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NO SCUTTLING There can be no questioning the point that Britain's prestige suffered a heavy blow when, as champion of collective pressure on Italy, she failed to prevent or stop the Italo-Ethiopian war. Had she been able to secure the support which she had every reason to hope for, Ethiopia would probably never have fanes into Italian hands, and the
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have been left in the difficult position in which it finds itself to-lay, with Ethiopia still claim- ing a right sovereignty over its own territory. To that extent, the blame for inaction does not lie wholly at Britain's door.
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is true that Britain might have" taken on Italy single-handed, but such a step might easily have provoked a world war. Matters
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THERE IS A BATTLE AND
In this vivid story the wife of a British novelist living in a village outside Malaga relates how the war broke round their cars. "We love Spain," she says, "and we do not want to abandon the country."
MALAGA is
BURNING
not every day, fortunately, that we wake up in the middle of a Civil War, but that was our experience in our village near Malaga.
Marka, the housekeeper, woke us, saying: "There is a battle and Malaga is burning." From our hilf we could see Malaga in the dis- és tance like a toy city, but that morning it was enveloped in a pali of smoke.
We learned that there had been a rising of the Right-Military elements, and a great dent of shooting during the night, The Callo Larlos had been fired partly to stop sniping from the roufa, parity in revenge by people from the poor quarters of the city; a rich suburb by Malaga, the Limonas had been almost completely burned.
A few English people and many Spaniards who were caught in the Calle Larios when the fighthug begau had a truly hideous night. An Intense Are from machine guns and rifles raked the streets and came in at the windows.
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·EANWHILE in our village-it is large by English standards, containing several thousand people-the day be- came very exciting. All the cars had been confiscated' and, painted with the faltinis V.G.T. C.N.T. or F.AI, were rushing about bristling with arms, Busca went by with a
pistol projecting from every window.
Everyone was in high spirits and very friendly. They waved their pistols at the passer-by in the most amiable and discon- There were certing way.
A great many accidents. Our cook's "novlo," or
young man. was killed
Mh this almost at our closest
That afternoon bands
The Calle Larios Malaga, where the fight- ing raged. it mas " fired partly to stop sniping from the roofs,"
of armed youths came searching the horses for arms. At first they refused to search our house as they knew us and we were English. but later a band which did not know us did come in. I happened to be alone in the house with the servants and went to the door myself. They entered with their Runs held forward as if they were boarding a pirate. Their youthful leader was armed with a toy sword which particularly pleased me.
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LTHOUGH I was politu to them, I received them coldly. They began their search in my bedroom, where the poor young leader, very "embar-- rassed, groped about among my silk underclothes. The next drawer he opened happened to be full of my little girl's headless dolls. This completed his confusion, and he hurriedly abandoned the search.
By that time we were all on ex- cellent terms, and as they left we
hastily exchanged the Left grect- ing,"Saludi
to
That day we were horrifled hear that a friend of ours, a farmer, who had been under a sort of detention in his own house, was being taken off to Malaga by a crowd against the will of the village. This, we thought, would probably mean his being mur- dered on the way. My husband rushed off down the street with the intention of dominating a mob armed not only with pistols and rifies, but with a machine-gun, with which they were menacing, the protesting village Byndicalists." It turned out that they wanted not our friend, but a carabinero. an ugly customer who had helped to cook evidence on various occa- ̈ sions to secure convictions, but even him the village refused to give up, and the leaders of the crowd were obliged to go alt without their victim, The vil lage said he was an "higo del Pueblo." a son of the village, and nọ higo del Pueblo is going to be
taken off to Malaga to be mur- dered if they can help it.
The village knows their deeds and can judge them, Malaga has nothing to do with the matter,
This is very typical of Spain where every village is as strongly aware of itself as an entity as n Greek City State.
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A night came on a sinister began to run about the village. "The Tercios are coming! The Tercios are coming." There was a sort of horror upon the vii-' lage.
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HE Tercios are the only regular troops Epain has and are always kept in Morocco. They consist of 10,000 of the Foreign Legion and 5,000 Moorish troops. They are splendid soldiers, but have a bad name for ruthlessness, and are said to have slaughtered people indiscrimi-
nately in Oviedo,
Most of the Terelos, however, had been unable to cross to Spain
ARE YOU HAPPY?
