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NOTES OF THE DAY
COMMUNIST PLOT IN U.S.!
The suspicions cast by Professor Wirt upon the motivea behind the recommendations of President Trust aro Roosevelt's Brains natounding. He credits them with a project which involves the re- placement of the existing social rogime by a system of Communism and attributes his information to members of the Brains Trust themselves, Congress lo egitated and an investigation is fore- shadowed. First inclinations are to treat the allegations as pro- posterous, but they are worth look Ing. into and two things appear at onco on reflection; first that Professor Wirt is an intelligent individual not prono to sensation alism, and secondly, that it is not the first time that such suspicions have been volced,
EARLIER ATTACKS
Hongkong Telegraph. HERESY
TUESDAY, MARCH 27, 1934, WHAT FRANCE WANTS
.
Europe's Fateful
By VERNON BARTLETT, Problems
of the News Chroniclo,
TUIFTEEN years ago school-estimated because it happens to Children Ctudied maps or be in the nature of the Austrians to smile when others would look Europe that no longer existed.
the on
The Very Idea!
WAR HORRORS
By Ed. Kello, P.P.
(Or Have it Your Way}
We see that despite the
A few hundred delegates Ingloomy. A fresh attempt to unite Paris were changing them so fast with Germany, at any rate econ- secrecy ensured by publish. that no cartographer could keep omically, was scotched in 1981 bying in the local Press the
only discreditable opinion ever up with them.
The great block of the Austro-given by the World Court of In-particulars of the raid on Hongkong which took place Hungarian Empire was destroyedternatinal Justice at The Hague.
Further loans wore doled out in the course of a few weeks.
attached to them.
Large chunks wore lepped off with further political conditions during the week-end, the matter has already been be the western borders of Russia. And the end of it all is that fore the League of Nations, Harassed and bowildered poll-Austria is the biggest European and protests have been re- ticians rushed half a dozen now problem to-day. European countries into existence and changed the frontiers of try can remain, or rather can be ments.
That this top-heavy little coun-ceived from several Govern- dozen old ones.
Wo have here a lotter from an enraged rate-payer of Igloo, Ugloo, Weallgloo; Iceland.
The latter is written on a small.
The developments sinco Herr como, really Independent in an Im possibility. Franco and Czecho Hitler came into power in Gor- Slovakia have put their influence many are almost as dramatic. behind the more democratic ele- They are less noticeable, since moats in the country, Italy has put so far at any rate-they are con-hers behind, the Heimwehr, Got-wafer apparently taken from an flned to political tendency and do not affect physical geography.Nazis, and Dr. Dollfuss, or who
many has put hors behind the But loyalties could not have ever happens to be in the news, altered more if frontier posts had receives the blame or the praise been torn up and driven into fresh due to those who are pulling the earth elsewhere.
strings.
A year ago everyone know the composition of the rival groups in Europe.
among the Eskimos. fcecream which is a popular food
boon traced with the business end The characters have apparently of a harpoon and read thuswise or words to that effect boaldos con- I would not suggest that even the comblance of an Independent talning, the folowing which curl- existence will become impossible.ously enough given below
To the Editor, On one side, the "haves"Any other solution might ap easily France, Belgium, Poland, Czecho- provoke war. Slovakia, Rumania, Jugo-Slavia,
Hongkong Telegraph. An Austro-Hungarian customs Germany, Italy, Hungary, Aus- union would alarm Germany and
Dear Sir, trin, Bulgaria, and Russia-the the Little Entente if it were spon defeated or the resentful coun-sored by Italy, or Italy, Franca tries on the other.
Where, then, are we to find the godfather for this country whose chief crime is that it lost the War?
Will the great financial states tend her more and yet more money in the hope that, when the world drags itself out of the crisis, Aus
It is because Professor Wirt is an important gure in American educational spheres that his story has attracted such widespread attention and comment. But only quite recently, two journalista well-known in Washington have attacked the present Administra- tion from a somewhat similar starting-point. Br. Mark Sullivan, close friend of Mr. Herbert Hoover, credited with unswerving support of the Hoover policies, has declared his belief that the United States is being gradually led into
and the Little Entente if it were Socialism-or-collectivism as ho
There was no balance of power, sponsored by Germany. prefers to call it,
for the scales were still weighted A Hapsburg restoration, which in favour of the victors. But is said to be in the minds of the Great Britain, leaning fairly Italiana, might lead to actual con- heavily on the German side, kept flet with Little Entente States. Any German incursion from It is notable that Mr. Sullivan things more or less steady. does not attribute leadership to Italy? Or Russia? Or Austria? bring Italians across the Brenner. And now? On which side is Bavaria would almost certainly the President. He recognises
Or, for that matter, Great Britain? fri the first place, that, in
A Russo-German friendship that the present temper .of the
had lasted since the two countries populace, if Mr. Roosevelt is for dismayed the world by signing collectivism the country is for it As was to be expected, the niso whatever it may be. Mr. their Treaty of Rapallo in 1922 French Note on the British 'dis-Sullivan's thesis is that while the has disappeared: an unexpected armament proposals has been President is untainted with that Franco-Russian one has taken its
place.
