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The
THIRTY-SIX years ago a French country priest sat in the rickety station omnibus of the town of Puy
little Guilaume.
4.
1935
Man with the White Tie
postmaster at Chateldon, a one-
NOTES OF THE DAY France
WHERE WILL IT END?
OWN
He is still Premier to-day, and general election of next year. hopes to be Premier until the
But his ambitious lone trail career from penury to wealth. from impotence to power, and in politics from red-hot Com- munism. to careful Conservatismi has won him many enemies.
*
.
rumblings of
be heard Laval fear from power.
2 vote on no con-
is NEWS Today
..
these
a
thrifty
Auvergnat business head, that has brought Laval-to the top?
I believe it is his power of mediation, of direct personal negotiation, an ability to find compromises and solutions ac- coptable to both sides..
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•
IT is this talent that made it
and
The priest was angry and
possible for. him to unite at 10 o'clock in the morning under his banner in Aubervil frightened. For the driver of N. 1931, when this same boy, HE was born on June 28, 1883
dark-faced boy of 'grown mati, mounted the box the 'bus, about fourteen, was taking no of the French State coach and (horoscopists please note) liera Socialists and moderate Prime Minister of as the youngest of four children. Conservatives; that enabled him One brother was killed at the to build up a large, and paying notice of where the horses were became
was not watching the France the priest proudly told
in the coach-boy front
September going,
1914, practice as a lawyer, not by another died us a simple rail- plending in court, but by settling road, but was reading a book the story of with one hand while his other scholar to his congregation. hold the reins.
The story run round France.. Wayman. His sister until re- costly disputes out of court.
It enabled him as Minister of $400
In Bayonne,
Labour to mediate in strikes "Why don't you look where It ran round the whole of the cently kept a tobacconist shop
Butcher's boy, poor man's and settle them. It enabled him 450 you are going boy?" cried the world.
in June 1985 to weld together a "You'll have us into
For it was the story of Pierre lawyer, politician 850 priest. 450 the ditch if you don't look out. Laval, who, from being the soft were the steps on which Laval majority Government from the Right, the Centre, and the mode- 750 What is that silly trash you are of a poor country butcher and climbed to fame.
To-day he in a rich man, He rate Left, when others had reading there?"
The boy mutely handed his horse town in the Auvergne, controls two newspapers; owns failed,
Laval is confident that by his
negotiation book to the priest. It was the had, by hard midnight study; a. mineral water factory, Latin
text of the "Epitoma ambitious energy, patience, and chateau near his home town. powers of
political tact, worked his way The wedding on August 19, 1935, mediation he will be able to Historiae Sacrae."
up to become not only a rich of his daughter Jose to young, keep juggling France's obliga and powerful lawyer, but the Count Rene de Chambrun, scion tions to the League Covenant youngest Prime Minister in of one of the oldest and noblest and the Covenant-breaker, Italy, French families, was the event without smashing either, while at the same time entangling Plorre Laval remained in of the 1935 season.
more definite he The dowry
his Britain in ever gave power for more than a year
until daughter was reported to be commitments on the Continent. from January 1931
But will his power of negotia- It appears that a section of the February 1932, almost a record not far inferior to the fortune high administrative body of China in French politics, where it is bestowed on the count by his tion enable him to overcome the is disposed to accept the movement rare for a. Premier to last out rich, American mother. Laval's present internal crisis?
No matter if he falls, he will.
For the ex- in the North which, while it may against the storm and stress of own wealth is variously estim-
butcher boy of Chateldon has £2,600,000. not be honest autonomy, is a long faction strife for more than a ated at between £650,000 and soon come back.
He be- step towards Independence from couple of months.
What gift is it, apart from become indispensable. the central authority and a fur-
When Louis Barthou, the his capacity for intense con- longs.
