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The picturesque and ancient Classic phrases for the type VAST AND ABSORBING DUTIES OF
NEW DEFENCE MINISTER-
This tone may perhaps, be detected. Its THE important
from
The
Imittee of Imperial Defence and net of the whole question was the general sketch of his duties the Chiefs of Staff Committee. is admirable. He will relieve He hinted what he has said the Prime Minister of an almost more explicitly elsewhere, that impossible burden, and will be there are many subjects that able to devote the whole of his they did not discuss because
awaiting hira.
It is not easy to refer to this energies to the great problems they were unable to agree.
In one respect only does there committee, which is the key to seem to be a risk of asking too the situation, without convey- (much from him, and that is hising the idea of criticism of its
celebrations associated with writer range from the heroic to Maundy Thursday will be fit-the surrealist singly observed by the BBC that used by the ex-King of the British Industries: jin Transmission 4 next Thurs-Siam at
brown fox
(By Major-General A. C. Temperley) day at $40 pm GMT. in a Fair-The quick programme entitled "The Pas-Jumps over the laży dog?--a morál
announce Iter. is that one officer sion of Jesus Christ."
ments made by the Prime each Service will be added to dramatic devotional piece has chief merit for the typewriting: been specially devised by student, however, is that it en-Minister in the House of Com-the Joint Planning Committee Ellis Roberts. and will be pro-ploys every letter of the alphabet.mors and the debate in the and, that the secretariat of the "Now is the time for all good House of Lords last month show Committee of Imperial Defence Hong Kong, Friday.. April 3, 1935.duced by: Robin Whitworth. In
to the aid of the that the Government have gone will be "strengthened." its application it will be similar men to come to the special Christmas Day party" is in distinct contrast with a long way towards meeting the tord is vague and the full ric- scarcely Jess well-known general demand for greater cess of the scheme seems large drama and other religions fes-the
co-ordination in defence. ly to hang upon how it is be [tival programmes."
Pack six dozen liquor jugs.”
The decision, to appoint aling interpreted. For the modernist in literature
Lord Trenchard said in the To many people the most in- The eargerly-awaited peace proposals of the German Govteresting ceremony of the day a satisfactory phrase is perhaps whole-time Minister to act as ernment are now in the bands before Good Friday is the dis- the following: "Frowzy quacks Deputy Chairman of the Com-debate last month that the ker- of the British Government and tribution of the Royal Maundy, jump, vex, and blight.” have been by them transmitted which takes place annually on "Vex," "six" and "jump" appear to the Governments of France Maundy Thursday in Westmins- to be very useful to loosen the fin
ter Abbey. It is made by the gers. and Belgium.
"Admirable as they are theore- Lord High Almoner to the King, For discouraged students there tically, one important omission the present holder of this office is the cheering maxim, "Quiet zeal is to be noted; Germany gives being his Grace the Lord Arch-and pluck won many a stubborn,
vexed fight." no undertaking as to the forti- bishop of Canterbury.
In 1932, after a lapse of fication of the Rhineland. Nor does the "justification" offered nearly 250 years. His Majesty LORD DERBY'S BET by Herr Hitler excuse the deli-King George V personally hand- berate flouting of the Locarno ed his gifts to the old recipients, The Earl of Derby, at a dinner assumption of the chairman-members. Such is far from be
their number being gauged by in London last month of the Bri-ship of the Principal Supplying intended. "
premely competent officers, who. age of the reigning tish Colour Council, told the fol Officers' Committee.
Task Almost Superhuman Jare responsible for the plans Herr Hitler complains of the
Last year there lowing story:
for their own Services. many acts of France which, he sovereign. claims, were contrary to the were 70 men and 70 women, and "There was a time when green spirit of the Treaty; but may each of these specially-selected was the great fashion. I betted a appointment must be rast and argued with great force that the it not be claimed with equal applicants received 70 pence in friend that in a short motor drive absorbing; no less, indeed; than man who makes the plan must we should pass at least 100 wo- the preparation of the whole be responsible for carrying it jout The trouble arises from justice that Germany too has Maundy Money.
This year, King Edward VIII men wearing green, We did this, of industry for war. It carries all along been acting contrary
tion," as the Prime Minister des- to the spirit of the Treaty ? being in his forty-second year, and I won my bet. Incidentally, with it the problems of indus the unfortunate "double func
raw material the distribution staff has to perform. That she has for years past been there will be this number of I may mention that I had been trial expansion, the supply of cribed it, which each Chief of
of labour and all the other secretly re-arming and perfect-both sexes, and each will receive over the course the day before."
