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FASCISM IN SPAIN
Mass Meeting Held In Madrid
"CHINK MAIL
CIAL
Madrid" To-day The Spanish Fascists held
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THE UNITED STATES
TO-DAY
A BRITISH NOVELIST'S
There are two high spots in his THE
diplomatic career.
The first wES }
nd
IMPRESSIONS
LINKING AND UNIFYING OF NATIONAL LIFE
(By Ian Hay)
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THE greatest American I, Each has cost a fabulous sIMIL ever knew, Theodore But I have been revisiting
at Oxford at a party to celebrate Roosevelt, once said to me when America not so much to sit in hia zuccess in his examination. I had the honour of being his at a battle of economic theories. that battle rages After the party there was poker. guest at Oyster Bay 20 years-and
The play was long. Mr. Duff ago: "Yes, of course we ought throughout all 48 States to-day, Cooper was fortunate.
to be in this war; but it takes the President being variously There was a Browning pistol on an earthquake to make America described as a second Messigh the table. An undergraduate who unanimous about anything. In and a crook who is employing had been the heaviest laser picked your little country you come to billions of public money to buy up the pistol, removed the maga a decision quickly, because you a second term of office as to zine, and, pointing the gun at the are a little country. We aren't observe the progress of this chief winner, said jestingly: "Duff, a country at all we're a con-vast country towards singleness of soul How far, inother you lucky devil, I'd like to shoot, tinent!"
"I have just visited that con-words, has America progressed * you."
He pulled the trigger. There tinent-for the fourteenth time in the last 15 years or so to- complete...sense. of will come inevitably to the mass demonstration on Sunday in
largest cinema-theatre of was a load. report, and a ballet-to find it united, temporarily wards a Executive Committee to decide the the question whether Italy is to Madrid, which proved utterly in-whistled past Mr. Cooper's ear and at any rate, by a financial earth-nationality?
quake of the first magnitude. This may sound an odd ques- be shut off from further sup-suficient to hold the masses de buried itself in the wall
admission. Ove-flow The undergraduate had neglect-When it occurred, two years tion to ask about one of the aggressively patriotic plies of oil for her tanks and manding cars and aeroplanes, or not meetings, to which the addresses ed to remove the cartridge in the ago, the American people did a most
thing which they had not done nations in the world, but let us Even at the risk of repeating delivered to the main meeting barrel
since their entry into the Great once, more remember "T. R's" what has in substance been said were relayed by radio, were has
War. They ceased for the dictum. After all, San FraD- before in these columns, it is tily organised in two other large FORGOTTEN BUT NOT LOST
moment to regard their Presi-cisco is farther away from Bos- necessary to point out that the balla.
The other high spot in his dent as the elected representa- ton than Boston is from Lon- decision will be of the utmost The Fascist Party members ap- importance, and will, if it be peared in full uniform, carrying career was in the war. Together tive of a party; instead, they don, both geographically and affirmative, mark the beginning their banners. The leader of the with the late Charles Lister. Mr. attired him in the top hat and historically. of a new era in the manage Spanish Fascists, Primo de Rivera, Duff Cooper insisted on joining striped trousers of Uncle Sam, and did whatever be told them ment of the dealings of the son of the deceased Dictator bear-UP-
As the Foreign Office could set without question. nations with a each other. Aing the same name, was the prin-1
The result was the New Deal failure to reach definite cipal speaker-Trans-Ocean Ser-afford to lose all its staff, the two
Back To Normal policy or the adoption of any vice mere face-saving expedient will
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men were wammed that their diplo matic careers would be ended.
Soul Of A Nation Still, it is possible to report progress all along the line. The American national spirit has beer fortified and quickened It is true that this unanimity immensely of late. The Great" Mr. Duff Cooper went to France has not lasted-it never does War did a great deal: to a large and won a DSO, which it and that there is now a deter-extent it abolished the hyphen mor-said should have been a V.C.-
mined movement QIZ foot--the German-American, the Then he came home and took especially among those who Irish-American The his old seat in the Foreign Office will have to pay the bill to restriction of immigration did And the Great It was 18 months before Lord deprive their leader of these even more
ornaments; but the solid fact Depression, I think, has done It has aroused a emerges that America to-day more still
be equivalent to a negative. The ss. Rawalpindi is dae bere The question at issue is whether from Singapore with the outward it is possible to prevent a war English mails.
by civil action, or to stop one ning
that has been begun.
