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The Father Of His
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Here
There and Everywhere
(By COL MAURICE SPENCER, {KING JOHN'S ALE
* CM.G. IENN The Italian Görenument is mak-
Possibly some momentary pangs: [have been caused by the recent observation n of a temperance.
ing frantic efforts to bring over British pubbie opinion to its side by circulating in vast numbers a speaker that King John died after pauphlet by a Rome professor drinking ale with ́s heavy meal.
However, matured ale is `seidom purporting to describe the terrible
conditions of slavery in Abyssinia lethal If beer played say part in The pamphlet comes too late. John's downfall, it was new beer.
JOHN GALSWORTHY'S CRUSADE
REMOVING FORSYTEISM
FROM WORLD
PICTURES OF VICTORIAN MODES
IN ENGLAND
(By J. B. Firth)
ROBABLY to the majority Seas, and also, as Galsworthy
Had it appeared before Abyssmis insufficiently matured.
The King, having lost his har-P of English readers the put it, "it preserved me
became of the League of Nations
the
of
**
*
Casal Remark
That was in 1895, and the literary, apprenticeship he then jentered upon lasted about 10
conven-
it would perhaps have carried age in the Wash or more pro name of John Galsworthy Her" weight. But it was Italy that Perly the River Welland is sup-stands for the Forsyte Saga Hong Kong, Monday, Jan. 21, 1936. insisted on her admission to the posed to have consoled himself with and especially its marvellous
"All this, I say, was thorough- League. While Great Britain had a surfeit of peaches and new beer presentation of well-to-do Vic- Forsyteian, and Galsworthy. at the Abbey of Swineshead. torianism in the eighties of-born with a silver spoon in his considerable misgivings.
The meal brought on a slight last century. However, pledges were given by
mouth-seemed to be following Abyssinia that slavery would attack of dysentery and the fatal
That certainly is my own the establish routine of a brief- sradually disappear, and those tyrant fever lamented in Shakes case, though. I do not forget the less barrister with wealthy com
many admirable Forsyteless mercial connections, and to be It had been known for best competent to judge assure uspeare.
In the Middle Ages, beer was novels and those challenging developing the ordinary tastes some time that President Mas-that the Emperor has worked hard
Silver of (with considerable saccess to get drunk atmost as soon as brewed | dramas The
Box, of the young man of the period. aryk. the Grand Old Man
It would not indeed, have been "Strife." "Escape." "Justice." Then one day at a railway book- Czechoslovakia, was on the rid of the evil.
unusual if John had drank, ale and The Skin Game," in which stall a friend casually remarked Construction Conciliation point of laying down the Pre-
straight from the va
the author, as it were, not to him, "Why don't you write? sidency. The moment arrived The pamphlet is somewhat of a
*
merely probed the conscience of You are just the person." last month. In his letter of boomerang for Italy. If it were
AND QUEEN ELIZABETH'S
his audiences but laid the fine Such an idea, he says, had resignation he wrote: The Pre- true, why did. Mussolini insist on
lash across never occured to him, but the sidential office requires the full the entry of Abyssinia into the
In the reign of Queen Elizabeth whipcord of his
their backs.
seed thus dropped fell on good vigour of a man." and at 85 he League? His judgment must have who had a taste for beer 30
Recently his biography, "The and fruitful ground. More- found that he can no longer been in fault. and he can hardly strong that "no man durst touch meet its demands. The whole be a safe guide to-day. If it regulations were made pro-Life and Letters of John Gals-over, it was a woman who drop- published ped it the same woman who world will salute him as he were true, why did not Massolinividing that beer should be matured worthy" (21s), was
matter before
The afterwards became his wife and steps down, for the whole world bring the
not less than seven or eight hours by Messrs. Heinemann.
is Mr. H. V. Marrot caused him to describe himself admires and respects him. If League, as he was bound to do by Nowadays the period of matar author
ing varies from eight or nine days He has made conscientions use as the most happily married any European statesman of the the terms of the Covenant? first rank has earned his repose, The Italian propaganda too to two years. Occasionally beer is of his almost too abundantiman in the world.”
material. it is Masaryk: if any has de-arade to be effective. Lord Lagard allowed to mature for 40 years or served supremely well of his bas dismissed as "absolutely with-more.
"Why Don't You Write?" .off King John's combination country and should be styled its out any foundation whatever" the Father, it is Masaryk With-statement that in 1922 be was to peaches and beer would not, in Most authors who reach the years. Those years were also. out Professor Masaryk, the pat- have taken control of the Governany case, be approved, a brewing topmost heights begin to write the most spiritually stressful" riot; there would almost cer-ment and Administration of authority states, by a connoisseur early. Galsworthy did not of his life, and his whole out- tainly have been no independent Ethiopia. as "Counsellor to the of the drink
start till he was 28, and he said look changed. Why? Because Czechoslovakia as we know it Negus” and the pamphlet as a There are, however, other com that even so he had started too he found himself brought up hard against one of the most to-day, and again. if there had whole does not ring true.