EALTH and happiness-not in-
frequently, one of them exists True Health Not when the other is absent.
I have in the course of my pro- fessional life came into contact with hundreds of very happy people who by no means could be spoken of as healthy...
Essential to Make if it be his pleasure you should act
Life a Pleasure
"Remember that you are an actor indruma, of such a kind us the author, pleases to make it. If short, of a short one; if long, of a long one. a poor man, a cripple, a governor, or a private person, see that you het It naturally. For this is your business, to act well the character assigned to you; to choose it is an- other's."
as the sailors remained loyal to the Government and those that had crossed wero far away, in Seville and near Gibraltar."
After the first day or two Malaga gradually became, quiet. The for- rlen and cars with their, amateur Boldiers continued to rush by, but their number gradually decreused. The little local trains began to run again and we went into Malaga, first to see the ruins and then to draw money from the bank, and shop.
The town had an
extremely ominous appearance. Of the few
people in the streets mont Werc young workmen. The ruins in the Calle · Larios were at smoking and they were clear- ing the wreckage from the street.
The second time we went to Malaga the city had resumed its nornial life. There were not many people about. but women were shopping and the markets and shops and banks were all open.
The post goes out and comes in, but only in the Province of Malaga: the Httle trains run, but they only run to the nearby villages. The only news, except the Wild Village rumours, comes over the radio and is hopelessly confict- ing. La Passionara. a female Révolution-
talks In
shrieking, ecstatic voice, the sound of which 13 somehow extremely poetic. Madrid talks seriously, as a Gov- ernment should, The President Agana made a really fine speech one mid- night, reserved. noble, and from the heart.
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The Right leader in Seville, General Queipo de Llano, talks in the most extraordinary manner. He pours out ʼn stream of Information about the military situation, makes bad jokes in the worst taste, and Insults personal enemies of whom no one has ever heard.
to
fic threatena
shoot all the soldiers, Civil Guards and Guardia de Assaltes who have re- mained faithful to their allegiance to the Goverument, as traitors! When things had begun to be quiet in the district, and people were beginning to work in the fields again, we woke one morning hefore dawn with loud, strange sounds in our cars.
A Right aeroplano had come -over- and was dropping incendiary- bombs on the Malaga flying-feld After the a few miles away. bombing was over we went out on the balcony to see if any damage had been done.
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E saw, to bur horror, clouds of smoke appar- ently pouring from the house of some Spanish friends who lived next to the aviation field. We dressed rapidly, and with qur gardener, Antonia, rushed off to help them. As we approached near the house we saw that it was. uninjured,
The clouds of smoke were rising from two incendiary bombs which had fallen within 30 yards of the house and set light to the dry Our friends were up and grass, dressed, and we urged them to abandon their house and come to us, which they subsequently did.
That night the lower floor of our house, was crowded with poor vil- lagers who were terrified of bombs coming through the roofs of their homes, and also of the Moors com- ing in the night and cutting off their heads.
united pressure been brought by League members on Italy, "the aggressor. Since the Italian oc- cupation of Ethiopia, there have been suggestions in certain quarters that Britain has lost grip of the Mediterranean situa- tion-that, in fact, she intends to adopt a policy involving scut- tling from her base at Malta. The growth of the Italian hir orm has undoubtedly exposed this British Colony to danger, situate as it is within short fly-. ing distance of the Italian aero- dromes. But Sir Samuel Hoare, who has been on a tour in the Mediterranean, categorically de- clares that Britain has no inten- tion of abdicating her position: that, on the contrary, she in- tends to face the new situation in a manner which will make the position secure for the future.
Also, I have known-and some of This does not involve any new my most intimate friends have been
among the number-very many men By Dr HARRY ROBERTS
These quotations give some iden policy-it merely amounts to n
and women in the pink of health,
of intelligent modesty a very dif determination to preserve our yet as far from embodying happiness
or a the most painfully even where the Income is assured. ferent thing from servility overseas communications. The ns could be
sense of Inferiority. The earning of that small income
When one has reached this plateau necessity for action along these amicted victim of illness.
