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STUDEBAKER S PA PIERCE-ARROW
DAY BY DAY
IT SEEMS AS IF PEOPLE WERE WORN OUT ON THE WAY TO CREAT
THE SAME AGAIN?
NEVER!
By HUBERT PHILLIPS
they may well ask themselves whether it is not the application of be parliamentarism that should declared wanting.. Germany has not yet learned the lesson of co- operation, for just as many Ger mans are crying for self-sufficiency THOUGHTS; AND CAN NEVER ENJOY and Independence in foreign THEM DECAUSE THEY ARE TOO TIRED. affairs, no they have not discovered |--Beorge Elint.
In this provocative article Hubert tone. Criticism in Parliament has that domestic strength lies in
Phillips focuses the political sitrabeen stifled by the coalition's too joint effort. Herr Hitler recently Invitations have been issued for the tion from the point of view of a complete victory
wedding, which is to take place in St. convinced Radical. He writes in a Criticism in the country is
at the polls. declared that "the National John's Cathedral on October 1, of Miss personal capacity na chairman of articulate and cannot easily And THE NEW STUDEBAKER SIX Socialists do not believe in inter- Eileen Jeannette. de Biere to Mr. a group which, on the occasion of channels of expression. But be
in- 70 HORSEPOWER SPORTS national rapprochement," and it is
Ronald John Stevens. ROADSTER WILL DO BETTER clear that other elements are also
this year's Liberal Summer School, hind a facade of self-satisfaction, is putting forward some sugges- which the speeches of Cabinet THAN 20 MILES TO THE
tions no to policy. making an effort to isolate Ger- The total rainfall at the Dotanic
Ministers well reflect, there are GALLON OF GASOLINE. A
Gardens for August was 23.27 inches. HE formation of the "Nation-far-reaching discontents.
emouldering everywhere deep and SEASONED CAR BUILT TO ny from international co-opera-The fall on Aug. 4 was 3.81 ins, and
There tion. "To maintain this isolation," the total for Aug. 26 to 18 was 16.07,
al' Government marked the have been too many palms and too TRADITIONAL SPECTIFICA-
opening of a new chapter in little dust; the coalition in already TIONS FOR STUDEBAKER Says a writer, "demagognes have with 6.04 Ins. falling on Aug. 20.
politics. Old alliances were bro-doomed, CHAMPIONSHIP PERFORM- resorted to fostering hate and
kon; old antagonisms went by the Found by the police at Yaumati board. Whatever the upshot of radical policy is, as it seems to
And hence the problem of violence, and it is this phase of IN ITS
lying unconscious in the street, an current AND political phenomena in Germany unknown Chinese was sent to LINE
the drift is complex and uncertain are not often won on programmes. me, imperative. Elections, I know, to-day which holds most danger,”
Kwong Wah Hospital yesterday morn- the fundamental alignments ing, but he died an admission. There politics will never be the
Governments like that which we Germany needs, in her presentare ne suspicious circumstances sur-
again.
have are destroyed by their own troubled condition, a wider grasp rounding the man's death.
mistakes. But it is easential that. of the realities. She is seeking
For this state of affairs, which when the tinie, comes, there should from many points of view is to be be available to a progressive op- "equality" among the nations, but
welcomed, a long chain of enuses position an ordered plan of cam- the underlying thought in
this
is responsible: The world crisis,paign. the principle is not applied to the
Which drove Britain off the gold standard-the abandonment oftion. I do not know, and it is not I say to a progressive opposi- various political elements within
gold, which produced a panic-the my business to say, how that op- her
own egantry. The intense
hanic, which gave birth to a coal-position should be organised. But feeling which has been engender-
tion-the coalition, which, like all it will not be the Labour Party coalitions, has between ed
already shown that went out of office last year; thear elements is
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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1932,
THE GERMAN CRISIS
has "leaders" in too many camps,
the grounds privately placed at its stability. We view with dismay, moralised. It will not be, I fear. of the disposat in the Now Territories will my friends and I, its clumsy, self- the existing Liberal Party, which
take place every Sunday, weather stultifying propisu. the permitting.
