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ABYSSINIAN MILLIONS
THAT SPLENDID ISOLATION
IDEAL OF COLLECTIVE
SECURITY
The estimates of the size of the LORD BEAVERBROOK KNOWS BUT
population of · Abyssiniz
The greater is that made by the Ethiopian Legation in London. Whey put the population down as being in the neighbourhood of 15
willkom
The lowest estimate is that of
A SINGLE TUNE
(By George Malcolm Thomson)
TOLLECTIVE Security,
(By ROBERT HENREY) From two hundred diferent booths the canned music of the fun fair swelled into one giga tic roar of harsh, discordant, the Statesman's Year Book This League of Nations, has gone. It 1896. happy ja The acetylene lights choked and splittered and sent into your nostrils the stridj smell peculiar to that form of Hong Kong, Wednesday, Nov. 20, 193 lighting.
Big Wheels threw their pas sengers upwards into the black Sanctions And Trade night, and everywhere the mass sir 11 millions.
of humanity jostling, fist fight The African Handbook gives 10 perform its task, the preven
millions, as also does the Italiantion of war. While we yield to no one in ing and elbowing along the wide
desire to maintain the path between the Attractions Embassy. This is probably the moral position that the world is cracked pea-nuts and threw the nearest figure, but there has never comes as no surprise. bound to take all possible mea shells over their shoulders. sures to end war, and that the League is bound to protect all its members from invasion and
un-Wilfrid Laurier in the Canadian der the Covenant of the Parliament in the early days in He used it to describe gives it as 51⁄2 milion. Whitaker
ves mach the same figure, calling is finished. Ended
the position which Britain had After figuring conspicuously taken up at that time. it "an estimated population C
rom fire to six millions in ft in the rhetoric of platform sup Yet Isolation has been an description of Ethiopia, though in Porters of the League of Na-
table of world populations
our
(Continued on Page 11)
conquest, there is nothing in EXPLANATION OF
YESTERDAY'S
CARTOON
DOLLAR
been a censZE.
tions, it has been blown out of ideal of the British people existence by its own failure to rather than a policy of British
statesmanship.
Joseph Chamberlain for ex- To many people the failure ample practised the policy of It will foreign alliances. Towards the come as no surprise to Mr:end of his career, after he had Baldwin, for example. He never adopted the programme of Im- believed in it. He gave public perial Preference, Chamberlain ·" expression to his lack of faith became a convert to the Isola- in a speech he delivered at Glas-tionist creed.
last year. Isow
He put the ideal info moving by & Government-for-smuggling
But the disappearance of words: has just been sold by auction in Collective Security from the France.
AEROPLANE SMUGGLERS –
"The first aeroplane confiscated
upon it.
"Our Isolation will be a splen-
scene leaves a gap. The Govern "A Belgian aviator crossed thement based our foreign policy did one, if we are fortified, f frontier with contraband goods.
this country is buttressed. by He succeeded in delivering his
the love and affection of its. It has gone, so what now?. roods and in escaping in a car
What is to be the new foreign kinsmen, those sons of Britain word "Dollar was derived but had to leave his aeroplane be policy of the British Govern-throughout the world.”
Another Meaning
from the German Thaler,
{hind.
Customs officials have little doubt
ment?
"Detachment"
the moral aspects of the imposi- tion of sanctions to deter us from estimating what is likely to be the economic effects of That it such a new departure. will have such effects is quite certain, for it is not possible to disturb the smooth flow of trade in any respect whatever with- out leaving some permanent originally called Joachimsthaler.
The Manchester Guardian Lord Salisbury, caught up the mark on the statistics of indus- after Joachimstahl (Valley of that aeroplanes are now being used for smuggling" into England, more try and wealth. The long-term Joachim) near Karlsbad, Czecho-
tells us that the Government phrase, too. But for Salisbury result may make a loss worth slovakia, where a famous silver especially in drugs and tobacco. while, and in any case moral mine was located in the 16th cen-
Legally, the powers of the Cor-will follow the path of Isola- Isolation mean simply that we considerations must not be sub-tury. The coins minted
out or ernment in England are the same tion. This is a word that Mr. should detach ourselves from ordinated to financial. In any that
as in France. The offending aero- Baldwin does not like. He will foreign affairs until the moment silver became known case the disturbances caused by Joachimsthaler, later abbreviated plane can be sized and can be dis- call the policy Detachment. In came when things had clarified war on a large scale are worse to Thaler. Foreign countries were posed of by the authorities as they the same way, he persistently and we could leap-once more in-
declined to make use of the to the arena. ·- than any other both in their quick to adopt it, translating the
term Empire Free Trade. He That was the Salisbury view a immediate destruction and în
described the same policy as of Isolation. And that, we can name into their own languages. the resentments that they leave The United States dollar weat
Imperial Economic Unity. be sure, will be the kind of Iso- behind.
there via the mint, of the Nether-
However, what Mr. Baldwin{lation which the Government Having said so much to avoid lands...
