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that light) has been a singularly
bad speller; the displeased x- aminer at the War Office should look at his "Esmond” again and consider the case of the young i scapegrace" Frank Castlewood, who at the ripe age of one-and-
Hong Kong, Wednesday, Feb. 2, 1938, twenty years decided to send in
AT THE FOUNTAIN
his papers, having had enuf of soldering" and being determined, as proof of his having sowed his wild otes," to marry his belov- Low used to be so rude as to ed Clotilda at Brussels. It is draw the National Government disturbing, perhaps, to discover as a two-headed donkey, This, that there are still Castlewoods we were always assured by Min-as candidates for
an ultimate isters, was most unfair. Never commission who cannot spell “re- was there a more united band of connaissance” and who think brothers than the Cabinets of the that Ceylon is an island in the MacDonald and Baldwin Admin Mediterranean, disturbing but istrations, and, of course, the not, the world being what it is harmony is even more perfect to lard young men what they a day. A little damage was done specially surprising. The really by the resignations after Ottawa, important thing is to weed them and particularly by Lord: Snow-out and to let them know that den's indiscreet revelations. But the Army, is no longer a high- when the Free-traders had been spirited haven for the fool of the expelled things quietened down, family but a career which ex- and it was considered impious to pects a mind as well as muscles hint that Mr. Runciman, the and, above all things, a real apostle of Free Trade, was not capa
getting on nicely with Mr. Elliot,
the Tory-Socialist autarkist. But
now, in his position of greater
are,
for mastering those dull which are called details.
freedom and less responsibility. Practice Makes Perfect Lord Runciman feels no need to disguise his emotions. In a New Year message he proclaims..
When an Englishman teaching“ Dodges, however, and too at a Japanese college returned to much" Government-tampering that seat of learning recently he for the collea- I deplore and detest things like gue who had the reputation, dan- marketing boards and other gerous even in time of peace, of Socialist contrivances. We had being a liberal and a pacifist.. On far better depend on the the first day of the term, how- methods and "energy of the ever, the Japanese teacher came creators of good business, to the Englishman's room look- For one who held a leading ing quite well satisfied with him- place in the Cabinet that en self. Very soon he referre to dowed us with an extensive and the Chinese "incident,
and peculiar system of marketing imitating, as Japanese are apt boards this is good. It is even to do, a model that had earned better when one reflects on the his admiration, he cried fervent- amount of "tampering with the ly,"My God, Mr. X What else organisation of industry" that could we do?” Lord Runciman and his own De "Your pacifism
with the organisation of in- was somewhat, canese
dustry may prove disastrous, well-being of a
mur-
partment achieved during his six mured the Englishman tentative- years at the Board of Trade. Y
When the Free-traders filed out The Japanese shook his head, of the Cabinet room in 1932, I know now that pacifism is not Lord Snowden records, Mr. enough, What is needed to-day Runciman seemed to be a very is practical paci unhappy man, and “when we got outside he turned back and |made a cryptic remark that he
a
might be able to drink again at Uniforms for M.P.s the fountain." That is five years resteso vêrk ago. Lord Runciman has now It has been discovered that taken his first gulp manfully. France's M.Ps ought to be wear- For the sake of the reputation of ing a uniform. At any rate the National Government he uniform was ordained for them must be begged to desist. There in 1848 by the Cabinet, and the is no telling where he may get regulation still stands, though to. A few more sips and he may shy representatives of the people even become a Free-trader again have long since recoiled from and start giving the show away, making themselves, in 1848, con-
Armies Old and New
sists of a black frock-coat, white waistcoat of special cut, black pants, and now we come to the gaudy touch-a tricoloured red, at the War Office, white, and blue sash with a gold- after examining recent papers en fringe. A little later a sword from members of public-school with mother-of-pearl handle, was O.T.C.8 who were sitting for added.
Someone
cadets certificates, has just re- Since swords are now some ported himself as a little shocked what out of date, it is being sug- by the lack of knowledge dis-gested in France that a couple of played. In particular he finds gilded hand-grenades might dan- himself perplexed by the spell Igle from the sash instead.