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NOTES OF THE DAY!
"PASSING THE BUCK"
There is a famous saying among Americans: "A smart guy, learns to pass the buck." Passing the buck is an ofl game. It is used by the sort of man' who "lets George do it." We do not like that attitude. The other day a promin
was reported
Lord
CARSON:
The great Ulster leader,
STUDEBAKERent Persons is that Great Britain in his card stereo Strength,
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and the League of Nations take
eome such action against Japan as only last month made has been taken against Italy-or a remarkable recovery which is being prepared by the
at from bronchial pneumo-
multitude of committees
Geneva, More than once Ameri-
China by Japan. Had the League
cans have asserted that the Lengue nia, died yesterday from was to blame for the Manchurian chronic leukaemia, fol- episode and the conquest of North
lowing a sudden relapse. This tribute to his many-sided greatness is by his life-long friend.
acted, they argue, it might have stopped Japan. A League war against the Japanese people might have been welcomed in the United States and applauded as a fine show of League morality and the high-i mindedness of nations, but for the Buggestion to come from Ameri- cans, who themselves would bear no part of the cost of such an en- terprise, seems rather out of place. Similarly, the suggestion that the League, even at this late date, adopt some
sanctions sort of against Japan both as a punish- ment for past sins in China and to discourage any future aggressive aetk, when uttered in New York, smacks too much of that "passing the buck" trick. It will be time enough for Americans to advise the League in its work in preserving the peace of the world when Americans themselves are pulling an oar at Geneva,
RIDING A HIGH HORSE
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Signor Mussolini, that great anti- Liberal, rides the high horse again. He is willing to negotiate with a view to ending the war in East Africa, but only providing Great Britain removes her fleet from the Mediterranean, ceases to take the role of aggressive leadership at Geneva, and delays the applica- tion of sanctions. In other words, when the League of Nations takes orders from 11 Duce, he is prepared to tell them on what terms be will
WEDNESDAY, OCT. 23, 1985,
HONGKONG'S NEW GOVERNOR Speculation as to who will Peol as Sir William succeed Governor of Hongkong is now set at rest by the appointment of Sir Andrew Caldecott. negotiations, since neither Grent From
high reputation Britain or Italy wants to appear Britain which
to be "backing down.” doesn't want to move her fleet until
the
the
new
Governor
call off hostilities in Ethiopia.
Press despatches tell us that there are diflculties in the way
of
has established in Malaya, the Mussolint has moved his troops out Colony can consider itself ex of Libya, where they have been re- tremely fortunate in the choice portedly concentrating within strik- made. Sir Andrew's name hud ing distance of the Egyptian front- been. frequently mentioned for ier. Mussolini, of course, won't do
until Britain the post, but the somewhat anything prolonged delay in the making her fleet and does those other things would like, of the appointment gave rise to the Italian Dictator
This is what is commonly known to as "an impaɛɛɛ.” Un- which was that
Hongkong diplomats might have a military man as fortunately it is nothing new in
international affairs, its next Governor. It is an in-
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Y noble and learned from one side of the House and MY
friend Lord Carson, we tumultuous cheers from the other side, with the words "My may be very sure, was not a place is in Ulster," and mar party question. On the ched out behind the Speaker's contrary, he was a national chair. and Imperial possession.
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"The furthest limit of concession has been reached"Further converan- tions are likely.
"Despite the uncompromising form of the reply"The door is still ujar. "With certain reservations and con- ditional apon reassurances" No; np your life.
"Negotiations may be opened" It is still quiet on the Ogaden front.
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"DON'T you think, dear," said the young wife, "that I've put too much salt in the soup?"
"Not at all, darling," replied. the
husband. There is, perhaps, not quite enough soup for the sall, that's
411,"
Many of us thought that he The whole world of the was well on his way to guol.
Not many weeks afterwards, law, and many of the per- on the day following one of his sons who (although they vehement speeches on the plat-A have not yet been in prison) form, I had the temerity to say
THE Abyasinian crisis has become tend to regard law and to him in the Lobby that I rather wondered how he could lawyers with uncharitable- permit himself to make such a so much involved by incessant ness, or even hatred, ad- speech. "You forget," he said, vicissitudes, that we are all at to be bewildered by the diplomatic Jargon mired his fortitude in that for some years I have been in which events are recorded.
