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sent friction faming up into direct hostility As President Roosevelt has declared, in wal. coming the British Premier to the United States, the world situation calls for realistic action. That is especially true of Europe. which at the moment is politically unstable and fear-
AS OTHERS SEE US BULLS AND INNERS.
ENGLAND THROUGH GERMAN EYES
BY È. L. ALLEN
During the War, a
German KEY TO
BRITISH HISTORY
Our ideal is that of the 'gentle-
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A local magistrate thinks that. juvenile hawkers should be caned on the spot. We always thought. that was just where they got it.
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The Right Rev. Ronald Hall pre-
ful of the future. If the Disar-professor of English moved, as mament Conference fails, or the he tells us, by the spectacle of man', the man who does not need, efforts to bring about political the two countries he knew and to work but only to play, and fers to be referred to as plain. accord come to naught, there will develop a more intense loved best locked in a life-and-prominence in sport is with us a "Bishop." As a good sport, how- better title to social prestige than ever, he would doubtless not object. nationalism, which in turn will death strugle, resolved that intellectual ability. Finally, there to his more intimate friends call- make it practically impossible to achieve anything at the World when peace came he would make is something in us of the Puritan. ing him "Bigh" for short
Conference. All it his mission to interpret Eng- Englishman derives his
his moral earnestness, and what
local auctioneer is to dispose: these issues are closely inter-land to his own people.
seems to others his too confident of 154 cases of dates to-day. He' woven. The choice is between'
The book which Prof. Dibelius identification of his own interests should be very popular with the co-operation now and conflict
with the will of God and the good girls.
Economic
It is from this source that the
energy
later. Forces which are work-wrote with that end in view bears of humanity. ing for war must be curbed. If the simple title 'England", and
It is in this last fact that. Di- We hear that the Navy feinted at they are not, almost before we was translated into English some belius sees the key to a right Gin Drinkers' Bay. The Army know it there will be created a three years ago. It is a monu-understanding of Britain's history doubtless thinks this rum. situation of such gravity as is ment of German thoroughness, re-as an imperial nation. He rejects contemplate.vealing at times an intimate au- unhesitatingly the Continental terrible to "Germany-To-day
while there are decasions on
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quaintance with out-of-the-way de accusation of hypocrisy which, is 116, and, of The crankshaft of the Rockne
tails of our national life. More brought against
course, he dismisses our own Six engine is statically and
than that, it is written without a equally facile assumption that our dynamically balanced and equipped with
triumph is the reward of out four integral While developments in Ger- trace of hatred. counterweights to reduce centri- many inspire more alarm than
There are times indeed when it standing virtue. fugal loads on main bearings, confidence, it much be recognis- amazes one by the sympathy and
England, he says, has given the Regretfully Cannot. A specially designed dampner ed that the embarrassing, mani-appreciation which it displays, world two things of imperishable
festation of nationalism and the
value, the dramas of Shakespeare The really smart local flappers campaign against the Jews Seo and drive the New Rockne present only one side of the pic. which it reveals our national and the free state. The free have taken a leaf out of their state, again, rests on twa Chinese sisters' books and adopted It only remains ture. Accurate perspective faults with an honesty which is specifically English assumptions the alit skirt.
common-sense and the transfor- for Chinese flappers to copy their must give due weight to the healthily disturbing.
mation of the antagonist inte, imitators' habits. other side. There is a stark
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privileged colleague. That the movement toward social and ad- CUP FINAL
French Canadian and the ministrative experiments, but
should have been willing to cross there is also the vigorous search Who can say, for example,-to the seas and fight in Britain's for a type of government which pick out one of the humorous battles seems to him an event can demand popular sanction. points in the book-that there is without parallel. Without question there is propa-not a good deal of truth in De-
MARVELLOUS ganda, as vigorous as it is clever, belius's account of British political SYNTHESIS against Versailles; yet recogni- life? The Englishman, he says,! tion of manifest injustices of Mr. La Cheng Shiu begs to announce
is not at all interested in good that the marriage between his the peace treaty is not limited to
What he asks for is cause it has been a government.
