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THE FORTY-HOUR WEEK
The real stumbling block in the Russo-American debt and trade
OFFICIAL HISTORIES OF THE WAR
negotiations I that the two By Major-General Sir C. W. GWYNN, K.CB., C.M.G., D.5.0. nations are playing a gameof "You did!" and "We didn't!". The
America's debt claim figures in
The Very Idea!
ON LEARNING CHINESE
So
(By George) Harold Lloyd is learn- ing Chinese! ·
The popular film star is willing to risk undermining a happy marriage to acquire the nine tones which will gain him entrance to the. lotus gardens of Wanchai.
Harold has started right with beautiful teacher and he will probably go further than we did and he may fare worse if she's Mae West.
Soviet is not likely to challangeRUE military history is notor-after their complation, making ro-
Tlously difficult to compile. vision more difficuli. any important extent if arrange- Many of the documents on which As evidence of the extent of in- uents can be made for the exten- the History must he based are formation possessed by the French sion of hew credita to the U.S.S.R. written when the fog of war la Commanders of records are of The background to the story lies thick; and an important duly of great value, but they, cannot be In the following:Three men ant in the historian is to clear up the accepted as an accurate account of the president's study last Nuvem misconceptions contained in them, what actually happened. Yet the her and nindo verbal promises on There is only one way of pro-
ro-French account is being quoted in which Russian recognition and theducing a reliable account of what all French writings on the War as promise of expanded trade were actually occurred and the reasons the final authority. based. The three were President for it-that is, by examining and Hoosevelt, Mr. William Bullitt, collating the documentary evid As a result of the mathed em now Ambassador to Moscow, and euce of both sides and by checking ployed, which no doubt there were M. Litvinov, the Russian negotia- the result with the help of, or by valid reasons for adopting. the
When we arrived in the Colony tor. Nothing was put in writing, the experiences of individual operations of the B.E.F. receive
we early took up the idea of learn- No other person was present. M. officers and others, who often cant justice in the French His-ing Chinese. Our best friends. Litvinov remembered and reported possens important information a promise that the U. S. S. R. which official documents either tory. In some cases relevant facts bemoaned that the "East and got are omitted; in others absoluto us" but we were determined to would receive immediato trade
entirely omit or contain in a mis-misstatements occur which might order our own socks and be civil. credits and Inter, a loan through leading form.
have been avoided if all available to the coolle. Clearly the mutual exchange of evidence had been drawn on. It could pay off a'lump sum
Cer. Sement
The first fow weeks were a little to be agreed on. documents and information contain glaring examples may bo
I'difficult na our tencher had to Roosevelt and Bullitt remember rarely be affected, and only to a given; they particularly earn the rudiments of English nothing of the sort. And the limited extent. If at all, till many numerous in the description of the
from us before he taught us how Assistant Secretary of State Moore years after a war. A final com- Battle of the Marne. For in to say Gond Morning and Thank added complication by leading prehensive History can thus only stance, there is little or nothing to directors of the Export-Import be produced after each side conshow that the B.E.F. кля well damage: Bank set up for Russian trade cerned has isued an account based across the Marne when the 5th credits to promise no credits until chiefly on its own recorda. Russia made a settlement pact.
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CONFLICT OF MEMORY
It can well be imagined that the conference between M. Trojanu vsky and Mr. Cordell Hall has been troubled by this conflict of memory and unless there in a change of front in the United States the way out of the deadlock is difficult to discorn. Russia will not settle the debt claims until she has some assurances of new credits. The United States political situation, especially since the development of the Communist scare in the country, forbids Administration loans, unless they are disguised in some manner.
CONCESSIONS ARE ESSENTIAL
suspects that
arc
You
for receiving the monthly
After a couple of months our teacher had made considerable progress and acquired sufficient command of the language to de- mand a rise.
