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The most recent developments in the Italo-Ethiopian crisis, whose inthence upon the future of European relations daily becomes
SEPTEMBER
1935.
DO NATIONS PLEDGES The Very Idea!
MEAN NOTHING?
BY BARBARA BETTS
STUFF AND NONSENSE An exiled monarch, being In-". vited to a festivity, began chit- ting to another guest.
Soon, the other man, a hotel proprietor, confided that there was not much doing in his line "Nor in mine," said the form- of business at the moment.
er king., "And might I ask what is your line?"
"Oh, I keep the Crown and Scoptre," was the reply.
UGUST bank holiday has come In other words, the safeguards more abvious, have shed a ray of A hope through the billowing storm And gone. The sun has shone, provided by International treaties, clouds which loom over Geneva. It ripening the corn to harvest in pacts and pledgee cannot be relied is still too early to say that there gracious English fields, Healthy upon and must be supplemented by is a definito rift. There is no blue young bodies have disported them-Independent measures of national
But be defence, sky yet discernible. But the wind aclvcs Ji water and sun.
It may be argued that the main has shifted, let us hope, to a some-hind the pence and pleasure there what less threatening quarter. Thelles again to-dny, as in August tenance of defence is the first duty appointment of the Committee of twenty-one years ago, the ugly of every Government. What, how ever, peace-lovers in this country Five, the surrender of the Italians rumour of war.
"You're lucky," sighed "thë to the Anglo-French desire to serve The Government's anti-gas in- must face is that the defensive on that body, and the continuing structions, issued through its now measures contemplated here logic ether. "I couldn't keep mine." of
efforts of Mr. Anthony Eden and Air Raid Precautions Department, ally commit all those who co-oper-
He Was Smart garage service you M. Flerre Laval to effect a com- and the recent recommendations ate in them to support of offensivo,
A farmer had been serving on promise with Baron Aloisi, the of the Labour Party's National action. demand for your car
If we agree that the protection Italian spokesman, give us to hope. Executive Committee to Labour storage, washing, tire, These two men, the British Minis-members of local authorities are afforded by the Geneva Protocal is a jury. The jury was out for and the two occurrences which force peace- ephemeral and that the Govern- what seemed a very long time to battery or repair, here you'llter for League Affairs
French Prime Minister, are to-day lovers, of all denominations to ment of this country must make decide a minor offence. After- find expert, conscientious
the outstanding figures in world think out for themselves the im- every preparation to meet the con- ward, the farmer was asked why attention at reasonable diplomacy. Their courageous treat- plications of these developments tingencies of national defence, we it took the jury such a long time rates.
ment of the highly explosive League in national defence policy and their are committed to far more than to come to a decision.
wearing a gas mask.
"Well, sir," he said, "there. crisis and their still calm assurance own attitude to that polley, may yet prevall is the international The Government, we are told, surprise." says the War Office were eleven.of the stubbornest councils. One thing they have regret the necessity for these in its "Tactical Notes" "is one of men on that jury that I ever proved: that Anglo-French solidari- measures, but feel that they
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parson. "No, captain, I've been busy. Only this morning I married three couples in fifteen minutes." "Smart going. parson! That's twelve knots an hour!"
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ty In Europe is the greatest "would be neglecting their duty to the main essentials for the effec8W." gaurantee of peace, bar one, which the civil population men, women tive use of gan."
be effective in. Its organisation of the peoples yet have seen. That and children-If they failed to tale lus encourage our Government to other safeguard of the frontiera these precautions."
A powerful argument! And the defence and to get in the first, the and institutions and independence
fatal blow before the enemy. of nations, the League itself, is still Labour. Party Executive has
The guiding Impulse behind the the greatest force for good we have accepted It ቤ። unanswerable. achieved; but it is the Anglo-French "Until a more intelligent state proposed Air-Locarno pact was to collaboration which has made its craft eliminates war from the ensure swifter reprisals, to cut out In world," it declares, "the riske all delay before retallation against continuing existence possible. this time of trial we who must only must be faced and provision made attack. That was some months
Labour For Nothing sit and wait for the finished weav- for coping with their direst possi-go,, while agreements were still
nominally within the framework Teacher: "And so we find that Kiss me goodnight-Fox Trat
ing of the threads of fate, when we blitics."".
As we are pro-X is equal to zero." cannot even see the pattern which
Is that argument really sufficient of the League."
