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THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS
Problem Of Foster Children
PRINCIPLES AGREED
(By PENELOPE QUAXLE)
Notice To Contributers. All communications intended for publication should be addressed to of the League of Nations is now
Here There and Everywhere
THE QUEEN WAS LATE
The Child Welfare Committee Reading recently of Borora's
Autenil
the Editor, and be accompanied by engaged on the placing of chil-dashes and smashes at the Writer's Name and Address dren in foster homes. Material his feints and finishing blows not necessary for insertion, but is still being collected and analys some of them made with both feet as a guarantes ef good faith.
ed and final conclusions will prob- off the ground-one was remind- ed of the story about Queen ably not be reached for a year or
at Buckingham Isa Hitherto, however, the Com- Mary's dinner
Palace. mittee has been able to agree on
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ALTERNATIVE KEY TO OCEAN STRATEGY BRITISH NAVY AND THE
MEDITERRANEAN
CONTROL NOT REALLY VITAL TO NATIONAL SECURITY
OR nearly a year now thelbase in Cyprus would of itself
If Malta is to be dis-
many opportunities of making lenvironment from which he A regiment "troops the colour": power of aircraft against war- Nevertheless, I
for
(By Hector C. Bywater).. FBritish public, and indeed solve our Mediterantan pro- a certain number of broad prin- The Queen had come down to the peoples of the whole Empire, blem
par-have been looking anxiously counted we shall be left with- ciples. These are as follows: Wimbledon for the express
He towards the Eastern Mediter-out a single foothold betweez (1) Placing in foster homes, pose of seeing Borotra play.
where the political Gibraltar and Cyprus, a stretch Hong Kong, Thursday, July 3, 1936. whether boarding out or placing as scheduled to appear in the ranean,
Conse- situation has compelled the of over 1,900 miles. in family homes of other types, is centre court soon after tes
But the two preceding matches Government to effect a strong quently a hostile Power pos- ja valuable means of providing the
abnor-concentration of naval and air sessing a formidable navy and normal experience of home and on the programme ran an
air force might well succeed in community life for children whose mally long course, and it was very power.
the As is generally known, the establishing command of the and own parents are unable to care late in the evening before
Frenchman was in court.
bulk of the Mediterranean passage between Sicily never be The decision of the authori- for them. It should
Queen Mary, thoroughly enjoy-Fleet, reinforced by units from North Africa, where the Medi- ties gracefully to bow to the resorted to for ressons of povertying the game, asked an official to the Home Fleet and foreign terranean narrows to a battle-
solely because the storm of opposition raised by alone, zor
telephone to the Palace for her stations, including China, Aus-neck less than 100 miles across. It is a the bathing tent restriction child is illegitimate.
"dinner to be kept warm”- tralia and New Zealand, is still In that event the whole of our trafic would proposals will be welcomed by method of care which should be
assembled at Alexandria, with Mediterranean the general public. That it is applied only after it is clearly
Haifa and Cyprus available as come to a standstill.
Such proposed to withdraw the sug-shown that for the child to remain LIFEGUARDSMAN SLIPS UP
unfortified "overflow" bases.
a contingency cannot gested legislation at the second in his own home or with his
For the time being, Malta have been absent from the Mr. Speaker's notice announcing reading of the bill, when it mother is not conducive to his the fact that he had a number of appears to have dropped out of thoughts of British statesmen and strategists during the past comes before the "Legislative welfare or to that of society.
tickets available for MPs for the the strategic picture.
10 months, nor is it likely to Council, is a welcome reminder
Study Facilities
"Trooping of the Colour on June Utility of Cyprus
be dismissed as soon 29 the Malta is so close to Italian situation reverts to normal. that the press of this Colony
(2) All child-placing agencies 25, falls into the most notorious of still has an important part to should make provision for the military traps for the civilian. territory that it may be said to we have, in effect, seen the red
The play in local politics.
complete study of the" child they Trooping the Colour" is an old lie within point-blank air range, light, and we shall ignore its general public is not afforded
the offensive iare placing,
the custom not confined to the Guards and although
implications at our peril
venture, to its wishes felt, but when it does;
thas come, as well as of the it does not "troop of" it.
ships at sea is still problema- it freely uses the press
home in which he is to be placed. By the way, the slow march, totical, it would have been tempt-submit that the importance of jour Mediterranean communica- that purpose. We like to think," Such information is essential in which the officers proceed to their ing Providence to pack the ions in relation to the safety also, that we are reflecting the
Such companies at the beginning of the Mediterranean Fleet inside opinions of the inarticulate which he is to be placed.
is information
much exaggerated, both at in Trooping the Colour ceremony, is harbour which was less than 30 of the British Empire has been public from time to time in
achieving the successful adjust-İsaid to have been originated by minutes' fight from the aero-
home and abroad. matters such as these. The decision of the authorities ment of the child to his foster George IL to see if they were so-dromes of a potential aggres-
“Jugular Vein” Each child must beber. would appear to bear us out family.
