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BY MOSCOW DEED FOLL
BEGINNINGS OF THE IRISH TREATY
IMPLICATIONS BEHIND NEGOTIATIONS
KING GEORGES APPEAL TO HIS
IRISH SUBJECTS
(By H. D. Ziman)
Landon
ECENTLY it was decided R by the Envy Council that
*What apparently -kap
ved from
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appears madeguame
A visitor who has just return-the Statute of Westminster fell short of effective humanity. So [ed from Soviet Russia says that gave to the Irish Free State a Gen. Sants was summoned privately the passion for changing family power under which they could and new death was prepared co-
taining phrases soon to be famous abrogate the Irish) Treaty wh this speech passed by his (names" contianes, unabated”
He displayed a recent list of and that, as a matter of law,inisters the King & proceeded changes announced in the offers they had availed themselves of Belfast
De Valera Isnertia.
that power. This included Zhulikuf (swind-
Mr. Lloyd George found it in-
But should not some mora}{ ler) into Maikofaki, Krisor (at) force a "contractual obliga into Mayer Sobakin (dog) into tion restrain the Free Possible to negotiate with Mr. Vladimiror, and Zaderikhvostof
State from ignoring or rescind. De Valera at their meetings in
it is like sittin (ft-your-tail) into Dubrovski.
This which is a matter of a merry-go-round and trying to Nowadays, almost anybody mariot of law, the Privy keep up with the swing in (change his name except noblemen Council expressly declined to de front.” The July terns were
ing clauses in the Treaty? Londou
or former bowgeois, who thereby
cide hope to escape the attentions of the Oxpu
Thas Romanor cannot become DurakofTM (tool), though ", in, this same list a Durakof takes the name of Romanof-thereby show ing his folly.
refused by the Irish: Cal
What was the authority be and the Dail. But 15 letters bind this Treaty, signed with and telegrams between such difficulty in 1921, but ap-riginal negotiators eventually parently so easily renounced? brought Irish delegates to
need someting fuller now conference with a view to 25- than the brief accounts of the certaining "How the association signatories final sessions which of Ireland with the Community were given by Mr. Lloyd George of Nations, known as the Bri Your Daily Smile! in 1922 and by Sir Austen tish Empire, may best be rec Chamberams in 1932. Evenciled with Irish national aspi Guest (to hostess): "My dear, Mr. Winston Churchill's brition where did your wonderful string of liant pares in "The Aftermath With their credentials as have provided little more than Envoys Plenipotentiary from a summary, slightly dramatised the elected Government of the Republic in Ireland to negotiate and conclude a Treaty The Treaty-Makers
the delegates had also To-day m Mr Frank Paken Wife Where do you want to spend pam's "Peace by Ordeal (Jona-Instructions" which laid down the holidays
Husband: "I haven't thought boss than Cape, 15s) we have the that the complete text of the it. What have we decided?"
first full-length narrative of the draft Treaty about to be sign negotiations. The author starts ed was to be submitted to with the preconception that Dublin and reply awaited." there will be no lasting peace These two documents were, between the two countries in Mr. Pakenham mildly puts it
England (has) recognised, a sense inconsistent."
The China Mail he is wearing a gent's summer my asking, do your
Hong Kong, Thursday, July 18, 193
Those "Good Old Days"
+
Household Hint
*
* Mistake
*
Male Straphangers Madam, you are standing on my foot
Female Ditto: "I beg your thought it beloved to her pads
*
A:Word a Day:
nected with the defence had been an-
*I do
pektia come from? You don't 'mind) suiting, nobody could flash a Hostess Certainly not. rapier out to avenge an insult came from oysters." when wearing the ineffably ugly! straight up and down tubular appendages that pass these days for trousers- (Trousers! The very word is shapeless, uncouth and ugly. It is an abomina- It would be interesting to tion) The only chance a man khow just what there was be has nowadays to show a deli- hind the coin or token dag up cate taste in pastel shades is by Mr. W. Howard, Usher at the when he lets himself go over a Dartford Police Court, in his flowered silk dressing-gown or ating down”
as never hitherto, Ireland's full The first session opened in Igarden recently. Bearing the Fair Isle sweater, when at least
Iright to self-determination 10, Downing street, on October But his bias is that of a his. 11, 1921 At the last of seve date 1768, it had a milled edge, he can indulge his fancy în soul- and was inscribed with the satisfying harmonies of colour Counsel for the plaintif had rea-torian, not a pauphleteer, and plenary sessions Griffith came words: "In memory of the good and design, or in passionate to suspect that somebody cos tone is friendly to all the down to business, and set forth old days." Our history is a bit pyjamas of purple stripes. Attracting one of the witnesses.
