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The present Position appears to be that the Fuchret is content with the position he has achieved and that Italy is not. Their own close understanding, however, may finally be the determining factor and that determination, with Germany, so plainly on the side of liquidation of the Spanish Fimbroglio, may well be eminently satisfactory from the viewpoint of European peace.
Lordly Feelings
Regent rumours have been set rest by the announcement that
the Prime Minister's re- signation will take effect on Friday: The question that now, possibly, arises, is, What are Mr.
Baldwin's feelings likely to be when The wedding arranged between he passes from the Commons to Mr. Edward William Loveless and the Lords? It is improbable Miss Florence Noreen Cooper will that he will share the regret of take place at 4 p.m. on Saturday, Lord Haldane, who on reluctant- June 5th, at St. John's Cathedrally submitting to a similar trans- No invitations will be issued but lation remarked with his custom- all friends will be welcome at the ary moderation
of speech, "I am conservative Church and afterwards at the re- going to a rather
to ex- ception to be held in the Jacobean place"; nor is he likely Room, Hong Kong Hotel.
press himself with the flamboy- ance of Beaconsfield, who, after three months in the Upper
Hong Kong, Tuesday, May 25, 1937. | House, lamented that he was
ARMISTICE HOPES
"like one dead, and in the Elysian fields.” Still less would ole expect his verdict to be that of an old colleague of Mr. J. H. Commendable in opportunism Thomas, who after being made a as is Britain's effort to secure Labour peer groaned, "Oh, Jim, agreement to an armistice be-this is a hell of a place!” tween the rival armies in Spain, The different attitude of these indications already provided ap- born into the Upper House, so pear to indicate how forlorn is to speak, and those promoted (?). the hope of success. The reason thither was demonstrated to the truce has been asked at this Lord John Russell, who on tak- juncture arises from the bid by ing a peerage was told by the international non-interven- Brougham, "Oh, Johnny, you'll tion committee for acceptance of find it mighty dull here," and by the principle of the withdrawal Lord Derby, "Oh, Johnny, what of all non-Spanish participants. fun we shall have here Diplomatic hopes go much fur-together!" ther than this, however; the be- lief being that if the leaders can
once be persuaded to stop fight-Mr. Ramsay MacDonald ing, they can be persuaded not to begin all over again.
open.
Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, at a First catch your hare plainly dinner given to him by the Na- holds good as an axiom in this tional Labour Party at the House case and as plainly, he is destin of Commons, conveyed a strong ed to prove a highly elusive hint that he, too, will leave the quarry. Both General Franco Ministry upon Mr. Baldwin's re- and the Valencia leaders have signation. No official intimation given blunt refusals to consider has yet been given that the the proposal and the attitude of Laird of Lossiemouth will de- Italy is such as would seem to finitely go into retirement, but foredoom the whole project to the appointment of Earl Halifax failure. The encouraging fea-as Lord President of the Council ture is the accommodating spirit is being freely canvassed, which revealed by Germany, where un-amounts to much the same thing. reserved support is indicated, and As far as that goes, there as Herr Hitler, more perhaps would seem to be an almost than anyone else has power to dramatic fitness in the simul- break the deadlock, it may be taneous retirement of the twin claimed that the most sharply architects of the so-called Na- defined path to progress remains tional Government for nothing is more certain than that if it to- It is to be observed that since day preserves less than the his January speech to the Reich-shadow of its original self, the stag, reiterating desire to co-reconstitution of the Cabinet operate with the other Powers, this week will mean the final dis- Herr Hitler has done and said appearance of serious pretence. nothing provocative, and the Certain of the forms may be pre- earlier Nazi eagerness to support served. Mr. Malcolm MacDonald There Franco in Spain has been quietly may retain his office. damped down. That the Fascist will be room for a Simónite Powers are "losing heart" may Liberal here and there.. But no- the not be strictly true. Nor can it one is trying to persuade be said simply that they were public to the belief that the bluming and that their bluff has labels carry meaning any longer. been called. For, viewing the Mr. Ramsay MacDonald's fade- past years
diplomatic out will not be noticed for that, manoeuvring on the broad scale, among other reasons; it has long their real objective has been been fairly obvious that his probably to create the soundest period of usefulness has passed. possible position from which to It may, indeed, surprise many assert equality" in that confer- people to learn, by virtue of an- hent of his retirement, ence for "a general settlement” nounceme which is the only alternative to that he has all this while been
holding Cabinet rank.
war.