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AMERICA SEES YELLOW
the League's wishes In her dis- lips of party politicians are being American democracy that lacks
George Moore
articulation.
The Very Idea!
ON PRECEDENT By Edward Kelly.
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Mr. George Moore, who died is breathing a sudden and embarrigorously excludes all payment up at us with those big bluo oy a.
im-
wero
......said, "Who will rid me of
has always extended her hearty co-operation to the League, and devoted her beat offorts to the enhancement of its prestige, is,
By "THE OLD STAGER” unhappily, disproved by her
Some of the most venerable] simply because American states- studied refusal to comply with eliches that como glibly to the mon dare not fly in the face of pute with China. It is this drastically fosted by the economie enlightenment on these facts, very circumstance, in fact, blizzard. Amongst them may be Washington persists in demanding The famous case of Thomax which has brought the alituation the bond that hoary classte about still moro golden tribute from 'Becket was extensively quoted to its present state of extreme At the present moment it takes
being the vos Europe.
at the Privy Counell during tho Bread Queues gravity. So far from co-operat more than a
Chong Appeal. grain of salt to The more Europe pays, the less Thos. a'B., in case you' don't ing with the League, Japan has swallow the theory that the voice Europe can spend. The less Ear-know it, was Archbishop of Canter- consistently defled it, and atll of America's Middle Weat has in ope can spend the lesa America bury when your great-great-great- continues to do so.
it the authentic timbro of divine can sell. War Debt payment is great-great-grandfather was
quite outside. the ordinary ex-mere twinkle in your g....X.X- But whilst the stress of cir- changes of International com- father's eye. cumstance is testing acidly some merce. Amerien demands the em- of the politicians' wise saws, itpty counters of commerce.
You all remember the story? She
What was it? you ask, looking rassing reality into others. For in goods, which might on Saturday, was the author of about two generations wo
at least have rollove some part of the con-
Sit up here on our knee and e some of the finest realistic heard it proclaimed, with varying gestion of industry, by raising in- will tell you all about it. novels in the English language degrees of organ solemnity, that surmountable tariff walls round It was a bright, sunny day and could, had he chosen, havo democracy was on trial. Just now herself.
when Henry the Second (a bad Inid a strong claim to premier it very hard to reject an Largely wante expenditure King), gazing at all his brave rank in English letters after the pression that the process in even though the War Debts were, ex-knights armed to the teeth with death of Thomas Hardy. At more advanced than that, and cept in so far as they helped to their bows and arrows, said least six of his books will live revealed by American citizenship, quering Germany's bid for world sunny day, how could he gaze at that democracy, at all oventa as wards the supreme object of con- But, daddy, if it was a bright, to figure among the classics. is being found guilty. It might hegemony, they were at least the nights? Several English novelists, not-oven bo suspected of sentencing squandered on the purchase of ably Mr. Arnold Bennett, have itself to death.
commodities. They
(Hush, child. Daddy is telling shown themselves intensely in- Whether the Inherent fault lies hoarded in trennury vaults.
not this story, and he doesn't want any terested in tracing the progress in democracy Itself, or in its payments that American democrats. Get off our kneel)
The Interruptions from wishy-eyed of a lengthy illness, preferably for high debate. Some critics rency. We bought in kind. We lendera, must remaln a question racy exacts are all In gold or cur- with a fatal termination, but no firmly assert that democracy is must pay in tokens. The only this turbulent so-and-no," refer one has reached the unpleasant even now expiring of its own inex-resuit must be that America's in-ring, of course, to Tommy a'.
actitudo achieved by Mr. pertness. Others accuse the leadors dustrial state will gravely wornen.
So the brave knights went forth Moore in "A Mummer's Wife," of democracy of betraying their and her bread queues multiply. and riddled the Bishop. which he published in 1884. sacred trust.
Until the majority of Ameri- It is too soon to decide with can citizens are educated up to This is a powerful and relent- less book though the stir it irrevocable verdict rests with the unless Europe deliberately defaults, this sort of thing will end. Any whom lies the truth. The final, that elementary knowledge, and Really, there is no telling where made in the eighties is not easily cold, unimpassioned chisel of his- the position is apparently hopeless, tay now, we might see something remarkable as Mr. Moore was epitaph of every epoch. But the cle of a democracy, the greatest in columns of the Telegraph: imagined now. It was the more tory, which ultimately carves the And we may have the tragic specta-like this in the less interesting really doing an exercise in the symptoms of the instant do not the whole world, committing sui- manner of mother writer, Zola, encourage optimism even in the clue through sheer lack of intelli- his success bearing witness to most stalwart disciples of the gence. the receptive powers
of his democratic theory. They are in the unhappy position of being mind, in addition to his na-
knifed in the house of their tural ability as a writer of fic friends. tion. One is inclined to think that his final fame will lie with
It is merely casuistry to blink cient aristocracy is a tragedy. Buti his auto-biographical writings, the patent facts of the War Debt the deliberate self-destruction of n
Well-informed which are fictional in design. perli,
edu- democracy is a calamity to make and "Confessions of a Young Man," cated Americans, unfortunately the gods weep. In America at this "Memoirs of My Dead Life," only a relatively small minority of moment we do in truth see de- and the trilogy, "Hail and Fare- the total population of US.A., mocracy on its trial, and acting as realise that to exact payment of its own hanging judge in the ab- well" are, in their own way these huge financial obligations is sence of adequate instruction from almost as revelatory as is Mr not only unjust to the European the democratie leaders who should Pepys' Diary. The limpid easy debtors but fatal to the American inform the jury. A heavy weight In his speech in the Japanese prose flows on, and with it pour creditors.
