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STANLEY BALDWIN: MAN OR MIRACLET
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By Bechofre Itoberia (Robert Hate, 121. Gd.
HE Prime Minister, thinking out his future in tho quiét sociusion of Blicking aß, will And little consolation in the intest attempt to expinin to a wondering public the secret of his ring to power.
This study by Mr. Bechofer Roberts "Ephesian" is more an indictment than a biography,
With mercilen precision, "Eoliesinn pitieture of a man thed into binly potion fuel becnurn 10. wan 1101 briant or clover, comunitting blunder after blunder, Pachileing his own bel friends to his Incompetence, clinging to ofter long hiser tils appolated time and Allowing The ship of late to go ping. His along without any lenitership or
uidance.
The thor admits the Prenler in charting muli.
That Tradition began at actipol, A con- Arm,tary, a Harrow housemaster, naid, hall Foys and big boys shutight thin nier- wald of
because of bi DOM,"
That more this charm of roshner in co-
Atheroman, quired as
nat М grent Eplienints,' exatutaing the big mumenta ofte, linkedwin's carter, cass give nothing but a monotaugus verdrat of failure,
1
in first purtant jab was the Ameri-,
debt settlement Involving this country man anunt payment of ho term0,000,000 and £40,000,000 for more than half a century.
It now hlatory flint this nettlement nearly caused a Cabinet crisis, that Bonar Law with on the point of metana- tion and that the genietai ving, miboo- quently justified by events, was that Mr. Bolton had made a thoroughly und forgath which it wassld be impossitate to carry out.
at twin, "a pleasant fellow, but Inexperienteil and inkgown," become
Premier and they follows the disastroi Tarid Relorns election of 1023.
Onco more he in given a chancɑ when Labour falls on the Campbell case.
Eli prcchen on, "Olve peace in our tlins, O Lord," makes him the most popilar mina is the country-and then he destroys it all by precipitating the asneral Strike on a ininor ille fist when a arttlemont was in sight.
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For what reason? "Ephesian “-rays, "The most likely explanation of Baía- win'e ill-omcued decision is that it wan a typical instance of the sudden pige anelly 1< often found in habituini
driftete.
worm: turned-p the wrong time."
Ton follows the General Eleo-
1913 of tion when M., Bald- wil opened the campaign at Drury Inne with the depressing prediction that his Party would Joe at least 20 REALA,
"The result of the election exceeded the most pessimistle rettmate. Daldwin barf kurpanned himsel
epoch to be-
Alter the Aiac Dematti
• Baldwin con- coles Premier again,
With ducted the Conillion's busineAS
MacDonald's of Air, Archi methods that nobody could say which el the two leaders was the mute bone. 1 or the more wonderful,*
Pinally comes the Hottiaval crisis, 10 larew B.r Bamuel Hoars over da be Jind throw over so many of thin It.reds," Alwars he remaina. "Waiting the paycholotical mom^n Bridwin suunblem forward to the penint form, ersing Joudly I have minued.***
No matter who in aseriferd, Baldwi Always has a seat of the table, an honkitered pradient,"
With biting corn"Eglestan" writes in political eptish: "Îfu was no great A to the-Worcestershire County Camell."
E. E. 11.
-and the-
Arms Racketeers.
THE PROFITH OF WAR Jy Weinet Lewinolin
Routledge, 108. 66.3. VERYONE knows that an un- conscionable amount of money was spent on the last war, but no one hero has, troubled to estimate how much was made out of it.
M. Lewintala given the Bird. hint of the colossal fortuney piled up by the war-time proliteers, and, in a rough calculation of the probis of boligerent and neutral countrics alike, suggrain the star- as nu "absolute minimum Bering total of $10,000,000,000.
But it only taggering when lort from its context, for the book to Alled with revelations of those who, through- B: hintory, have cheerfully been turn- Ing pubfle lowes into private, edin. I in not the absolute minimum" onc Bas doubts about, but rather the size of tha possible maximum...
This is nt once the most comprehen- sive and most damning Indictment to date of the proft which war means to some M. Lewinroha maken a systematic and thorough survey of the whole sub- ject, overlooking nothing and no one in his search for inein,
AS
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murely planted fondul warriom and Vicker- Armstrong the craftsmen ermouseTR, BO has the natal and economic structuro of war"complotely changed.
ΠΑ pild armion ALJI.