For the benefit, therefore, of those his fighting
recent illness. sitting opposite to your friend It is easy
to forget that (naming him) on the Treasury who may be a little puzzled by what call crisis phraseology, 1 I might bic alarmed. in February last he reached Bruch. Don't
append a few diplomatic definitions:- And
"The terms are unacceptable"-The (according to the mere com- Nothing will happen."
door is not yet closed, of the putation
calendar) nothing did happen." birthday. his cighty-first
Some months later, on the hope I do not disclose a Cabinet day when he resigned office as secret if I say that of his sixty Attorney-General and a Cabinet in the Coalition fifth birthday he remarked to Minister me, "This is the happiest birth- Government of 1915, he took me day I have known." Perhaps apart and told me what he had others, in consimili casu, moves
may done and why. This is not the have repeated the remark. time to recall the grim nar- It is Lord Carson's habit to rative. It is enough to say that say that he "died" when he left he would not share for another the Bar and the House of Com- day the responsibility for ધ્ર method -of procrastination mons-putting those attractive institutions in that order. For which, he was convinced, could some years he has hovered like lead only to failure in the war. an eagle-above--the-storms-of
Was Lord Carson
in the And those are legion anarchy. (for they are many) who will House of Commons for thirty never forget his pluck, frank- years (1892 to 1921). But he ness, generosity, loyalty, and became an Irish "silk" in 1889, Kindness--that tender heart, and an English "silk" in 1894. that y
For many years before he be-. invincible wit.
came-n-Lord of Appeal in 1921 Tis fifty-four years since he had been by far the best
Benjamin Jowett, preaching advocate at the Bar. in Balliol College Chapel on not to say that the rest also But he (like Homer) Ignatius Loyola, added a post- ran." script on Disraeli, who had just was in a class by himself. died. "Among the statesmen A troublesome state of health of his day," said the Master of prevented him from doing Balliol, he had that quality more than one case at one time.
to that case
he devoted which, upon the whole, seems of But all others the most necessary in himself, from the first moment politics-strength. And though to the last, with unsurpassed speed, directness, in that personality, there was neumen, something upon which men did clearness, and (when the occa- uot venture to intrude, there sion arose) eloquence. were also the gentlest and most
(and here is n He avoided loyal feelings towards those to
the im-JHAT would I got," inquired the whom he was bound by any ties lesson for my brilliant friends
W man who had just insured his of gratitude, to a few friends of the long robe)
80 often whom he grappled to himself pression which with hooks of steel. To young produced upon the minds of property against tire, "if this building jurors, and even of judges, by men, especially, his career has a peculiar interest. For there the fitful departure of learned was perkapa no man who had counsel to attend to something
entertaining (or greater tenacity of purpose, or who more clearly foresaw from lucrative) in another court, the beginning of his life the end
THERE is a pleasant story of
been found the appressor by the League of Nations we take the view that Mussolini has no authority to dictate terms to Geneva or London or to anyone else. Having ad- mittedly
faunted the Leggur Covenant, being literally "an out- law nation," Italy is in the posi tion of the man in the dock who tries to interpret the law to his judges. The altitude seems un- reasonable from our point of view, but it is, of course, the natural out- the Fascist teachings. come of We hold that the British action in
more
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That is
more
N old scavenger was callad in by An minister to clean out his cellng, Amongst the rubbish were several whisky hottles.
While he was lifting up the Inter the sevenger took a good look at each one to see if there was any liquid left. "Ah, John,"-aid-the-minister, wha had slipped into the cellar, "these are all dead oues."
"Awael," replied John, "they a' had a minister wi' then when they dee'd!"
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BOBBY asked so many questions
that finally his mother's patience cave out and he was packed off to bed. Later his mother repented. She tiptoed upstairs, knelt beside his bed, and told him she was very sorry,
"Now, dear," she said, "if you want to ask one more question before you go to sleep, ask it now, and I'll try to Bobbie thought deeply for a moment, then said:"Mother, how far can a cat spit?"
answer.
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the
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should burn down to-night?"
"I would say," replied the in
suranee-agent, "about ten years."
