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The
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In this article famed
popular writer of the
"Daily Express"
GORDON
writes
DEAR
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BECKLES
EAR Mr. Pickwick, I anı writing you this letter
Stubbs Rd. from Eatanswill.
The room in which I write Was all the cold dignity of n disused undertaker's parlour. The door says it is a "Lounge,” sitting alone, the
ita other guests
Hongkong Telegraph. ad 1 am
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8, 1936.
THE FRUITS OF TEMPORISING
With a realism characteristic of many previous utterances, Mr. C. R. Attlee, the Labour
this celebrated inn having yone to their beds.
Letter
to
Mr. Pickwick
On the writing desk I have a copy of your "Papers“ open at the page which describes the arrival of "Camilles Were your chaise. brought in, the fire was stirred and a fresh log of wond up. lender, declared in the House of was thrown on." you record. Commons. on Monday, when re-j"In ten minutes time a waiter ferring to the Italo-Ethiopian was laying the cloth for dinner, war, that it was not a question the curtains were drawn, the fire whether Mussolini would beat was blazing brightly, and every- thing looked (as everything the Negus, but whether
always does in all decent English the beat could
if the travellers had inns) as aggressor
position in a
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"The fire was blazing brightly, and everything looked (as avery thing always does in all decent English inns) as if the travel- ters had been expected and their comforts prepared for days beforehand "that was in YOUR day. Mr. Pickwick.
KNOCKED at a room marked YOUNG
"Private."
better in many a novel.
"
Then entered,
women no longer
swoon at the rate of one a
It was a pleasant room: cretonne-chapter, but play football and all covered armchairs, a blazing mainer of games calculated to fire, and bowls of narcissi, ou make them unsuitable to full piedicine the table. The manageress maternal functions. was sitting by the fire reading has so vastly improved that hundreds of new diseases have been invented in the last century, and as the world progresses more are being invented every month I cast chivalry to the winds to keep pace with the wear-and-
Ten minutes tear of modern life. later I sat down to an excellent
"What is it you want?" she asked.
I arrived in Eatanswill two and told her. hours ago.
NOTES OF THE DAY When the decrepit and mail- omelette. She had not really
In SHIPS OFFICERS' PAY
Another sign of returning pros-
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League of Nations. This is the been expected and their comforts Ways
nutshell. All prepared for days beforehand." other aspects of the mutter fade
Open cars are going out of that families can into insignificance beside the fact that the League long ago
borne me a grudge. It had al fashion, so dewed-taxi had deposited me on declared Italy the aggressor
the inn's doorstep (charging for just been part of the still spend open-air week-ends boxed prevalent English system of up in the back of a saloon body and, up to the present, has been
as un- almost as protected from sight the fare from the station rather making the guest feel unable to halt hostilities.
of God's blue sky as the most the interim, the work has witnessed a gallant but seeming-perity is afforded by the fact that more than its own value as a comfortable as possible.
Very strange, is it not, Mr. cavernous interior of any coach that ever bowled along behind yunavailing fight by the National Maritime Board has eur). I carried my bag in and
been able to fix new and better asked for a room. The under- Pickwick?
six-horses on the Rochester equipped Ethiopians to preserve rates of pay for British navigating taker's wife seemed to be soured-
officers. The econ-
I have, indeed, seen so mally. their sovereignty against the and engineer
strange things following you way.
They have even taken the might and main of a modernised fomic blizzard of 1931 severely about something.
affected British shipping and al-
"Good evening." I said. "I around the country this week invading arnly.
thut I cannot make up my Little wonder though progress has been slow,
mind whether it's a better or open buses off the London is it that the Emperor complains shipowners now feel hopeful re-want a room.”.
karding future prospects. The at the delay of the League in new rates have been fixed not only She made no reply, but, after worse world that I am living in: streets, so that those who like to see what is going on, are fond me hard for a few imposing effective sanctions. It in view of the rising prosperity, staring at
a drop of rain are discouragel was so long ago as November but, as the agreement states, "in
hardly been blown on the from practising those old- that the League Committee of recognition of the loyalty of the Seconds, rang a hell, and when THE penultimate blast had of fresh air, and don't object to
officers to the industry in its aux-inn elderly porter arrived said,
horn of the Dingley Dell conch fashioned vices. Eighteen, whose duty it is to ous times." The depression caused Twelve."
to lose their joba,
before England was plunged into co-ordinate sanctions, voted in many seamen
others maintained
"It's in the new wing.", said the Commercial Age, whose Music is laid on with the gas principle for the application of while
that child can halt the progress of a an oil embargo, whilst early in employment at considerably reduced the porter as we went upstairs. grime and greed survive no and water, so that even a smal
pay. The now agreement will en- March the British Government able 250,000 officers and men to No. 12 room was small and clean, passing of a century, so
the lovely lanes and combea are Beethoven symphony, 'and-as even now being bestraddled by Cowper once remarked--inor- definitely declared that it would enjoy better rates of pay than at But it was also cold.
any time since 1932. In the case enforce such an embargo, pro- of about 50,000 officers, the new "Hasn't it got a fireplace?" monstrous pylons, and area-dinate indulgence in music is tects plan even bigger buildings more soul-destroying than in- viding all other oil-producing rates are, in general, equal to the I asked.
with false facades and dummy ordinate indulgence in drink. and transporting States in the best that shipping has ever paid.
