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THE INDIA BILL
Will Be Agreed To
1Special Air Mail Service)
London; July 29. tical power. Queen Wilhelmina The Lord amendments to the can advise and admonish her
Ministers, India Bill will be debated by the Commons on Tuesday. They will all be agreed to, since none was carried without the approval of the Government.
In both fights the Peers won. Last summer they insisted that the speed limit in built-up areas should apply by nigh: as well as by day.
That was contrary to the wish of Mr. Stanley and the House of
Commons.
TIME ON THEIR SIDE
In 1932 the "House of Lords amended the Children's Bill so as to allow boys under fourteen to be birched at police courts.
The House of Commons rejected
but the amendment,
the Peers stood firm. Finally the Commona had to give way.
Time is on the side of the Lords in these fights. If the Commons do not give way. the whole Bill diles.
On the "half-a-loa" principle M.P.s have to take what they can. "ECONOMISTS WANTED” Retall and railway traffic in- creases published yesterday were naturally hailed as signs of re- turning prosperity.
and she can delay! Governmental measures. Her ac- tive participation in a political crisis is limited to giving advice and attempting to bring leaders of politeal parties together,
Queen Wilhelmina has-constitu" tonally-no personal views on the question of whether the guilder should or should not stay on gold.. Dutchwoman. a patriotic however, she shares the anxiety of her countrymen as to the present Government's future.
As
HOLLAND'S STRONG MAN If the guilder goes off gold Dr.. Colijn, the Premier, will fall, and if he falls Holland will have lost most outstanding political her Agure.
Dr. Colijn is 'shrewd and fear- less, has a fine record as a soldier and Colonial Governor, and has been a sailor, practical farmer. journalist, economist, and indus- trialist into the bargain..
He has a pleasant. If somewhat day, sense of humour.
DRASTIC ACTION
To Save The Guilder
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London, July 29. Fresh tears as to the stability of the gold bloc were revived yesterday following the crisis over the Dutch guilder,
Renewed withdrawals of funds from Amsterdam: amounting, it is believed, to £7,000,000, were coun tered by a rise in the Netherlands bank rate from 3 to 5 per cent.
This is the first time for 100 years that the rate has been in- creased by 3 per cent, and the second time in seven weeks It has reached 5 per cent
The step was taken to check foreign speculation and to stem the outflow of gold,
Financial circles were discuss- ⚫ing the probable effect of the from defection of the guilder the gold group. It was accepted that Switzerland would be shaken and that impetus would be given the devaluation cam- paign in France.
The battle to save the guilder the is being led by Dr. Collin, Dutch Premier, and Queen Wilhel- A MacDONALD MAIDEN
mina. The two will be in con- An Edwardian smartcess charac- terised the House of Commons ference again to-day, and after. yesterday afternoon.
Top hats, wards it will be known whether black and grey," were the rule the Cabinet will resign. rather than the exception. were mustard and lavender waist- conditions.coats and tall coats.
Some months ago I cited ad- vertising statistics 13 another barometer of trade
Here are some more figures. They are significant.
For the first six months of 1935 "The Daily Telegraph" published over 2,500 inches more advertising in the category "Situations Vacant than for the corresponding period of last year.
An interesting feature of this increase is the very large number of situations vacant for typists"
As an indication" of this speed- ing-up in the office machinery of industry, I commend these gures to the attention of some of our economist Jeremiahs.
...
CONSTITUTIONAL QUEEN The part played by Queen Wil- helmina of the Netherlands in the Dutch currency
cris's should not be over-emphasised:
The Netherlands constitution strictly limits the sovereign's poll-
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In fact at 'tes-time the Royal garden party emptied the House. Only a handful of M.Pa were left to hear Mr. Malcolm MacDonald
speech as make his maiden Cabinet Minister.
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*HIS OXFORD WILD OATs One learned in the by-ways of Oxford lore in mid-Victorian days tells me a story of the late Lord Bute, whom I mentioned yester day.
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Though not wild-as the Vie torians expressed it-he had his share of high spirits. Being also one of the wealthiest landowners in the country, he was able indulge any passing taste..