Student: "All that work for Chasing Shadows-Fox Trot
they make, can give our moral for those who have declared their gressing now, the legal encum-
brances of "defining the agressor" nothing!" and submitting disputes to pre- if we feel disposed, can pray to
liminary arbitration look like be-
How Hams Grow BD-198 jump on the Wagon-Fox Trot
God to guide them in their tremend- The post-war generation in thising done away with altogether,
Two small boys were gazing Jack Hylton & His Orchestra.
our task.
country has grown up in the be- Success will be to the swift and it at the shop windows, decorated lief that relations between nations will be only wise to attack upon for Christmas. Presently they Give a broken heart a break-Fox Trot
Jack Hylton & His Orchestra.
AGE OF THE EARTH
should be governed by international suspicion. law. Peace pledges of the most If the Government's foreign arrived at a butcher's shop, and BD-195 The Oregon Trail-Fox Trot
Analysing meteorites is one way solemn kind have formed the back-policy is taken as a whole, It be one pointed to a number of hams Jack Jackson & His Orchestra.
which geologiats adopt to attempt ground of Its education in inter-comes clear that the anti-gas pro hanging from a large holly Louisiana Fairy Tale-Fox Trot
to arrive at some decision as to national affairs. It has never cautions are not the innocuous do- branch. "Look, Tom," he said. Jack Jackson & His Orchestra. A noteworthy economic change the age of the earth. Recently really doubted, despite the betray-fence measures they might at first "Look at them 'ams a-growing.
in the Homeland was brought there has been an analysis of specials of the Covenant by other coun- appear. Great Britain's insistence up there."
agree at the Disarmament Conference, "Get away," said the other. BD-196 "Love Laughs"—Here's to you and love-F.T.
mens of some thirty meteorkestries, that international Jack Jackson & His Orchestra.into emphasis recently during a from different parts of the world. monts provided an ultimate safe-1932, that bombing from the air" 'Ams don't grow."
should be retained, Lord London- "Well, that's all you know If your father only know-F.T. (Film "Heat Wavo"). House of Lords debate on the The conclusion reached is that the guard against war.
earth is not more than 3,000 million The issuing of the Air Raid derry's recent boast in the House about it," said the first, scornful- Jack Jackson & His Orchestra: rival merits of Capitalism and years of age, and, prabably, a great Precautions by this Government of Lords that he worked actively ly. "Ain't you ever 'eard of a Flower of the Orient-Fox Trot
Socialism when Lord Allen de- deal less. This does not seen a shatters the last hope that law will for that retention and his revela-
'Ambush ?" Pickard's Chinese Syncopators.
very conclusive finding, even when prevail and brings war effectively tion that the Air Ministry pre- clared that practically two-estimated in connection with the nearer, both in our consciousness pared for an expansion of the Air Ali Baba-Rumba
An enthusiastle supporter of .Pickard's Chinese Syncopators.
thirds of the large-scale econ-belief that the oldest rocks of the and in reality. It is the culmina-Force, on the assumption that the BD-190 Call me sweetheart-Fox Trot
Teddy Joyce & His Orchestra, omic organisation of Great earth's surface are 1,500 million tion of the process that has been Disarmament Confercaco would a football. team arrived at the years of age. If the latter com- going on steadily ever since Japan fail us ("We were ready with our ground one day and saw a load Britain had already passed outputation is correct, and if it is successfully defied the League-plans")-all point to one conclu-of bricks there. He approached Here comes that Rainbow--Fox Trot
the club secretary and asked,. Teddy Joyce & His Orchestra, of the sphere of unregulated correct as well that the earth may the process of counteracting inter-alon.
be 3,000 million years-old, there is national commitments with the
"Wouldn't half-bricks have been private profit-making. The a gap of 1,500 million years that argument of "national necessity." The Government has never relled better?" BD-191 Marina (Queen of the Mountains) —Waltz.
