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It is certain that numerous debates, besides yesterday's, are
the shortest summing-up cord.
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State for the Colonies, announcing that His Most Gracions Majesty! The late Mr. Justice Cave, ad the King has been pleased to ap dressing the jury in a case in
“Gentlemen
PARTNERSHIP
GREAT BRITAIN'S PLACE
IN WORLD PROBLEMS
"FIVE YEAR PLAN” OF COLONIAL POLICY SUGGESTED
(By Sir Evelyn Wrench, C.M.G.).
which there had been a good deal prove the appointment of Sir OR over a quarter of a cen- Great Britain more pronounced tury I have been trying to than ever in Eastern Europe. of hard swearing on both sides, Thomas Southern, K.B.E, C.MG..! simply said:
¡Colonial Secretary, Hong Kong, to study "the other fellow's stand-But very often it seemed to be of the jury-One be Governor and Commander-in-point." It is not an entirely the envious, admiration of the side or the other is telling bes, Per-Chief of The Gambia, in succes-pleasurable occupation. Your small boy at school for the demi- haps you can say which, I can't." sion to Sir Arthur Richards, national complacency receives gods who have won a great posi- Sir Francis Jeune, in the Divorce KCMG., Governor-designate of jolts-
tion for themselves in the Court, was once nearly as brief. FUL.
On one of my trips of investi-school world through their own "If the husband were the brute A large circle of friends, amo-Fries last autumn,
gation through a dozen coun-efforts..
when the During my wanderings I
He summed up:
the wife says he was, she is well both the official and unofficial clas rid of him. If, on the other hand,
he
men."
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the saint he makes himself sex will welcome this honour for Italo-Abyssinian crisis was at kept asking myself again and "Have the dissatisfied nations hundredth time that the same out, he is far too good for any woSir Thomas, as placing the seal its height, I realised for the again the question: man, Consider your verdict, gentle of recognition upon what has been set of facts can look entirely dif, perhaps a grievance and are Great in prospect for the House of
a most distinguished career in the ferent, when seen from a differ. Britain and the other colony oLT= Commons on the general theme
Sir Ernest Wild was a most British Colonial Service.
ent section of the globe.
[ing countries in supporting the introduced by Mr. Lansbury conscientious note-taker. In the 12
Sir Thomas Southern was born! Viewed from Great Britain collective system entirely disin last month. His theory is that years he sat on the Bench as Re- the causes of the vast growth corder of London he wrote about in 1879 and educated at Warwick the action of our Government at ferested?"
May I share the conclusions in armaments since the war are 4,000,000 words-equivalent to School and Corpus Christi College, Geneva in support of the collec-
the tive system seemed disinterest-at which I arrived? mainly economic and that the
degree of Bachelor of Arts Hejed and a definite step forward best hope of removing the in-about 40 novels of average length. Oxford, where he obtained
Native Peoples was appointed a Cadet centive thereto lies in an inter-
the towards the goal of a united First I should like to em- national
Ceylon Civil Service in November Europe as I believe it was phasise the fact that I am a con- agreement under
JELLICO'S UNDELIVERED
1903. After a number of succes Seen through the eyes of Euro- frmed believer in the League of which there would be freer LECTURE
sive appointments to various posts pean editors and leader-writers Nations, and I bold the doctrine access to raw materials and to markets and better opportuni- The library of Winchester Colin the island, including that of things looked very different.
that Europe has a definite task ties for migration from the lege
The British Empire, which of trusteeship in Africa and has just been enriched Private Secretary to the Governor over-populated countries. The through the kindness of Countess (1914), Sir Thomas was appointed already "owned" nearly a quar-that native peoples and their resolution was
very loosely Jellicoe with a valuable and uni-second assistant Colonial Secretary ter of the land surface of the territory should not be regard- worded. But while Mr. Lans-que memorial of her husband. in December 1919, being promoted globe, was, in the opinion ofed as so many chattels to be bury is a privileged person in This is the manuscript of anto principal Assistant Colonial large sections of Europeans, divided among the five or six that no one expects him to address on "The War at Sea" Secretary in July 1920. In Dec-inspired by motives of self-most powerful nations.
She was determined rapple with practical difficul-which Lord Jellicoe had promised ember 1923 he was made Principal interest.