There is an old toast that runs, more often than not involves living lines is made all the more im- "Health, Wealth, and Happinesal" in or close to some large town. Rents of philosophy, and takes it for parative by reason of the possi-imagine that few are foolish enough are apt to be, large in relation to granted that we are what we are and could not have been otherwise; bility that the insurgents may
to assume that the possession of ten total wages or salary. Diuusand pounds, or even of one A cultivated young woman patient there is nothing to be ashamed of or win in Spain and Fascist control thousand pounds, a year brings hap- told me, in the course of a consulta-conceited about in being what we arq and in being clreumatonced as be secured over that country. piness with it, or is essential to tion, Uint she and her husband, with we are; the feeling of safety, of of the most un- an income of less than three hun standing on firm ground is almost In such an event, with the fur- happiness. One
happy men with whom I have ever dred a year, were compelled to live astounding In its comfort. That is ther possibility of Portugal de come into personal touch had no in a district in which the cheapest finitely linking up with the Fas-nameable physical ailment, and had small fat available cost then ninety the real basis on which happiness
may be bullt. cist combination, Gibraltar's an annual Income of anything be-pounds a year.
UT we shall remain be- position might easily become
fifty and sixty thousand a She was eager to have a child or THE BASIS OF ALL
case we have respon- affected. Italy's hold
children of her own, yet dare nel
Happiness itself is a manifestation
sibilities here: Spanish if justice were to be done to those Ethiopia is also a factor In the INJURED PRIDE
confidence. Everyone for whom the parents would have of faith, of
friends of all classes and political who sets out to scale heights which opinions to protect if we can. changed situation. Sir Samuel One of the happiest men i know is, made themselves responsible.
he is convinced are within his' com- Hoare says the Italo-Ethiopian a kindly-dispositioned old . bactelor,
Our servants, old friends whom petence is likely to be happy; every-
we brought down from the Sierra war may have been worth while whose income, oselllates between THE PRIME CONDITIONS
one who is In love, believing | nineteen shillings and twenty-one in that it has caused Britain to shillings a week,
What, then, are the prime condi- absolutely in the miracle embodied Nevada with us, to take care of. and our beautiful old house and tions of happiness? A certain in his beloved, and in his power to concentrate her attention on the Of course, the bearing of income minimum of health and h variable appreciate that miracle; as well as large library to save If possible... Mediterranean with a view to
on happiness becomes more real and minimum of wentth and economic those who both feel the mystery of We have the friendship of the more immediate when, instead security are, for most of us, among the phenomenal universe and are village, and fighting hero is un- remedying past deficiencies, being a bachelor, with only oneself the necessary foundations of a happy convinced that there is a meaning likely. We love Spain, and though The inference is that there has to cater for, one has a wife and dite. These things do not of them and a beneficial purpose behind it we can do nothing for her we do. been neglect in the past. It is,
three or four children, For people selves ensure happiness; they but all these are likely, in proportion to thus placed, there, is A money clear the way of obstacles. Mere their faith, to win the prize of real where we have lived so peaceably not want to abandon, the country, however, reassuring to know
minimum below which happiness is freedom from care, is possible on happiness. that there is now every inten- not so easy of attainment.
little more foundation than this. But
and happily, in her critical and tion of making amends and that
Three times out of four, however, freedom from care is not happiness. Christian church, but I bellove that
member of any desperate hour. the dissatisfaction associated with a In the first century of Britain, so far from yielding ner small but secure Income is due for Christian era lived a Greek slave conduct of human life, expressed in the the philosophy, and the hints for the position in the Mediterranean, more to injured pride than to any called Epictetus. Here are une or the recorded sayings of Jesus, are is resolved to, re-enforce her shortage of the material needs of two of his sayings
about the most important contribu "Men are disturbed, not by things, tions that have yet been made to the authority in this vitally import life or of physical health.
But we must' all admit that the but by the principles and notions sclence on which a sound art of hap- ant region.
economic difficulties may be great, which they form concerning things," piness must be based,
tween
year.
over
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om not a
The next morning there was some lively bombarding of the Spanish feet in the harbour.
Almost all the English have gone, and the fow that remain are urged by the Consul to go now.
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To-day's Thought............... AVERY great part of the E mischiafs that ves world arises froin words.
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EDMUND BURKE,