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MY 1934
THE CAR SUCCESS
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DE LUXE SALOON
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the
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL
NOTES OF THE DAYTHE
THE INSKIP BILL
THE DANGER
Lawson
"the
which remain,
18, 1934.
VITAL
The Very Idea!
GUARANTEES TO THE SPORTSMAN
By SIR NORMAN ANGELL
By George Dear George,
Our Bert has tatoly taken. up playing Rugby and, has been coming homo in such a state that he has cuts and bruises ali over him. "Only the other day the "Arat team," whatever that - ia, were man short, and they must needs call on our Bert'
every-
ET us take stock of the present ovo of the war, to localise her Lposition of this country in action against France, to refrain to Disarmament, the from occupation of Channel porta League, our own defence policy;er from naval operations in t see why we have reached that Channel, not even the conditional position, and in the light of those offer to respect Belgian neatrauts, reasons examine the alternativer met the needs of our case, which was that German victory over
(him being so good at France and Russia would create Thee main facts stand out:
thing and so keen too). Well preponderance of power, 1. Concession from France suff such
they sent him back fair' awful. cient to make a disarmament agree. potential if not actuni, as to depreve
like. I thought he had been ment with Germany feasible canus of effective national defence,
Our entrance into the war was
fighting and we put him to bed only be obtained by giving Franco not due to specific grievance against
and sent for the doctor and he further security guarantees, to Germany, to any wrongs which we
says Bert must have been in the which large sections of British were suffering at her hands, except opinion are opposed on the ground the wrong that her potentially pro- "acrum" or something. Woll, that the guarantees of the Locarno ponderant power rendered our de- we've always tried to keep our- Trestles are all that France can fence ineffective-a point not to
selves respectable-like and I told be overlooked when it is suggested reasonably ask.
him so but he only laughed. I thought you might write to the boy in
fatherlike
wny and point out to him the error of his ways.
or
a
Yours thankfully, (Mrs.) Ada Huggles. To this we promptly replied and after stormy and amphaticnily refuting the Idea that we bad any right to be father-like to young Bert. appended the following verse as a lesson to the boy and an apology to the post, Sir Henry Newbolt
"The Volunteer"
Sir Thomas Inskip's new bill. designed to provent and punish endeavours to allenate the loyalty of His lajesty's Forces, will be subjected to a close scrutiny before Its receives national approval. The purpose of the monsure osters no occasion for criticism, will in deed be readily endorsed. Who- ther lo Faselet propaganda oration Communist propaganda, no govern ment can stand tale in the face of bare-faced attempts to turn the army from guardians of peace and threat to existing Becurity into a Institutiona, Neverthelcas,
of mensure has its dangers. Ong ts fentures is a provision making the mere posscasion of "eeditious" Uterature an offence, a provision which seema remarkably elastic, capable of being stretched to meet and circumstances almost any the peril of lending itself to
des "frame-upe." Mr.
2. Many of those in Britain who that Revision of the Treaty of cribes it as a tremendous and dangerous experiment and insofar as it provides yet one more poal- have, in the past, opposed the Versailles would suffice, to meet tive form of Interference with the Locarno Treatice and the commit Germany's position. We had no liberties of the subject, it demanda ments of the League, Covenant are Treaty of Versailles to revise in guarantees that its application now in favour of a definite military 1914.
Further, we made the discovery shall not extend upon the parti-alliance with France. Quite a cular evil which it is now sought to number of newspapers which have that if Germany's potential pro- been critical alike of Locarno and ponderance threatened our defence, remedy.
