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The
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Hongkong Telegraph.
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1989.
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY
minant query is whether any nation, having subscribed to its provisions, is to be permitted to violate them.
Poland and Germany
busi-
1933.
FOR SINNERS ONLY
THE OXFORD GROUP MOVEMENT
By E. L. ALLEN
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BULLS AND INNERS
Local policemen have been aru tremely sucky in Race Sweeps. bonars for copparst
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There is no truth in the rum- our that Robert MacWhirter and Edward kolly have composed a serios of duets entitled “ine Last
the very beginning of the move Unanta" ment, however, and before it had. attained any degree of publicity,
We hear of a lady who changed
Signs are beginning to appear that Poland is anxious to make friends with Germany. The starting point of this encour- aging development is the parley now in progress for a new trade
It is not often nowadays agreement. At present, ness between the two countries that religion assumes is either at a standstill or car-position of front-page im I was brought into fairly close some sovereigns in order to have Political relations have never portance as news. When it contact for something like six a little gamble at the Kaces, she ried on under great difficulties. been good since Foland was "re- does so, as often as not that months with the really remarkable should save bought a draft for
is because one of its less man who figures in the literature the horse instead. attractive aspects is in the public eye, as in the case of FRANK BUCHMANN the Prayer Book contro-, As one looks back upon that versy or some ritualising time, what is uppermost in one's
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of the Groups as "Frank".
of athletic young manhood who were most drawn to him. Why was it? It certainly did not seem
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Local "mat" artists are to be
seen in action to-morrow. Doubt- less they will show their fibre.
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or as a result of the war The present trade conversations involve working out a kind of quota arrangement whereby Po land would take an agreed amount of German manufac tures in return for timber and
mind is that there was something unaccountable about the man and renewed business relationship. cattle. On this solid basis of scandal.
his work. Very American in his Of course, bowlers may object It was not to be wondered at, of speech and manner, not by any to any other sport claiming the it is evidently hoped to build a course, that we sat up and took means what one would call a hemat, because, after all, a bowls ox- bridge over the flood of political notice when first Harold Begble man', he made no secret of the pert has some clairy to the title, issues which at present separates and now more recently Bugb fact that his concern was with especially when his wood happens the two countries. An outcome Redwood retold the story of self- men's souls. One could not but to be a gutter parcher! of the desire for rapprochement sacrifice and redemption as they message which could be expected feel that his was the last kind of
口 # with Germany was the recent had met these in the Salvation to appeal to the Cambridge under- settlement at Geneva of several
And so they are going to make outstanding disputes between Army's work in the slums. But graduate in the post-war years. a new parking place on the Fenk? Poland and Danzig. The feeling to-day it is something of a dif-Yet. In the college which I knew. Some of the younger sports models our at best, it was just the two men who may still show a preference for between the. Republic and the frent kind which claims
were our most vigorous specimens seats. Free City is now better than for tention, something much quieter in a very long while. Another its methods and less startling in straw in the wind was the re- its results. cent tour of various European capitals by Count Szambek, for- AMERICA AND THE merly Polish Minister in Bucha-
CRISIS
rest and now Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs in Warsaw. It America's policy in relation did not escape notice that "in-
That is what I feel about the We understand that there was to the Far Eastern crisis will stead of passing through Berlin are recorded of the book For Group movement as a whole. bitter fighting in a local canteen without seeing anybody, as Po- Sinners Only', which is spoken of There is a great deal in it which the other night. Somebody knock. take more definite shape when, lish diplomats generally do, he as the book of the Oxford Groups.I should like to see otherwise, I ed the barrel over. in the near future, President- went to call on Baron von Why, even to see this book on a some of the problems which the feel that it deliberately shelves Elect Roosevelt takes over the Neurath, the German Foreign business man's table at a public sincere Christian ought to be To-day's Great Thought:-Geel reins of office from Mr. Hoover. Minister. Moreover, the pro-restaurant, as I saw it the other facing to-day, the problems, Geel It is not to be presumed, how. Pilsudski press has been hinting day, does not excite surprise. It mean, of our social order. But quite broadly that the time has merely means that he is interested nevertheless I cannot but feel that fever, that there will be any
come for Poland to get on mure. marked change. The United friendly footing with its western in something which is very much. The fresh, cocl breezes of the Spirit are blowing States, as indicated in utter-reighbour just as has Leen done alive and moving in the English-once more upon our tired, jaded
world. auces both by Mr. Hoover and with Soviet Russia through the speaking world, at the moment. by Mr. Stimson, lays much store pact of non-aggression, which | COURAGE NEEDED on the Kellogg Fact, which it was ratified in November. has made a definite plank in ita foreign policy. The American attitude can be expressed briefly, It is that the Fact once and for
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Caricatures and. Cervantes
true caricaturist does not distort.
