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THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 31, 1938.
War Debts
The China Mail
Ninety-Third Year of Publication
The report that, a war debts settlement may be negotiated with the United States at the same time as the trade agree- ment is not only denied but is manifestly impossible. The Unit-
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States Trade Agreements Act, under which the American Government is now to negotiate the trade treaty, contains clause specifically forbidding any- thing in the nature of tariff con- cessions in return for resumed debtor
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countries.
Even if a debt settlement could Notice To Contributors.
be reached outside, but concur- All communications intended for rently with, the trade negotia- tions it would still look too much publication should be addressed to like a "tariff-debt" deal for the liking of many in the United the Editor, and be accompanied by States, particularly the great in-
dustrialists, who are not the Writer's Name and Address, indulgent to the trade negotia- tions anyhow, since an agreement not necessarily for însertion but as means concessions to the British
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a guarantee of good faith.
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AFRICAN STUDIES
The Registered Babe
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It was a pleasant story about the lady, with a babe in her arms, who walked into the Orpington Post Office and announced at the Upon the measure of under-counter, "I want you to register standing which the white races this child. Of course it could to bear upon problems, Inot be done. For one thing, the the needs, and the ideals of the maladroit parent would almost African peoples the whole future certainly have neglected to put a of the African continent must spot of sealing-wax- somewhere depend. Britain as the Power about the infant, and it is a well- most widely concerned should be known social face (see the Post foremost in the provision it Office Guide, p. 87) that no pack- makes for teaching those whose age, whether postal or personal, lives will be spent among can be accepted for registration Africans the languages of the na-unless there is a dab of sealing- tive peoples with whom they will wax somewhere on the outside of mix. Yet outside the universi- it. It also needs a blue line ties the sole source of such drawing I round it, and few teaching is a department of the mothers are in the habit of so de School of Oriental Studies devot-corating their off-spring. There ed to African linguistics and de- was also the further point that pendent for its existence upon a the office of the Orpington Regis- Rockefeller grant. The annual re-trar of Births was in a different port contains a reminder that street from that where the Or- the grant comes to an end this pington letters are registered, and year and that, failing other re-to that street the lady (with in- sources, work that has through-fant) was duly redirected. out five years proved of the first And not, perhaps, without a value must cease. The need for it sigh of relief from the post office is well shown by the list of stu- staff. For you never can tell dents for the current year, They nowadays; tasks and duties that include missionaries, medical were unknown of old cluster men, research workers, teachers, thickly round the people behind business men, and Government the suburban post-office counter. servante bound for all parts of Wireless. licences, motor-car. li- the African continent. Some cences, pensions and allowances, need the more familiar of the telephone accounts, and the African tongues, Swahili, Hausa, quirements of those myriad and or Ibo. Some seek a grounding in invincible optimists who swell the lesser-known languages such the weekly rake-off of the foot- fae Yoruba or Xhosa. With a ball pool promoters all those: grant of only £8,000 a year the things and others have to be dealt department has been able to with besides what might be de
naintain a professor and four scribed as strictly postál i busi-:
with research assis-ness. There may well have been -publish useful text-a horrid moment behind the Or and to make linguistic bington counter when it flashed one, records devised to across the minds of the clerks the learner a systematic In-that, in addition to dealing with uction to the difficulties of pool, perhaps Whitehall had pronunciation. So far lately decreed that post offices being dependent upon a must also deal with parents and grant this is work register any infants who wen- should be placed by the presented for that attention. They lenta Interested upon a must have been glad in that post basia, for its importance office when they saw the lady |_ with the passage of trot off to the other register de-
partment in the next street.
time.