He is a member of the team. seventy-two-year-old centration, his hard work, and ther attempt at dismemberment of volatile the state. The smoke of revolt on Foreign Minister of France, was? the Nanking side indicates a darykilled on October 9, 1934, by the. A lot is being heard at the antagonism on the part of some side of King Alexander of Jugo- present time about the sanctity men to what they consider a sur-Slavin, Pierre Laval stepped of treaties. The whole move.render to pressure. We are told into his shoes. He remained that disagreement with Nanking's Foreign Minister until on June ment for the stopping of Italy methods of handling the situation G of this year he took over the is due to a desire to uphold the is behind the resignation of Mr. Premiership in addition to the principle, The surprising and Hsiao Pu-chen from the Central Quai d'Orsay. somewhat depressing thing is. Supervisory Committee. He be- General to Ying-ching, China's see Britain that there are some who would lieves that the negotiations which War Minister, is conducting, will even now wish to joining Italy in disregarding heread to further concessions to the obligations. Despite the over-Japanese. Whether there is any is truth in Mr. Hslao's assumptions whelming evidence which available of the support which is or not, it is impossible to deny that behind the Government, there there are officials highly placed in are still those who urge that the affairs of China who are not
the storm can Britain should go back on her content to accept Chiang Kai-shek's ALREADY the obligation: under Article XVi of dictatorship, and others to whom
the unity of the country is appar-which friends of the Covenant-a Treaty like any other, save that it has a noblerently of lesa consequence than their may drive him
ambitions. Among such as Last week and higher aim than most. these there is always n hearing for fidence was rejected only when measures Britain stands committed under one who preaches the doctrine of he agreed to take
against semi-military organisa- the Covenant to do certain freedom and independence,--tations such as the Fascists, which- things if a country goes to war won by revoll even though in an have grown all too-powerful for in violation of its Covenants". other light such aims are trenson, the ease of honest Republicans: So does France, and so do all One wonders, sometimes, if the Essential portions of his "save members of the League. Britain cause of China's apparent disinte- the frane" economy decrees were much within na without. Granted whelming majorities as 34 to 5 SESUDEESESSO stands committed "immediately ration in the North lies not as recently rejected by such over- to break off" trade and financial that in the past there have been and 27 to 8, majorities which relations with the Covenant- foreign influences brought to bear breaking State, which shall be to hasten and complete the breach. would make his Government's
10 harten and complete found, not fall a certainty were they to be to hear that we have been Excelleney gets past the Volun considered to have committed an in war and revolution, but hi the maintained when finances come approached by the Reception teer Headquarters door he should "act of war" against all the doctrine of the late Dr. Sun Yat- up for consideration this week. Committee to give a hand in meet with little opposition.
of which wns Next to Poincare, Briand and welcoming the new Governor. . The draft plan has allowed space signatories of the Covenant, sen, the bupis
Pierre. Laval is the democracy. One hears too often Herriot, Britain undertook those obliga- the argument that China is not must picturesque of the many
When we received our invitan route at the rate of two linear tions well knowing that in doing ready for such a system, that the many picturesque figures on the tion this morning we accidentally Taipan, one linear foot to each Mid so she was pledging herself to people are not yet it to govern colourful political stage of post- threw it into the waste paper Level resident or Lessor Tainan, two members of themselves, and even that the pre- make sacrifices. For to break at form of government in basi-war France. In appearance he basket, the O.H.M.S. on the Kowloon residents or micro-tulpans to off trade relations with a foreign call democratie aand, only waiting is short and thick-set. His face envelope reminding us too much one linear foot and four country means a very real sacri- for the time when the people can is dark, almost Moorish looking, of unpleasant subjects.
own responsibilities. (They say he is a, descendant earry their fice. Yet it was felt that peace Our criticism is that the evolution of
Fortunately, however, a soldier of Charles V.'s coalie rescued the letter and placed second the rate of advance to the was only possible if League ment- is too slow, and that so far as we Moorish guard stationed in it on our desk. Otherwise the Com-
Nuturally, the Reception Committee bers were prepared to pay the can see the National Government Chateldon to watch over the mittee would have been a bit of
has seen to it that liis Excellency will know what width his smile should price of peace. Happily, it has has not proceeded exactly as the military road through Auvergne a mess,
Thus fathers of the revolution intended.
This Reception business is, as we be for each introduction. been clearly shown by the recent General Election, and by the re-
Legislative Council can expect a Jos but they seem to lack the deter- A mop of black greying hair anticipated, proving somewhat diff-Higher Taipan's and members of the E. Brown smile, Lesser Taipans will sult of the Pouce Ballot, that mination and clarity which charac-flops into his broad, low fore- cult without our assistance.
