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NOTES OF THE DAY LLOYD GEORGE CANES The Very Idea!.
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History teaches us, in the calmer
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CHRISTMAS GIFTS
Last year Une. Percy sont us a little gift which was so unex- pected that we had no time to get anything ready for him.
We wrote him an enthusiastic letter to which he did not reply and now wo are torn with anxiety. as to the next move,
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for.
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Never yet, in spite of his suffer- ing, has Lord Snowden slapped the
By George mat, as the wrestlers put it. No mattor what the adveralty, ho, han
HRISTMAS presenta are fought it with high courage, and
In the latest volume of his com-jare those who allege precisely the splendid determination. No odds
again vexing the minds could make him desert his prin- pendious War Memoirs Mr. Lloyd same weaknesses even in famous ciples, Yesterday we were given Goerge properly trounces the Brane statesmen. The picture drawn for of those of us still swayed another indication of the spirit of Hate. He deals out even-handed us, for instance, by that great this man, so much maligned by retribution, exhibiting no greater painter and shrewd observer, the by the expectation of a political opponents, and so quick partiality for illustrious Admirals inte Sir William Orpen, differs legacy from some math- than for distinguished Generals, most sensationally from LG.. eaten relative or hoping to to answer, with cutting strength,, the critics of his generation. No but caning the whole clanjamfry Orpen was an Impartial witness, matter what his creed, an English- with the enthusiasm of an old and in "An Onlooker in Franco kindle into flame the odd he tells us that at the Peace Con- spark of affection in some man must and some admiration in style dominie.
Hardly a shred of naval or ference the "frocks," as Sir Henry maidenly or manly breast. his heart for such gallant figure.
greatest fault has always been military reputation survives L. G. Wilson called the politicians, seem- His
sweeping holocaust. Eminent ed to him very small personalities his stubborn refusal to admit the exhaustion of a pain-wracked body, statesmen, in fact, as well as great compared with the fighting men he
commandera, get it in the neck had met during the war. and his determination to whip with equal vivacity. One almost "Strange little things," he calls hin failing energy with a spirit of reaches the uncomfortable conclu-them, who thought too much of Iron. He did that when he spoke ton that L.G. himself was the only their own personal importance, In London the day before yester- day, and so ill was the man that really intelligent individual asso-searching all the time for populari- Ey, each little one for himself, and he became muddied in his oratory ciated with the Great War.
He may have wiped us off his There is perhaps a shade more trying to persunde people that it and could not finish his sentences. Irritability in his onslaughts on the was thoy, the "frocks, who really calendar altogether as a profligate It was only when his wife advised combatant figureheads, however, won the war.
appendage to the family tree In him that he brought his speech to and I am not certain LG. does not "The war
was over," writes which case a present from us would an abrupt close and ant down. It overdo things. That our military Orpen in his compelling book, "the be a dead lose; or he may be giving Is a pathetic thing to see this commanders were unequal to the Germans a long, long way from the us another chance to qualify great mind faltor.
problem of a war on such dimen- const or Paris; the whole thing the fifteenth part of his estate. sions as the last one is probably finished. Why worry now to hon-a couple of fields, one bullock,
wheelbarrow); MANCHUKUO'S OIL
true enough. The Great War pro- our the representatives of the dead, three hens and
As for Unc. Peter who was 60 duced, so far as we are concerned, the maimed, the blind, or the living Manchukno will presently be
mean that he sent a telegram to. served by an oil monopoly. This no soldier equal to a Marlborough, that remained?""
These, from a civilian, are very soo us at the docks because the bus development is being carried out at Cromwell, or even perhaps a
Wellington. But the humdrum bitter words. One recalls, them, fare was a penny dearer, we are the expense of the British, Dutch direction of plain broad-and-butter inevitably,
in reading L.G.'s sending him a silver toothpick in and American operators already tacticians like Haig, and the rest Memoire, in which his own historia huge case with a description at established there. It will, Во it seems, benefit only Japanese oil was probably safer than the rash cal stature is not heightened by his tached which will cost him a couple interests, who will allegedly hold a and Impulsive idens of even the virulent belittlement of his war of pounds in duty.
