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The
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MONDAY, DEC. 17, 194,
PAST AND PRESENT FEARS
It might help us to face cur- rent problems with more hope it we could only make use of the ingenious time machine described in II. G. Wells' famous novel, This was a machine, by which jone could rove about in time as a motor-car enables one in rove about in space.
You could go either forward or backward- back to ancient Rome or forward to the millennium, whichever you jchose. If we could get hold of such a machine, and spin back through a few generations, we might discover that our dimetil.
TELEGRAPH.
MONDAY,
NOTES OF THE DAY
'CRITICAL, SESSION
Special interest attaches to this, the fourth session of the present House of Commons, In view of the fact that experience has always shown that fourth sessions are the
most critical. Can the National
Government win the next general election? Evidence is accumulat- ing fast on all sides that, as it is constituted at the present moment, it will go down at the polls under ang of the most spectacular defeats In British political history. The municipal elections this autumn and
DECEMBER · 17, - 1934.
WILL INDIA COPY SOUTH IRELAND?
(BY J. H. MORGAN, K.C., D.L.)
This keen analysis of the practical value of con- stitutional "safeguards" is timely in view of the publica- tion of the Joint Committee's Report on the India White Paper proposals. Mr. Morgan says that these "safe- guards" have failed in Ceylon, Malta, and the Irish Free State. There is no ground for belief that they would be more effective in India.
AM not a jurist, but a practising | very" word "oppression" is un- the recent parliamentary by-clec-lawyer, and I will not indulge known to our law.
mem-
tions have proved beyond pesai. hility of cavil that the Socialist. Parly is to-day stronger than it was in 1929, its year of triumph. By indications the. National Government now in office, should it go to the country in its present form, will be lucky if its adherents Commona In the new House of number, not 556 as in 1931, but anything in excens of 160 or 170. That being the situation, bera nuay well ask themselves a further question: whether a Con- servative Government could not make a much more successful fight against the rapidly. Increasing So- cialist forces than a coalition of Conservatlar cum-Socialism, which is the basis of the National Govern- ment. The pretence that there are National-Liberal or National-So- cialist voters in any number must be dismissed as being too silly for words. And it is well known that many of the most experienced Con- servative organisers firmly believe that a Conservative Government would stand an infinitely better chance at the next election thna the present Administration.
ELECTION NEXT YEAR
It may be taken for granted that
the next general election will not be postponed into the year 1936, The party and for this renson, wire-pallers are sure to warn the Conservative leaders that I the municipal elections of November next year are as devastating in their results as those of this year they cannot go to the country with any hope of success, Supposing a change from a coalition to a de- finitely Conservative Administra- tion is to be made it ought to be leader, or Prime Minister should The Conservative made at once.
invite members of the National Government who are not labelled as well in office, to join the new Conservatives, but who have done
Government as Conservatives. Most of them would doubtless seize
the opportunity to make their posi-
Tho National tion quite clear. Government must continue to lose ground so long as it misses splendid
at Westminster, in view of
the
ties to-day are only reprints of difficulties which assailed other men în Lines past. A writer
chances, as it does in an Incor=" recently set out to collect a fewceivable fashion. Such newa of the doleful outeries which the summoning of futile conference former depressions have drawn after conference or such announce- ments as that "Mr. Eden hua again from discouraged men. As far left for Geneva" are erenting back as the time of St. Augus- feeling of nausea in the country. tine. 1.700 years ago, he finds a
Unless there is a complete change the outlook is black. By this date complaint that agriculture twelve months hence there will, in was, decaying, purchasing power all Bikelihood, be a new Parliament [dwindling. taxes soaring, and practical certainty that the general commerce collapsing; the conclu-election will be hurried forward so sion' drawn, of course, was that that the detonating effect of next year's municipal elections may not the world was going to, the dogs shatter Conservative hopes in the for good. He finds a distinguish- decisive struggle. This is the fact ed French physician in 1832 which has to be kept steadily in mind, coupled with the danger voicing similar complaints. la-rhich some believe Socialist menting the turmoil and confu- triumph would mean to the vital
interests of the British nation. Ision of the times--he had seen Ja post chaise rattling along at
five miles an hour, and he said COOD TRADE FIGURES that "this madhess of speed is wearing out inen"-and he felt The public is entitled to express that his newly-born son faced a excellence of the British trade re- distinct satisfaction at the general. life which could bring him turns for October: British ex- neither prosperity nor happiness. ports for that month were larger than in any month since January, He finds an editor in 1857 des-