the League favour this alliance. we had to meet her power wherever 3. Such an alliance will become it manifested itself in the distant obviously indispensable to our isles of the Pacific or In the Ara- hational defence if the attempt to blan deserts, as much as on the A legislation, however well. create a collective system or the battlefeld of Franco or Belgium. intentioned, along the lines in League system is abandoned and We do not protect France against dicated by Sir Thomas Inakip, con- disarmament fails. isolationism is Germany Germany tains within itself many of the in- quite incompatible with any system France by guaranteeing frontiola fringements upon democratic prin- of armed defence since an alliance' Such guarantees do not solve the ciples which it proteases to avoid, is a source of power, like sub-problem of national defence as we It is being rushed through Parlin-marines or battleships, either to saw it in 1914 and as France sees ment because, allegedly, an organ our presumed rival or to ourselves. it to-day. If Germany provokes sation aiming at a Fascist dictator- If he makes alliances we must, war with France or her allies ship is conducting an Intensive elther fail to keep our end up or grounds having no relation to the campaign
the among
troops. avail ourselves of the same arm. Khine frontier and defeats France. Legislation of this type is obvious. Whether our armament is adequatej we should certainly uen be in no ly carrying the government itself or not will depend on what it has position to implement our Locarno one stage nearer to dictatorship. to meet. Indeed, the very terms guarantees, and the state of it
"Adequate" or "Inadequate" are gerency having ended the Treaties meaningless unless we can say in any case, their terms in the DEMOCRACY
approximately, "Adequate with or subsequent settioment with a
Franco would be dia- without assistance to meet whom 7" feated Several prominent Englishmen
4. If the French entente or regarded. make a public recently united to
alliance comes into being-as it The new settlement, Imposed protest against the rising wave of quite certainly will in the condi- by the German victors this time, discontent with democratic Institutions indicated-and la of the old would not be better than the exist tions. All across Europe from order, it will not be less entangling ing bad Treaties, it would be worse; Germany, from Russia, from Italy, than the commitments of the not leaving less grievances, but en-mora; needing revision even more from Austria, and from leaser collective system, but more countries-comes a steadily grow- tangling. The position will once than the present.
What France needs, and Nute has not yet been madeing chorus of derision for parlia- | more resemble that of the years]
mentary government. Democracy, 1912-14, and the problem before us for; what the stability of Europe It is said, la a worn out thing, and will be to prevent that situation and an effectivo defence policy for Britain need, is not that we should borty is an empty word; only by having the 1914 result people hope to meet the problema of the modern world. All the naturally, is beginning to stir echoes in the British Isles; and
Pity the Moth ! these Englishmen, therefore, have
"Fighting the Moth" was the called on their countrymen to rally in defence of the democratic idealmente in which we are free from pate, by one of the litigants acting any pre-commitment. Note that as judge, guarantee the equal right
the other day and after there was no public pre-commit-of both parties to impartial judg-title of a pugnacious pamphlet we
ment, and above all, perhaps, received ment in 1914. "Our hands were guarantee the observance of Disar-tut-tutting over the revival of the free."
armament qucation we were scarve- We shall understand the French mament, if we get a Convention.
It is not equality of power be- position as to Locarno, and the tween litigants for which we shouldly less relieved to find that the war inadequacy of these undertakings search so much as-preponderance was not as we had supposed in the from the point of view of a nation of power for arbitration, the law air, but in the wardrobe. flanked by a rival of much larger which guarantees that a nation shall population deliberately indoctrinat be secure from war wazed by a ed with the philosophy of war. if rival litigant in order to make him- we recall our own position in 1914, self judge.
What really brought us into An entente or alliance of the
It sounds too much like modern that war was the fear of the pre-war type with France, such a potential preponderance of Ger- that now widely advocated, does
warfare. Besides, having skinned our dailymany. A German victory over not and cannot ensure this. It most of the animals in creation and France and Russis would have might be pleasing enough to reac- thus robbed the moth of a decont placed us in a position of such tionary French opinion, but it home it is only right that we should manifest inferiority as to deprive merely places Germany in the post-shelter the poor creature in our us of all means of defending our tion of inferiority we refused to national rights. In any dispute occupy in 1914.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 1934.
GERMANY'S REPLY Germany has now replied to the British enquiry for informa- tion regarding the heavily in creased appropriations in respect of her Army, Navy and Air Force expenditure.
Although the complete text of the German
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an iron-clad dictatorship can a
and to reaffirm their conviction of the supreme importance of human liberty. That does not means the imposition of one kind of filctator. ship to save it from another.
