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FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 1934.
NOTES OF THE DAY THIS KING BUSINESS
JUST ONE MORE CHANCE
Ono alight possibility remains that a disastrous faflure of the disarmament conference will bo
averted. Nowhere is any indica
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By FERDINAND TUOHY
NATOLE France used to say that MacMahon Boulanger, "Drey- af Leon Daudet, "ilo's worth fus wore passing squalls, novore,
glancing At every six months to but squalls, compared with
the
There's Jean Guirand, whom the had not been heard since Foch's bandit Cazet, disguised as a en Line that lende back to glorious death. The Line is all rendy; the darme, killed amid applause. And now the inquiry into the murder of Albert Prince makes head way because the Surete contains in its bosom the assassins,
Henri IV and Hugues Capet, back through the forty kings who in That some of them also contrived n thousand years made France. somewhat to unmake France, that skittles, la being kept in mind. the Bourbons were not all beer and
The Very Idea!
THIS BENSON STUFF
By Eddle Kelly, Diary Maid
DOUBTLESS our admir- ing and patient public
24
Without mentioning names, we
sensational tit-bits that follow are
Okay, let's go
EXTRACTS FROM THE DIARY OF
NAMELESS April 15. I think Hongkong is a line with rotten hole. Tried to do Myesterday and was turned down
would serve up a decent Irish Stew flat, Hind, a bad attack of indigestion Jast nightwish the K K
some Tripe and Onions for a
change.
April 16: Must write something for the papers about snobbery in Hong- became insufferable, ever since she kong. That brazen hussy F- how discovered that she paid 75 cents more for her pink undles than I did. the
affairs. The statement was to willingness to see no disarmament police should go, foul. Corrupt by tradition, it is useful that the that woman - Was no good.
tion given that France was aware
Heo if he's discovered any fresh waying ground swell now. That of the latest German observations terms of abuse." Monsieur Bor- is why Daudet matters: he has has been wondering where on the British Memorandum before gery would have had to look more boon right in grave things, and
Barthou cloned the door on frequently these days. If there's he is spell-binding, even catching we've been since last Friday. further governmental discussions.
one man in France who can say something of the popular car, at The secret leaked out in The French Note was sent to Lon-"I told you so" with regard to the time when change is certain and, yesterday's Telegraph. don on Wednesday, the German present severe moral travail of the as certainly, away from Palals Note on Tuesday, which may mean Republic, tia the Royalist leader Bourbon irresponsibility, parochi- Probably you read that the worst, that the new German and how he is saying it, day and aliam, and corruption in the diroe Stella Benson has left some offer fell upon stony earn. On the night, from the stage of the Amtion of authority, continuity, and other hand, stress is laid in Paris passadeurs and in the columes of an attempted return to some form outspoken diaries which, be upon the fact that before` · M. the Action · Francaisel People of dignity and decency. A king, cause they might hurt the Barthou's Note was despatched, who don't want kings back at all you say? Well, maybe not quite
susceptibilities of Hong- approval of the contenta was
are listening. Because so much of so enally said as that..... obtained from the foreign ollees ofIt is so patently true, being borne the Little Entente Powers and out by the facta. From comic me are fundamentally republi- be published until we are all One principally hours: "French kong's upper strata, mustn't from the foreign affairs committees wilderness, Daudet has become can." No doubt. But I look at dead. of the Chamber and Senate. It is national star. Recently, in the the Europe around France tʊ-day, But since we wrote for the just possible, therefore, that it was provinces, I have seen avalanches I look at France herself, and Very Idea" last Friday, we have prepared without knowledge af of his paper deacond from the prefer to bar nothing. Not old been doing a bit of investigating. Germany's fresh approach to the problem. This is the only hope.
