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NOTES OF THE DAY THE POLITICAL The Very Idea!
TÄRIFFS
PEEP-SHOW
By A. J. CUMMINGS
RAINI RAIN RAIN!
By Eddie "Jupiter" Kelly,
AST Friday while we
Lavere out walking in
The foreign trade policies of most of the great Powers have been for some months now curiously and. manifestly irrational. The Intor- national atmosphere is fovered, dis- We torted and singularly unreal. have seen such inexplicable acts as denunciations of the whole opera-
Can any of the existing parties' tions of the London Economie Con- ference, President Roosevelt's rui-can, if necessary, run the full five Ing-out of commercial subjects at years' course. Its present inton-hope to accomplish the feat? I clear. the Montevideo conference, and tion is to postpone a General am told that some intelligent Con- Britain's trade war with France.
devise a new political formula and These things, and a thousand other Election to the last possible mo-servatives are in fact trying to
almost per
to work out a scheme for an im- even less rational ones,
aginative appeal to the younger
They may have met it in suade International commentators
Since I last wrote about thegenerations. This scheme la not 500 that all of us must be slightly ID- Into this setting, there Bano. comes a very strong agitation in Blackshirts, some of those furtive likely to take the form of a boy books or seen pictures of it; Britain against the perpetuation of young fellows have got into touch acout uniform or a spectacular they may have recited old- the most-favoured nation clauso, on with me either in person or in shirt and a thumbs-up salute. fashioned rhymes about it, such But it may mean a properly rens "Rain, rain, go away, 'tis my the ground that it prevents the
mother's washing day", and $ 800 realisation of reciprocity in trade writing.
In one way or another I was gimented organisation · in agreements.
impressed with all of them, but colourful mode of the day.
TT is, the Cabinet's considered its approach to men and women the rain-But perhaps we had better make ourself Ivos, hon the folatation un er tatto
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To many of our younger readers the word rain will convey little or nothing.
only in a favourable sense with Labour, painfully conservative they may have even sung about the man who thoughtfully showed in its methods, has not realised it in songs. But, if they've lived me an official document instructing the menace of a new, movement in Hongkong during the past loyal Blackshirts how to conduct of this kind or its own immense six months, they can't really their correspondence with the Daily Mail in praise of Lord possibilities for disciplined action. know anything about it. Rothormere.
I wonder how many prominent Liberals have ever given more
Rain la drops of water descend. ing from the sky. It is caused by people having rheumatics.
The most-favoured nation clause was invented in a predominantly Free Trade world, and it was a very useful device for ensuring that the benefit arising out of any reduc- tions of tariffs should be spread without discrimination across the
Unofficially, however, their praise trading world. It is, indeed, an
thing to scrap all ancient chariots essential part of the Free Trade is not unqualified. They would than a passing thought to the armoury, and if ever there were a not, I. gathered, look askance at a notion that it might be a good world-wide movement to reduce handsome contribution to the par for the conveyance of Radical how 500-horse-power tariffs the M.F.N. clause would ty fund from his lordship-in fact, need of again become a very valuable in- discovered among my contacts" ideas to untutored minds and to
urgent Individual strument for freeing trade from an
State, new or old, lacks the vitalle For this refunds--but they are suspicious of machine. Every party in the its encumbrances.
ing, touch of personal leadership, son many people cling to it and his motives.
They fear that his real purpose with the possible exception of Mr. A. Wheeler and family and Mr. blind themselves to its defects.
A. G. Pile and family tender But in the present world such an is to emasculate the Blackshirt the Fascists themselves. And the
friends attitude is no more sensible than sincere thanks to their
a respectable wing of the Tory the art of mobilising and vitalis-Peak and burst, the contents fall- for the kind expressions of sym- that of those Free Traders who so movement by transforming it into larger parties seem to have lost
bercave detest all tariffs that they will not Party; and they are particularly ing row opinion, pathy in their recont
leh Fascism is not, anti-Semitic, ment also for floral tributen &c. help is "rationalising" the tariffs angry at his suggestion' that Brit sent and attendance at the funeral that do exist of the late Mrs. D. M. G. Wheeler.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT,
DEATH.
Longkong Telegraph.
