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FRIDAY, MAY 15, 1936. CHINA SMUGGLING
PROBLEM
There was bound, sooner or
WHO SAID
"Wait and See"
"Safety First" "Ninepence for
Fourpence'
"Peace with Honour'
HISTORY is full of men
and women who have
been pilloried to a phrase which in many cases they never uttered.
to
and why,
and when?
It was Lord Haldane's affec- jibes. tionate reference to Germany as "my spiritual home."
in
&
for the rest of his life.
Berlin Congress of 1878. As many people were convinced that peaco had only been achieved by some underhand sort of dishonour, to plirase became less idealistic than that made by one of Disrnell's that he ever gave voice to the Accessora fifty years Inter: "Pence
In our time:"" ery of "Hang the Kaiser."
Yet the 1918 olection was dis- tinguished by that hysterical
JUST at this
moment its
demand on the part of Lloyd author, Mr. Baldwin, is under the cloud of one of the less George's supporters,
The little Welshman's pre-war poetic of his rather surprisingly slogan of "Ninepence for Four- large number of quotable obser- pence" in aid of National Health vations,
Insurance also gave his enemies "My lips are sealed" has been joy: but few modern statesmen one of the season's pantomime have over been made to suffer so gags-sure sign of public taste. much for a phrase as he was for What Mr. Baldwin actually said the "Tomes fit for heroes to a Inst December when the. Hosrc- in" with which hundreds of the Laval pact leakage came under sanda of disillusioned ex-soldiers discussion was: "I have solḍom Jcored at the wartime Prima spoken with greater regret, for my Minister's oratorical promises,
tips are not yet unsealed. Were Yet what did Lloyd Georgd these troubles over I would make a really say 7
case, and I guarantee that not a "We must atrive to make a land man would go Into the lobby fit for heroes to live in."
Italics are mine.
against us."
But that is fair enough, consider-
NOW take the ing his lips are still sealed.
Mr. Baldwin has also to his cautious Sir credit that phrase with which he
Austen Chamberlain.
fought and lost the general election
The words that cling to him are: of 1929.
"I love France like a woman."
TWO of
"Safety First,"
an-
Was
Kom
A PARADOXIC- "You said any woman would
Inter, to be some interna NOTES OF THE DAY United States entered the car the case of words recoiling on their
reaction to the organised smug- gling in North China, which is not only affecting the Customs revenue and legitimate business,
Frederick Maze
gold bars revived. Such news may be welcomed by brokers, since it
are concerned, and since the China
ALLY unfair make a better wife than me!"
"Yes, darling, but I only enld it
"You said it, didn't you?" "Yes, but darling. "You hate me!" "No, I don't" Thus they
the
goboomerang
Beckles
Yes, he said that in 1927. But Alberta's Mr. Aberhardt might he used Buch orchidaceous have swung Social Credit on his Thirteen years ago the late
"The world continues," he said, inaguage on the occasion of the Province with a minimum of pub Lord Birkenhead was giving his "to offer glittering prizes to those presentation of a memorial volume licity had he not over-boldly rectorial address before the who have stout arms and sharp to the British nation in the Hotel nounced that £5 a month students of Glasgow University, swords."
de Ville in Paris. The then Foreign coming to every man.
And Mr. Winston Churchill's in the course of which he re- "F. E." and "Glittering Prizes" Secretary was speaking in French. called a phrase which had once promptly became
"I lay at the feet of France my phrase, "I swam with the tide, synonymous; spelled political death
soon flgured in a hundred car most respectful homage for her was quite unfortunate enough, even great statesman.
toons; for years prompted political fortitude and heroism," he began, although it only occurred in one of
He has never heard the end his books.
MR. JOSEPH NOW for that of the subsequent peroration....
CHAMBER- "Contemptible
Sir... said in 1906: "We are not They crucified the man who Little Army" phrase which in-
Austen's poll- downhearted, but we cannot had made the "Contemptible lamed the patriotic anger of tical contemporaries spring to understand what is happening Little Army" of which more England in 1914. It was first
to our neighbours." my mind as I write. one published in England in Octo-Wait and See!" moment to that
He was credited with the jin- "Are we down- phrase.
Has ever a Prime Minister been goistic cry of A great Secretary of ber of that year, as having been State for War was lost to the lasued by the Kaiser from Ger- hounded by three zuch innocent hearted? No! nation at a critical moment. man G.H.Q. at Aix-la-Chapelle words?
Sometimes the phrase is not the What was the truth?"
the victim's own. on August 19.
