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NOTES OF THE DAY
AN ODD SUGGESTION
81, 1935.
FRANCE'S NEW MAN
OF THE HOUR
T is being said of M. Pierre ilt from the outaide-that is to say,
Etienno
The Very Idea!
THIS FAMILY UNIT
By Prof. H. Bogg, Binologue
telandia France's by bringing with him to Parliament A Professor and a Publicist in
are in no wise greatly exercised, were not approached for ours,
The London Morning Post sug- gests that it would not be remarka- ble If China's statesmen chose to follow a polley of friendlier relations with Japan, even going so far as to
Primo Minister, that of Man-
he is the force of public opinion and Hongkong, in taking opposite recognise the independence chukuo. It might' bo better for "that last hope of French demo- using this power to obtain a re-aides on the evergreen question of cracy." Such a view is very provision of the Constitution. He and Chino, the Morning Post adds, and bably exaggerated. Yet it cannot falled because he neglected to strike Ancient v. Modern Chinese cus- might, In the long
run, mean eturn of prosperity to the Far be denied that on M. Pierre-Etienne while the iron was hot-while the toms, recently favoured us with Ourselves who belleves Flandin depends, to a disturbingly deputies still remembered the cries their opinions. East. This commentator that if China recognised Manchukuo great degree, the future of the of the mob cutelde the Chamber on have never given the matter any French Republic, writes Mallory the Place de la Concorde last deep thought and consequently European nations would follow suit, Brown in the Christian Science February. and that they might work in colla-
Monitor. boration with Japan in capitalising China's rehabilitation. We do not on affairs as the Morning Post, but like to contradict such an authority It would zoom that China, a nation, would be more disposed to attempt to re-capture the North- east provinces to-morrow than she would be to surrender them to Japan for ever. If Nanking, even Buggests recognition it will prob ably so far split Chinese political factions that any hope of reconcilia- tion must be virtually abandoned. It might, in the opinion of some persona well-informed on Chinese
Tairs, lend to A recurrence hostilities between the North and South.
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As for the suggestion that European powers might recognise Manchukuo and join with Japan in supplying the necessary capital to revive China's prosperity, the thing ta too unlikely to deserve comment. General recognition of Manchukuo would be entirely incompatible with the League of Nations principles. League members could scarcely make such a volte face, even China were to submit to a master in Tokyo. There may be a section of opinion which would be willing to co-operate with Japan in Asia in a commercial way, but until it is proved that the "Open Door WORLD COURT Policy" in Manchukuo ia not the joke it has sometimes appeared, Hopes that President Roo-there will be few willing to risk the sevelt would receive a sufficient investments with Japati as backing from the Senate to per mit of the United States joining the World Court of International
THURSDAY, JAN. 31, 1936,
AMERICA AND THE
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Abhorring publicity as we always do, we would hate to be fussed over or be accused by the other side
In the crowded corridors of the
M. Flandin le endeavouring to which was just as well. dramatic hours immediately preced-solve this parliamentary crisis from French Chamber, during those ing the downfall of M. Gaston the inside, from the basis of a Doumargue's Cabinet and the for-concentration or centre coalition mation of the present Government, Cabinet based on a Chamber major this fact was fully realised. Many ity excluding only the two of having carefully preserved our deputies made no effort to conceal tremes-the Communists and So humour in pickk in order to in- their apprehension of a renewal of cialists on the Loft and the ultra-
As the
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the rioting of last February na a conservatives on the Right. the fact it at the slightest provocation suffering public already result of M. Doumergue's depar- President of the Alliance Demo-on turo. Others, more sanguine, re-pratique, the leader of the moderate stricken by Depression. cognised the seriousness of the centre groups in Parliament, he in situation, but clung confidently to eminently suited to the task. The their conviction that everything essence of it to keep the support nobody has so far como forward would be all right once M. Flandin of M. Edouard Herriot's Radicals to say that as a humorist after our had constituted his Cabinet, without losing the votes of the more own Inexplicable fashion, we have
How crucial conditions were then conservative deputies toward the
But it is curious, the fact that
and still remain, essentially--was Right. It is a formula which ap-shown a rare insight into this or fully grasped by the new Prime pears fragile, but which should the other thing. But if, unmind-- Minister himself. "These
Are Aucceed, for it may safely be said ful of our natural aversion to fint- abnormal circumstances." he told to come nearer than any other tery, they should do so, we could the deputies in his ministerial de- possible parliamentary combination only say that only the surface has claration. "We are responsible for lo representing the political ideas the future of the regime. We of the vast majority of Frenchmen, ucen akimmed that the fount of must show, by our example, that If it fails, then the adversaries of our intelleet must be plumbed be- government in fore ita fullest depths could be ex- free institutions are superior to all representative
France will indeed have some basisplored--and, we would leave it at for their assertions that the present that. Parliament-at leant--in "'un- governable.