French Army was 'still some” dis- tance from the river. The Im Our own official History of the plication that the B.E.F. failed to Great War is a gallant and wonder- respond to Jore's urge is allowed
We paid and revealed the fatal fully successful attempt to present to creep in, when, as a matter of a complete picture. The courtesy fact, though the B.E.F. may have weakness in our charter. The of our Allies and of our late one-been somewhat slow in starting next day he did not turn up. It mies made much relevant informa. (though not as slow as d'Esperoy's was a Chinese holiday. He ex- tion available, and many unofficial left), it did actually overcome the plained this to us when he woke books containing valuable evidence resistance of German rearguards, us up the following morning so appeared soon after the War, which Franchet d'Esperey had early that we didn't feel capable Even so, a complete revision of the hardly even tested; in any case, of taking a lesson. first volume, published in 1922, the British did gain a long lead of was found necesary when the the 5th Army. Finally Colonel official Histories of other nations Hentsch and his mission are concerned had appeared. In this ignored, revised volume, which recently The maps also convey a very appeared, many important ad- falan Impression of the British missions of defects in the direction action. British troops are shown of the operations of our own Army on them in a vague and general-other relations at Canton left a are made, and the co-operative ised mariner. Moreover, the post- action of our Allies is fully extlons in which they are indicated in our state of learning which
only an entire plained in cases where in the first are those reported by midday and overcome. edition it had, for lack of informa. are those of main bodies, whereas tion, not received full justice. the position of French troops is For example, the assistance ren- that reached at nightfall, and the dered to the B.E.F. in its retreat most advanced line of outposts in is now fully acknowledged, though marked. at the time this was not realised.
in describing. the first gas Again,
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The next day we gave him an- other English lesson which was followed by a visit on the part of our teacher to Canton to вес แ Bister.
A few more Chinese feast days ensued and then the discovery of
new start could
We are still trying to forget. what we learnt and the teacher is.. still trying to forget what we sald, his improved knowledge of Eng- lish making this more difficult for him than for us.
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A WATCHING BRIEF.
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situa-
the
The President of the Trude Union Congress, which is at present holding its annual con- ference at Weymouth, has issued
Moscow and Washington will have to compromise if Mr. Cordell a warning that organised labour Hull is ever to show President may have to take more drastle Roosevelt an agreed plan. Russia When one turns to the French attack at Ypres In April, 1916, measures for making effective will have to give up the idea of Oficial History we find the pro- there are many errors of fact. its demand for a forty-hour any cash loan in the near future, blem approached from an entirely The Canadians are described as
much as she wants it for the sake different basis. General Rene having fallen back at the same "The President goes on pienie week. There is, happily. по of prestige at home and abroad-Tournes, who was a member of the time as the French Territorial and party Watching labour threat of unconstitutional mea- and especially for its effect. 011 sure but the feeling expressed fapan. The President well known Service Historique, has placed on African troops, whereas, as a fact, tlon closely This must be one
record the aims of the publication, the Canadians, though their left of those instances where is that the fullest use is not be, the protest such a loan would It was to be a collection of docu- lank was exposed, retained their spectator sees most of the game.
arouse in the United ing made of the tremendous time.
States at this ments
which referred to the position 48 hours longer and until Онс
HE WOULD. power possessed by the trade "kidded" about it at the secret Any historical reconstruction or more instances
he campaign or to military questions, after the second gas attack. Many might be quoted,
Since Sir Henry Wood has lel union organisation. In recent three-man conference and pos- critical study with the intention of but it is not my object to ventilate the ent out of the bag we may as years, there has been a decided sibly gave varue, far-off assurdrawing lessons was forbidden, grievances, but to draw attention well confess that we ourselves movement in favour of the unces which M. Litvinov misinter- In order to make the documents to the unfortunate results of per- have frequently written music un- cutting down of hours of work preted. On the other hand, Rus-intelligible and to fill gaps between petuating misapprehensions and der Russian names. In fact we
not accept America's them a concise explanatory text misunderstandings.
have written scores of them both as one method leading towards aia will
present position that she must was in the end found necesary, but j
taccato and fogue, staccate and the absorption of the In
make a lump sum agreement be- no attempt to collate French evid
and [employed.
