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Negotiating With Egypt
family.
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FREE CITY'S PROMISES
THE SUPREME COURT IN AMERICA
GROWTH OF
GRADUAL
STRONG STRUCTURE
was toire of short new pizys, there UPHOLDING SOME FUNDAMENTAL
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ELIZABETHAN MARX
PRINCIPLES
(By Wilfred Hindle)
a phrase now historie, John the circuit duty imposed on
the Editor, and be accompanied by ment to establish a community of recently on tour with his reper the Writer's Name and Address their own, but the request
denied.
They then decided to happened an unrehearsed stage. sot necessary for insertion, but
carry out the same plan in the effect. as a guarantee of good faith. -
New World and in 1817, a group: In the middle of the piece en- of 225 arrived in Ohio and esta-titled "Hands Across the Ser.” blished
B wholly independent which is played -- in Mayfair kingdom of their own, known as drawing room, the entire mantel- Zoar. They built mills, potteries, piece suddenly fell at his and Miss foundries, irrigation systems, and Gertrude Lawrence's feet.” Iproduced all the necessities of life Mr. Coward and Miss Lawrence Justice of the United States. For many years it continued, within the boundaries of their continued their dialogue as if declared that the American too, to pay them the magnif- own lands. But the desire to own nothing had happened Other Government was a Govern cent salary of $3,500 a year, which is £700 at the par of personal property and obtain the members of the cast, led by Missment of Laws and not of Men
exchange. fruits therefrom eventually over Allison Leggatt, ran to the rescue By that he meant that,
part came the more prominent Zoarites, and restored the mantelpiece to its the men administering the Got The Justices for their
ernment mighty change, did not at first pretend to judi- and in 1898 the Society disbanded, upright position.
Miss Leggatt
John Mar- covered her Government must rest ultimate-icial temperament. The property is now parcelled out
the activity with: "Very natrustly on certain fundamental and shall himself engaged openly in In view of the delicate nature as private property, and
party politics between sessions famous Royal Palace of King worthy, these old houses, but they unalterable principles. of Anglo-Egyptian relations,
"Bim", (Joseph Bimeler) is still have their charm.”
The principles he had in mind of the Supreme Court John the apparent improvement in
in his obiter dictum it is doubt Jay, first Chief Justice and the atmosphere at Cairo and the possession of the Bimeler
ful whether it was anything negotiator: of the Jay Treaty news that the Egyptians are
The Shakespeare Conference more--were the principles laid which settled outstanding ques- paying more attention to the
which recently met in Moscow down in writing in the Ameritions with England after the difficulties of the problem will!
followed a whole series of Russian can Constitution. That Con- War of Independence, thought be warmly welcomed. As is
productions · of Shakespeare's stitution created a division of that the Supreme Court had well known, Sir Miles Lampson
plays
power between the States and neither "energy, weight, nor the British High Commissioner.
"Hamlet" was the first. It the Federation, and a Supreme dignity." Succeeding Justices is closely engaged in political
showed the Prince of Denmark as Court to decide in disputed brought some confirmation of talks with the leaders of the Egyptian United Front-
a champion of the toiling masses. cases whether the Federation, his opinion by openly discussing At
Then came "Romeo and Juliet the States and the individual, with the Presidents of the day the same time the British For-
the lovers being, according to the had exceeded their powers what opinions they should give London, To-day- eign Secretary is closely study-
programme, - *lis paper re-under the Constitution
on questions submitted to them. The Foreign Secretary, Mr. ing the whole problem with a
fecting social conflict of the time.” By comparison with view to working out as clear-Anthony Eden, in a Parlamentary
These ingenious attempts to Federal and State Legislatures, ent a policy towards Egypt as answer yesterday regarding Dan-
Make Shakespeare ideologically the Supreme Court had a com- Nevertheless, such was the is possible in face of the tangled (zig, stated: "A report on
small pure have led to a more ambitious paratively
beginning power of a single personality history of the last 20 years and question was submitted to the undertaking He is to be pre-But in the course of its century that from the day of Jahr the wholly exceptional situation Council by the United Kingdom sented as a sort of Elizabethan and a half of life it has grown Marshall the Supreme Court of Egypt herself. Successive representative as rapporteur and Marx, with greater poetic gifts from precedent to precedent has grown steadily in strength. British Governments have re-adopted 0 January 24. I was but less penetration than that into a Third Estate which can In the case of Marbury V cognised that a new Treaty is able to state in the report that stupendous bore.
check the Legislative and the Madison he laid it down that required. Egypt has continual-the
Government had
The idea is to show that he too Executive and is more highly ly pressed for it, whether when agreed to carry out in full the preached the class war, and if regarded than either. governed by the King and a recommendations made by the himself scarcely aware of his own Constitutional Government or Council at its September session, mission, prepared the way for the by the King and a Palace Ad-Ito amend the legislation since coming of a proletarian dictator- ministration. Britain has al-found by the Permanent Court of ship ways been ready to negotiate, International Justice to be m but when the Wafdists were inconstitutional, and to give formal. power extreme Nationalist de-assurances that legislation would mands for the virtual abolition be introduced to ameliorate the of the British connection made situation in regard to the press." There was a disgusting old man, negotiations: impossible.
