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MORE ECONOMIC NATIONALISM
Opinions will differ regarding the view expressed by the Federation of British Industries that the time has come to bring
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TELEGRAPE. SATURDAY, APRIL 30,' 1932.
European States goes bankrupt; and it is equally the concern of all other nations whose prosperity depends on trade. Surely therefore it la right and proper that the League of Nations should see if by any bo means such a catastrophe can averted.
DAY BY DAY
THE MOST PERNICIOUS OF ALL FACTIONS IS ONE IN THE INTEREST AND UNDER THE DIRECTION FOREIGN POWERS---Burke.
OF
bean
PLAIN WORDS ON THE IRISH TREATY
No
By WINSTON S. CHURCHILL
TO one in Great Britain wants pire and in the United States this
to have another dispute with result has been hailed with glad-.
ness and relief. When presently In any case, continental loans are
Ireland. floated in the open market. Take
The following addition has
When the Treaty of 1921 was Mr. Cosgravo's Government sought the саве of the Austrian loan. made to the Hongkong Air Navigation signed and ratified on both sides relief from some of the financial and when the Irish Free State was arrangements of the settlmont, This was over-subscribed, due pro- Directions:-The fee chargeable or
the departure of any aircraft bably to the International guarantee exercise of any authorisation granted brought into existence, every Eng. and pointed to the results of the behind it. The British Treasury, by the Governor under the provisions ishman hoped that the Irish ques Boundary Agreement as a reason by the way, was the gainer by the of paragraph (2) of Article twenty-tlon was settled once and for all. for modification, we met them- Whether it was settled well or despite our own financial loss-in Pro-seven of the Order shall be $40, Lenguo's Austrian scheme. viously British money had
been spent in a desperato effort to save Austria, but it seems that our mil- lions might just as well have been thrown down a drain. After the intervention of the Lengite, the Treasury received new bonds, the interest on which has been auf ficient to pay the whole cost of the League to Britain. So it will seen that international co-operation is not always detrimental to national interest.
Women and Trades Unions. The organisation of women workers is a problem now engag-
Com-
material
il might be a matter for dispute;n manner which they described as Mr. O.H. Aloxandra, the wife of but the dispute belonged to his generous and comprehending.
Irinh Great days now lie before the Dr. Alexandra, of the U. 5, S. tory. Henceforward the Isabelle, who arrived in the Colony Free State, with all the liberties British Empire or British on board the President Taft, has re- and prerogatives of a Dominion, monwealths, if that term is to be ported to the police that she lost her could go its own way and live its preferred. Important
and advantages may be gained by within the locso hand bag containing money, her pas- sport and other articles to the valuo own life of $447. While shopping at the King's elastic British Commonwealth of every partner as against foreign- Dispensary she left it on the counter Nations.
A Final Settlement. at
p.m. yesterday.
It was no doubt a questionable, The Arts students of Hong Kong University gavo a farewell tea party an anxious, and Indeed a heart-
ers.
No part of the Empire standa to gain more and is required to give less than the Irish Free State. The decision of the British elec- torate to abandon Free Trade and at the Union yesterday afternoon, in shaking decision for an imporial to espouse a preferential system honour of Mr. A. C. Braine-Hartnell, Government rasponsible for the for members of the Family An- B. A. (Oxford), who has been lecturer peace and order of so many regions sociation must confer remarkable in English at the University since to come to terms with those who benefits upon Irish agriculture.
tho had made 1929. Speeches were made by
war upon them by The competition of friendly and Chairman, Mr. Brain-Hartnell, Messrs. Terrorism. Nevertheless, the Bri-serviceable Denmark in all that M. A. Cooper, D. J. N. Anderson, K.tish nation as a whole was willing wide range of dairy products in C. Tsang, and C. T. Law.
that a final settlement should be which so much of the wealth of nade.
The signatures were ap- Ireland consists, is to be handicap- The annual general meeting of
ped by a 10 per cent. tarif,' itself ing the attention of the T.U.C. mombers will be held in the offices ponded and the deed was done.
Forthwith and thenceforward only a prelude to further, bargain- General Council. To assist the of the Chamber of Commerce, Char-
Think what such a gift and boon development of Trade Unionlam b, at 4.16 p.m. for the follow of every party set herself to execu
tored Bank Building, on: Thursday, Great Britain under Governments ing arrangements
faithfully and among them the Council has now ing purposes. To receive the report te
punctually must be to scores of thousands of hard-pressed decided to appoint a full-time and accounts of the Committeo for every stipulation of the agreement hard-working and Woman Officer. This decision, the year ended December 81, 1981; to not only in the letter but in the Irish homes. Never has such a elect a now Committee; to elect spirit, and viewed with magnanim- chance been presented to Irishmen reached at the that meeting of the Auditors; and to transact any general ous good will the progress of the of making a success of their own
business,
now State erected upon strange country and of their own Govern- and tragical foundations. There mont, and carrying them steadily was nothing that we could do to forward in dignity and comfort. make a success of the Irish Free State that was left undone. Loyal- ly and punctiliously we interpreted And executed every provision.