SELF-SUFFICIENCY
ara
In
world.in which ideas of scit DOS REMEDIOS.-At his residence
playing, and at No. 4 Ningpo Street, at 7.15
1934, Bufficiency are February, R.M. on 27th Thomas Jose dos Remedios, aged likely to play, a large part, and in 45 years. Funeral will leave the which Rome degree of regulation house at 4.80 p.m. and pass the of all economic activities bids fair Monument at 6.30 p.m. this after to be an enduring feature, the wise
Shanghai
and course is to work for the maximum noon. (Macao,
Dossible amount of trade, whether Formosan papers please copy).
or not that involves compromising with the pure dogma of Cobden. And in fact the M.F.N, clause nowadays helps to keep tariffs up. In It does this in several ways. the first place, many countries, such as the United States, refuse to make. concessione in their tariffs to anyone as they know they will reap the benefit of any concessions which other nations make. If, let say, France and Germany make a bargain, each reducing some datles, America automatically bene its from both sets of reductions. Thore is, consequently, no incentive to the United States to lower her own tariffs, which remain so high as-to-be-a-serious impediment to trade.
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY.27, 1984.
UNITED STATES AND
INSISTING ON RIGHTS
A day or two ago I was discus- Liberal the question whether thore sing with a well-known English is anything to be learnt from the over-shirted brigades here and on the Continent in the way of ser- vice, discipline, loyalty to on idea and to leadership and insistence upon "action."
Of course there is something to be learnt: as the Prime Minister! might say, nothing exlats from which nothing is to be learnt.
invent
The more I see of political election campaigns the more I am repelled by the utter deadness of the party machines and "plat- absence of ingenuity or imagina- forme," and by the complete Intellectual stimulus to n electorate. tion in applying an emotional or
vast
On the account, at any rate, boys of the marchers and the Empire Crusade.
say "Hats off" to the hunger
The sun dries up the water in our reservoirs, and turns it into clouds. This goes to show how cause if this didn't happen, what wonderful nature really is, be-
water restrictions. would our Government do about
Anyway, these clouds go sailing along until they bump into the
ing down on our bowling green, best frocks, plenies and week-ende · in the form of moisture.
In the good old days, we often but the people on the Peak pro- tested about it, so it was removed: used to have rain in Hongkong.
They are sorry now, because they are all wet anyway.
We don't intend to say more on this subject. Wo-nover did care for water, and besides, there's thing ne professional Auch etiquette.
What would Mr. Joffries say?
A MONSTER DISCOVERY
Dr. Freeth, the chief research chemist of Imperial Chemical In I am confident that historically dustries, has done an important the Fascist conception is a purely servico. by stating in public that transient phase of civilised society, "more nonsense has been talked born of the abnormal confusion about poison gas than about any discontent and unemployment of other subject." the time. Ita view of the docial State is too crude and too narrow
There is nothing in human ex-with the titled aristocracy of to survive and it is too dependent upon the driving force of a single perience or in present knowledge Britain that the identity of the personality. It is a defensive to justify ignorant predictions that Loch Ness monster has now been
mediaeval tyranny. backward stop, little removed from the next war will be won "In the established, and that, those who
I am informed by those who mix
MANCHUKUO Hints that the United States
But I am equally confident that air or that the populations of are waiting anxiously round the a day by hostile aeropinnea ladon
serpent to appear may now come may reconsider the question of the-recognition of Manchukuo
the State of the future will call great cities can be blotted out in shores of the loch for a four-toed continue to filter through from
for more disciplined action and with poleon gas bombs. greater corporate-service from its
I know a good deal at first hand home and enjoy the winter by citizens because successful State various sources, though at the
planning will be impossible with- of the limitations as well as the their own firesides, says Nathaniel
horrors of mustard gas.. Not long Gubbins. moment they do not appear to
The Loch Ness monster is none out either. rest on solid grounds. The
Of the so-called "loyalties" of ago a leading chemist told me story that rumours along thesp
Moreover, since any concessions
lege chum, Lord ("Fine Old lines have led to the British Em-
All weapons of warfare are. Fruity) Castlerosse, sometimes the bassy in Washington being io-in the form of lower duties have to the Fascist and Nazi organion that the hints of a new myster!- structed to investigate the mat-be extended by the giver of the con- tions I am deeply sceptical. They ous and still more horrible mill-other than my old friend and col horrible and all war is horrible, called the "Captiva Balloon" and. cession to, and shared by the re-nre, I think, for many reasons tary gas are a sheer invention.
gas sometimes called "Peter Pan, officially ter la
denied. Yet
The aeroplane-cum-poluon ceiver of the concession with, every brittle in the extreme. in some quarters significance other nation, they are harder to
It appears that he was in Scot- vice to frighten nations into build- may be attached to the fact that give and less worth receiving.
