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Derby Sweep fortune, divided thousand ways almost among an amah's syndicate, is interesting when the trouble is taken to sub- ject it to analysis. It reveals, for instance, that the acute dis- tress which exists among the
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All communications intended for pleased when the big prize has failed to come his way that its benefits have been widespread publication should be addressed to where it can do much exceeding good, on the basis that each share that was worth only $390 and some of those shares were divid- It would be ed up into tenths! possible to feel still happier about it were there some evi- dence that the good luck of these four to five hundred people had generally aroused a new thought for the four to five hun- dred thousand people in the Co- lony whose plight in many cases is worse than the first condition of the members of the amah's syndicate 'Good' · fortune has come to a few, but against the real problem of poverty in Hong Kong, sweepstake luck has no meaning whatsoever. It is as well to remember that at the same time as we permit ourselves a feeling of contentment about the
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DEFENCE
Were world political conditions Romance Of Law to-day in any shape other chaotic, it would be difficult
than to
many
challenge the logic of Mr. Cham- In a recent speech in London, berlain's defence of his conflict Lord Macmillan said that in his with Mr. Eden. He sees the pro-view no study could be more in- blems of foreign policy from a teresting, more fascinating, and
of deliberate angle very
ap more romantic than the law, and would like to see it proach, and he sounds sweetly that he reasonable in arguing that the taught in simple fashion in the position adopted by the Opposi-schools. tion appears to be that conversa- "Romantic" may strike tions should in no circumstances people as a surprising adjective. be held with countries whose re to apply here. The subject is con- cords they do not approve or at
nected in the popular mind with least not until those countries
crabbed Latin, and incomprehen- have shown signs of repentance.
sible English; and its arcana It is difficult too to controvert
held to be buried fathoms deep about the argument he builds
which in musty calfskin, into the League of Nations' loss of
only the stoutest heart, and prestige and importance.
Allied with past experience of strongest head, dare penetrate. It and its practitioners have Mussolini's. tactics, it ís
come in for many a classic gibe; because the Premier's attitude is and the sophists and pedants who so coldly business-like and cal-
have exploited it for their own culated than it is subject to So unworthy ends have had more deep a mistrust in Britain. The than their fair share of publicity war bogey he raises to justify throughout the ages. the doctrivie of expediency turows him back on the charge Yet, in fact, besides being al- that his is a policy of scuttle. most the greatest practical in- His logic defeats itself. Instrument that man can wield for stinctively, the feeling rises above his advancement, the law has academic discussion that there is tale to unfold warranted to atir a catch in it somewhere, that the dullest imagination. It is sacrifice of principle in such cir- the story of the struggles and cumstances as contemplated by achievements of ordinary men Mr. Chamberlain is little short as distinct from those of excep- ¡of national humiliation. The tional men that largely make up British people have prided them the version of history taught in selves in their latter-day history schools. If the former story that their foreign policy has been lacks the purple patches and epic based upon the firm foundation scenes of the latter, it reveals of insistence upon national inte- more completely than any other grity and respect for a code of single body of evidence the con- international behaviour. Mr. ditions that governed life in the Chamberlain misjudges the na-past. tional spirit badly if he believes he can revert to "the end justi- fies the means" politics.
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Romance apart, the study of legal history is an invaluable - commentary, and has, therefore, a strong claim to be adapted to, and included in, the school cur- riculum; while the advantages to The wave that has swept the be gamed by the future citizen Colony, of generous approval of from instruction in the law as it the destination of the $141,000 stands are obvious.