synthesis of daughter Enid and Mr. John the confines of the Reich.
simply a good fight between two Letablere Litton will take place There is talk of militarism;
world- good.. at the Registry on Wednesday, there is also a vast volume of opposing teams, a sort of glorified in a position in which altruism Hongkong will receive wide pub- April 26th, and that a Reception will be held at the Hongkong pacific, even if inarticulate, cup-final played every five years came naturally, for what was of licity on account of its now brew
benefit to mankind usually coinery. The Lure of the Yeast! Hotel at 4.30 pm. No formal sentiment. Strife and conflict or sol
cided with what was, to our own invitations are being issued, "but
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there also is a herculean effort which is of the utmost value, and '
Thus Free Trade was a noble
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It is understood that after the recent mimic battle, several dead marines were discovered in the British policy has succeeded be. {vicinity of Repulse Bay.
marvellous self-interest and Fortune placed us
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It is believed that the name of
Nature Note by "Binjar": The
to solve 'the basic problem of un-one only regrets that it has not humanitarian ideal; all barriers lesser mugwump may now be seen | employment. Charges of cor aroused in England the interest between the nations were to be in juxtaposition to the grandiflor. ruption touch the agricultural which it certainly deseries. Ibroken down, the world was to us Giganticus, especially phos-
thousands of
Hongkong Telegraph.honest farmers have been
SATURDAY APRIL 8, 1933.
WAR CLOUDS IN EUROPE
the
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phorescent during and all markets were to be open to disturbed, as they have a dangerous habit of flying backwards. when British goods!
Loyalty to the League of Na- distressed.
O foreign policy: It alone can perRubber bathing suits
the tions is the corner-stone of British
this suade the world to sink its subvogue in the United States
Many a seaside flirtation will The Englishman of to-day, so marines, put its poison-gas to
milder uses-and acquiesce per- become a fotation. Dibelius ånds, is compounded of
manently in Britain's possession three separate individuals, the of the richest quarters of the Saxon farmer, the medieval globe! be-knight, and the Puritan.
year.
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Although a Scotsman, it is con." fidently expected that Mr. Ramsay MacDonald will at least give away a few interviews when he visits
America. -
our abled to "carry on" only through mention--the analysis of assistance of the Government, national character, and the new Undoubtedly there is a sharp answer which fe given to the old tendency toward economic na-question What is the secret of tionalism; against this is a pic England's 'greatness?" ture of a country battling to de- fend its markets from competi- tion with nationals having the It would appear that when. in temporary advantage of a depre-
recent declaration at
ciated currency. Beyond the very
and dificulties Disarmament
serious
'Britain is the solitary Great Conference, British spokesman declared that bind the facade of unrest must
The groundwork of our mentali-Power with a national programme "the situation in Europe is de-be recognized an industrious and ty is identical, with that of the which, while egotistic through and through, promises to the world as
□ ☐ generating before our eyes," he stable population. For every Low German peasant of the pre-
* whole something which the was speaking the plain,
The picture elsewhere of district where political clashes
number of pups on a clothes-line, a small progress, and eternal peace. tion of the British Prime Minis-peacefully about their business.
England is the single country shows that a dog not only has his ter at the Conference, for the Surely, not all of Germany is to agricultural community in which express purpose of saving it be understood by what a German each man cultivated his own strip in the world that, in looking after day, but also bis peg!