Founder members and approved candidates will ace
I do not mean that the Govern accordingly
But in both these partics... meet at the Kowloon Railway Station unt has accomplished nothing, among many young Conservatives at 1 pan. on Sunday, to catch the L18 Conceived in a moment of national too-and certainly among millions p.m. train.
hysteria, it has at least suecesdel of electors whose political allegi- in soothing our shattered nerves. ance is ill-defined, there is a grow- There is thus an illusion-aning consciousness that What 1 Admirers Greta Garbo will revel illusion not without psychological have called the Soames Forsyte Queen's Theatre, even if the story is mend. The international outlook enough. We are tired of old men in "Mata Hari," now showing at the value that things are on the attitude is, quite frankly, not good freely sprinkled with improbabilities is brighter; and, here Britain, with rigid or lazy minds; of rene As a muction, the film ranks high, though many of her actions have tion masquerading as order; of while. of course, butes her full share to the success by been temporisfar and timid, might restrictions
productivo reason of her clever acting: the have done a great deal worse, fut.penditure imposed in the name of pening exotic dance is a real triumph, taking the Government policy by "economy.".
Novarro, who is the male and large, there is little that is lend, is not so convincing: he is not good to be said for it. On the We want to bring into focus- too good in the talkies. Other roles whole, it has been shibboleth-
the light of changing are capably taken, and the general standard of acting is high. There is ridden, unimaginative, and reac-circumstances-constructive poli- cies which are the only alternative quite enough "oh stuf" Certainly plenty of excitement in the alm, and
to Britain's industrial disintegra- Adjectives are cheap enough; tion. well worth seeing.
can those I have used be justified?; Let us take a rapid glance at the situation.
Miss Garbo contri
A "Free" Manchuria. Manchuria's declaration of in- dependence is really no new de- velopment in recent history. It has been done off and on since the establishment of the Chinese Re-af Freemasons in the Philippine Is
The Most Worshipful Grand Master,
when 'hina cante back into his.
outside those Islands.
who is now in Manila, will
accompany
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are
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That is why we have been try ing-a smali group of us--to con- The outlook for the world at immediate future and to ask how sider as a whole the tusks of the public in 1911. Menigolfa has hands, Mr. Antonio Gonzalez, will large is improving. Good The been equally loose in its ties with head a delegation of about twenty-flight from the pound has been cope with them. In a sense, we a forward-looking policy would China, but, unlike Manchuria,visit Amity Lodge, No. 106, P. I. C. been balanced; a successful cut Yellow Book of 1928. But, greatly five Masons of his jurisdiction to averted, Good. The Budget has took as our starling-point the that "outer dominion" tlid not in Shanghai next month, in the Ware that any drink, we have endeavoured cast them off as a political res-of which Me II. C. Mei, is the
Cellent. But any Government that think imaginatively over an even tare, but as a permanent bid for shipful Master. was formed two years had a grain of sense in it would wider field. freedom, at least from China. In and foreign Marons with a member-The trouble with the one we have Internationalism. Monetary policy ago by a group of prominent Chinese have striven do these things. Manchuria, Chang Tso-lin, during ship now of over r sixty and is the first his long reign as the Governnge of the Philippine Jurisdiction is simply that we have bought its Empire
Industry Trade Mr. William services so dear, Whatever else has emerged from [General of Manchuria, always Yinson Lee, one of the founders and
Agriculture The Stock Exchange is the political manoeuvring in Ber-seroded from China when the con-acting senior warden of the
tem-these are our half-dozen lead- the Lodge.