As a practical criticism it is
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"BELIEVE IT OR NOT" by Robert L. Ripley
even
not only natural but quite valid holding commerce and loans Curzon discovered him. to say that the procedure has was to have a trial at all, it was therefore allowed to stay.
The first story is crystal truth. seems to have turned the corner feeling of brotherhood, measures been so dilatory that much of essential that the the effect that might have been adopted should be effective. The second is not. But it is al-and to be getting back towards responsibility
what President Harding used to neighbours, of determination to achieved in this case has been of all policies the most foolish ready good legend.
call "normalcy.”
give the under dog an lost, because the State that was would be to impose restrictions
The Great Depression is de- break. duly declared to be the aggres-that would incur a maximum of
finitely dated: there are just Everywhere the civic spirit sor has had the opportunity of hatred without crippling the
Corruption two periods now in American is being fostered. laying in big reserves of the aggressor so that he should no articles placed under embargo, longer be able to carry on the Meanwhile at Massawa, the Red history B.C. and A.C.-Before in municipal politics is being been wat. Actual administration of Sea base of the Italian armies, the Crash and After the Crash attacked at its source: in more and the opportunity has
of food explode with the beat." But
For two years Franklin than one city which I visited taken The answer to that is the prohibitions revealed that no case of bully-beer-shock has been:
Roosevelt, most impulsive and (and had known of old) I found the responsibly-minded ELIZABETH ARDEN'S PREPARATIONS the same as was made by the they fell into three classes: reported as yet.
sanguine of Presidents, has that famous Colonel House to a (1) munitions and the
been showering upon his coun-section of the community had friend that complained in the materials required for
themselves together, try schemes for the relief of her banded. second year of the Great War manufacture these were use-
10,000,000 unemployed and her successfully, in the cause of that the USA. and Great Bri-less because as compared with
non-paying indus- clean local government. tain were very dilatory in mak-a country that was practically
(Continued on Page 11) ing a scheme of co-operation junarmed, Italy had laid in a They are both pretty big pro-sufficient stock; (2) food, money positions, and it takes longer to land general merchandise-the the manoeuvre a big ship than a hardship of which fell on little one." The League has to poor man, the peasant and rather drove manoeuvre a still bigger ship, mechanic, and and with far less control over people into the army than the rudder and the machinery.crippled the Government; (3) It would be easy to underrate the means of obtaining motive the amount of information that power, which would hit straight has been acquired in the last at the army itself, including the This six months and the experience navy and the air force. that has been gained, but the is now fully grasped by the outstanding result established Italians and the people of the is that the common people of countries that have declared for all the countries are far more sanctions. No advice of ex- anxious to see the experiment perts or anticipations of supply succeed and to take any inciden-by non-member States will be: tal risks than their Govern-able to cover up the fundamen- ments. The political results of tal fact that to impose ineffec- the "Peace Plan" in England tive prohibitions and stop short and France introduced into the of those that make success in Foreign Offices a new thought the long run impossible is that in framing a policy pab-merely farcical, and a form of lie opinion must be considered. connivance with the guilty The other nations have also party. Irealised that with almost as There is no substance in the much of a shock as that which argument that the non-member was given by the proposals States will supply all that is themselves.
wanted Even if that happen-
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In dealing with millions of ed the League could say: "We miscellaneous people, it is neces stuck to our principles; if we sary to enunciate clear princi- failed that is only a proof that ples that can be briefly explain-the other nations should come fed and understood, creating in" As a matter of fact it is obligations that cannot be evad-clear that the outside Powers ed without a loss of honour, are watching very closely what In this case it was simply that the League will do, and once any member of the League they are sure that it means 1should be protected from inva-business it will have their good- sion by all the other members will The American Neutrality by any means in their power. Act is a case in question. It The scheme of putting pressure carefully eschews any appear- on Ethiopia which would preju-ance of acting with the League, dice the chances of that mem-but in substance it would have ber either to make a successful the same result as active co- resistance, or to conduct operation, and would remove favourable negotiation was so any excuse from Rumands and obviously a departure from the Russia for not stopping sales of League principles that even oil to Italy. The argument there were good reasons for that an oil embargo would such action under the old sys mean a European
|tem of diplomacy it was both
impalitic and dishonourable now by a threat of war control the when the new idea was being
tried out
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