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FIRST IMPRESSIONS OF PARLIAMENT
WARM KINDNESS OF THE OLD BOYS
PROFOUND IMPORTANCE OF OLD CEREMONIAL
(By A. P. Herbert, M.P.)
London, Nov. 29.
record recently, covering a die] ***Notice To Contributors. fance of 1,586 kilometers from
All communications intended few Sourabaya to Batavia and return. Mr. Baldwin is now in residence publication should be addressed to in 18 hours and 21 minutes, atat No. 10, Downing-street. the Editor, and be accompanied by an average speed of $6 kilometer was able to move his effects from the Writer's Name and Address on the Westward run and S7 kilo-No. 11, where he has lived since |not necessarily for insertion, but meters on the return trip. The the formation of the National (as a guaranise of good faith.
(car was driven by Mr. D. Government, without any outward
Hexterman, Managing Director of signs of a "ditting.” the N. V. Nederlands Indies Gas:
There is an inside communicat- Mij, and Chairman of the Souring door between the halls of the baya Flying Club, accompanied by two houses,
Critics Checked Mr. E. F. Klaarmund of the Bata- "It was at one time thought that the first impression" of a the Gothic arches, or the his THERE is no doubt what is I do not know whether it is afsche Petroleum Maatschappij. Sir John Simon would inherit New Member of the House of torical paintings, or the faint who acted in the capacity of con- No. 11, as a perquisite to his posiCommons on his maiden visit ecclesiastical smell, the numer Hong Kong, Saturday, Jan. 11, 1936 troller during the run.
as deputy-leader of tine The run was also under the House of Commons. Traditional. It is a glow of pride and wonderous policemen, and gold-chained control of Public Notary Wy, however, No. 11 is the resid
that he should find himself attendants, the statue of Mr. ence of the Chancellor of the part, however unimportant, of Gladstone, the stone floors, the Public Noury A H. van Ophut Exchequer, and Mr. Chamberlain that year sinstitution. From the very first an atmossen. at Batavia.
fechoing roof or simply the ap- fix moving in shortly.
And the second. prevailing prehension of an indestructible phere of unreality hus envelop- The car was driven at high ed the Naval Conference row speed without adding any water petition for No. 11. In the first (including among the Old Boys there is something there to thought is of the warm kindness solidity which the good citizen In the past there has been of the Old Boys to the Newfought to have in that place. But being held in London, and pre-to the radiator and only one Socialist Government Mr. Clynes vented it from being taken-very litre of oil was used during the had it, but Mr.
all officials, attendants and check, if it does not cow, the seriously by the public. No entire trip Messrs.
Snowden Heaterman Chancellor,
palicemen). It is true (as many boldest critic. and his exclusion taxpayer would regret being re-and Kaamord reported
have said) that it is like the Imagine, then, with what dis- lieved from some of his contri- smooth, trouble-free trip through came into his own in the second a hundred rules and regulations. ago. I used to march into the caused bitterness. Mr. Snowden
first day at a new school with quiet and alarm, a year or two buticns, and nobody doubts that? Hall the Powers were to reduce
taboos and tricks to learn. But "Palace of Westmister" to their preparations for war in
the New Boy does not feel that collect "evidence" for my pro- equal ratio everybody would be DEDICATION OF HOTSE AND OFFICE
Neither of the houses is home at any moment the Bully may ceedings against the Kitchen just as safe, but nobody is will-
U.S. WARSHIP
by. No. 10, indeed, is an office pop round a corner and do him Committee; for even then I had ing to take the risk of being!
with house attached. There is a a mischief All are eager to some knowledge of the place, ¡found defenceless against a
considerable clerical staff; visi-make him feel at home. (And and, though this may ruler who should choose, like
tors are always coming and going that, the cynic will say, is the strange assertion, no small res Signor Mussolini. to threaten
No. 11 is more of a private danger.) (what has almost officially be
[pect for it. home; the Chancellor's staff is in
Not that these are new im- I wonder still how I nerved come known as “the mad dog
the Treasury, to which there pressions to me As I have myself to do it to walk, not act It is now known that on
For the first time in American internal access from both No. 101often remarked, the cheery dis- once, but three or four times, Itwo occasions the Duce has
dain with which, in bars and past all those.policemen and up crouched for his spring. and naval history an American war and No. 11.
Successive occupants of No. 10 smoking-rooms, we dismiss the to the Strangers Bar, in order twice has baulked-not, be it ship has been dedicated by the
have found it an expensive house talkingshop," is in amusing to consume the formal refresh- marked, because of any surren-wife of a foreign diplomat. der to argument, but simply be Madame Helen Lombard, wife to run from the domestic point contrast to the number of ments prescribed by my legal icon citizens who wish to become advisers. I am glad, at least, cause he could clearly see that of Colonel Emanuel Lombard of of view, but some of the the big gamble would fail, the French Embassy here, broke Teniences have been removed in members of it or not being, that I insisted on doing the
installation members, to attend its debates. congenial work myself, and did Nonetheless Italy is sitting in a a bottle of California champagne recent years by the
When my Mr. Pewter was not, like the late Sir Wilfrid quiet committee room in Lon-over the bows of the destroyer of more modern appliances.
working it out" on the wireless Lawson, send in hired clerks to The only amenity which 2 don and suggesting a reduction Cassin at the Philadelphia nevy
agent could claim for the houses sent him to the Strangers drink the incriminating whis of the forces whose existence yard.
