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FRIDAY, MAR. 13, 1938.
MAKING HONGKONG|
othera.
But the
ENGLAND
through
German eyes
international questions into moral questions. We no longer talk of cant. Cant seems to us
"Putable people." The
LEASANT but rather in- ON the whole, the English are The English were credited, to have disappeared along with pleased with their inscruta- or debited, with the dubious
crinolines and abundantly phrase sums up what we in bility. We know at any rate quality of king to create an Germany, and indeed all over that they are not disposed to illusion of moral perfection to feathered hats. the Continent, think of the be worried by the opinions of which they could lay no claim. After your Foreign Minister's English.
And it was added that they great speech at the opening of knew very the Assembly, we realised in The English explain, if they English like
well that
this special Jay no claim inclination, this special tendency of the English, dominated their The word thoughts. Unexpected results "cant" has arose at this juncture. The remain as mysterious as ever, people which keep its recog- not passed through the fine sieve League, drunken with a deep
role which this description discussing By Paul Scheffer they could whit, too, thre
themselves
ascribes to them by the fact
that they live on an island. But among them- Editor of the "Berliner Tageblatt" to it. the English Channel grows nar- selves. They
rower daily and the English are the only
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compared with other peoples nised court-jester, G. B. Shaw, through which so many things
paseed during the Great sleep, was startled into wakeful. whose contours we believe we Yet even he has admitted that were understand.
his influence on the English is War. Perhaps, in view of the ness. Not because of the Em- zero, although they like listening general laxity of conduct in- pire, it was stated definitely and to him and reading his books, duced by the experiences of the beyond possibility of contradic It is dimeult to judge the war, it does not pay so well as tion. Not because of Lake Tana, NOTES OF THE DAY English without having grasped it did to appear perfect.
or Malta, or Suez, but because this. - (I must confess that I That is the less friendly inter- think I know most about the pretation. It is to a certain "wars of conquest give moral AN AIRPORT BACHELOR KING
English when I watch the be- extent contradicted by the fact offence." History will be made in ble bachelor in the world-and the terrier.)
Edward VIII is the most eligi-haviour of a well-bred Scotch that the English have, after all, remained moralists. That is to Hongkong this month, when a loneliest.
Already, before sanctions regular air service linking up
We regard the English as say, they produce genuinely The King la the centre of attrac- very steady, and the Colony with the Imperial tion everywhere he goes, Whether ing their spiritual equilibrium in conduct, particularly of
48 maintain- ethical justifications of their were imposed, England had their spent large sums of money. She Airways system, serving both surrounded by offelaldem or in
life. London and Australia, will be a circle of friends. But always, all walks of They are politics, far more strongly and succeeded În inducing inaugurated.
more emphatically than League members to assume As a start, the in reality, alone with his burden always anxious to keep their far service will be at weekly inter of responsibility which there is habits and their interests con- other peoples.
highly inconvenient.. burdens. vals, but it may be extended none to share, That Is the secret cealed from others. This they later if circumstances justify in the present the cry of the the art
[of the King to-day. He echoes call fair play. Actually it is GERMANS have the discreet They had to to, in order not to
of disturbing your
England established the step.
The extensive ex-widowed Queen Victoria in the past neighbour as little as possible. ways self-evident."
slogan: "The moral is al blush.
herself, dictatorially and in- perimental flights recently"I am alone."
As a by-product they have de- back to the period when we disputably, as the most moral carried out between Penang He has more cause than she had. veloped a and Hongkong have clearly
highly Ruler of half the world, he is less technique of defending their and thinkers.
effective were called the people of poets country in the world. demonstrated the
And this when a bare fifty. feasibility free to to as he likes than the interests when they are The French said: "Safety years ago she was the land of
First." The English, in greater cânt! What a performance! or lesser degree, but on the That is not all. Hitherto English have been credited claimed that their policy was
of the link, and we may humblest of the millions who are disturbed. rely on the fine record of the his subjects.