Turn your mind back to
No The Kaiser hus vigorously early war days when the Asquith
man can ever have Before the war. Haldane had attended a dinner party at which denied ever using the phrase. Il Government was being criticised through life-from youth to matu- The family and relatives of the late a certain Dr. Lotze was present, certainly never issued Imperial for dilatory prosecution of the war. rity-o hounded by a tag as that At what critical moment did Mr. great pro-consul whom Oxford Mr. Harry Carnet Jex wish to Haldane said, "I owe much of my manifestoes through G.H.Q., and it thank all friends for their kind spiritual education to your coun- is equally certain that the German Asquith turn round and slyly bid described with the lines, "My name is George Nathaniel Curzon---I am expressions of sympathy, for
try." Lotze went back to Ger- headquarters were not at Alx but the nation to wait and see?
The answer is: ut no moment. most superlor person." attendance at the funeral and for
many and used the dinner table at Coblenz on August 19, 1911.
Another phrase on which a man Years before the war Asquith floral tributes,
conversation in an article which
was pilloried became famous had amused the House by enjoin-
WHEN you turn Achloved headline. fame.
ing a member to "cultivate the
the pages of The rest was easy for Hal- shortly after this date.
President Woodrow Wilson, in faculty of patient expectation." history, and come to Marie An- dane's enemies.
It is doubtful if Asquith himself toinette's "Let them eat cake," That was a case in which a man one of his idealistic flights of
pedantic ever was martyred to a chance remark; fancy, said in a speech apparently dignified and
the United States thought of the subsequent wise the question of these suicide but later on in this same Glasgow defending
How much domestic bliss is rectorial speech Lord Birkenhead somewhat paternal tolerance to crack "Wait and see" for himself; slogans takes a domestic turn. himself utfored R resounding wands Mexican mischievousness: he afterwards used it several times,
occasion as far as I can discover, and stored up to be hurled back at | phrase which was to hound him "There is such a thing as a man however. Never on an important marred by phrases uttered in anger
being too proud to fight."
their owner's head? But the speech was just after the Lusitania sinking; and dur- the two years before phrase "Too proud to fight" was author resulted from another when you had so annoyed me.... not only thrown back at Wilson Parliamentary phrase, Walpole's According to Shanghai advices. by the Allies, but even by his own denunciation of opponents in there is a possibility of a further Democratic supportera,
the words: "Every one of those Seldom have four words become men has his price." devaluation of the China dollar. The exchange market immediately such a powerful political weapon. But the circumstances have long phrases on and on and on, and Co., Ltd. but threatens to jeopardise the reacted yesterday and interest in
LLOYD GEORGE been forgotten; all that remained up and up and up, in the Immorta was: "Every man has his price" words of Mr. Ramsay MacDonald loan services as well. It is this
has suffered aand Walpole's name attached to in 1934. Chater Road latter eircumstance, as-Sir is the sort of thing which makes great deal from the exuberance t
points out, for better business, so far ashes of his phrasing. He challenged Then there was Disraeli's cry of Gordon which raises the issue above and Hongkong dollars were more or Ramsay MacDonald to prove "Peace with honour" after that of purely domestic con- less stabilised by the break from cern and tends to invest silver theirs has been a slack trade. The suggestion that China is about: lit with international im- to issue a new dollar coin, one- portance. What the losses are third the fineness of the old silver to China's revenue it would dollar. is no doubt good for those who manufacture money-outalde be difficult to 'compute, although the law. The people who made all report puts the figure in those ten-cent pieces that the bus respect of April alone at nearly conductors and ferry operators re. -fuga will doubtless have new cause one-third of the total Customs for cheerfulness. But the unfortun income. It has long been known ates to whom a low-value Hongkong
OCTORS will tell us of the westheile during the operation, and Muny similar Instances could be that Japanese interests are be-dollar Is a hardship are in fear and
interesting case
of one calmly smoked a cigar while the sur-given in which the spirit dominated trembling lest the value of their hind much of the smuggling in earnings again depreciates, in arm- Colonel Townshend, whose will geon's knife cut through the living the body by sheer force of will. But. it will-power has some remarkable nerves and tissues.
manifestations, what we might call the North; and there have been pathy: with China's move towards was so powerful that by exercis-
"won't-power" has some of equal indications for some time past fuller inflation. Is this what the ing it he could stop the heart's Thought Control
power. action.
