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GREAT FAMILIES OF ENGLISH POLITICS
By E. H. RANN.
(In The Christian Science Monitor)
The Very Idea!
LOOKING FOR TROUBLE By Horatio Bogg, Buccaneer. IT WAS OUR NIGHT OFF Nothing much to make a avng
that Japan's share of the import Trade returns Just issued show
trado of this Colony has passed that of Great Britain, according to the annual trade report issued by the local authorities. Nor is Hong- kong the only portion of the British
THE political families that have|vative member for the Rutland and about, we admit, but after Empire which has been affected by
played a distinguished part in Stamford Division.
wrestling a whole day with THE the expansion of the Japancae cx the greatness of Britain in days Another of the Astor clan is VERY LATEST IDEA, trying to port trade, the flooding of overseas that are gone are reflected upon Ronald Lambert Tree, M. P for go one better than Carter by markots with the cheaply manu- the green benches of the House of the Harborough Division of Leices extracting humour, from the factured goods produced by In Commons at Westminster to-day, tershire, Mr. Tree is a grandson dustries whose operating costs are It may be long since a Pitt succeed of Marshall Field of department atmosphere, we were rather glad only a fraction of those of Great led to a Pitt as Prime Minister, but store fame, Dritain. Such gains as Japan has family groups of Astors, Foote, of Lady Anter. "Britain for the
His wife is a niece of the respite.
Without being aware of the fact registered in Hongkong wore to be Lloyd Georges, Chamberlains and British, arst and last," was the at the time, we were successful expected when it is remembered MacDonalda are influential in the slogan of his election campaign. after a fashion, but it was humour. that she can very well compete with shaping of the counsels of the of American descent. She was the tracted, and we took the first-up
Lady Astor, like her husband, is of the contrary sort that we ex- British exports even where freight stato. costa are equal. She oven attempts All of these M. Pi's-women as first woman to take her seat in portunity to vent it on the wife as to capture the "homo" market on well as men-occupy their present the House of Commons. She once soon as we get home. occasions. So, when one sees the positions not because of their line- told a New York audience that it looked uninviting, and aftor gazing The dinner. In the first place, difference in distance English and age, but, by reason of individual was her husband, "that stratige moodily at it, we had sufficient titue Japanese goods must travel before political capacity and pre-eminent and remarkable man," who had they reach Hongkong it is not sur-forensic gifts. The same applies "driven her into public. life." Her to remark (in quite a casual way, prising that the latter can here to Mr. Oliver Stanley, Minister of entrance into the House of Com- she said "BRUTE" and stalked off mind you) that it looked cold before compete successfully. There is Labour, whose elavation to the pre-mons was not in the nature of a into her room. only one thing, some say, which can sent Cabinet had nothing whatever revolution; it was evolution. Lord save the dwindling British export to do with the fact that his great-Astor had been M. P. for Ply-
Loft with nothing to do on this trade in fields in the Far East uncle was Prime Minister in 1866. mouth, where Lady Astor hnd help our night off, we turned to the where the Japanese have gained a It applies also to the present Mared him for eleven years. In time radio, but as quickly switched it Special arrangements extended to the motorist foothold, and that is a maintenance quess of Salisbury and to Lord he went to the House of Lords and off. We got 2.3.W. going on Hoser furlough for delivery of a higher standard of quality in Ceeff, whose prominence in succes- ad aucceeded him in the represe thrown by the wife at our ho
We next picked up the, nove! manufactures. That pwill be dif- sive governments of late years tution of the maritima city. "My onder pristine-Repurchase-Lleones 1.ficult; and in the end any quality owes little to their fiind relation- husband was the one who started the minute before. Idly turning strapon Arranged Pull particulars on ap may be equalled by the competition, ship to that political giant, the me off on this downward career over the pages, we were attracted
But short of tariffa, subsidised Lord Salisbury of half a century she said, "from home
by this passaga:' the shipping, reduction of wages or a ago.
House."
"Damn?" said the Duchess, graci- higher degree of mechanisation In
Another political family, is that
ously extending a lily-white hand- British factories, which cannot be of the Lowthers, which was repre-historie ceremony in the House was being counted out: It was only
The writer well remembers the
for the Couht. considered, this seems to be the aented in the House of Comms of when Lady Astor, the first woman her Grace again succumbing to But no pugilist, given the KO., forlorn hope. Or is it?
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We threw the book at the cat and illes..
