THE HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH.
FRIDAY, JANUARY:
1985.
WILL FRANCE GO FASCIST?
LA ROQUE MAY BE
AN "IL DUCE" =
(By A CORRESPONDENT)
All over Europe the same story is repeating itself. The old men cling to ollice and the young generation clamours for their re- moval. In proportion R# the effects of the economic crisis pross
rest upon the care, whereas in a
8 the youngor generation Indefeated nation the instinct of France heading fir thic fate self-preservation acts as an in- which has overtaken the youth ofcentive. Only now, as the idea Germany?
gains ground that though France won the war, the French people may have lost the peace, does the spur to action begin to be felt,
But immediately tho word "action" is breathed the army of youth becomes divided. There is only one point upon which all are agreed, from the Royalists to the intellectuals of the Left. That point is that the day of Parlia menta has passed. The algni- ficance that Agreement, in democratic France, can scarcely be exaggerated.
more heavily upon the armies of young people turned out dach year by the universities and tochnical schools, so does the de- mand for change grow mare in slatont
The mounting scandals of the old reximos add fuel to the fire, until, at a certain point, the in- evitable demagogue arises to ex- ploit the dissatisfaction and in- experience of the youthful ele- mont,
A large proportion of the population of Europe is living to day under dictatorships, and the dictators are all, broadly speak- ing, of the war generation. Mus- solini le 51 years of age, Hitler is 45. But both reply for support largely upon a goneration younger than themselves. These men rule their countries in the interests of
Miss Josophino Rosa, woman ming owner of Colarado, who was recently selected by President Roosevelt to
ist and advise the Ministry of
Finance.
of
Public life in France is notor iously corrupt. The average Frenchman admits it, but hitherto has been cynically tolerant. Since the Staylsky scandal he is more cynical than ever, but loss toler- ant.
ECONOMIC CRISIS
The economic crisis is hurting France seriously for the first time, the cost of living is high and still rising and unemploy- ment figures are greater than at any time since the war. In such circumstances exposures of the Ispoila system
trouble, When Stavisky pulled the trigger| of his pistol at Chamonix a few months ago he did not merely blow out his own brulax. He ex+ ploded bomb which is rocking the Third Repubile to its founda- tions.
cause
On February 6 of this year ten persons were killed and nearly 600 injured in the rioting of reaction-i ary youth outside the Chamber of: Deputies. Stagnation, of Parlia ment, corruption scandals, street lighting-it IN Germany aver again. There are at
live least Faselat parties of the Right, ni of them training "shock troops." On the Lett the Communists and Socialists of the old parties have joined in a united front,
WAITING FOR LEADER
The sands are running out, The baltaions of youth take sides and lace cach other, Inexorably the process goes as, despite protesia- truns and cries of arm from the very boys themselves. Papers allegedly of the Leti, Rach "L, Aruvre," publish pictures of young "Francistes" (French Nazis) t Bring practice. Yet {"1,'(Euvra" Agency, which 180 the Havas Agency. which Biso controls the Canoe Royalist!
"L'Action reactionary, journal,
..many other papers bath of Left and Right,
a small clique offendal-minded Industrialists, but they have found The secret of giving-to-youth-the-Francuise,”.....and. illusion of power and self-import
2000.
In many respects the situation in France to-day le dissimilar to that in Germany two years ago. But to those who watched develop. ments at close quarters in the latter country there is an increas ing number of factors sufficiently parallel to cause alarm
STERILE GENERATION
Some years ago a professor in Paris Lycee told me: "We are nearing the end of the sterile generation. Since the war our pupils have lacked fire, they seem- od to reflect the weariness of their parents during the latter years of the war. Now once more we are seeing before us a crop of keen young minds, and 1 begin sgnin to have hope for my country."
The generation of which the professor spoke has since gone out into the world and become exceedingly vocal. It is antural that theso developments should be occurring later in France than in the ex-enemy countries. A peace of victory has a‘stultifying effect upon the national character of the victor; there is a tendency to
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This Hi Italy's first rual: sky, In soures of constrution in
—20 storeys "high"
Stage is set, one factor only has been missing until now-tac appearance on the scene of the super-demagogue, able to play the roie which Hitler pinya.
A great carnival meeting of Nazi organisation lisada, seaking “strength through joy," mel recentry in Berlin. The principal figures are pictured abore.
