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CAN A COMMUNITY OF
"
NATIONS BE FORMED?
"Two
and
By Wickham Steed
end-
CARNIVAL
By Dick Turner.
TELLEF
НИДЕ
Anul
com-
to
years ago on May 8 of the Covenant must be neutrality of bystanders, 1046, the war In Europe
war it is the same with war, The egarded as an act of ed. Experience has since shown agulost all the other members. neutral in fact shirks hin share even more drastically than it France war mot convinced. Some of the burden of humanity."
years later her Prime Minister, Mr. Elhu Root was equally showed in 1919 and 1920, that the end of a war may not forth M. Andre Tardieu, put forward expllett. He wrote that suppres- amita- International alon of war involves with bring peace. Then, to ena plan for un
of sovereignty, making sure peace, the Covenant of the police force; but he was unable tion League of Nations was drafted to answer a shrewd question every sovereign state subject to REPARATIONS
cambodied In the pener anked by the French Royalist the superior right of a treaties and the League itself Leon Daudet: "What is to hap-munity of,soverelyn states
la have the peace preserved. if your police foren nen Revived discussion the set up. Now for the same pur-
oa
added, "When you Or-beaten?" prospects of local reparations pose the United Nations
Renunciation Of from Japan is most likely to ganisation has been establish- hase
Neutrality its ultimate effected on the strength of a Charter heavier disappointment for those depted at San Francisco
This question went to who still cutertain an odd beljet June 26, 1945.
By Article 43 of that Charter heart of the matter. that adequate recompense
all the members of the Unlied nly have been answered war losses, will be forthcoming Nations
that natlone promised to make claimlag In the first place, it is a mistake available to the Security Conn had established the police force 'velop will be as different from to make war those that have come from the to regard the transaction which el armed forces, assistance, would be bound
Bent
for
Lack of Unanimity
021
Flo have got this principle accepted openly, expressly, distinctly, equiveeally by the whole elvilis- theed world, you will for the first
1-
It could time have a community of na-
by tions,
and the practical which gulta which will naturally
re-
de.
respon.
the
is now being arranged, the ship-and facilities necessary for the with all their strength upon ita old view of national
of industrial plant and purpose of maintaining inter- delinquent victor. Article 4 of ability as are the results which Nations Charter flow from the American de- equipment for sale in Hong national peace and security. By the United
to forestall this con-claration of Independence com- Kong, as in any way an item of Aritele 45 they agreed to held reeks
which reparations for Hong
air-force Kong untional
centingents tingeney by obliging all United pared with the results
Nations to contribute armed flow from the divine rights of The Colony like other places) ready for combined action t
at the call of the kings." will be given the uppurtunity to the call of the Security Comell; forces,
The laste now ralsed by the make purchases of Japanese and by Article, 46 the Military Security Council, for the main- equipanent removed by SCAP Staff Committee of the Commeil tenance of peace and security report of the Military Staff Incidentally, neceptance of Committee of the Security for the purposes of reparations, was instructed to make plans but the money derived will go for the application of an armed this obligation implies renuncia Courell is whether under
tom of neutrality, a renuncia-United Nations Charter a truc tion entailed by the concept of community of nations exists or hack into a central pool. Shout force. there be, at any time, some pay-
aggressive war as a crime call- can be formed. ment to Hong Kong as repara tions, it will be drawn from this central poul. Promising as this may possibly seem, the first point ta be observed is that the Americans have insisted that the fint claim 193741 any funds available for reparations shall be that of the occupation costs, and what that is likely to involve in Eldars and cents.
can be ima-the gined more readily than it Can His moreover, le calculated.
On May 3, this Staff Coming for police action, a crime mittee issued Its first report from which no legal rights can
of
as an essential of national
The Sunda
Separatist Movement
-
COPR. 1943 BY HEA BERVICE, MIC. T. M. REC. 3, A, FAT, OFF,
"Well, the way you charge five conts for each check, five cents a deposit and a quartor for each statement, it's no wonder I'm overdrawn!"
