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SATURDAY, MAY 19, 1934.
GREATEST HALF-HOUR
IN HISTORY
TRIUMPH OF BRITAIN'S FIGHT FOR FREEDOM
opportunity for the general public FITTING PAGEANT AT RUNNYMEDE
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Priority of chuice is rightly given to naval officers who like to acquire them for sentimental res.
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THE
(By the Rt. Hon. Winston S. Churchill.)
Landon. I Let us imagine this meeting, on
As
THE rights and liberties of Eng-a Monday morning, in June be-
lishmen are older and more sa-tween Staines and Windsor. ered than Parliament itself, the Barons and Churchmen began song.
Runnymede is indeed worthy of to collect on the great meadow an These bells usually become
the celebrations, in the form of a uneasy hush fell on them from dinner
gongs, Few country houses in Hampshire, where in one National Pagean, to be held there time to time. Many had failed to district alone 14 retired admirals this summer (June 9 to 16) in its keep their tryst; and the bold few ive within a radius of a few miles,memory. We need to be reminded who had come knew the King would.
're without one.
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Ancient Bishoprics
how much Englishmen have to never forgive this humiliation. He lose, how long, and bitterly our would hunt them down when he lascestors have had to fight for our could, and the laymen at least their lives in the freedom; and how much we owe to were staking
As-cause of liberty. They had BT- St. Asaph the archiepiscopal see the Barons of England who
banks of the ranged a little throne for the King of Wales. from which Dr. A. G.sembled upon the Edwards is shortly retiring, is not Thames in the early summer at and a tent. They had drawn up, it seems, a short parchment. Tho the oldest diocese in the prin-11215.
The charter they won-the handful of resolute men, their re- cipality.
down tainers, and the groupe sad squa-
from the sixth century.
not
St. David's and Bangor both famous Magna Carta-Laid claim a legendary succession dating the root principles of English cl-drons of horsemen in sullen steel tizenship 60. years before the first kept at some distance and well in
background For Was six hundred armed rebellion against the Crown French Revolu- the supreme feuds crime the road to modern Over In Half An Hour
The Welsh bishoprics are among Leginnnings of the English Parlia the the oldest in Christendom. Saint ment; and nearly Augustine went to Canterbury in years before the 597. Saint Dyfrig was Patriarch tion opened
Then events followed with great af Caerleon twenty years before democracy.
King John was the kind of ty-rapidly. A small cavalcado a that. The Clerical Directory states) that one, Daniel, was bishop of rant most obnoxious to England. Reared from the direction of Wind. He was a legal expert. Everyone sor, Gradually men made out the Bangor in 516.
the extraordinary faces of the King, the Papal Le
year 1000.
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Sixteen Stone On The Air
The
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The Quest For Boredom
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48
statement of libertins, and
which John had infringed.
Again and again during the cen- of the lury It was confirmed. Even in
Llandaff also has a history which recognised is lost in the mists of antiquity. cleverness of his oppression. His gate, the Archbishop of Canter buttressed by bary, and several bishops. They Twenty-seven bishops are recorded dictatorship was
ceremony. as having ruled there before the every sharp catch and gadget of dismounted-without
the law. By subtle means he un-Someone, probably the Archbie- dermined and largely broke down hop, stated briefly the terms that pation of the Ruhr, make pay-
local government. He hired were suggested.. The King de ment impossible. At any rate
foreign soldiers. He swayed theclared at once that he agreed. He "DAVENPORT: TOLEDANO.-On be had at his hand Mr. J. S.
Babe Ruth, the 16st. star of the courts to such an extent that Jus-said the detalls should be arrang- April 25, 1934. in London, Keynes as his economic adviser.
Church courts, short parchment may have been Cyril, younger son of Mr. and Mr. Keynes not only could. but New York Yankees baseball team, tice was denied beth in the King's ed immediately in his chancery. A even independent tribunals scaled; if so it is now lost. Then Mrs. James Davenport, to Ben-did advise with all possible em-has signed a 13-weeks broadcast-courts and in the daughter of Mr. (phasis what would be the results (ing contract, at a salary of £600 a and
maintained by great nobles in the the King returned to Windsor. trice, elder
jof the decisions made at Ver-week.