DEFENCE OF PRIVILEGES
да
our
public, the material points have been published. From these. it is clear that the German stand point is that no attempt is being made to re-arm in defiance of Peace Treaty provisions. The explanation in regard to Army expenditure is that the bigger vote is necessitated by the pre- parations during the present year for conversion of the Reichswehr into a short-service Army. As this implies agreement with the proposal for such conversion which is contained in the British Undoubtedly, the attack on the Draft Convention on disarma- old, Anglo-Saxon concept of free- ment, that is so much to the dom is a menacing and contagious thing-chiefly, perhaps, because we good. With regard to the in- have grown no used to the blessings creased vote for the Navy, this is of liberty that we take them for said to be necessitated for the granted. We pick up
paper, for instance, knowing that renovation of obsolete units, it will give us the news of the whilst the Air Force expenditure day, and that the editor will speak his mind freely about current In claimed to cover replacement issues. We go to a political mout- of Lufthansa material, wireless ing perfectly conflilent that the he and direction-finding schemes, speaker will sny precisely what
Air pleases. If we don't like the development of overseas
actions of our Mayor or M.P., we transport, and measures for pro-wait our chance to vote against tection of the civil population him at the next election--and, against aerial attack. In this meanwhile, express perse) es way is the implication that Ger- bitterly as we choose to anyone who many intends to re-arm officially will listen. We read such books ns scouted, and if the explanations we wish to read, attend whatever
please, educato are a correct reflection of the church we facts, there can be no ground for children in the way that seems best criticism. Rearing in mind that things as privileges. They are Germany has long been girding part of our daily life. We hardly at the position of inequality in can conceive of living under clr- do which she finds herself, it is cumstances where such things scarcely to be wondered at that not exist. Yet we need to remem- these huge increases should have ber constantly that these are the aroused suspicion. The position very blessings of democracy which now are under attack, Peoplu now is that the explanations pro- fought and died that we might have ferred will need to be analysed them and it is our tank to defend in detail, with a view to testing them everlastingly. their reasonability. This obviously a matter for experts, and until their considered judg- ment has been passed it would be The Parliamentary Committee of unwise to jump to conclusions, inquiry on the violent demonstra- either in the one direction or the tions in the streets is still sitting other. The amounts budgetted and has reached no conclusion; but for лre certainly extremely at least two books purporting to heavy, even when compared with be histories of the events
February 6 and the following days the appropriations of countries have already appeared, and others which are not subjected to the are promised, while nearly every- control imposed on Germany by one in Paris now has his mind made
for the
the the terms of the Versailles up. As
future, the Communista Treaty. There is, however, one Right necase.
of smuggling ama into reassuring aspect about the France, in preparation for civil reply-namely, that it does not F
war, and the Communista accuse take the stand that Germany has the Right of secretly arming for a made up her mind to re-arm and new Fascist insurrection, though that, without further ado, she is neither side appears to be able to determined to pursue that policy, furnish any proof of what it so como what may. On the con- vehemently affirms. It ง A CO trary, the implication is that she stant source of amazement to the is in a mood to co-operate in the mental processes are
foreigner that a people whose 50 severely sphere of disarmament. Time will test the sincerity of her gical should be ready to start arguing from sesumptions BD fragile.
I motives.
is
to us.
We don't look on these
STAVISKY RIOTS
:
ว
de-
agka
5 We have to weigh two risks: guarunteo this or that frontier. but Is it better to accept that of giving that we should guarante. Deuce guarantees and getting armament not made, but that changes are guarantee, not that changes Bro limitation and some basle inter not made by war, by the preponder
that OF national understanding
ant power of one party to the dis- attached to a new race in arma-1
we should simply have bad to bow, We said then, in effect; Gerion to her verdiet. Effective defence preponderance of power may soon of British national rights would be such an to deprive us of all means be at an end.
of defending our national rights, a position no free people should
In such a situation none of Ger- many's proposals, discussed on the
(Continued on Pago. 7.)
"Now remember, just enough to show them how it works.
You don't have to clean every rug in the house,"
He leapt to the call unbidden. Unneeded, overbold.
His face in earth is hidden, His mother's heart grows cold.
"Shame on the reckless daring That answered swift the call. The proud and boyish bearing Now flat as the backyard wall."
.
Oh, feet of the fearful forwards That blurred the imago true.
Is this the thing you left me?
In this the thing we grow?"
•
Personally we are all against fighting the moth especially with camphor balls and sanitex bags--
own clothes.
Weather Wixo
Sauntering through the street a day or so ago in our spotless ducks wo wore aware that the dawn which had looked no bright and warm through the closed window was not going to develop on the right linca,
Few other people thought so too - judging that we were alone in our summer splendour on the forry..
By the time wo had crossed the harbour we felt about as uncom- fortable as the first man who car- ried on umbrella.
the
By the time wo had got our ducks as far as the office weather was fit for ducka
and drakes. The next day wo com- promised with light flannels, a shirt and no waistcoat; but it didn't need the placards to shout "Coldest spell for nine years!" to tell us that we had made another mistake.
Not to be beaten, we appeared the next day clad in a rain-coat and clung to it all day despite the ancers and sympathetic' enquiries ·
forecast of acquaintances. Our was right. It did rain but by that time averybody was home and any- way it was nearly, dark.
To-day we shall bo`lato at the offee waiting to see what other people are wearing for despite what Abigail anys, we think it is better to be uncomfortabla and in. the fashion, than to be weather-"" wiao and look foolish,