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"CANCEL ALL DEBTS AND REPARATIONS '
ITALY'S PANACEA FOR WORLD ILLS
THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
ROMB, June 3. Italy at Lausanne will urge a Anal solution of reparations and. Be-inter-Governmental debts by orn-
The French proposals of putting armed forces at the disposal of the League of Nations is unacceptable to Italy, which has proposed the complete abolition of weapons of offence such as capital ships, sub marines and hombing 'planes. Italy is always ready to respond to gestures of goodwill, and accepted the British proposal for naval com-
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A Socialist nophow succeeding to Not much need be said about the na natocratic anele! This seems defensive methods of the King of to be a complete summary of what Italy. His is an attitude of silence took place in all the other king and of hoping for the best.
cellation which is the first ossen- doms of Occidental and Northern cause the fate of his royal cousin
tial for evercoming the world arisis, Europe. King Christian X of Don of Spain has proved that a monarch declared Signor Grandi in a speech to the Seante, adding that the 31,200 mark and King Haakon. VII of has to pay for the mistakes of a
Norway-known as Prince Charles dictator, even if no particular love problems facing the world required immediate decisions as the nations of Denmark before his coronation was lost between the two. Victor
were unable to wait for the ordi- 100 in 1908-brake away from the regal Emmanuel III realizes that the nury procedure of diplomacy.
ideas of their grandfather, King often-asked question-after. Musso-to zoro limits if others de likewise, Italy is prepaced to disarm even Christian IX, in no lean resolute a lini, what 7-likewise affects the Disarmament and reparations proh way than King Albert I of Belgium, destinies of the reigning dynasty. lems are technically and morally
connected, and an equally wide gulf, both When a country is threatened by mental and amotional, ssphrates, revolution, a monarch should either King Gustav of Sweden and unreservedly neeept the "man on Queen Wilhelmina of Holland from the white horse" or dare, invest their predecessors on the thrones. himself with dictatorial powers. The latter course, unattainable in For one thing, no plainer folk ever the case of Italy, has often been inhabited the historical palates of Europe. Hollywood directors, ac tried, with a moderate degree of gustomed to think of their royalty Hucess, by the Graustarkisa rulers in terms of ermine and pearls, if if the Bulkanic kingdoms. given an opportunity to spend a week-end with the family of reign ing Bernadottes or Glucksburgs, would be greatly shocked they would find these tall, healthy men and women dressed in an unobtru sive manner bordering on poverty, eating the simplest kind of food and discussing subjects that would middle he considered" distinctly class in the mansions of Long Island and Nowport. It may amuse the Park Avenue hostesses to learn that the Belgians usually erodit the democratic attitude of their rul to the beneffeant American in- fluence: he stayed for a while in" the United States, in the late 90' studying the railroad business under the tutelna of James J. Hill Unfortunately, neither Uncle Sam nor Mr. Hili can be hold $16.13 responsible for the policies of the other four democratic sovereigns. Guided by a natural desire to mein tain internal pesce, and always re- their Rassian, derman and Aue- rbering the bitter experience of 7.73 trian relatives, all five of them are T10-20 | reconciled to loading the epistonce
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On the warm and clear morning of April 14, 1925, an open car of American make was slowly pro- reeding along the badly paved high- Bulgaria. The man at the wheel- way leading toward the capital of
slender, pale-faced, dark-haired youth-thought he heard the sound human voices and AL of subdued glanced around questioningly. most simultaneously, the crack of a rio sounded, followed by a real salvo In the small mirror in front of him he saw his two phasengers He applied the Hink to, the floor. brakes, vaulted out of the car and made for the near-by village. The bullets whizzing in his ears helped increase bis speed, and he ran for dear lile.
Less than a mile from the place where he started, he bumped into a heavy bus parked in the middle of the highway, with its chauffeur and passengers eating their lunch person. His appearance storm of excitement.
on the
They glared at him as though he created a were a ghost.
WHEN BORIS BORROWED A BUS.
JAVA RÄISES IMPORT DUTIES
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENOT.]
BATAVIA, June 3, An increase of twenty to Afty per cent, surtax on import duties, which is part of the Government's concertéd attempt to deal with the financial crisis, will take effect on June 9.
BRITISH RUNNING
RECORD.
LOVELOCK IMPROVES ON AMATEUR MILE TIME.
London, May 99-4 New Zend lander, J. Lovelock, established now British amateur record for one
mile to-day, when running for Ox- ford University against the Amateur Athletic Association. The new time is 4 min. 12 sec., as compared with the former record of 4 min, "132/6 so, established by R. H. Thomas, of the Royal Air Force, on May
last year at Stamford Bridge. The world amateur reoerd for the distance is 4 min. 91/5 sec., ere- dited to the famous French runner; Ladoumegue, who recently lost his amateur status.
In spite of Lovelock's win, the Athletic Association team won to- day's by 82 points to 203.