clouds ahead of all others and be history of itself justifies me. A If France refuses to see any reason
Anatched from ita vendors. How Gunner subaltern becomes an En-ing our nose into other people's With our usual instinct for stick-
in the German thesis outlined theso days of occult sexecutions is Cooper or Clark Gable in the way ence of the Benson diarles some the man manages to keep alive peror. Louis-Philippo, no Gary business, we discovered the exist yesterday, we may just as well faco something of a wonder, consider of appeal, sets the multitude aflame weeks ago, and, as a result, we are the implications of the situationing it is invariably the police and in his anointing. The prisoner of now in a position to publish some and prepare for the next con- thu Surete that he goes out after Ham becomes Prince-President interesting information. Angration in Europe..
most viciously,
and Emperor. If these.. be no Here's a list of those whom the longer such days for the purple, GERMAN THESIS
Republic, by the hand of the lot must depend on who are be- want our readors to know that the hind the king-making in France the writings of a certain person Surete-Generale, has assassinated. There is nothing unreasonable in There's Plateau, the hero of Fort to-day. In one respect the position who has a reputation for being out- the German proposals. They differ Fontenoy, whom Lannes, has never been no favourable. in many important details from the brother-in-law of Poincare, the d'Anjou near Brussels, has set a
The Duc de Guise, in his Manoir spoken regarding local affairs.
For obvious reasons, we cannot programme recommended in the dwarf, had killed through his in family style rather rare with Bour-melits that follow are extracts from affirm that the sensational state- British Memorandum, without deformer Flaoutter, who put the parting, it is important to note, pistol in the hand of the prostitute bons and he has two direct male the Benson diaries, because these from certain fundamental prin- ba Berton.
heira living, the first of whom, the There's Philippe cipies. This mach can be claim- Daudet, whom Lannes (etch PP Comte de Paris, is nothing cacare, presumably, in safe keeping ed Germany has come more than killed by organizing an ambush is but an ardent young French "sports for the next fifty years, But our in order to meet the difficulties of spector Colombo was brought to Royalist youth managed to toli half-way from her original stand his cut-throat dive to when in man" and aviator. When the readers, reading between the liaos, Petit-Dauphin was born last year, will guess immediately the author the situation. The distinction do the execution. Thero's Berger the great bell of Notre-Dame which drawn between offensive and de- whom the Surete had killed. fensive weapons is borne in mind. Germany claims nothing coming within the former category. She "HANDS OFF CHINA!" wants an air force immediately, but It was hardly to be expected fifty per cent. of France's air power is prepared to accept a limit of that the "Hands Off China!" for a period of five years, and she statement emanating from thela willing to accept the further Tokyo Foreign Office would be restriction of short-range planes, (unthinkable as it may be else Time was when this sort of thing permitted to pass unnoticed, not including bombing planes. She implying, as it does, Japan's intentions by the very of daily Daudet frothing. But that monarchy, after fifteen years of is, in fact, denying any aggressive where) meant nothing; just the
Yet there is small doubt but that right to a dominating position her demands. All this marks a in regard to China's
can be said no longer. Nothing the doldrums or worse, shows signs Internal distinct forward step, and allied to State than that its judiciary and tical theory. Controlled as we are worse can happen to a modern of returning to fashion as a poll- the effect that Japan would of other. Powers for the next five
Aptil 17: I always suspected that object to any measures on the years, cannot be regarded other-
politicians and Press, bad enough head of
the Stage embody
Last night she parked in a cur the part of other Powers likely to to a ottery real contelbu-place. All four have been shown in tradition elevates him if she'd know that I was there opis in In all conscience, take second
until 8 a.m. She wouldn't have stayed. disturb the peace of the Orienttion to a solution.
up lately in Paris, as Daudet al above factions, enabling him to Hongkong have no sense of
while his situation him time, in -for example, the providing of
's car. Some people China with military acroplanes POLITICAL FEARS
ways bawled they should be. Yet keep rivalries within limits. More whatever.
