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THE ELECTION.
For better or for worse, Britain To planet into the times
:
ral Election. Strony reasong poull be rited why the country should he sintred both the
. the expense
Pentaston sulting Friste! append to
21
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DAY BY DAY
Mr. II. Montagne Ede returned from Manila by the Empress of Canada.
lation."
The fune
Politico-Philosophical
Fermentation in France.
· By – SISLEY HUDDLESTON..
In a
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the less, he intends again contest- ing the seat. This is charac- teristic of the man. He would te the last to run away at the sign of opposition. Labour has
ALLOW NO MAN TO BE SO FAMILIAR hitherto had hot the least dilleulty WITH YOU AS TO PRAISE YOU TO YOUR in holding this sent, but we have | race-Stede, to bear in mind that the Premier will automatically recrive the support of the Liberal and Con- servative electors, and, what
Mr. M. A. Cooper, B. Com., Lecturer in Commerce, will deliver his pre- OVE ̧ of self-analysis is push-1keeping in contact with the soil nore, will certainly get "z
identini deras to the Hongkong ed far by French inteller-and rentizing their individuality. sprinkling o
University Law and Commerce Sols. It is probable that French should resist the imposition of Labour votes,
ciety, on Sonday Oct. 12, at 8.30 a thinkers understand themselves "rational categories which are im view of the fact that is section of) in the Union Assembly Room,
subject of the address will be "Topu-and their compatriots better than pintable and inhuman.
the authors pros, a sentenen Labour loyalists favour his candi-
of any other Earo- the thinkers of
They aim at clarity pose that France, that is to say. pean nation, dany. I will be a great triumph
and they are often remarkably suc-not. sume clearly defined territory, This but for the man who has
In emmesion with prent, reposestel in depleting themselves in but all who stand for the French that Tarsang. Med 50, tapidary phrases,
|{deal, should oppose the tyranny country before his
party if
emiking foom Boom 5 of the Ming
recently referred to the pufe of ecagomir abstractiona. Maveneda in winding. Prato the law Boarding House, of 147, Con-
paught Road Central, a subsequent fications of Andre Stegtried in chanical ideology which very formation of the Sational regert hus been issued by the pdice; which he does for France with submerge the individual. Government, Mr. Mau bonacht has to the effect that the man was later even more penetration that which
tound on the fifth tune of the fieng he has done for the United Stater Decadence, again eries Daniel made it clear that he has autong Hotel 130 A stand to be and Great Britain. Nor is The Halovy Decadence de la Liberty. rendered none, at his political | insane,
gopinion of the ferriquer disdain. The book of this admirable writer od. A book which had a great sets out to show that the old iden belief. Hilznurile stil:
The following forthcoming weddlags vogue was the critical estimate of of personal liberty is being for he only differs from the Hender are announced. Mr. Grurgu Jomes Frosh gunlities and defects by gotten, and that we
we are subjugat- Pred. Kowloon YM.C.A.. to Miss Friedrich
who was the ed by a burenueracy that has sonites by his bellef that the
Gladys Margaret Fishel, who is
Paria
cort of the Frank-
grown enormously. In some travelling to Hongkong on board the farter Zeitung.
countries which have fallen under 5.3. Rajputann. Also Mr. Edwardo
The French have not lost in open dictatorships, liberty in in Antonio Noronha, No. 8. Gordon
themselves.
With afer deed regarded not only as an - Terrace, Kowloor, to Miss Maria Pinterest
дуга as something to Formasi Guterres, No. 22, Granville intelligence they are perpetually fusion, but Road, Kowloon.
examining old trails and new ten combated.
struggh of the nineteenth dencies. They keep stopping toj The opening concert of the season ask which way they are gains. century was for liberty: it would at the Helena May Institute will take Their self-curiosity is inextin- be strange if the struggle of the place on October if at 6.30 p.m., and guishable: and it is
it is not a cartasity twentieth century was against a curiosityliberts arist who has had a nut-
Barthelemy. A will be in the hands of Mr. and Mrs. of rumgly severe.
dis. Joseph
times call for treatment of the Country's affairs on a non-Party bnak. Certainly, the Prime Minister has never before enjoy- ed greater prestige than TLOW, His personality and sch j2213- ciples should ensure Els election. For the sake of the welfare of the country and
its
abroad, we trust that Mr. Porid and his rolougues
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will
boked in advance.
this meture would bave fatal. The eteriora
the asked to endorse understanding, and to rive the best brains of the country int- creased opportunities of co-tipiera. Hon for The common weal. W believe the result will triumph for common-denar.
