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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 old 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 ent person was reported in New
OCTOBER 23, 1935.
Lord
CARSON:
The great Ulster leader,
STUDEBAKER York as urging that Great Britain in his 82nd year, who
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and the League of Nations take some such action against Japan' us has been taken against Italy-or which in being prepared by the committees at
of
multitude Geneva. More than once Ameri- cans have asserted that the League
was to blame for the Manchurian episodo and the conquest of North
China by Japan. Had the Lengue
arted, they argue, it might have stopped Japan. A League war
against the Japanese people might
have been welcomed in the United
only last month made a remarkable recovery from bronchial pneumo- nia, died yesterday from chronic leukaemia, fol lowing a sudden relapse.
This tribute to his
many-sided greatness is
States and applauded as a fine show by his life-long friend
of League morality and the high- mindedness of nations, but for the suggestion to come from Ameri cans, who themselves would beur no part of the cost of such an en- terprise, seems rather out of place. Similarly, the suggestion that the Lengue, even at this late date, adopt some Sturt of sanctions against Japan both as a punish- ment for past sins in China and to discourage any future aggressive acts, when uttered in New York. smacks too
much
that of "passing the buck" trick. It will be time enough for Americans fo advise the League in its work in
when Americans themselves are pulling an oar at Gencya.
Strength,
Courage,
Devotion
The Rt. Hon.
Lord HEWART
་
of Bury
preserving the peace of the world MY noble and learned from one side of the House and cheers from the friend Lord Carson, we tumultuous
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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| RIDING A HIGH HORSE
Signor Mussolini, that great anti-
Liberal, rides the high hurse 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, comes to take the role of aggressive leadership at Geneva, and delays the applicn- tion of sanctions. In other words,
It
The Very Idea!
STUFF & NONSENSE
A Few More Old 'Uns From Eddie's Scrapbook
so much involved by incessant THE Abyssinian crisis has become vicissitudes, that we are all apt to bo bowildered by the diplomatie jargon in which events are recorded.
of those For the benefit, what who may be a little
I might call crisis phraseology, 1 and a few diplomatic definitions;
terms are unacceptable"The door
is not yet closed.
Many of us thought that he The whole world of the was well on his way to gaol.
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- WEDNESDAY, Oct. 23, 19:15.
have not yet been in prison) form, I had the temerity to say. him in the Lobby that I HONGKONG'S NEW
tend to regard law and to
GOVERNOR
lawyers with uncharitable- rather wondered how he could permit himself to make such a when the League of Nations takes
ness, or even hatred, ad- speech. "You forget," he said, orders from If Duce, he is prepared
fortitude in that for some years I have been Speculation as to who will
to tell them on what terms he will mired his hig Peel as succeed Sir William
call ur hostilities in Ethiopia. fighting
recent illness. sitting opposite to your friend Press despatches tell us that there: is Governor of Hongkong is now
easy to forget that (naming him) on the Treasury Don't be alarmed. set at rest by the appointment are difficulties in the way of
in February last he reached Bench.
com Nothing will happen." And of Sir Andrew Caldecott. negotiations, since neither Great
(according to the mere
of the calendar) nothing did happen." From the
reputation Britain nor Italy wants to appear putation high
to be "backing down." Britain which the
birthday. I his Governor
eighty-first
Some months later, on the has established in Malaya, the doesn't want to move her fleet until
hope I do not disclose a Cabinet day when he resigned office as Mussolini has moved his troops out
sceret if I say that of his sixty- Attorney-General and a Cabinet Colony can consider itself ex of Libya, where they have been re-
the Coalition tremely fortunate in the choice portedly concentrating within strik fifth birthday he remarked to Minister in
me, "This is the happiest birth- Government of 1915, he took me made. Sir Andrew's name had ng distance of the Egyptian front- been frequently mentioned for ier. Mussolini, of course, won't do day I have known? Perhaps apart and told me what he had the post, but the somewhat anything until Britain moves others, in consimili casu, may done and why. This is not the time to recall the grim nar- prolonged delay in the making her fleet and does those other things have repeated the remark,
Dictator would like. It is Lord Carson's habit to rative. It is enough to say that of the appointment gave rise to the Italian
say that he died" when he left he would not share for another "DON
"DON'T you think, dear," said the of This is what is commonly known to numerous rumours, 'one
diplomats
Un- as an imp84.** which
the Bar and the House of Com- day the responsibility for much salt in the soup?" Hongkong was that
fortunately it is nothing new in
mons-putting those attractive method might have a military man as
procrastination international affairs. its next Governor It-is-an-in-
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 anarchy.
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In view of the fact that Italy has
been found the aggressor by the League of Nations we take the view that Mussolini has no authority to
dictate terms to Geneva or London. r to anyone else. Having ad- mittedly
naunted the League Covenant, heing literally "an out. inw nation," Italy is in the post-i tion of the man in the dock who tries to interpret the law to his judges. The atitude seems un- reasonable from Bar point of view, but it is, of course, the natural out-
one of
the Fiacist teachings. We hold that the British action in
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 llongkong, he has spent the whole of his | Colonint service.
That 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 are of a high order, he has sending warships to the Mediter shown his versatility in many ranean is not only readily justifled 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 but very human" man..
