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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY 11, 1936
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THE CHOICE BEFORE FRANCE
POWER OF POLITICAL EXTREMISTS
PARLIAMENTARY TRADITIONS FACE A SEVERE TEST
(By Alan Houghton Brodrick) he W23 persecuted and Year by year the City of Landon hounded through most of the elections for the Court of Common RANCE is no exception to the of the military force of countries of Europe. He was common as held on St. Thomas's rule that in countries
France, finally arrested in Venice and Day, December 21. The election free Parliamentary institutions the more than anything else. On the of for the Russians fear Germany transported to Rome where he was is followed by the appointment of constant tendency is for parties to other hand, the Bolsheviks have imprisoned for seven years. If he chairmen of the various commit became more and more extremist given up none of their plans for 1936 had been willing to recant his con- tes
This does not, of course, mean world. revolution. victions, his death might have
services which are unsurpass-spot
be was burned official occasions.
Your Daily Smile!
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been averted. Because he refused The "premier" is the City Lands that the average elector is choos- It is reported that the non-par- burned at the Committee, and the chairman ing to be either a Fascist or a ticipation of the French Com- Poverty And Charity to do so, he was
stake and his ashes scattered to bears the title of Chief Commoner Communist, but it does mean that munists in M. Blam's Cabinet was He is in order to appeal with success to decided on in deference to M Britain may well be proud of the winds In 1859 a monument during his year of office. her magnificent system of social was erected to the martyr on the the spokesman of the Court on all the masses the political parties Stalin's wishes: it
where ed anywhere in liberality, centuries before.
This committee has control of The parties themselves are not members of the party. thoroughness and general
the City's estates, amounting to large in France. The Socialists i A Communist "Committee scope. The Unemployment
over 2,500 properties, of Guildhall (S.F.LO Second Internation) Organisation and Action" has been Assistance Board, of which
Old Bailey, monuments, artisans'
|have only 130,000 members and set up in France, the object Lord Rushcliffe is chairman,
of A young woman went into a bank dwellings and the City pound
the French Communist party is which is to further the Communist has recently issued its first and asked for a cheque to be eashed greenyard.
only 125,000 strong. The "I'm
vast ideal in every way. All the efforts annual report, and the occasion The cashier shook his head.
majority of the voters, although of the Communists are to be de is one for thorough congratu-sorry," he said politely, "but you'll DOMINION P.C.■ AT PALACE
their sympathies are known, are voted to the formation of the someone to introduce lation of all concerned for the have to get
(yon before I can pay out the money.” Two of those who attended the not officially members of any party. "Parti Populaire"the "People's work that the Board. and She stared at him have you Privy Council for the signing of through it the State, is doing understand, sir,"
Communist Discipline
Party" to include the Socialista she said haughtily,
and to be closely allied with the When the Ministry of Labour "that I am here strictly on business the Coronation proclamation last month exercised both their Privy last year-perhaps somewhat am not paying a social call."
At the moment Parliamentarism | Confederation Generale du Travail. Council functions. hastily-issued new regulations
seems very sick in France. No Moscow would no doubt like to: Good Training prescribing the rates of relief,
They were Lord Hailsham and one has a good word to say for see a "People's Front" Government a violent storm
They were engaged to be married, arose among!
Sir Isaac Isaacs, the former it. The members of M. Blum's formed as soon as the Radicals or the members of the Labour former adventures in Africa.
was proudly relating his
Governor-General Australia, Cabinet will owe slavish obedience the Communists themselves have
of left M. Blum in the lurch Party. The Unemployment "I had to hack my way," said he, who, with Lord Macmillan, sat on to the standing committees Assistance Board was there-through almost impenetrable jungle, the Judicial Committee of the their respective parties. The de- Government which would have in fore created to administer chopping, slashing at thick under- Privy Council.
puties more and more are pawns its hands the weapon of the gener relief, and the record of what growth and trees-n, ""
in the hands of their party leaders, al strike and be powerful enough
the Communists, who have to obey out the Soviet programme. No- sentence of a man awaiting ex-
without demur and moreover give thing, however, is less certain ecation in Melbourne. His ecution had been postponed to en-up more than half their salaries than that an extreme "Left" Gov- ernment would succeed M. Blum able the appeal to London to be as depoties to the party funds.
We are, however, free to sup-and his New Deal heard.
Canaria, South Africa and the pose that such subscriptions and
those of the rank and file of the "Bourgeois" Socialists Irish Free State were not repre-
In a country as financially and resources of the Communists, who, socially conservative as France. sented at the Privy Council which party do not constitute the only
two although they are shouting for the where, as they say, the people vote Australia, however, had representatives Sir Isaze Isaacs appointment of a Parliamentary Left but have their purces to the the Right, where most people have still enquire inte and Dr. Earle Page, deputy Prime committee to Minister-and India and New origin of politicians' fortunes, have something to lose, and where, if dropped their demand for an en-the-middle classes are ruined, the Zealand one each.