This was indeed an exhibition of that the. Chinese authorities conferences of Bank of China ofi- cials and the Secretary of the
will-power, but it by no means Tho Will In Aboyance have been reluctant to intervene United States Treasury have. ac Nobody can explain how this unique. Such eminent men as John
Some people can refuse to let their in the matter, for fear that de-complished? we wonder. Or is this was done, for the influence of Wesley, Pascal, and Robert Hall are finite action on their part might just another story that fools "some the mind over the body, though said to have had the capacity for minds dwell on disagreeable topics. by fixing their as in the case of the spendthrift who of the people some of the time?"
fits effects are known to medical banishing pain give rise to political issues. A
turns his thoughts resolutely away thoughts on something else. science. has, not yet had its
from his rapidly-dwindling balance more amazing state of affairs
It ucts, A more modern celebrity, Dr. W. at the bank. This "won't-power'* could scarcely be imagined. others, but it seems that there mystery cleared up. Japan obviously has obligations is a distinct disinclination in but none can tell exactly how. D. Carpenter, says of himself that can affect the body and its func-
white suffering neuralgic pain so
Sie James Paget mentions the case in this matter, by which she Tokyo to give any assurance of It might be mentioned that this he has frequently begun a lecture tions in most peculiar ways.
co-operative action to curb the Colonel Townshend tried the severe as to make him apprehend that should utilise every means at organised snuggling. One sug-trick with his heart once too would be impossible to proceed; of a hysterical girl who imagined effort fairly launched himself. into in bed for years. There was nothing her disposal in co-operative gestion said to have emanated often, and the organ never start. yet no sooner had he by a determined that she was paralysed and remained the stream of thought than he found at all wrong with her locomotor efforts to put a stop to the scan- from Japanese sources is that ed again. The colonel died.
himself continuously borne ulong powers, but, as Sir James remarked, dal. But, 50 for from China could largely overcome
evil If she re- Medical men have also had without the least distraction, until the "It is not that such a patient cannot, discharging these, it is even the smuggling stated that the Japanese mili-duced her Customs duties. That, under their expert observation end has come and the attention has or will not, it is that she cannot recurred with a force that has over-walk was in abeyance, and "won't- of course, is a matter for China people who could by the exertion een released, when the pain has will." In other words, the will to tury authorities are forbidding herself to determine. Admit-of their will simulate all the mastered all resistance, making him power" had taken its place.
A woman whose hand had been Chinese cruisers from entering tedly, the high tariffs have been appearances of lockjaw, or even wonder how he could have
firmly closed like the fist of a boxer the three-mile limit in pursuit a factor in encouraging smug-epilepsy. Many instances have ceased to feel it."
The late Mr. A. C. Plowden was for over twenty years was convinced She was of smugglera! If this is correct, gling activities, and China may been known of men who could
cured by an emotional appeal made Japanese connivance in evasion eventually find that it will be at wil dilate or contract the pupils one of the cheerlest of Metropolitan that she could not open it.
is placed wise, in her own interests, to of their eyes, and of those who could Magistrates, and the freque yet to her by a friend, thus proving that
in a similar manner induce sickness casions of "laughter in Court." of Customs duties
lower the wall. But of more Long ago there was a performer when his autobiography was publish- there was nothing organically the beyond question. Here, again, immediate
concern is the ac- on the variety stage who was called ed, after his retirement from the matter with the affected hand.
Port of his show was Bench. It revealed that he often went the is raised
question of cumulating
that Serpentello.
These cases of "won't-power" are evidence
own neck, a feat to his dulles suffering agonies from Japanese military leaders as Japanese interests are actively to dislocate his
shock. A thunderstorm, an alarm of fessor Carpenter. mentioned Colonel Townabend..
fire, or any similar experience may suming the right to be a law engaged in this smuggling rac-which rivalled that of the above the same complaint as afflicted Pro- capable of being cured by a sudden unto themselves, but in an issue ket, and that the Tokyo Govern-1
A similar case wus that of Sir do it. Dr. Bryce mentions the case But if an effort of will cun. thus
of a British officer, who had the iden of this gravity the Tokyo ment appears oblivious to
even Arthur Sullivan.' He had chronic that his lungs were affected and that aside and condone this inter- only Chinese but foreign trade and suffering at bay. Not long ago him excruciating pain. Yet between position. One night in Indin some
China's ference with
robbers entered hia tent by night. clear as well is suffering, and if Japan the papers recorded the death of the paroxysms, during which rights. Efforts to secure a does not show a more reasonable famous Spanish journalist and duel would roll on the floor, he continued He seized his sword and with it did
list. In one of his encounters he was to compose the sparkling melodies policy so far met with
in breathing. small success. Representations to confer us to the best means ton: To the surprise of the doctors, Sullivan operas so wonderfully pa have been made by Britain and of dealing with the situation. the victim refused to have an on-pular. HONGKONG
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