porarily buoyant; the rentiering themes. I do not suggest we tin, it is clear that, for the present trouver the Chinese Government the delegation, which leaves by the dreams of a lowered income tax. have accomplished very much. at any rate, Germany is being vir slipped out of
his hands. He President Lincoln on September 19th But there are more important) but we have been working, as A tually ruled by a dictatorship. The came back into the Chinese fold and will pass through the Colony on things than these. Trade is stag-group, for something like nine recent election, looked at from this The decision always belonged to
12th. Arrangements are being made nant-tariffs are slowly throttling months, and have arrived at full for degree work and other functions it. Unemployment is still increas agreement in our conclusions. We landpoint, appears to have been
the British Masonle Hat in Shang-ing, with all its attentant miseries are offering them, for what they Chang Tso-lin. Say what one hai during the visit, which will be The nation's standards of welfare are worth, at the Summer School; little other than a faree, since it is
may about the relations between
about one week in duration. elear that the von Papen Govern Cham and the Japanese, Chang
are declining. Worst of all-in in a series of short addresses, and my view-there has been an almost in print. ment is determined to have its own always managed to do things inment will develop which givesing policies. We
total suspension of forward-look- way. Thus the Chancellor has been his own way, and the matter of
planning Our positive contribution, as 1 evidence of representing invested with full powers by the his Chinese allegiances was one
more nothing; constructing nothing; co- say, may amount to little. But I time am certain that our basic assum. President to dissolve the Reichstag of them. This is the great differ-churia and whether a refusal oferry and vision, a committee of opinion is to-day more fluid than
genuinely the population of Man-ordinating nothing. At
when there is urgent neel of tions are sound-that radien if it demands the annulment of old ence between the old indepen diplomatic recognition would seri- Soames Forsytes has taken charge. usual, and that we need to take or new decrees or attempts to coun-dence and the new. In the
into account the fauts of a chang- That is why there is bound to ing world. Political problems are teract von Papen's domestic policy, dinary course of things the disqusly check the ebullitions of the
Japanese military aro questions be a violent reaction from this so complex that the mere The Nazis, anxious to effect a coali-unity in China might have severed
for the future. Manchuria from China as it has
Government's policy-or lack oftemplation of them is apt to pro- tion with the Centre Party, have severed Canton. As it is, how
yoke a dull despair. Yet we have thus for all intents and purposes
to solve them, or to perish. ever, Japan may talk about a been rendered impotent, There spontaneous separation until she are distinct possibilities of a dis-is black in the face, but she will solution of the Reichstag, bul not persuade the world of its there seems little likelihood of aexistence. The fact is that Japan fresh election, as present opinion is in the saddle in Manchuria. is that any
the Japan now has in its hands all the new appeal to people would not produce any more strings that guide the political definite result than the last. Thus movements of the · 130W Chinese the prospect remains of the von generals in control of the Man- churian province. In proclaiming Papen oligarchy remaining in con-
Manchuria's independence, these trol of the situation. despite the militarists have simply recorded feelings of the other political par-their master's voire. The deci- Ition.
sion of Japan to extend "recogni- It is clear that von Papan and his | tión" offera a test, with some com- supporters have not much time for plications, for American diplo. liberalism in the political life of macy. On January 7, in a note Germany. On the eve of the last that is likely to be epoch-making, general election, the Chancellor Mr. Stimson stated by inference declared that "the emergency struc- that Japan had violated the Paris conduct in Man- ture of the Weimar Constitution Pact by her ¡does not do justice to the unfoid-churin. He also Inid down the doctrine that this violation con- ment of the manifold powers and ferred rights on Japan's follow abilities of the German people." signatories to take suitable action. This, it has been suggested, is He chose to define Aineriçan ac- proof of the point that the Junker-tion as the withholding of re- Nationalist regime has not forgot- cognition from any arrangement ten its plans to revise the Reich's which was reached as a result of Kovernmental from along the lines the violation. Does the establish- of the pre-war era, rather than toment of un, independent regimo in Manchuria come under the ban?
strengthen 'post-war democracy. Unofficially the State Department There are, no doubt, vory many already is mail to hold emphatic
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We are not out to organise new party. There are too many parties now, some of which are, frankly, derisory. I have been asked at intervals, ever since the coalition took office, to co-operate in forming a Radical group. My answer has always been the same: what is wanted is not a new party. but a comprehensive and intelligi- ble policy. The rest will follow.
This is not speculation, but certainty. We are already get- ting invitations to speak, from all over the country. All manner of Liberal organisations-in particu- lar, young people's organisations -have shown themselves respon- sive to our suggestions. After all, our only hope la In the young. Myself, I have passed into the "hungry forties" (Miss Pamela Frankau, I suspect, would find me a bit of a forgey); but most of my colleagues are thirtyish and they at least are young enough to learn. The post-war generation has quick wits and quick sympathies. It will not tolerate indefinitely the kind of government we have now. For consider. It is nearly 14 ycara since the Armistice." We [have had all that time in which to heal our wounds; to apply, in the survice of a re-vitalised pros- [pority, the technique and the
resources of modern times.
And what have we achieved 7 |Paralysed trudo; three million unemployed; an atmosphere of economic defeatism. Don't tell me-I know-that our problema aro faternational; that individual...
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