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FEBRUARY
LOOKING AHEAD IN 1935
By SIR OSWALD MOSLEY
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WE ARE IN THE PIG YEAR
By Horatio (Laisse) Bogg CCORDING TO THE CHINESE
CALENDAR, we have just en- tered on an interesting phase of the Cycle the Year of the Pig.
Last year being one of the Goat, wo could claim it to be our very own by virtue of the many in incidents of a regretful character eldente it brought into our life which need not be detalled here.
frontier where "incidents" have recently occurred between Italian Peace? These two questions meet full fiscal powers to Indian politic native troops and Abyssinian Great Britain at the threshold of lans. Thus the process which has raised the Indian tariff against tribesmon, resulting in fatalities 1935. on both sides. Without attempt ing to argue the merits of the case I den okk year has closed In a Lancashire from 5 per cent. to, 25 perplexity. With one hand we per cent. since 1918 and has reduced which either Italy or Abyssinia aurrender the heritage of centuries; by 80 per cent, the Lancashire mar- can present to the League. wn with the other we interfere in every kot In India may be carried to ita think it likely that the fears of business except our own. To the final triumph.
It follows that this year of the the Longue are excusable, and that there is about to occur another of
Our task is to preserve intact
Faithufully the Wilte Papor Pig must be somebody a elec, and these unpleasant episodes such as
claims forthcoming for its oxclu- has burdened the world with an- the structure of the British Empire. serves the requirements of the we can see quite a large number of But British Statesmanship is ananeler in ordaining that xiety in the not far distant past. Italy in a powerful nation. Abys more concerned to preserve Inviolate power of fiscal intervention shall sive ownership, sinia is a nation of scattered tribes the frontiers of Soviet Russia. Our rest with this country unless a tariff For a moment we had thought and few resources. Italy's army politicians are not prepared to risk is "penal." The Indian politician this year was also to be our own Is equipped with all the moderna baton charge to maintain for the has merely to assure us that he is when the first day of this fateful trade in order to inflict any injury had said, "why don't you get up of cracker-firing. "Pig!" the whe horrors made available by science. British, Crown the continent that acting in the interests of Indian year dawned on us with a rattle Abyssinia's Army is composed of was won by Clive. But they are the likes on British trado.
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TUESDAY, FEB. 12, 1936.
DEFINITE POLICY,
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agricultural centuries
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Industrial sluma In the world? Is last year who had taken her on It the Lancashire worker who lines our hands for weal, but more par-
ticularly for woo. Therefore let us examine an alter the unemployment queue because native policy for 1936-"the main-Indians are being sweated and the
City of London has lent monoy to These queer Chinese customs tenance of Empire and then we Japan to equip herself with Lan came to us in a strange fashion. tenance of Peace."
The clatter by which the Old Year objectives be simultaneously and cashire machinery?
Who benefits from this immenac was being frightened out, and the successfully pursued? The main-betrayal except the politicians and New Year browbeaten in, had tenance of Empire clearly involves the capacity and the determination their financial masters? Is it not hardly subsided, when there came to govern-nothing but these quali-Mantonance of Empire" as the and a peremptory voice declaring: true that Britain affirmed the a peremptory knock at our door tles can avert the loss of India.
“I am the joss god, and I bring you juss tack."
has failed and must be scrapped.tive but positive.
Post-war policy in that country keystone of our policy?
Let the strong hand be not nega:
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Let us cease to argue with law
national spirit of Indians in a
Being in sore need for what he and brought, we opened the door wide so as to let all of it in..
Name of a Pig! It was only a beggar and one of the surtiest fellows to be found anywhere who handed us a bit of red paper the size of a visiting card on which the blessing of the jass god was inscribed through the handi- work of his ragged emissary.
For why he should pick on us we had not the foggiest idea, but if luck was in it, it, singularly en- ough, went the other way. He left with one of our carefully hoarded coppers!
