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-So the inevitable has
In Everywhere.
GREAT WAR LESSONS BEING PUT INTO PRACTICE
daringa
enterpris
A DIT
Gorky has decided to an ambitious literary
He proposes to write
la "Life of the World forra-Day,”
and the day he
is to
full day bomb
MUST WE FIGHT FOR ALL THIS?
NEW MIGHT OF ITALY BEING TESTED
DIREFUL POSSIBILITIES OF
VACILLATING POLICY
(By Oliver Baldwin)
London to court disaster, and
ation by the Italian parts of the world shouldenrur awaited day has Government has any
the air is being
ndon, the
which
subjected to
His idea is that people in all
come, and the new might about this it should break is being tested against the League of Nations at
him with material; tell him just a poorly equipped and badly of mortals who seem inc
of living at peace one with
trained independent State.
what has happened to them per
All the terrors we knew so other. adually on Friday, September 9, the neighbourhood 1955. Then he will arrange it all well 16 and 17 years ago are Even opponents of the League being let loose once more, and of Nations who have been in a single volume.
the illusion that the last war proved right in their asser- Italian As far as Britain is concerned, would end all wars has died in tion that the League cannot prevent war-have seen that dvanced in the Soviet Embassy will act as a the hearts of millions A ion as any in receiving agency.
A nation which has but late-such an institution did assure breathing space during ian pilots, are
Hy gained its own independence & The volume is likely to be bulky, from a conquering race has set which time real diplomacy trained and inost
Russian novelists have always had out to impose its will on a free might have prevented bos The effects of their attacks will & fondness for large canvases, but people, giving no reason but tilities, and it is, as so often, pened. For years it was said to some extent be a measure of Gorky, if he carries out this pro- that of revenge, and replying the fault of the statesmen that that silver had proved a much the powers of modern serial bomb- ject, may outdo them all. The with defiance to those who may they were not sufficiently able more stable basis for a currency ing, which is far removed from Life of the World for a Day and be sympathetic to her aspira-so to do. than guld, because it was dealt the elementary methods employed when the League is considering tions. in and coined at a natural price, in the war of 1914-18 and which the Italo-Abyssinian confict! and there were even economists is many times more destructive. who advocated that it should be then, when the 112. adopted as the world standard, bomb was one of the largest used, and gold left to the United the release of a bomb or a salvo Sambo was not superstitions, so he action of Germany in 1914 and It is as well for us to under- States. And now the position of bombs upon a target was for walked beneath the ladder. he that of Italy to-day, and fewer stand clearly what these sanc- stands as follows: The United the sircraft crew a strange ex-did so a brick fell and broke in two still in this country who are not tions are and what they entail.
What Sanctions Are apprehensive of the conse on his head
"Hey! You up dere." he called quences
First. they include an agree It is always easy to say, after ment between all countries be "If you don't - want your bricks
an event, what should have longing to the League whereby broken just keep dem of my head.”
perience.
Release Control
Your Daily Smile!
Mabel's father.
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Their duty now is to stop the war, or at least localise it, and A Grim Reminder
the methods advocated for There can be few who do not bringing this about are known see a similarity between the in legal parlance as sanctions.”
States holds more than half the world's supply of gold, and is using only about one-third of it as a basis for currency, the rest. The release may have been done
been done to prevent such a war material is not to be sent "sterilised" which by a wire cable control and, on being
Second- The young man who had been cal. Position arising but in this to help the aggressor. means locked up uselessly in the throwing over of the lever.
lyan embargo on such things the Treasury vaults. Of the re-the bombs could be watched mov-
to a preceding one, we can well
as mickel, iron, lead, wool
tin, and mainder France holds about ing along under the seroplane ating frequently at last went to see case, because of its similarity
t's a mere formality, I know wonder why Sir John Simon petrol, coal, copper, half, as a security against war, first and gradually curving down
he began, "but we thought it would when he was Foreign Secretary, rubber, which could be used in the balance being used to sup towards the ground"
be pleasing to you if it were observed seems to have acted as did his the prosecution of a war. Third- (Continued on Page 11)
predecessor Sir Edward Grey iny, a stoppage of the aggressor's port a rapidly dwindling trade!
foreign trade; and, fourthly, and an unremunerative finance;
1914.
