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THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 13, 1939
How far Whitehall can them as the proposals-suggest- in adapting Britain's trade trea- ties to flag discrimination seems more open to question." We are on an exceedingly slippery slope about whose dangers no one would have been more eloquent than the shipowners themselves, o few years ago.
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The touching story of the in- terview which" Mr. Chamberlain had with the late lamented Pope Pius XI is a reminder that En- glish statesmen are no longer such familiar figures in Rome as summed up his opinion of some in the days when. Pius IX thus
of the leaders of the day: "I like but I do not understand Mr. Gladstone; Mr. Cardwell I-under- stand but I do not like; I both like and understand Lord Claren- don; the Duke of Argyll I neither like nor understand.” Over a long period acquaintance with Home was almost an essential for Englishmen, though they looked at the city with different eyes. One of Gladstone's party in 1866 told Morley that "Mr. Gladstone seemed to care little or not at all about wonders of archaeology alike in Christian and pagan Rome, but never wearied of hear ing Italian sermons from priests
Hong Kong, Monday, February 13, 1939 and preaching friars.”.
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Harcourt, unlike most of his contemporaries, left his visit to Rome till old age, writing home that "Cato did not learn Greek The Rome Government has pro- till he was past seventy and I have reserved Rome for a similar mised its sympathetic attention
maturity." As might have been to the claims of the shipping in expected, he took a view diametri- dustry. It cannot complain if cally opposite to that of Glad- the proposals the industry sub-stone. He had nothing good to say of St. Peter's, "but the real mits are thoroughgoing and ex old Rome entrances me the Ca pensive. They amount in direct pitol, the Forum, and the Pala- subaidies-to £8,500,000 a year for tine are all my fancy painted.”
Macaulay, again, shared with a This is a
very different..
-person, Charles modest sum by the side of what Greville, an eagerness to see. St. agriculture has had; sugar beet Peter's and was not disappointed and fat cattle alone cost the Ex-in the event. Journals like those of the last Lord Holland when in chequer more than that. But Rome suggest that a century ago they do not represent the end of that city was almost another Lon- the matter. If there is to be a don during its season. further tonnage reserve under which vessels would be laid up for a national emergency there The Mother-in-Law would be a further charge; Mr. Haldin's scheme suggested 10
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