A man named Smuts, whom some people wifi remember as former commander of the British It rested on an assumption which in. forces in East Africa during the practice has proved an illusion. It War, said the other day that only was assumed that Indian politicians yere and enlist the services of economic technicians to rebuild by means of a close understand- of all types and parties would co-Indian rural life. ing between the United States of operate with Great Britain in a
Let us break the grip of the America and Britain could there gradual transition to Indian self-manoy-lender on the peasant with be any real assurance that peace government.
In place of co-operation, we have agricultural banks, and with ex- on the Pacife, or in the Far East, could be satisfactorily maintained, encountered non-co-oteration, and tended irrigation and compulsory He gave it as his opinion that organised sedition has driven the methods of modern farming in there were many nations likely to remnants of loyalty from Indian crease the fertility of the Indian become embroiled in any clash political life. The whole premise plain and the purchasing power in the Pacific: Russia, Chine, on which that polley was based has of the masses, which will provide The Labour Party's complaint, Japan, Britain, America, and all teased to exist. We are thus con- an increased market for British
fronted with the initial problem of Koods.
Let us kill discontent with ccon that the National Government the British Colonies, to name a
few. He said he thought Britain continent, divided by racial and
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and enlist the has been guilty of "bungling and America should consider an
religious differences to a degree ineptitude" in its measures for alliance. His utterance brought which reduces any conception of
real constructive task.
In the next half-hour we were relieving distress amongst the forth
Above all, lot us declare the de- honoured, with similar manifesta- expressions of approval nationhood to the fantastic.
Anite principle that the economy tions by no fewer than a dozen joss unemployed, is to be followed by from the British Press, for the former South African premier,;
We are further faced with the of Empire shall not be dislocated gods. What terrific luck we should |a demand that a special com once, an enemy of England, ha fact that all effective political in- and the stream of sweated goods have had that early morning to be mittee of the Cabinet be estab won much respect from the world fluence in India is violently anti- shall not poison the blood-stream sure, if it were not one of those lished to deal with the problem for his far-sightedness and he British and is concerned only with of Imperial commerce in order to "elo customs" designed to make ambition in the cause of peace. the severance of all Imperial conserve the quick profits of elements the celebration of a lunar New of national reconstruction.
But General Jan Smuts' suggestion nection and the final destruction of in our national life that thrive Year frightfully expensive. Whilst some of the criticism awakened no sympathetic response British trade. At last Indian and batten on national decadence. Then there was the amah of a
William must be discounted as indicative from
Edgar Borah.
political agitation
corrupt
Let the resolution of 1935 be card as she handed the melon seeds merely of Labour's auxiety to Some-one mentioned his name, the reality as the instrument of corrupt Empire lives or we all perish. friend who presented us with her discredit the Government, at name of Borah, in connection with finance for the exploitation of cheap that determination. Such a policy tray around. We looked from the the reports of his disapproval of Oriental labour in order that fat to maintain the Empire coincides card-artistically ornate with the same time there is a con-
An Anglo-American understand-profits may be reaped by the and in no way conflicts with the flowers and cranes-to the simper- siderable section of public opin-
ing. reported yesterday. And destruction of the white standard maintenance of peace. If we ex-ing owner, stupefaction in our gaze, ion at Home which holds the
sume-one else remarked: "Who of life.
clude Japaneso goods from India until a nudgo from our friend view that far too little attention is Borah?"
The solemn pretence that the and the Crown Colonies at the brought us to a cold recollection of is being paid to the nation's
Illiterate Indian masses are pray-same time that we lower Indian the fact that we were already in internal economic position. Mr.
