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HERE, THERE
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Wanted-A Poet
The Nazis are looking for a Post Laureate. This createst a pre-
WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 1934.
ULSTER'S VETERAN
LEADER
LORD CRAIGAVON'S 13 YEARS AS PREMIER
cedent in revolutionary technique. THE
The French Revolution did with out one. Fascist Italy has no of ficial Laureate. Signor Marinetti, who may be said to occupy the post| unofficially, is too individual to be | ideal.
H"
BEST-GOVERNED COUNTRY”
(By Geoffrey Harmsworth.)
TIS powerful physique and blunt, In spite of the general stump and almost pugilistic, appearance Ulster's divorce from the lands on Soviet Russia bas 2. near suggest something of the Cromwell her borders, she has been able to Laureate in Demian Biedny. His about Lord Craigavon, Prime Min-show a surplus in her Budget each daily output of doggered reflects ister of Northern Ireland, the one year. This is due in no small mes- changes in ideology with the pro-man who, above all others, is res-are, to the financial prudence and tean versatility of a chameleon.ponsible for Ulster being described clear-sightedness of Mr. Hugh Pol- He lives in the Kremlin on the as "that part of Britain across the lock, the veteran Minister of Fin- strength of it.
ance; who also rules over the des- water."
tinies of the largest rope-making The immensity of his labours, and factory in the world. at Belfast.
Trotsky once said in a review of Biedny's poems that they "repre-
sented a phenomenon which has the inevitable strain and anxiety, doubtless never been seen before," have given him the appearance of a
That is on way of putting it.
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Princely Composer
his
Although prosperity has by no
man of more than 62 years. With means returned to Belfast's ship- Hre constantly threatened, he building industry, very soon the has lived through more stirring great shipyards of Messrs. Harland times than any dictator in Europe. and Wolff will be throbbing with Prince Albrecht of Hohen-To-day, in his beautiful home at activity in the construction of two for the Union- zollern, a relative of the ex-Kaiser, Stormont, near Belfast, he can see new luxury liners who has composed a cantata in with satisfaction the accomplish. Castle line. It is not, perhaps, praise of the Nazi regime. is a ment of his life's work, with Ulster solely a coincidence that the Duke capable musician. He studied at standing sa firm for Britain, the of Abercorn, the popular Governor- Cologne, has conducted orchestras Empire, the Crown, and the Union General of Northern Ireland. is a at Salzburg and in America, and Jack as those great rocks of the director of that line. was writing string quartets when Giants' Causeway, on the coast of he was still in his teens.
He is tali and dignified, and has
James Craig was the sixth end; square-ended beard a long white although he is only fifty-eight. He youngest of the stalwart sons of to contend since the war they have prefers the Bohemian life, and has James and Eleanor Craig, who were had an annual output of £2,000,000 always been populer in artistic people of substance and Influence in of cattle, £1,600,000 of pork, £800,- 1000 of sheep and wool, £3,400,000 austere County Down. The circles in Berlin.
of poultry and eggs, £3,000,000 of He has married twice, each time/cipline of his childhood's day milk and butter. and £2,800,000 of
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Antrim
dis-
The farmers have had their loan
years, too, but in spite of all the set-backs with which they have had
The agricultural affairs of Ulster
eminently fitted him for the role he tem than the negotiators at a divorcee, and has an adopted son, Versailles anticipated. To take known as "the Prince of Prussia was to play in moulding the inte crops.
of his countrymen. As a boy of a map and alter some of the His English is excellent,
tender years he used to tramp five are in the capable hands of Sir miles to and from his tutor's house, Basil Brooke, the new Minister of Hong Kong, Westerday, May 23, 1934. coloura or redraw a boundary
line here and there is easy Medals And Make-Believe
and it was then that he first estab-Agriculture, a member of one of the enough in a world too exhausted
-Military-decorations, including lished himself in the affections of oldest great land-owning families to fight any longer; but there the Victoria Cress, are for hire or the simple country folk in his of Northern Ireland, and under his Bulgarian Fascism.
was in old Vienna a diplomatic sale in Hollywood.
guidance the farming community native county.
may look forward with confidence to tradition of finding solutions to In Britain neither real decora-
When he was at school at Mur-belter and more prosperous times. The news from Solia that the puzzling positions in defiance of tions nor regimental insignia of
On every side Lord Craigavon Bulgarian Army is blockading logic that has not been inherited any sort may be used on the stage, chiston, Edinburgh, his headmaster
Where any specific uniform is was in the habit of holding him up can see the aun beginning to burst Sofia with the object of estab by any of the Succession States.
an old saying that called for the badges are slightly much to "Jimmy" Craig's embat- is almost an epic) would have to be as an example to the other boys through the clouds. The story (it lishing what will be practically There was one more Fascist Government in while others must fight for ter-altered. Europe is another wave of the ritory "tu, felix Austria, nube"
Your Daily Smile!