It was then that we felt life and no further attractions for us.
them, Viscount Ullswater, Alled the to enter its precincta, took her sent post of Spenker as lately as 1921. Lord' Antor sat in a gallery, re-schaming Count! did not hesitate occasionally to call when the folding doors below sped it on its way, across the roof lie was a right good Speaker, who served for distinguished strangers his son, Christopher Lowther, M.wung open and P., to order.
wife stopped DEATHS.
within the House. On one side of her was Sir Bolton Eyres-Mon- Fifty years ago Dinraell was LLOYD.-AU the Victorin Hsispital, on far to seck for men who realised content that his brother Ralph soll, one of the junior Whips. On
January 24th, 1935, after a brief that, with the cheap Inbour at their should be a clerk in the service the other side was Col. Herbert virile and red-blooded he-man that iliness, John Daniel Lloyd, Super, disposal, and a currency of relative- incident of Imports & Exports. ly lower value than that of their about the same time, had two sons House from the Astor contingent excitement if we were to be rescued
of the House. But Gladstone,
Spender-Clay. c. Farners will ass the main competitor in world markets.to sit there with him. Later on sit the Lloyd Georges-father, son
On the opposite side of the we are, we absolutely required some Monument at .4.30 p.m. this Great Britain, they could get a Joseph Chamberlain bad been
out of a deadly monotony. strangle-hold in many aphers Member of the House of Commons and daughter. There is a good
The Airat individua! whom we When Great Britain abandoned the 16 years, when he was joined by deal of speculation in British poli- leaked up on our way to the Club [PST.-Élled al Kowloon Hospital, an
xold standard a few years ago, his son Austen-like him in mono-two younger members of the Lloyd 26th January 1935, the infant following the panic of 1931, it made cle, orchid, dress, deportment, and George group-Megan Lloyd Geor-mid of the
tical circles as to the future of the Was Edward Kelly. In the privacy son of Mr. and Mrs. E, G. Port.
of his chambers, he an immediate difference to her
was in the especially In political opinions. averaena trade, especially in textiles, i Austen made his maiden speech on ge, who represents Angelsey, and to do with the solution of 99 per experiment having the momentary advantage has been Rule Bill, and it was then that Mr. father la one of the best known science, and we left him subjecting But with the recovery of the pound the second reading of the Home M. Gwilym Lloyd George, the cent of alcohol to one of water. lost. Given an equal chance. there Gladstone, who never forgot the statesmen in the world. He was
member for Pembroke.
Ho muttered something about being a martyr to the cause is no doubt that British Industries
of could more than hold their own in political argument, paid one of the House of Commons 44 years ago'
courtesies of debate in the heat of Welsh peasant boy who entered the the unholy concoction to one of the any field with Japanese competitors, finest compliments ever heard inne Liberal member for Carnarvon required to offset this exhibition of
sovereat practical tests on record. But they start with a handicap of Parliament by describing the speech Burghs. His
Something intellectual was really weight which makes all the differ- as one "that must have been dear occasion was only 18 votes. But gross materialism. But all that ence in the race.
majority on that and refreshing to a father's heart." he has represented CAN IT LAST ?
George could offer us at the Club that con. To-day, this Austen Chamberinin first he has been a David fearing
stituency ever since. From the Was poetry, and yet more poetry,
all about Eros. Looking at Japan we must ask is an elder statesman. His half-ne Goliath. ourselves, however, whether these brother Neville is not only in,
George had not been the same conditions which give her trade Parliament, but is Chancellor of tant Gladstone Into proceeding He began by hustling a rerue-
since he went and saw Mae advantages
West, can last. The low the Exchequer, entrusted with the with the digestablishment of the wages paid in industry, for in- task of keeping the British ship Weish Church. He went on to be. stance: surely they will not remain of state on a level financial keel.come. the most vigorous opponent whelming odds.
By now, we felt desperate enough at a level which keeps an enormous Both Austen and Noville have sons. of the Boar War. In middle age
to do anything, to take on over- With unexpected suddenness, majority industrial nation on tions of Neville junior, but of a sensational-of-modern-times-Be
of people in a rapidly I cannot speak as to the aspira- he brought in a budget, the most Wanchal-at-the-Fairyland Dancing hostilities have broken out on
We picked on the Navy at |the Charliur-Téhol border, creat-wars- which in England ing a situation which might than slave
America, would be considered worse polítics alone. He is a tall young he had carried Britain triumphant-found it had retreated, leaving us. or certainty Austen's heir has left fore he had attained the age of 60, Academy, where the gals were, but pay." Japan easily develop into a really seri-developing in other ways than in be seen on duty outside Bucking-the words of the late Lord Birken-
is guardsman, who may sometimes, ly through the Great War and, in with a clear field, undisputed. OUS Sino-JapanesU rupture. industry. The millions of her nea-ham Palace.
