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NOTES OF THE DAY
HELP FOR THE HAVE-NOTS
are
Already it is clear that there will be no dearth of redļatribu- tion schemes if the nations should ever address themselves to the task of achieving a better apportion- ment of the world's visiblo supplies of raw materials. The British Empire has been marked down first of all for dismemberment, True, the self-governing Dominions controllers of their OWN
into the ring .destinies, and cannot be thrown
among those who think themselves for competition
unduly short of territorial posses- alons. But there are the Crown Colònies, (of which' Hongkong t one) which, Mr. Herbert Morrison over to the Lengue of Nations, to has suggested, should be handed be disposed of na it thinks ft. As even Mr. Morrison had to admit
that Britain is the world's best. colonial administrator, it is difficult. to perceive the point of the pro- posed sacrifice. It would certainly bring no advantage to the popula- tions of the colonies themselves." Surely that is a point which ought
Lorries in the main square at Harar before' procceding to the Southern front.
HARAR AWAITS THE
WAR
to weigh with our Socialist de-Scenes in Abyssinia's Second Largest City as the
mocrats? The
United States
Secretary of State has also been ex- pressing approval of the proposal that raw materials should be avail- able to all who need them. Presum- ably, therefore, the United States, which is one of the countries rich-
est in natural resources, would be
gry Hons.
As
n
any
we want to hear."
Warriors March Through
By GERALD STANLEY
no
amaze.
palace to be used as a hospital, soldier, not equipment, not drill, the traders in the city may have not ability to use his rifle.-The- submitted to a levy for the pro-
colour is the badge of service, A strange, fanatical patriotism vision of medical services, but and should modern weapons fall alike. Their country is their and stores do not exist. There
inspires Copt and Moslem doctors and nurses, ambulances use of the knife and spear.
then he will revert gladly to the only real love, and, though they is the shell; empty. refuse to use it themselves, they will die rather than sermit the
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AT Diredawa, first town of should their country pass from cheap paint, the whole surmount- willing to make substantial
importance on the their keeping.
ed by a plaque, which might contribution to the common pool. Prince of the country chatted ventions. War for them is-stamped in Birmingham, depict Ethiopian section of the railway, These men will know no con- reasonably be one of a thousand But where Is the country that, with his aide. The Prince was war without embellishment. It ing the Lion of Judah, whose under present conditions, cannot dressed in European clothes, the is an occasion to injure, to kill; colours are plastered over the FRIDAY, NOV. 1, 1935.
get all the raw materials it needs? lieutenant's uniform was of a cut to be injured, to be killed. The whole structure. Near it is the The supplies are there in over-that would not have disgraced manner of killing does not gibbet, empty. U. S. NEUTRALITY
abundance. The owners are eager the Guards.
trouble them. There are
The streets are dark, narrow to dispose of them at reasonable Seeing them, a traveller would rules that they can understand and windowless; the houses aro The statements
prices. There has been
believe that Western civilisation or recognise. a pro-
unattractive, and without the made by nounced glut for years in the most had reached Ethiopia. He would President Roosevelt and
With some awe and
usual courtyard screened from Mr. useful commodities. A correction
be deceived.
ment many of them halted near public gaze that the Moham Cordell Hull concerning the of
the fantastically deranged
The Prince, ruler of two pro- the parade ground. Below them medan prefera. Instead, the policy of the United States Gov-machinery of exchange seems to be educated in a fame is university, cavalry of their own folk, well rens, whose every room contains vinces, kin of the Emperor, some cavalry manoeuvred, houses are little better than war- much more necessary at the ernment in the present crisis are present time than a reallocation of speaking several languages, has mounted and armed. The camel a platoon of men, lying in the timely and to the point. It is colonies, which, at the best, would share a common opinion; civilisa fantry, ignoring civilisation in is not of incense, but of packed no illusions. He and his people corps rode by. The regular in- dark, resting awhile. The odour clear, as Mr. Roosevelt, points be like throwing a mass of meat tion can do nothing for Ethiopia their hearts, moved to the word humanity. out, that as the Italo-Ethiopian into an overcrowded cage of hun- towards its improvement. of command in French, and went On the street cartridge-sellers war continues, opportunities for No. DB-1015.