BARCLAY ON BRIDGE
By Shopard Barclay
"The Authority on Authorities",
DAVID VERSUS GOLIATH
upon the establishment of a flaw. The older conception
United Nations. International neutral "rights" anaumed that Fores." On 25 of the 41 clauses war, even aggressive, war, was
success with his contract. This occurred at a couple of tables, lowa of this report its authors agree. Inwful if it were declared and
where Enst led his heart. K. It They disagree upon the remain-waged nccording to the
Carnage wreaked by little was raffed, the club A brought ing 16. The divergence of the of war. The right to be neutral
carls against top honors, when a discard of the diamond Q. views seem to reflect the stand was regarded
there is a freakish distribution. diamond was, ruffed, a second points of the Soviet Union on attribute
and al the sovereignty. one hand,
la the bridge veralon of David heart ruffed, a second diamond. Not all the members of the Western Powers on the other-
versus Goliath. The classic act ruffed, a third heart' ruffed, the which suggests United Nations may have un- a divergence
I usually put on in the trump spade. J led to the A, the re- of derstood, when they adopted that an unanimous decision
- Bandoeng, Java, May 14. in clear, that Japan's economic pos- the Security Council to create a Article 43 that they were
la behind the Sun-theater, as the No Trump stage turned club ruffed, the spade K Ia better adapted to the his. dropped the Q. the fourth rion, the cost of her war exer
"United Nations International fact branding war as a
Janeso separatist movement trionics of the heavier actors. heart was given up as the de- fense's second and last trick. tirt as much as the collapse Force" may be hard to attain. and renouncing their sovereign claiming to represent Rome
David gets and North's fifth heart was following her surrender, makes
To me, who have long re-right to be neutral. Yet they 12,000,000 residents in the west in the sult show,
of room to use plenty
good. er a poor subject for a repara flected
of were in reality creating a new of Java? In it, as some Indone upon the problem
alingshot, made up of long
At another table, against the tho tions bill anything like
international police force, international law and proposing sians usintain, the Dutch ef strings of cards with only an 5-Spudes East laid down inensurate to the havoc and this lack of unanimity is not in establish a police system to
Trump A. Upon seeing the dummy,, he underled his dia- mond K to the A and West re- turned the spade Q. Able now to ruft only one heart and dis- card one on the club A; North had to lose two tricka in
com-
An
crime
What
destruction her militarists sue surprising. The whole problem enforce it. Wittingly or unwit.fert to break up the Indonesia hunor or two tied to the end.
prin-
Republic?
After the first-hand Investiga- tion in the heart of the Sun- danese country I can report:
The Sundanesa "Government**
S. K J-10 9 6 6 3 11. 986 6 4
D. Q
C. Nche
"NAH
is the creation of a handful of S. Q 2 leaders of the Sundanese H. Q 10 3:2
One of the party's leaders estimates that after six montlin f organizing, the party has no more than 300,000 members in the Dutch occupation zones and another 200,000 clandestine vulnerable.)
8. A
his
But Where the 6-Spides dou- blcd got made, notice that tho derinter's side had only about 1-1/2 to 2 honor tricks and the defonse about 6 or more, do- pending on how them.
you count
not tingly they acted upon creded in tearing in their wake. bristles with difficulties. As a bruspect, Japan presents an all of which are of material ciples laid down in 1918 by two them involve eminent lawyers, Lord Parker least #t
dis- nature. Some of appearance
and upen national of Waddington in Britain couraging as that to be observed clearer thought
United in Germany. Rather than sup: sovereignty and neutrality than Mr. Elihu Root in the
ut- States. usually marked the porting measures to complete her! has
terances of Governments or Community Of Nations People's Party, with no legal fl. A 3 81WD978-berta so was down two. ruin, the tendency to-day, rightly
$ CQJ42 Lard Parker of Waddington existence so far as the Dutch C. K 76 <JE wrongly, is to ensure that statesmen.
of or the Indonesian Republic are While the League of Nations argued that the true line Japan is made capable if self-
Covenant was being drafted at
must He concerned, paelfie development sufficiency and, in addition, con-
carls Peace the
Conference not in regolating so hateful sribating something towards the early in 1919, sharp disagreething as war but in abolishing economie equilibrium of the Farment arose over the French pro- neutrality towards it. He said. East. China's failure to rise to posal to equip the League with Murders would increase if the her opportunity, the lack of any an international police force, murdered could count upon the indication that, within reasonable France insisted that the League time, she could take over Japan's would be powerless without it. role, hos, of course, The United States and Britai pre-war stimulated ideas urging gentle thought that the League's moral ness with Japan. Japan's im- authority would suffice to keep! poverishment. the best of occupa the penco, though they sulmitted tion are dhe realities that must that any act of war committe be faced by those who grimly by one of its members in viola resent he being tee of a single item of the toll which she should, i justice, meet. The most that Hong Kong can expect is a successful fight for the retentio
the
of such Japanese assets as re-
in the Colony at mained surrender.
