Iceland was one male to seventeen into cycllat) "I'm awfully sorry, ward has been a more or leas Chik Yin Kal, Liu Iu Cheung, Wong they tap hot water for use in the women. That was in the age of but it really wasn't my fault. Ifaithful mirror of the idiosyncrasies Ehau Cheun, Liu Tung: Hin, Chan laundry and the kitchen. the old weapons. Modern im- put out my hand." Gallant Irish- of the British people. Kwan Chek, Lim Wen Toon, Vuong In all these cases mankind has provements would kill off the man: Sure, me darlin. 'tis your So, In reading Parliamentary his- Kim Khoo Moh Bang, Chan Kim been engaged in his saccular sexes in, equal ratio,
hand that's so small. I din't see it tory, we read the history of the soul Fon, Un, Ki Shu and Lui Shek Yan, Tat all":
of Britain-slow to change, but most Seend class--Chan 8! Hong"and".""
Chan Kwok Cheung.