In-Everything must have been over and Mrs. T Toledano.
sailles and afterwards, thereby
arrangement will rather country were subject to an
The sho in half an hour. vindicating the Dismal Science. more than double his present base-creasing interference.
riffs, as officers of the King in How then has this quiet, short So far as one can see the phi-ball salary. It will also
in British broadcasters, each county, ground down the scene become the most famous in losophy of the average politi-envy
The Great Charter. cian, or.-what is much the whose highest fees in relation to poor, and harshly used the forms our history?
of justice to carry on every sort drawn up during the next few same thing of the citizens who American fees are in the proper of legal kaavery. Everywhere the days, laid the foundations of En- put him into power, is that there tion of £10 to £100. is in the world a solid stock of Although hit by the depression, claims of the Crown were pushed glish freedom. It was an elabor- wealth from which the nations Babe Ruth is still by far the too far by 'agents of great ability ate Money And Wealth.
draw as large a portion as they highest-paid professional sports-with a fair-seeming show of law dwelt particularly on those rights can get hold of; so that if one man in the world. With his re- and precedent.
King John even attempted to This question of quotas is one gets more some other gets less. ceipts from such side-lines
himself master more instance of how at every The truth is quite different. "Babe Ruth" cigarettes, broad-make turn the practical work of post-The most valuable wealth is custing contract will bring his in- Church in England, and when that those high feudal times some men. failed he did not scruple to com-tion crept in-almost by accident war administration and finance food, which has to be grown come up to nearly £30,000.
blac with an ambitious Pope, In-of the English freeman and his raises problems that can hardly from year to year, and which be-
nocent II., in order to exploit rights, of the very ploughmen, the be dealt with without a risk of comes more easily available
England for their common bene-villeins and the trifles to which stirring up controversies con-us when a plentiful crop any-
even they were entitled. Magna nected with the metaphysics of where, so long as it comes into a The Worst Play Club held their fit.
Carta showed that in the last re- economic
Measureless Crisis and
market, constitutional common
reduces the annual dinner in London recently.
This little-known society is five At last this theory, and passionate antagon-price. Allow a little more time,
cleverness struck sort every Englishman poszcanes z isms. And there is no lack of land the same principle appies years old and has a membership of the hard rock of the English, char- freedom which the authority of clever people who have both the to any other form of wealth,ten.
acter. The country had no organ-Government itself must respect.
There was established then what knowledge and the will to fish that is anything that will be use-
The revolt of The members, nene of whom are isation to reslet in troubled waters. The imposi-ful to us which we are willing to over 30, include a banker, athe Barons had no great leader; we trust and pray we shall
Government and not the tion of a quota is a confession of spend money on. The purchaser psycho-analyst,
a but there was such a universal stir the failure. It means that there is can only get the money by sell-financial journalist, a company and movement that the moment Government the people.
It is not only our Empire and a seller who wants to dispose of ing to us either his work or director, an author, a barrister and came when the King saw in the
world that we or bookseller.
midst of something to a willing buyer who something he has made,
measureless crisis our place in the
our ancestora. There is wants the article so much that something like gold which we The club meets (in theory) where all his legal defences would owe to he will not be deterred by the agree to take in exchange,
every month. Over dinner the be swept away together with his our Freedom. higher price caused by an Im- It seems like a paradox to say members debate on which fa the throne and his life. port Duty, and yet the State that the only way to cure the worst play in London; after dinner This scene at Runnymede is still steps in and prohibits the tran-monetary chaos is to cease to in theory) they go and see it. wonderfully vivid for us. John EXECUTIVE COUNCIL
action because it would he con-discuss money or to think in In practice, however, they often was caught by surprise. He knew) trary to the public interest. Un-terms of money; but it is the find it difficult to face their self-of course that certain Barons were der the existing circumstances simple truth. France spoiled imposed ordeal and slink away to a preparing against him; but for Lhat reason may have substance; her chances of getting Repara-cinema. but only because there is no in-tions when she made it impos-" The founder conceived the iden He had money. Mercenary soldiers ternational money standard
for Bible for Germany to earn of the club when he was asked by were collected. At first he was international trade. We are French francs; and the United the management of a sparsely-at-not really anxious. For fifteen. steadily drifting towards a con-States made it impossible to get tended theatre to exchange his seat years he had been a chief figurement of the Hon. Sir William Ed- dition in which it will be neces-repayment of the War Debt in the pit for one in the stalla. in European affaire. He felt con- ward Leonard Shenton Kt. to be an sary to make each community's when she first 'sterilised' the purchases from each other com- gold she was receiving by lock- munity exactly balance. That ing it up instead of buying: is only one stage from simple goods with it, and then by the barter.
stock-broker.
