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DONATIONS' PLEDGESTM MEAN NOTHING?
BY BARBARA BETTS UGUST bank holiday has come
The Very Idea!
STUFF AND NONSENSE An exiled monarch, being in- vited to a festivity, began chat-
"Oh, I keep the 'Crown and " was the raply. Sceptre,'
"You're lucky," sighed the
The Government's anti-gas in- must face is that the defensive structions, issued through its now measures contemplated here logic- other. "I couldn't keep mine," Air Raid Precautions Department, ally commit all those who co-oper- and the recent recommendations ate in them to support of offensive
He Was Smart A farmer had been serving on of the Labour Party's National action.
If we agree that the protection Executivo Committee to Labour members of local authorities are afforded by the Goneva Protocal is a jury. The jury was out for two occurrences which force peace- ephemeral and that the Govern-what seemed a very long time to lovers of all denominations to ment of this country must make decide a minor offence. After- think out for themselves the im- every preparation to meet the con-ward, the farmer was asked why plications of these developments tingencies of national defence, we it took the jury such a long time in national defence policy and their are committed to far more than to come to a decision.
wearing a gas mask. own, attitude to that policy,
The most recent developments in the Italo-Ethiopian crisis, whose Influence
future European nations daily becomes more obvious, have ahel a ray of A and gone. The sun has shone, provided by International treaties,
In other words, the safeguardsting to another guest.
Soon, the other man, a hotel hope through the billowing stormi clouds which loom over Geneva. It ripening the corn to harvest in pacts and pledges cannot be relied proprietor, confided that there is still too early to say that there gracious English fields, Healthy upon and must be supplemented by was not much doing in his line. is a definite rift. There is no blue young bodies have disported them-independent measures of national of business at the moment.
"Nor in mine," said the form--- aky yet discernible. But the wind selves in water and sun. But be defence,
It may be argued that the main-jer king. "And might. I ask has shifted, let us hope, to a some-hind the pence and pleasure there what less threatening quarter. The lies again to-day, as in August tenance of defence in the first duty what is your line?" appointment of the Committee of twenty-one years ago, the ugly of every Government. What, how- ever, peace-lovere in this country Five, the surrender of the Italians rumour of war. to the Anglo-French desire to serve on that body, and the continuing of
efforts of Mr. Anthony Eden and garage service you M. Pierre Laval to effect a com- demand for your car.
promise with Baron Alolsi, the Italian spokesman, give us to hope. storage, washing, tire. These two men, the British Minis- battery or repair, here you'llter for League Affairs and the find expert, conscientious French Prime Minister, are to-day the outstanding figures in world reasonable diplomacy. Their courageous treat- ment of the highly explosive League crisis and their still calm assurance may yet prevail in the internations) The Government, we are told, 1 councils. One thing they have regret the necessity for these in its "Tactical Notes," "is one of "Surprise," says the War Office proved: that Anglo-French solidari- measures, but feel that they
the main essentials for the effec ty in Europe is the greatest "would be neglecting their duty to tive use of gns." If that is so, let guarantee of peace, bar one, which the civil population-men, women the peoples ret, have seen. That and children-if they failed to take us encourage our Government to be effective in ita organisation of other safeguard of the frontiers these precautions."* and institutions and independence A powerful argument! And the defence and to get in the first, the
Intul blow before the enemy. of nations, the League itself, is still Labour
hag Executive
The guiding Impulse behind the the greatest force for good we have accepted it 45 unanswerable. achieved; but it is the Anglo-French "Until a more intelligent state proposed Air Locarno pact was to collaboration which has made its cruft eliminates war from the ensure swifter reprisals, to cut out continuing existence possible. In world, it declares, "the risks all delay before retaliation against monthn this time of trial we who must only must be faced and provision made attack. That was some ait and walt for the finished weny- for coping with their direst possi-ngo, while ngreements were still nominally "within the framework ing of the threads of fate, when we|bilities." cannot even see the pattern which Is that argument really sufficient of the League." As we are pro-X is equal to zero," they make, can give our moral for those who have declared theirgressing now, the legal encum- Student: "All that work for backing to the peace-makers and, hatred of and opposition to war? and submitting disputes to pre-
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"Well, sir," he said, "there
men on that jury that I were eleven of the stubbornest
saw."
In Soa Torms "Good morning, Ilaven't seen you lately."
ever
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!"
Labour For Nothing Teacher: "And so we find that
"Oh!" said the supporter wonderingly, "are they for a pavilion ?**
brances of "defining the agressor"
liminary arbitration look Hko be-
How Hams Grow The post-war generation in thising done away with altogether.
Two small boys were gazing 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 AGE OF THE EARTH
should be governed by international suspicion. law. Peace pledges of the most
arrived at a butcher's shop, and Analysing melcorites is one way solemn kind have formed the back-policy is taken no a whole, it be one pointed to a number of hams which geologists adopt to attempt ground of its education in inter-comes clear that the anti-gas pre-hanging from a large holly to arrive at some decision as to national affaire. It has never cautions are not the innocuous de- branch. "Look, Tom," he said. 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."
mens of some thirty meteorites tries, that international grec at the Disarmament Conference, "Get away," said the other. into emphasis recently during a from different parts of the world. ments provided an ultimate safe 1932, that bombing from the air "'Ams don't grow."
should be retained, Lord London- House of Lords debate on the The conclusion reached is that the guard against war.
