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TELEGRAPH.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 22, 1935.
NOTES OF THE DAY
PUBLIC WORKS IN BRITAIN
of
LEAGUE MUST DO OR DIE
By W. N. EWER:
WHATEVER may happen, or, peoplo in decisive positions,- both
W not happen, at Geneva extin this country and abroad, who
month, it is clear to me, that we are seriously proposing. that the have come to a crisis in the his- Longue, dismissing its own Coven- tory of the League. For in these ant as "unworkable," should find coming days decisions must be some other basis, enabilng it to made which, whatever their other enforce peace in some cases, but consequences, will determine what not in others.
The Very Idea!
MONDAY MORNINGITIS
Eddie Kelly Makes. Another Astounding Discovery
Reported By Eddie
E have just discovered that there are to be five Mondays in September.
As a foundation member of the Anti-Monday League, we would like to point out the international signi- ficance of this. The outrage never occurred once during the reign of Edward the Sixth.
The declalon of the British Government to guarantee the ex- penditure of £10,000,000 on London transport shows a new direction in policy, involving a very interest- ing experiment, says the Christian Science Monitor. The Government has been pressed again and again to embark on - M big programme public works to stimulate trade and absorb tho un employed. Except in the case of the support given to the big Cunard in the future is to be the League's Roughly speaking, these are tho liners, it has generally resisted real character. Is it to be an orpeople who, at heart, would like the this demand. Its attitude, as ex-ganisation for upholding as between League to be not an instrument for pressed by Mr. Chamberlain, hus States, the "reign of law," for enforcing the Law of the Peace, been that a sound general polley securing that all disputes whatever but an instrument for enforcing the was more beneficial to trade than they may be, shall be settled peace Treaties of 1919. direct Intervention in industry, ably, for preventing nggression by They do not put this frankly, But many of its most stalwart sup-massing against any aggressor the They find other arguments, porters are not satisfied. The lat joint and overwhelming strength ter have pointed out that sound of civilisation? Or is it to be an financo has produced cheap money, instrument in the hands of cortain and that the moment when money ia cheap is the right one to choose for investing it in important deve lopment work. Mr. Lloyd George the series of treaties of which Ver-civilined" State, and anyway, not So we think this Monday is in the vanguard of this move-sailles was the first and chief? worth worrying about, is not en-situation will have to be dealt ment, and has presented to the Or is it again to be, merely, in titled to the protection of the with. Cabinot П comprehensive pro the phrase used by Mr. Mac- gramme of public works, which Donald in the "Armaments White might be undertaken on a large Paper," machinery for facilitating scale. It is apparent that the and regularising the means of Government will not accept Mr. international co-operation." Lloyd George's programme in its entirety. But it is equally clear that it is impressed by the publie feeling created, and that it will unbend to the extent of adopting | Home similar if leaser schemes. Mr. Chamberlain's latest plan is one of them.
NEED FOR IMPROVEMENT
In this particular Italo-Abyssin- lan dispute, they argue:
That we must face the
fact:
Powers for preserving and stereo- "The League's writ does not run typing the particular demarcation outside Europe."
of European frontiers laid down in That Abyssinia, being an “un-
The first is the "orthodox doc- trine," enshrined in the Covenant itself.
There can be no question that the intention of the framers of the Covenant was that the first and main purpose of the League should be the enforcement of the peace and the prevention of war.
Every one of the original drafts from which the Covenant emerged is based on the same fundamental principle.
Covenant.
That for the League to attempt If the League of Nations won't to "coerce" a Great Power like act, the Hongkong Government Italy would be to court disaster.
will have to invoke the Kellogg l'act.
That the League must realise that economic necesally makes it imperative for such a Power us Italy to "expand."
To peer pathetically at the But they do not see the gentle clock, to tenderly touch the sun- men who put forward these argu- burn you got on Sunday, to groun ments that once they are accepted your way to bed, to grovel the whole basin of the League is slowly on the hands and knees destroyed; that if it declines to en-to the bathroom, to be reluctant- force the law in one set of circum-ly convinced that you suppose stances it is powerless to enforce you'll have to shave, to bolt half a breakfast, to miss the Star Ferry by half a minute, and arrive at work at 10 a.m., instead of 9.30, Is bad enough.
it ut all.
the
Grant that "the writ of The need for improving the sys-
run outside tems of electrified suburban rail-
League does not ways to the north and cast of
Europe," what ground at all la London has long been urgently felt.