*
Governor, like his immediate predecessor, comes to us from Malaya, where, again as in the case of Sir William Peel prior to his transfer to Hongkong, he has spent the whole of his That service ADA Colonial service.
has extended over a period of nearly thirty years; not that Sir Andrew is an old man-he is, in fact, in his prime at fifty | years of age, and is known to be a man of boundless physical and mental energy. Apart from his administrative talents, which
of a high order, he has sending warships to the Mediter shown his versatility in many rancan is not only rendily justified walks of life, as a recapitulation under the League Covenant, but of his favourite recreations would have been essential in any shows-golf, tennis, music, event in view of the need of pre- writing and painting, Sir cautionary measures to protect the Andrew is, indeed, a cultured Empire. If Italy is going to use
This but very "human" man.
force to extend her rulo, Britain much is apparent from the must be prepared to defend what description of him by a Straits is hers with all her strength. Had there been no League of Nations "liked
the British fleet would have gone trusted by all classes and com
to the danger points in the Medi- munities,"
"the possessing rarest of administrative com- might inve
terranean in any event, and Italy had some cause to binations-a fine brain, grumble. But since the Navy may matured judgment, and the be called upon to act on behalf of human touch: and the last- the League, preparedness in the named is, perhaps, the most im- Great Sea becomes doubly import- portant of all." From this re- nut, and can be anderstood more cital of his chief characteristics, readily. The fact is that Italy based on observations over an
has refused all offers of arbitration extended period, it is apparent
and conciliation and has brought
900. upon her own head the respon- that Sir Andrew Caldecott is sibility for defensive moves by ideally suited for the post of
League powers. Governor of this Colony. His friends speak of him as "a good mixerone who is at home ber that he has held high office amongst all sections of the com- in Malaya during a period of munity, one who, whilst up- unexampled depression and that holding the dignity of office, yet he has played no small part in likes nothing better than in- the measures formal gatherings at which he brought the F.M.S. so success- can for the time being forget fully through its financial and his official status and mix freely economic troubles. In extend- to Sir with kindred souls.
Of his ing congratulations ability all who have come into Andrew on his well-deserved contact with him are loud in promotion, and in assuring him their praises, and it may not be of a cordial welcome to these
CHE had been sitting contemplating out of place to observe that Sir shores, we can but echo the hope
the fire for several minutes. administration Willian Peel, who knew him that his
your thoughts, "A penny for intimately for many years, ex- Hongkong will be marked by a
has been thrilled by the spark Maggie her husband said playfully. Iwne just thinking, Sandy, whe pressed the view, before he left repetition of his experience in One evening in the House of and the sparkle of his cross-returned seriously: "that if yo ware to Hongkong, that the Colony the Colony from which he
Commons when the question of would indeed bo fortunato if comes, in that both he and the
Ireland (the only public ques examination is well aware. It Sir Andrew were given the post, community at large may to-
tion, I think, upon which he and is pleasant to remember that in The now Governor will come together be able to rejoice in the Colony a moment when the passing of the dark cloud which I did not agree) was almost. at his later years, at any rate, he Colony is still in the doldrums. at present hangs over the bolling-point, he wound up a had with good reason been
typical speech; amid execration happy. But it is comforting to remem business life of Hongkong.
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Having forgotten to notify the birth of his son, he received a letter from the local registrar, which began:- Dear Sir,-It appears that a child.
been born at your address. He replied:
of it."
Change the name, and the This is unofficial lu- words are spoken of Lord Car- terpreter, in Switzerland, be inquiries, and I find that there is some
He might have been Prime tween some French persons who Minister, but he remained faith- knew little English and some ful to the law. He might have English persons who knew little been all things to all men, but French. One of the French he remained faithful to Ulster, ladies asked him at the close One might say of him what "what language the strangers somebody it does not matter apoke."
who has said of another: the "They speak English," he an- man who knows no cause but swered.
"But what are You?" self bows in unconscious hom- ago before the man who knows asked. no self but his cause.'
When I think over the past forty-three years, the figure of Lord Carson appears in many mention only scenes. Let me three.
"Dear Sir, I have made exhaustive
basis for your assertion,"
He then received a summons.
AN artist saw an old yokel who, he thought, would make a good
In the man to paint him. model. So he sent his maid to bring
The old fellow hesitated. "Will he pay me well?"
"Oh, yes. He'll probably give you n pound,'
Still the old man hesitated, pcratch- she's an easy way to earn a pound," his head in perplexity,
prompted.
Eni
"Oh," he replied, "I Irish."
"Really," she said, "and yet you seem to understand."
Yes, he did indeed seem to understand, as everybody who
the maid
"Oh, I know that," came the reply. "I was only wondering how I'd get the palat off afterwards,"
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