of responsibility rests on those who Diet, on foreign policy, Count all the likes and dislikes, the A great many of the best people are accountable for such A mia- Uchida plainly intimates that foibles and affectations, that go in America regard insistence on carriage of democracy. Japan not only intends to hold to the making of a man. Mr. payment of moneys loaned for the
The Moral on to the virtual control of Chesterton remarked on
mutual purpose of prosecuting the the
The moral seems to be tolerably Manchuria, but is bent on ex- author's pleasure in the
war, and almost wholly expended plain. If we look around the de- tending her influence so as to; "Memoirs," in Jooking upon "tin America, as almost á monstrous mocratic States of the world to of Control to. prohibit Larwood's embrace Jchol as well. Indeed, ruins of George Moore by moon-word Shylock was first applied to toms everywhere. But there is theory, The Board has taken
polley. It was in America the day, we see much the same symp- the submission is made that light." This book is often de- this attitude. But, leaving aside this vital difference. Where the the stand that the theory la uncon- Jeho is part and parcel of the licious, and almost as often, all ethical counts of that kind, in national democracy has not lacked stitutional. "Frances Drake was new State of Munchukuo, to the silly, but the trilogy shows him telligent Americane perceive that strong, sagacious leadership, it
bowling when the Spanish Armada defence of which Japan is com- at his best. He has never done payment, without disastrous re-functioning more or less efficiently.
was sighted," anid the Chairman of the Board in an interview yester- mitted by Treaty obligations. anything more delightful than sults to both parties, is under pre- Where no such firm guidance has Whilst it is true that the special this intimate picture of
day. "The famous admiral did not aunt conditions an impossibility. been forthcoming, the results are leg it. Calmly finishing his game,
America is in the throes of the threatening to be disastrous. province of Jehol, carved out of vicissitudes that attended the worst economic depression it has The price of freedom we are told, part of the former province of Irish literary revival at the be-ever experienced. Its wonderful is eternal vigilance. The price of "We also have another authority. Chibli and a portion of Mon- ginning of the century. What factories are in a state of semi- democracy, it seems, is vigilant to justify the stand we have. golia, was, for administrative his friends thought of their ap- paralysis, its gigantic system of leadership. It is, always and every taken," he added. "Napoleon was purposes, brought within the pearance in his portrait gallery hire-purchase built up in times where, the moral force and intellec. the bitterest opponent to the leg borders of Manchuria in 1928, does not greatly matter. If he of piping hot prosperity is collap tual clan of the few that must theory. Was it not the famous the fact remains that to-day was frank to a fault in depicting like a punctured balloon, and leaven the mass of the electorate. French generalissimo who said that
its streets are lined with gaunt! The demagogue is still the enemy "An Army Moves:.. On it is administered by China ing them, he was equally out-bread queues, whilst hunger-mar- of true democracy as the tyrant and is in the hands of
spoken about himself.
ebera debouch on its famous capi- was the foe of ancient liberty. general owing allegiance
Laissez faire la a fatal doctrine at Nanking. Japan may choose
This state of affairs, deplorable all times, but even more where the to claim that it is an integral
to contemplate and fear-provoking right working of democracy is There are occasions, wo admit, part of the new State, but
to ponder, is due irainly if not concerned than under other forms when procedence might be a handy Will there be 110 foresight entirely to virtual cessation neither Johol itself nor Nanking
of of human government. Perhaps thing to have in the hip pocket. until does. In any event, China still
bombs begin to rain business with Europe. It needs it all bolls down to saying that For instance: on us? Mr. H. G. Wells little more than horse sense. rightly regards Manchuria
to democracy would be all right if it Many of the radio see that, the mure money Americaj were not for the democrats, Chinese territory, so that to wonders.
takes from Europe, whether i audience to whom he
But what a historic catastrophe of
put concede that Jeho is part
money America's European cus Great War, with all Its miracle of
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
TUESDAY, JANUARY 24, 1933.
