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ACKNOWLEDGMENT,
The family and relatives of the late
and women who have
been pilloried to a phrase which in many cases they never uttered.
Thirteen years ago the late
and why, and when?
Berlin Congress of 1878. As many people were convinced that peace had only been achieved by some underhand sort of dishonour, the phrase became less klealistic than that made by one of Darnell's successors fifty years later: "Peace
that he ever gave voice to the in our time."
ery of "Hang the Kaiser."
►
Yet the 1918 election was dis- tinguished by that hysterical
JUST at this
moment its
domand 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..
Ilonre- under
Insurance also gave his enemies "My lips are soaled" has been joy: but few modern stateamen one of the season's pantomime have ever been made to suffer so gags-sure algn of public taste. much for a phrase as he was for What Mr. Baldwin actually said the "Humes fit for heroes to live last December when the in" with which hundreds of thou- Laval pact lenkage came sands of disillusioned ex-soldiers discussion was: "I have seldom Jeered at the wartime Primo spoken with greater regret, for my Minister's oratorical promises, lips are not yet unscaled. Were Yet what did .. Lloyd · Georgd these troubles over I would make a really say 7.
"We must strive to make a land case, and I guarantee that not a man would go into the lobby fit for heroes to live in."
against us." Italics are mine.
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 eling to him are: of 1929.
"I love France like a woman." "Safety First.”
Yes, he said that in 1927. Bat Alberta's Mr. Aberhardt might ho used Buch orchidaceous have swung Social Credit on
his
"The world continues," he said, language 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 an rectorial address before the who have stout arms and sharp to the British nation in the Hotel nounced that £5 a month was
students of Glasgow University, swords."
synonymouN:
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," spelled political death to
a soon figured in a hundred car most respectful homage for her was quite unfortunate enough, oven great statesman.
touns; for years prompted political fortitude and heroism," he began, although it only occurred in one of It was Lord Haldane's affec- jibes.
He has never heard the end his books. tionate reference to Germany
that of the subsequent peroration.... as "my spiritual home."
"Contemptible
NOW for
Nu
MR.
JOSEPH CHAMBER-
whom
gone
Oxford
Mr. and Mrs. Fung Kong Un beg to
Two of Sir....said in 1906: "We are not announce that the marriage of
They crucified the man who Little Army" phrase which In-
Austen's poli- downhearted, but we cannot their daughter, Stella, to Mr. Chau Sing Kan will take place at had made the "Contemptible lamed the patriotic anger of the Registry on Thursday, May Little Army" of which more England in 1914. It was first tical contemporaries spring to understand what is happening
to our neighbours." 2111, 1936. Na invitations are in 13 moment-to that one published in England in Octo. my mind as I write.
"Wait and See?"
He was eredited with the ju- being issued but all friends will be phrase. A great Secretary of ber of that year, as having been Has ever a Prime Minister been goistle cry of "Are we down- welcome at the Reception ta te held at the Hongkong Hotel at State for War was lost to the issued by the Kaiser from Ger- hounded by three such innocent hearted? Nol
nation at a critical moment. man G.H.Q. at Aix-la-Chapelle words?
Sometimes the phrase is not, the What was the truth?
on August 19.
Turn your mind back to the victim's own. The Kaiser has vigorously early war days when the Asquith
man con ever have Before the war. Haldane had attended a dinner party at which denied ever using the phrase. Ild Government was being criticised through life-from youth to matu- a certain Dr. Lotze was present, certainly never issued Imperial for dilatory prosecution of the war, rity so hounded by a tag as that
At what critical moment did Mr. prest pro-consul Mr. Harry Carnet Jex wish to Haldane said, "I owe much of my manifestoes.through G.H.Q., and IL thank all friends for their kind spiritual education to your coun- ts equally certain that the German Arquith turn round and slyly bid described with the lines, "My nante Is George Nathaniel Curzon-I am expressions of sympathy, for try." Lotze went back to Ger- headquarters were not at Aix but the nation to walt and see?
The answer is: al no moment. a most superior person.” many and used the dinner table at Coblenz on August 10, 1914. conversation in an article which, Another phrase on wirich a man. Years before the war Asquith
became was pilloried
famous had amused the House by enjoin- achieved headline fame.
