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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1933,
NOTES OF THE
DISARMAMENT
DAY
PROBLEM OF PUBLIC WORKS-11.
DANGER OF SPENDING The Very Idea!
SCHEMES
By SIR ERNEST BENN
WHA
A. FAIRY TALESKI-
By Edward, Kellyski, Bolshfo Mr. Baldwin's plain forceful speech at Birmingham makes it
THAT with Rasputin the more surprising that British
and the Empress at the commentators on the disarmament crisis should still stress the im-
Queen's, and the Soviet and The justification of a programme, the grounds that the process would portance of the British draft con- of expenditure on public works, in lead to lower taxation and lower Manchukuo at each others vention. No doubt it will bo order to relieve unemployment, was rates. No recent political chich- throats we think we can tell given 1
second ronding, the defended yesterday by Sir Arthurnery is more disgraceful than the a fairy tale, too. Something ordinary rules of procedure will be Salter. In the following article in his that prospect, let that will bring a sob to your
pledge, been ignored. When, followed, but it is blind deception Str Eric's! Boun replica ten year ago, our splondid middle throat, and make strong men. to suggest that it really matters the arguments put forward by Sir class supported with enthusiasm want to go out for a glass of at this stage. The convention is Arthur.
the reduction of thoir income by H.K. Beer. technical; the trouble is political. TF brains and courage are ade-seme fifty millions, they did not
It was the time of the dark. A fundamental difference has quato substitutes for sense and conceive it as possible that the
by the days in Russla. · · ́Lydin Cocoatin, arisen between the declared policexperience, then Sir Arthur Salter Governmont, egged on
the town of fes of France and Germany. The is a force to be reckoned with. IL Arthur Salters, would proceed to op-cleaner to
is a truism to say that the poorer leave the burden of rates and Novgorod, flung her ikon round Issue is clear for all to see. Оле
the case, the more the need for taxes untouched and then suggest her thin shoulders and glided or other must give way or there arst-class brains to support it, but the piling up of more liabilities.into the night. It was Ivan's can be no convention. Until their the pity is that poor cases seem to:
name-day-Ivan Orrickoff, of- rival viewpoints have been ad- have a peculiar fascination for
Three-quarters of the space allot-fice-boy to the town commissar justed, all discussion of any con- great brains, a circumstance for ed so generously to Sir Arthur Sal- of the dreaded Vodka, or secret
which the world in recent times has ter is occupied with a catalogue of police. She must vention is sheer waste of time.
paid a heavy price, as it has given the things he does not desire to do. treatski, or feast. She would go
got him ua that curious affliction known as coupled with an astounding con- to the heaps of muk; or rubbish. the intelligentain.
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The skill of Sir Arthur's plea ankes the high ground of Dis- Her fingers swiftly sifted the THE FIRST HURDLE
for more public works lles not so covery and descends to mere time-uk, and soon closed on a sardine mach in the points he makes ns in serving, protesting that his am-tin, or fish-container. In it wore Mr. Henderson has set out the the caraful avoidance of the really bition is the essence of modesty several verats of oil, and principal points of difficulty in is concerned to promote public printo in present circumstances.
vital parts of the argument. He and his suggestions only appro- sardine, or little fish. She hurried homeward, furtively concealing it admirably concise fashion. His works financed by borrowed money He suggests that if and when beneath her ikon, for to withhold analysis-places the problems in an-and-succeeds, except for one little trade-revives-public-expenditure food from the communal stock was order which suggests that the sentence, in keeping the reader's will be reduced; his colleagues in a counter-revolutionary act, if not
actually sabotage.. clash will come at the first hurdle, mind absolutely clear of the notion the Civil Service will then come
She bolted the door behind her, concerning the duration of the that borrowing involves the reverse forward, and in the pure spirit of and laid the sardinetin under the aporation of paying. Sir Arthur public service, Insist upon the samovar. A shot rang out. She first stage mentioned in the con- and his associates, if they do not shutting down of work under glided to the door, but no sound. vention. France places it at four believe that we can go on borrow taken for temporary reasons" broke the stillness save the cry of Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Waterton sincero-years, and during that period willing for ever, certainly display no which have thon gone. To make a distant moujik. But why was sign of anxiety about the £10,000,- ; their messages of sympathy, floral not reduce her forces by a man or 000,000 of existing publle debt. the point the clearer, he remarks Ivan so late? He had not returned tribules and attendance at the her armaments by a gun. Inter- Some of these people know quite that an expansion of public ex from his toll, three weary roubles national supervision muat bo well that if the debt can be made renditure in 1928 "was not the away across the stepper. Had he a shot rang out. She glided agreed upon, and In such a way large enough, It will have to be re-appropriate remedy." I can only that guarantees can be vouch-pulated, and being desirous to regret that Sir Arthur does not to the door. A far-off moufth overthrow "the system" they wel-appear to have expressed that howled. If Ivan had been arrested safed that Germany is not re-
come Sir Arthur Salter and his view in 1928, when his opinion he would be sent to the dreaded arming secretly. Herr Hitler's spending schemes as means to that might have been very helpful to astrakhan-mines ..a shot rang out. She glided to the door. A policy is equally rigid. Ho claims end.
