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THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 14, 1937.
'THE RETREAT OF BRITAIN'
g and unus- according to the au- full title is the charm HEN-an old-guard anti-Imper- Socialists in Spain to threaten the naive belief WH
ialist writes in defence of other exit of the Mediterranean as thority of the famous Times editor nal story of a young American me- Empire, there must be something in well as the African armed forces ial that Japan really did not in- dical missionary who, on behalf of Persia, spent two years there în it par Leftists and Marxists of her closest ally France? And what tend to set up a "Manchukuo" pup- "The Church of the Age" went to learning the language, and then set worth defending. And when that de- is the explanation of the attitude of pet-State. fence is conducted by the author of "jubilation" adopted by so much of
Believers in Anglo-American co- out on a pastoral journey to convert The Great Illusion," the illumin- British opinion especially conser-
whenever a new form of operation will find sad though whole- the Moslem to Christianity. ation to the reader can be guaran- vative
international aggression worsens the some reading in the rejection out of at the outset the profoundly reli- teed
hand of the Stimson offer by Sir gious attitude of his faithful Per- Empire's defensive position?
John Simon, thereby giving an im- sian servant, Fathi, gave Mr. Wis- mense boost to the Japanese aggres- hard reason to wonder whether it
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For Sir Norman Angell is a think- er, and in Defence of Empire (Lon- don: Hamish Hamilton, 6s) he
If it is Moscow Communism and sors, as well as the further cold would ever be possible to influence douche on the American willingness the views of those who attributed thinks aloud and incisively on one
during the anti-Italian sanctions to every happening, good or bad, to The recent of the most burning diplomatic ques- fears of "world revolution," it
throw over in favour of the League Allah and regarded Mahomet as
But tions of the day, namely the contin- completely-out-of-date.
seas" greater prophet than Christ. the whole "freedom of the uous "retreat" in Manchuria, Ethio Fascist challenges have not been pia and now Spain of the key mem- met, Sir Norman adds, partly be doctrine maintained at such bloody he was full of faith and set out in cost for more than 150 years. Sir good heart. From the second day ber of the British Commonwealth of cause they have been presented not.
as challenges to Britain but,
Norman, however, rather glosses of his pilgrimage things began, ap- His car Nations.
challenges to the League, a League
over the fundamental question whe-parently, to go contrary. What precisely is it that has com- moreover thoroughly distrusted by ther the Stimson offer actially in- discovered a burst radiator, the con- pelled Britain during the last seven much Conservative opinion. And cluded armed American assistance, veyance he hired was afterwards years to accept for herself and for that League is commonly conceived for against international gangsters lost, with all his surgical instru- a group of States pur mere diplomatic gestures are useless ments, drugs, and personal effects, the entire Empire a steady worsen- of, not as ing of the British world strategic suing a common defensive policy, unless backed by force.
an entity apart from its position, which has allowed Japan but as
The author: well inside China on the road to Government Members:
the India, Italy to straddle the Suez puts much of the blame on Canal and march alongside the Com- Foreign Office, an office, he recalls, monwealth's African Empire, and responsible for the Hoare-Laval more and finally the Fascists and National surrender and for that extremely and its strongest communities are dish camp. By then he had already
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London pawnbroker has just been sued for breach of pro- mise. Another unredeemed pledge.
A little slip of the pen may cause 2 man much unnecessary expense, says a lawyer. So can a little slip of a girl.
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"It is good to know that when an octopus squirts ink, it does it scientifically,” said a speaker at the British Association. Few journ alists can make the same claim.
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beyond all hope of salvage, he fell in with the chief of a Kurd band of brigands; and about two-thirds through the book we find Ashley As for the Empire, it has been Wishard alone, living the life of a more "de-Imperialised" just tolerated inferior in the Kur-
now as independent of Westminster begun to learn the lesson that faith as they are of Washington. Their without works could accomplish only link, through the Crown, is nothing, that a "profounder bumil- collective defence of democratic ity about his convictions" was ne- communities possessing no longer cessary, and that "one must come to the right to exploit subject peoples, the East to discover that all the and that is the only Imperial de- achievements of the West are but a fence for which the young men of film of paint upon the soul of man.” Ito-day will march. Such an al-And as that lesson began to express liance" precludes "encirclement" be itself in his life he gathered the cause membership is open to all, power he had hitherto lacked.. offering to others "the precise prin- We leave him returning to the ciple of defence we claim for our- Kurdish ̈ camp with his recovered servant. Fathi, now his first con- Mr. Lyons also telephoned to the selves."
P. S. vert. The Persian Journey” is Treasury to arrange for the dis-
convincing. posal of the penny. That cost an- The Persian Journey. "By Elgin delightful, simply written book that
Groseclose. Harrap. Pp. 316. I found absolutely other penny, so Australia is a penny
7s. 6d.
There is a profound truth underly- of the physical down on the deal As the inter-
"The Persian Journey of the Re- ing this account est of the big debt accrues daily, the generous gift had to be paid verend Ashley Wishard and his Ser- and spiritual adventures of the Rev. into the petty cash account of the rant Fathi," to give the book its Ashley Wishard... Prime Minister's Department.
Mr. Lyons wrote thanking him That cost the nation one penny for the stamp.
This is misappropriation of
funds.
A crooked business altogether.
Wish A Hey And A Ho
Folk-Dance Council,
"When Mark Twain wrote his One of the more delicate duties delightful fantasy of the pauper of the newly formed International boy who suddenly found himself a Advisory prince, he probably had never we're informed, will be to advise heard of Warner Brothers." It is a la lot of people to give up folk-dan- wonder he was able to write at alleing altogether. labouring under this grave handi- cap.
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It seems that the folk-dancing authorities of Great Britain especially aiming at Mr. Willowly
A description of General Franco and a Miss Prune, whose render- ings of "Lamps O'Muck" «Rum- by one Rene Benjamin:
"He is not tall, he is a little below's Hey, and especially "Pud- "have been extremely heavy, his body is timid. Ah! His deny Pie," glance is unforgettable, like that vexing for some time. A member of of all rare beings. A troubled and the English Folk-Dance and Song trembling glance, full of sweet-Society said:
ness; the man is delicious and my “We have been layig for these two back in 1920. sterious....His forehead is beauti-hoofers since way ful....with feminine sensitiveness That Prune baby-gosh, she gives and delicate features. In the smile you the heebs! Listen, she puts over of this warrior one sees a woman's the merrie-mersie like it was a The strip-tease number! Maybe she's soul and a child's heart. ravishing thing about Franco 18 his all set for a Cochran two-time, purity."
I understand there are one or two people in Spain who don't fully agree.
Financial News
maybe she's just plumb nuts. That other guy'd make a swell mortician if he had a better pan.”
Miss Prune said with some în- dignation:
"One strives to infuse into the
The national debt of Australia is dance the traditional merriment £1,262,911,646 08. Id.
of Olde Englande, and one's re-
A certain gentleman who dis-ward is to be calumniated by per- covered this fact sent one penny to sons of no culture! Mr Lyons, the Prime Minister, as
Mr. Willowly said, rather indis-
resture to reduce the tinctly sum to round figures.
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The captain of a cable ship was fishing in Spurness Sound, in the Orkneys, and caught a dog fish. A huge halibut came to the
the dog fish was being reeled and it was promptly · hooked with
A seaman went over the side and managed to get a rope around the fab Photo shows The huge halbet and it was successfully hauled aboard.
(Fox Copyright). safely aboard the cable ship.
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