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The decision of the Supreme] Court that the whole scheme on Case Before Magistrate which the Agricultural Adjust- iment Administration was based
Remanded
COLLECTIVE SECURITY
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RESENT international events speed or forbidding duelling, in- are very disconcerting to a most countries lacked efficacy be 500d part-end, perhaps, the most cause the peoples to whom they had active part-of public opinion to apply never were entirely con The sceptics would not believe that vinced of their necessity. For a Article 16 of the Covenant of the law to be effective: Parliamentary Lezyne would be applied, and estratification does not suffice. Two judges attended the supper Pecialty, against a great nation must, in addition, hase the ratifica- after the play to the cast Seeing it invoked against one of tion which each diamen gives to it and his friends by Mr. Hemmerde. the roost respected, loved and ad-in his own conscience.
Įmired nations in the world, the The Covenant had not received The Lord Chief Justice is an moving ones, the specialists in that ratification in a large number is unconstitutional is not only a
Three Chinese, Wang Fai, infrequent theatre-goer, though he human nature and weaknesses-in of countries. Until quite recent- Joe Lonis blow to President Roosevelt, but a matter of in Chung Sai-wah and Wong In has been known to sing a comic word, the professionals of sceply the majority of the English the late Lord out understanding what is happen-from without with a certain step- The economic xrea of the and To Wan-ching, were this decessor of his,
used to "oblige" {ing, obstinately believe that there ticism. That explains the failure United States is unique in the morning charged before Mr. Alverstone, also
the on occasions, singing the sentry's is a mag in it somewhere, that of every attempt made between world in several respects, and Q A. A Macfadyen at
"Iolanthe" in a rich someone jin most of them it is to be Central Magistracy with con- song from
is deceiving someone 1921 and 1934 at Geneva to solve They ask publiclyn "Who?"* envied. The peculiar events of spiracy to fraud by pretending rolling bass.
the problem of disarmament by the last twenty years have they were able to make bank- Lord Maugham, now a Lord of
means of the system of collective' lodged in the Treasury vaults notes of the Hong Kong and Appeal, rarely misses a premiere
security, and more especially the such vast hoards of gold, and Shanghai Bank.
of the plays, of his brother, Mr. What is happening is relatively refusal of the Baldwis Government silver, only half of which is! The first defendant was fur-Somerset Maugham. The late Mr. simple, however, and it is useless to ratify the Protocol of 1924, DIE- being actually used as the base ther charged with obtaining by Justice „Avory was fond of the to try and explain it by purely pared and approved by the Fender- of any kind of commerce or means of a trick the sum of theatre and the late Lord Justice chiklish reasons. Thus, someson-MacDonald Government. social activity that the credit of $21,500 from Tam Lin, on May Seration was a regular attendant maintain that if sanctions are now To those who ask why sanctious the national finance is above all 16, 1933. suspicion. No figure would be Inspector M. Murphy said so vast, within the limits of that the defendants were ar- sanity, for a loan on the rested at the Cecil Hotel, and national credit to be raised that asked for a week's remand would a few years ago have Mr. C. E. R. Sanderson, ap- had to be promoted at twice the peared for all defendants. interest or more. If the pur-
at Covent Garden.
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Ladies wear cozsets from instinct The last three defendants)—~ natural love of being squeezed.
England's Influence
applied, when they were not ap-are applied to-day when they were plied in other cases, it is because withheld in other cases, the reply England has forced the other na-jmust be made, “Because “wilhout tions so to act. 4 England is a England there can be no sanctions, powerful nation, and her political and because to-day... England be înfluencé is greate
lieves in the collective security in That sanctions could not exist which she had not hitherto placed without England is evident. But sufficient comidence.” |to suggest "That- only "England's,
Detailed Analysis desire is required to create them The new maid was full of her own is absurd
What has happened is that importance. She had worked on the
2 ve 1, so important for intézke Continent and felt superior to the great country has been converted tior - evolution, the attitude of the other servants.
to the system of collective security.Eng Ah nation to the League ranst “One day she was telling "below which was already the conscious be analysed in detail. staing" some of her experiences.