there for expecting it to run inside The lack of adequate transport in It is that the members of the Europe? If the Covenant can be
But to have to do it five times these regions had become a serious League agree to take common disregarded in one case, why should
in one month is plain murder. grievance, nl the railway nuthuri-action against any State which it be fulfilled in another? THE PACT AND THEs had only been deterred from breaks the Covenant and goes to If Abyssinia is put "outside the We are afraid the entire undertaking new construction on war: that the aggressor, attacking law," what is to prevent the argu-calendar will have to be re- CRISIS
their own credit by the enormous any one member State, will find ment that, say, Lithuania is also
organised. "outside the law"is not worth would involve himself at war not with one enemy capital outlay
worrying about? But the Government guarantee | but with the whole League,
These Mondays will give cheap capital. The
If the "coercion" of Italy is too eliminated. You will find that in the "Phili money invested will earn its divi- more Plan," in the "House Draft." risky a Business, what about the dends. Work which will give em
the "Wilson Draft," the "Cecil "coerrion" of Germany? ployment to thousands of persons, Draft," the "British Draft." in including those in the distressed every text from these first outlines areas, will be provided; and Lon don will be rendered permanently beller off. The inveatment, of course, may be described as
ciety.
The citizen, whatever his grie- vances, is forbidden by the com- munity to take the law into his own hands." If he does so, he finds that he has to meet the joint force of the whole society.
twenty-five years. The experiment Now it needs to be noted that an will be of the greatest importance, essential feature of the "reign of The lessons learned from it will" is that the law must operate be applicable to other undertak generally and without distinction ings. It is not likely to be the or persons or circumstance. last. Alrendy several comparable
Once break that rule, once admit schemes are being pressed upon that a certain citizen or a few the Government's' attention.
citizens can "take the law into their own hands" without suffering the consequences, or that another group will not, if attacked, be accorded the protection of society, and you lapse from order into anarchy, into gangsterdom and lynch-law.
Lord Beaverbrook is very angry
because Mr. Malcolm MacDonald has "rejected the pulley of Customus
Union with the Crown Colonies."
•
must
be
The 30th of June should also. be wiped out. (Dear Sir,-We have in remind you, as we are now approaching the end, of our financial year, that your ac- count......).
International system of calen- daring might be instituted. This is a brain wave. When it's Once you punch a hole in the Monday in Hongkong, it's Tues- Covenant, once you lay down that
day in
States. the United each member State of the Lengue may make up its own mind whe-American calendars could be ther, in any given dispute, the used on Mondays, and when the Covenant shall or shall not be en-American Monday comes around, forced, you have ended the "reign the Hongkong calendar will be of law. You have niso destroyed reverted to. all effiency of the Covenant as a preventive of war. For it can
Similarly, when it's a public only be effective if it is certain, if holiday in Spain, the Spanish a would-be aggressor knows that be calendars would be the correct yond a peradventure, it will cer; thing for the best people. - tainty be enforced, the "sanctions" will certainly be employed. *** ***** We are feeling too seven-days Destroy that certainty and where to write any more on this. are you? Where in your European subject. security?
Suppose a Polish attack on Lith- uania, or a German attack on Aus- Itallan attack ол tria, or Albania.
ת!!
If Great Britain is to connive at (an Italian attack on Abyssinia be- cause Italy is too big and Abyssinia too small to make it worth worry-
ing about, Why should she worry about Lithuania or Austria or
OUR NEIGHBOUR'S WIFE
There's Many A Slip Worn
The suggestion that the United States should intervene in the Italo-Abyssinian crisis, as a signatory of the Kellogg Pact,
If Italy la entitled to "expand" brings to the fore the question
and to use war as an instru- of the value or otherwise of that
to the Covenant itself as signed atment of expansion-why is not Versailles.
Germany equally entitled to seck agreement, devised for the
That, indeed, is the basis of the way out of her economic troubles specifle purpose of 'preserving
whole conception. It is the applica-by forcible expansion at the expense world peace. The United States,cialistic enterprise. But it is of a tion to international relations off her neighbours?
