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PLEDGES
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VISCOUNT SNOWDEN'S
ATTACKS
SOCIALIST COLLEAGUES
SEEN AS SELFISH
SCRAMBLES FOR OFFICE
(By J. B. Firth)
London. would not take it. The author THE Labour party's old love admits that the Labour Govern-
TO Lord Snowden. now 'ment had behaved to the Liberals
a
There has never before been an Earl of St. Andrews, although Wildwindled alasi. to cold and dis-like rude and unruly children.
A Battle Royal liam IV.. before bls accession to the tant esteem, will hardly be re- throne, was Duke of St. Andrews as kindled to a flame by the publi- The Red Letter" Election fol cation of the second volume of lowed, and the author observes well as Clarence...
that the loss of sixty-four Soci- Clarence, incidentally, in his "Autobiography.".
is
not merely lalist seats was directly due to Greece. It was a Frankish fortress Lord Snowden and formed part of the dowry of chastens, but chastises. Dr.the blundering thetics of the Busby and Dr. Keate never plied Prime Minister," who for the Philippa of Hainault;
the birch with greater gusto. time had quite lost his nerve and He has torn aside the veil self control. He had not breath- which hitherto shrouded fromed a word about the Zinovieff The opinions of Dr. Inge are held public curiosity the inner history document to his colleagues, and in respect throughout the Empire. of the formation of the two the first intimation Snowden had Administrations, He of it was from Mr. Thomas ham- He is a great scholar, a man of Labour the study; and peculiarly dispas-discloses jealous company mering at his bedroom door early sionate in his examination of world scrambling for the best places at one morning and shouting, "Get Yetjup, you laży devil! We're the unaccustomed feast. problems.
Dr. Inge broadcast recently the we had been told they were so bunkered."
Mr. Thomas had just seen the first of a series of talks on "The different! Causes of War," in the course of
Lord Snowden can afford to headlines in the morning papers, which he said:
speak out. He has hung his 'and read therein his doom,
still within The formation of the second Are the leading nations to give weapone-though
He has Labour Government in 1929 pledges to the League that they reach on the wall. will declare war if summoned by become a solitary, rarely ex caused no less heart-burning than the League to do so? It is worse changing a snappy word with the first. Mr. Henderson, was He does not resolved to have the Foreight than useless, it is foolish and other solitaries. criminal, to make pledges which grow apples or keep bees But Office. So, too, was Mr. Thomas, we should not redeem if the dee has a wasps' nest in his gar and a battle royal ensued be- tween them. Mr. MacDonald, mand were made.
And, in my den.
Refusals Of Posts. apparently, wanted to keep it for opinion, we should not redeem this pledge.
He writes as a modern Pro-himself, as in his first Adminis
He proposed that Mr. maritime defence is concerned it!
Dr. Inge's advocacy will greatly metheus nailed to the rock, and tration. will be a long time before that strengthen the cause of the Isola-necked, not by vultures but by Henderson should take the new dawa. Ignoble, ungrateful, in-post of Director-General of Em- will be effective against even a tionists."
satiable daws. which if they had ployment, and Mr. Thomas the listened to him might have been Dominions office. Both refused eagles. Out of the bitterness of point blank.
Eventually Mr. Thomas, firmly his heart he speaks:
"The Labour party has lost believing that the Prime Minis- much of its old idealistic ter was resolved to take the quality and spiritual fervour. Foreign Office, accepted the post It has become an ordinary poll-of Privy Seal and Director-
of Ambitious Generalship Employment tical party... men have been lifted into posi- Schemes, and was "wild at being tions of leadership who know 'tricked, as he put it," when he Henderson's nothing, of the early struggles discovered that and sacrifies which have made "stubborn pertinacity" had been
rewarded. it.....
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The Indian White Paper people cannot be held down by force to any form of governance People in England are so ac- to which they are strongly op-1.
In any case there is no customed to their own conven-posed. tions in dealing with public British Army of such size as to affairs that they very often take attempt such a task; and there is it for granted that other people certainly no Will to Despot-fending are equally familiar with their ism" in the British people that We shall would even undertake it. There own technical terms. be hearing quite a lot during the has been enough discontent to
"I am not sanguine that it Mr. Henderson's appointment Helping Out S current week about the "In-enable foreign agents with plau-
will gain much strength in the to the Foreign Office astonished- immediate lian White Paper," the publica-sible tongues, chiefly in the pay Mistress: "You eat twice as much
future. Unwise the world. Mr. Thomas's would The latter tion of which will not only be of Russia, but helped by a newjas my last maid."
New Maid: "Yes, but to make up leadership and bad political have, astounded its the event of the week, but of the feeling of national or racial confor it I shall only stay half as long.
judgment are arresting its did his best in an impossible and from the
heart-breaking office. He failed, progress." explain that the expression has triumph of Japan, over Russia, to
Mr. MacDonald, surveying the land when, in the summer of "And now," asked the teacher, "will nothing to do with the colour of upset the old acceptance of con-
form a Cabinet in 1924, described Snowden's retirement owing to the unrivalled household remedy for all the paper on which this very im-trol for the sake of the protec-anyone give me an example of an inmaterial out of which he had to 1981, there was talk of Mr.
portant document is printed. A tion and development that it direct tax, please?"