SILVER FUTURES.
ᎥᎿ
THE LATEST CABLED QUOTATIONS.
ties
712-
Hom
but
21
ine
webd
in als
been aivised by cattle of the folto a fresh examination of the nas occult and anonymous
tional consciousness. Que is a Education is organised by a few
ut the season will be open to the Know thyself, said the ane vien! alie Parliamentary career, in
Contem- public, the price of tickets being as usual, for members 10 cents, masage and it is not for want of try-Crise de la Democracie members 50 cents, Service Men and ing if the French do not altogether poraine, is as much convinced in
Such encers as they the man of 1848 of the benefits be succeed. ubould Teas be returned to power. The world hildren cents.
have is relative, for their interest the demeratic regime, though he in themselves is
is intellectual rather rece
certain excesser. is watching with intereal this ex
is almosternizes
curtain A sequrd to the recent outrage at than emotional. One
talo insufliciencies, and he does Rriment of conducting Britain's
malaise which disuse the affairs by a combination of all attacked a number of pigs under the write about themselves as a pay-democracy in suffering,
Hanglun where villagers savagely tempted to say that they talk and not dis
ime it entertain To belief
that they were of Japanese|time. It tains them sum up shades of political thought.
Daniel Halevy thinks that al- rigin, has been the removal of lifteen Their virtues and their vices in an though the war, which was fought have dissolved the Government the animals to the slaughter epigram, to generalize brilliantly, in the name of liberty, has pre
ine of liberty. and reveried to party warfare at se, to be killed. In a brief police to play with words and ideas as cipitated the decline report issued this morning it was with glittering balls.
that, decline really began 11 been stated that of the 97, one was killed Maurice Barres, had not çir-France with the advent
of the being outright and fifteen others, as badly cumstances thrown him into pub Third Republic. Parliament, he
hacked that they were subsequently lie attairs. would have liked in asserts, does not interpret, but h non-party slaughterrel.
spend his life in the "Culte duftrays the will of the people- Moi,' That is, in a lesser degree, though that will is confusedly ex- the characteristic of all French-pressed. All kinds of local con
Dat beyond the "Culle du aiderations prevail in elections. Mui" there in to be found, among The ephemeral ministers pos- the elite, the "Calle de in Patrto." ses only a shadowy power. it is the administration, an orcult and It is strange that the decadence anonymous force, inadequately chanld future in two recent pub-controlled,
which
macy Is conducted by is responsible Messrs, Pentreath and Co, finvoications which apply themselves for all. Diplomacy
officials. World Crisis: A Chance Needed.
lowing quotations for New York ZE The world-embracing trade de-silver future ne at the fose of the pamphlet by R. Aron and A Dan-unknown universitaires. The army
Hien entitled Decadence de la is directed by a
Na-B
by a headquarters presajon with its attendant Un-
market yesterday,
tion Francaise. Like Georges stuff. Labour laws are the work employment, the Hussian expævi.
Disember 1981 30,00 up .40. chanel's much-discussed volume of a labour office. The importance it may be just as well to get the
May 1982 0.90 mp 25. med in Communiam, the inter.
In America -- which
1-which was really not of the police, whose chiefs are vir July 1972 21,40 mp 15
diatri Against Ameri- tunlly independent, has developed so much air cleared by the putting into
natioma) delt situatioE and
ea as a realienation of the French and its intervention in the politi oldier, with The tall edgarment disarmament problem have
Phorror movaanisation-this feal events of the past sixty years at the pastddie, of a
bined to make even the man in the heen accompliated, but slow pro-amphlet insists on the supre has been decisive. Government
street wonder what will happen geess is being made. What is run to which the economic must by a
of what is called the "piri- Even the presy is manipulated which will be able to feel that it
itual,"
few persons,
and Its eventually to happen will be de subordinated, and of which the enormous has the nation behind it. The
influence OTE
public The optimists see light.termined by lenders in Thought
tical is the common instru-opinion IM largely Felertion will be without precedent
irrespon Whatever the opinion may
cement.
Alnı The and statesmanship. If they
The chief problem is re-sible.
and the in the nature of 10
however, it is evident that tradi
control mass ognise that changes in the pre-presented as that of adapting the radio are used Party labels, excepting in the eage tional ideas must be discardel.
is modern man to modern industrial thought, Par-reaching decisions sel economate system must
in all domains are taken by so- my Labour, are being irgely dis- Pronomic nationalism with them made, that there are good features ditions to the ruders man.
