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M. Bhum has made a promise to control the rise in prices. is task is difficult as well as un-
eet, Hong Kong.popular, but it is not impossible. Every friend of France will wish him well in his efforts to main- tain stability
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FRANCE RESPONDS
that
political hats
shirts are for-
is it not time
was done about
We o not refer to the hats
Worn thro
male
politicians,
which some of them oC-
venient to
but the odd hats that too Rutiishi women are wear-
ing at the present time.
If factional
like to know is to be fare most
The remarkable response of [distinctly France to the National Defence that are Loan appeal is a measure of the been national spirit of patriotism in Jack
a time of stress rather than of other notamo
not indicate a then we should onstruction hem. They crown and
those
to have Bobin Hood, Bill Sikes, and characters.
driven to the hat a strong is actuating half of the popula- turming more
then
afmities.
a great faith and confidence in We France's financial stability. It painful is none the less remarkable for subversi that
the fen In the impressions formed tion; that abroad concerning M. Blum's and more Government, the firm but con- search for It is bes ciliatory course he has pursued through anxious, months of in- that most of the new millinery ternational tension, has thrown is comical, and that even women into the background the internal themselves laugh at it. There economic difficulties which face are lots of things that from a his Cabinet For his own coun- British viewpoint would be trymen, too, the handling of comical if they did not constitute foreign crises has probably a menace.
say
superseded in interest those la- Surely, then, now its Shirts bour troubles which ushered in Bill has gone through Parlia- his Premiership, but the situa- ment, the Government should tion of the franc, the rise in add a codicil dealing with the production costs and in the in-scarcely less crucial question of dividual's cost of living have an hats. A supervisor or censor of immediate personal importance. these would not be out of place. Devaluation, however inevitable, Better still would it be to have a has not produced economic few say, half-a-dozen at the stability. In his broadcast ap-most standard styles of hats peal last week M. Blum did not for women, and three or four for suggest that a real financial men. crisis had arrived, but he re- Anyone seen abroad wearing ferred bluntly to "a money.
any other style would therefore ket which was rarefied and conse be ripe for instant arrest and quently uneasy, and which was imprisonment without option. disturbed by the least shock,
Since the thing is worth doing, and he asked frankly for some it is worth doing well. Shirts, forbearance. The situation is after all, are only a small part of one which we can observe with the impedimenta with which we considerable, sympathy. There seek to express “our
is. the same feeling of insed
as many in Britain felt in
but there are factors in France
alties.
which retard the return of Jury? Or Judge?
fidence. They are not fatal, but they must be recognised and
overcome.
radiant
-Would you rather be tried by a jury or by a Judge alone?
Those who have served on One disadvantage which M.
Any- Blum inherited from his spre certain juries may decessors in the Premiership thing but them
LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD. a long series of unbalanced bud Murderers regarding Judges,
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gets. Another handicap was the necessity, if he were to satisfy his electoral supporters, of con- siderable social reforms. He has not been unst
here,
he has shown coura hing Commun
the cost
dustry
may say. Anyone but him!"
It really depends on the case Judges are popularly supposed lacking in emotional-sym- They know the arts of Therefore, if you want in a doubtful cause, infamed by
justice, without Judge?
At all events, the High Court London decided the other day
may
when