1933. The upward movement in cribing the "universal commer-manufactured exports was very cial prostration and panic" about marked, and is a welcome sign of British efficiency in the face of him, and remarking that "it is a crushing tariffs and quota restric- gloomy moment in history. tions. The que weakness brought never has the future seemed so out by the figurds in the big expan- sion in imparts which has, tüken incalculable. To come nearer place this year, and which must still to our own times, a U.S. affect the balance of trade and our official in 1886 spoke of the de- currency position. For the first pression, doubting that any revi- of retained imports over exports ten months of the year the excess
val could come up to the level of was £236,000,000, as compared the preceding 50 years, and con- months of 1933. This excess can with £205,000,000 for the ten cluding plaintively that "the day be corrected by raising the tariff. of large profits is probably past." Action in this direction" may be
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It is really worth our white to taken in the present session, as the mull over the dismal Jeremiada gap between exports and imports is now too wide to be bridged by in- from the past. Admittedly. it visible exports, and Conservativa does not make our present prob-bodies are beginning to agitate for a tariff which will, they believe, lems any less difficult; but it remedy the situation. However, may help us to see that a troubled with the growing tendency among time such as the present is never economists to arguo for the quito na dark and hopeless as the gradual abandonment of high pro. people who are living through it tection, it is possible that the move ofter-auppose. Historians 50 towards higher tariffs may be years hence will probably find stayed. It remains to be seen whether abolition of the trade some of our current fears just as walls will solve the problem, but quaintly humorous as those of it is certainly an experiment worth. former days seem to us now. attempting.
in anything so unpractical or ko In the Irish "Trenty" there are, pedantic na to rove at large aver or rather werg38 clauses, Two all the Constitutions of this world. of them were what I may call
The Very Sidea!
DUMB-BELLES LETTRES
by Juliet Lowell
A Muddo Salesman
December 12, 1933.
Sales Manager, Model Brassiere Company Empire State Building New York City ›
Sir:
I have got your letter fore me and in regard to same will say that it is hard for me to sell goods at any time and one must be smart and one must use everything that is in him. Also and if I do it is hard to get the department stores to pay for it,
And not let the other fellow a chance to got his hooks in, there- fore I have asked all my accounts if I get anything that is real special
You understand, ain't you that
I am for the Model Brasslore Com- pany and myself and the customers at all times.
Trusting that the above explains most clear to you this matter as well as all others that might in the near future come up.
Yours very friendly,
Arthur Opkina. (signed)
Oblige Mo Your Photo
c/o J.K.T. Pieterson D.T.S. Office Rlwy's Sekondi, British West Africa
October 29th, 1934.
I will confine myself to the six self-more "draftsmen's clauses." Five If I can send them a small assort- governing Dominions, Of the of the others were unly provisionment of this or that. leaner self-governing Colonies, [ni, in that they contemplated the Maita and Ceylon, it is quite voluntary entry of Northern suflicient to
safe. Ireland into the Free State, an May that the guards peculiar to those two Con-Invitation which Northern Ireland, the last stronghold of loyalty to stitutions have catastrophically the Crown in the stand, sum broken down and have, indeed, marik declined to accept. The ended in anarchy. Now in Ave of remaining eleven clansea were the six Dombiton Constitutions Covenants, express and implied, to there are no "safeguards" at all. "safeguard" the Imperial connec- By that I mean restrictions on the tion and to protect the Loyalists. Of these eleven super-safeguarda, assertion and exercise of full four have already been abolished "Internal sovereignty. The sixth is that sort of exception which by the Irlah Legislature or abro- proves à rule. It is the Irish Free The oath of allegiance is gone. gated by the Irish Executive. State. The Free State Constitu-
The "Representative of the tion, which, it must always be
Crown, to wit, the Governor- remembered. WAM declared by Parliament to be "construed" sub. General, has been degraded to the ject to the so-called "Treaty" of Position of "a rubber-stamp," as 1922. does indeed bristle with calls him.
| Mr. de Valora contemptuously The Imitation on the "safeguards," while the "Treaty" itself, which governs it, is a kind effectives of the armed forces has of chevaur de frise, a quickest on the way of a similar limita-
in another "Treaty," ledge, of super-safeguards. Those Treaty of Versailles, and by the super-safeguards were almed at two things, he was to preserve auxiliary forces." The covenant rame devices--the formation of the Imperial connection. The other
was to protect the Irish pas lequate compensation to Loyalists from the invitious "discompulsarily retired. Civil Ser- rimination"in fact persecution spite of a Privy Council dei- vants, nearly all of them Loyalists, which they had every reason tosion upholding that covenant, the
Nearly the whole of those
fear.