novel kind. The Government will the method by which the "reign of like all other signatories, has the
not perform the work itself, noc, law" is established and the peace right to draw the attention of
will it set up a new public corpora-preserved in every civilised. so- the the subscribing nations to tion to do it.. It will create by dangers of a
the conflict, but
statute a company which will raiso Pact carries with it no definite
the money, guaranteed by the slate, from public subscription; and it obligation of concerted action, will invest this money in existing The most that can be hoped for. undertakings, namely, the London Passenger Transport Board, and apparently, is that pressure may two main-line railway companies; be brought to bear on Italy to the capital is to be repaid within desist from the use of force against Abyssinia. The moral effect of any representations under the Pact is not to be under- estimated, but the
practical utility thereof remains open to question. Actually, all that the Powers adhering to the Kellogg | ASKING FOR TROUBLE Pact did was to renounce war
Under A Plain Gown as an instrument of national
But now we want to tell you policy; the Pact carried with it
about something so scandalous no machinery for meeting i
Once admit that those on whom
that if anybody else told you. crisis when it arose. It is true He advocates, he explains, the the law lays the obligation of en-
you wouldn't believe them. "beneficent system of exploiting forcing peace may, when the mo-
We have a new neighbour. that attempts have been made to
the Colonies-beneficent to the ment comes, decide, at their own Albania? read into the Pact an obligation natives, the settlers and the British whim or will, whether or not they There may be calculations in this
Our new neighbour was sitting of united action by the signa- traders and workers who will ex- shall fulfil their obligations, and, case or in that which would dietate in a chair on his front lawn, play tories against any nation ad- change their goods under that sys-again, ordered society.collapses, and action. But they have nothing to ing with his Alsatian when we
tom freely within the largest and the assurance of peace disappears. do with the Lengue, nothing to do first saw him. judged to have infringed the best ordered market in the world," All that seems obvious enough, with the "reign of law." They are
(Continued on Page 7) undertaking, but there does not There the beneficence stops, ob- Yet there are people of influence, appear to be any real justifica-serves the News Chronicle. Even Lord Beaverbrook does not claim tion for such a view. When the that his system will be beneficent Pact was concluded, its chief to the great nations outside Its borders. Yet how can the demands value was considered to be the
of their evergrowing populations alignment of the United States
be ignored? There are two ways with European Powers in
only in which these demands can effort to put an end to war once
be met. One is by granting the outside world a reasonable measure and for all. The League of
of free trade with our Colonics, Nations, it was thought, was not treated for this purpose as "man- dated" territorios. One is by giv enough, of itself, to prevent war,
ing the excluded nations Colonies with the United States outside
of their own. That means in prac membership. America's asso-
tice surrendering to them territory ciation, therefore, with the other nt present in one form or another. under British administration. If major Powers, in a united, de-
we refuse to do either of these claration outlawing war, was
things the inevitable result will be considered to strengthen the war. Dented the right to live either by trade or by colonisation peace structure, inasmuch as
the foreigner will be driven to at- the any peace system with
tempt to secure it by force. Lord United States in would be far Beaverbrook does not want
He is constantly saying so. Yot more effective than any system
it is the inevitable result of his with the United States out.
colonial policy, From the start; however, there were doubla in some quarters as to the efficacy of the Pact in fore, chief hopes of the utility times of emergency. But it was of the Pact were that it would felt, at the same time, that any | exercise n restraining effect on of the contracting nations which bellicose nations. and give the. might be tempted to break loose agencies of diplomacy a greater in an excess of passion, would chance of averting a pending think twice before violating an crisis. In actual working, how- engagement to which the United | ever, these hopes have been dis- States as well as the European appointed, mainly for the reason Powers generally were commit- that the Pact failed to define ted. In this connection. the aggression. The Pact, like the view was held that another League, is now being put to the month's delay in 1914 might test. If it fails of its purpose, have saved the world from the we may well despair of the Great War. Summed up, there- 1 future outlook.
an
War.
"How can we go fifty-fifty on the groceries when your. husband outs four lamb chops ?”
"Nice dog you have there," we said conversationally.
"Yes," he replied in accents sweet and low, "not bad. Do you like dogs?"
We said "Yes," so he said:
"Tell you what. I'm expecting some pups in a few days. You can have your pick.".
cor.
When we BMW our neighbour next he was driving a
He invited us for ride and We clambered in.
"Wonderful car," we said as wo bowled smoothly along the Castle Penk road,."Had it long?"
"No," he replied, and asked, "Do
you drive?"
Wo nodded,
"Take it any time you feel like a'spin,” saith he,
We did not see our neighbour after that until yesterday after-
noon.
"Was that your wife we saw yesterday?" wo naked over the porch,
"Yes," he replied.
"She's a peach!" we exclaimed enthusiastically.
He hesitated, and looked at us thoughtfully.
"Do youeri
ever feel
lonely?" he asked, after a pause.
We gulped.
"Yes, sometimes," wo said nervously.
He paused again before reply- ing, and we watched him anxiously.
*Tell you what,” he said, “next- time you feel lonely, hop in for a game of cards."