I refer to what is known as the explain by a man's personality, so badly that ho even lost his one of those cases which you could or two over the teleprinter, did MacWhirter, who placed a bet
Oxford Group Movement. The there was something more
at voice. extent to which public attention work in it all than Frank Buch- has been won for this is shown mann, by the phenomenal sales which
munity.
BEGINNING ANEW
A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY
-- NAPOLEON BAID THAT HE WOULD HESITATE TO CONFESS HIMSELF TO A MARRIED PRIEST, WHO WOULD RE- FEAT EVERYTHING TO HIS WIFE
I have never come into personal contact with these Groups. At Rosebery.
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It's not always lucky when your number's up, as the policeman said when arresting the licensed hawker.
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A reader wants to know what
To-day's Best Tip:-Asparagust
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A lecturer in Hongkong makes reference to the Rotary kiln in the manufacture of artificial ce- men. This, however, is only se- cond in importance to the killing competition of the Imported. article.
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It's all very well-for the House of Commons to talk about mui- tsai, but what about this buying and selling of Kairs which goes jon on the London Stock Exchange?
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I must confess that I have not Men who for years have thought One thing about a vaccinator, yet read the book in question. themselves to be serving Christ he always makes his marki. Some day, perhaps, I shall pluck now discover they have only been
៨ serving themselves and go back up courage to do so. Meanwhile, to the beginning again in humility There has recently been or have read the first two chapters, and a, "brave attempt at utter a "Tic-Tac" man is. That's easy! all puts an end to the old doctrine ganised in París a "retrospee- and those distressed, me to such sincerity. Some whose religion One who ticks, the tax-collector of neutrality, for war is now the tive" exhibition of caricatures. an extent that I could not for the has been for long like stagnant off. concern of every nation, and is Frenchmen of to-day are deeply time go on. The suggestion that water now find it at once disturbed and cleansed by a spring which now no longer the subject of interested in the foibles of their the Holy Spirit is so interested in welle up from within. Others rights. If two nations engage compatriots of the nineteenth the circulation of a London news-who have always regarded re- |
century, and the display of sket paper that He would seek to in-ligion as a queer, unintelligible in armed conflict, either one or ches, mostly made for long-decrease it by prompting a man to interest that certala odd folks If ever there was a time for both must be wrong. In case funct journals, has attracted exploit the sacred theme of have somehow got, now find them- goodwill and friendly gesture of violation the Pact implies more attention than is devoted personal religion in a series of and enlisted in a life-long service. right now.