"revolution," which has taken is only bridged by speculation, In 1926 at Geneva all the Powers on international agreements, hos "Half-bricks " exclaimed the Joyce & His Orchestra.
the The bigger meteorites are sup- that mattor strategically solemnly always believed each State should secretary. "We couldn't build
a Gas. Irotocol binding rely on its own strength for Its Two tired eyes-Fox Trof....Joyce & His Orchestra, place so quietly that even
people themselves have not yet posed to be a part of the solar signed
a pavilion with half-bricks." fully realised its extent, is not system. Professor F. A. Panneth, themselves not to use in war "au-defence, and has therefore worked "Oh said. Other interesting records by Sydney Gustard,
the supporter of the Imperial College of Selence phyxiating, polsonous or other to prevent limitation by agreement Ken Harvey, Renara, Lily Pons. Elisabeth Schumann, in reality, us an American and Technology, South Kensington, gases. justly condemned by of those categories of armaments wonderingly, "are they for a
Буда Lord the general opinion of the civilised it considers essential for the de- pavilion ?" Walter Glynne, Norman Evans, Ailcon Stanley, etc.. journal is at pains to point out,points out that it
also on sale,
Howlers one as between individualism Rayleigh who was responsible for world."
the idea that the age of the earth's
Part of the Government's defence
A selection of "howlers" from and socialism; it is a move from rocks could be measured in terms To those who believe that inter-mechanism must necessarily be
In teacher's collection: individualism to a kind of half of the minute proportion of the national agreements should have active research into new types of
The earth makes a resolution Iway house between individual-rare gas, hellum, which they con- real content, those words mean poison gas with which to "retaliate"
tain. The helium is supposed to something, that solemn pledge con- on the enemy. As the element of every twenty-four-hours. -- ism and collectivism. In the
Volcanoes are due to the in- have been produced by the break fers upon the signatories an in-surprise is so important, it is un- House of Lords 'debate, the de-down of radio-active materials escapable obligation.
kely that the public would bofernal heat of the earth. Yet the National Government in informed of the latest inventions Gorilla warfare means up to ****SSESSEEENSSSSSSSS vice was called a "public utility within the reck through millions of
corporation." In transport, in years. Professor Panneth applies its current publications assumes in gas warfare before war broke their monkey tricks.
the same method to meteorites. that auch International commit-out. Yet the organisation of de- Switzerland is a very wonder- electric light and power, even in He can measure down to a hundred ments are, in times of "national fence against gas, according to the ful country. There you can broadcasting, this instrument millionth of a thimbleful of pure necessity," meaningless.
Government and the Labour Party often see the. mountains touring The use of poison gas in war Executive, "cannot and should not among the clouds. has
helium, and can detect its presence been used: There are
In even smaller amounts. It is the Is. forbidden by the Geneva Gas be left for emergency organisation, A giraffe needs a long neck neither private shareholders nor
case, however, that even this great Protocol of 1926, to which most, if and when the need arises." Government bureaucrats on the accuracy is largely wasted on the but not all, of the principal Powers The Government cannot but be because its head is so far away governing board. Its power earth's rocka. To begin with, it of the world have subscribed," aware of the inadequacy, on this from its body.
is assumed that the rocks have, at states the War. Once pamphlet score alone, of the defence mer- A fissure is a man who sells proceeds from a charter given no stage in their history, lost any "Tactical Notes on Defence against sures against gas that civilians are fish. by the Government and al- of their hellum, for example, as the Gas." The British' Army must, urged to practise in time of peace. An oboe is an American though the chief officers are result of heating. This can however, be prepared to defend It-This fact in itself justifies one in tramp. Government appointees, their not be known to be the case. self against the use of gas by any supposing that the suggested "pre- Professor Panneth's apparatus is Power with which it may be at cautione" have been issued not so appointments are BO hedged
a strange medley of glass tubes war.".
(Continued on next Column.) around by safeguards that they operated under a high vacuum. are practically independent of The greater part of it, anys the London Morning Post, is devoted Government influence. But it
to the removal of all other gases is not alone in this sphere that but hellum from the samples of
to be we see marked charges. coming gas
examined. IIla over the industrial and economic final measurement depends on the slight leakage of heat which takes life of the country. There are pince when a minute amount of many realms in which private hellum is introduced into what was profit-making is being impinged before a vacuum. upon, mainly with a view to
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There are millions of men, and women in this country who have, In one form or another, expressed their opposition to war. Some have signed pledges of war regis- tance. Eleven million have, by voting for the first question in tho Peace Ballot, sdown thoy favour the rule of law In international frelatione. ~~~
The publication of the Govern- mont's Air. Raid Precautions affords all these men and women an opportunity to resist in practical form the triumph of anarchy in the relations betwoon nations. Those who "do not realat now the policy. of a Government which has brought upon Itsòlf the need for its own rearmament cannot logically with hold co-operation from all the ton- sequences of a policy of reliance on national self-sufficiency.
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