time associates. In spite of con- To the girl we are sending a controlling interest in the mono- most gifted political amateurs,
More lives might have been siderable admiration for all that magnificent sweater which is too paly company. The foreign opera- tora
their sacrificed in vain by adepting am-L.G. accomplished as political war big for her and will find its way to have protested,
bitious amateur coups-de-theatre leader in this country, I get the hack early next spring, Governments, and the Govern
away. impression that his great advantage To Uncle Samuel, who has ments have proteated to Japan. than were often thrown
by the uninspired over those whom he so ruthlessly threatened to die every winter since Unfortunately, however, little admittedly, seems to have come of the inter endeavours of terre-a-terre profes critieses is wisdom after the event.he Blood in a draught at the seven- THURSDAY, Nov. 8, 1934, change of notes. Japan simply lonata, Even Foch comes under in method, in fact, is that of the teenth hole of the Puddlecombe refers the powers concerned to the the censure. of L.G. in some mat- familiar card-room critic, who sira Tournament, we are sending a case
tera. But most of us had more his superior understanding and of Offlers. He can't stand THE U.S. ELECTIONS Manchukue Government, which, in-
confidence in the illustrious French card sense on the strength of the draught of any sort.
Aunt Matilda: who sent us cidentally, none of them has re- Expectations have been fulfill-cognised politically. Jupan insists Marshal than we should have hal fact that, as onlooker, he can see
wallet filled with notes last year nil the hands. in a Generalissimo from Criccieth. beyond her
will receive the wallet full of snap- ed by the endorsement of the that the matter la
shots of us standing all over the Roosevelt New Deal policies in responsibility, though she surely the nation-wide elections. At no will not pretend that it is beyond
It may be that most military town including one of us standing. time did it appear likely that the her control. Meanwhile plans for retrospect of carlier wars, that it leaders are no better inspired than, a drink, a rarity which will appeat
Bet-the monopoly presumably go for- Democrats would suffer
To Cousin Bill, the watch bor- ward, and protests in a never-end-is never more Important that the and just as stupidly obtuse as, most to her.
shoemaker should stick closely to politicnt ones. On a dispassionate back. The consolidation of their ing stream will not alter the altua bis fast than during a supreme survey of the sixteen years since rowed from him last leave; to Uncle position can be explained by two tion. All this in apite of the crisis of dynamic fate. If credible the war, one does not get a convinc- Bert, six pairs of socks because I main factors. First and fore Japanese guarantee that the "Open most, the opposition had little Door" to Manchukuo would never report speaks true, even L.G. made ing impression that even L.G.'s don't like Aunt Bort and she hates To ourscives, a Christmas card that was constructive to offer az be closed to foreign business. Is his big mistakes. It was not with-strategy or tactics have invariably darning.
the pears, in fact, to have got the once and to our public a story sometime compared with the Roosevelt this an experiment in diplomacy? out dificulty he decided, in 1914, been the soundest. He rather ap plans; secondly, the electorate be closed? It appears it will take
How much farther will the door that Britain ought to draw
If L.G.'s hesitancy had great Liberal party badly bunkered on the wonderful assistance ren- was obviously in a mood to give a strong arm to keep it open, and crystallised in the wrong crucible, in the political Balkans just when dered by the Post Office in despatch-
Oh yeah! the President a fair chance of na little breeze from across the so to speak, this tight little island its presence might be most useful ing parcels Home.
would now be hobnobbing with the on the Westminster Front. making good, rather than to water..
Prussian Junker as its across-the- I have no great affection for the obstruct him when only halfway
Channel neighbour.
red-tab mentality of which the In a яense, through his task.
It is more than doubtful, too, brave old B.E.F. had such illuminat- the Democratic victory may be
It is belag brought home more whether the war would not have ing experience in the war years, Hats completely regarded as somewhat negative clearly every day that Japanese been lost by the Allies if L.G.'s when the Brass in character, but at the same industrialists, taught their trade ardent advocacy of sideshows in the falled to use the patriotic fervour time it is evidence of the fact by the western experts they hava Balkans and elsewhere had succeed that created and inspired our now Dear Doctor Colter:
homes were that the people of the United watched and whose methods they ed in winning general support. Armies, and when youngsters from States are still disposed to place have been at pains, to learn and Properly backed and launched in comfortable their trust in the President and copy, are reaping more and more the beginning, Mr. Churchill's treated like the scourings of the
the profits which once belonged Gallipoli adventure would probably slums, and University his advisers. It is conceded on wholly to the Occidental-nations. have crumpled up the Austro-Ger- liike literate yokela.