Ing for a White Paper which they tariffs against Lancashire, we can the Year of the Pig. Another of could not read and of which they provide immediato employment our treasured coppers was squan Robert Boothby, the Conserva-
Mr. Borah is a member of the have never heard dissolves before for-come-65,000-workers-in-the-dered on the brute! tive M.P. for Aberdeen, recently United States Senate, from Idaho, the reality that a few professional cotton industry. But we can only reflected this feeling when he and he was a staunch supporter politicians, in the pay of the rich do this without risk of conflict if declared in Parliament that the of the late Mr. Herbert Hoover, mill owners, are bluffing a decad- we do not oppose other outlets Government's domestic policy is Republican President of the haphazard, palliative in charac- United States, whom Mr. Coolidge ent British Government out of the for Japan.
land-our fathers-won with their been some ter and unrelated to any contral succeeded. He has
blood and built with the creative member of the Sonalp
The natural outlet of the Japa- theme of general constructive years a
Beneath the cant of "freedom and neae is in Manchuria and Mongo economic policy. He added that Foreign Relations Committee in Kentue of the British race.
the United States, and in that
where they can found an self-government" emerges the ugly lia, there were stili two million un- employed people, on whom the carican suren polley and fact that this policy hands over the Empire comparable with India, the Gor
on foreign Indian masses to a financial ex- but our busy-body Government Government is spending one must be pardoned if he expresses ploitation which seeks to derive a employs in opposition to Japanese hundred millions sterling a year it: Mr. Borah is always among higher rate of interest from the Empire the energy which it should to keep in idleness, and pertin- the first to express opinions on development of sweated labour in employ in the maintenance of our ently asked whether the Govern- foreign policy. He believes that India than it can draw from the re-own Empire. The reason is, of ment were prepared to
course, that the interests of the leave the American people as a whole matters in that condition, wind-
The total exclusion from India of Soviet are involved and the Soviet are unwaveringly opposed to any equipment of British Industry.
the logical con- (Continued on Page 11) ing up with the remark that "I commitments with ur to a foreign British goods is
power, even Britain. He does not am afraid the people of this believe in defensive pacta, be- country are not," That these cause he is afraid they might in- observations are not an isolated volve the United States in somo- instance of criticism from Con-one else's quarrel. In the days of servative circles is shown by the sail, when Mr. Borah was a boy, fact that much the time taken though space in roaring machines and before people went flying up during the dobate on the at 300 miles an hour, that policy King's Speech recently was of isolation was all very well. occupied by Conservative mem- America had oceans between her bers complaining of the Govern- and her chomies. She was safe ment's failure to produce a con- from attack. Indeed, those oceans structive policy for dealing with still offer her a splendid Arst line unemployment. This criticism of defence, for they are obstacles was renewed during the dis to any aggressor. But America cussions on the Depressed Areas well as at home: Amorica, liko
has responsibilities abroad, Bill. The Times has been 10 every other progressive nation, less insistent on the same point. must recognise the necessity of It recently declared that the co-ordinated action on the part of Government's claim that, re-world powers In the interests of covery had been registered dur-pence The time will come when ing the past year, "does not dis-Amerien may be very glad of an elpate the army of more than alliance of the sort which General
Smuts suggested. two million persons who are, nevertheless, unemployed."
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Again, at a later date, the same quarters to answer these critic- journal remarked that the do-isms. It seems clear, therefore, minant economic fact today is that Mr. Ramsay MacDonald that while the level of produc- and his colleagues will need to tion has risen practically to the get down to this issue if the volume of 1929, "this has not Government is to be kept in provented a rise of about a office, Merely for Mr. Baldwin million in the number of uh-to tell the electors, as he has employed since that year." been recently, that at the next That fact, the Times added, is election they will have one among many which is induc- choose between the constructive ing far-sighted people to ask to policy of the National Govern what general and planned policyment and the destructive policy the Government's activities are of the Socialist Party, is not related to-day. So far, there enough. The public will ask for has been no definitely convincing some proof that the Government statement from Government has a constructive polley,
to
wish I had some of those smart, dark circles under my eyes,"
And so it wont on, for three
whole days and nights. Whilst strings of crackers spluttered and New Year kowlows, went around," offered up to the Pig, and we delved more and more sacrifices were deeper and deeper into our pockets. Assuredly the Pig had it well on
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