tria will learn how to adapt hor- accorded a mixed reception. In heresy, "a group within the Ad-
ministration who call themselves Italy and France, rivals in self to a decayed gentlewoman reality, there is little, if any liberals, and are called by others Europe and Africa for more than existence? The negative answer thing, that is new. in it. French radicals.
are almost allies in comes almost before the question understand what a decade, policy is still dominated by con- they call the technique of revolu- their desire to keep Germany out can be formulated. siderations of "Security," as tion, and they are intent on bring of their Danubian arena.
Will the Little Entente States France interprets that term. Ing one about in America." There Poland, for long a danger to take the initiative in proposing a The door to further argument appears here to be need of a peace on account of her bad rela-Danubian Federation which would. has not been closed, but it is definition of that word "revolutions with her two great neigh-restore and enlarge the old Im
Some tion." made perfectly clear that France already come to pass in the United them both,
think that has bours, has become friends with perial market? To do so they
would have to modify their fron will not agree to any scheme, States, and the phrase "the Roo-
The three states of the Little tlers in Hungary's favour, and which implies simultaneous dis-sevelt revolution has become an Entente claim to agree on their few gestures are less probable ot armument on her part and re- accepted commonplace. But to foreign policy, but it becomes in- the present moment. armament by Germany-unless most people the word implies a creasing difficult for Rumania adequate safeguards can be complete overturning of the form and Jugo-Slavia to hold the same devised. It is on this latter of government, Its control by the views as Czecho-Slovakin, or for point that France is obviously elements in political society which any of them to follow the advice
are to-day the least influential. angling for more definite assur- ances from Britain than those contained in the Locarno Pact. Under that Pact, in the event, for example, of a German in- vasion of France, Britain would be bound to go to the aid of France, if satisfied that the at- as to rule out the dictatorship of tack constituted an unprovoked the capitalist class and to place act of aggression. The provisonal control as much in the hands of labour and the government, is important, and French policy and, second, a government meno has long been, aimed at securing poly of credits. As to the latter, a more definite undertaking than Mr. Sullivan quotes Mr. Jesse this. In her latest Note, France Jones, chairman of the Reconstruc- envisages common action by the tion Finance Corporation, as say Powers against an aggressor.
ing: The President would bo Given universal willingness to greatly disappointed if the banks
do not adopt such a course, everything would naturally depend on the definition of the term "aggres- sor." Soviet Russia has made the most plainly-stated definition thus far, by characterising at aggression the invasion of an other's territory without a de- claration of war, the bombing another's territory from the air, the sending armed forces across another's territory, or even the catablishing a naval blockade. Unfortunatoly, the League of Nations has not endorsed this all-embracing definition, but it has been incorporated in Russia's non-aggression pacts with other countries. Coming back to the French desire for united action against aggressors, it is well to bear in mind that this was pre- cisely the basis on which the League of Nations Covenant was originaly drawn up. Under Article XVI, it is laid down that
THE SYMPTOMS
of France.
The much-despised Balkan States are leading the way to wards the United States of Europe while the Great Powers think of little but the increase of their rea-
Will France risk offending her Allies by giving her full support to Italy and the Heimwehr, in the belief that Italian influence would be better than German in tho Danubian basin? Possibly, but even then it would not be safe to assume that the Holmwehr have enough influence over the Catholic peasants to overcome the advan- tages given to the Nazis by the
The revolutionary symptoms do- tected by Mr. Sullivan arc, first,pective fighting forces. an effort to so orgmaise Industry Italy, who has upheld the in-fact that Germans and Austrians
speak the same tongue, or that the Socialists in Vienna hate National Socialism less than Fascism.
an un-
Reading your paper the other. day I sed with alarm that mill- tary operations of the most modern kind were carried out at Hongkong yesterday and I beg to register forthwith or carlier if possible the intense Indignation I feel at this manifestation of militaristic metamorphosis. Conversant aR- we all are with the maddening maelstrom of matters of moment which are whirling the world war-wards tapidly, or faster, wo feel it or duty to pull to gether, to put both our shoulders to the wheel, and having once put our hand to the plough. nevar to withdraw it. At least not until we have finished what- ever all this means.
Here in Iceland where we stånd a prey to the intense.com- petition of surrounding coup- tries we have to struggle to retain over the privacy of an ico floe..