[quiry into the, resources of the workman and the peasant are far Press and have not demanded an from Communist, the possible dis- enquiry into the origin of the sensions in the "People's Front" funds in the political party chests might well, as seems to be
case in Spain, afford an opportun~ Looking To Russia
lity of which the Conservative ele Miss Elsie Butler, lecturer in Since the French Communist ments might "avail themselves. German at Newnham College, party depends directly on Moscow, It is the tragedy of the Socialist Cambridge, has been appointed we have to look in Russia for the party that it has come into power Henry Simon Professor of German clue to much of what, will happen at a time when its real strength chester University. Language and Literature at Man-in France in the next few months, in the country has been sapped.
The Soviets want no weakening (Continued on Page 21)
"Oh.-George!" said she. "You'll de They dismissed a petition
for
it has accomplished in its first5e when you have to weed the garleave to appeal agains. the death This discipline is strongest with to make a beginning of carrying
¡den!"
still on.”
a
year should have the effect of silencing in advance any parti- san criticism of the new regu-
Strategy lations. The figures are im- "I'm going to drive into the city pressive.. There has been an with you this, afternoon, James, average of 750,000 applicants, said Mrs. Baynow. “I want to do of whom 712,500 have made little shopping while the bargains are good their claim to assistance
'understand your strategic on the score of need, and the plans," responded her husband. The average payment made is 23s.drive is to be followed up with per week. The much-abused counter attack.” Means Test appears
to have
Flippant justified itself by one para- Lady: "How long will the next graph in the report, which train be, please?". states that if under the present! Porter. "One engine and two car system public money is being riages."
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quite well off, far better off in fact than many wage earners,” the abolition of the Means Test
America is a land of opportunity. would lead to "gross abuses. The poorest can have a smart infant for which there can be no justi-{werth. 3750 x,week in Hollywood, fication." The idea of centra-
to
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lisation was that there should have ruled out of order. be 毖 general uniformity Kindlier humanity is shiningly between district and district; evident in the relations between and while no doubt hard cases sufferers and their helpers. still occur, the generous latitude The **Juggernaut, rolling allowed
the assistance mechanically over the lives of officers to depart from their some millions of human beings" rules and to make special pro-has turned out; in actual fact, visions for special conditions is to be one of the most charitable certainly not characteristic of of all existing organisations, in bureaucratic administration, the widest and best sense of the and the revelation will be wel- term come to the kindlier temper and There is a moral in all this spirit of the age.
for local application. One' is No one forgets, or wishes to infinitely tired of the ancient forget, that the relief expended excuse for the lack of social in some cases is lamentably relief in the Colony that all low. Indeed, a learned corres- the hordes of South China pondence in the New Statesman would swarm here if anything and Nation recently purported in that line were attempted. to prove that the rate of relief And so local charity is left to being paid in some instances unchartered organisations, run I was even less than the mini- by non-official helpers and mum for proper nutrition, as finance. The Society for the set forth by dietetic experts. Protection of Children (to name In the same paper a working- but one) "carries on its magni- class wife, whose family was on ficent work among families relief; published a weekly whose total monthly income is budget which was enough to something in the neighbour- make any decently-constituted hood of $1.50 or $2 a head! person crimson with, shame at How many people stop to think the thought that such things of the fantastic incredibility of should obtain in a civilised this figure? How many people country. But, on the other sit down and quietly consider hand, not even the worst de- what soundless depths of tractors of everything that the poverty are represented by such State does or fails to do can truly astonishing figures - as deny that the social conscience these? While there is such of the nation is thoroughly appallingly dire poverty among roused these days by conditions us--here, everywhere, sur- which in the past would have rounding us in our comfortable been taken for granted. We homes, shadowing us in our are all Socialists now; if we are expensive pleasures ·like: 2 unable, in the present fabric of spectre-what right have we, our social conditions, to supply as a community, to sit back the needs of all who have claim complacently and delude our- upon our charity, at least a tre-selves into believing that our mendous advance towards that responsibility has ceased? Mr. ideal has been made in recent Cassidy, in his recent address years, and conditions will sure to the Rotary Club, spoke of ly continue to improve. In any the arousing of the social con-"| case there will be no retrogres-science of the Colony, While sion. Lord Rushcliffe's report these things are about us - we indicates what is being done have a long way yet to go. It towards this end. In many will be to the everlasting shame thousands of cases grants: have of the Government of this been made to meet "exceptional Colony if their active support needs" which the old-time re-in these things. is withheld leving officer would promptly much longer.
fixed the Coronation date.
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