Nor is the treatment-of-gallant all hands that no occupant of Little by little, the Japanese have man forves much earlier than 1918. White House was ever faced with extended their markets, mainly at But to have gone gallivanting in troops as though they were con- Most re- the Balkan maze, before Germany victs, and not eager volunteers, the problems of such magnitude or the expense of Britain. complexity as those which have cent figures show that they are had been bled white on the Western sum total of my own private and been engaging Mr. Roosevelt's penetrating the wealthy South Front, might have jeopardised the personal indictment of the red-tab
mind, with its theatrical not-theirs energies since he came into office. their trade has multiplied tre
American field. In Brazil alone whole caboodle.
The German High Command to-reason-why traditions, and the This very circumstance, accommendously, in 1913 Brazil im- would have been well enough con- blind subordination to discipline panied by a recognition of theported goods to the value of £36,- tent to let us gain temporary and obedience that is accounted of fact that the millenium cannot 933 and exported £2,031 to Japan. advantages elsewhere, if they could more importance than inelligent be expected to be attained over-In 1928, Japan exported to Brazil have concentrated to make a suc- self-reliance in an emergency, night, is unquestionably a factor over £200,000 in goods and im-cessful break through on the West- in the inclination to give the ported only 229,000 worth. Since urn Front which would have given then the Japanese exports have them command of the Channel. Administration a full oppor fallen only slightly, while the They would have made cheerful tunity of grappling with an un-Brazilian exports to Japan have sacrifice of a leg in order to get precedented situation. There steadily mounted until they are at our heart, have. moreover, been welcome now £53,000 annually. It is signl-
L.G. accuses the military men of signs latterly of a revival in fenat to note that the trade of trade, and this has no doubt also other nations with Brazil has in all manner of petty jealouales and
almost overy instance
futilities. But fallen pighended played a part in the support given to the Democrats. The steadily since 1914. The Argent- tremendous eums spent in relief ine in 1933 imported from Japan goods to the value of £9,961,159 of the unemployed and the des- and exported £1,641,943, and this titute must also have influenced year her Imports from the same a big army of voters who have source are already £8,368,429 and benefited therefrom to indicate her exports £4,788,732. Much of their endorsement of the Govern- the Increase of Japan's trade to ment policy in this particular South America is derived from the demands of the thousands of sphere. "Big.
of Japanese settlors who are pouring: courge, could hardly be expected into the country and popularizing to enthuse over the New Deal, the products of their home land. bat, despite all the scare propa-It is a real invasion. ganda from this quarter, which
Business,"
JAPAN'S TRADE
has in no sense been justifled by LOOKING AHEAD. subsequent events, the public The perpetual doubt which goes generally and the small business with any consideration of the men have shown, by their votes future of Europe cannot be avoid- that they appreciate the Ad- ed. M. Eleutherios Venizelos, the ministration's efforts to protect veteran Greck statesman, one-time prime them from undue exploitation, dictator and eight times Taking a broad view of the minister of the nation, now in his seventy-first year, recently express- future, it cannot yet be said thated his uneasiness at the trend of the New Deal has finally and con- events. The Central European clusively justified itself. There aron is the powder-magazine of the is still much to be done: only continent to-day, he said, but ho the fringe of the nation's major would be a fool who prophesied problems have as yet been touch- what would happen in the next ten
years. "We can only hope and: ed. In the realm of finance, es strive to keep this blessed peace," pecially, where the staggering he added. Then, shrugging his Ioad of public debt looms 80 shoulders, he exclaimed: "Thoro largely, the position at present are too many ambitious men in la tangled and uncertain. Europe." It remains to be seen whether
the Rooseveltian policies in this is, it is improbable that he will connection will fulfil the expecta-embark on revolutionary ven- tions of their originators. The tures. By this time, he has fresh vote of confidence which probably learned from experience the President has received will that unorthodoxy has its dan- encourage him to go forward,gers, no less than slavish adhor but, shrewd and far-seeing as he ence to past traditions......
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