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. The
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FRIDAY, OCT. 31
1930.
THE SOVIET WAY.
on
OCTOBER 31, 1930.
have.
Mr. Henderson's own showing, been brought home to the Soviet Government, which entered into an explicit agreement with Britalh that it would not indulge
DAY BY DAY
TILL WE HAVE SEEN OUR NATIVE in or countenance any such activi- COUNTRY, WE HAVE NO. SCALE TO
Goethe.
OTHER COUNTRIES BY.-
ties in British territory. All that JUDGE it can say, in excuse, is that it is unable to control the Third Inter-
The P. and O. Company's 8.S. national. This, of course, is sheer Alipore, from Singapore, is due absurdity, since the Third Inter- here at 5 p.m. on November 5th. national is the Soviet Government.
Yesterday's return of notifiable of case cach What is of Immediate moment.] disease shows one however, is the likely policy of the typhoid and diphtheria. Both British Goverment towards Russia were Chinese. now that the latter country has flagrantly broken its pledged word. Surely the matter is not to be allow. ed to rest with a mere formal pro test to the Russian Ambassador. If
•
EVELYN WAUGH discusses
"FOR ADULTS ONLY."
23
THE other morning I read "in. "Above all grown-ups will be Tay morning paper, in the bored by vulgarity and excess in page where "Onlooker" looks at the production. They will prefer life, that a peer, anxious to take to see one or two first-rate dancers had to an army of chorus girls; they his children to a cinema,
in will appreciate subtlety in artistic been forced to leave London disappointment; he had been un-effect. They will welcome ex- able to find any programme suit-Periment; they will not be taken nhle for them. Why, "Onlooker"in by mere eccentricity." The mv. Magara (Swedish East naked, does someone not start These are the qualities one might reasonably expect in a filmi Asiatic Co. Ltd.), left Hamburg on children's cinema?
for adult audiences... But, where, oh where; can one suitable the 9th October and is due here on or about the 19th November.
find a cinema to' which one can Instead, this label means only one ***
same thing-sex. It means the decently take grown-ups? . In connexion with the report
There are, it is true, numer-silly, secondhand stuff about love, yesterday of the accident to Wing so, it will amount to tacit agree Ching (6), of 15. Tai Foo Street,ous films classified "for adult only in this case the situation is complicated by the marriage of ment with the
one or both of the lovers. Either Soviet attitude,
who fell into the harbour at Sai-audiences." One can equivalent to an admission by Bri-wancho, it was announced from all over the country, and, if one this, or it means that the charac- tain that we cannot expect the Rus. Police Headquarters this morning goes to an afternoon performance, ters, besides being thieves, drunk- blackmailers, murderers, that the lad had since died from the dialogue will, as often as not, ards, sian Government to control the the effects of immersion.
be completely submerged in the and adepts at all the other crimes. yells and catenlls of over-excited towards which children are assum.. Third International. Such a posi
Admitting a charge of return-children.
ed to be sympathetic, are also tion could not be tolerated. for one
ing from banishment after having But, in spite of their popularity, observed as indulging in irregular
deported for life more so since this been moment, the
consulted stressed February 16, 1922, a Chinese who these films are not at all what one love affairs.
Every year there are produced propaganda pledge was more than any other issue at the appeared before Mr. Lindsell at might expect, If one
the Central Police Court this an educated Martian about what in London four or five plays, at wholeheartedly for enjoyment. time relations between the two morning on a charge of disobeying films were exclusively suitable for least, to which one can go quite
order of banishment was grown-up people he would
noThere is hardly a single film for countries were resumed.
Russia the
on
..
see these
must be taught that she cannot sentenced to nine months' hard daubt give some such answer as which one does not have to make.
play fast and loose with solemn in- ternational obligations-that if she gives an undertaking, it must be
observed.
Silver Revolution.
labour.
this:
of love, and in permanent
CX-
allowances. One has to make a "It is natural for the very deliberate effort to put oneself Fines amounting to $1,000 with young to be interested in violence, into the state of mind to accept alternatives totalling five months' whether, comic or dramatic; they land enjoy the second-rate. Half hard labour were imposed by Mr. will enjoy films showing any kind one's pleasure has to come from Lindsell at the. Central Police of chase or combat, They have laughing at, not with, the Alm, in of detecting grose Americanisms and Court this morning on a Chinese not a fully developed sense who was arrested as he disembark-probability, consequently they solecisms, in affecting an ed from the s.s: Taishan from Can-[applaud exaggerated feats of aggerated concern for the welfare, ton yesterday afternoon with four heroism: they like to see a single of impossible characters.
The truth is that the film in- Although it has yet to be demon-taels of prepared opium and 21 soldier hold back an army, they dustry will try to do too much. strated that the scheme is intrinsi-taels of raw opium in his posses-admire athleticism, and delight in it will insist as no other art or. cally sound and worthy of consision. The contraband was stated seeing people jump from gallop industry has ever tried to insist, deration, the proposal for the to have been tied around his legs.ing horses on to moving trains upon everything being suitable for
they are casily deceived by fake! everybody. establishment of a Bank of the
photography: they have no first-
No Wonder They Fail. Empire contains points of very con- tween gold and silver, it is contend-hand experience
residents in siderable interest to
The result is that it produces a ed, would be maintained by the readily believe the Far East, Chinese and foreign. Bank of the Empire's power to fidelity and felicity and other Sir Oswald Mosley, who appears to change its price for gold, made posamused and dazzled by great dis-duce children's films
romantic fictions. They are easily commodity mildly unsuitable to al
most everyone. It will not pro-"
or grown- have borrowed his ideas chiefly sible by its domination of the gold play in the production.