"Well, that's all you know rival merits of Capitalism and years of age, and, probably, a great Precautions by this Government of Lords that ho worked netively ly. "Ain't you ever 'card of a 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- Socialism when Lord Allen de deal less. This does not seem a shatters the last hope that law will for that retention and lifs revela-
'ambush?" very conclusive finding, even when prevail and brings war effectively tion that the Air Ministry pre- clared that
Footbrawl practically two-estimated in connection with the nearer, both in our consciousness pared for an expansion of the Air thirds of the large-scale econ-belief that the oldest rocks of the and in reality.
An enthusiastic supporter of It is the culmina- Force, un the assumption that the surface aro 1,500 million tion of the process that has been Disarmament Conference would a football team arrived at the omic organisation
of Great earth's
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 Leagueplans"--all point to one conclu-of bricks there. He approached the club secretary and asked, 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 youre that argument of national necessity." The Government has never retted better?" "revolution," which has taken is only bridged by speculation.' In 1926 at Genova all the Powers on international agreements, hoa "Half-bricka!" exclaimed the the The bigger meteorites are aup-that matter strategically solemnly always believed each State should secretary. "We couldn't build place so quietly that even
Gas Protocol binding rely on its own strength for its people themselves have not yet posed to be a part of the solar signed a fully realised its extent, is not tem. Professor F. A. Panneth, themselves not to use in war "as-defence, and has therefore worked a pavilion with half-bricks."
of the Imperial College of Science | phyxiating, poisonous or other to prevent limitation by agreement in reality, us an American and Technology, South Kensington, gases
justly condemned by of those categories of armaments journal is at pains to point out,points out that it was Lord the general opinion of the civilised it considers essential for the de-
fence of the Empire. as between individualism Rayleigh who was responsible for world."
the idea that the age of the carth's
Part of the Governinent's defenco and socialism; it is a move from rocks could be measured in terms To those who believe that inter-mechanism must necessarily be 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 1 way house between individual-rare gas, helium, 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,
Volcanoes are due to the in- Chater Road.
ism and collectivism. In the 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.
likely that the public would be fernul heat of the earth. Yet the National Government in informed of the Intest inventions Gorilla warfare means up to **233*SSSSSSSSSCSS350 vice was called a "public utility within the rock through millions of
corporation." In transport. in years. Professor Panneth applies ita current publications assumes in gas warfare before war broke their monkey tricks.
the stime method to meteorites. that such international commit-out. Yet the organisation of de-
Switzerland is a very wonder- electric light and power, even inlle 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 milionth of a thimbleful of pure necessity," meaningless.
Government and the Labour Party often see the mountains touring hus been used. There are helium, and can detect its presence The use of poison gas in war Executive, "cannot and should not is the is forbidden by the Geneva Gas be left for emergency organisation,
among the clouds, in even smaller amounts. neither private shareholders norse, however, that even this great Protocol of 1925, to which most, if and when the need arises."
A giraffe needs a long neck 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 rocks. To begin with, it of the world have subscribed," aware of the inadequacy, on this from its body.
A flosure
is a man who sells proceeds from a charter given is assumed that the rocks have, at states the War Office pamphlet score alone, of the defence maca
no stage in their history, lost y "Tactical Notes on Defence against sures against gas that civilians are fish. by the Government and al-of their bellum, 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 scif against the use of gas by any supposing that the suggested "pre- Professor Panneth's apparatus la, Power with which it may be at cautions" have been issued not so appointments are 90 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 Government influence. But it London Morning Pust, is devoted
to the removal of all other gases i is not alone in this sphere that but helium from the samples of
be
His we see marked changes coming gasto
examined. over the industrial and economic final measurement depends on the
slight leakage of heat which 'taken! life of the country. There are place when a minute amount of many realms in which private helium is introduced into what was profit-making is being impinged before a vacuum.
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Policemen are called "peelers" because Sir Robert Peel was the first policeman.
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The Three Estates of the realm are Windsor, Sandring- ham, and Balmoral.
much for the defence of the publle, as to create support for the Gov- erament's rearmament polley.
The National Government do not believe that International agree- ments can be relied upon. They only think in terms of "power polities." -All those who co-operate in the anti-gas "defence" drill tacitly signify their agreement. with the Government's attitude to International commitments.
There are millions of men and women in this country who have, In one form or another, expressed their opposition to war. Some | hava signed pledges of war reals- "tance."Llovet, milion have, by voting for the first question in the Penco Ballot, shown they favour the rule of law in international relations,
The publication of the Govern- ment's Air Raid Precautions affords all theso men and women an opportunity to resist in practical form the triumph of anarchy in the rolations between nations. Those who do not resist now the polley of a Government which has brought upon itself the need for its own rearmament cannot logically with- hold co-operation from all tho con- sequences of a policy of reliance on national self-sufficiency,