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housed, it rendered a work by Delius, and received from a num- ber of crocodiles the tribute of prolonged applause, conveyed in a mighty burst of tail thuraping.
One can rule out at once suspicion of a "croc" claque: it is true that the crocodiles were subsequently soothed with warm
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suppose that they foresaw after Delius the deluge. Their appre- ciation was undoubtedly genunic, and another manifestation of that reptilian taste for music, of which the snakes have long given evidence.
not does It is a taste that appear, on the whole, to be pro- valent in the animal kingdom; and although both Orpheus and the Pied Piper of Hamelin had a large following there, and the lesser subjects of Pan were greatly moved by his piping, there have been few. performers, since, able to elicit anything ap- Hong Kong, Thursday, May 4, 1939.proaching the response obtained
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OFF WITH THEIR HEADS!
by these maestri.
One hesitates to associate even the birds with the reptiles; for their attitude is a trifle ambigü ous. It is possible that when the Five more heads recently went nightingale is induced to sing in the basket along with that of over the radio by the sound of Sir Stafford Cripps. The owners the violin, it is a kindly lesson of them, though they may not be rather than an emulative display amused, will certainly not be sur-that she gives; and that the vio- prised: they knew what was lin is indeed, as the populace has coming to them as a result of it, "getting the bird. daring the disfavour of a party On the other hand, it may be machine which works with all that the crocodiles merely enjoy, the efficiency of a guillotine in an exceptional advantage in ex- its downward stroke. As Sir pression, in being able to signify Charles Trevelyan wrote to Mr. their approval forcibly with Attlee:
conventional sound that humans cannot mistake.
I am to be turned out of the Labour party by the Executive for insisting on tactics speaking my mind as to the required to save my country and the world.
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He and the other four sinners Exalted and Cleansed may conceivably be mistaken in their view of what tactics are re- That particular brand of ob- quired for that purpose, but they scene slavering drivel that the cannot possibly be wrong about Duce specialises in, is apparently their right to express their own a contagious disease. opinions to other people. They From Fascist Italy to Docile are not, as Sir Stafford Cripps Britain the plague has spread. was, members of the Executive; Here's an outbreak of it in a he, as one with direct respon-British military journal:— sibility to the party machine, "When the fighting men of one was held to have acted uncon- nation meet the fighting men of stitutionally in his arrangements another nation in shock of battle for testing the amount of support
the hearts of men can be
for a Popular Front" or Na- exalted and cleansed, and the tional Opposition," even though ends of some healing purpose for the ultimate decision on that humanity can be served.
point was always to be left to There is too much whining the Labour Party Conference. and bleating concerning peace Now it seems that any promin- nowadays."
Nice stuff, isn't it?
ent representative of the party, even though he is not a member of the Executive, acts uncons stitutionally "in the absence of Thorns undertakings
discon
tinue participation in the popular Nations may bristle with front campaign.” So out they bombs, guns, and airplanes, but go in advance of the Conference the queen of the garden has been and its discussions, though it is disarmed. A rose, without, thorns difficult to see how the Labour is displayed at the Philadelphia party is to be strengthened by Flower Show. If this becomes a their explusion or the Confer- trend, poets may have to revise ence saved altogether, from the their attitude on the subject. menace of argued, dissent from Burns's sweat strain about the the official policy of splendid iso- betrayer, who "stole the rose, but lation. The discipline may be ah; he left the thorn wi ma magnificent as an example of à will be out of date, and humanity party – machine attempting to can no longer shrug its should- function with all the persuasiverers at imperfection and say re- grace and charm of a team-roll- signedly, "No rose without a er, but it does not seem at all thorn." courageous or democratic. And In the world that lies around ua it grows increasingly out of touch with reality.
Crocidyll
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And are we to suppose that mankind is skillful enough to ins terfere with the processes. - of nature and deprive the rosë ... of her weapons - is unable to res move the thorns from himself? Can he not, by ise clipping grafting) les: out of
lieve that
of the civilisation? To
cannotvis sith. (** the long, slow.j
thornless