-British Wireless Service
Now that the Constitution of
Statement In House Of Commons
Dauzig
KING GEORGE'S
DEATH
the
Your Daily Smile!
LET'S SING
*
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Early Beginnings
the
Grown In Strength
law repugnant to the Con- stitution is void," and that the Supreme Court must disregard any act of Congress which it It was not always highly re-considered so repugnant. garded. When the Federal On the rock of this judgment capital was planned in Washing-the power of the Supreme Court ton the Supreme Court was put has been built. In later cases away into a room 30 feet long Presidents and Governments and 20 feet wide. For a time tried to shift Marshall from his it sat in a tavern, and for a stand, but against his integrity, Who used to eat catch-as-catch-can-time after that, and well into impartiality,
and admirably He covered his vest
the nineteenth century, the calm judgment they were of no With the remains of the best 1923 has been revived and the
of the dry and chicken and ham. Justices, come direct from a avail King is working with a Minis-
tavern to their court, had occa- The use the Supreme Court try representing all the parties
sionally to adjourn business has made of its power has been the opportunity has again re-
until they became sober. bitterly criticised throughout curred for considering a Treaty
Congress despised them (and American history. Because the which shall put the relations
a lot of good. 2s a matter of curious fact did United States Constitution pro between Great Britain and
not provide them with a per-vides for rights in property, be- Egypt on a more satisfactory
"Ye may well say that sor,” remanent home until October of cause it was written at a time footing. I conducted in 2
turned Pat. “Share an hour of it now last year). For a century after when the United States was spirit of friendship and coa-
will do more good in five minnie the Supreme Court's foundation still a comparatively manage- ciliation. negotiations: could
than a mouth of it would do in 'a The Irish Parliament yester-week at any other time.
it made the justices continue (Continued on Page 11) hardly fail to be fruitful, pro day passed a motion moved by vided also that any Egyptian Mr. de Valera, to express to delegation showed practical re King Edward VII and Queen gard for the realities of the Mary, the members of the actual situation. There are Royal family and the people of many fundamental conditions to Great Britain the sympathy of a new Anglo-Egyptian treaty.the Irish people at the loss sus- and the most important arisestained with the passing of the from Egypt's geographical posi
Official Condolences From Ireland
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Dublin, To-day.
QUEEN MARY'S THANKS
tion as a corridor country divid-late King George V.
This is the first time that the ing the British Empire. The
Fish Free State has taken offi- corridor must be kept open and cial cognisance of the death the safeguards on that head of the British Sovereign, must be much stronger than Trans-Ocean Service. those provided in the Draft Treaty of 1930, which happi- ly for both parties — failed of Egyptian acceptance on ад other vital question, that of the Sudan. In view of the present tuation on the Libyan border of Egypt, it is clear that her military security would be whol- ly insufficiently safeguarded by the maintenance-of 8,000 Bri- tish troops in the Suez Canal zone only, as was projected by yesterday afternoon a message the British Government of that from Queen Mary in reply to the address of condolence was day.
I
Reply To House Of
Commons
London, To-day.
In the House of Commons
May we not, indeed, say that read as follows: "I thank you with all my heart for your més- it is a prime essential that those who speak for Egypt should resage of condolence, which helps gard the British Army in their to sustain me in my grief. I 2 deeply sensible of the country not as an Army of Oc- cupation but as an Army of warmth of your sympathy and Defence, not as the proof of prize the assurance which you alien overlordship, but as the give me of the unalterable af guarantee of Egyptian indepen-wireless Service.
fection of your House." British dence? It rests, in fact, mainly with the Egyptians themselves whether they secure of Egypt, but certain guar- a. Treaty which will give them autees for the efficiency of the all they can reasonably expect new police and judicial adminis in view of Egypt's chequeredtrations are both desirable and history in modern, and indeed necessary. Great Britain will in ancient, times. For the abo welcome Egypt's incinsion in the lition of the capitulations the League of Nations, nor will her consent of other Powers is re-status among its ma quired; some 50,000 Europeans prejudiced by have long been accustomed to arrangements regard the British occupation fence and sa a safeguard of their legit agreed upo mate rights and interests. | Egyptian Great Britain, as in 1930, re-all, the cognises that the capitalatory free from regime is no longer in acco biguous ance with the spirit of the treaties times and with the present
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