3/6. or 42 pence, in Maundy her war-machine
duties attendant upon what is ing
Money.
He is the chief responsible ad- in fact a skeleton. Ministry "of educating the whole nation for
It is sometimes thought that
viser to his own Secretary of Munitions. war has long been known; and
State, but he also, as a member recently Herr Hitler was able to Maundy Money is the only gift
One sees the advantage of of the Committee, has to advise boast openly to the world that made to these old people, but allowance in lieu of food and
combining in one man the co-the Prime Minister on joint or. Germany was now strong
with $1
ordination both of planning and co-ordinated plans. It is the enough to oppose any force that clothing together
is also
supply. for obviously the two dual allegiance, which either are interdependent. The plans makes the role intolerable or might be brought against her. Redemption money, What France has done in the handed to each. In this way,
A Shakespearean scholar and depend on the means, and the causes the shelving of problems of her each man receives 44.15.0. and way of fortification
jble Mr. George Arliss. Hax it been
Treaty.
and
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posiced that he also resembles the trolled by the nature of the sible. fear-fear of a war of revenge Those who must be tem- Iron Duke, Disraeli and Cardinal plans.
The question of the air has which would come when Ger- porarily taken off the list, owing Richelieu?
Yet it seems an almost super-intruded itself into all kinds of many believed herself strons to the death of the sovereign.
human task for one man to naval and military problems. enough to undertake it.
do not, however, suffer financial |
shoulder. It could hardly stand land this is the real cause of the Germany claims that the Bloss. A grant of a similar
the test of war,
difficulty. Air enthusiasts (not Franco-Soviet Pact
A lecturer says that the most won- her was
This aspect has, no doubt, necessarily the Air Ministry) amount is made to those re-derful thing in the world is the dif justification for the military removed each year until such time fercase in people's faces. After lcok- been considered by the Govern-are making extravagant claims Joccupation of the Rhineland,
It is on the planning as to their ability to take over as it is possible through ing at one or two we should say it ment
side of the new Minister's duties a large number of fanctions that one feels a certain amount previously performed by the old- of apprehension. THE MENU
er Services Lord Trenchard Wherever I may happen to be, I
mentioned one-the-control of always make a point of having a So far we have been inform-marine communications in the boiled shirt for dinner. Letter, ined that the only reinforcement narrow seas. a weekly paper.
intended, apart from the Minis- (Continued on Page 10) Oh, well, tastes differ.
BELIEVE IT OR NOT? by Robert L. Ripley
which she euphemistically. vacancies to grant them once was the most merciful.
even
LOCAL TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS
terms a denunciation of thei Treaty of Locarno. But when again the Royal Maundy gifts. Herr Hitler presented a startled- Europe with this fait accompli the Franco-Soviet Pact had not!
been approved by the Senate, much less signed; and the 'denunciation of the
Treaty Locarno
made coincident with the entry of German troops into the demili-
was
Three Fatalities Reported
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Altogether 50 accidents, involve tarised zone. Had Herr Hitler ing three fatalities and injuries to pointed out to the Locarno 13 people, occurred in the Colony Powers that Germany would in the week ended March 28. One regard the conclusion of a milf person was killed while running tary pact between France and across 'the road, one when appear- Russia as a breach of the jing from behind a vehicle and one Treaty and in that event would in a collision between two vehicles. hold herself at liberty to re- Five people were injured when occupy the Rhineland, or had running across the road, four she given reasonable notice of when walking on the roadway, one her intention to denounce the jin a collision between vehicles and Treaty, the case would have three when jumping on or off, or
falling off, a vehicle when woru a very different aspect.
in
For several years now, the motion. bitter feelings engendered by There were three collisions be the war having been softened tween vehicles involving damage by the lapse of time, there has to property, while three accidents been, especially in Britain, con- were caused by people stepping
iderable sympathy felt for off the footpath. Germany, it being realised that
some, at least, of the condi- EXPLANATION OF tions imposed upon her were somewhat excessively harsh; and there is little doubt that an
appeal for a revision of the Treaty would not have fallen on
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most frightful and senseless" Janother more frightfül - and war the world has ever known senseless war than the last? Does he really desire peace, or jor has he adopted, with his must it be "Deutschland ueber dictatorship, Caesar's motto: Alles." even at the risk of "Si vis pacem, para bellum?"
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