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DISHES ARE DISHES
To understand this British co-
chasing power of the great curwere allowed ball for $500, rencies falls, up goes the value while the other two were re- of the gold. If the currencies manded in Police custody. - rise, that makes for the bigger sales of oil and the other pro-
When President Boosevelt ducts which form the mainstays entered upon his terra of office, of American” trade. Within famine and despair were stalk- the realm of sanity, experi-ing through the land, and his
"How do the foreign dishes cuen-policy of many countries of lesser *#* conflicting paychological ments can be made that no cheery optimism was of the pare to English ones?” asked one importaDCE.
forces dominate that attitude. other country could afford to greatest benefit to his country of her audience.
The Covenant is an imposed law One is favourable. England re- nations acting collectively How-endowed country in the world for lever, there is a natural law which solidarity. The English nation in- Prevents an imposed law from be fvented self-government, the very coming effective save-to the degree soul of liberal democracy. It in a fit which it has become part of stinctively realises better than any the inner consciousness of indivi-other that the best interests of the duals forming the group or nation individual coincide with those of to which it must apply.
make, in fact that no other With great skill he. püoted "O2, replied the maid airily, "they dictated to and accepted by the maing, beyond dispute. the best
country has ever been able to through Congress big measures break just the same make. And we are not yet that on the Vodle had the effect
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friend of yours.”
"He used to be. That's the fellow who" introduced me to my wife.”
THERE
U.S. Example
the grouped nations. V
It is, consequently, the English nation which is predestined to in- Thus, for example, the Frohibi-spire those nations with its nämir- in Law in the United States, and able collective sense. the laws regulating automobile! "(Continued on Pogs 11)
“BELIEVE IT OR NOT? by Robert L. Ripley
ARE 451 GEOMETRICAL CORRECT FIGURES IN THE ABOVE CIRCLE
within sight of even a danger of keeping the “small man” the Patient: "Doctor, did you ever signal, though Mr. Pierpont "forgotten man, going untilake a serious mistake?” Morgan the other day in an better times should arrive. Doctor: "Yes. I once cured after dinner speech showed that Even if the better times should milkonaire in three days" he had now to work for the enable the State to dispense State for eight months out of with his schemes that would the twelve.
not wipe out the service they One of the marvels of history contributed to the bad days of will be that so wealthy and on despair. the whole idealistic a State One by one his new adminis-ja made so little of its great oppor-trations have been destroyed by tunity. A few years ago the decisions of the Supreme Court, simple act of ratification of the and even if one thinks they treaty of Versailles would have were partially panic legislation. been enough to abolish war for it is a pity that the big experi- la long period if not for ever.ment was not tried out. Quite No person who has thought frankly there did not seem to be about the subject for half an anything in the policy of the [hour can doubt that the in- administration that was better! crease of wellbeing to the than the old freedom of the people of the United States farmer to grow what sort of a would have been enormous, for crop paid him best. It is it is self-evident that the power noticed that all over the world of a manufacturer to sell de-the price of primary agricul pends on the power of his cus-tural products is rising by the tomer to buy, and all the cir-action of natural forces, and cumstances of the day were in there are many countries that favour of mass production and have developed an amount of American me pods. The policy production which will in future of the USA alone created the be strongly competitive. But determination of other people the Administration could have at all costs to make their own developed new and useful forms goods as far as possible, and to of regulation as experience was khut out foreign goods with acquired. Itariffs and restrictions.
The rigorous defence of State --For a few years the short-rights is really a legacy from sighted policy seemed to pay, the early days of the original Big loans were made to comm-thirteen Colonies. The newer tries that could never repay States, especially of the Middle (except by exports to America West, have no such tradition
that were shut out." These They are the creations of the were reckoned at par as assets, Federal Government, and to it land in the meantime factories they owe allegiance more than {were run up, and purchasers to any sectional authority. were accommodated with hire-They know very well that the purchase terms to immense relegation of commerce and in- amorants that were only good dustrial control to the States is securities so long as the pur- a triumph for "Big Business,” chasers had regular salaries, and a defeat for the small man. Everyone was an optim and In other words they are not explained to the rest of the masters in their 3 own house, world that the ecret of pros-They are shackled by a ventrat perity
wages and ed document that was drafted money.for bygone and very different out that the conditions. If the followers of allowed for the New Deal are not to ahan- wages don all their ideals they must unless sales face the unwelcome alternative mere of fighting the nect Presiden- thelial election on the issue of the adment of the Constitution favour of more Federal con- be 2 for the
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