"Hostile force, coming up saut class are getting more educa- The Astors are also well repre- thrones and redraws the map of
head, "flung emperors from their from First news of the possibility of tion; they commence to think in sented, Viscountess Astor is M.Europe."
behind heavy smoke. an armed conflict came less terms of pen when once they cal-P. for Plymouth. She has a bus-
screen; strength, dispositions, To-day he sits on a corner bench
tactics and exact intentions than a
culated only in aen. School boya bund in the House of Lords. With below the gangway on the Uppo- week ago, when the
are ambitious and cannot remain, her in the House of Commona sita sition side, deserted by the great
completely unknown. We are Japanese command at Jehol satisfied
effecting a tactical withdrawal," kwith factory wages,
a brother-in-law, Major the Hon. party he dominated for so long. threatened to take appropriate Japan will presently experience i J. J. Astor, who represents Dover. His most strenuous supporters are
Ita leader wirelessed to his Chief, while fighting a gallant that "evolution" which the Great Another brother-in-law, the Rt. his own daughter and son. unless respect was War hastened In Europe and else- Hon. H. H. Spender-Clay, is M. P. There have been rumours that
rear-guard action. shown by General Sung Cheh- where, in which Labour muddenly for
Thereupon we flashed back the yuan to the repeated requests found itself the darling of the day, Lord Willoughby de Eresby, le heir Megan may quit the shelter of the the belles of Wanchal, with
Tonbridge. Her son-in-law, bath Gwilym Lloyd George and challenge: "Will fight you for all that he withdraw his troops in luxury which formerly it had not of the best British amateur riders the Labour Party. But that is Fleet Tournament at the China
could command high wages and live to the Earl of Ancaster and is one patornal tree and neck alliance with without beer-bottles at the from the western section of dared to envy. We shall see the "over the sticks." He now sita in unlikely to happen at least until Fleet Club-HORATO BOGG, Lone Jehol Province. This was fol- growth of the iden of trade union- the House of Commons as Conser (Continued on nézt column)
FRIDAY, JAN. 25, 1935.
THE FIGHTING IN CHARHAR
measures
lowed up by a denial that there in Britain. We shall seo Labour ism in Japan, as we have seen it were any Chinese troops in the fighting for its rights. Therefore, area. Then came
trade has suffered in a statement we whose
competition with an industry of a by General Sung that the lower standard of production and trouble originated when a body wage costs, still can hope that time of Manchukuo troops at-
will remove the discrepancy between us and our competitors. Then we tempted to compel the shall see a more equitable balance local militin guards to with- of world trade. Not all for Britain; draw from the Chiangliang area, no Indeed. But a large and fair but the latter declined to comply
proportion.
with the order. However, there there is a natural disposition on were hopes even then that the the part of the Chinese to re- matter would be amicably ad-gard the Japanese action as justed. These were strengthen quite unwarranted, especially ed when, on Tuesday, Major since Major Takahashi, in his Takahashi, the Japanese mill. statement a day or so ago, wha tary attache in Peking, stated of the incident which has at pains to minimise the serious- that the matter was merely a since led to actual warfare. boundary dispute, which would 'The outside world will watch be settled at Kalgan next month, developments with some con- He added that the Japanese cern, fearful lest the situation were completely satisfied with take a turn for the worse.
Following 80 the attitude of the Chinese Hirota's Diet speech, in which soon after Mr. authorities, remarking that "no he was at pains to stresa Japan's DISCOUNT Dding, In view of these China, the new
hostilities are occurring or im- peaceful- intentions towards statements, the Japanese mill-but be regretted. It may, in- clash cannot tarists may not find it easy to deed, not only completely wipe explain why, apparently without out the possibility of any early warning or the giving of any improvement in Sino-Japanese adequate reasona, a sudden relations, but cause a definite attack by two thousand Japanese set-back in any efforts to com and Manchukuo, troops, support pose the general situation in the ed by planes and armoured cars, Far East. Any such develop should have been carried out ment would be little short of against Chinese units in the ais disastrous. Meanwhile, we can puted area At the time of only writing it is impзible to judge local
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But we couldn't get any, The beer-tender silently pointed to the clock:
It registered exactly 1.00001 am. "Why don't the Government ex- tend the closing hour until 2 a.m. if they want us to make a Brighter 'Ongkong?" "we grumbled.
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There was nothing else to do bat to go home, and to bed... Going" home was as far as we got, and as much as we could do. We had forgotten the wife. We began to have all the trouble we wanted. without having to go abroad for it. That night we slept on the sofa... Wotalolf, matsysl
the Labour Party sheds its socialia tlé proclivities.
Gwilym Lloyd George Is a man of parts who has already served as Parliamentary Secretary of the Board of Trade He might have been in that position' still, or even In one of higher worth, had he choson to bow the knee, to the pre- sent Coalition. He preferred to remain, Liberal-fust Liberal without either prefix or suffle.
Megan, has shown an equal lade pendence, nurtured in politics from: her cradle. When her father rélgued at Ten Downing Street, she was deputy hostess, meeting everyone of note who entered that famous establishment. Also, whene aver an International conference called her father abroad, Megans wad included in his entourag She speaks little in the House
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