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JAPAN LEADS THE WAY
How many times have you heard people say: "The news reel is the beat part of the programme. I could see more of that."? Pretty aften, we should judge, if you are one who listens to the comment. of theatre-goers, as they wander to- awards the exits. So often we have
OCTOBER
· 1935..
AWAY with the LEAGUE
by Brampton
Fellowes
THE League of Nations
was devised after the last war to make new wars impossible.
spoken with people, particularly men, who have sat alertly watch- ing the news reel, or grinning at Mickey Mouse or Walt Disney's coloured symphonion, but who squirm uncomfortably, through It was proved unable to portrayals of life as it is supposed prevent war in the Far East to be lived in America's het between Japan and China spota" or among tho Four Hundred. And wo have sym- and in-South America be- pathised with them. Apparently tween Bolivia and Para Japanese people feel the same way we do about the nows reels and guay. the "shorts" of the cinema pro- PECIAL arrangements extend-grammes. They like them best. Sd to the motorist going on
So an enterprising gentleman in home furlough for delivery in Tokyo is building a theatre to seat London and use at Home and 150 and is showing news reels and subsequent re-delivery in Hong- difficulty will be to get enough
"shorts": exclusively. The kong at above landed prices...
news reels to fill out the program Deferred terms-Repurchase-
to a worth-while length. Or
£325
only
nor
Neither powerful major States
wenk minor States have been curbed by it.
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by television, at the expense of the daily newspaper? Such a thing is not incredible,
|
To-day it has brought Europe to the very brink of another con- flict beside which the historians
find the war of 1914-18 but a trivial prelude to the Armageddon,
real
of
NATIONS!
Abyssinian Slaves' in WHAT has followed? Let us take the evidence of Lady THE League was intended to be Simon, wife of Sir John Simon, n banding together of all in her recent book on slavery. nations to keep the
commant She says: peace and to penalise the isolated aggressor.
Japan, Germany, and several small nations have contemptu- ously left it. The United States was
member. Italy may be driven to sever herself from it...
never
That coercion would monn war; and mo dorn war fought with modern armaments would mean the utter ruin of our country.
The prospect of being dragged. to destruction
real
at the tail of a Leagus that has shed Ell authority may well alarm: the British people.
Every were that prospect remote--and it is not remote-- the Govern- ment muxt realise the harm which the at- tachment la do- ing. -Already recruitment for our. forcer is difficult. Neither navy nor army is up to strength.
Chains. `
What young man is going to enlist if he feels that he will be sacrificed in quarrels with which his country has NO genuine concern.
It is admitted that slavery exists everywhere in the coun- try; indeed, it is openly ag- serted that the whole economic
To defend the interests of structure of the country re- poscs on slave-owning.
Britain is one thing-to be used There is one drawback in deal. as a kind of underpaid mer- ing with slavery in Abyssinia cenary to defend small and -namely, that probably the squabblesome States from the most authoritative document consequences of their own arrog- in the whole subject is with ance and folly is a very different held from the public.
thing.
increases. This question of a possible deficit —indeed, the whole structure of the Colony's finances-depends on exchange, and it is surprising that whilst many references were made to this subject, and to the baneful effects of a high dollar on the trade of the Colony, no mention whatever was made of the de- sirability of stabilisation, al though Mr. Braga did urge that In short, the League of Na- Sir Frederick Leith-Ross should | tions is not the League of FANTHAM. On 3rd October 1936 at Colony. On the matter of the tion of some nations, with small, be invited to pay a visit to the Nations. It is merely a collec Priors Nursing Home, Royal Leamington Sph. To Gwendolen, Colony maintaining a surplus mischief-making States pre- wife of Henry H. Fantham, balance of ten million dollars, dominating. daughter.
Mr. Kotewall's criticisms were much to the point, summed up, as they were in the apt epigram- matic remark that "a reserve which is eternally inviolate is a useless excrescence." Sir Henry. Pollock, in his refreshingly out-
It does not mend quarrels or guess, apokon utterance, reminiscent of solve problems; it aggravates other days, raised an interesting disputes and converts minor
More than ten years ago the point when he contended that issues into great complications. League was officially aware of the procedure by which the It does not offer international the barbarities of Abyssinia. Those things which it should Secretary of State had "sane justice; it seeme to seek to It took no steps to quell them. not have done such ag en- tioned" a plan for possible in-perpetuate international in- It showed for this small primi- dangering world peace-it has
The
Thongkong Telegraph.
FRIDAY, OCT. 4, 1935.
THE BUDGET DEBATE
for
· That document Is a memoran- The one is glorious, the other
A body so unrepresentative dum prepared for the League of degrading. and no provenly weak cannot be Nations over ten years ago by other than a danger to world peace.
Lord Lugard. Lady Simon AGAINST Geneva the indict-
It does not conciliate; it wonders why it was withheld
infuriates.
from the public. One may
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The
ment is heavy.
Those things which the League should have done-like the readjustment of possessions to populations-it has not done.
done.
tive State a tenderness hard to
Those things which its makers explain.
hoped it would do-like the pre- OF this last statement let us
But when Italy, which proof. one
has.vention or stopping of wars—it tried to exert what force it has lost patience, the League im- League of Nations has so far suffered from those barbarities, has failed to do.
to keep the nations static.
mediately became an instrument Mischievous in its inaction,
take
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t
the world's patently
menace to peace,
Away with it!
worst
The Very Idea!