In Europe to-day there are ties. those difficulties come to deliver to the school. He was Collector of Customs on the Colom to safeguard the waters of the several dissatisfied countries. crowding in as soon as one tries actively engaged upon it when he bo Port Commission, in the same Nile and her interests in Egypt Why are they dissatisfied! to reach precision. If will be was struck down by illness, and year serving as a member of the at any cost; she did not want a Primarily because, applying remembered that Sir Samuel referred with regret to its un-Legislative Council. He was appowerful and unsatisfied Italy to the problem what I regard Hoare raised the question unfinished state not long before his pointed a member of the Executive sitting across her main Empire as a pre-war mentality, they expectedly at Geneva last death
Council, Ceylon, two years later. highway to the East.
consider that under existing September when he said that it) The MS. will be exhibited in a
Policing The World conditions they are not allowed was "the fear of monopoly of glass show-case
Unselfish Service
Why, it was asked, if Great"a place in the sun." the withholding of essential Library, which was re-housed not Sir Thomas came to Hong Kong Britain was desirous of acting! Remember, before the war Colonial raw materials that long ago by adapting to a more as Colonial Secretary in May 1926, as world policeman did she per-nearly 2,000,000 virile and am- was causing alarm," and admit- learned use the old 14th-century There is no need to dwell on his mit Japan to get away with the bitious young men went over- ting frankly the glaring in-
seas in search of careers. To- brew-house, contemporary with career here, which has always been swag three years before? equalities between different the foundation of the College.
distinguished by unselfish service, In other quarters, by no day the doors are closed. Euro- both in the official and non-official means unfriendly to Great Bri-peans are not wanted in the Your Daily Smile! fields. He has officiated on no tain. I read statements that vacant places of the earth in fewer than seven occasions since Signor Massolini was but trying the temperate zone. I exclude in any collective attempt to
"My husband and I exchange about 1927 as Officer Administering the to emulate Great Britain's policy Africa as a possible field for deal with it in a fair and effec-six words at breakfast every mora-Government, the last less than a of expansion in the eighties and settlement for Europeans, as tive way."
ing," remarked a woman in court.
the number of white settlers it Sir Samuel Hoare, therefore. Lots of men, of course, are dead few months ago on the departure nineties of the last century.
It was unpleasant for a could absorb is negligible. suggested an enquiry with the against such chattines at the break-of Sir William Feel It was dur-
One Canse ing this period of service that Sir travelling Englishman to find strong emphasis in the terms
Thomas was operated on for ap-the policy of his country That is one of the causes of of reference laid upon "free dis-
There pendicitis, from which, however, completely misunderstood. European unrest. tribution of raw material A perfect host is one who can yawn be quickly recovered and got back I do not wish to give anothing for many young Euro- among the industrial countries with hit, mouth closed.
into harness.
wrong impression. I found peans to do unless they join the We re- which require them.”
friendship and admiration for (Continued On Page 21) call the actual words, since an The hatless fad has carried the A current Ameri- entirely mistaken idea of what last stronghold.
can Silm shows a house detective
countries. He then said that the British Government would be "prepared to take its share
fast table.
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took shape, and in certain qızar-|
ters the hope was even en-
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couraged that Great Britain "I know nothing but good about
was ready to consider a "share] Madge."
out" of her Colonial Empire.
"Then let's talk about somebody
There would, indeed, be a long else."
Not on the Menu
queue of applicants if notice to that effect were given. The re-
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An African missionary says that
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ference to "a collective attempt" when he first visited a savage tribe implies that the other nations they didn't know what to make of | disproportionately favoured him. It was lucky for him none ofj. with an abundance of essential them happened to have a cookery
book handy- raw materials should join in the prospective sacrifice, and hel epoke, moveover, strictly in "If only," solilactised the Fox, as terms of raw material and not he Watched the Antics of the New in terms of colonies or terri Rich member of the Hunt, “If Only tories. These are points vital Hounds as that Fellow Can.”
1 Could Keep as Far Away from the at the very outset... It cannot): have escaped notice that when The workmen engaged in building claims are actually formulated the new garage at The Oaks were in the "Have not" countries the about to leave for the day. demand is not for the
"Won't you clear up this wood and materials. but for territories other material?" asked the owner of the honse. "Some of it will be lost." where they are produced. This! That's quite all right, sir." replied is an essential difference. An one of the workmen, "you'll find it international "enquiry" on the all in the bill*
raw
lines suggested by Sir Samuel
Hoare is a very different pro-
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position from an international thing which contained an ele conference to discuss a redistri-ment of negotiation?" This is bution of mandates or terri-vaguer than Mr. Lansbury. No tories.
one has had a fuller experience! Mr. Lloyd George has come of international conferences to the conclusion that there than Mr. Lloyd George, and it will not be-peace in the world must warn him that the result until the question of mandates would be immediate pande-i has been reconsidered, and helmonium Lord Cranborne, re- contrasted Belgium, Holland plying for the Government, said and Portugal with their "great that they were "by no means tropical territories" while. Ger- shirking the issue," and that many has none and Italy "prac- they had begun a preliminary tically none." This was after examination of the economic, an eloquent description of the problem. But they felt that! malign influence of "fear." the time was not yet ripe to call The But what effect does he imagine an economic conference. such a reference will have upon whole problem needs clarifica- the "small nations, of which tion; the actual as against the he used to be so ardent a cham- supposed economic grievances pion? And what would be the of the "Have not nations need practical result of "summoning to be authoritatively stated. all the nations together with But a Conference of Bevision their cards on the table to see would much more probably pre- what they were after and cipitate war. than establish whether there was not some-peace.
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