But do we show our resent. meat?
Not much!
Whereas formerly our ico- borgs were armed to the tonsils with machine guns and snow- balls, we have now thrown them all into the sea, even the Ice- · borgs, and we rely entirely on the sportsmanlike spirit of mutual disarmament to preserve Your Independence.
...
You have a saying: Thore la always room at the top.
We any there is always`room on an iceborg-When the sun comes out.
Which reminds us as wo peol. off our perronial socks for our bi-annual-wash; Where do files go in the winter-tima? After all Germany has got to draw Ilno somowhore or France. will too the mark and where will the dollar be then, poor thing! GERALD UGLUGLU, Needless to say Igluglu's annual: subscription has been stopped and the packet or rusty nails left there by Polar exploration and which
terests of Germany so often in the past, is now more likely than any to come to blows other nation
The safest solution is, I believo, with her.
And since the weakest link in also the most probable, The a chain must break, the saving Heimwehr and the Nazis may or destruction of that uneasy mood agree to run the country between
That would be we call European peace depends them.
pleasant solution for the Aus- upon events in Austria.
In 1922 one of Dollfuss's prede- trians, who have deserved a kinder cessors was hawking his country fate. Unpleasant, too, for those perform all the func-round the political markets of of us who believe in democracy, clons that banks are permitted to Europe, calling for buyers. Ger- for Austria would become the perform." Ho docs not say many was forbidden to absorb bridge, and not the barrier, be whether that disappointment has Austria, and the fear that Italy tween powerful dictator actually come to pass, or whether, might do so induced other Govern States. in such event, the Presidentments to put through the League of But, by way of consolation, we returned to himë should rest content with an ex- Nations scheme for financial re- ahould be left with the rather bitter reflection that there is no pression of disappointment with construction, out effort to render through public The Austrians made sacrifices worse result of a bad treaty than
which the rest of the world under-another war..
agencies the service which has been abandoned by the private in- stitutions to which it had been committed. As to the regimento- tion of industry to the extent of preventing wasto and cutthroat competition, the end sought le universally approved. Precisely as it is attempted to prevent over- production of agricultural pro- ducts, so it is felt, some form of limitation should be applied to other productivo agencies that they may not destroy themselves at the promptings of greed.'
THE "NEW DEAL"
Mr. David Lawrence, another Washington "wisenere," sees the
any member of the League re- situation in the samo fashion sa sorting to war in disregard of Mr. Sullivan and visions at 873 its undertakings would ipso carly date the people clamouring facto be declared to have com-"mndly for sound government, mitted war
Bound currency, practical ut against all other the helm and a return to the Con-
calmen members, who would unite institution. All steps in the Roo- action against the violating sevelt programmes will doubtless State. It is this principle which be studied again in view of these France now wants to see general- | suspicions, but no analysis is ly observed. The trouble is likely to permit the student to dis- that there appears no general cover anything not already ap
parent. The "New Deal" does not disposition to enter into auch ant understanding. This was well it does mean a very decided re necessarily mean collectivism, but Illustrated during the Man-adjustment of ideas concerning churian dispute. Rigorously and the government's place in econo- | fairly enforced," such" a method mics and commerce. It can mean would do more to prevent war improvement of the lot of the than any scheme of disarmament working man without also involv based on percentage reductioning a Communistic system of either in arms or personnel. society. If revolution But the obligation would have to further progress along the lines be universally undertaken if it the United States are likely to already laid down, few people In were to have any real, value, offer objection
means
two
are now used as currency, has been
The letter from the secretary of the League of Nations la of a more sinister portent.
After drawing the conclusion that the use of the term "Services". was used as a blind to hide the activities of Boy Scouts and Girl Guides in ralding manoeuvres dur- Ing the week-end, he deplores the. training of Infants in the use of,, machine guns and warships.
"What," be aske, "What," he repeats, could be more opposed to the gentle upbringing of our young womanhood or oven young motherhood than young girlhood exposed to the terrible monaces of war.? What could be more disturb. ing to the pure trend of maidenly thought than a stab in the stomach from a bayonet?"
Answer: A bullet from bohind, "No sir, these young boys and girls should have been at home. pursuing the domestle tasks which. will lead this Nation to a better. and more contented understand- Ing of world affairs than stooring warships or repulsing invaders. After all where do those things. lead?
Answer This problem will be found under: Where do flfos go in the winter time? Sect. 4, Para 2, League of Nations February report, 1034.
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Thinking you in anticipation, ga, Yours disarmingly;
IRENE DO
Of course wo extracted the atamp from the envelope and ro turned the letter, unopened, en- closing at the same time of nearly) our resignation from the Loaguế:
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