But their propaganda methods propaganda is just a devilish de- Boy Who Wouldn't Blow Up.
land last February, and made White House has not seen fit to Consequently there are fewer con-
some nations are deserving of careful study.
At a time when Mass ideas about ing vast aerial armies.
The fear la based on a sinister several appearances in the vicinity issue any denial of the possibili- cessions. Thirdly
are prepared to enter into agrco-
In time of Loch Ness, frightening the ty of the recognition issue being ments to lower all their tariffs on politics and economies are in the
afresh. President reviewed
Belgium and molting pot, the party or group and dangerous Musion. each other's goods.
announced their which is able first to canallag of war we should discover this gililes and giving the children Roosevelt's silence, when asked Holland have
vengeance if we had nightmares. how the willingness to do this in the so- particular act of Ideas in a clear with by newspapermen
called Convention of Ouchy, But and attractive form will start scrapped our Navy in the puerile. United States would view ro.
enormous advantage belief that the war would be won cognition of Manchukuo by an- neither country can afford to lower with
Consequently, other Power, has been a factor in the whole of its tariff on the goods over other groups and partica in in the air. encouraging the view that some of all countries.
since Great Britain and other coun change of attitude may shortly tries refuse to abandon their rights be demonstrated. The disin- under the M.F.N. clause, the Ouchy elination to give a direct answer Convention cannot come into force is somewhat puzzling, since and the tariff wall between Belgium hitherto the United States has and Holland must remain. not been in the least degree' ambiguous in its attitude. The
•
Stimson doctrine, that America CROP OF WARS
could not recognise any change In these waya the M.F.N. clauso in the sovereignty of any terris preventing tariff reductions. In tory seized by force, was con- the circumstances, to cling to it sidered to have special reference because if there, wore any reduc- to the case of Manchukuo, and tons they would apply to the trade It has been endorsed by Mr.of the whole world, is merely Cordell Hull. No circumstanco stupid. On the other hand, the clause has in the past served as a has since arisen that would a valuable safeguard against trade pear to warrant any departure discrimination. It is true that from this principle. Undoubted nations are more and more getting. ly there are forces at work aim-round. it by means of quotas-the ing at an improvement in rela current dispute with France arose tions between America and out of just such discrimination in Japan. These are to be heartily the form of quotas as would be pre- vented in the form of tariffs by welcomed. Japan would doubt the M.F.N. clause. But merely to less very much like the Manchu-abolish the clause without putting kuo issue to be included in anyunything in its place would only unlimited dis- movement towards a rapproche-open the door to ment, in which connexion the crimination and a crop of tariff rather naive plea, put forward | Mare,
by Prince Tokugawa in Now York on behalf of Mr. Pu Yi,
together with his assurance that prising if the United States de there will be no question of the parts from a policy which finds new dynasty attempting to ab- such general acceptance amongat sorb China, is to be noted. Read-other countries. The affront to ing between the lines, it is clear Chinese susceptibilities would bo that Japan is seeking to persuade strong, but, of even greater America to a less obdurato frame significance would be the basic of mind than she has hitherto change. Implied in America's displayed on the recognition regard for the rights of smaller Jasue. It will, however, be sure nations.
the
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"What do they want with such a big car, anyway ?**
He came back to London, and wrote a few whimsical paragraphs about the monster, pretending, of course, that the monster and him- self were two different reptiles.
Unfortunately for him, the too marks found on the shores of the". Jake are identical with those found in an exclusive London club fre quented by "Fine Old Fruity."
They wore traced to the bar and back no fewer than fifty-three times, and a big game hunter, who is a member of the club, esti- mates that the monster must have had a pretty good time.
More about The Monster next week.
LENT
Why didn't someone remind us that last Tuesday was shroff Tuce- day?
A FILM REVIEW Christopher
Had a home
Cinema.
It made nice. Pictures
Sloggin
On the Living Room. Wall One day Christopher Connected it
Up Wrong Bang!!
Went the cinema. Bangi
Went Christopher,” And he made a nasty Picture
On the Living Room
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