This force to extend her ule, 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 paper-a
there been no League of Nations "liked TATY
anci trusted by all classes and com-
the British fleet would have gone munities,"
to the dunger points in the Medi- possessing "the rarest of administrative com- might have had some
terranean in any event, and Italy cause to binations-a fine brain, #grumble. But since the Navy may matured judgment, and the be called upon to net on behalf of human touch: and the Inst the League, preparedness in the named is, perhaps, the most im- Great Sea becomes doubly import- portant of all." From this re-ant, and can be understood 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 upon her own head the respon- that Sir Andrew Caldecott is sibility for defensive moves by ideally suited for the post of Lengue powers. Governor of this Colony. His friends speak of him as "a good mixer"one 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 oflice, yet he has played no small part in measures which have likes nothing better than in-the 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
on his well-deserved ability all who have come. into Andrew contact with him are loud in promotion, and in assuring him to these their praises, and it may not be of a cordial welcome out of place to observe that Sir shores, we can but echo the hope William Peel, who knew him that his. administration in intimately for many years, ex- Hongkong will be marked by a pressed the view, before he left repetition of his experience in Hongkong, that the Colony the Colony from which he would indeed be fortunate if comes, in that both he and the Sir Andrew were given the post, community at large may to The new Governor will come together be able to rejoice in the us at a moment when the passing of the dark cloud which Colony is at in the doldrums. at present hangs over the But it is comforting to remem- business life of Hongkong.
And those are legion
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*
of
Lord Carson WIR in the
(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, kinduess-that tender heart, and an English "silk" in 1894. that gay, invincible wit.
For many years before he be- came a Lord of Appeal in 1921 TT is fifty-four years since he had been by far the best That is 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,
A troublesome state of health died. "Among the statesmen
him from of his day," anid the Master of prevented
doing Balliol, he had that quality more than one case at one time. which, upon the whole, secma of But to that case he devoted all others the most necessary in himself, from the first moment politics-strength. And though to the lust, with unsurpassed
speed, in that personality there was acumen,
directness, something upon which men did clearness, and (when the ocea not venture to intrude, there sion arose) eloquence. were also the gentlest and most He avoided (and here is a toyal feelings towards those to whom he was bound by any ties lesson for my brilliant friends of gratitude, to a few friends of the long robe) the im- whom he grappled to himself pression
produced upon the minds of with hooks of steel. To young jurors, and even of judges, by men, especially, his career has a
the the fitful departure of learned peculiar interest. For was perhaps no man who had counsel to attend to something (or more greater tenacity of purpose, or more ontertaining who more clearly foresaw from lucrative) in another court. the beginning of his life the end
which is 90
+
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often
"The furthest limit of concession has been reached" Further conversa. tions are likely.
"Despite the uncompromising form of the reply"The door is still afar. "With certain reservations and con- ditional upon reassurances" Not on your life.
"Negotiations may be opened"=It
is still quiet on the Ogaden front.
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young wife, that I've put too "Not at all, darling," replied the husband. "There is, perhaps, not quite enough soup for the sall, that's,
54
AN old saveuger was called in by
a minister to clean out his cellar. Amongst the rubbish were several whisky bottles.
the
While he was lifting up the aller scavenger took a good look at each one to see if there was any liquid left. "Ah, John," said the minister, who had slipped into the cellar, "these are all dead ones.'
"Aweel," replied John, "they n' had
1
a minister w them when they dee'd!"
#
骨
many questionя BOBBY asked so
that finally his mother's patience gave out and he was packed off to bed. Later his mother repented. She tiptped upstairs, knelt beside his bed, and told him she was very sorry,
"Now, dear," she said, "if you want to ask one mure question before you go to sleep, ask it now, and I'll try to answer,'
Bebbie thought deeply for a moment, then said: "Mother, how far can à cat spit?"
4
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man who had just insured his "WAT would I get," inquired the property against fire, "if this building should burn down to-night?"
"I would say," replied the surance-ngent, "about ten years."
.*
*
-
Having forgotten, to notify tho birth of his son, he received a letter from the local registrar, which began: "Dear Sir.-It appears that a child
has been born at your address.
replied:
He
of it."
Change the name, and the Titans unofficial in- THERE is a pleasant story of
"Dear Sir, I have made exhaustive words are spoken of Lord Car-
terpreter, in Switzerland, be-inquiries, and I find that there is some
basis for 8011.
tween some French persons who He then received a summons, He might have been Prime knew little English and some Minister, but he remained faith-
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. Indies asked him at the close One might say of him what "what language the strangers somebody-it does not matter spoke." who has said of another: the, "They speak English," he an- man who knows no cause but 'swered. self bows in unconscious hom-
"But what are you?" she age before the man who knows asked. no self but his cause.
.
am
your assertion."
"
thought, would make a good Artist saw an old yokel who, he model. So he sent his maid to bring in the man to paint him. The old fellow hesitated, "Will he pay me well?" "Oh,
a pound. He'll probably give you
Still the old man hesitated, scratch- Ing his head in perplexity.
"It's an easy way to earn a pound," the maid prompted.
"Oh, I know that," came the reply. "I was only wondering how I'd got the paint off afterwards."
had been sitting contemplating the fire for several minutes, ΠΑ penny for your thoughts: Margle," her husband said playfully. I was just thinking, Sandy," shu
die, I wad go and live at Portobello."
"Oh,"
he replied, "I When I think over the past
Irish." forty-three years, the figure of
"Really," she said, "and yet Lord Carson appears in many scenes. Let me mention only you seem to understand."
Yes, he did indeed seem to three.
understand, as averybody who has been thrilled by the spark Commons when the question of und the sparkle of his cross returned seriously, "that if yo were to Ireland (the only public ques- examination is well aware, tion, I think, upon which he and is pleasant to remember that in I did not agree) was almost at his later years; at any rate, he bolling-point, he wound up a had with good reason been typical speech, amid execration happy.
Ono, evening in the House of
It
MR
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MRS. BROWN:-"I seo that a woman has just cremated her fourth husband."
(Continued on Pago 5.)