decency military instructors, or political
auch rightness on the Royalist over, a king is adjustable, as in- Roceived a thit from my beauty leader's part would not of itself loans. There is no indication at lini scheme thin the British, it still upon hins
If it moves clasor to the Museo have focussed the light too brightly stitution, to whatever the people parlour this morning, saying that they the moment of any special rea- remains a more reasonable attitude figure among an estimated 20 per famentary or dictatorial concep- Hongkong" would be good title for an is the most popular may currently lean to, or the cir- would not allow any further credit cumstances ordain, be it the par MEMO Evils of Chit System in until "my old account pald. sons why the Japanese Govern than that adopted by France. cent. of the population even as extion, Nor is it deniable that nine-article for Schoolgirl's Weekly ment should, at this juncture, Paris is entirely sherificing the Police Chief Chiappe from Corsica, teenth century awearing by Demos see fit to make such a declar-realities of the situation to political alias "le Petit Chiapporal," in the has been superseded by the hierar- ing suit in's window yesterday ation, which certainly needs considerations, and confesses clarifying. If Japan has know The legal basis for her refusal to
it most hated by a far larger perchical tendency. If the corpora- und went in to buy it to-day but dis-
centage. If Daudet be claiming tive State be on the way, what covered that has already pur ledge of circumstances which admit of the justice, of nay of more attention now than ever he threaten the peace of the East, Germany's claims may be incon- has done, why look farther for the better umpire, head, than a mon- chased it. What it will look like on it is assuredly her duty to come trovertible, but, as the Daily Tele-reason than the really grave posit: alists have got it all pat and are enough, but if she tries to get into arch? Anyway, the French Roy suit she wore last seasori was daring her figure I don't know. The bathing forward with specific details and graph points out, enforcement of ion into which every thinking working with renewed verve and the one sho's bought, sho'll be arrested. make her representations in the the terms of the Versniles Treaty Frenchman knows his country to faith. They'll tell you of gross After all, even though wo girls are proper quarters. In the absence sort, to war. Germany refuses to wine is in the scales. Can a team not only lived down defeat, but thing as going too far. It was only can only lead, in the ultimate re-be-relentlessly-drifting? The re-distortion. France, under kings, modern and all that, there's such a of any such revelations, there be kept in a state of inferiority of old men, who've falled so often led the world in art and gout. Had $7.50, too, will be a natural tendency to indefinitely. The Treaty of Ver- collectively in the past, come up Louis XV lived longer there'd have in herself at Captains regard her declaration as yet sailles left a number of grievances to the scratch in this thrusting been no Revolution; ho was just
April 10: The ways throw- another intimation of her de-that stiil rankle. Whether they are new Europe in full transforma reforming Government. And look about her. She should have more acandalous. Everybody is talking termination to exercise an over- Justified or not la quite immaterial. tion? Just as one after the other with what tact Louis XVIII blend-sense, especially in a place like Hong- lordship over China's affairs and The point is that they exist; that Russia, Italy, Spain, Germany, ed the old regime with post-Water- kong, where the cats are so eager to to prevent China from working sidered; and that until they are, light may it not now be the turn he not confronted by something knows him for what he is, too. I they have never been properly con- Austria-monopolized the spot loo Francol And Charlca X-was talk about each other. Everybody out her own salvation in ways the danger of a disturbance of which she deems best. Such a world peace te far greater than
of France to stage a show-down, totally new in the shape of modern wouldn't be seen dead with him, doctrine, conflicting as it does could possibly arise from even
to challenge "the works" general ly? Many believe 80, and I can
newspapor criticism? with the Open Door policy, to greater concessions to Germany vouch for heavy Parisian calm, as say nothing of other considera- than she la asking. tions, cannot be permitted to go unchallenged. The feeling creat- ed by this latest assumption of rights by Japan is that she is de What is to be done in these clr- sirous of preventing the develop aumstances? Disarmament can- ment of China along lines which not make progress except in con would possibly enable her even-junction with progress in regard. tually to resist further encroach-to the questions not only of national ments on her territorial integ it is nonsense to cry "Wolf" and security but of international justico, rity. There is no valid reason demand that Britain arm herself why, in efforts to reorganise and to the teeth. That would merely atrengthen her defence forces, begin the speeding up of the race China should be denied the right to disaster. Germany's return to either of purchasing military the League is essential and French material or engaging foreign recognition that she cannot keep military instructors, so long as the Relch na a second class there is no indication that the Power is equally obvious. underlying intention is to em-
WHAT NEXT?
1
the
bark on a provocative military | NEW APPROACH policy. As to the conclusion of
A
to "new approach" "political loans," the term disarmament question which con- obviously needs definition. In cerns itself with healing politcal all these matters, involving the quarrels and providing adequate relations of China with other guarantees of execution of the Powers, there is ample machin- Lengue Covenant may prove more ery which Japan can utilise for fruitful than the abortive attempts the purpose of siring any grie of the post-war years to persuade vances which she may have,nations voluntarily to disarm. In notably, the
the understanding
caso of nations, whon, re- between the Powers for joint and recourse to some legal process grettably, conciliation has failed) consultation in the event of cir is found necessary, there must be cumstances arising which make an inflexible resolve on the part of such consultation desirable. the international community to Neither Japan nor any other collectively enforce obedience to Powers has any claim to arrogate any decision that may be given. to itself rights of dictatorship When it is fully realised that the over China's affairs. To a ment of national polley will not be use of armed force as an instru- knowledge any such rights tolerated, there will follow real would be to strike at the whole security and a real readiness to basis of international dealings disarm. The progress of disarma- with China and at the same ment thus depende, in the final timo place that country in analysis, on an advancing re position utterly incompatible cognition of the paramount neces with hor existence as an inalty for the reign of law In'overy dependent nation..
branch of human intercourse,
You will hear all this, and more, of native instinet, that things are at 1, rue Bocendor, sumptuous new due to happen. Elderilen tëll me (Continued on Page 7.)
needn't come in for a fitting to-day, Mr. Wellà. My
husband is about your size,"
FORMA
April 18: Sow a dinklo Stile bath-
especially as it would be just the chanco those hens would grasp at to tear me to pieces.
April 20: Quite à delightful sur prise last night. I was wondering who I would pick to take me to a dinner dance, when Captain- rang up and invited me out. I wore my pale blue frock, and am sure that he was impressed. It seems that when I addressed his monthly account at the ofco, I put a letter to my mother in the envelope by mistake, and sent his account in the envelope addressed to mother. He said that he couldn't help reading the first few lines, in the letter, and when he saw the nice things I and about him, he felt that we were old friends, and phucked up courage to ask me out to dinner. He is a dear. He said that the girl I mentioned yesterday (the one who was simply throwing herself at him) was on awful creature and as common n dirt.
April 21: Captain- - and.. 1 went to the pictures to-night, and, by a stroke of luck, sat just behind. who was by herself. Captain didn't take the slightest bit of notice of her, and we just laughed and chatted as if she didn't exist. She was simply burning up with jealousy, and I'm sure she would liked to have scratched me. Tho CAT. She deliberately followed us over to the Hotel after the show, and when we came face to face, Capilain- hind no option but lo invite her to Join us at supper. I tried to make her: see that she wasn't wanted, and that she was embarrassing the Captain, but she deliberately ignored me, and after ho saw me safely to the Peak Tram, he had to turn back, poor man, and take her over to Howloan. It didn't matter to her that they would have to go across the harbour in a walla-walla, and that he would have to return all the way back alone. I could have cheerfully scratched her eyes out, the DATI
Lo
April 25, Captain-is engaged "I wish thom.luck!!!
If she thinks that hell remain faithful to her, she's mistaken, the, poor fish.. I'm gind I refused to go out, with his more than once
I loathe Hongkong. I think it's a rotten pincel