JAPAN'S POLICY
to
as
Manchuria does not imply any right on the part of Japan to take it, under her particular
Count Uchida still per sists in maintaining the myth of
care.
the
Brotherhood or Bombs
Mr.
tal.
Harmful to Both
It has happened before now that an aristocracy has perished through stupidity, but this is the first time thin fate has threatened a
great democracy. The suicide of an an-
the question recently must have Kold or currency Loken, the less it is that the immortal epic of the mentally echoed his inquiry.tomers will be able spend on Amer- devotion and comradeship, should His talk was entitled "A Warn-ican products. The mills of Amer-end in a sordid, soul-destroying ing to Humanity"; its theme lean industry have already been wrangle over the mere tokens of was the abolition of distance, choked with European gold. Yet. trade. a genuinely-created independent In broad, telling strokes
picture that State of Manchukuo,. and, de- Wells painted a spite the fact that this arrests attention: For good or been done Japanese-manoeuvred develop evil, distance has ment has aroused the of away with. This problem of
ire China, claims that it provides communications rushes upon us a sound basis for peace in the to-day-it rushes upon us like It East. Actually, of course, it Jehu, the son of Nimshi.
driveth furiously. And it has had a precisely opposite
Is it effect. It is, however, when the evokes the question: Japanese Foreign Minister peace? Because if it is not to comes to deal with the wider be peace foreseen and planned implications of Japan's policy and established, then it will be in regard to China that he disaster and denth; Mr. Wella ahows a disposition to ignore advocates the establishment of the realities. In particular, the "whole Faculties and Depart- plea for some elasticity in the ments for Foresight" for the application of the League study and solution of the issues Covenant to the Sino-Japanese that are arising with incrensing dispute indicates an outlook and clamorous insistence as dis- which strikes at the very roots tances melt in the crucible of of the principles of which that velocity. The proposal is per-
Shall a world desir Covenant in an expression. By tinent. subscribing to the Covenant, ing above all things pence, stand aside and Japan has solemnly undertaken supinely
ride the to respect the territorial in- let the warmongers
carth? tegrity and political indepen- skies and desolate the dance of China. By her ne-Such a premise is out of tune tions in Manchuria, she has with the times. There is en- violated that undertaking; that ough right thinking in the na- much is made definitely clear in tions that, translated into prac the Lytton Report. How, it tical purpose and action, could may well be asked, can there be easily sweep the whole an elasticity permitted on the world, in the words of Mr. Wells, Cardinal principles of the "into one brotherhood, into one Covenant? These have elther communion, one closeknit free- to be respected or ignored; there ly communicating citizenship" is no halfway house. Finally, where ne bombs could ever rain. Count Uchida's claim that Japan What are we going to do about}
itz
round
"If every member would pay her back duce, our club could make the down payment on an ermine wrap right now."
In the Central Magistracy yesterday, William Whatisname, who was charged with the murder of a shroff, successfully entered a plea of not guilty. Producing a certified copy of the Elizabethian white paper on the Voyage of Sir Frances Drake, Whatianume prove that Hongkong did not exist. Ipo facto, nit desperendum, and et tre Brutus, it was impossible for British court of law to pass judg- ment British subject outside British territory, and, anyway, he plended precedence and provocation on the ground that no less an authority than Charles the First had at one time, lost his head. "A King Can Do No Wrong," quoted Whatisname.
A LEG BREAK.
Much consternation has, been caused throughout England by the decision of the Australian Board
he went out and met the enemy."
Stomach?"
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SCRAPS OF PAPER.
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Airily tearing up Exhibit 1. which consisted of a number of chita, 1O.U.s., final notices, summonaca, bills, invoices, golici- tors letters and statements of accounts, Edward Kelly caused e hearty laugh in the Bankruptcy Court yesterday by remarking, "These are mere
scraps of paper."
Kelly announced that, following the precident established by practically every nation in the world, he had decided to repudiate his debts. Likening the court to the League of Nations, Kelly ald that if they didn't like the stand he was taking they could jolly well lump it, and he would resign. The case has been adjourned sine die.
MAKE THEM SLIM. Having been converted into n temporary nursemaid by Mrs. Kelly, who we thought said "Will you have a beer" Instead of "Vill you hold the little dear," it seems to us that what the world needs. to-day is smaller and still smaller babies and fewer of them.
Inatuad of overfeeding their offspring until they look like gigantic, grotesque toy balloons, proud mothers need to put them on short rations and let them under- stand that any unnecessary ex- pansionism that they may show will be sharply dealt with and brought to the notice of the League of Nations. Wo male membora of the population are tired of acting babies that are shapeless, Epatein-like manues of superfluous fat. When we wore young we could chew our toes and be proud of it. What baby to-day can do this? Even the politlenn's baby, when it opens its mouth, cannot put it's foot in it.
Truly things are not as they were in our day,
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