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(By Millicent Taylor) were eight in number, seat-worth. It also pre-supposes that WE sext-worth. It
MBANZ von Thurn and Taxis) Notice To Contributors.
(1460-1517) is considered All communications intended for the founder of the post in a mo publicction should be addressed to der sense. A native of Bergamo the Editor, and be accompanied by Italy (his
Lord William Cecil, the Bishop Italian name Tassi of Exeter, who died last month. the Writer's Name and Address means "dachshund") be was first always believed that he would live not necessary for insertion, but appointed in 1500 "as captain and to exactly the same age as his as a guarantee of good faith
master of the posts" by Emperor father, the great Prime Minister. Maximilian of Austria As a re-j sult of this appointment. Taxis ran 73 when he died. Lord William Lord Salisbury was just over the Netherlands mail for the Cecil lived 73 years and 3 months. Spanish King Philip the Fair.
It is the normal custom for a According to the terms of his appointment he
bishop who dies in harness to be of the Chief, met to pool ideas and scribed or limited. The responsible
defini- with life and property for
buried in his diocese. There is plans for the months to the
come. tions, by the way, make use of however, a Cecil family vault in We represented eight different life words like obstinate, conceited, Hong Kong. Saturday, Aug. 1, 1936. 53fe delivery of the mails. His
Hatfield Parish Church. name is nOW commemorated in
experiences, a symposium of view-stiff. One cannot, to my mind, French on a Belgian stamp which
This was Lord William Cecil's points and interests, and we know a great deal about a subject is part of my cartoon. In 1867 the cure for 20 years, and both his brought to this informal and pur- and be opinionated concerning it Government of Prussia bought
father and his mother are buried poseful discussion a variety of ap--for the deeper one goes the more there back the mail contract from the
proaches to each problem.
humility one has. True discussion Taxis descendants, paying them
In the choice of his burial place As I listened to the viewpoints cannot live where thought is The current issue (June 11) close to $10.000.000 for their Prus-family tradition has proved stron-in turn, the conversation that opinionated. The opinionated one of the weekly edition of the Lon-sian rights.
ser than episcopal usage..
brought about further clarifying slams mental doors against the don Times contains, besides a
of thought, a check here, an added contributions of others, against CECILS DIVIDED ON SANCTIONS,idea there, and the whole lubricat-the unfoldment. of any ideas that leading article on "The British Part" in the maintenance of
led by humorous or whimsical com- might come through The Bishop of Exeter was thei
a pooling of only one of the five political Cecilsment-I found myself wondering experiences.
if we human beings realise and
For. And Against Sanctions
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MEN'S WEAR DEPT.
world peace. a selection from
NEW TAXATION
Contemplated By Government
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to be an active anti-sanctionist.
A man I used to know once said Though he made no speechirare grateful enough for the hiregretfully that he had never had the House of Lords on the subject, privilege of talking, things over. as long ago as last December he/Afterwards, in thinking about this things over in a dispassionate way.
opportunities to learn I said to myself: We who live in To his embarrassment he would wrote that he objected to sanctions
to
talk
It is notified for general infor:Ion humanitarian grounds "because lands that appreciate the right to and himself upset at an exchange
mation that the
Lord
Affairs,
democracy of
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the apparently voluminous cor- respondence addressed to that! paper on the question of the continued application or not of sanctions. It is all very plau sibly argued, but we cannot with honesty say that there is
and Government has their incidence falls harshly on the liberty anything in the leader which
of opinion, and would sometimes thought, have we not to-day recently had under consideration poor, especially the children.” impels us to change our opinion the imposition of a special tax on
Lord Salisbury has not appar-priceless possession to cherish and often mistook frank and open dis jeven get angry. He claimed that he that the abandonment of sane vehicles equipped with engines us-ently made no public pronounce-keep alive for the race of all men cussion for argument and dispute. tiens is a retrogade step. pro-ing heavy oil or Diesel oil as fuel, ment
the arriving at ideas and deci-Realising that he had missed one mising untold trouble in the
and that such taxation will pro- !future.
Cranborne, 2$ Under-sions through group discussion? After examining how bably be on the lines of that in Secretary for Foreign
of the greatest privileges of think- Idea Of "Sifting" most of the nations of the world force in the Straits Settlements. has expounded the Government
jing people, he set out to train One of the meanings given in himself to take part in discussion are on the side of peace, the! paper goes on to remark: "It is not the Government's inten-view, and Lord Cecil of Chelwood | Webster for the word "discuss" is and to teach his children to take Largressive force were to chal-on to impose the extra taxation champions that of the Opposition to "sift er examine by presenting part in it
Lord Hugh Cecil, M.P. for Ox-considerations pro and con" Ox-1 lenge another world conflict, it in the immediate future, but noti-! would in time, as it proceeded, fication of the intended policy isford, has not made any speech on ford, also, emphasises the idea of
Idea Evolves compel a buge and effective given in order that agents and the subject in the House. Recent-sifting and investigation, with an
purchasers of vehicles of this type, however, he criticised the Gor-old meaning that includes the that is taking things over
Some time sit quiet in a group ernment's dropping of sanctions, thought of shaking off, or setting watch the idea evolve. You will, I and which be considered to be "quite free (the useless).
think, find it rather thrilling. Group discussion, or even dis-Some people express themelsves strong enough to achieve the fai- lure of lawless nationalism.”
cussion between two friends, is clearly: others need help. 'At really an art-and like any art times there is talk without an can be cultivated and developed idea. However, among the quali by the individual. "Please write ties worth
Če se me p
COURT MARTIAL SENTENCE
concentration of resistance- and there will be little chance may be aware of the position. next time of exemption. Or Lescape for
anyone." This seems to us to be absolutely begging the question. The point is not what, with divine! guidance and the active operation of all the nations, will! happen next time, but whether a declared aggressor, using all the most hideous forms of war- fare against 2 defenceless people. should be allowed
co-
to
Soldier Dismissed The Service
A stabbing incident in which «an Indian soldier wounded a comrade had its sequel at a District Court
Your Daily Smile"!