Bustles are coming back, accord- from failure, wes, it is now commentator has deplored as of land but all strips were alike. its own interest with meticulous clear, linked with the wave of "so much running up and down. "The Englishman desires to be care, has at the same time some-
country where patriotism does not think of it, they'd look funny any. anxiety which has of late been stairs in the superstructure of lord in his castle, but inside that thing to give to others; the single ing to a fashion note. Come to
castle exactly like everyone else. represent a threat or a challenge where else.. sweeping Europe. lest some politics." cause arise leading to a fresh
The influence of medieval to the rest of the world; the single country that invariably summons outbreak of war. Later, the A. Prerequisite of Peace chivalry is to be seen in the the most progressive, idealistic, visits to Rome and Paris were
respect for women, the passion for and efficient forces in other sport, the love of pageantry and nations to co-operate with it. outward show, and the tyranny of convention which are so character- istle of the Englishman.
welcome truth. The interven are reported half a hundred go sent day, and our individualism is world passionately desires order,
an inheritance. from
made in the hope of evolving a Time was, and that not so Four-Power Fact to preserve long ago, that verbatim records peace and to provide the ma- of diplomatic conferences were chinery for the pacific adjust-seldom given to the public, and ment of incidents which might when they were, their phraseolo lead to major crises. Yet, des- pite all these efforts, it is stilly was incomprehensible to the average reader. The change in clear that suspicion and dis- this particular, wrought in the trust have not been dissipated. last decade at what is sometines Italy complains of France desir-called "the sounding board of ing to whittle down the pro- the world," Geneva, is worthy of posed pact, while France on her
note. An example of this im- part charges Italy and Germany proved technique, and one ap. with seeking to block the Disar-plied in circumstances quite mament Conference. But it without precedent, was the would seem that Franco-German 15,000-word official draft report tension is the chief danger at of the Committee of Nineteen, the moment. Inveighing cently against the Versailles Although the record dealt with a profoundly complex situa- Treaty, the German Foreign tion, it was easy reading.
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before Sept. wark of peace, or Europe would ground, both totter into the abyss. There 18, 1931, and since; in dealing an be no questioning the point with actions on the part of that there are influences still at China and Japan that raise de
batable points; in quoting pro- work aiming to keep Germany invisions laid down in the Coven- a position of subjection. That way, danger lles. Much has ant of the League of Nations, happened since the Great War to the Pact of Paris, and the Nine demonstrate the futility of such Power treaty, the report was a policy. But against this fact infailingly clear, and not lack- we have to place another, name-ing in dramatic force. Part III ly, that the intense ultra-may in time become a classic. There, in way nationalism displayed by the among summaries. Nazis has in it the elements of less than three pages,
of the danger to the peace of Europe, graphically set forth the out- France, of course, is suspicious, standing features
situation. This is a hearten- and the talk of "security" goes
to portent
the man on apace. The moment, howing ever, is not one in which to ap-in the street who desires to be portion blame. It is the task of informed on what is happening statesmanship to prevent prelin the world.
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[Controversialist's articles on the Hongkong Cabaret will be re- sumed on Monday.]
"Aren't you going to claim exemption for all that money you've spent on Hiquor for customers?"
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What some of our flappers seem to forget is that a girl can burn the candle at both ends and still not be very bright,
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A notice in a morning com temporary gives Messrs. Lane, Crawford, Ltd. the rare distinc. name tion of discovering a new for bananas-"Fruit Sausages."
Old Mother Hubbard one day at
the club heard
An eminent counsel's
opinion;
He charged her no fee for the
name of the "gee,"
And advised her to put her last-
guinea on.
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This vogue for realism has be-
come so Intense that there's very
little reserved in the cinemas these
days except the seats.
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Robert MacWhirter didn't take
part in the landing at Gin Drink- ers' Bay. He says he prefers Scotch.
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Garden pests will soon be mak
ing their appearance again—. leaning over the hedge to remind you that you didn't have much luck with the tomatoes this. season.
Now we know why it's called Re- pulse Bay,
Regarding the cabaret question, Edward Kelly says that he has an open mind, only It's temporarily closed for repairs.
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Judging from the Australian re ports, only one man wasn't black and blue after playing in the Texts, and that's because he was Wynit.