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minant query is whether any nation, having subscribed to its provisions, is to be permitted to violate them.
Poland and Germany
encour-
FOR SINNERS ONLY
THE OXFORD CROUP MOVEMENT
By E. L. ALLEN.
Signs are beginning to appear that Poland is anxious to make friends with" Germany. The starting point of this aging development is the parley now in progress for a new trade
It is not often nowadays the very beginning of the move agreement. At present, busi- ness between the two countries that religion assumes ment, however, and before. It had. is either at a standstill or car position of front-page im- attained any degree of publicity, ried on under great difficulties. Political relations have never portance as news. When it contact for something like six been good since Poland was re- does so, as often as not that months with the really remarkable born" as a result of the war is because one of its less man who figures in the literature
of the Groups as "Frank". The present trade conversations involve working out a kind of
attractive aspects is in the quots arrangement whereby Po- public eye, as in the case of FRANK BUCHMANN land would take an agreed the Prayer Book contro- amount of German manufac-
I was brought into fairly eloso
tures in return for timber and versy or some ritualising mind is that there was something
As one looks back upon that time, what is uppermost in one's unaccountable about the man and bis work. Very American in his
BULLS AND INNERS
Local policemen have been ex- tremely lucky in Race Sweeps. Dollars for coppers!
There is no truth in the rum- our that Robert MacWhirter and Edward Kelly have composed a Chants." series of ducts entitled "The Last
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We hear of a lady who changed some sovereigns in order to have a little gamble at the Races. She should have bought a draft for the horse instead.
Local "mat" artists are to be seen in action to-morrow. Doubt less they will show their fibre.
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renewed business relationship. cattle. On this solid basis of scandal.
It was not to be wondered at, of speech and manner, not by any to any other sport claiming the Of course, bowlers may object it is evidently hoped to build a course, that we sat up and took means what one would call a 'he- mat, because, after all, a bowls ex- bridge over the flood of political notice when first Harold Begbie man', he made no secret of the pert has some claim to the title, issues which at present separates and now more recently Hugh 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 percher! of the desire for rapprochement sacrifice and redemption as they message which could be expected feel that his was the last kind of
with Germany was the recent
settlement at Geneva of several had met these in the Salvation to appeal to the Cambridge under- And so they are going to make outstanding disputes between Army's work in the alums. But graduate in the post-war years. a new parking place on the Peak? 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 Free City is now better than for tention, something much quieter in of athletic young manhood who
were our most vigorous specimens seats. were most drawn to him. Why
Hongkong Telegraph between the Republic, and the frent did which claims our at best, it was just the two men who may still show & preference for
"SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1933, "
was it? It certainly did not seem one of those cases which you could explain by a man's personality, The there was something more at
work in it all than Frank Buch-
That is what I feel about the
MacWhirter, who placed a bet so badly that he even lost his or two over the teleprinter, did
voice.
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We understand that there was bitter fighting in a local canteen the other night. Somebody knock ed the barrel over.
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To-day's Great Thought: Geel
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
I refer to what is known as the capitals by Count Szambek, for.
Oxford Group Movement., AMERICA AND THE [merly Polish Minister in Bucha-
CRISIS
rest and now Undersecretary for extent to which public attention Foreign Affairs in Warsaw. It has been won for this is shown mann. America's policy in relation did not escape notice that in by the phenomenal sales which to the Far Eastern crisis will stead of passing through Berlin are recorded of the book 'For Group movement as a whole. without seeing anybody, as Po- Sinners Only, which is spoken of There is a great deal in it which take more definite shape when, lish diplomats generally do, ae as the book of the Oxford Groups.I should like to see otherwise, I in the near future, President went to call on Baron
feel that it deliberately shelves von Why, even to see this book on a Elect Roosevelt takes over the Neurath, the German Foreign business man's table at a public sincere Christian "ought to be some of the problems which the reins of office from Mr. Hoover. Minister. Moreover, the pro-restaurant, as I saw it the other facing today, the problems. I Gee! It is not to be presumed, how- Pilsudski press has been hinting day, does not excite surprise. It mean, of our social order. But ever, that there will be any come for Poland to get on a more in something which is very much breezes of the Spirit are blowing quite broadly that the time has merely means that he is interested nevertheless I cannot but feel that it is, of God. The fresh, cool marked change. The United friendly footing with its western alive and moving in the English-once more upon our tired, jaded States, as indicated in utter-reighbour just as has Leen done ances 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 Pact, which it was ratified in November. has made a definite plank in its foreign policy. The American attitude can be expressed briefly. It is that the Pact once and for
of
Caricatures and Cervantes
world.