History has suggested to us financial pressure that had Germany been certain. These sanctions can be ap we should honour our signatureplied by degrees or all at once, on the famous*** scrap and it is considered that they
system which refuses to make EXPLANATION OF
any foreign loans. On 2 por- tion of the remainder, amount- ing to $100,000,000 worth at the old valuation the Bank of.. England always, using the old figure of under £5 per ounce England is carrving on more foreign trade than any other centre, and in fact more than most of the others added to-
the
YESTERDAY'S CARTOON
The Wonder Horse
HE most remarkable trotting
W25
in the usual way.”
“And may Tinquire,” the father
asked, who suggested that asking
my coment to Mabel's marriage was a mere formality?” "Mabel's mother."
paper" she would never have will be sufficient to cause a ces- Arithmetic was not Jack's strong dared begin the war I sug-sation of hostilities within
What is a quarter of one gest that if Italy had believed short period. No single one of point twelfth?" asked his teacher.
"I don't know," he said at last, we were determined to uphold these sanctions need imply an
no the League Covenant she wou not have embarked on her sent adventurejete
"but it's such a little that it's worth worrying about.**
As it was, for
ether the explanation is horse that ever lived that the value of the pound
his gradualy sent her troops He was trying to impress sterling is based on dealings in Goldsmith Maid, born in May
reached her only all kinds of merchandise and 1857. She was a farm animal un-listeners with tales of his high-speed and not a word of
"We were going so fast," he said. such services as shipping. til the age of 6, and raced but travelling wit
arms embargo on Aby instead of any on one particular once between the ages of 6 and 8that when I held out a stick it went agement received metal And
quaintest Her best record was 2.14 made at rat-tat-tat on the milestones."
Statesmed aspect of the whole situation is Boston in 1874.
The British Gove that the stocks of gold held by 123 races, winning 97, and being
Father: Bottom of the class again now definitely the United States and France unplaced only twice. She ran her
stands by the Father Son Please don't worry, could not serve their natural most exciting race in Malwankee in my boy? It's terrible! purpose as a medium of ex-July 1876, when she was more
God for a poor," change, because if either began than 19 years old. In travelling They teach us the same at both ends the rest lies with to put their stock on the mar-she covered a distance of 130,000
She started in
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slump to what it was before of $364,200, the world's record, in they began to corner gold. The an age when purses were compara- idea that gold is wealth is really tively insignificant. She was still an ignorant man's deduction a champion at 20, won the last from the fact that if he, in his race she ran, and died as a result A private capacity, had some gold, of a cold in September 1885. he could always get a price for monument was erected over her it from a Bank. The shrine of grave in Trenton, NJ the worship of gold is the
American Senate, which has lent amount of gold is locked consistently rejected every pro-away in addition to the rest of posal made either by President the surplus. And the most Hoover or by President Roose-popular political programme is velt, or by any of the Bankers that notes shall be issued mere- who has had experience of ly for the object of increasing international trade
the currency of morta of
But there was still the pos-inflation will increase the sibility of a reasonable amount foreign trade; the effect will be of business with the Orient, by exactly the opposite buying such commodities as the Of course, China went of East had to sell; with that stock silver when the export duty was of gold it was possible to buy imposed Any interference all that the Fast could produce with free sale is equivalent to for years, adding thereby to the the abolition of a standard wealth of the citizens of based on metal But that, ex- America, and putting gold into pedient was then only intended circulation again. The one to be temporary, and there was thing that could interfere with uncertainty as to whether the this beneficent policy was that Washington people would drop the Senate should start a corner their disastrous pol
ed that in silver as they had done with soon as it was
without any reduction of there was no
tarif
could
With all so, it became
on of time whe
be of organise
dancexy ments
the ass
king
of the class.
bewild
attitude of war fowards the ag gressor, but, in such matters;- is the injured one who decides on the implication.
The League knows tall well that the application of sand- tions does include a war risk, the and that is why its Covenant
insists on sanctions being ap plied only after the outbreak of hostilities
It must be clearly understood that to apply sanctions without. lising such a possibility is
ed on Pune 11).
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