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once, would obviously have been disastrous. That was realised everywhere in France; but was M. Daladier's speech a reasonable excuse for the degree of excite- Kong.ment. which did take place? Per- haps not, since, without appar- ently a retreat on either side, M. Daladier and the trade unions with their Parliamentary sup- porters are able to find them selves seeing so exactly eye to eye. But the speech was no more than an excuse. M. Daladier's. Government all along has been the object of a good deal of wish-. ful thinking in political quarters. The Left has refused to admit the Editor, and be accompanied by that this is not the fifth Front Populaire Ministry; the 'Right the Writer's Name and Address, has equally positively hailed it
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liament has seen. M. Daladier has · [been closely watched by both for some gesture that would commit him; the speech provided such a gesture, and events have amount- ed more or less to a long-range Parliamentary debate which has proved that M. Daladier is; after all, not committed. But nothing fundamental has been cleared up. The most serious part of M. Daladier's speech did not con- cern the forty-hour week, for all expected that to undergo further modifications, but emphasised Hong Kong, Tuesday, October 11, 1938. the continuously precarious state
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M. DALADIER AND
THE LEFT.
of France's finances. One way to improve them is to increase pro- duction, and one way to increase production is to modify the forty- hour week; but that is only a fraction of the problem. The There is one strong man who “Economist' estimates that in can always be relied on to settle the last month the "gold rush" French industrial and political has lost Paris five thousand mil- disputes, and that is Herr Hitler. lion to eight thousand million francs. M, Daladier may have M. Daladier's recent speech pro-done something to check the |vided the grounds for a duel be- flight, but the old problem of re- tween himself and the Left, chal-patriating French capital is still as acute as ever. And even Herr lenges were exchanged, seconds Hitler can hardly help to do that. appointed, positions taken up-
but not a shot fired. The delega- tion of the Left-wing Parliamen-
tary parties, in its statement, Alpinists On Wheels "notes with satisfaction that, after the declarations made by parts of England, headed by an Twenty cyclists from different M. Daladier to the Radical-So-official of the Cyclists' Touring cialist party and to the delegation Club, have just commenced a of the Left parties, no disagree-four of the Swiss and Italian ment exists with the Premier Alps. Each is equipped with a bicycle weighing only thirty on the above two principles" pounds, and having eight gears; (that is to say, on the need for but, in spite of this, one feels that keeping the Front Populaire ma-such a passage of the Alps is not altogether unworthy to rank be- jority intact and for defending side those that history acclaims the social reforms won since as remarkable feats. |1986). M. Daladier has the satis- The progress of Hannibal may faction of being able to say that have been more spectacular, but the elephant is in several ways he has not budged an inch since better adapted to the occasion his broadcast, and the Left-wing than the bicycle; and it is doubt- parties can congratulate them-ful if Napoleon, had he had the selves that he has not aposta chance, would have preferred to send his eagles “wheeling" over tised. So the forty-hour week the Great St. Bernard. Only in will be modified, and, until Parlia the matter of coming down will ment meets again, at any rate the gallant twenty have a de- cided advantage; and even the (which may not be before Novem-Assyrians who "came down like ber), there will be no open the wolf on the fold" must, by breach in the parties of the comparison, lose their claim to be Front Populaire.
scorchers.
On the whole, however it is a It is natural to wonder whe gesture that should be an en- ther all this fuss and anxiety couragement to those who are in- might not have been avoided. clined to shrink from this mode With the International situation of transport, and who profess to
regard the cyclist as a sort o such as it is a Cabinet crisis,
modern compound Ixion newed labour unrest, or a sus Sisyphuse,For,
quer the Alps,
tained attack on the franc, or, which at one moment did not is not as macer
in ordinary coun
seem impossible, all three at labo