"Give us," he said, "your through the motions of a real have laid out their new old- profitable trade to certain indus- TITLE THAT TELLS
roads, your motor cars, and army. Two thousand troops at fashioned cartridges which may perhaps your medicine, and then drill welcomed the irregulars. A or not fit any rifle in the country. tries will present themselves,
leave us alone. Your politics, long, low building threw the Red That does not matter; they are but the American people are films steadily increases, the taskings, your religions and your bombing 'plane that might come
the output of novels and your mechanisation, your build- Cross as a challenge to any cartridges, and little by little the
stock disappears.
must become more and more oner- likely to look with strong dis-of finding suitable titles for them morals say nothing to us that over.
Reservists who have been That Red Cross is, perhaps, passed as fit, and trained stand aus: All the good titles may have All the improvements that the the most and the least significant in the doorways of the tailors" been already used, as all the best eye can see are delusions. Ex- of all Ethiopia's signs. It shows khaki shorts, their shirt-tails shops, being fitted with their stories have been alrendy told. There ternally there is a slight change, obedience to the letter of conven- flowing in the wind, their will be sympathy, therefore, with play, dresses when he can is the It cannot be there. The Duke ly. Khaki makes the complete and the Ethiopian, loving dis- tion, but the spirit is not there, womenfolk looking on admiring- the suffering it is likely to en- what George A. Birmingham has fashion of Europe; but his mind of Harar may have given his tail. The Government is keep caused-sleepless nights-to-many-2-
been saying on a subject that has is still unchanged. ing a strict check on all exports, novelist. To write a tale is easy. and if voluntary compliance if one may judge from the number with the Government policy is of persons who succeed in doing so, not forthcoming, we may expect but to find the perfect title, one that is what the Amerleans call to see appropriate action taken. "annppy" and at the same time
N undercurrent of excitement AN The recent embargo imposed by accurate, attractive, and inoffen invader to turn it to his own ac- HARAR is a city normally of sways one or two groups; & different matter. count. The Ethiopian is content the second city of the Empire; assurance that the whole man is spy has been arrested. White about 30,000 people. It is faces are not welcome. Only the the United States on the exportive, is a very
Still more difficult must it be to to scratch to the belligerents
a little ground, to but it has one qualified doctor, British calms the suspicions. name a film. The absurdity, in- raise a few patches of maize and might or might not affect either appropriateness, or misleadingness millet and some cattle. He has and he is in charge of the leper party seriously, Ethiopia prob- of many picture tities seen todayments. Financially he has no that ghastly colony of the doom of bearing, chanting prayers for few desires, and few disappoint- the wounded unless he deserts young maidens parades, graceful colony, and will have no time for in the sirects. A group of There is the sound of singing
ably not at all.
The significance seems to suggest that the Holly | ambition whatever, but he will of President Roosevelt's action ments that deal with this vital fight for a well till he drops. ed.
the rains, or perhaps for peace, lay in his addendum, in which he part of the talkie business are at the valleys, toiling down the educated, cultured at least super- hands and flowers in their hair.
From a thousand villages in
The Governor of the province, bearing leafy wands in their. warned American citizens who their wils' end-which, Homo rough paths, all the able-bodied ficially, familiar with London The suggestion is of what Harar might seek to trade with the cynics will hasten
to say, is no men in the province were making and Paris, depends on the ser- might be under healthier condi- journey. Canon belligerents that they would do mentions that he missed one of the at the call of the Emperor Haile
Hannay their way to the capital, lfarar, vices of an unqualified practi- tions. so at their own risk. This was best of recent alms because its Sclassic, King of Kings.