Already citizens are crying out
receive a winning Ronald Colman there can be no question of Brit-terised the labours of the national head. His brown eyes are set nin, in the hour of crisis, look hero, Dr. Sun, Let the people have wide apart, giving an impres. about not receiving Invitations, while smile; while a Greta Garbo pout will
a word in the arrangement of sion of shrewdness and calm. others are wondering where the devil be awarded the others,
they're going to get a top hat and ing about for this or that excuse things, and let their elected repre- His nose is short, and above his frock coat, what with the dollar at in order to free herself from the sentatives speak their minds at fat almost negroid lips there is one and four, and the price of every- Nanking, or wherever they choose line of tough black moustache. thing gone up, and Christmas pre obligations which she has to make their capital, and be done M. Laval's dress hardly ever sents to buy, and that Lordy, Idanno solemnly undertaken. The over-with this system of military varies. He wears a black coat, ing becoming pretty general.
what-I'm-going-to-do-about-it-all feel
CAPTAIN ANDERSON OF THE whelming body of public opinionernorships and little near-auto-
Getting the Governor into Hong- A. AND S. HIGHLANDERS. supports the Government in its cracies. Then, if a cry for auto-dark trousers, and, most famous.
nomy comes from some part of the of all, a white shirt and a white kong is, we see, going to be a. first-
Captain Richani Charles Beckett determination to stand by. its country we will know whence ittic. The legend goes that as a class job in itself. So soon as he bond. Present measures, in the emanates and that the people, in struggling young lawyer M. puts his foot on earth, His Excellency Anderson, M.C. who has taken over truth, desire It is an axlom Laval affected the white tie be in going to become the property of from Major E. J. R. Mitchell, acting sphere of sanctions, are to be that the needs of revolution bear cause he could wash it himself, the Reception Committee. Someone's adjutant of the Hongkong Volunteer rigidly enforced, and there is the no fruit unless they fall on fertile In actual fact the white tie sure to spoil it all by going out in Defence Corps since Captain P. S. M.. the pilot's launch and grabbing hold) Wilkinson relinquished the appoint- further possibility that they ground and are nourished by dis dates from 1921, the time when of His Excellency before the Com-ment, has a long record of service may be made even more rigor-trust or hate or avarice. It is our he gave up his red tle and his mittee, and then there'd be another with the Argyll and Sutherland High-
dollar notes or your wife returning, ous. In this way, it is hoped belief that the people of China as
a whole want no rattle of swords party connections with the Com. of those upheavals liko issuing one-landers,
Born in 1895, he joined the 2nd. that Italy may, by feeling the or crash of Kunfire for happiness. munists and the Socialists to suddenly from her holiday, in Japan Battalion of the famous Scottish Re-
an independent politi-r some such crisis.
giment in 1915 as Second Lieutenant pressure of world
own list of opinion, The fault for the present disorders become
Once landed, however, the now and served throughout the war. In was twice modify her policy in the Ethio- lies not with the masses, but with einn running his pian crisis, irrespective of the the leaders, whose powers do not candidates for the municipality Governor will have to face a barrage France, and Belgium he
culty will present itself when the first the British War Medal, the Victory fortunes of war. This is the satisfy and whose positions are of the Paris suburb of Auber- of introductions, and an awful dim- wannded, and gained the 1914-15 Star,
regarded merely as steps to other villiers.
China needs is
His hat he wears tilted for. part of the precedent list has been Medal and the Milltary Cross with bar. worked off and they start to get, down From 1018-10 he was acting Cap first time that the League heights. What
on his forehead at an to the lessor taipans. education at the top; and reapon ward
tain, the rank being substantiato- in machinery has been brought into:
sibility at the bottom.
angle as though some one else Fortunately, the Pubtle Works 1023, operation against a Treaty-.
In 1981 and 1982 Captain Ander The collection taken at the prize had put it on his head. A Department, we are given to under breaking State, and any waver- ing now in the application of this giving coremony at the Peak School cigarette or a cigar is always in stanil, have not been idle, and ance son was in Hongkong when the Batta- on Friday last, in aid of the Society his hand or in his mouth. But he gets aahors the, rest should bejen stayed here for a brief period casy, The drafting branch of the before going on to Shanghai. After bit to $100, and the Hond Mistress and most disastrous consequences to start wish to thank parents and pletely. He takes a few whiffs the route from Blake Pier to the dais Sutherland Highlanders
at Volunteer Headquarters, and once Rawalpindi, where they still are. the future peace of the world.friends who so generously contributed. and then throws them away.
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