WHEN you turn Ing a member to. "cultivate the
the pages of The rest was easy for Hal. shortly after this date. dane's enemies.
President Woodrow Wilson, in faculty of patient expectation." history, and come to Marie An- It is doubtful if Asquith himself toinette's "Let them eat cake,” That was a case in which a man one of his idealistle flights of
pedantle-ever was martyred to a chance remark; fancy, said in a speech apparently dignified and but later on in this same Glasgow defending the United States' thought of the subsequent wise the question of these suicide How much domestic bliss is rectorial speech Lord Birkenhead somewhat paternal tolerance to- crack "Wait and see" for himself; slogans takes a domestic turn.
A resounding wards Mexican mischievousness; he afterwards used it several times, phrase which was to bound him "There is such a thing as a man however. Never on an important marred by phrases uttered in anger
decasion, as far as I can discover, for the rest of his life.
being too proud to fight."
attendance at the funeral and for floral tributer.
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
FRIDAY, MAY 15, 1936.
CHINA SMUGGLING
PROBLEM
There was bound, sooner or later, to be some international reaction to the organised smug- gling in North China, which is not only affecting the Customs revenue and legitimate business. at threatens to jeopardise the
himself uttered
But the speech was just after the Lusitania sinking; and dur- ing the two years before the
A PARADOXIC-
ALLY unfair make a better wife than me!" NOTES OF THE DAY United States entered the war the case of words recoiling on their
and stored up to be hurled back at their owner's head?
"You said any wonian would
"Yes, darling, but I only said it when you had so annoyed me...
"You said it, didn't you?" "Yes, but darling...." "You hate me!" "No, 1 don't"
Thus they go boomerang
another phrase "Too proud to fight" was author resulted from not only thrown back at Wilson Parliamentary phrase, Walpole's According to Shanghai advices, by the Allles, but even by his own denunciation of opponents in there is a possibility of a further Democratic supporters.
the words: "Every one of those devaluation of the Chinn dollar. Seldom have four words become men has his price." The exchange market immediately such a powerful political weapon. But the circumstances have long phrases-on and on and on, and reacted yesterday and interest in
LOYD GEORGE been forgotten: all that remained up and up and up, in the immortal loan services as well. It is this
was: "Every man has his price" words of Mr. Ramsay MacDonald has suffered and Walpole's name attached. Lo in 1934, latter circumstance, fts Sir is the sort of thing which makes great deal from the exuberance it." Frederick Maze points out, for better business, so far as they of his phrasing. He challenged Then there was Disraeli's cry of
are concerned, since the China
gold bars revived. Such news may
be welcomed by brokers, since it
LL
which raises the issue above and llongkeng dollars were more or Ramsay MacDonald to prove
that of purely domestic con- less stabilised by the break from corn and tends to invest it with international im portance. What the losses are to China's revenue it would be difficult to compute, although one report puts the figure in respect of April alone at nearly one-third of the total Customs income. It has long been known that Japanese interests are be-dollar is a hardship are in fear and
silver theirs has been a slack trade. The suggestion that China is about to issue a new dollar coin, one- third the fineness of the old silver dollar, is no doubt good for those who manufacture money-outside the law. The people who made all those ton-cent pieces that the bus! conductors and ferry operators re-
fuse will doubtless have new cause for cheerfulness. But the unfortun utes to whom a low-value Hongkongi
trembling lest the value of their
he there was Disrucell's ers of Gordon-Beckles-
WILL POWER AND "WON'T-POWER
Mind in Control of the Body
OCTORS will tell us of the aesthetle during the operation, and Many similar instances could be
hind much of the smuggling in earnings again depreciates; in sym-Colonel Townshend, whose will con's knife cut through the living the body by sheer force of will. But
It acts,
nerves and tissues.
This was indeed an exhibition of unique. Such eminent men as John
It will-power has some remarkable manifestations, what we might call "won't-power" has some of equai
power.
the North, and there have been pathy with China's move towards was so powerful that by exercis indications for some time past fulier Inflation. Is this what the ing it he could stop the heart's Thought Control that the Chinese authorities conferences of Bank of China offi-
action. clats and the Secretary of the have been reluctant to intervene United States Treasury have ac
Nobody can explain how this will-power, but it is by no means The Will In Abeyance in the matter, for fear that decomplished? we wonder. Or is this was done, for the influence of Wesley, Pascal, and Robert Hall are!