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I must confess that I have not Men who for years have thought yet read the book in question. themselves to be serving Christ Some day, perhaps, I shall pluck now discover they have only been serving themselves and go back up courage to do so. Meanwhile, to the beginning again in humility I have read the first two chaptere, and a
series of
A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY
number's up, as the policemant said when arresting the
It's not always lucky when your
licensed hawker.
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One thing about a vaccinator, he always makes his mark!·
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A reader wants to know what
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To-day's Best Tip:-Asparagus?
If ever there was a time for goodwill and friendly gesture parties to visit the Orient, it is right now.
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A lecturer in Hongkong maker 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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of Commons to talk about mui-
It's all very well for the House *
taaf, but what about this buying and selling of Kafirs which goes Jon on the London Stock Exchange?
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Although we've now got the automatic telephone, lots of peo- ple found extrême difficulty in getting the right number at Happy Valley this week.
-There has recently been or and those distressed me to such sincerity. Some whose religion One who ticks the tax-collector brave attempt at utter "Tic-Tac" man is. That's easy! all puts an end to the old doctrine ganised in Paris a "retrospec- an extent that I could not for the has been for long like stagnant off, of neutrality, for war is now the live" exhibition of caricatures. time go on. The suggestion that water now find it at once disturbed concern of every nation, and is Frenchmen of to-day are deeply now no longer the subject of interested in the foibles of their the Holy Spirit is so interested in and cleansed by a spring which wells up from within. Others compatriots of the nineteenth the circulation of a London news who have always regarded re- rights. If two nations engage century, and the display of sket paper that He would seek to in-ligion as n queer, unintelligible in armed conflict, either one or ches, mostly made for long-de- crease it by prompting a man to interest that certain odd folks both must be wrong. In case funct journals, has attracted exploit the sacred theme ot have somehow got, now find them of violation the Pact implies more attention than is devoted personal religion in a
selves claimed in personal fashion and enlisted in a life-long service. 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 difficulty in accept listeth, and thou hearest the aggressor, and denying him the gether easy to define caricature, ing. For myself, it raises far sound thereof, but canst not tell We note the wedding of an benefits of the Pact. In the Far turists of France can be found
for among the master carica- more problems than it solves. whence it cometh, nor whither It Oxford athlete and Olympic half- goeth: so is every one "that is mile champion. Reaten on the East, both in 1929 and in 1992, 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. mobilise world opinion. They that it consists in exaggeration in the world to-day which is not
torial parody. It would tell us there a single form of Christianity the only question that mattera je:
how can He' touch me? have gone on to project a new of defects or peculiarities to riddled through and through with doctrine that "they will never produce a ludicrous effect. Yet faulta? Some of us 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 uch a claim for his own com-
NAPOLEON SAID THAT HE WOULD quite incompatible with
true caricaturist does not distort.
HESITATE TO CONFESS HIMSELF TO obstruction on the part of the vant and a discriminating eye. any He reveals. He has an obser-
munity.
A MARRIED PRIEST, WHO WOULD RE I have never come into personal | PEAT EVERYTHING TO HIS WIFE United States should world opin-He seizes on the significant de- contact with these Groups. At Rosebery. ion, thus mobilised, go on to tail that may have escaped decide to adopt measures
others, but which, when thrown force against the aggressor. as characteristic. Thus these into relief, is instantly accepted. "The American people," says Paris caricatures are by no Mr. Stimson, "are serious in the means ephemeral or merely en- 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 per- Governments of collective re-manent aspect, we should be sponsibility for international careful not to attribute to the pence. 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, 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 in hecause there is something to recognise territorral gains more than fun in Don Quixote; secured 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 Paris Pact. As to whether she, of aspiration and performance, or any other signatories to the that Cervantes is the supreme Fact, 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 af negative value, it surely can- the French caricaturists in the not accomplish much. The do nineteenth century.
was
"Are we going hungry all winter just because you're in
love with them hogs?"
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The Australians are wishing now that Larwoodn't.
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. Fold lady just takes ours,
Kelly on Law.
Compos mentis:-Glue Corpus delicii:Cooked lobster De Bonus non-No rise in salary Ez oficfo: The Sack
'In Forma paupería:-Edward
Kelly
Tat trumque 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 Happy Valley.