General Council, is the outcome of discussions at the recent Con- ference of representatives of Untons catering for woman work- ers. Changes that are taking place in industry, it was urged, have led to a rapid increase in the number of women engaged in Industrial employment. Over 3, 500,000 women, between the ages of 16 and 64, are insured under the Unemployment Insurance Acts, and the number of new en- trants is annually a substantini one. It was officially stated, in- the Ministry of Labour Gazette for December, that about 73,000 Insurance entered the women
open
many
SUGAR MARKET.
THE LATEST CABLED QUOTATIONS.
Repudiation.
It is at this moment that Mr. do Valera has obtained a ma- jority at the elections. Naturally, With Full Authority.
after a long spell of government by The men with whom we dealt one party under the severe condi- were the chosen plenipotentiaries tions necessary to building up a The following cable at the close of Mr. de Valera and Sinn Fein. country out of chaos, there would of the sugar market yesterday They came to us with plenary au- be a reaction. Both the British has been received by Messrs. Pen-thority from anti-British Ireland and Irish conceptions of free gov-
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to make a solemn compact. They crnment equally contemplate and knew that we met them with good are adapted to such transferences will and fair play. The inatru- of official power. Mr. de Valora ment was sealed and delivered. and his colleagues are now Minis- They knew that they risked their ters of the Crown in Ireland. lives in fulfilling it. They fulfilled So far all has worked smoothly. lt. The British politicians who and faithfully as prescribed by the met them riskod, and in some cases Treaty. And why should it not go sacrificed, their poltical careers. on in the same way?
But Mr. de Valora has now de- But no one on either side falled
scheme, the great bulk of whom had had no previous industrist
in strict fidelity to contracted ob-clared that he intends to repudiate employment; 75 per cent. of them had previously been engaged in
ligations.which carried with them the Treaty and to upset the finan- end to the polley of lending home duties. The nature of the
the honour of the British and cial settlements. He has announ- ed that he intends to abolish the British savings and money to re-
problem involved is sufficiently
Irish peoplea, construct the financial systems of
of the Irish Oath of Allegiance, the terms of Many opponents the fact that the indiented by Britain's trade rivals in Europe.
settlement predicted gloomily that which, it is asserted by his own number of women trade unionista,
Ireland would break her word, that colleagues of those days, he had While few will quarrel with the in societies affliated to the Trades
she would use the Treaty nat as a himself largely drafted, and which contention that much can be done Union Congress. is under half n
final peace but merely as a step- he has several times swallowed. by British finance in the way of
ing for more. million at the present time. Only the intimate
His rare touch, ping-stone to complete alienation. He has stated, furthermore, that handling of the encouraging Britieh industries in
one in every eight of the women keys, and his passionate devotionThose of us who had lived long in he intends to refuse to pay the the House of Commons with the Land Purchase Annuities which the Old Country and the Empire workers eligible for Trade Union to interpreting the moods of the Irish mombers had a firm belief were agreed at the time of sattle- generally, it seems to us to be a
membership can be counted ay composers, all combined to offer in their personal good faith. ment, decidedly shortsighted outlook
in the Unions delectable treat.
Across all the quarrels of half a
Good Faith at Stake. which would merely confine assis-having enrolled
The complete programme was:
century-bitter some of them were" to them. To
Serious IssUES meet this
aro raised by tance to countries which offer in situation and to stimulate corts
Toccata and Fugue, D minor
-it was accepted in Parliament! Bach-Busant, that the Irishman's word was his these declarations. The more coof- exchange goods and services of a
In organisation of the women Pastorale and Capric Scarlatt!. bond. Michael Collins gave his ly they are examined and discuss- non-competitive kind. The attitude,
ed, the more serious they become. workers the Women's Advisory Sonata, op 27 (Moonlight)
life to prove that this was true. Boothoven.
even more serious for Indeed, is based on a superficial re- Committee of the T.U.C. General
However, 11 years have passed They are
for Great Britain. gard to facts, and savours much Council has put forward
Adagio sostenuto-Allegretto-since then. The Irish Free State, Ireland than Presto agitato. of that economic nationalism which suggestions. One of them was
many Nothing less than the good faith around whose cradle go seems to be raising Its head in most the scheme for setting up central
Fantalsic Impromptu C. sharp enemies had gathered, has grown of the Irish Free State is at stake.