Your Daily Smile!
Smoots-Hawley Tariff shut out A woman hates a man who In his recent book Lord Rid- the goods which could have been smiles at her approach and con- dell records that Mr. Lloyd sold for American dollars. And tinues to smile after she has pass George, who was then in the the final blow was the paralysing ed by. heyday of his power, confided to of the World Economic Confer-
him that he was completely puz-lence on the ground that the
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this his measures had been taken.
APPOINTMENT.
own
Sir William Shenton To Serve Once Again.
Official approval of the appoint-
fident in his ability to deal with unofficial member of the Executive any little provincial disturbance to Council for a further period of 5 be expected. In his English domin-years, as from April 3, last, is noti Hons.
ned in the current Issue of the But a revelation awaited him. Goverment Gazelle. He was totally unprepared to find
The official appointment of; Mr.
the whole country turn stubborn william Sweet Smith to be an asaia- ly to fight for liberty. His contant Government Marine Surveyor fidence melted beneath his feet Uke
zled by the economic question; most urgent task was domestic For Better For Worse he had consulted all the most reconstruction. The great slump | They are joined in wholly dead own feudal tenants unwilling to partment, on May 7, and that the learned Professors, and not one was a symptom. The cause
lock.
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In a first effort to atem; the tide.
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a quicksand. He found even His (Engineer Surveyor) Harbour De- support him. Ma personal. G. E. Middelburg to act as Vice- King's, Exequatur empowering Mr. vourites felt the pressure of incal Consul for the Netherlands at Hong of them was any good at all. Mr. could not be removed by any In The Gramophone Shop calable forces. His local agents, Kong, has received His Majesty's Lloyd George belonged to the new measure dealing only with
I'm not sure of the name of the the sheriffs, and the captains, of were generation which used to call the dollar; for the States Economics the Dismal Selence. then, and are still, and will long piece, but it was something about castles, began to think of their signature are also notified. -
own safety. Beginning to take account of ibe, a creditor country. The latest Baby and Honey. in a hurry when faced by a news, showing a wish to revive breakdown of statesmanship, he the Conference, indicates some Noas a Mule expected from it both too much wakening perception of the fact; and too little. It is a study of but the proviso that it is to be rules? statistics, and past ups and financial daly excluding dis
sanctuary be negotiated, with the downs of wages and prices; of cussion of Tariffs would if in-The Alternative
Church to have the rebel Barons periods of plenty and want; of sisted on make further., discus- the effects of various policies sion nugatory,
excommunicated. But once again "Shell. Transport and Trading under the conditions · of their] The various Dominions of neighbourhood knows what I've he had under-estimated, the sturdy Company, Ltd., declared dividend at: own day, It could not possibly course will follow their own in-got." have prophesied for him the poterests; that is a subject to itical actions of demagogues which we may return. But if to another one,, deer?”! who first would make enormous the root of the trouble could be demands for money and then by removed the other problems The Songster Next Door Ipenalising trade, or even by such would begin to yield to treat Doesn't practies
military operations as the occument,
he took the Cross. He became a SHELL TRANSPORT
Do you find her stubborn, as a Crusader whose person, and pro- AND TRADING CO. perty were sacred t he had. fin-
“Darling, I; must have some new summer clothes, everybody in the
fahed the crusade, From this 1/6 Per Share Dividend.
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foundations of England. The. En-the rate of 1/6 per share from of In- "Wouldn't it be cheaper to move glish Church' stood firm with the come Tax payable July 6, 7 bearer/
screechani.
what
English Barons, and the Archbla coupon to be presented No. 617 is hop, Stephen Langton, refused to the telegram received by the Chiro” pronounce the bin. Then at last tered Bank of India, Australia - and. she was. King John forced to come to China, from their London Daca to-
“day. jerms with the Barons,”“”