tion
the
fored to observe. The British
safeguards have already disappear. Free State Government flatly re- As regards the second object, Government was left to discharge there has, indeed, been so far no the debt, a debt of honour as well discrimination agalast the loyal
ed.
ists by "law" in other words by as a debt in tas, Free State legislation. But ad- ministrative discrimination
has
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The repudiation of the covenant been practised everywhere. Among, that Ireland should bear her share The hundreds of magistrates. Le of the National Debt was hastily in the Free anticipated by intimidated British "District Justices,” State, only one is a Loyalist, Not Ministers who, under pressure a single Loyalist has the allabest from the Free State Government, ebance of obtaining nay Govern- | agreed to waive that
Covenant ment contract, of teaching in a altogether. The whole of the Government School, or of being corchants providing that the Free appointed to any publie office. State Government's relations to The appalling treatment, as Lord the Crown and the Imperial Parlia- Carson Justly described It, of the ment should be identical with x-Service men" in the Free State those of Canada have gone by the is the climax of this discrimina | board. tion. This administrative dis- crimination is not, indeed, a The Imperial connection with breach of any of the "safeguards." Canada has undergone no change, for the simple reason that the In the case of Ireland it has been "Treaty" sever attempted to for completely subverted. The coven- bid it.
It did not forbid it because unt as to harbour facilities for that his Majesty's ships of war and concernd knew everyone such probibitions are unenforce his Air Force will disappear with able.
You cannot forbid the most the impending Declaration of In- formidable form of discriminu- dependence. In short, the whole 'tion, and 'indeed the most cruel, of the super-safeguards of the by any formula known to the law. "Treaty" are gone. Such of the I mean a "boycott", whether it be other safeguards an official boycott or an unofficial bodied in the Constitution itself one. Even the White Paper are either going or are already proposals, thick with "safeguards" "gone. The Irish Senate, devised though they are, do not attempt to protect the minority, to arrest to safeguard anyone against revolutionary legislation, and to ministrative discrimination. Pecure the Independence of the There is no way known to the Trish judges, will disappear in a law, ner could any be devised, of few months an the result of compelling # "Government" to de Valera will establish not mere- abstain from
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as were
"Of course I was embarrassed. You and papa just sat and stared at him as though you had never met a millionaire's. Bon before."
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C.L.A. Groth
c/o English Division Acheson Oildng Co. 8 Endwell-Road London, S.E. 4 Dear Chum:
This
am
In reading a Foot-Ball com offers me a lot of names. Running petition in the newspaper here it
sudden a shadow of love cast cump dawn I behold your name all of a temeplation upon my mind. gives me full identity that the stars delay no opportunity to write and of mine were equilours to you.
ask a world Friend-Ship. I from Sekondi Football Club. We are the best sports men in this town. I am the 1st Captain in Sekond Football Club. Match I was the man who won goal before anyone could won. I am very smart of my playing. What Is your uge? Obligo me your photo, Handkerchieven, and a fine brought my apeech to a close. Post Cards as a boon. I now
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Your's truly Lawson Andrews Dadzie.
Sekondi
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Personal Anecdota
Londen, Dec. 13. I am astonished to sea that the newspapers are still sending repor ters to ask Mr. George Bernard Show Idiotic questions. I amazed that ho is still answering them.
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In every other country but Eng- land, with the possible exception of Lapland, where he is almost un-· known, Mr. Shaw is regarded as & great man. In England he is re- garded as a clown.
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This is partly due to the fact that we cannot take a man seriously when he tears our ridiculous Ins titutions to pieces. We think he must be joking.
It is also partly due to lesser writers who publish their worthless opinions about his work. It in lucky for them that he has refrain. ed from giving his opinion of their drivel. This may be because he has never heard of it.
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I remember a time in the early nineteen twenties when it was not so easy to interview Mr. Shaw. I was then sent off to ask him whether he thought girls ought to powder their noses.
When I arrived at the Httle. wicket-gute which guarded his flat in Adelphi, I was so ashamed of. my mission that I could scarcely speak to the woman who answered the bell Mr. Shaw naturally re- fused to res a stranger without knowing his business, so I had to tell her what I wanted. She looked at me sadly for a moment and re- plied, "Do you really mean you have come here to ask him that?” -
"Yes," I replied.
"What a pity a big, healthy young fellow has nothing better to do."--Our Own Correspondent..