We, read that a well-known-acter calls the policies which he will practice now that Collec and his wife have a caravan holiday adopts is a matter of minor im-tive Security is no longer being misunderstood as in any
every year. In the event of the horse way disapproving of the sane- tions, we must note that in several ways they are likely to teen years ago that some of the retard the general recovery of effects are unexpected and per- į trade, and that they can only be manent. It is quite possible) worth while if they are pressed that England lost more since Iso far as to achieve their object the war by the local marinfac-couraging notice to ambitions young
2
think fit!
Your Daily Smile!
roing on strike, the lady can always portance. What is of real con-possible polley
cern is the nature of the Do-
The difference between this licies hitch her wagon to the star.
Salisbury-conception of Isola- What will be the character tion and Beaverbrook's is quite of the Isolation policy which plain. It is the difference be the Government will now put tween an expedient and a phi
losophy.
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The Manchester Guardian
Salisbury pursued Isolation in
the Salisbury type of Isolation ping aside from the combat for is, it is necessary to consider a space to regain breath and strength There was always the history of the term..
Came From Canada.
the intention to engage in the battle once more when the Splendid Isolation is a phrase moment was favourable. which comes to us from Can- ada. It was first used by Sirth
(Continued on
“BELIEVE IT OR NOT" by Robert L. Ripley
of preventing or stopping a war. ture of things that used to be employees is on view Work hard into operation?
a day and don't Once more it is necessary to imported by her former cus for eight hours
time you may besar worry, then in emphasise that all trade is an tomers than the amount of the me a bass and work- 18 hours a Now, to understand what the spirit of a gladiator step exchange of goods which are direct loss while fighting was day and have all the worry." wanted by the buyer and sur going on. The outstanding plus to the seller, and that the instance is the cotton trade- exchange of such goods is bene An outstanding instance of the ficial to both sides of the bar-contrary result of the profit Editor: "This isn't poetry, my dear posing an embargo on trade start making their own goods. Hopefal Roets: "Something wrong with any country, the nation and possibly seize markets pre-with the meter?" which imposes the embargo is(viously held by others, is Japan. imposing an equal disqualifica Japan made all-the capitali tion on itself The British which she used to pay off old trade with Italy for example is debts and to build ships which about £8,000,000 in value. The compete everywhere with Eng- stoppage of that trade will be lish ships, due to the fact that indicated by a fall of that she was not within the imme amount in the statistics of diate war area. It is not likely British imports and exports, that either the local Industries The South Wales coal mines will that came into being, and which suffer an increase of their dil are now everywhere protected ficulties, and probably there by duties, or the foreign mar- will be a direct loss to the kets lost by the new competi Treasury in an increase of un-tion, will ever be recaptured. employment pay, which is Italy is very vulnerable in her already a big enough, burden. lack of minerals and cheap On the other side of the account motive power, in spite of the there will either be a falling off wonderful development of of the use of Italian wines and hydro-electric power which has olive oil, or, if the stock on hand marked these post-war years- is big enough to supply the There is a strict limit to that trade, an increase of price in course of power, and above all anticipation of scarcity. In it is incapable of being export any case there will be a double ed. Coal and oil will be the key loss of shipping freights to her resistance, and the stocks The moral of that line of will be guarded and rationed argument is that sanctions like the water supply in the should be settled beforehand Danakil, desert. It is admitted and imposed without any delay that the al companies have de One of the facts that makes livered large orders during the the effectiveness doubtful in last few months. Without that this first experiment is that extra supply, the embargo Italy has used all its available would be effective in * [very} credit in laying in a stock of all short time.. President Eoose- the necessary things and has velt has appealed to the Ameri thereby added several months can companies not to-go pro- to the period during which it fiteering, and it is at present a will be able to wage war and result of the fierce competition during which the other nations that other companies even the will have to put up with the Anglo-Iranian in which the loss of trade. There is nothing British Government has a big at all mercenary about "such interest have refused to hold considerations, for the object back so long as their competi and effect of trade is the main-tors do not come into a general,
deciding tenance of life and wellbeing, arrangement The
I must also be noted that the factor seems to be Eumazia fact that the loss is mutual|Coal would be much more easily obliterates all the jibes of I managed.
Duce that there are financial Italy will in any case have to and profit-making motives at start afresh without ang the back of the sanctions them-foreign credits, which were withdrawn before the fighting
wartare the econo- began.
are imposed auto-Sanctions Commission has
we learned of big job.
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