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The China Mail Ninety-Third Year of Publication SA Wyndham Street, Hong Kong result of the new Press Bureau and its operations. And, unfor- tunately, a National Govern- ment" (judging by the behaviour of its own press supporters over the recent crisis) is about -the last body that ought to be en-
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ling functions of that unusual kind. The art of omission seems to be nearer the heart of any national": Government in Eng- land or abroad.
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Change Of Allegiance
Speculation about Mr. Eden's line of action in the immediate future, which gave an added in- terest to his speech at Leaming ton, recalls cases from the emin- ent resignations of the past. Lerd Salisbury (as Lord Cran- borne) went out in 1867, "partly because he disapproved of what his colleagues were doing, but far more because of what he dreaded they would do," and his opposition was active at least for la time. In the House and in the "Quarterly Review" he heaped
Hong Kong, Tuesday, April 12, 1938. sarcasm upon Disraeli and -his
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late colleagues and actually mov-- ed the rejection on third read- ing of their Reform Bill; he re- turned to office seven years later very unwillingly.
On the other hand, there was
There have been some interest- ing efforts to diminish, in some no reconciliation in the case of at London's leading newspapers, Salisbury's predecessor at the Indeed, Lord the note of dissent from the Na- Foreign Office. tional Government's new foreign Derby's formal announcement of policy, including the extremely adherence to the Liberal party in modest amount of attention paid 1880 was a heavy blow to Dis- by one of our national circula-raeli before the election of that tions to Mr. Churchill's measur-year, just as his declaration ed and effective speech in the against Home Rule after having Commons. Such caution, if that sat in Mr. Gladstone's Cabinet be the right name for it, is a was a heavy blow to Gladstone.
Salisbury's Does one want reminder that an earnest desire
to keep the people's news from the return of a boil at the back the people's ears is not necessari-of the neck?" was significant in the case of Randolph Churchill. totalitarian re ly confined to
of the We read that on Randolph's re- gimes. Concealment awkward truth is a weed that can signation his Radical friends flourish in any soil that it not congratulated him, not perhaps fertilised by a real sense of free- quite unselfishly." But he never went over to the other side, dom, candour, and a readiness to allow all men to judge of the though Lord Rosebery may have world around them according to summed him up accurately: "He their own lights. And the party was, it is true, eminently patri- spirit, which of course finds its cian, both by instinct and by But his opinious, his apotheosis in the totalitarian sys- tems, is the natural hot-house for instincts, his aims, were al not
[merely Liberal but Radical” that unlovely growth.
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- But what are you to do about
it when far more than half the
birth
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press, duly following its party Feeding One's Face ideals, wholly fails to reflect with
The demand for the provision, accuracy or intelligence what is almost certainly at the moment during the summer, of in Britain the great bulk of open-air cafes after the Contin- public opinion? First West Ful-ental model would not have found ham and then Lord Halifax at favour with “Ouida," the famous Bristol should be enough to show Victorian novelist, who once de- that. Perhaps we do, after all, clared that eating in public was need a censership-but a censor- indecent. A time was coming. hip a la Sylvie and Bruno" she predicted, when persons of which would match the general refinement would no more think hoey and unease of the world of eating under the observation around us: Such a censorship of others than of performing would not keep things out of the their toilet in public.
Not restaurant meals only but papers, it would put them in.] It would scrutinise each day's those round-the-family table- issues, and if it found that in came under her ban, and a critic any one of them plain and impor-pictured the conditions in the tant facts had been suppressed novelist's millennium of refine or traduced it would decree their ment when a man or certain appearance in the follow-overcome by the pangs of hunger ing day's paper, perhaps with would have to withdraw the introductory catch-line. "Welcompany and think off are instructed by the Censor of a trough in a dark Tel. 21322 the King's English and the Peo-some apper room to satis ple's News to publish without fail solitude an appetite not to the following item that was lam cognised an the
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