Before anyine could ask him a question, he jumped into the bus, of political give. turned it around and was off. The and-take they are to be found, chauffeur and the passengers look when at all, invariably on the gived at one another. Could it be ing, end, gradually divesting them. possible that they had really wis-J. selves of the few remaining vestiges King Boris III. of Bulgaria steal- nossed the incredible spectacle of of the prerogative of their forbears: Queen Wilhelmina proclaiming in- ing a bus? mediately after the fall of the i This incident is bound to make Central European. Empires that her the King still more popular with his subjects," cabled the American desire is to see the necessary re- forms promised by the Crown ac- correspondents in Sofia, but the complished with the rapidity he hero himself thought differently He feared that a human life is too fitting the social rhythm of our times"
King Gustav meeting Precious to be risked for the sake an identical emergency with of popularity and doubted whether readiness which made the leading be paid for in genuine coin.
such counterfeit pleasured should radical newspaper of Sweden say: "Our dream has been achieved; our people have finally become the supreme masters of their destiny": King Albert I reminding a zealous. delegation of ultraroyalists that "Parliament alone can and must
decide,"
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or king
stand why any emperor should declare war unless his own rountry had been invaded by the enemy. Didn': they know--those relatives of youry-that they would be sure to lose their thrones in case of defent? You ask my secretary of state what we think of war here in Abyssinia."
The secretary of state spared no words in desrribing how, little they thought of wor in Abyssinia. While talking in the presence of Ras Taffari and the dowager em- press, this elderly statesman had to keep a handkerchief in front of hia face so as to prevent his, unclean breath from offending the cover- eigns.
At this particular phase of tho ontinuous Balkanio drama the cur- tain falls to denote the passing of three years. When it goes up again, on June 20, 1998, the scene represents the solemn ball of the Jugo-Slavian Parliament. More Granting the efficiency of the phots are being heard; a deputy, modern royal defence, I must ad enraged by the stubbornness of his mit, however, that the best-laid Croatian colleagues, brandishes a plans of the kings would have longun and silences several of them, since gone awry bad it not been for the unwillingness of their peoples to run the risks accom-
Obviously, the British world. It did seem odd, though, panying the initial stops of every methods of upholding the popular that I had had to travel all the new-born republic. The object
monarchistic régime way to Africa to find the Inst lesson provided by the three falled ity of the
Mohican of that majestic profession empires has impressed the man in would prove a dismal failure in the of absolute rulers, which is no more the sticet not less than the man countries where a king gets am-
moerncy.
Such are the Balkane--the dan-
Abyssinia, I thought, with, no ser spot of the world and the most doubt, the cleverest country in the unhealthful climate for a king to live in,
As King Alexander. I of Jugo. Slavia expresses it in his frank fashion: "I prefer to be called s than to allow in my country such tyrans in France and elsewhere political customs to continue that would lead it toward chaos and dismemberment."
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on the throne. The latter shud-bushed on the highway and where The Kaiser himself could not have dered and felt uneasy, but the parliamentary disputes are settled improved upon the handkerchief former was equally frightened, the with the aid of a .45. where the example of Russia, storm, one unchained, bad refused to limit its destructive fury to the imperial purlaces only, being rather discouraging to a believer in de "A campaign against our royal family would nover meet with
The word allow" is being used I never stop by King Alexander I not in its popular approval." hearing this hackneyed phrase, Buckingham Palaes sense, but in the which conveys that it is much ensior. for the politicians to handle a king the snipers would appreciate it. For King George V. not to than to chance the appearance of aallow a mensure detrimental to the Hitler or a Trotsky.
welfare of his country means to Should any additional proof of make an appeal to the patriotic this axiom be required; Italy is the spirit of the leaders of the three What makes Mussolini tolerate great political parties. In the CBSA the existence of the Italian Crown of King Aleyander I, it signifiey his decision to suspend the con-
country to furnish it.
In the estimation of the persons stitutional guaranties, a measure who are directly interested in the resorted to by him in January. continuation of the proroyal atti
and partly".revoked since tude of the Fascisti, Mussolini is 2929. thon. Influenced both by his fear of offunding the shadow of the libera tor of Italy, King Victor Emmanuel II. and by his unconscious imith- tion of the ideas incorporated in the Soviet constitution. Just as the existence of the. so-called "President" Kalinin reminds the citizens of the U.S.S.R.. that theirs to the European sovereigns and
THE LAST OF THE AUTOCRATS.
I wish I could persuade my friend. Ras Taffari, the present Em peror of Abyssinin, to pay a visit
What were
you Europeana
is, after all, a republic-an accom- preach to them his sermon on the plishment of the dream of three subject of wars and king. generations of Russians-the pro- sence of King Vietor Emmanuel fighting for in 1914-181" he asked III symbolizes for the Italian me when I saw him last in 1997 nation the everlasting Garibaldian in Addis Ababa.
iden of a United Italy. Victor Em manuel III bows to the inevitable, .having accepted Fascism aN the only escape from anarchy.
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