selves claimed in personal fashion parties to visit the Orient, it is positive obligations, in mobilis. to the great picture exhibitions. stunt articles is one which some "The wind bloweth where it ing world opinion against the It would perhaps not be alto- may have no dificulty in accept listeth, and thou hearest the
We note the wedding of an aggressor, and denying him the gether easy to define caricature. ing. For myself, it raises for sound thereof, but canst not tell
for among the master carica- more problems than it solves. benefits of the Pact. In the Far turists of France can be found
whence it cometh, nor whither it Oxford athlete and Olympic half- gocth: so is every one that is mile champion. Beaten on the East, both in 1929 and in 1922. those who attained a high level
Yet one has no right to condemn born of the Spirit The finger of tape. the United States have taken of art. The dictionary would a movement of this kind because it God touches one man in this way up the obligation of helping to tell us that caricature is pic has certain obvious defects. Is and another in that. For myself, the only question that matters is: mobilise world opinion. They torial parody. It would tell us there a single form of Christianity how can He touch me have gone on to project a new of defects
that it consists in exaggeration in the world to-day which is not or peculiarities to riddled through and through with doctrine that "they will never produce a ludicrous effect. Yet faults? Some of ue might be recognise a title to possession though this may be generally inclined to make an exception in of territory gained in violation true, it could be shown that favour of the Society of Friends, of peace pacts." This summary caricature can also be used to but no true Friend would make of American policy seems to be produce a pathetic effect. The such a claim for his own com- quite incompatible with any He reveals. He has an obser- obstruction on the part of the vant and a discriminating eye. United States should world opin-He seizes on the algnificant de ion, thus mobilised, go on to tail that may have escaped decide to adopt measures of others, but which, when thrown force against the aggressor.
into relief, is instantly accepted "The American people," says Paris caricatures
as characteristic. Thus these Mr. Stimson, "are serious in the means ephemeral or merely en
are by no
support and valuation of the tertaining. They are a
vivid treaty." To this extent the Pact record of the manners of an ear-: is now a definite addition to thatlier age; and they have a far "security" which certain States greater permanent value than demand before they are willing periodic appearance in the jour- their "hasty execution and their to adopt real reduction of arma-nals of the time might lead us ments, and removes a chief ob- to suppose. Yet when we think jection to the acceptance by of caricature in its more Governments of collective remanent aspect, we should be sponsibility for international careful not to attribute to the peace. If, as is to be presumed, we can, at later date, ingeniously draftsman the intentions which the Roosevelt Administration construct. The world's greatest takes up the same stand, there caricaturist, though he worked need be no uncertainty regarding in the medium of prose, was America's attitude concerning Cervantes. His Don Quixote can Japan's activities in Manchuria be regarded, according to the and Jehol. She stands in com- of fun; but if that were all, he dictionary definition, as a figure plete alignment with all coun-would not be a good caricaturist, tries which are determined not It is because there is something to recognise territorral gains more than fun in Don Quixoter Becured under circumstances because there is essential nobili which imply a violation of the ty and high moral purpose; be dominating principles of the cause there is a vivid contrast Parla Pact. As to whether she, of aspiration and performance, or any other signatories to the that Cervantes is the supreme Pact, are prepared to go further caricaturist. Moreover, he is, than this, if the situation de despite all that seems grotesque, velops to even graver lengths, true, as the saying is, to life. remains to be seen. But if the And It is precisely these quali Pact is to be nothing more than ties which marked the best of of negative value, it surely can the French caricaturists in the not accomplish much. The do- nineteenth century..
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"Are we going hungry all winter just because you're in
love with them hogs7":
Although we've now got the automatic telephone, lots of peo- ple found extreme difficulty in getting the right number at Happy Valley this week.
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The Australians are wishing
now that Larwoodn't.
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Edward Kelly says it's only a coincidence that the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank is holding its annual meeting in the same week. that he picked the winners at Happy Valley....
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"Old Lady" Buys Gold Our old lady just takes ours,
Kelly on Law.
Compas mentis:—Glue- Corpus, delicti-Cooked lobster De Bonus non:-No rise in salary
Ez officio:-The Sack
In
Forma pauperis :-Edward Kelly
Intrumque paratus:-Father
trumped the ace."
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"Snow Falle at Jehol", zero hour has arrived...
Mr. Dunbar should make a good
poker player. He had a few r-aces up his sleeve at HOOPT Valley,
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