forma of dictatorship."
own of his
For the
these Chinese customs. Permalt us, therefore, to speak on the "family unit", extolled In terms of warm approval by one of the controver slal parties.
closer inspection, proved to be an
Why, in such a critical moment,
previous In justice to our position as did President Albert Lebrun call on majority based on the collaboration little short of a sinologue, we feel if a man who had never been Prime of Socialists and Radicals proved we cannot be entirely ignored on
Minister before who is, at 45, the disastrously unstable. youngest member
But the political aspect of the Cabinet and thus a mere babe in the French crisis in superficial in com- hierarchy of French political tradi- parison with the economic problem. tions? Who, In short, la Pierre- Just as the American people awept Etienne Flandin?
Franklin D. Roosevelt into power Like most French deputies, he is in 1932 on the economic question, so a lawyer, an "avocat" at the Paris the French people as a whole ap Court of Appeals. Like most de- proved the choice of M. Flandin for
It actually happened some four puties also, he is a member of the Prime Minister, not out of any wocks back. Our "family unit" on general council of the department political consideration, but because which he has represented at the they saw in this man whom they this occasion were two mendiennta Palaia-Bourbon since 1914-Yonne, know to be a financial and econo--a young fellow who looked per- in central France.
mic Expert someone who, they fectly miserable in rags, and a Unlike most deputies, he is an hoped, would do something about bundle of teeth and claws ho had Ever 80 often the All-Union
experienced flier. As carly as 1912 the business depression, about high Jeanette MacDonald. |Justice have been dashed to tac Congress of Soviet Russia has the obtained his pliot's licence, and prices and low salaries, about un-strapped to his back and which, on
ground by the inadequate num-session in Moscow. It is a sort of when the war come he saw active employment and overproduction. To-night will teach me to forgot (Film "Merry Widow"}
Jeanette MacDonald.ber of votes cast in favour of glorified Chamber of Commerco and service in the Air Force. In 1917 M. Flandin believes that the old hag.
adherence. The outcome is tot serves one very useful purpose, he was attached to the inter-allied economic security of the individual
if not many. It is a means
air service and at the Pence Con- must be guaranteed. "Republican The tragedy was all there: a C-2710 Moonlight is Silver-Parts 1 & 2
be regretted, since it perpetuates broadcasting to the world the reference sided in drawing up the order," he says, "Implied the or dutiful offspring doing his beat to Gertrude Lawrence & Douglas Fairbanks Jr. American aloofness in the matterports of Soviet achievement. M. International Air Trafic Conven-ganisation not only of material but support an aged mother, as is be-
of tion. Album No. 225 Sonata in D Minor, Op. 121 (Schumann) of international co-operation for Viacheslav Molotov, Chairman
He is to-day president of the of moral security, for the in-
when Confucius walked this earth. the settlement of disputes suit- the Council of People's Commissars, Aero Club de France, a post he has dividual." Bute firms, this ng done to-day; and as it was done speaks proudly of his country's held without interruption since security, as well as business re- jable for adjustment by the pro-progress since the last Congress in 1021.
covery in general, can only be A shower of coppers dropped cess of arbitration. It is, in 1931. He points out that the level
But it was neither to the lawyer found for France in a return to an from the verandahs, and amonget of production in Russin has risen nor the flier that President Lebrun economic liberalism. Denouncing the benefactors was your noted deed, a sorry circumstance that 139 per cent. since 1929, while the entrusted the grave responsibilities "the abandonment of liberty as the whilst the League of Nations production level of the rest of the of power in the recent crisis. It central factor in the present econo. philanthropist, Horatio Bogg, was largely brought into being world has declined by 24 per cent.
was to M. Pierre-Etienne Flandin, mic disorder," he vigorously asserts visibly affected, who threw in his through the efforts of President Now, that, on the face of it, is leader of the Alliance Democratique, the imperative necessity of "a pro- offering with the rest.