The notion of nationalism is, ne-called "experts." whose names and earded: the people will be asker! if a new social structure is to be
in systems other than their own, curling to these authors, doomed, qualifications are hardly known to but out of the wreck, adequate and that the future demaris There has been a devamrization
"devalorization the public. to chose between an Administra-
to withstand the butterings tion "t all the talents" and ope
means whereby present conditions of Frontiers,"
There is, in this indictment, the Machine Age and such nuni-
can be solved with a blending of valorization of frontiers is the na representative of the bulk of the
foral festations of the onrush of pro- new
and ideas, then the and logical consequence of considerable substance, but while
worldl Labour Party. A shurt, bitterly press. The capitalistic economic simists can be proved wrong argument runs-if. at soms future voice of the people can and does developments, But-the democratic institutione exist the
entested trial of strength 'seetha
system is criticised for the very That is the reason optimists seedule the nation
the make itself heard, often Jurishes, iarvitable. The result will
ance.edly not god reason that in times of de- light peartrating the gloom of the patris will not perish, Brance. and sometimes irrespect pression titr working classes complex world crisis. Whether it which has played a great historic Despite all kinds of pressure, the Communists bitterly will licker out or will brighten. aimed, been the incarnation of tion, the facts of a given situa
part, and has sometimes, as is
pite all kinds suffer most.
of misinterpreta- deery it. Sorkalists of less
it is impossible to foreteli. the human conscience, must per- tion are known to the bulk of the treme views regist it to the utter-
Įsist as the patrie; and the French, people, and they simplify them- mmst. The British Labour Party's attitude is not entirely bereft of reason. The capitalist defends it, of course. Factors outside hin! control are responsible? Govern
no possibility nf As yet, there are no Fefinite nents, seeing
to every means change, devise indientions
the :
The likely to be menty
nacia. to support its foundations.
whole world meanwhile watches avoid three-carnered contests.
Russia with a new and growing Whatever there may be,
l easy to forecast. bait we shall Je surprised it the National Gor
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Yo back suflicien strength to carry on for a perior cabling it to carry out essential measures assuring the fature prosperity and progress of the nation.
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of ad- for the same seat in a fight against perly applied, must be
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prove that the communal plan is: only enhance Latour prospects of
not merely the, impractical dream vielney, Even
the of where
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an impression of lack of unity fact to-day, however, is this; al which would be regrettable: A though there are world-wide re- actions to the depression. and far more setgible arrangement, in problem of unemployment, people are becoming increasingly wro
constituencies not now held by Liberals o Conservatives, would be some pro ratu distribution of
of the threat to civilisation on its present busia. The best some of canecilo- the openings, based, for example, them can suggest is a
on the showing of the parties in tion or revision of war debts and previons contests. The position the diversion of much of the armaments of Mr. Ramsay MacDonald is most money now spent on
lo more constructive purposes. intriguing,_Ho_ has been official Others are thinking more deeply, ly disowned by the local Labour Suggestions are being maile and Little hos organisation of Senham, but, none plans formulated.
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selves and adjust themselves in right relations in public opinion. which, at critical moments, pro- nounces unmistakably.
facts
If it he urged that the should be still more widely known, and should be much better under- stood, that is the
problem
education. In the education of democracy lies the cause of liberty |and the cause of democracy itself, for as Joseph Barthelemy re- marks: "Democratic liberty to the of peoples who have come regime of age."
It is, however, not my business to begin a discussion of this or that thesis. My purpose is dit- ferent. IL #O
happens that these an other French writings have caught my attention at the same in not grouping moment, but their accidental. They are profoundly typical. The point I wish to make. is that these and uthor literary
manifestations. denote a politico-
fermentation in: philosophieaf Frunce that is of exceptionn}`int-' portance.
Francy is again engaged, and. I think this time more seriously than #aual, in
in a process of self-examina- and its institutious and its
Lion;
an
conduct and its way of thinking
are being challenged. What, it anything, will come of it I do not profens to know; but I feel that these Indications of n new stirring should not be passed unheeded,
*
And yet, in other intellectual quarters, there is a note of antis- faction that France in as it is. To be quito topical, this satisfaction is chiefly expressed when the post- tion of France is compared with that of Germany. Thus Gisend (Continued on Page 7.)
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