I am frankly puzzled by this moujik but a huge figure that Germany hos no desire to re-
Sir Arthur has the courage to descent to self-confessed opportun- dragged her out by the hair, upon arm but insists on the disarmamake reference to the "regular" ism on the part of the greatest of the caviare or step. A voice hissed ment of other nations. He de amortisation of old debta. He all the planners, one who pro- "You were watched; whore are the mands full recognition of the would do better to call attention to fesses really to know how to vitamins hidden?" Lydia atam- C.E.R. CRISIS fundamental principle of equality, the farcical inadequacy of such arrange the perfect world. I do mered "Where le Ivan "Omak," which means nothing less than sinking funds as exist, and to the not remember any reference to grunted the commissar, for it was lack of safeguards against the "present circumstances," when Sirhe. "Liar" she cried, "I heard you War clouds are thickening fast that he claims the right to re-arm misuse of them by local authorities. Arthur, as financial autocrat at shoot him in three placos!" The in the Far East and little at-if France does not come down to Since the war these local govern- Geneva, distributed League of commissar straightened his bala- tempt is now being made to Germany's. level. Germany's right ments, which are now urged to Nations loans all over Europe. laika, "The concealing of food," conccal international perturbato equality is not seriously borrow, have, in fact, raised loans My belief is that every one of said he, "is counter-revolutionary, tion. For if the storm bursts, challenged, but it must be effected equal to three times the total of the these disastrous transactions was if not actually sabotage, and unless pre-war National Debt, and the recommended to its investor-you give me the sardinetin, Ivan there is no saying to what de-hy a scaling down of other arma-sinking funds attached to these victims on the ground that it will not return. It is the sardins gree it may extend and who ments not by re-armament of huge liabilities amount at present would solve some problem in nor your lover!" "He is dend," sobbed Lydia, "take it." She may become involved. To-day, Germany. Here it is that the peril to no more than five per cent. of permanent way. Whether, how brought out the little fish. The for the first time, the danger lica.
the whole. The ratepayers are in ever, Sir Arthur, when dealing commissar snatched it greedily, and looks real. The fuss being
many cases liable to the extent of with Austria, Greece, Hungary as he strode away swung the bodies £60 per head of the population and many other bankrupt States of the three drosikis, or musk-rats made by Japan over the publica-
(£300 per family) and yet Sir was his own self-a permanent he had just shot for his supper." Arthur would have them owe more.planner-or merely an apologetic is ominous in itself. Threats
Suddenly a far-away volco called, Much of this money has been raised opportuniet does not matter, the of sterner action against the
All is not over and finished yet, on the loose modern sixty-year unhappy fact remains that in all, I am here," "Ivan," she
breathed. Soviet can hardly be justified
are the basis, a thoroughly immoral pro- these cases his advice was bad and
In the distance a monjik howled, by-the-facts-unless cause for however, unpleasant as nction is being sought. "Intense prospects. The Bureau has mot creding, for the roads and other its results disastrous
wasting assets on which it has
I have referred to Sir Arthur's indignation" at their publication and Herr Nadolny has urged that been spent will be worn out and in Japan looks a trifle thin the Conference should get down vaheless long before the debts have courage, some may prefer to call it lack of diacretion, arising per when the rigidity of the cen- to an examination of the British been paid, sorship is borne in mind. Had draft convention. The parties
Little wonder, therefore, that Sirhaps from a desire to appear But so there been any desire to pre-mean business and there should be Arthur does not think it worth thoroughly up-to-date.