So far as the annuities are con- . minor
to complete coherent life. The parts of the world at present, and women's committees in connexion Ballade G minor
prophecies that Irishmen could not cerned, the matter presents no which fails to take account of the with local Trades, Councils, which Waltz, A flat
Chopin. manage their own affairs have up grievous embarrassment to Great casential inter-dependence of all na-
to now been falsifled. Peace and Britain. The British Government were urged to work in close con- Nocturne, D flat tions economically and financially sultation with the Unions in plans Polonaise A flat
order have been restored. Pro- could easily collect these moneys There are, however, people who for propaganda and organisation Ritual Dance of Fire
Debussy.perty and a considerable measure by a special surtax on Irish agri- M. de Falla. of liberty have been established cultural Imports to the relief and think that if the League of Nations among the women wage carners. Prelude, G. major Rachmaninoff and a position
not only in the advantage of British farmera, and guarantee loans to bolster up Con- The appointment of a woman Hungarian Rapsody, No. 2 Liszt. British Empire but in the comity to all the foreign producera eager tintental countries, such By the organiser should have the effect Stolnway Plano kindly lont by of nations has been achieved. ly and anxiously competing for Danubian States, Britain is thereby of developing the scheme which Moutric & Co. Ltd.
Allke throughout the British Em- our market. No doubt this, or something similar, is what would committed to more futile expendi-is obviously desirable in the in-
be done. ture in matters which are practi-terests of women workers. cally no concern of hers. They argue that if the League, for example, guarantees a loan to Bulgaria and Bulgaria goes smash, the members of the Lengue pay up, and that as the largest shareholders are the British Empire members, preaum- ably they would have to pay the largest share. What does
When the interpretive art it matter to Britain, they ask, if all its fullness is applied to the Bulgaria
of Beethoven, bankrupt to works Rock
Chopin, morrow?" They forget that sound Debussy and Liszt, the result is financiers would not guarantee a concept of music which finds its own corner in the memory, and loan without having some control remains there always, a vivid re-. over the way in which that loan is minder of beauty. applied. Take the case of Austria Such was the concept left by!
Rus- in 1922. Tho conditions under Alexander Brallowaky, the which assistance by the League of sian pianist, when he gave hie Nations was given were stringent recital at the King's Theatre last night. Brailowsky showed him- And there was a Resident Com-self to be first and foremost an mission stationed here to safe- artist, combining A remarkablo guard the interests of the guaran- technique with masterly musi-
with tors. The trouble
many clanship, and the nudience was, consequence, aforded. a people is that the greater part of in their lives has been apent in daya musical treat such as Hongkong of imperialistic fervour and the idea only too rarely allowed to en-
joy. of international co-operation, being The discriminating selection of new, is distasteful. Conditions of numbers by Bralolwaky indicated life have, however, changed enor how he strove to study the tastes mously even in the past twenty-of his public, and it was an au- eager anticipation five years: and it is impossible todlence of
which gathered to. await such copsider one's own interests as gems as the Beethoven's Moonlight thing apart from those of others: Sonata, Liszt's Rhapsody No. 2, Financial crises in any part of the Chopin's Waltz, in A flat, de world nowadays have a very definite Falla's Ritual Dance of Fire and effect on Britain's own trade and Chopin's Polonniso in A. unemployment problem. It is there. foro a definite concern. of hers if
PIANO RECITAL
BRAILOWSKY'S FINE INTERPRETATION
in
Brailowsky's whole programme was a triumph of gontus, and left his hearers frantically clamour-
"In the spring-"
But the Oath of Allegiance atands on a different footing. Its abolition strikes at the very heart and core of the Treaty. Mr. Dug- gan, one of the surviving Irish signatories of the Treaty, a man who showed himself vory ready to cast away his life, in the Easter Rebellion, has stated bluntly and truthfully the facts about this oath and the meaning attached to It it at the time of the Treaty. was, indeed, the crux. What has days has happened since those made it even more Important.
The Statute of Westminster has
practically awept away all ties uniting the British Empire except those of allegiance to the Crown, which all other Dominions of the Crown proudly assert. The Crown has became the sole link upon which the formal association of so many States and peoples now cen tres. Everything else has been conceded, and it is upon this link that the impact of Mr. de Valora's hammer-blow, now threatens
fall.
Supreme Issues.
to
It is quito clear that such an evont raises aupreme political issues not only in 'Great Britain but throughout the British Com- monwealths. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, speaking.on behalf of the present National Govern- ment, used at Birmingham grave language upon this issue. He said:
Last there should be any doubt as to the attitude of the British Government, I would say that, in their view, any suggestion that obligations or agreements solemn- (Continued on Page 7.)