Gallery for a day. He went in kies restrained him from plunging Mme Lombard is the great is that they have an open view
The climax of that strange granddaughter of Europe into wär
Commodore over the park. He could not even like a lion and came out like a
lamb. And this, I think, must)(and not, I think still. entirely a garden, Not very dissimilar is the Stephen Cassin, after whom the claim that each has
be the first effect on any reason-valueless) adventure came just is won Downing-street garden position of Japan. During the new vessel is named. He
able citizen with a sense of a year ago; and I little thought subsistence of the Washington the congressional medal for braverymon to both houses.
tradition and a sense of de- that, within a year I should Treaty, at least up to the in the war of 1812-Renter.
mocracy (the House of Combe a gamekeeper turned poacher seizure of Mukden, Japan was
mons is a sort of joint com- (or vice versa?). mittee of the two)-
"
Ceremony Performed By Foreigner
Washington.
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în a position of guaranteed more about the elevation and security such as she had never range of the battleship guns of
Safe
Fæst Entrance known before. With the enor- the American fleet than
Milinan (toy suspicions enstomer); (should not be pronounced?”
By chance (or rather through their you won't find nothing wrong with "Man's inhumanity to man makes the hospitable-tutelage of Hon- mous advantage of having her
jown Foreign Office.
that, ma'am. All our milk's been countless thousands mourn, bases near at hand, she could All these conferences have paralysed by government anar the prisoner in a fight of oratory" (Huddersfield), 1 entered the began ourable and Witty WA Mabane, rely on being able to resist any got hold of the wrong end of chist."
am not so profigate as Byron, so Commons for the first time as a attack that might be made the stick. Armaments are the
grateful as Keats, so intemperate as across the blue water.
Barns, so-***
Member in the Company of The result of suspicion and fear, and only feets that might have er if a Government fears
"That'll do, that do," interrupt Honourable and Learned EL G some was haled before the bar of justiceled the magistrate "Sere: days Strauss Norwich), another new {dangered even her
overseas particular danger it would not in a small American country town. And, officer, take down that list of Member, who was my counsel in commerce were pledged to probe doing its duty if it did not "Ye're charged with bein' disorder names be mentioned and so the Kitchen Committee, case tect her. Even on land, her one protection
The only "snapped the magistrate Have up I think they're as
ye anything to say why sentences"
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prised everybody. It was That is why Mr. Eden is at Japan's own choice to exchange the moment the most popular that security for the expansion member of the British Govern- lof her power in Manchuria and ment, and though a "new man” North China. Even that is his resignation would have re- only half the story.
cently meant the downfall of a With a little tact, such as the Government that had just re- Japanese Foreign Office could jceived a marvellous vote of enn- very well have employed, it fidence from the electors. would have been possible to re- Whether the motive of the main in the position of being strange aberration was an at- quite safe from invasion or attack of nerves following on tack-which was the result of what looked like an ultimatum the 5-5-3 ratio so long as she from the "mad dog." or an ex- was unwilling to menace other cessive deference to the French Powers. The ascendancy of Premier it was felt in a moment the militarists was secured by of vision. as soon as it was an agitation which suggested realised that the forwarding of that that ratio was derogatory the Italian terms was Tore to the national dignity; that she than a formality, that wavering had a right to forbid the con- at that moment was fatal It struction of the Singapore base, made Mussolint the dictator of which her own action showed Europe. The last thing to doj to be essential; that American with a mad dog is to be afraid manoeuvres in the Pacific were and to show it
a threat; and that the Lytton Another unreality about the report on Manchuria which, conference is that protection in should anyone still remember it, not departmental When the will be recognised as quite fair Duce blustered he was relying and impartial, and containing, not on armoured ships, but full account of all the Japanese partly on submarines and chief grievances, was another insultly on bombing planes. It is for to Japanese prestige Japan the General Staffs to determine also sits in that quiet commit-bow far he may have miscalcu- tee room and suggests that the lated the power of this new other feets should be reduced weapon, but he certainly calen while she refuses even to dislated on reducing Valetta toa. close her own building pro-heap of ruins and making all the harbours of the Mediterranean The British suggestion of unsafe for our warships Of notification of new construction course, the mistake of the is also rather unreal would amateur strategist is always be useful only for diplomanists that he forgets that Kenemy to formulate formal protests may be doing something while
grádanés.”
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other's doings.
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