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Italy Seeks King Of Abyssinia
Jerusalem, To-day.
Is Italy looking for a King of Abyssinia ?
This question is being asked by the newspapers here, which report that an Italian delegā tion has arrived in Palestine to of approach Asfa Wosan, son the exiled Haile Selassie and former Crown Prince of Abys- sinia, with an offer of the throne of his country.
the Negotiations,
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ZOO OSTRICH DYING
OF OLD AGE
Problems Of The British Empire
In-
The simultaneous publication of two books, "The British Empire" and Survey of British Common- wealth Affairs," by the Royal stitute of International Affairs, the two works being considered as com- plementary, provides à survey of the structure of the Empire and of
the the problems arising in
im- mediate future.
The group of members of the in- stitute which has prepared the first- named book consists of Field- Marshal Sir Philip Chetwode, Pro- fessor F. Clarke, Mr. J. Coatman, Mr. H. V. Hodson, Cmdr. Stephen King-Hall, Mr. R. T. E. Latham, Mr. B. K. Long, Mr. R. W. G.' Mackay, and Sir Frederick Whyte.
The work aims at filling the need for a brief objective survey of the present position of the British Em- pire and of the principal problems Sophy, the London Zoo's tame which will be before the forthcom- ostrich, is feared to be dying of olding Imperial Conference, and to She has established a record serve as part of the documentation for longevity among Zoo ostriches, for the next meeting of the un- for she has been in the Gardens official British Commonwealth since 1927, and no other member oflations Conference. her family has survived for more than three years.
age.
National Question
Re-
the
by
The second-named book is Until recently Sophy showed no first volume of Man attempt sign of age except that she suffered Professor W. K. Hancock to in- from a lame leg, believed to be [vestigate the two outstanding pro- caused by rheumatism.
blems of the national and economic Then she suddenly became in-questions, with a section devoted to different to food and occasionally law written by Mr. R. T. E. Latham. missed a meal. - Now she refuses The first volume is an investigation to touch anything and just lies down of the national queston, in her den.
The complexity of the British The keeper has tried to feed her Empire as it stands to-day defies by hand, but she refuses to definition, but it is closely described swallow anything.
in "The British Empire." Each Sophy is a famous Zoo character. member of the Commonwealth is for she has long been a reliable taken in turn, and the institutions. pet. Unlike some- tame ostriches, binding them together are con-
would never give rides to sidered.
she
young visitors, but she has always More psychological questions are allowed them in her den and per-considered in the "Survey of the mitted them to stroke and examine British Conmonwealth," which co- her plumage...
As she is too ill to be at home to anyone, the Ostrich House has been closed to visitors.
SHE HASN'T MADE A FILM
But Is Germany's No. 1 Star
Germany has gone fan-crazy over
vers the period 1918-1936. The development of the idea of equality among the nations forming the Empire is discussed, and whether it has affected Empire unity, as New Zealand opinion has often feared, also whether it has, on the other hand, gone far enough to appease Irish nationalism.
Dominions' Foreign Policy The freedom of the Dominions in their foreign policy is brought out
a film star the country has never in "The British Empire" in a con- seen on a screen - Zarah Leander, sideration of the conduct of their glamorous Swedish actress. Though foreign relations since the peace Zarah's first film is only half-settlement. ““At the time of the finished at the Ufa studios in Ber-Chanak incident in 1922, when war lin, she is given more publicity between the British Empire and than any:
star in Germany's history. Turkey threatened, the Canadian She earns
£1,500 a week, lives Government of the day made it like a queen in a "palace" that con-plain that its active participation tains bombproof sleeping apart could not be assured without the ments, twenty-two luxurious rooms, consent of Parliament;
The possibility of Canada remaining. Dozens gorgeously-uniformed neutral if the United Kingdom were servants wait on the star, A Count at war is the subject of much acts as her secretary.
discussion.
and Barden TOUKO
**The
Magazines that usually adorn Mr. Latham's exceedingly inter- their front pages with portraits esting review of the law of the of Hitler, Goering, Goebbels, or Commonwealth contains many Von Blomberg, now print new fascinating observations. pictures of Zarah Leander in Statute of Westminster is all that every issue.~*
there is of the Commonwealth in
writes, "and it is not very. The Commonwealth as it
Hitler himself. has taken a per-
sonal interest in the making of ther
films. He sent for the scenario, now exists is a singularly lawless studied it, closely
association.” But he points out, "This nebulous state of the general R.A.F. aircraft fitted with retract-law of the Empire throws into re- able undercarriages are to have ac- lief the success of the common law cumulators installed to enable alarms
to give warning as to the position of within each particular Dominion
Jor Dependency."
the undercarriage..