Impressive. But the achievement France's centro party; and perhaps gressive return to economic liberal- Woodrow Wilson, and the Inter-may seem. less remarkable with oven more to M. Pierre-Etienne Ism."
When the field was fully exploit- first conceived by another Ameri-parison of percentages means little expert, with a national and inter-M. Pierre-Etienne Flandin that aged mother withdrew to a dis- can, Mr. Elihu Root, the United nothing; for in this period national reputation.
Russia has had time to climb out For, ns M. Fiandin declared in an French Prime Minister, This is tance, on to the main road where States should still follow this of the post-revolutionary morass, address delivered only a few days perhaps as it should be, for M. the tramlines were. There they policy of isolation. Membership while the rest of the world had just before he became Prime Minister, Fiandin is even in appearance the wore joined by another member of
entered upon the worst time of "political problems have arisen be-"typical business man."
the family. The bundle of teeth of the Court does not carry with industrial depression in its history. cause economic order has not been. In a recent statement M. Flandin and claws was then unstrapped and it any obligation to join the In 1929, then, Russia had found its preserved." Parliamentarianism explains his economic programma: the "family unit" resolved into two is on trial in France to-day because League of Nations. neither is feet, more or less, and, under the
impetus of a five-year plan and it has not yet proved itself possess. there any provision in the
the lash of inspired patriots, was ed of the will, the wisdom or the "The principal aim of the Govern- Covenant that compels members driving towards a new era of in-authority to deal effectively with ment. I have formed is to combat of the League to submit disputes dustrial expansion. She was en- to the Court, Yot during the abled to borrow experts and money course of its existence the Court from the rest of the world, and her credit, though shaky, was sufficient has dealt with nearly fifty to obtain for her new industries matters referred to it, some of the necessary machinery for their which might, in the absence of expansion. Since 1920, which was the turning point of prosperity for such machinery as the Court capitaliet Industry, Russin has aupplies, have led to actual maintained a fairly steady pace in hostilities. Matters with which ment has met with a measure of enterprise and her Great Expert- the Court are empowered to deal success. To that extent we are comprise the interpretation of
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understanding. In all, five re- wine people of a capitalistic nation, servations were made by the when he speaks of growing In- dustry, that half multiplied by a Senate during the Coolidge
half makes more than a quarter. rogime, and of these the one which oventually proved the real stumbling block was that which matter and the League would be laid down that the Court should automatically robbed of the guld- not, "without the consent of the lance of the Court. It would now United States, entertain any re-appear that American adherence quest for an advisory opinion to the Court is definitely out of touching any dispute or question the question, thanks to the short- in which the United States has sightedness and insularity of or claims an interest." Obvious-Senators who have been atamped- ly, such a limitation of the ed into a decision which deprives Six Lines. Powers of the Court could not be President Roosevelt of an
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an economic crisis that has come the economic crisis, which after into a pool, which was then divided. All this could be observed be- to the French nation Inter, but attacking so many other countries hardly less acutely; than it came to has now hit France," he declares. the rest of the world.
"I told the Chamber of Deputies fore the happy trio briskly boarded This political crisis, though in that I was determined to find a a tram and disappeared in the many respects an outcome of the way out of the present situation direction of Shaukiwan. economic unrest, had to be solved through prompt and energetic first. M. Doumerguo tried to solve (Continued on Page 7.).
"You won't mind keeping an eye on them while I'm out'?**
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An actress who was sold to have "pounced on" a ball at her flat and scratched his face was fined the other day.
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A business, man, a keer theatre- goor, who le constantly being scratched by actresses at supper, once told me that by careful obser- vation and tabulation he has be- come able to address the actrean afterwards in some such judicious words as these:
"You have just screamed twice and attacked me in this grill-room. Your first scretim was Pamela | Goucher in Act I. of 'Sleeping Doga? Your second scream was Popsy in Act II of The Mauve Parrot Your shuddering gesture and re- coil after scratching my face 1008 Mrs. Middlehampton in the final seone of Painted Lilies. The sob and grep wers-wait a minket. yos, Lady Opal in Sumact Gun, Act II., and the clutch at your borom was. I'm almost cortain, Iris Satterthwaite in the renunciation scene from 'Falas "Dawn"".
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On hearing this cool and reason- od analysis (he added) many little actresses, have hysterics, from the bysterics sceno of whatever they happen to be playing in; EST