Unofficial members of the
creases in taxation and reduction equities. Legislative Council had their of Government salaries if the field-day yesterday, when they Unofficials being in any way con- necessity arises, without the set forth their views on
the sulted, Government's Budget plans The Government reply served was unconstitutional the coming year. Despite obvi- to some extent to clear up the ous objections to the method of
matter. It would appear that
In a world where certain for dragging all its members and dangerous in its action, it is getting the whole of the Unoffi-reconcile itself to salary cuts with territorial and economic
the Government was disposed to nations have glutted themselves into alignment against Italy! cial speeches and the official without any queston of more possessions and others, by the replies thereto compressed into taxation, but that the Secretary misfortunes of war or the acci- FOR some reason the senti ono-afternoon,-traditional-prac-of-State-advised that the dent of chronology, have been mentalists-regard-Abyssin- tice is still followed in this possibility of extra taxation left with growing populations ians as a harmless, nomadie respect, with the result that the Budget speech, on the principle has not attempted any more
should be mentioned in the and no possessiors, the League people wanfanly attacked. criticisms offered naturally lose of equalising the sacrifices. On equitable distribution. much of their force and value. general lines, the principle is a Moreover, the fact that the sound one, but it would be of Government gets a sight of the interest to know whether the Unofficial speeches beforehand Secretary of State realised that the community has already and prepares its answers accord-borne, and is still bearing, the ingly, coupled with the disposi- cost of increased Government tion shown by the Unofficials not salaries. It is this fact which to press their contentions to a
lies behind the Unofficial de- When Abyssinia became a After ten and more years of mand, a demand which would member of the League it was inertia in the face of the known rectify the present inequitable on the understanding that the atrocities, the League must now position under which the com- barbarities of slavery would he try to coerce the one nation strict insistence upon implicit munity bears an unfair pro- ended, that barbarism would try which refuses any longer to obedience, met a soldier carrying a
tolerate Abyssinian outrages. portion of the burden. Whether to achieve civilisation.
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division, serves to make Budget debates somewhat of a farce. As the Legislative Council is the Colony's counterpart of
the Home Parliament, it is difficult the action of the Government in this matter was unconstitu- to understand why parliamen- tional or not, the impression tary practice cannot be more cannot be escaped that there is closely followed, thus ensuring a rather too much reference to, | more detailed examination of the or intervention by, the Secretary Government proposals and the of State in the affairs of the Colony. There is reason to reactions of the public's re believe that the policy of retain presentatives thereto. Chief amongst the Unofficial criticisms million dollars is an instruction ing a surplus balance of "ten this year is the demand that no extra taxation be imposed dur- from the Colonial Office, and oven in such 赫 relatively ing the coming year, in the event trivial matter as the decreased of circumstances bringing about grant to the Travel Association, any considerable deficit in the the Colonial Office must perforce Colony's finances. It 18 con-intervene. This Colony has been tended-and the argument is in existence for close on cogently put that any such hundred years; surely it is time deficit should be met by decreas- we were taken off the leading ing exponditure, notably by cut- strings and a greater meaure of ting Government salaries, the responsibility either vested in increased level of which since or assumed by the men on the 1931 is still being paid for in spot. To revert to Our орел- taxes especially imposed for the ing remarks, greater public ser- purpose. The Government reply vice would be rendered by our on this point rather side- Unofficials, if they pressed their stepped the issue, merely stating views to a division on mattera that it was impossible to at- on which they feel strongly, tempt to foretell the principle rather than to content them- upon which any system of selves with the expression of salary cuts, if such become pious hopes. Admittedly, the necessary, might have to be Officials always have the whip based. The Unofficials were not hand by reason of their major- asking for any statement of ity, but in times past the Goy- principle in this matter; they ernment has been known to merely demanded that Inasmuch yield to solid Unofficial pressure, as the community is already and it is conceivable that even paying for the increased salaries the Secretary of State-might- which have been in force since take note of the united views of 1981, any further burdens should: the public's representatives on be borne by those enjoying the the Council..
The truth is very different. "The completeness of destruc- It has not even achieved the tion by Abyssinian slave-raiders amicable lowering of national is the completeness of the locust, barriers. It has kept the "have but more cruel," Lady Simon nots" without possessions and has written, commenting on the has then tried to make
them horrifying accounts ofcially appear the instigators of a new published in a British White war when they have asked for Book, by Major Durnley. room.
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"Can anybody tell me how Salesman Sam made out to-day, before he was cut into a paper doll ?".
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MORE OLD ONES
But A Joke's A Joke
For All That
Clipped By Kelly
A certain major known for his.
steaming kettle from the cook- house.
"Here, you," he ordered, "let me taste that."
"But, sir, it isn't-"
"Don't give me any 'buts.'. Get a spoon!"
"Very good, sir.”
The soldier doubled back to the cookhouse and fetched one.
The major helped himself to a spoonful of "the" liquid and Im- mediately sput it out.
"You don't call that soup, do you?" ho roared:
"No, sir. That's what I was try- Ing to tell you. It's disinfectant, sir."
Too Many, Z's
Mother: "You are at, the foot of the spelling class again, are you?"
Boy: "Yes'm."
Mother: "How did that hap pen?"
Boy: "Got too many z's aciasors."
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What They Say
"He may have a greasy hat, and the seat of his trousers may be shiny, and the banker may not be. very well acquainted with his signa ture, but if you see his children.. with their noses lattened against the window pane, watching for -him-a-half-hour-before-ho-is-dua- home for suppor, you can go, right ahead and trust him with anything, you have."--Louis Allin: