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The story is in various versions.
We can now come to the last step. It is a time-honoured The most popular represents the
custom for a bargainer to ask
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STATE OF MODERATE
FATHEADNESS
and
HOME DOMESTIC TIFFS ARE BORN
HUSBANDS AND WIVES MUST BE
HONEST TO THEMSELVES
(By Dr. Harold Dearden)
It is less than an hour since
for more than he expects tone as saying that he is the one. get, and the demands made by person who studs to benefit by the
were recently pub likely to make it utterly im- Abyssinian imbroglio.
THERE Italy at Versailles are enough
listed in a great London possible for anyone to live in to show us that that is the When asked to explain his daily a series of articles which harmony with them? accepted procedure of the Majesty replies:
allowed the public to “listën in” 2 What fault in h Italian Foreign Office.. Those "Well, you see, if Mussolini sato a series of quarrels between nature is in your opinion at Hong Kong. Saturday, Dec. 14. 1953) demands were for a large slice ceeds TT be King of Abyssinia.
two fictitious characters, a Mr. the root of most quarrels be- "And if he fails, why, then of Asia Minor and large colonies
Mrs. Maily. It was tween a husband and wife? in Africa, in addition to the be King of Italy."
thought that these might be of Now it so happens that these The Laval Proposals Trentino and Fiume and the
service to many people in the two questions, though they may Eastern shore of the Adriatic. B. B C's THEME SONG:
conduct of their own domestic appear on the surface to be en- affairs. The treaty-makers were not in the
tirely unrelated, have their order to unravel
Among the appreciative letters Letters of a widely diverse roots in a common and ́very. tangled skein of the proposals 2 position to give those terri said to have been made by tories away, but there was an received by the BBC from foreira character have descended upon simple psychological fact, and it France and Great Britain for air of concession about the readers was one from a lady me like an avalanche and I am will therefore be no evasion on the settlement of the war it is acceptance of anything less. California, in which she said how encouraged to believe, there my part if I attempt to deal well to realise that they are not Similarly for bargaining pur-much pleasure she had had from fore, that it may not be with- with them simultaneously. the same sort of proposals as poses at the Naval Conference the Empire broadcast programme out, interest if I attempt to
ope country Italy has on its Navy List two and how she had particularly en-deal with one or two of the read every would be made by a
of those points raised in them. *
twenty-four quarrels between negotiating in the old style in battleships of 35,000 tons of joyed the "theme song."
excited! It has recently been reveal-Ernest and Margaret--Mizily, its own interests Even at the Which only the keelplates have The BBC people risk of seeming to labour a sub- been laid, though it is two years their broadcasts anew, but could ed with devastating clarity and I have no hesitation what- that she find no clue to the theme song" that there is no lack of initia-ever in agreeing, here and now, ¡ject that is at first sight not at since she intimated
all attractive, one must em-intended to build them..
so in acknowledging the letter tive and forcefulness in England that in almost every instance phasise that at every stage of Anyone who expected the they asked for information. What to-day. Quite a number of either one or both of them ap- these negotiations new prece result of M. Laval's confabula-was the theme song? It was gentlemen wrote to me, follow-peared to me to be behaving dents are being made that may tions with Il Duce to be a "God Save The King."
ing the raising of the question like a fathead. affect the method of dealing moderate demand, a minimum Was with Oriental conficts in the rather than a maximum.
not taking a realist-view-of the- future if they are successfül
We must go back to the de- situation. That the Ethiopian mand made 20 years ago, that Emperor should reject the first foreign affairs should be demand was only to be expect arranged by open diplomacy. ed. After that the game be This was reaffirmed by Presigins. It must be admitted that dent Wilson in his historical at present the Italian advance has not been sufficient to com- "fourteen points," that те should have "open agreements pel submission of the enemy, openly arrived at" The pro or has there been any failure
* would create fessional diplomat has always such disbelieved in the possibility of modesty of demand any such method. To weigh discussion may make negotia- he never, si
tion very difficult. but at any against that is the strong argu- ment that the secret methods ate the public is getting the have failed disastrously in that information it demanded. they called upon the self governing nations to fight a war on which they had not been pre- viously consulted, and that ther were not prepared to run the risk of that happening again, and would refuse to fight under The Burns Philp Lice mi. the same circumstances. Then Neptuna, from Melbourne, Sydney, came a long period in which Salamana. Rabaul, Sandakan and legal arguments about the de- Manila, left Manila for this port fective drafting of the Coven- yesterday, and is dne to arrive lant and the practical obstacles here to-morrow evening.
of open discussion were allow-
any Public
"LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES
led to defeat the whole scheme The second annual ball of the of which the League was the Machine gun Battalion, HKVDC, fone solid achievement. It was will be held at the Feninsula Hotel gradually seen that the counsels on Saturday, January 25, 1936. of caution were leading to as
great dangers as could possibly One case of diphtheria was re- be incurred by any other kind ported to the Health authorities of diplomacy, and the argument during the 24 hours ended: on that it was absurd to say that Thursday.