Imperial Airways, both for This is the bond-against--which
Jakt
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It dates
most
punctuality and safety, result the King has struggled for forty HERE is one point where the whole with increasing emphasis, England has spoken softly in
Determined and inflexible
in
She
ing in the needs of this Colony years, and is still struggling.
of with a very specific quality, not determined above all by moral the council of the nations. As being adequately catered to. purpose once his mind is made up, only by us Germans, but, accord- principles.
typewriters became noiseless When the service is instituted, the King has striven from his ing to circumstances, by all I hope that the English will after the war, so England Hongkong will for the first time carliest years for personal freedom other peoples who have come be pleased when I say that after
followed her political aims in its history have direct and to choose his own friends and his into contact with them, They the war people on the whole mulled
half-tones. But regular aerial connections with own amusements. To a great ex-must, moralise. And here the tended to believe them. The now, driven by her moral urge, the outside world, a step which tent he has achieved his end. whole world becomes critical belief was naturally tempered she changes her tactics. is long overdue when we bear One subject only ropses the
and aceptient în turn.
by the reservation contained in declares her plans in no uncer- in mind the rapid development King to anger and he can be as
royal in his wrath as he is charm- There is an interesting fact, the words of the New Testa- tain voice. of this form of transport in the ing in his smile. No one must talk a strange fact, to be noticed. Is ment: We are sinners and lack Far East and clsewhere. It is, to him of marriage.
England created the phrase Those who the nineteenth century there the grace that we should have "muddling through." Foreign- moreover, appropriate that the re In the inner circles of his were two words always before God. first service to come here should friendship say it is unlikely now associated
era accepted this judgment on offhand with the We, and others with us, re- her policy on an equal footing be British. That much assured, that he will ever marry. Golf and English. One W19 common gard the English as people who with the other slogans. the next step to be taken should gardening, the pursuits of a man sense, the other cant. be to open the Colony to other who has settled his way of life, services covering routes not are the two-hobbles which appeal within the Imperial Airways to him. Hunting and horse riding system, We have particularly he gave up when the King, hia in mind the Pan-American
father, was ill, and dancing no trans-Pacifle service and the longer attracts him as it did.
And yet he himself talks of the system operated by the China marriage in his message National Aviation Corporation. House of Commonsi It has long been rumoured that
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both these services are willing PEDESTRIANS' DUTY
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to the
to come into Hongkong, and it should now be the business of
It has come at last--a caso in the authorities to see that they which the pedestrian is reminded are invited to make this Colony that he, no less than the motorist, a port of call. In the case of is under law and must conform to the former, Macao has already it. Four men have been fired at been selected as a terminus, but Home for having, as foot pas there is no reason why Hong-sengers, remained unlawfully upon kong should not also be utilised pedestrian crossing for longer as a landing-spot. One of the one side of the street to the other than was necessary to pass from obstacles so far as landing with reasonable dispatch last year. facilities for China are concerned The offenders stood about six feet has been the disinclination of from the kerb talking or arguing] the Chinese authorities to grant with one another, and the traffic a quid pro quo in the form of had to move to the centre of the flying rights over Chinese terri-road to pass them. The' principle} tory to British concerns. But is clear there must be no un- it is clear that this Colony has necessary delay or obstruction. In everything to gain by proceed-the case under notice the fine im- ing in this matter
posed was only one shilling, but it quite irrespective of this question of warning, the penalty will again be la not expected that, after this reciprocal rights. Admittedly, so slight.
there would be some value in an
arrangement whereby British Colony would in course of time planes could fly over Chinese become the radiating point of al territory, but this might ultim- whole network of services. ately be made possible by the Meanwhile," congratulations formation of a subsidiary Sino- should be extended to Imperial British Company. Be that as it Airways for their enterprise right for forethought
may,
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gally and akilfully turn all
SIDE GLANCES By George Clark
"Yes, it's a lot of extra trouble, but I figurá thoy 11.novar make
him a talpan unless I scoop him looking like ond
Now all that is changed, Precedents are being created- at the expense of Italy. Beside the Bolshevist experiment and Roosevelt's ideal of a regulated N.R.A.. economy, the planning of world peace is the most grandiose enterprise in political foresight that our twentieth century has yet seen.
The Germans have been re- proached for their love of weav- Ing policies far ahead into the future. To-day we follow the principle (also to be found in the Bible) that it is enough that every day has its own trouble. We would think that the English had turned right about, were we not aware of their love of moralising in
hundred different forms.
WE Germans have the same.
wish to be moral as the English. We admire their breathless flight with the League of Nations.
But unfortunately we consi- der that club a dangerous hallust. We confess to distrust- ing the means whereby England' seoks to satisfy her thirst for ethics in International life. We are afraid that her flight may end in her being dashed against, |for example, the Pyramids.We have profound doubts, the fruits of much experience.
Perhaps they may be dis pelled. Who knows?