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FRIDAY, OCT. 9, 1936.
BUDGET DEBATE.
The Colony's major problems were scarcely touched upon in the Budget speeches by Unofficial members at Wednesday's meet. ing of the Legislative Council. Financial stringency, which the Government cites as making any- a "mark-time" thing else but Budget possible, would appear to obscured the have limited or vision of most of the Unofficials, for, in the main, their contribu- tion to the Budget debate, did not go far beyond purely munici- pal issues, more a matter for the Urban Council than the Colony's Innumerable legislative body. questions, of high importance no mention whatever. received It is to be admitted that the Colony's big problems cannot be immediately tackled, but that is no reason why the present junc-
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"The system set up at the end of the war has broken down."
̈(Picture taken during the 1919 Peace Conference.)
EUROPE at the
A
ROUND TABLE
COMMITTEE of Euro- pean States is meeting shortly in London, with Mr. W. S. Morris in the chair. Primarily its joh is to see that the Spanish arme embargo is loyally and effective- y enforced. But its significance goes far beyond that.
The Committee is the outward and visible sign of M. Blum's attempt to restart European co-operation. It is the first time since 1933 that there has been a general meeting of European States for any com- mon purpose.
It is for a strictly limited pur- pose. But its success or failure may be decisive for bigger issues. For the biggest of all issues to-day is whether it is going to get Europe be possible to functioning in some kind of co-operation for the keeping of peace and the settlement of differences, or whether it is going to break again into rival incessant alliances, waging diplomatic conflicts with each other, and preparing incessantly for the day when diplomatic confilet suddenly develops into маг.
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PAST...
To avert the break up into armed camps, to rebuild some kind of European system, is the task Blum set himself when he came to office.
It is a dificult enough task, and ono cortain to invite mis- understanding and misrepre-
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sentation. It is going to mean plentiful trouble for him at home.
But there it is. And the nood, to anyone coolly surveying the Europe of to-day, is plain enough. The system set up at the end of the war has broken down. It con- sisted first of the League, and secondly of a series of pacts and alliances between sots of States. of which the general purpose was to safeguard the territorial system of Versailles (Including in "Vor- sailles," of course, the other peace treaties).
But the underlying assumption of it was the stark fact that in the Immediate post-war years France was easily the most powerful mill- tary nation In Europe.
So that every minor State which felt that it needed some guaran- teo for its frontiers, felt that so long as it could have an alliance of some kind with France it was perfectly safe.
And on top of this there were the guarantees afforded by the League and the Covenant.
☆
PRESENT..
Now all that has changed. In 1919, and for years after, both Ger- many and Russia were, if not negligible, at any rate definitely of the second rank as European military Powers, To-day they are both of the first rank.
Italy, too, though her real strength is open to a lot of doubt, has to be counted very seriously, since all her energies and resources have been concentrated on war preparation.
There are on the Continent to- military first-class day four Powers. with big economic re- 80 them. And sources behind there is the possibility, non-exis-
by W. N.
EWER
lant ten years ago, of those Powers forming into rival blocs, so ovenly balanced that either might take the risk of war with the other.
That possibility is shaking the alilances and has shaken the Loogue. The thing ono sensed most clearly in Genova, this sum- mer was the growing fear of smaller States.
Not only had the Abyssinian fall- ure shaken their confidence in the ability of the League to function'at all, but also they had become afraid that League action might bo, in fact, not the mobilisation of the world against a single aggressor, but the dragging of the small States into a conflct between two groups of blg Powers.
So the very marked tendency of, for example, the Scandinavians to turn away from a full League. policy back to a policy which would at any rate try in the event of a big Power clash to remain neutral. You see the same tendency in Bel- gium, even in the Little Entente States.
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FUTURE.
The small States are no longer casy in their minds about what "collective security would mean In fact.
about neutrality. They think They begin to calculate how they can keep on good terms with all the blg Powers, especially those to them. biggest and nearest
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married man. Does that mean there is work for my wife, too?""
They begin to wonder, if choice were thrust on them, whom, in their own interests, they should choose.
Europe is moving rapidly to- wards indeed it has not already reached-a point at which, unless the big Powers can sottio differences, make friends, and co-operate with each other, any genuine system of collectivo security will be- come impossible.
the big
There would, bo Powers intriguing against each other, and the small ones either trying to keep out, or trying to trim-between the rivals groups, or joining, under pressure, one group or another-and quite probably changing sides..
For remember that in such conditions all groupings arą un- atable as water. Not only small but big Powers chop and change sides.
Russia was Germany's ally before the Franco-Russian al- lance and more than once was near to jumping back again. Italy's fickleness is notorious.
The DANGER...
Here, then, is the danger-of Europe lapsing again into unstablo and shifting systems of alliance, cynically based on self-interest, with nobody really trusting any- body else, and with the whole con- ception of collective security as dead as the League would soon be..
How to avert it. That is the problem which at Geneva in June Blum and Eden set themselves.
The Landon talks in July, the in- vitation to Germany, and the Ger man acceptance were the first real atops.
It is really a double problem. For the two big things, neither of them aasy, are to get a settlement between France and Germany got a settlement-or at any rate -an-easing-of-tension-batween, Germany and Russia. And both are necessary.
Hence the double sim of the pro- posed" Locarno " Conference.
And hence at once a difcuity. For the Germans think that if they could get a Western settlement without an Eastern, they could isolate Russia. And some at any rate of the Russians think that if they could prevent a Western settlement they could isolate Ger- many.
