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its reaching any constructive agree- -ments. In the first place, Grent Britain has awakened to the neceя- Bity of increasing her naval and nir arms, not only because of the tension in Europe and the danger of clash with Italy on behalf of the League. but because of the rush of other powers to fortify their frontiers, protect their consta and multiply their armies. The increasing imperialistic tendency among certain peoples inevitably murohes with banners and drums an a show of armed force, and whether the banner carries a swastika, the Roman lictors or the red hammer and sickle, the menace to peace remains. Britain. 23 21 strong advocate of collective CD- forcement of peace and a pillar of strength at Geneva, must be pre- pared to defend the principles of the League Covenant with all the force at her command. Her own future depends upon the mainten- ance of the League Covenant. And to Britain, a powerful navy is more important now than ever before in her history. It is us necessary as upon that day when the Grent Armadi was sighted by the sen scouts of Drake's fleet; yes, more no. At the same time there is feverish activity in the shipyards of other nations: France,
BRITISH
Colonies-
and ITALIAN?
MALTA: KET TO BRITISH POWER IN THE MEDIT ERRANEAN,
TIKE
The Malis Naval Ban Occupira a Position of Great Importance in the European Political Line-Up. Here in the Grand Harbour of Valetta Ships of War Usually Are Anchored, and the Rhore Promenades Are Filled With Hallor. The City Wan Built at the Request of La Valeite, Grand Master of Malia, After the Great Siege of the Place by the Turka In 1545, and Was Named After Him. It la Considered to Hare the finest Example Extant of the Vauban Portifications.
Germany and Italy at The United H may feel about the move- are down LJOWEVER pessimistic one
States and Japan, the former already Britain's equal in naval ment for international peace. strength, according to statistics, which has engaged so much at- are carrying out programmes for tention and sympathy during the additional naval construction. The postwar period, the challenge of whole picture is shadowed by fenr Signor Mussolini to Geneva, and and jealousy and rivalry. And to to European powers that would make it harder, America in send-restrain him in his military ad- ing Admiral Standley, one of the venture it in Ethiopia, pays an most exacting of the "Big Navy" advocates, in charge of lier defe- unconscious tribute to the public There may gation to the London conference opinion which he professes to
be agreements. for ignore. limitation of a sort; indeed, there must be if we are to avoid panic, But we doubt if Britain' is going to rest content with the same sort of security the Washington and London naval treaties gave her. It is time for British sea dogs to
howl opponents 'down.
By
Walter
Alleyne
IRELAND
"Buy the spices, the gums, the silks, the sugar, the copra, the ten, the coffee, the rare woods which the natives have to sell, pay for them with your trade goods if possible, with money if necessary, load them on your ships and bring then back to the home ports, avoiding every resort to arms," such was the sum and substance of the over- seas.commercial policy of Bog- land and of Holland.
How, then, did it come about that Holland finds herself in the Malay Archipelago, that Grent
of *ench'
Asia
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case
PARENTS AND TEACHERS Appeals by heads of schools for co-operation on the part of parents frequently figure at
The claim that Italy is doing annual prize-giving ceremonics.
no more and no less than the great colonial nations, The Rev. G. E. S. Upsdell, Head
especially England, have done in slightest knowledge of history the Malay Peninsula, in
und It requires no more than the Britain finds herself in India, in master of the Central British
the past is an effort to justify to prove the case against Signor in Africa? Though the details School, spoke in that vein on
Italy's present policies by an Mussolini by reference to the Thursday, and his words are
appeal to those very principles circumstance that a new inter- broad answer worthy of note by all parents
of political life which one might national regime came into exis- that local conditions who wish to see their children "HOW LONG, OH LORD?"
expect a Fuscist philosophy to tence after the World War, as disregard in a time of crisis- far as the formal and binding arose, which placed the traders secure the maximum benefits of
Those who pretend to know namely, the fundamental beliefs obligations of treaties were con- between the horns of a dilemma. the educational process."