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The Dutch gave the present the contract got made, with the separatists freedom to recruit loan of just one trick in clubs members in the Dutch arca and one by a rull of a club, and thought that the movement despite the five hearts held by might win back the important North, who refused to ulscloso
With a spectacular start of Sundanese lenders from the re- their location by doubling. public, it la hoped that the Sun- Where the spade sacrifice 1-Spade by South and 3-Hearts WAR. mode, the most by West, how should the bid- danese would ask for a position effort within the Indonesian republic apectacular result was North's ding then 'go? simlar to that granted West Borneo,
+
to
Last week the People's Party Germans With A Grudge
Berlin, May 15. Gunner L. F. Ewins of the Royal Artillery, at- tached to the British (From the flas of the "Cuina garrison in Berlin, was Mall," May 17, 1847).
acquitted by a Berlin From the correspondence sec-court-martial this even- tion: "Sir: Having lately had an A cut of four cents a catty in occasion to address the Cricntaing of the charge of dam- the cost of rationed rice can Secretary officially on two several aging a printing of King
leaders blasted those hopes in hardly
occasions with a view of laying George VI. be expected to
Munich, May 10. is, of course, fabricated, and no He was alleged to have jump- some wild press statements
with noticeable effect on the Colony's certain documents before His Ex-
£1 grudge is the return address. But tho Germany cellency the Governor, for his total economy. It does however consideration, and not having
ed on the picture at a dance in claiming 4,000,000 supporters
new way to satisfy it is automatically in trouble be rank as a pleasing gesture and been favoured with an answer to a Borlin services canteen on the and talked of battles and riots against a neighbour have found person to whom it is addressed
within the republle. night of Feburary 6, and due to the either congratulations are
of my letters, altho' a
through their own matls. Ame cause the civilian censors note have torn the canvas with his Against the counsel of the rican Ried Controller and the Depart-period of
employees the fibe about the S8 and turn censorship have Beveral weeks
Dutch they demanded the found this subtle type of den-, it over to the police. ment of S. T. and I. on handling elapsed since the writing of the hands,
The picture, a yard square United Nations' plebiscite and unciation recently:-
Colonel Ray Burgess, Pro.. our official allocations in such a first (the second being expressly
they considered "It certainly was good to vost Marshal of Munich, com way that both a cut in price, and to ask an answer to the first one) of painting of the King in a anneninced
of them couched in Field Marshal's uniform and themselves as the true Govern- hear from you," the letter demented there is little to do an increase in the ration are and both
theclares. "Haven't heard a word about it except to trace every that in found to be possible. In three respectful language, perhaps you valued at £200, was earlier ment in West Java until
the since we werd in the SS to- clue. The very one or four months time, the matter can be good enough to inform me produced in court. It showed a voting. They also asked
a Dutch troops to "protect the gether."
ignored, he asserted, might be whether the omeer superintend. split in the canvas nearly will doubtless come once again Ing this department of His Mo-foot long.
population"-Associated Press. The name signed to the lotter legitimate.Associated Press, under review, but as the new jesty'a government in Hong Kong,
crops are expected to come for In
Justified
Ewing, in an alleged.
to
statc-
in refusing the ment after his arrost, said that German ward froin July onwards, any acknowledgment of any letter he took a bottle of
may which may be forwarded to him liquor, with
danger that Government
'QUAESITOR,
him to the danco
Killed For 5 Piastres
have to go back on its decision relating to Government matters? and afterwards did not remem would appear to be fairly remote.
ber what happened.-Reuter. In the meantime, it is highly not uncommon in Hong Kong.. ....Such acts of Incivility are encouraging to observe that the Major Caine may claim to be the price of rice in the free, market first Celontal Secretary who sets las come down to more reason at dehance official usage and able levels, the best quality rice good manners. Such acts of being obtainable at 80 cents rudeness are hot calculated to catty, a figure which is impor- secure for Mr. Bonham's govern. tantly reflected in the Labour ment that respect to which every Officer's cost of living index. god government hium | a By what adventitious aids this clair The Editor.
fair
1
Cairo, May 14. Five men were killed and soven injured in a fight which broke out today between two families in the village of Rabaya,
sharp reversal in the trend has ROMANTIC-Tho American upper Egypt, over a C-plastro
their
LUEN FOOK HONG, Ltd. Discretion demands store aubber, prisions for by allowing kulfe slabs ware being freely
been brought about, it would be newspapers relate the suicide of debt. interesting to discover. The beautiful and accomplished
The debt was claimed by one thought that the young lady who poisoned herself gratifying downward trend is possibly in consequence of her father man from his neighbour. They
began arguing. Then symptomatic of the beginning of having in his death bed forbid friends and relatives joined in, a return of sanity in a disordered her to adopt to huge as and soon cudgel blows and
tempting, to the
profession after having Indulged private theatrical in ble own exchanged. G stantial signs before indulging out. She requested that al. The fight was finally stopped any such faney, and merely se copy of Bakkapeate should un by the Police who arrested 60 commends that we take the good placed upon her bosom in the men. Four of the infured are the gods provide
tein A serique conditionReuter
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