TESTING BIG AIR CLIPPERS
PAN-AMERICAN
SERVICE
DIRECTION BY.
WIRELESS
jumps from Florida to Paraguay.
in place of luxurious passenger accommodations of the sister ship, the "Brazilian Clipper," this ship will have a spacious chart room and living and sleeping quarters for the crew,
to
KEEP SILENCE Pan-American ofciale"woaht not way whether they stil plun operate an "Agentine Clipper." neither would they comment on the probable date that trans-Pacifie service will be inaugurated.
The Brat light of the new
· PRESIDENTS CHAIR
Havana, Dec. 17. President Carlos Mendieta of Cuba In the future will not be use the name chair required to vccupied by his enemy Machado." The new presidential chair, which will be placed in the Cabinet room, was presented to Mendieta from the public and was paid for by public subscription.--United Press.
SOUND THAT SIREN!
Quincy, Mass. Dec. 17. "Clipper" was made several weeks Mrs. Albert Dino was returning, Ingo. Following final installation of from a hospital to her home in an Preparing for regular trans- specialised equipment, tests for the ambulance with her new-born
Bridgeport, Dec. 27.
No fire! Just firemen washing down the Washing tan expital buildings before Congress reassembles.
can be
That maa has now appeared. 'acrifie and trans-Atlantic trans- Department of Commerce licencing baby. At a point on Washington each month, he comes more
Pan will be to port lights of the future,
runt, after which Pan- Street she asked the driver to slow the foretront of tue stage, as American Airways is fitting out its American will conduct a series of down and sound the siren. Mra. Hitler did before him. His name second giant Sikorsky four-engined arreptance flight tesls,
Dino held the baby up to a window is Colonel de In Roque, and the flyin
*as A long-distance scenes at mass meetings he 18 training ship.
Equipment being installed in to receive the cheers of her hus holding highty in the Paris dis- The plane has special instruments cludes a special fuel pumping. band and fellow workers on an trict complete the paralel with and extra fuel tanke giving it a system, an electrical service by E.R.A. project--United Press, Germany. instead of # house cruising range of over 3,000 miles, which the four engines painter there is a colonel and This, it was pointed out, is 1,000 synchronized perfectly, advanced
new from the ground direction finding gentleman."
miles greater than the Bermuda two-way radio apparatus,
conducted over Azores stretch across the Atlantic, direction-finding system, advanced station will be and 600 miles more than the dis- types of sextants and octants to- sections of the Atlunile Ocean and difference. No programme, no tance between California and Rether with drift indicator, to Caribbean ses, goat except the goal which is com- Inwall.
mensure surface spoed over water. As a member of the operating mon to all youth everywhere, the
It will have intensive flight train-i
staff of P'an-American's Interna- desire "o build a new order."
ing out of Miami, up to its full
Bional air-transport system, Colonel eruising range. These flights are From Miami, the training course Clarence M, Young will be associat- planned over the Atlantic and will involve night and day opera, ed with experimental transport which radio directed service across the Pacific.—United straight line would enable non-stop lights by means of radio bearings Press.
Beyond that, nothing-and
no
RADIO DIRECTION
WAR IS BAD Caribbean, and if taken in a tiens, on
FOR ART
SO ARTISTS ARE ARGUING
Brussels, Dec. 23.
War is very bad. for the art business, and the art dealers of the world intend to come out strongly for International peace when they hold their second international conference in this city in June, 1935.
This, at least, is the decision reached by tho organising com- mittee which has been meeting hero. They have put "paaco" right up at the top of the agenda. Other subjects on which reaolu- tions will be offered include: "Customs duties and, the
art
trade"; "Public auctions"; "The world crisis and the art trade"; "The social and artistic mission of the art dealer".
Next year'a conference grows out of one hold at Milan attended by art dealers, collectors, museum directors, artists and others at which it was resolved to form an, international association of "thoso" who have the dificult mission.of dealing in art objecta".—United.
Press
In the Bavarian Alpa, skiers are training energetically for the Winter Olympiad of 1934. Picture shows some of
the athletes at Zugspitze,
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Mir, unsylden's clever cartoon, re- produced above by kind permission of the London "Daily Mirror," makes fest of the tendency now-a- days to regard pastimes merely as health-alds. To extract all the en- Joyment possible out of both work and play, depending upon Pinketten, the gentle tile liver laxatives, to keep the system clean and healthily active, is wiser plan.
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