Two maintain that the League annctions of the democratic peoples. In cerned. Italy, as if co-signatory At whatever point we take up points were touched upon the "gainst Italy will not be felt to his attempt to win support, or of the two great instruments of the story-at Calcutta, at Bom
any extent for another year need of attention to home work. if then. In the first place to be other countries, Signor Musso- away her right to resort to war
at least to weaken opposition in pacific settlement, has signed by, at Singapore, at Hong- kong, at Batavia, at Cape and regular attendance at school. successful the sanctions must be mi has drawn a parallel be as an instrument of her ow
Town, at Rangoon, on the We have often thought that far universal. Were League members
tween his own present action unconditioned will. This argu- Nile, the Ganges, the Niger, too much home work is required the only nations to be considered, and those historic events which ment is familiar to everyone; as the Mekong the issue for the
all might be well. Unfortunately, of children in the secondary the attitude of neutrals, powers
have served to spread through to the illegality of the enterprise, trader became, sooner or Inter. outside the League, and powers out the world the culture and upon which Signor Mussolini that of giving up the trade and schools at Home, but Mr. Up-sale the League but friendly, to the social institutions of Europe. has embarked. it is convincing, leaving the country, or of find- sdell_was_at_pains yesterday-to--Italy,
_ing_some_means of establishing- makes the sanctions He would have-us-believe-that-and-final- show that such work in Hong-strangle-hold, anything but certain. he is but continuing the colonial There remains to be
the peace and security without kong is far less onerous than in Within a year, we should think, mission of his predecessors, and sidered an aspect of the matter which trade cannot flourish.
the Italian war machine will have that both his aim and his which has not received the p-
At a tinie when it took a year England, and he made a good crushed Ethiopia pretty thorough method are substantially the tention it deserves. The Italian or more to write from the trade point when he stated that failure ly; and whether it has or not the same as Great Britain has ex- appeal to the record of the great outpost and to receive a reply. to do it means that the child age will have been dreadful.hibited in extending her Empire colonizing nations has the kind from Eirope, the local agents of cannot enter fully into the sub-there continues the
Morcover, as long as the fighting
across the seven seas. "Why," of strength that lies in half the great commercial companies sequent lessons, and, as a result. mains on the edge of a swift tide he asks, "should this benevolent truths. Its justification of Ital- were compelled, as an alterna- not only becomes backward which may ɛween it into inter-process be so harshly judged by ian policy on historic grounds tive to losing their trade fool- national turmoil of a more serious those who, in the past, have re- is intended to convey the im- holds, to take sides with one or bimself, but retards the other nature than that at present ravag- sorted to it, to their own advan- pression that in planning a war another of the nativo rulers pupils in his class. Poor at-ing tire north-east corner of Africa. tage and to the betterment of against Ethiopia, and in sloom- whose rivalries kept the Middle
It would seem, then, that the dependent peoples?"
was also
tendance at school rightly cited as another factor militating against the progress
It
in class and greatly handicap ping the efforts of teachers. would appear, from what Mr. Upsdell said, that the flimsiest of excuses are often advanced by parents for failure to observe the two points of which he stressed the importance. It is certainly. regrettable that parents should fail to co-operate
in such matters, thereby doing disservice not only to the school, but to their children as well. At Home just now, closer co- operation between teachers and parents is being encouraged by the inauguration in certain
parents' Associa
world
50-
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con-
ing the native Government to
League's weapons, solely economic Signor Mussolini's challenge destruction, Italy is following
well-established precedents.