*
* Fix Choice The young man had been looking
****
to me ance,
cultivating are toler- The beauty of a radio news bulletin some day," said a
compassion, and patience is that if you fail to catch part of it several months ago, "an article (based on faith in good); and you can always get out the paper that will help women to be less (these qualities, so needed if group. and see what it was. “
opinionated." (He had evidently discussion is to arrive somewhere, had a bad time!)
can be tended, watered, brought to While still meditating upon his fruition in the Garden of Discus- gather the fruits of his un- Martial held last week, when through
a collection of Christmas philanthropic suggestion, I myself sion. provoked aggression this time. Lance-Naik Mohamed Akber was cards for some time, yet he seemed chanced to make to another man a The Times further remarks: found guilty on two charges. uncertain as to what he should buy. (remark
At a meeting the other night vac а concerning "A reformed system must come
"Here's lovely sentiment," said matter a matter on which there use a word to which several others political member of the group chanced to Accused was charged with volun- into being if civilisation is to tarily causing grievous hurt to the lady assistant, helpfully.
might easily be more than one in turn took exception. The ideas survive."
the only girl I ever loved'? That is patently Lance-Naik Mir Zaman at 3 am
"Splendid!" he cried. I take viewpoint; and I was promptly re-concerning it were contributed in obvious. But surely there is on June 12, and with stabbing him six of those, please."
plied to in a way that was evident- some point in asking whether in the stomach. On the first
a friendly and impersonal way, to ly designed to settle me. Utterly be sure, but the member because the best approach to the revi-charge he was sentenced to four A writer suggests that women sion of the system is to allow months' imprisonment, and on the exagy ate the importance of fur
They make mountains dismissed profits he can from his aggres-from the service. sion, with the rest of the world Both men were attached to the) simply standing by and looking R.LAS.C., Hong Kong Mule Corps.
What sort of precedent- jexcept the very worst possible
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some good)
One case of enteric fever was
To continue quoting from reported to the local Health an- The Times' leader: "But behind thorities during the 24 hours end- all this divergence about the ed on Thursday. immediate problem of Italy lies the old unmistakable deter mination to put an end, by some a clash in defence of a civilised time," for ever and a day? If means or other, to the deliber principle is to come at any time, ate preference of war to peace, here and now, in the face of a of aggression to negotiation, most flagrant betrayal of every- which has designedly shaped thing that it stands for, is the Signor Mussolini's Abyssinian policy" And how is it pro Opportunity to put something posed to put that "unmistakable more than facile talk to the test determination" to
of action. use?---by withdrawing an effec-if we err in these opinions at We are gratified to find that tive weapon-sanctions just all, we do so in distinguished when its use is beginning to show some result; by failing to Times from which we have company. The issue of The use the immense collective force available because
quoted contains letters one "senior
from partner" of the firm refuses to Bailey roundly condemning the Mr. Wickham Steed and Sir Abe pull his weight. What seems Ito us to be so utterly deplorable proposed lifting of sanctions. about this viljely defeatist policy what are the admitted results The last-named remarks: is the complacency with which of Signor Mussolini's substan- a horrible crime against all the tial and spectacular successes? forces of civilisation is con British prestige has suffered a templated. The thing is apparently to be simply ignored, world, particularly among the serious blow throughout the and there is not one among the tribes and peoples of the East, so-called civilised nations who will lift a finger to right a natives of Africa, always res- and especially anoug the grevious wrong. All talk of what they propose to do next ponsive to the achievements of time; not one of them appears provides no solution, but merely
force to contemplate doing anything the respite which postpones the this time.
day of reckoning to a date And those promises of what chosen by Italy and not by us." will happen "next time" leave Let us face facts and admit jus absolutely cold. How many this. British policy has, for "next times" have there already the first time for centuries, if been? : What of Corfu, Man-not in British history al-1 churia and Abyssinia already? together, abandoned a high Is the inevitable reckoning if moral stand and shown willing the civilised world cares a rap ness nay, eagerness-to about retaining the things done a grave felony. With the which it values-to be con-best wish in the world that is tinually put off with promises not something of which the of everything to be done "next individual Briton can be proud.
. To remove sanctions
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jof them might easily have felt at "Opinionated" thrives only upon least like retiring in silence. underestimating another's mentall (Continued on Page 5.)
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WAS AN ITALIAN NATURALIZED 18 GERMANY APPOINTED IN AUSTRIA TO RUN THE NETHERLANDS MALL. *FOR THE SPANISH KING. HIS NAME IS COMMEMORATED
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