"None of the rooms in the pillars made of cement. Moreover, it is expected that!
People have even discovered League did the same. Since further negotiations will enable new wing have got fireplaces,"
Oh, Mr. Pickwick-how dis- that popular education does not then, there have been inter- the seamen to enjoy better hours minable meetings of this com- and manning conditions than the said the porter. "But they have tressed you must feel sometimes necessarily mean a well-informed
industry has ever known. The running hot water."
as you look down on us from and clear-thinking mass of public travel is not mittee, and of that, but for
And then he left me.
your own particular Olympus! opinion; that definite action we still have to agreement has been described as one of the greatest achievements
Progress? Yes! but in which synonymous with broadening of the mind; and that ability to look in vain. Italy has profited ever made by the National Mari-
"Can I have something to direction?
dash through space at an in- and Ethiopia suffered terribly time Board. It will be the means
A century ago there was no credible speed does not make the as the consequence of this tragic between shipowners, ofleers and soured lady in black behind the doubt of the direction in which work very much happier. temporising. According to Mr. seamen throughout the industry office counter.
England must be led. The loon
Winston Churchill, the lesson of this melancholy chapter is that Britain should not interfere in
their
I presently asked the of establishing complete harmony leat ?"
"Too late for dinner,"
and afloat, will probably agree.maat after 8.30."
The activities of the National Mari-
time Board and the sympathy of
"Perhaps somebody
she owners realised that they had a
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which in itself is a factor of great importance in determining the future prosperity of shipping, as
Mr. Pickwic... Disguised in which machinery had suddenly China Const shipping me, store said. "You can only get cok country rich in all the potentials ONE thing has not changed, made Ho valuable, and before bowler hats and drab clothes, such matters unless she is in
could you could say "Jack Robinson" harnessed to the shafts of the earnest and is prepared to
battered and bullied by every factory. carry intervention to all neces- the British shipping owners gen- make me an omelette? It's so we had become the world's Juggernaut standardisation -- modern inconvenience, England sary lengths. There is point in erally provide, n lesson for the in-very cold for cold meat."
the dustry throughout the world, and
Some people, to-day see that remains full of Sam Wellers, the contention, but, on
"No, it's too late."
Winkles, Warules, we have an Empire a much Tupmans, other hand, it has to be stated prove the value of close co-opera- tion and the retention of mutual
"But could I make it myself? cleaner affair than a factory- Perkers, Joes, and the rest of that the upholding of the system good-will.
Surely somebody can do a couple rich in all the potentials which the great company. for which the League stands is
modern ufe demands; there of eggs for me.t not solely a matter for Britain;
he done, short of active others have their obligations as can well. As matters are, Britain intervention, to bring hostilities But whatever the has all along taken the initiative to an end.
ask the manageress."
seems, however, a certain lack England changes the lugu- of spontaneity in the way in brious porter has just come into She disappeared, presently which the 1986 owners are de- the lounge and given me a dis- veloping their Imperial assets. approving look-but, thank God, Mr. Pickwick, the English nature in pressing for sterner collective Geneva deliberations of the next returned, action, but she has met with few days may produce, nothing| "Manageress says no, cold Oh, yes, Mr. Pickwick, I sup- does not.
temerity, if not virtual opposi-will bring back tion, at every whip and turn. combatants.
the lives of meat only." and innocent
It is this fact which has civilians slain in this unjustified; paralysed the League and caused war of aggression. And only a it so much loss of prestige. miracle, it would seem, will res- Mattera have now gone so far tore to Ethiopia har ravaged that it is difficult to see what territories,
pose the world is better in many
I remain, sir (and please give ways; there may be less poverty, "Can I see her?" I asked.
crime, drinking and cruelty my love to Jingle, he'd make a "She doesn't like being dis- about the same amount of hypo- fortune in modern journalism crisy, and a great deal more con- with that clipped style of his), turbed."
fused thinking, ugliness, ir- your obedient servant, "That's all right," I assured reverence, moral anaemia, and her cheerfully, "I don't mind.". Individuality.
Gordon Beckles