that
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were very
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We hear of a local Indy who has
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and financial up to the present, has not been fully met any- are not sharp enough or heavy
By ingenious innuendo the im- BULLS AND INNERS of the child, causing inefficiency nation may put upon another or to only answer that has been made pression is created that coloniza-
enough to amash the shackles one where in the world's press. The impede the march of an aggressive is to insist that times have lion has generally followed the and ambitious army across the changed, and that Italy is now line of marking down a desir frontier of a coveted country. It doing something that she is not able victim, organising an in- League, to be successful, or even is a pity, but it seems that the free to do, as England, was in vasion, seizing the coveted terri- useful. must be prepared to use
the days before the Covenant of tory, and dethroning the native improved her figure considerably the united'
the League of Nations and the dynasty. The early exploits of by walking up and down The Peak. armed force of its member nations to quell a turbulent Kellogg-Briand pact had placed the Spaniards in the Americas, As this treatment is free, it is net and belligerent people. Finally, such methods under a ban. and those of the Belgian pion-likely to become popular. perhaps the League "police" of the This answer is the one that first cern on the Congo
ជ В dim future may just step in and occurs to any, student of past- minch after this pattern; but, if It is forecasted that the British seize the leaders or any revalt against the
war history, since it provides a we review the circumstances Government will be returned to laws laid down international agreement, and wilt part of the nations which joined of the British, the French, and
by legal basis for objection on the which led to the establishment office by a narrow majority. Just
bald win! bring them to trial before a com-Haly in signing these instru- the Dutch colonial empires as the world could be run on the lines is, in plain fact, a violation of tion, petent court of their peers. If ments of peace. Italy's action we see them to-day, the descrip- Shanghai may have the longest of a community, a community of
Signor Mussolini bar in the world, but judging from! an international pledge, and would have us accept is nothing recent gambling reports, a gold nations, with the same laws for all and the League to enforce them, to cordone such a breach of the actual facts.
the co-signatories cannot afford more than a crude caricature of bar can be stretched to any length. such diseases as the Ethiopian
0.0 conflict breeds could be avoided: faith. Their objection, more-
It is and that a certain well- over, is not merely
danced over the Italian project is an offence Dutch had but a single pur- the other night. In future he
that the BOTH the British and the known resident
edge of the floor at the "Grips" tions. The scheme is good the desire of the teaching pro-against international morality, pose in sending their argosies will doubtless watch his step, within certain límits, but mem-fession to see that no scheme of but that it constitutes further to the four corners of the globe; bers of the teaching profession formal co-operation shall be more a grave menace to the what they were after was trade,
O O seem rather apprehensive of one permitted to degenerate into basic principle of international and a trading post was in al- A gossip writer in 'n Sydney part of the scheme, which.per-work by faddists or extremists.
active interference in classroom co-operation.
most every instance the nucleus journal states that she was "struck mits school visitation by parents The classroom is, after all, the ment was but safeguarding its the East Indies, in the West lucky it wasn't lightning!
The American State Depart from which there developed in by Shek-O" when visiting Hong- Kong. She should think herself during school hours. There is domain of the teacher, and it rights when it warned the Indies, in South and in Central
ᄆ also one danger in formal co-would be the height of folly that Italian Ambassador of the inter- America, and in Africa, the oc-
Lots of people think life's not operation, in that the wrong his preserves should be unduly est of the United States in the cupation of the hinterlands.worth living in Hongkong. But type of parent is too likely to encroached upon by those who maintenance of the peace pact. So far from urging their ex-that, of course, depends
have the haziest ideas of what But there was no such obliga- plorera and traders to deeds of liver. be encouraged to cause mischief
education really is. Within tion upon the colonial powers in conquest and of territorial ex-
- ᄆ by interference in matters which well-defined limits, co-operation an earlier day. Each was free pansion, the official instructions Max Buer hasn't had enough. he does not_fully understand. between teacher and parent is to pursue its own advantage as both to the navigators and to He still wants to go out and a Education is, after. all, to be encouraged. The best far as it could, and as far as it the governors of the trading bout. specialised subject; yet it is one contribution the parent
can was deemed safe to do so. The stations were full of warnings
When the pilots of the Imperial which provokes the most dogma- make is to do all in his or her situation was summarized by against the danger and the ex-
power to work in full harmony Canning, when he said, after pense of incurring any respon Airways machine Dorado sat down tie opinions, often from those with those entrusted with the the brief episode of the Holy sibilities beyond those which to dinner in Hongkong last night, ledat qualified to express them. task of educating the rising Alliance, "Bach for himself, and were essential to the protection we guces the food just went but One can appreciate, therefore,generation,
God for us all."
of their trade.
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