Though Mr. Hilaire Bellot had not then given to the world h's couplet,
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THE NEW GROUPS The group committees will con- sist of the chairmen of the local associations, the chairmen of the women's branches the agents, the women organisers, and representa- of the Junior Imperial tives League.
The Westminster Group is one of the smallest. It comprises six constituencies - Hampstead, the two Paddingtons, Marylebone and the two,Westminsters.
The two largest are the St: Paperas Group (10 constituencies) and the Tower Group (11). The Tower Group takes in all the East-end divisions.
A connecting link between the will be Mr. I V. Arm- groups strong, who will be a member of them all.
FROM" BULL-FIGHTING'S CRADLE
A French golfer I met yesterday was downcast at the result of the French Amateur Golf Champion- ship at Grany lle. There were Ac-only two Spanish entrants and they had the final to themselves.
He liked the sound of breaking gless, It occurred to Lord Bute that he would like to break windows.
cordingly he went out with the Intention of doing so until he wished to break no more.
The match was decided at the 36th hole, the finalists being
He reached satlety with his 67th Peph de Ybarra and Javier de
pane.
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HOME AGAIN
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Yearre, the winner, comes from Lord Esher, who, has just been Seville, a city famous as a cradle elected Treasurer of the National of bull-fighters rather
than Libraries, has a personal interest | champion golfers. in the autograph copy of "Home, Sweet Home." which has been placed on loan in the British Museum through that organisa- tion.
Sevine, Indeed,, boasts only a nine-hole course, one of the three courses in the South of Spain.
The best course in Andalusia. la ELT an 18-hole one Malaga. 130 The manuscript, he tells me.miles away. was written for his great-grand- mother. This was Mrs. Joshua Bates, the wife of the American banker who became a partner in Baring's.
This has been laid but under expert English guidance and, it 18. hoped," will be in time one of the finest winter courses in Europe.
CATHEADS AGAIN My reference to the Victory's cathead has aroused all the old "shell-backs'" pity and contempt for the amateur yachtsman.
...It was given to her," with two additional verses added in 1829. by the author. J. H. Payne, the first American actor and play wright to gain a reputation in
Several give elaborate technical England. where' "Home, Sweet explanations of "catting and fish- Home!" was, of course, written
ing" the anchor, which comes as a Now it belongs to Mr. Mc matter of course to the crews of Cormick-Goodhart. Himself of an | windjammers. Anglo-American family. Mr. Mc Yet the most learned explana- Cormick-Goodhart had previously tion comes from the hon, 'secretary" lent it to the Library of Congress
of the Henley Salling Club. at Washington, where he is an
quotes various nautical authorities, honorary attache at the British including Mainwaring's "Seaman's Embassy.
Dictionary" of about 1820: CONSERVATIVE REORGANISA-
TION
The Westminster Group Ad- visory Committee of the Conser- vative party, of which Lord Tredegar is to be first chairman, and Mrs. Wilson-Fox vice-chair- man, is one of the seven groups: Into which the Metropolitan area is to be divided.
This is part of the extensive overhaul of the London Conserva- tive organisation which is being carried out. Ita: aim is 'decen- trallaation London Conservatism in future is to be based on vigorous local bodies rather than on the efforts of the Conservative Central Office.
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The cat is a piece of timber- -fastened aloft right over the hawse, and hath at the end thereof two shivers wherein is reeved a rope with a block, whereunto is tastened a great hook of iron after the manner of a double tackle. The use is to trifeup the anchor from the hawse to the top of the fore- castle, where it is fastened with a stopper.
With this Jacobean definition I run for smoother waters.
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BAD EXAMPLE
A curious feature of Mr. A. E W. Mason's life" of Sir George Alexander
the alteration throughout of the spelling of St.
When this is done it is hoped James's to St. James. That may
that
(1) It will allow individual members of the party mord say in policy, C
(2) As the result of a vigorout convassing campaign the Con- servative party in London wil be able to poll as big a proportion of its followers in municipal and national elections as the Labour party does,
be defensible on purely ortho- graphical grounds, but names, and especially names with such a tradition and history as BL James's, ought to be superior to graminatical heresies
I am sorry that 30. Mason has given b's support to a corrupt spelling recently adopted by the Underground and by one or two shops.
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