It is all unusual, but it is not And what need there is, with encouraging in beauty. This held. to mean that the United title, "One Night of Love," gave
A pitiful procession, pitifully out war, for doctors and sur- city is an error man has made; States Government would not, what he might expect. It is n
him a totally wrong impression of armed with spear and knife, the cons is visible at every yard; far better for him to have left it for its part, attempt to uphold pertinent criticism,
men carrying nothing save their at every inch, if truth be told, unbuilt and to have stayed even The makers arms, their wives the rights of neutral commerce of films have a strange conception water-bottles and provisions for 60 common that even a European wooden plough and his water- Leprosy and venereal disease are in his remote village with his carrying in the case of cargoes bound for of the mentality of the average the journey trudging alongside, quickly becomes hardened to the bottle. Italy or Abyssinia. Those who patron of the cinema. He is a prepared to follow their men not sight; the Ethioplans accept Outside the gato again, return- remember the long and delicate crude person whose emotions are only to enlistment but into the auch things as part of their in- ing, the crowds gather indis- controversy that was waged be always in the raw, and with whom line of action.
heritance, an essential and ir- criminately around the mosques tween Britain and America on
the only safe course is, "The mix-
remediable fact of life. They will be the commissariat,
and the churches, which are the the same issue during the ear-
ture ла before." Even when They will be, should occasion de- of one eye than of two, and Fucing them, also bearing the More people seem to be sighted goal of an unending multitude. lier years of the Great War will something new in film-making is mand, nurses and stretcher- blindness is appallingly frequent, sign of the Cross, are the
achieved, it must be disguised un- appreciate the significance of der
bearers. And they, too, will die At the gate of the city, as on a canteens for Christian soldiers. the old, hackneyed titles.
rather than retire. this step. The League of Hence "One Night of Love" and
village green in England, crowds As night falls the recruits end collect to hear the news, while their drill. They have been Nations is now imposing sanc- other
games that conceal ratherTTLE chiefs, afoot or riding one who can read recites what working without apparent fa- tions on Italy, and it is some than declare the appeal of the
mule or horse, and followed the Emperor has had to say, thing to the good to know that films to which they are attaclied.
immediately by a proud gun-
tigue from sunrise to sunset. There is no excitement, no-np The detachments jolt along the... it will not be hampered in the When
bearer, led the contingents from parent fervour, for no measures it is taking by Ameri- filmland awake to the fact that horde that thronged the road; a do. Beyond death no man can as the unbridged rivers, then to will the mighty ones of the villages, to fall in with the doing more than he expected to Gijiga gate, to be carried as far man is rough rond in trucks, to the can resistance to the economic their public is not composed cx horde which, it seemed. could go, and the Emperor has the lift their transport on their blockade. That is the interpreclusively of simpletons whose sole offer no resistance whatever to a lives of his subjects at command. shoulders and wade breast high tation reasonably to be put on
handful of men with a machine- It is a strange, eerie but un- in the stream with it. America's policy. American
gun, a horde to be massacred beautiful town, this capital of sentiment is apparently with States or any other country, of
From Gijiga they will march should war actually come. the province, Mohammedan in or be taken to Wal-wal, to the Ethiopia in this war, and it neutral rights. The latest de stirred, despite their obvious Ethiopian in neglect. The main reaches possible grazing grounds The immediate emotion they architecture and essentially line of wells that make the lower would be distinctly anomalous if clarations from Washington disease, was one of pity. But gate in the drab, dilapidated wall for the nomads of the country. the Longue were to be obstruct suggest that the American Gov- they asked for no pity, none at is gay to the eye and grotesque ed in its efforts to bring the ernment is determined to "play themselves and in God. Of doors are, as usual, of corrugated Derjazmatz Nesimou Z. Emanuel, They are the key. The all. They were confident in to the intelligence. Ita awing Governor of the Province, the aggressor to reason by a meticul- the gamo" in the present delicate death they had no fear whatso- fron, its facing is of sheet iron, is concentrating his forces there. ous assertion, from the Unite
over. For life they had no use, petrol tins, shingle boards and He is confident of his success.
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