binations of fruit and ale which soon. been no President Masaryk, the
A Boomerang
have been long appreciated. At Harrow his distinctions stubborn of Victorian
At statesman, who would say with Meanwhile the partisans Princes Risborough, for example, were athletic; at Oxford he was tions and prejudices the sane- confidence that even if the new Italy in Great Britain
are doing
traditional feast on the first satisfied to be considered the tity of marriage State had endured its democra-their best to dishonour her. Sir Sunday in August is beer and best-dressed man in New Col- The only woman in the world tic Parliamentary regimel Samuel Hoare is. said to be cherry pic
lege and a popular member of for him was already unhappily He married to one of his cousins. would have been able to sur-tethered." which means that Bri Beer and fruit juice were often the best University clubs. rive?
tain has decided to stand by her combined in the old-fashioned re-moulded himself apparently on His revulsion, therefore, against and the Forsyte system was by no Hero-worship is not much in pledged word in the Covenant. freshment, "ostmeal fummery." Whyte-Melville's heroes.
and means impersonal He felt LADIES ́· WRIST WATCH IS EXCLUSIVE fashion nowadays in most Par-She is urged by the few English One hopes that this is still made his talk was of horses
"form."
that it mortally hurt John Gals- liamentary countries. That is journals now admitted to Italy to somewhere in the Old Country. IN DESIGN, DAINTY IN
worthy, and denied him the APPEARANCE
unfortunate, for it is a strong substitute for sanctions "construc
Next he lounged away a year happiness which he craved. AND UNIQUE IN ITS DEPENDABILITY natural instinct, though it has tive conciliation on, a broad prac-
lor, two in legal chambers, and
Broke Chains AND PRECISION.
produced astonishing results in tical basis." Instead of kicking
was called to the Bar, and lest... Italy Poland and Germany fout the burglar she is to bribe him An Aberdeen lady walked into
So they broke the chains and he should be enmeshed in a shop and bought an attache case.
themselves to the when turned to anti-democratic to satisfy his honour. uses. But-the people of Cze- It is to be hoped that Britain When asked by the assistant if she love affair with a girl, one who, freed
wanted the case wrapped up, she ze in his own words, would not accompaniment of what family choslovakia have. remained con-will stand fast in her opposition phed "Oh, no, thank you. Just put have done at all," his wise tempests is not disclosed, but stant in their devotion to Mas-to buying of Mussolini. If this the paper and string inside.” father packed him off on sundry their violence can be imagined aryk from the day he was ap-were done, it would create a dan-
long voyages to distant parts from the fact that the Forsytes pointed President of the infant geroas precedent for other unsa Republic, after the Austrianished-zations. There are griev
The country via was giving the a thoroughly Forsyteian proce of The Man of Property are milkmaid • Eft home in his car, and dure, it may be remarked, Galsworthy family portraits. Empire had crashed and lay ances to be redressed and peace when he came to her house be set which answered in Galsworthy's drawn to a recognisable out- Įbroken in pieces as it fell. There (ful machinery exists for this pur- her down. The gid proceeded to case
ward likeness and with their particularly well. It have been more dazzling carpose. It is for Great Britain to thank him "Oh, don't mention it brought him into contact with characters depicted with more Leers than his, for he was only stand by the Langue and use its said the vicar... The girl plushed and Cored, then frat rate of the than spiritual fidelity.
then replied, "All right," mum's ambitious to win back the poli-indrence 25 member ¿to ensure
}word". tical freedom which the Czechs that the documents, to which it lost in the Thirty Years War has appended. Its signature --- the and had no thought of his own Covenant and the Peace Pact of glory and aggrandisement He Faria -- shall not be thrown had" "convinced himself that aside. Det not, the word honour | Czech-aspirations could only be with its old meening be hazisked
realised by the dowsfall of Aus from the vocabulary. tria; when the war came he at once went into exile, and work- ed might and main to win over the Governments For Great Britain and Erance to the cause which he held so sacred.
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FIRE OUTBREAK IN
QUEEN'S ROAD
Chinese Shop Gutted
Kau Ya Chen, a Chinese shop
other foodstues 24 Na
to direct the helm for 17 years dealing in preserved meats and as to retain the unbroken confi- dence of a people and of its al Queen's Road Central, was the lies and friends. Under the guidance of Masaryk, a real scene of a serious fire which dea- troyed the whole building geeber- philosopher king," Czechoslo vakia has made great economic terday. The first plarm was given and social progress: she has re
fat 610am when all of the inst tained even her currency on a mates of the shop were in their stable footing: she has sought beds. The ground and first floors peace and ensued it-indulging of the shop were used as store no vain Hlusionsby a streng and business premises, while the thening system of alliances and second-flour was used as sleeping by a firm unswerving attach-quarters.
ment to the League of Nations Considerable excitement was Masaryk has enjoyed the inesti-caused when the twenty apet- mable advantage of having Dr. pants on the second floor made Benes as his Foreign Minister, their escape from the burning like himself a Professor at building Excellent work on the Prague, and possessed of one of part of the fire Brigade saved all the coolest and shrewdest heads the occupants from injuries. in Central Europe. It isšnojDamage is estimated at over $10,- surprise, therefore, to find Dr. 000. The shop has been insured Bénes recommended by name with 3 Chinese company for as his successor in Masaryk's $5,000.- Jetter of resignation on the spe-
cific ground that "we require a choslovakia described the lat well-conducted": foreign policy.”“”ter as “Russia's
A glance at the map of Parope trier?
shows: Czechóslovakia thrusting Sta deeply into the
Beich, and
Han
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