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The attitude adopted by Mr. Anthony Eden towards Sir
7, Garrick Street, London, W.C.2. Nevile Henderson's Berlin ban- quet speech was, for all the La- bour Party may think about it, the only intelligent one to take. Sir Nevile was speaking at a All communications intended for public banquet, in an unofficial publication should be addressed toitled to express his own point of capacity, and was just as en- the Editor, and be accompanied by view as is Mr. Arthur Hender- Writer's Name and Address, son, Jr. at a Labour Party con- ference. The House of ~ Com- but mons' discussion, nevertheless, produced-one somewhat striking revelation of a type of mentality that surely demanded repudia- tion. General Sir A. Knox, the member for High Wycombe, ask- ed whether it was not the duty of all Ambassadors to es- tablish the best possible re- lations between Great Britain and the countries to which they were accredited. The only infer- ence that can possibly be drawn Hong Kong, Wednesday, June 9, 1937. from such a question as this is
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that General Knox would have Britain's ambassadors currying favour, if necessary, by doing their public speaking with their Reports that the submission of tongues in their cheek, sub-
diplo the Torikhel tribe has not ended stituting hypocrisy for
there are the operations on the North-macy Doubtless, West Frontier and that the occasions when diplomatic lan- called into Fakir of Ipi remains defiant, is guage needs to be a reminder that the campaign service to steer Britain's envoys has now been going on for six through difficult passages. But months almost without a break that's a far different cry from and that India will soon be asked what appears to be an invitation to foot a heavy bill...
to studied chicane. It would be
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Waziristan, where the fighting a sorry day for Britain's influ- is going on, stretches between ence in the world if Sir Alfred the frontier of Afganistan and Knox's implied dictum became the administrative border of an accepted standard.:: India from the North of Balu-
chistan to within about a hun-
dred miles of the great military
centre of Peshawar and the Oil From Coal
Khyber Pass. After the war a
four years' campaign was under-
taken which ended with the "The Motorship” never leaves penetration of the whole country its readers in any doubt as to its by strategic roads and a per-views on the question of coal manent occupation. It seemed, utilisation, and its remarks in until last year, that this policy the May issue are, as usual, was likely to preserve peace, but pointed and definite. In a para- this hope has now been defeated, graph headed "Oil from Coal" it whatever the actual cause of the expresses the conviction that new rising may be. Responsi- coal firing, and the general use bility is officially laid at the of coal in its crude form, muşt doors of the Fakir of Ipi, who is ultimately be abandoned, “since alleged to have excited the re- in a more advanced communi- ligious fanaticism of a religious ty it is scarcely possible to think and fanatical people and to have of human beings condemned to started a holy war against the handle coal in the barbarous with which it is now British, helped by the tribes' manner passionate and self-indulgent love dealt.” The production of oil of fighting. All this may be from coal at the coalfields seems. true, but it does not get us very to represent a final solution of far Road-building has had to be the problem, but it is to be fear- supported by the old-fashioned ed that anything approaching punitive expedition and the mo- the complete fulfilment of that dern aeroplane. There has been solution is remote, in view of the much argument over the wisdom difficulty at present of rendering of aerial bombing; those who conomic the process of the pro- defend it are inclined to claim duction of coal oil or petrol for it too little that there are although it is not to be accepted hardly any casualties, that very that this position will continue little damage is done, that the indefinitely. We have seen too tribes bear no grudge. If this many
past 20 were true why bomb them? But years take up the attitude in any case one thing seems cer- that a thing cannot be done be tain, that military expeditions cause it has not yet been done. and bombs are meant to punish, In any event, the attempt to ren- of Fand that at this time of the year der Britain independent
the punishment takes the form imported supplies has less prac- for The of the destruction of the year's tical significan crop. In an impoverished ter-Motorship than the necessity, ritory this can never be more from the point of view of normal thin a temporary solution, and rogress, of though the present trouble will sources, in, a more civilised man- be brought to an end it may be
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