Boer War Hero
Guard.
"Long-Distance" Premier
and
Costumiers in need of medals rassment and annoyance. "Craig written very differently indeed had do a dishonourable not this staunch supporter of Bri- reaction against Parliamentary-do thou, lucky Austria, arrange usually buy up gaudy foreign de would not forms of administration. The wedding. And in the years becorations from a little shop in the thing," he would say. The boy was tain been at the helm during those
truly father of the man in the case difficult years when death continuance of the reign of King fore the war it was said by an neighbourhood of the Strand.
Thus they combine the minimum of the Iron Leader of Ulster. He tragedy were stalking through the Beris, who is personally popu-old diplomatist that if there were of exponditure with the maximum has never deviated by so much as fair lands of Ulster. With the ex lar, makes no difference to the no Austrian Empire it would be!
la hair's breadth from the path he ception of Lord of display.
Carson, Lord has taken and which he holds to be Craigavon la the last of the Old facts that the Skuptshina in-necessary to create one. Austria!
right. stead of being elected by popular continued to grow long after vote is to be representative of she had ceased to win campaigns, various organised interests to At the bottom of the older in-
Mussolini, Italy's Premier, who!
As far back as the Boer War, Undoubtedly his great personal the extent of one quarter and trigues was the ambition of is also Minister of War, Marino, nominated by the Prime Minis-Russia to hold the Dardanelles, Home Affaira, Foreign Affairs, and James Craig was proving ble met-charm has contributed very mate
The Prime leading to the liberation of Air, has taken over three ter as to the rest.
more lie, when he personally formed and rially to the solution of the many Minister himself is not elected Greece, Roumania, Serbia, Bul- Cabinet offices. It is understood equipped a special corps from the difficult problems which he has had by anybody. He was formerly garia, from the Turks. This that he wanted something to do ranks of the Down Militia and at to face. Otherwise he would not be their head took part in many im-the proud holder to-day of the long- Minister of Railways, and now suited Austria well enough so with his afternoons.
portant engagements in the South distance record for Prime Minis
Ho har had thirteen un. takes office by favour of the long as the Principalities could
African campaign. The men who tera. Army. The Corps of Officers be weaned from giving Russia,
served loyally and devotedly under broken years in office at the head of The terrible child watched the
him since him. had known emerges as the real control of what she wanted in a glow of
child-hfa Government. few the State, in alliance with what. gratitude. Russia could wait so visitor sipping his tea for
hood. Out of his own pocket A man of few words, he works in a peasant State, can only very long as their independence was minutes, and then protested. "Mr. (James Craig was a rich man then) by simple, straightforward methods, Smith drinks just like anybody Inappropriately be called "big preserved; but Austrian prepara- business" -
the
Banks,
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POT SHOTS
sacrificed his own leisure and com-tive intellect of Northern Ireland the tions for an invasion of Serbia else," he howled. "Not like a fish he augmented their rations, and he appealing to the critical, conserva-
fort to attend to their needs.
through common sense rather than Railways, and the wealthy mer-meant a big war. Meantime the at all!" * chants. The same system is peoples themselves showed that
At the outbreak of the Great War through their emotions. There is already established at Belgrade, centuries of slavery to the Turks
made a very poor preparation for A street singer in Madrid re- Sir James Craig organised and bathing subtle about him. 'He is and the object of the new democratic methods, which are contly had flowers thrown at him moulded the Ulster Volunteers, or not a great orator. But he has a Ministers will be to enter into based on substituting discussion by local residents. And they "Carson's Army" as they were call-sound, plodding Intellect that goes close alliance with their old for force. To the slave or his didn't trouble to take them out of ed. To his most bitter disappoint doggedly on, overcoming difficulties enemies the Serbians, who are master discussion is merely the their pots, either..
now called "Yugo-Slavs" -that weapon of the weaker party.
is, Southern Slava, to distin- The board remains the same,
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INFLUENCE
ment Craig was unable to take part and getting there when men of personally, owing to ill-health, in more spectacular gifts are thwarted the heroic activities of the famous or diverted.