The new system was a failure before it had been tried was! accepted as irrefutable.
The following is the latest con- We tributing to the Poppy Day Fond: are now watching the trial of R. A. Association (wreath pop- the new method.
pies) $8, bringing the tated to Let us look at the problem $13,075.85. from that point of view.
The old plan was to make demands The Hong Kong Government and to state that if they were Radio Telegraph. Service announces not granted war would follow. that from next Monday charges for The new is to avoid war, or if telegrams will be collected at the war has broken out, to stop it-rate of Dollar 105 to equal Gold It is therefore an essential partį Franc 1:00. of the procedure to remain on
terms of bargaining or advice A notice was issued at the Ear- with both parties to a quarrel, bour Office yesterday warning and we find that friendly dis- ships captains that information cussions with Italy have been has been received that a gang of continuous even after hostill-pirates have landed in Hong ties had begun. The next re-Kong, with, the intention of com- quirement of the new position mitting a piracy aboard Some was that it was necessary for steamship departing from this the Powers that might be call-port
led upon to carry out a deter
mination by the League, to pre
serve a united front, and the EXPLANATION OF
YESTERDAY'S CARTOON
THE BIG POT
inference from that is that any Power whose "aid would be essential can make what pro posals it likes in the way of con ciliation France, of course, in that situation; both from her share of the control of the Mediterranean and from her in-1 fluence with her Alles, such as
THE Big Pot of Busian, the Little Entente countries German Silesia, which fur- However auch Sir Samuel uishes the emblem of this city-of Hoaze and Mr. Een may wish potters, has a romantic background. to impose their embargoes and 4a 1753, a potter's assistant,
T
have done with it, they have to med Joppe, wooed his master's wait till France concurs. If in daughter. Before the proud father the meantime Italy has a chance gave his consent, be required the of laying in a big stock of the aspirant to make a pot of s.capacity limports likely to be embargoed, of 30 bushels of pers. The assis-
that is a result of not having tot excented the oed got the whole scheme into inter's satisfaction
ine yet; it is not girl Ever
msing
Bunzi
Your Daily Smile!
Birds do not need to be taught sine saxe a professor. He evidently hasn't listened to these birds on the radio.
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"Anything Goes" is soon to be made into a movie. The censors, however, see it doesn't live up to its title
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TIT FOR TAT
Wife "When a man starts to talk Fubby And when a romaz starts he never thinks to stop."
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Lippy-"And what are you going to call the twins 27
Sippy-Well, we've decided to call one Kate' and the other *Duplicate”.
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in a London paper, at consider Ernest's stupidity and mad- able length with regard to the†dening egotism and Margaret's. Ivalue of an ashplant as a factor almost unbelievable talent for in the promotion of domestic modelling her behaviour on that bliss. and their sincerity was of an imbecile filled me as I rendered less impressive by read with nothing-but-contempt one's natural assumption that and disgust. they were bachelors
No Wonder Magnificent fellows of this type are clearly in need of more than once, that so many No wonder, I told myself help whatever, yet I cannot but readers found it difficult to ac- feel that in common fairness cept them as average human beings, let alone as two people I have whose love for each other is and addresses of a number of cent, to prompt them to mar- Isupposed to have been suffi- ladies whose tactics in certain
riage. circumstances, if they should
Yet honesty forces me to 25- happen to marry one of these sert that they are, and here in supermen, would be likely to deed lies the practical value of test their theories to utmost
the the fact that the Mallys have
must offer them 2 word of warning for the future
by me at the moment the names;
scenes
Two Points
done so much quarrelling in public. They are at once a war-- Most of my correspondents,ning and a fingerpost in the be- Wife"Get up John, there's some however, have been mainly con-wildering maze of married life. one in the room "
cerned with two points, in con- The plain truth is that a tem- Hebby-"He's a better man that nection
with these fictitious porary. state of moderate me if he gets anything.”
between Mr. and Mrs fatheadedness is an essential Maily, both of which, for the accompaniment to a quarrel of sake of convenience, may be any sort. Let a man be warn- Percy That young bride certain stated in the form of directed that you are trying to pick
worships her husband, doesn's questions.
a quarrel with him, and your she?"
1. Were not the Mailys an efforts are practically foredoom- Agnes "Well, she places burnt exceptional couple, purposely ed to failure. offerings before him three times 2 day."
endowed with every attribute (Continued on Page 11)
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