"The dog tax," announced a pupil. it ruefully, and ·· Snowden ill health from the Chancellor- Why do you term that an indirect thoroughly agreed with him, as ship of the Exchequer, the Prime Rheumatism, asthma, sciatica, report presented to Parliament conferred; and yet not enough to lumbago, insect bites, aores, head-giving statistics of what has hap-make a settlement impossible.
A great deal of anti-Imperial- "Because the dog doesn't pay it." "poorish. He drew up "draft Minister told him that Mr. after draft" at Lossiemouth. He Thomas was "pressing him per. aches, coughs, colds, chilblains, pened in the money world, or
official documents that have passist sentiment of the moment is
even made his task the harder sistently to give him the post." LOCAL NEWS piles, sprains and dislocations.
Mr. Thomas Chancellor ed in negotiations, is usually based on a vivid realisation of
by trying to leave out Mr. Hen-. BREVITIES bound in blue and known as amistakes that have been made in
¡derzon.
The author, who heads the "blue book" proposals for fu- the past of concessions to de-
In one draft he, omitted him page, "Waiting for Dead Men's ture action are bound in white, mands for more local self-govern- A meeting of the Sanitary Board altogether. In another he put Shoes," passes the following ser-
him down as Chairman of Ways donic comment: and are called "white papers.ment too long deferred; of will be held at 4.15 p.m. to-day, In this case the subject of failures to realise changes of
and Means a deadlier insult
Mr. Thomas has some good "light 88 air
The anticyclone remains centred than total omission..
qualities, and I always liked the proposals being nothing sentiment less than the future govern- that have made old arrange over the lower Yangtee valley, and In his just wrath Henderson him, but the last post for
sixth of the ments out of date. A defence ment of one
which he is fitted is that of the depression to the north-east of said to Snowden: "If I had not world's
and population,
Chancellor of the Exchequer." in-jof any nation's policy over
That saying deserves volving the future stability of period of two hundred years that Hokkaido, according to a Royal Ob- been a Wesleyan I should have
It is amusing to find that the servatory report this morning. the British Overseas Empire, it tried to make out that no mis
to become a classic,
suggestion to give, Mr. Lansbury Mr. Henderson never forgot the Office of Works came from would be very difficult to exag-takes had been made would now-
or forgave. Actually he got Mr. Snowden, And here is the gerate the urgency of the inter adays fail under its own weight The B.M.S. Empress of Russia
the Home Office, after an in- reason: eat with which every page will be of advocacy; but it would be arrived at Vancouver yesterday and scanned:
dignant refusal of the War quite possible to argue that in le due back in the Colony on Thurs
Office, where he would have It is immaterial to quote the England the tolerance of free de-day, December 20. distinguished names of the sig-bate and the odd persistence of a natories to this document; the section of people always anxious: The birthday of Siri Curgo Nank been a queer fish indeed........
Ministry because it was not a subject is too big for any Com- to state the case against their Dev Ji will be celebrated at the Mr. Thomas acorned, the Air
has on the Sikh temple, Gap Road, to-morrow, mittee to be sure of the reault, own government
Mr. Sidney Webb turned first-class Secretaryship. down the Colonial Office as "not good enough." Yet it had once been held by Joseph Chamberlain
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8th Flotilla Leaving On December 5
H.M.S. Olympus, Otus, Orpheus, Pandora, Parthian, Perseus, Phoenix and Proteus of the fourth submar- The loaves and fishes on the ine flotilla, are expected to arrive buffet were well handled before from Kabe to day on the comple
The Right Reverend Bishop H. the expectant feasters would sit tion of their summer exercises and
the twentieth century is more Lloyd and Mr. Winston Churchill Valtorta will officiate at the Dioce- down.
H, M. S. Medway, depot ship to squeamish than the nineteenth is that to keep the various sed-an Catechetical Commission's prize Mr. Lloyd Georgie opined in crued.
the submarines and the submar in imposing order by force from tions in concord, and to make distribution which takes place at St. friendly chat with Snowden that
Joseph's College, Kennedy Road, MacDonald's vanity might ine Odin, are expected to arrive on without, and more tender to the sure that the garrison troops will
ruin the Government, and the (7d-day at 4.80-p.m.
Thursday. desire for freedom even where only receive such orders as they
author blandly comments: "This
The remainder of the United expectation was fulfilled within stat
States destroyers from destroyer
it would be unable to survive by can rightly obey, it is necessary The R.M.S. Empress of Japan its own strength. India is to keep control at the centre." continent in which every variety To have central control without arrived at Shanghai on Sunday, and twelve months. of government is to be found, control of the outlying portions fe due at Kobe to-morrow morning. varying from the most antique of a government is almost an im
Manila yesterday. The first Labour Government otilla No. 5, left Hong Kong for The eighth destroyer flotilla, comprising HM. Kep Flo-
fell over the Campbell prosecu tion. The Prime Minister
type of divine-right despotism to possible scheme. The Irish dif. The R.M.S. Empress of Asis left
this morning, handled that question very badiy tilla Leader, and the most radical reliance on eloficialty shows how easily, when Shanghai, at 7a
planation, of which Lord Snow- quence and ballot voting. More any reservations are made, op- and le due here at 8 am, on Thurs and had to make a personal ex- over it is quite Impossible to position is directed to the reser-day. She will call at 6 pm on the
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