Some people can refuse to let their finite action on their part might just another story that fools on the mind over the body, though said to have had the capacity for minds dwell on disagreeable topic, Oxing their as in the case of the spendthrift who give rise to political issues. A of the people some of the time?"
its effects are known to medical banishing pain by
turns his thoughts résolutely away thoughts on something else.
from his rapidly-dwindling balance more amazing state of affairs
science, has not yet had its.
A more modern celebrity, Dr. Wat 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. Carpenter, saya of himself that can affect the body and its func-
$0 while suffering neuralgic pain
Sir 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. should utilise every means at co-operative action to curb the Colonel Townshend tried the severe as to make him apprehend that
organised smuggling. One Bug-trick with his heart once too it would be impossible to proceed of a hysterical girl who imagined 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 effort fairly launched himself into in bed for years. There was nothing efforts to put a stop to the scan- from Japanese sources is that ed again. The colonel died.. the stream of thought than he found at all wrong with her locomotor himself continuously borne along powers, but, as Sir James remarked, dal. But, 80 far from China could largely overcome!
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 evil if she re-
been released, when the pala his will." In other words, the will to 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 cannol of course, is a matter for China people who could by the exertion recurred with a force that has over-walk was in abeyance, and "won't- tary 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 ever
Armly closed like the fist of a boxer- the three-mile limit in pursuit a factor in encouraging smag- epilepsy. Many instances have ceased to feel 1.".
The late Mr. A. C. Plowden was for over twenty years was convinced. She was of smugglers! If this is correct, gling activities, and China may been known of men who could
De-cured by an emotional appeal made Japanese connivance in evasion eventually find that it will be at will dilate or contract the pupils one of the cheerlest of Metropolllan that she could not open it.
Yet to her by a friend, thus proving that of Customs duties is placed wise, in her own interests, to of their eyes, and of those who could Magistrates, and the frequent in a similar manner induce sickness. casions of "laughter in Courl" Jower the wall. But of more Long ago there was a performer when his autobiography was publish there was nothing organically tho. beyond question. Here, again, immediate.
concern is the ac-on the variety slage who was called ed, after his retirement from the matter with the affected' hand. is raised the
of cumulating evidence that Serpentello. Part of his show was Bench, it revealed that he often went These cases of "won't-power" are
feat to his duties suffering ggonies from Japanese military leaders as- Japanese interests are actively to dislocate his own neck, a
which rivalled that of the above-the same complaint as afflicted Pro-capable of being cured by a sudden shock, A thunderstorm, an alarm of suming the right to be a law engaged in this smuggling rac
Lessor Carpenter.
fire, or any similar experience may do it. Dr. Bryce mentions the case unto themselves, but in an issue ket, and that the Tokyo Governmentioned Colonel Townshend. of this gravity the Tokyo ment appears oblivious to its Dut if an effort of will can thus) Government surely cannot stand obligations in the matter. Not simulate liness, injury, or even Arthur Sullivan. He had chronic of a British officer who had the iden aside and condone this inter-only Chinese but foreign trade death, a similar effort can hold pain kilney trouble, which at times caused that his lungs were affected and that and suffering at bay. Not long ago him excruciating pain. Yet between he could only breathe in an upright ference with China's eleur as well is suffering, and if Japan the papers recorded the death of a the paroxysms, during whichthe position. One night in India some rights: Efforts to Becure
does not show a more reasonable famous Spanish journalist and duel- would roll on the floor, he continued robbers entered his tent by night.. definite Indication of Japan's frame of mind before long, it 1st. In one of his encounters he was to compose the sparkling melodies He seized his sword and with it did enough to get a wound In und delicious musical jokes which such deeds that he frightened away policy have so far
met with will be incumbent on the Powers untucky which necessitated amputa- have lielped to make the Gilbert and not only the thieves but his difficulty
in breathing. small success. Representations to confer as to the best means tion. To the surprise of the doctors, Sullivan operan so wonderfully po- have been made by Britain and of dealing with the situation. the victim refused to have an onlpular.
question
A sinillar case was that of Sir
THORPE BEVAN..