while to trouble your readers with great an authority ought really to vent the revelations from ap-quick decisions. The one ground his views on the ethics of borrow possess the patience necessary to pearing in the Japanese press, for hope lies in the fact that none ing and paying. His reference to wait for facts to be facts before nothing could have been easier.of the leading-participants will the lower rates of interest, and the using them in argument. He has, Ample warning had been given welcome being saddled with the saving to the Government and to imagine, never ceased to regret of the Soviet's intention to
the local authorities by reason of a sentence in "Recovery" in which responsibility for causing a publish the documents. If they
the numerous conversion opera-he commended "good constructive were suspected to be spurious, lapse. It always remains possible, įtions, comes painfully near to the loans. like those arranged by the early those days."
that the outlook will "au-alter. The deadlock may be less the records, I hazard the statement vision, as Mr. Ivar Kreuger." This perusal and denial of
It looks. The that Sir Arthur Salter used his unhappy lapse should make him thenticity. But Japan waits, complete than permits the documents to be strength of the combination in the powerful influence to persuade us more careful of adopting danger
(Continued on Page 10.) printed throughout the country, spirit of faith and peace and the to make "conversion" a success on Why pay for wear you don't get and then threatens the severance impression that that unity makes
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of diplomatic relations, and upon Germany will be the deciding sterner action. What is to come factor, in which connexion the next? How far is Japan pre- good contacts between France and pared to go? These are vital
Italy may be regarded as highly questions. The answers may mean peace or war. The most favourable. The United States likely interpretation of yester and Britain are already solidly this issue. day's developments is that a trial behind France on
of strength, in some form, is And Germany could hardly expect about to take place. If the things to be otherwise when sho Soviet climbs down on this issue, teaches the glorification of war for she may as well surrender all its own sake in Nazi-doctrinaire along the line because Japanese schools,
pressure will be unceasing. There
Веств little room for a half-
way house. And the Soviet's BRITISH TRADE
prestige demands that she
should not climb down. There
it is that the danger lies. The A further reduction in Soptom-
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relative positions, of the partles ber of 74,000 in the number of to the dispute have changed unemployed in Britain'la proof, if markedly in the last few months, proof were needed, that the un- The Soviet six months ago haddeniable expansion of Industry In her anxieties in the West as Britain continues, and at a hearton- well as in the East. M. Litvinoff's ing pace. Seasonal changes have activities in London have re-been in the strength of the general moved all peril on the Western
upward movement. There frontier and Moscow is able to 700,000 to 800,000 more people-at turn to the East with greater work than there were a year ago; confidence. The seriouness of
are
more
the outlook in these circumstand there are few trades that have ances cannot be ignored. It not shared in the increase. We was always too much to expect gather that the buoyancy of Lon- the constant bickering and frie- don is an important factor and that tlon over the Chinese Eastern North is recovering much Rallway to continue indefinitely, slowly. But there is hope for it in Russia was bound to make a the fact that the world cannot go stand and has chosen to make on much longer without new stool it now. Japan's readiness to while a crowd of 18,000 at a Cardiff make a case looks alarmingly football rantch is unofficial ovidenco Jike the first stage of a grave of the greatly improved situation crials.
In South Wales,
“First, they broke me of sucking. my thumb and now.
they're trying to make me stop eating rocks."
THE ETERNAL FEMININE At 15: "I'm a woman." At 10: "I'm wonderful." At 20: "How can they resist me?"
At 21: "I don't look a day over
At 25: "I'd pass for 21 easily." At 35: "I've still got that school- girl complexion.""
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At 45: "Wa women' don't age so
At 55; "I'm glad I'm not old like some people."
At 66: "There's plenty worse than mo,
At 76: "Another ton years and I'll have to give up jazzing."
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TO OUR SON
The world is in a dilemma. We don't know what the heck that means, but there you are-take It' or leave it. If the people of the world suffer as much in the next two years as they have suffered in the last two years, then they will have suffered four years in the same, fashion, which is ridiculous. If Shakespeare had been living to-day he would have been about 400 years old; but don't, let 'that worry you, for it just goes to show that when the Darwinian theory combined with the Einstein theory you have to pay your ac- counts just the same
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If there is going to bù an earth- quako in Japan in two years' time, then that is just two years from now. The barest things we have acon this year have boon the Nude Cult and our breakfast, dinner, and ton plates. We have also Been many beautiful things in our life, Including one polleomon with bare feet.
The rate of oxchange is still 1/4%, but we don't know what It is.The Peak is still in the samo place but it won't be if somebody shifts it in the next couple of years you mark our words, but don't mark their hard, for they'ra not very strong.
In conclusion wa wish to state that we have contracted indiges tion from chowing over the pre- sont unfinancial problems, and if": all the razor blades in Hongkong: wore takon outside the harbour. and dumped, it would be rather allly, because there would be hona," loft. And so say 'all of us.