Treaty-makers except Methe Irish plan for External As shaky, and we are not quite sure other times he is confined to Look here," he said severely, Boyd George; "an inspired nesociation with the Common- They would "accept whether there was anything drab greys and browns, and, of pointing an accusing finger at the gotiator out of place in peace wealth. particular to that time or that course, the inevitable navy blue man in the box. You realise, don't making and Lord Greenwood, the Crown as head of the As- of whom few Irishmen will sociation. They would be "per- wear which, in comparison with for Sunday wear: surely theu, that you have taken an oath to
tell the truth?” earlier events, might had been most depressing influence he
have much to say that had not manent allies, not temporary. "All right, then, Now, I want to better after this length of time Dominion membership was "not cause for the sort of nostalgic could possibly exert on all -his urge which would inspire such a natural spontaneity of light now if you know the meaning of the be left unsaid. We read how quite their idea of Association.
word collusione?”.
*Ansten Chamberlain was the per- Unsatisfying as these half- sentimental regret. It is pos-hearted dalliance.
“Sortingly! I was in one once or feet. Ezitish Parliamentarians a hearted assurance sible that the cri de coeur was The decline of manners--which the railway.
phenomenon⠀⠀ inspiring merely a general harking back Old Wykehamists will remem-
When principle war touched, he would to earlier days, as is so often ber makyth man”—may be
yield to no Irisbust in devotion." done on the theory that any directly traced to the subversive
Tard Birkenhead still loomed in Irish Nationalists imagination as thing is better than our own killjoy influences of the Puri-
sinister, even satanic powe times. On the other hand, the tans, the smuggest, most hypo-
The event proved that his opponens medallion may have been issued critical and least engaging of
had auderestimated, not by some private individual, as the tribes of man, steeped in
gifts, but his humanity. Winston Churchill la purely personal and intimate melancholy, blinded with pre-
the qualities bred by war. recapturing of a fragrant judice and utterly horrible
The results of the Hong Kong must be wadure waged on the memory, balllowed by the Let us remember that bear University School Certificate Ecognised heroic limeagnified softening influences of time baiting in England was put nation will be published on
The narrative, dignified but What exactly were the "good down not because it was a de Saturday, July 27.
not without humour, calls upon (old days” referred to?
grading and horrible form of
Irish scurces hitherto inacces It is a fascinating conjecture wanton cruelty, but because it The body of Yes Kwan Ho,
the correspondence be There are so many endless gave enjoyment to the people. possibilities about it Slightly Let us also not forget that it is Chinese woman aged 20, of No. soppy sentimentalising over the still a perial offence in England Tong Lee Road, 1st floor, has ar
been sent to the Public Mortuary/ good old days is one of life's to watch a football match On The unfortunate woman wasgned the Treaty, the perennial delights When Saturday afternoon a solemn Colonel Blooden Thunder sits at thought for all the 90,000 found by her husband hang- rish records of the his Piccadilly Club window and people who attend a Cup Fining by the neck on the verandah street plenary sessions anathemises the youth of to at Wembley Let as finally of their house. day, his memories are concern never, never forget that the The body of a Chinese
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their scientific methods
probing crime and
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TRANSACTIONS
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British negotiators, pears that 16 thought they yielded He offered to come Iself to London the delegates
were resentful of such endence at this stage, and he has
tened to withdraw to the point of there being no question of tying the hands of the pienipo tentiaries beyond the extent to which they were tied by their original instructions.
But
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