COMPROMISE...
the purpose of looking ahead and planning-on-definite lines for the. future. To pass on to the issues which were raised, there can be the Colony's question that roads have been allowed to de- teriorate greatly a fact upon which several of the speakers concentrated. The patching pro- has been wholly unsatis- factory, and, if continued, must prove most uneconomical. För tunately, the Government itself. now realises this point. With the pointed out, the authorities were amount of money for roads restricted by reason of financial a position to know the level
nt which the dollar would stringency, wisdom undoubtedly pegged, and it surely would not lies in utilising it on adequate therefore have been difficult to a holiday abroad, advertised for
WEALTHY widow, contemplating t Dr. John Brown, the author, went
Each policy is obvious enough, out for a sail during his holiday. each is completely short-sighted. maintenance rather than on the safeguard the Colony's finances
caretaker during her absence. accompanied by ladies. a lower
If the danger is to be avoided we After interviewing the appileants A sudden squall sprang up, the sea have got to get both. opening up of new thorough- from the effects of fares. We were glad to observe dollar. Having ourselves "let the she chose one who she thought would grew rough, and the boat was pitched
This is the real idan underlying cat out of the bag" in regard to give satisfaction.
about to the alarm of its occupants. the Widows and Orphans' Pen- "Thanks for givin me the job,
With a view to putting them at Blum's much criticised Spanish The Spanish rebellion slons Fund, we hail with satis- ma'am," said the successful one. "And their case, the owner of the hired polley.
came just as the preparations for "Locarno" wore beginning, faction Mr. Paterson's pointed may I ask a question? You sald in boat kept on saying-
"There's nae fear! There's naelum saw at once the danger remarks on that subject. That the paper that you required a
fear!" Civil Servants are getting shabby deal in this matter is
"Oh no," replied the lady, "I beyond question. Mr. Lo raised a big question when he brought wanted to make sure of getting someone who is used to taking orders forward the educational policy of from a woman; that's all.
Two tired holidaymakers, strangers the Government, and much of his argument thereon-was-un-to each other, were silling on a scat-In-difficulties-in-a-great-storm, to find some baals, some common answerable. The same observa- in the park. Said one to the other: the captain of a certain ship decided policy on which the European. tion applies to his remarks on it has corse as I expected. I have dreaded it, and now it's happened. the Military Contribution, which I have gone deaf! You have been in regard to this scourge. Mr.is yearly proving a heavier talking to me for ten minutes, and Braga dealt with a real. need burden for the Colony to bear. I haven't heard a word."
"Talking? I'm not talking," replied when he spoke of the relatively There is also something to be
Bald for his contentions regard- the other, "I'm chewing gural" provision 'for bathing
The excursion steamer, wng crow- ing
water excess
charges, facilities for those of ordinary although the public generally ded with holidaymakers, and Jones, the prominent politician, prayed means on the peninsula. Many would not be likely to approve of that he would not be recognised. seaside centres have met this his proposal for an extra.three But, alas!
on assessment in ticed by erecting bathing pools per cunt.
Not much within easy reach of the popula-substitution thereof.
that was concrete emerged from tion; and there seems no reason the Official replies, if we except why something along that line, His Excellency's suggestion for with dressing facilities, could not reform of the Budget procedure, "What?" exclained his admirer be provided in Kowloon. On the which is most welcome. By the "Don't you remember me? "Don't question of the Colony's financial method suggested, points of de- you recollect that big public meeting position, there will be many tail should be disposed of before you had at Blethercombe a year or who will agree with Mr. Pater- the Council debate takes place so back, and what a grand reception
we gave you?" son that the Government could and thus open the way for both
"Yes, I remember that. But have avoided a deal of loss had thỏ Official and Unofficial
"Well, then," was the triumphant it taken the precaution to fix speeches to be devoted to major rejoinder, "I was the fellow in the exchange. As Mr. Paterson matters of polley.
grey Homberg."
that Mr. Hughes directed attention to the need of more footpaths along dangerous roads, as well as to the necessity for some protection along the Praya, which should be easily devised without undue interference with harbour craft coming alongside. The plea for more vigorous war- fare on
malaria is also well based; the risks are too great to justify any half-hearted measures
noor
The worthy doctor, unable to stand that Europe might split at once it any longer, raid to the old tar into two camps, one backing each. "My good man, don't keep on saying side in Spain. If so, good-bye to that. There may be no danger, but I all hopes. can assure you there is a very con- siderable amount of fear,"
So, with his eye all the ume.on his main objective, ho set to work
Powers, instead of dividing, could to send up signals of distress.
Sky-soaring rockets burst over the unite..
He has found it. It is a polley ship, and an answering flare was seen on the coast. A solemn-faced which, as it affects Spain, nobody passenger looked up at the bridge. likes, about which everybody must.
"I say, captain," be shouted, 'I'm have qualms of conscience. the last man on the boat io cast a
But it has at least succeeded in but getting all the European Powers damper on your bit o' sport. surely this is no, lime to be letting round a table for a common pur- off fireworks!"
An American was alring his views
DOSC.
importance.
And that, as things stand in on our country as he saw it, and Europe to-day, is a fact of no small. remarked-
"There's nothing much the matter "
with this little Istand. All you need is a little more hustle."
11tlo man sprang in front of him. "You're Mr. Jones, aren't you, sir?” "That happens to be my name."' suld the M.P., frigidly, "but I am not aware that I have ever had the plea- sure of your acquaintance."
At that moment there came a clattering noise, and the latest type of are engine flashed into view, and vanished round the corner.
"Whatover's that?
visitor.
gasped
the
"Oh," anid his friend, with a smile, that's only the district window- cleaning company working avertime." Experienced travellers my that it is not only tourists from foreign lands (Continued on Page 4.)
-To-day's Thought- WAR, to sane men at the pre- sent day, begins to look epidemte ineanity.
·like 'an' breaking out here and thera like the cholerà or influenza. infecting men's brains instead of their bowels.
-----EMERSON.