ups' films. It aims instead at the from Mr. J. T. Darling, a director standard. The one grave objection
adolescent. The pimply youth of the Midland Bank, believes that
and the giggling girl who embody that silver has ceased to be a pre- "Grown-ups, on the other hand, all the lamentable characteristica The Soviet's attempt to side-atep the fundamental reason
cious metal. If silver obtained as have more serious and penetrating of both ages childhood without. its no-propaganda pledge to Bri- adversity through which Britain is
a by-product in the extraction of interests. They want the charac-its freshness and purity and tain by the simple process of stat-passing is the absence of the ration-
alisation of the Empire's gold. When tin, copper and other metals wasters and the details of a pilot to credulity, age without wisdom or ing that it cannot control the
he
to international
endowed with a fictitious price, be convincing; they do not want maturity or culture.
cheap sentiment, mother love, It is no wonder that they fail. activities of the Third Interna negotiation for bringing order out production would be stimulated, mock heroics; they will detect It is as though a writer set out tional does not surprise us. In
facts; to compile a book which was to the world financial and the surplus stocks would in-absurdities in historical
fairy story and first common with British people all system, he had in mind the crease out of all control. And they they do not want facetious combe both a
their interest films'; reader, a text-book on psychology,... over the world, however, we shall tial part of Mr. Darling's scheme, would all gravitate to Britain at the ments in
the rehabilitation of enhanced price. We may assume, they do not want to see film a work of scholarship, a novel, an be surprised if the matter is taken which is no further. It has been obvinus silver, the depreciation of which therefore, that even if the gravity versions of their favourite books adventure story, tragedy, drama perverting the plots, sticking on and comedy, an encyclopædia, a has had disastrous effects on world of the effect of cheap silver on happy endings, cutting out im cockery book and a daily news. for some considerable time past trade by destroying the purchasing world trade is of vital importance, portant scenes which might hurt paper in one. But because the that Soviet propaganda has been continuing in various parts of the power of Asia. Briefly, the plan the problem is not likely to be met undeveloped sensibilities, intro-commercial organisation of the involves the pooling of the Em-by the revolutionary proposals of ducing love interest' where it is films is so far in advance of their
inessential. British Empire, in utter defiance of pire's gold. resources, totalling Mr. Darling.
referred
of chaos in
for the
essen-
the solemn pledge entered into with £250,000,000 in a new Bank of the Great Britain. In June last, dur-Enpire, the shareholders to be the ing a debate on the matter in the note-issuing banks and authoritics The new House of Commons, Mr. Henderson of the Commonwealth.
Commonwealth Bank would issue
said he would not try to persuade against the gold a new money--not the House that propuganda was not coin, but a money of account, for going on, but be had to bring it which the name Rex is suggested. home to the Soviet Government be- The Bank would be prepared to buy fore action could be taken. A gold at a fixed minimum price,
for
it in Rex. The special committee has, in the mean- paying time, been investigating the matter, minimum suggested is One Rex for with the result that sufficient proof 113 grains of fine gold, the content of the British pound sterling. Each has been forthcoming to warrant
country would retain its existing Mr. Henderson informing the Rus-currency-the pound in Britain, sian Ambassador that the Soviet South Africa and Australia, the Government has not been observing dollar in Canada and the rupee in the pledge. It will thus be seen India and so on, but these moneys that the British Foreign Secretary would be based on Rex instead of is no longer able to take refuge in gold. The Bank would have a monopoly right over the gold pro- the plea that the propaganda can-duced in the Empire, totalling some whole not be brought home to the Soviet- £60,000,000 yearly. The he has definitely asserted that the effect of the scheme, apparently, is Russian Government has broken its a departure by the Empire from an pledge.
unalterable gold standard for its It is worth recalling some other unit. The British pound, for in- assertions made by Mr. Henderson Stance, now changeable, into gold
for international purposes at the time diplomatic relations fixed rate, would be based on Rex were resumed between Britain, and instead of gold and the Bank of the Russia last year. Speaking in Par-Empire would reserve the right to llament in November, he declared reduce the amount of gold it would that Soviet propaganda in Great Kive for the Rex: This apparently Britain and the Dominions "would would completely check the gold and price fluctuations which in the
at a
not be tolerated in any form at any opinion of leading economists is time." What is even more to the the principal factor in the grave point was his further statement industrial depression. But the im- that he had plainly informed, the portant part of the scheme from Soviet that the Third International the Eastern viewpoint is what Mr. bimetal- "would be regarded by the British Darling calls the "new
lism." This plans the rehabilita- Government as an organ of the
tion of silver by providing that the Soviet Government." On another Bank of Empire shall buy silver at occasión, a few weeks later, Mr. a fixed ratio to its minimum price Henderson said it was the inten-for gold. That is to say, 'assuming tion of the Government that the la fixed rate of 20 to 1, the Bank pledge, which it regarded as clearly would pay in Rex the same price for applicable to the propagandist ac- 200z, of silver as for 1oz. of gold on silvera tivities of the Third International, which would confer should be observed both in the let value of about bld. a fine ounce and would immediately increase the
ter and spirit. Nothing could be value of China and Hongkong more definite or specific than these currency to three times their pre- declarations. The position now is sent value. The equilibrium be that the propagandist activities
to the scheme, of course, is the fact
Unwanted Defects,
Proposal a la Mode.
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