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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, JUNE 28, 1932.
CHAMBERLAIN MEMORIES
LOCKING UP AUNT
MARY
REVOLUTIONS. BY G. B. S.
"THERE IS NOTHING SO REVOLTING"
THE REACTION
Oxford, May 29,
Storios of Joseph Chamberlain in Camberwell, where he was born, were told Sir Austen Chamberlain, who with Lady Cham- berlain, visited the South Lon. don Art Gallery, Camberwell, A reminder of the horrors of re- and opened an exhibition of volution was given by Mr. George nineteenth century paintings. Bernard Shaw, at Oxford, Jnst Giving reminiscences of his night, when he addressed the Oc- family's links with the borough, tober Club, 31 undergraduate ho said his father was born Communist society. within a short distance of the
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DR. NORWOOD'S SECRET
"I WAS MEANT TO BE A GIRL"
Between 2,000 and 3,000 Girl Guides roared with laughter when Dr. F. W. Norwood, of the City Temple, told them at his church that he wished he could be a Girl Gulde.
"I will tell you a secret," he said. "I was intended to be a girl. At the time I was born there were al- ready three boys and two girls, and my mother wanted to balance at.
"But I persisted in being a boy, Art Gallery, and his grandfather, In his speech, which lasted one and I have always felt rather who was born in the City, lived and a half hours, he expressed troubled that I made the family lop. after his marriage in Camber views on a varity of subjects, in-sided. The Iop-aidedness went on, well-grove. Sir Austen went on: cluding Oxford, constitutional
for there were two more boys after "On an August day I made an safeguards, Russin, and excursion with my father to find munism. the house where he was born. We found the little terrace houses
without difficulty, and we rang at the door of a house. My father explained that he thought. he had been born there, and asked to be allowed to see over the house.
The Pence Society. "He said as we went through it: Yes, I am sure that is the room I remember, and that it the jam closet in which I locked up
your Aunt Mary,'
"My father definitely identified his birthplace by the garden."
At the gallery Sir Austen was shown an account book with an item: "Received from Mrs. Cham- berlain £3" for the education of his father at his first school, kept by Miss Palce,
Com-
me.
"The name already waiting for After apologising for his age me was Kathleen, and na my other that one of the moat necessary and uncles' names, they had no iden he said, "I have always contended brothers had used up my father's things in Oxford is an age limit, what to call me. However, I was which I should twenty-three.
put at about called Frederick William, after the It bas always father of the ex-Kaiser.” seemed to me a very discouraging life to come to a place where he thing for a young man beginning is immediately confronted by, n conspiracy of old men presuming
PICTURE SLASHED IN ART GALLERY
on their old age and their ether PORTRAIT OF ARTIST'S WIFE: deficieneica,
"If in the next few years We A portrait painted by Mr. H. artist, continued, "then quite a number called "Pauline, have a successful revolution," he James Gunn, a London
wife of the
ary.
The Moral.
"I have been asked by the Cor poration to restore the picture." sald Mr. Gunn, "but it is a di- cult job, as the paint is deeply
of you will not be revolutionist in artist," hanging in the Roch- 1940. With the single exception dale Art Gallery, has been slashed, of the capitalist system, there is apparently with a knife.
There is a deep gouge down the nothing in the world so revolting
The slashing In later years, sald Sir Austen. a revolution, and unless you face of the sitter. his father renewed acquaintance are prepared for it the effect of was discovered shortly after the with Miss Paice. She agreed with the revolution ou you may be to picture had been hung. an interviewer that Joseph Cham- make you a very strong reaction- berlain had been the founder in his young days of a Peace Society which ended in a general fight. "If revolution comes and we scraped and the convas
"The members,” added Sir try to follow the example of damaged." Austen, "had a surplus, after pay-Russin," he said, "a good many ing necessary expenses, of 5 of you will be thrown into a stato
In Russia. By a majority it was decided to of complete horror at the pro- "Nobody asks our financiers devote it to a beggar who stood ceedings of the Communist Go-whether they are profitable to the outside, and that led to a free vernment. Of course, I remain community," he said. "On the fight, after which the Society Communist, you understand. The contrary: we fall down before i[l,“
moral of all this is that you shall them. That is why so many of really understand what you are our statesmen and financiers think going in for,
it would be intolerable to live in "Revolutionary movements," he| Russin. I can only tell them not said, "are to a great extent a sea-to be afraid; they would not live timental revolt against the atrin Ruesía."
LORD HAILSHAM'S HEIR ENGAGED.
The engagement of the Hon. Jeites of which capitalism is cap- Speaking of his visit to Russia, Quintin Meliarel Hogg, the elder able in its pursuit of surplus Mr. Shaw said: "Last year I was
When son of Viscount Hailsham, Secre- value.
the revolution talking to Stalin, and the ques- Ramsay tary for War. to Miss Natalie comes and the revolutionist finds tion came up why Mr. Antoninette Sullivan, younger that it has to be extremely cruel MacDonald and the Socialists in daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alan to persons who are opposed to it England did not make a revolu Sullivan. of Sheerland House, there is a reaction against it. tion. I said the explanation was "People who have 'expected a extremely simple. The police Mr. Hogg, who is in his 2011 sort of millenium of kindness," and the military were paid pune- year, is following his father, a sald Mr. Show, "find that the tasfly,
becomes much more
was told when I went to former Lord Chancellor, in adupt- world ing the legal profession. He had businesslike after a reaction. All Rusala that I could not find out!
It that was wrong. a brilliant career at Eton, where through my life I have steadily anything
Pluckley, Kent, is announced.
"I
he was Captain of the school and said that at certain intervals, say was just the other way round, at Oxford he was President of the of five years, every citizen should he added. "I never heard prople Union. A fluent and effective jappear before a public authority who bellowed so much about what sponker, he was a leading memberand justify his existence. It was wrong. You may complain of the University Conservative should be asked whether he is as much as you like in Russia, Association and is regarded as one worth keeping, and if he is provided you are sound on Com- of the most promising of the young not worth it he should be sent to munism.. If you are not, then members of the Conservativeja lethal chamber, or have the look out for the back of your Party,
back of his head blown off.
head."
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