That the strategic value of Foreign spokesmen frequent-“ Capt. FitzRoy served before Both in this paper and in our dealt with as an individual who
his endowment, and during the war in the 1st Life Malta has been permanentlyly refer to this route as "the Britain's worthy contemporaries leading is distinct in
and Guards.
reduced by the development of jugular vein personality articles and "Letters to the character,
air power appears all too pro-Empire," and they are wont to Editor" expressing dissatisfac- capacity for full development.
bable If that be so it would expatiate on the catastrophic (3) Supervision by competent the Government's tion with
seera the part of wisdom to seek results to England if it were few British proposals were given promin-should be provided for the child
an alternative base for the severed Not & ence; and the proposed legisla-in the foster home, and
How should be taken to afford him the A young man at the seaside board-Mediterranean Fleet, and in this publicists have also expressed tion is to be dropped.
the view that to lose our grip the advantages much the quiet influence of His fullest opportunity for healthy ing house had been banking the connection"
offered by Cyprus are being un-cn the Mediterranean would be for and
the Excellency the Governor is development
sound piano and disturbing everybody.
losing "Pre tried every key," he said, officially canvassed.
something responsible for this will prob-jeducation, and to give him
proudly.
Strategically the position is Empire. In fact, ably never be known. But Sirjadequate training for earning "Now try this one," said the land- Andrew has not failed to show living.
an excellent one, for a fleet like a Mediterranean "complex" operating from Cyprus could has developed, and it is high that he is for the plain man
command the approaches to the time that it was analysed.
The Navy, I am satisfied, is "Say, Mis Johnson, did More give Suez Canal-Port Said is only! Celestice a chgagement ring fob 230 miles from the island-re free from this obsession, nor is ¡bein' engaged?"
plenish its bunkers from the it conceivable that the stat "No, Mis Jackson. He done bettah Iraq pipeline terminal at Haita, officers of the sister Services dat. He gur bus & engagement and remain out of reach of should be so blind to history, heavy air attack except, pos-geography and economics as to suppose that the fate of Britain sibly, from the Dodecanese.
and her Empire depends on the - Suez Canal
essential-
care
when it comes to a defence of WOMEN'S SECTION,
his inalienable rights, and we suspect that he had 2 great deal to do personally with hav-
abandoned. It is a
YMCA
a
ing the proposed legislation SUCCESSFUL SOCIAL
FUNCTION
healthy
sign, in short, that public opinion is heeded and that the
Figures
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The Finish
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wringer and washtub.”
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sor.
Exlimo? "My father was a Pole."
North "Really, how interesting.
Governmental head of the A very successful bridge and Colony is big enough to bow to mahjongg drive, was held by thejor South?" that opinion when the occasion Y.M.C.A. Women's Section in the demands it
West Lounge yesterday afternoon.
About 50 ladies were present) British Employment and the following players won prizes, which were presented by Mrs. Offord, a well-known men- June's unemployment figures, ber of the Women's Section, who published in the local papers on is shortly leaving the Colony:-
Mahjongg Winners: 1 Mrs. Tuesday, give proof of the con- tinued vigour of the upward Ramsay; 2. Mrs. Leib; Consola- movement in British industry, tion. Mrs, Steer. When the National Government Auction Bridge Winners:-1 came into office in 1931 it had Mrs. Ferguson; 2. Mrs. Browning; to relieve a burden of un-Consolation, Mrs. McLean. employment of over 2,800,000 The active Committee of the persons. There was great and Women's Section is to be justined satisfaction last sum-gratulated on the success of an- mer when the number was other of their popular social brought down to below 2,000,-functions. 900. Now it is diminished to 1,700,000. But this reduction of
cases of cerebro-spinal the unemployed by more than fever were reported to the local 1,100,000 persons, with all that Health authorities during the 24 it means in the improvement of hours ended on Tuesday. the social conditions of the
Two
con.
Bation, does not represent the with the north-west and Scot full extent of the change for the land not far behind. There is, better. During the last year however, one exception to this or two, owing to the temporary generally and remarkably en- rise in the birth-rate just after couraging record. The "hard the war, there has been a large core" of unemployment, those increase in the number of young who have been out of work for persons entering the labour 12 months or more, is still market. The expansion of in-about 25 per cent, much the dustry has provided for them same as before. The total goes with striking success. Last down, the proportion of those June the total of the employed who suffer most is unchanged. rose to something like 10,832,-On the other hand, it should 000. This is 1,600,000 more be noted with pride that Eng- than those at work in 1931, and land now. has 10,832,000 people? 600,000 more than the numbers not only employed but insured of 1929, which ranks as a boom against unemployment.
This year. The expansion of em-is to exclude the figures for
||ployment in June is therefore agricultural workers, which nothing less than remarkable.were not available at the time Half the industrial popula- the report was issued. Such a tion of Britain is in the north-structure of safeguarded wel- eastern and north-western fare is a noteworthy achieve areas, Scotland and Wales. ment. It must be wholly attri These, in the common know-buted to the sterling principle ledge, were the districts most of making haste slowly by hardly hit by the depression. means of sound finance and the Last month did something to refusal to be dragooned into redress the balance. The noble experiments" with the greatest improvement in the financial texture of the com- kingdom was in the north-east, try.
E.H.
The "Complex"
B
But it must not be supposed that the creation of a naval'
tantamount
to
of
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