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¡¡double threat which they "could". make with impunity before that. lentente was favoured in London. This is not to say that inter- national crises are at an end, only that they will be less awesome to governments which are no longer unready to match the dynamic technique of the Rome-Berlin- Tokyo triangle with the defensive All communications intended for power of non-expansionist states. publication should be addressed to bound in a common purpose.
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The intention, recently nounced, of Siam to change its name to "Muang-Thai," "The Land of the Free," will, accord- ing to at least one authority, pro- vide a problem for Westerners.. For, it appears, such are the in-
Hong Kong, Tuesday · Ur 25, 1939, (tricacies of the Siamese langu-
DOUBLE THREAT
Delay in signing an agreement with Britain is now said to be due in part to Russia's desire to wait and see what happens in the Far East and Danzig.
at-
age, that the uninitiated, tempting to pronounce the new title, may with ease refer inad vertently to "The Land of the Long Purse," or "The Marsh of Those Who Creep Like Worms," not to mention even more dero- gatory possibilities.
Sympathy must certainly be given to the radio announcer in.
when Muang-Thai From Moscow's, point of view the Occident
is in the news. He can hardly be a purely Japanese threat could expected to grasp these tonal and be met by Russian armies in the pronunciatory nuances so well East without benefit of an al-that he will never filch the good liance with Britain and France. name and leave the purse, or in- But when such a threat is accom-troduce serpents into this other panied by signs of German pres- Eden. While, if he attempts to sure at Danzig, throughout the render "The Land of the Free" Baltic region and possibly else in his native tongue, the result where along the racial boundary may be confusing; since there are where Slavs and Teutons meet, still Westerners who might im- there exists a double menace to agine a reference to their own Russian interests which can best country. be checked by Russian adherence to a new triple entente. Likewise,
It looks as though, the Siam--
as London watches Japanese en ese may be giving the world an- croachment on British interests other white elephant; but at least in the Far East while Britain at-one must congratulate them. on being able to pro-- tempts to protect vital interests heartily
in Europe, the "bear that walks nounce themselves free. like a man" begins to stand out as an indispensable member of Europe's defensive community.
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Englishmen in the Sun
Ne'er cast a clout Till May be out,
Early in the negotiations be- tween Russia and Britain it was If one may judge from letters reported. that Moscow was seek-recently written to the. London: ing a pledge of Anglo-French aid Press by observant citizens, the in the Far East as well as in ancient Scottish maxim, Europe, but that the two wes- tern nations were unwilling to make commitments of this sort outside Europe. With new pres-is much too revolutionary for the sure on western interests by Ja-average Englishman. For it ap- pan in China may come a revised pears that, whatever he may do attitude on the part of London on his holiday, the Englishman and Paris, if not toward Eastern pursues his business, regardless. pledges at least toward other pro- of the month, in garments that a blems which now seem to be rising thermometer must render postponing the completion of a "the trappings and the suits of triple entente.
woe.
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Despite present delays in An- He has been remonstrated with glo-Russian negotiations, this is often; but he remains stiff-neck- a probability with which both ed about his stiff collar, Hot- Tokyo and Berlin must reckon. If headed in retaining his bowler, these capitals time their diplo- and determined to stick to every matic offensives as to create an possible stitch of his inappro appearance of premeditated col-priate clothing. So, he would make laboration, they will do their believe, June is for him a legend rivals the service of removing emptied of concern." one of the obstacles which these
His leaders; alas, set him the rivals have confronted when at tempting to reach complete example. On a particularly hot. agreement, namely, British ap day lately, it was noticed that not prehension that to sign up with a single Peer in the House of Lords had discarded his waist- Russia would push Japan Into German alliance. For if a Ger- coat; and the ordinary mán can- man-Japanese alliance is recog- not altogether be blamed, if he is uenced by such vested inter- to exist in effect, post- ent of a counter-alliance esta. The only hope would seem to may yet not well be justified.
give
ent the cry
some strike shrew clout, for his country's tradition, BOG, APPRAISAL noh in the Garb of Old Gaul, at least in one bet- the ter befitting Old Sol.