It is not secret that at the out- subterfuge, notes: sundry chita. The International fore she gets any credits.
The ...Chater Rund Labour Office of the League of obvious face-saving compremise ence with that of allies of enemies set of the War the old feeling of
wits permitted. Those Instruc- shall we call it, hereditary hostili We used a Russian name na the Nations strongly favours the here one which would start tions, of course, imply not the ty between French and English Russians have suffered so much forty-hour week, and proposals Export-Import Bank operations writing of the History but the un-still survived in many quarters on that a little contempt would pass for its adoption were put for with Russia as soon as she agreed critical assemblage of an enormous ench side of the Channel, although them by like oaths sliding off a ward at the International Labour adjudication and settlement of with a text which is little more and although as a people we were public into the secret is to let to help set up machinery for quantity of historical material the reasons for it had disappeared shroff. The idea of letting the Conference held in Geneva in dobts and cinima--which might than an index to that material. in full sympathy with the French them know that the best opera is June of this year. A quorum take years.
The work when finished will, it is nation. As a consequence there not always written by Chinese was not, however, obtained, and
believed, run to a total of some 21 was in too many cases in both composers, the same as the best the proposals were therefore not
volumes of text and over 76 of armies a lack of mutual confidence, pants are not always worn by accepted. None the less, there
annexes. Revision of a work on and too ready a disposition to film stars, was adopted a resolution submit-
such a scale is manifestly im- bring charges of failure to CO- practicable, especialy as different operate loyally. The technique of ted by the representatives of no
periods were treated by separate the two armies differed, and this fewer than twenty-four Govern-
teams, liable to be broken up when in itself was a source of ments in which the Conference
their task was completed. In some misunderstandings. For example, recorded its conviction that the
cases volumes have been withheld British technique was marked by reduction of hours remains one
from publication for many years (Continued on Page 4). of the chief tasks of the LL.O.
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acclaimed when it-Brat appeared of universal
is still worth remembering. The action, and has therefore felt theory burst at a time when the indisposed to help the movement bottom seemed to have fallen out forward. There are, however, of everything, Farmora, indus- several countries in which the trialists, wage-earners, investors, forty-hour week is in vogue, and all classes and conditions of peo- in the United States particularly world had everything that man
ple were full of gloom. The it has won widespread adoption. kind needed, but things had got There is now, in fact, a strong out of gear somehow, and there move for a thirty-hour week, seemed little chance that they
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A melancholy story was made public recently telling how a little chernical factory in New Jersey established by Howard Scott to experiment with his theories of Technocracy, was sold at auction, with all its contents, for a total
of
which, it may be noted, is one of would get back into gear. the demands of the textile strikers. Without a doubt, the THE CENTRAL FACT tendency in industrial countries will in future be more and more In the midst of the gloom, in the direction of shorter work- came the Technocrats, announcing ing hours. It may take some blithely that no-one neod atarve i time before international agree the middle of plenty, saying that ment on the subject is, found could be kept going full time, with farms and magnincent factories possible, for it will be recalled everybody getting more than en that to establish even the eight-ough of everything, if we would hour day twenty-five years of only make the right kind of elfort. International effort on the part It sounded nice, and no wonder. of organised workers was re- It wasn't long before the bubble quired. It will be far bet-exploded, to be sure, but for a little ter for everybody concerned if
while many people thought they saw the dawn the principle of the shortened The thing to remember
on the
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now is
tho adoption facilitated rather than their mistakes, did put thoir Angor that labour should, through on the central problem. It is apathy on the part of Govern- possible, physically, for the world ments and employers, feel con- enough things to banish want for- to grow enough, food and make strained to adopt measures over. How that la to be done may which would only lead to serious bo another question. The contral trouble.
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