(Continued on Pagè"10": division. At the end of hostilities
ANCIENT COOKING
guish them from the Russian of but the players have changed usually spoiled by their parents he threw himself heart and youl what is called “Little Russia.” Italy is restless because it was. Clever children, we are told, are into the Ulster question. No one
The study of Balkan politics is not possible at the end of the Which just shows the power of an acquired taste, but to anyone war to get all she wanted. She mind over m'ater. with plenty of leisure who does has established a paramount in-]
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OVERSIGHT
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more,
STOVES...
Interesting Discovery In Arizona
Tucson, Arizona, "Pireless cookers" bellaved, to
except perhaps Sir Charles Black- who has been with him through all the Dark Days,' can say. not mind the discomforts of un-luence over Albania and now A Prophecy and a Certainty how often his life and that of his speakable hotels, it combines the that territory has entered into
A fashion writer says that wo devoted companion, Lady Craig- political relations with Greece men's, hats will be more "freakish" von, have been in danger, and how intellectual satisfaction of a
and Greece with her old foes, the this summer than last. Well, that much of his energies and spiritual gume of chess with the romance Turks. A fiscal partnership has only goes to prove that nothing forces have been given for the of Ruritania.' In none of his been arranged by Italy with impossible. charming novels did Anthony Hungary and Austria.
cause nearest to his heart.” France Hope introduce his heroes with a is of course acting as elder
When he went to see de Valera have been built 25,000 EKTE, SKO by inhabitants of what now, is background of bugs, smells, and brother to the Little Entente-
in 1020 he walked into the camp tough pork.
Morcover in Ruri Czekoslovakia and Roumania- hy did you steal one of those of the enemy unarmed and die Arizona, have been unearthed. by a tania, swords and revolvers can and, till lately, Poland, which has twa apples last night, Johnny?'"**
attended. That was typical of the university of Arizona archaeology
expedition. I didn't notice in the dark that fearless character of the, man whol recently, become very friendly
"occupies a position in Ulster, similar Dr. Bryon Cummings, who head- to that of Hitler in Germany Onled, the expedition: to 5 prehistoric several occasions, bullets, have missruins lying northeast of Blabee, their mark by Inches. Once, his said that the pits are circular, dive own, contries, in errot, fired on his feet deep and five feet in diametre. car entering the grounds of Stor-4 believe that a fire was built in mont Castle, thinking, that the car, the pit and after it died down, the contained assassinang menjar, embers were poked into holes, and When the Ulster Government took hot rocks placed in layer over office in 1920 4 had to cope with a the" entire bottom of the pit,” Dr. {héritagus of crime confusion; and Cammings said."
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be used with merely personal or with Germany and made a treaty there were two." local consequences whereas since with her. Vienna is once again 1914 we know that a revolver the centre square of the board,
EASY MONEY shot fired by a half crazy student and that is why the recent street/
A well-known navalist is said to may set the whole civilised world fighting there got all Europe onget
*shilling word, Lucky by the cars. We can no longer its toes to see the result. Noth chap I know got £10,000, and a wife afford to ignore the puzzling ing could more clearly demo for two words: "I wi". moves of a game in which one strate the wisdom of the attempt
of the contestants will from time to create at Geneva a Congress Had to Leave the Movement
«NO TUENAGAIN
to time break, the rules, and of all the States at which agreed The Fancial who put his black some third party may enter at solutions could be devised after skirt on a loser. any stage and prevent check by open discussion Quite "natural-
chaos without precedent in the his/}^\/Over":these emberg und3 rocks upsetting, the board,
ly proposals are now put forward for revising the Covenant. It is Suits pressed and returned in tory of Parliamenje, « To-day, #14 were placed greene add dá top of The key to the game at the the only alternative to to: Re-twenty-four hours, aye an adver- yestalodater, Lord Craigavon can them was put whatever w moment is that the dissolution of rional Alliance system which led tisement When butt had been pride himself÷én being at the bead-roasted."Then dame k the Austrian Empire made a to disaster, and some people find turned only the most economical 'bigger gap in the European sys- it in their wBY.
Awould have W zetjarned.
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