By 1014 the art of foreing tribute from
a nation's neods had been perfected, and the speculators and middlemen, the
Ani ContraCLOTH
manufacturers,
No
grafters ad Government agents really got to work.
in America the price of vereats bought
THE
by the Allow rose by 359 per cent, by 11/17. Morgan working on i pur cent, €17 er put through a trile otster
Bathi valued at $7.000.000 dollars. hem at Pi
LIK 74200
shares rocketed on tyn aten parkets frean delbur
In Inglink the slimmatig boom
pr is dream 10,000,000 m 150134 €230.000.000 1 1016. ("For £5.00DEND kan Camera Line nequcted the fi munene wealth and Domadon 3, whereas the pital value of the latter was no thote than 2,000,000 at the mytrale "
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The markets were girony outy when ramtone mustgested mediation, [+ nitempt to patch up prore.
SUW
And at Line? "The centre of gravity of, war profes," kaya the nutzer, "has been on the whole. If not alo gether regularly, shifting away frean. tho actual theatre of operations. The Fina 1 fins are now thenneed, and 19 In doubtful whether they will ever again the proats they have enjoyed in The past.
marn
Looking toward the future, it may fairly afely be predicted that the fur- ther one get from work, the prontablo they will bo, it not one's own wars that will bring in the pros. but the warn of othera. Armaments will replino ich war profits thin the mont innocent of products,"
Mumbers of the Arms Commission might do wornu than leave their unhur redeliterations for an hour or two to consider M. Lewinsohn's brilliant ex- Arauation of this vital subject. Their attention-la-directed__particularly____to_
pago 278:
"On December 19 Lloyd George made A peech is reply, which seemed defl. There altele to settle the matter. would be to neace negotiations. Ti008 rose on the Stock Exchange."
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THE HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, OCTOBER
16, 1936.
A PICKFORD-LASKY
ROUND ABOUT by
The Showman
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OMETIME to-day-Saturday, Isn't It7-I hope to be sitting in my garden, complete with
lime-trees, cat-walk, and dogs' bone-burial ground,
The simple flowers of the country. alde, which we have transplanted with surt success, will woo me to sleep. That glorious profusion of Old Man's Boo That blumbing cluster of Par nou's Frolle! That isolated bloom of Kis-Me-Charlie, the other side of the rusty trowel! And the patch-six Inches by four-of Love-Tries-Weed- 113
Molly The Martyr
At Just as I am dozing off 1 shall hear the call of young Jemes
walls and back
perors
Atolly he will begin in a bara voice, and high in a disconcerting faletto- "Where's my nest shirt?"
A fat to! fun it bring som:un?A It's always—" Where's 7033 sir? Just so that he can go, tit with romeone whom it would be at- tering to can tow-headed little p
A tow-headed little ape thinks Molly, who is guaranteed to pinch all the alt-centres from all the boxes of choc dates within Afty mile
"Where I test st-ait your bed? "It isn't here: I've tonized!"* "Look again!”
Gradually the storm recedens, Have You Got It?
LAMOUR is the fashionable word
Originally ed. I hellere, tu der, mere the effect of faire, or eyelvben, painted eyebrown, a voice like a le biting through tim, and consplete absence of charm, ta now applied to anything that seems to was an exciting Inbel (ke a divorce aul
earer
It is creeping into headles: for example:
THERE IS GLAMOUR AT THE BOTTOM OF YOUR GARDEN
CATS NIGHTLY SERENADE
It is aspiring writers to ask if the mother mother 21:13 Riour: D rth the lamour of a stuffed hen pected on the top of the new gam
THIN Hat; to tell dua condurturs how 1 afsheve amour
And at 1 feet really must put timore dabs of perfume behind my
Wars' Pow Wow
A
P. O'CONNOR ends in a log of an anniversary that fell this week. It reminds us of the
de elirmishes that led to the vic
establishment of Trude tripes Uniontam.
On August 19, 1811, Jatin Stanley. Joseph Jeffery. Thomas Brian ni Thomas Bruni, all journeymen boot makers employed by Mr. Hale of Fleet- street, were charged at the Gulidhall with conspiring to raise the price of Wires," There had been a meeting of ine journeymen, and this prosecu- 1lon was the result.
The four men were aentenced to two months imprisonment in Newgate, Two others escaped on a point of law. THE DEBATE CONTINUES
AM putting in a word here myself when I say that those were the days when the sentiment of "The rich man in his castle, the poor man at his Rate" reflected Christianity for many people: it still does.
-95-1-am-gind-that-the-Rev. £t. P. Modern the Kingdon, addressing Churchinen's Conference, at Oxford. bas atignutised some hymns as bad and meudiin. I am especially glad that he said." It is sheer hypocrisy to preach the gospel that man canot live by bread alone. to those who have not even got bread."
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ONE RAINY AFTERNOON
WHAT HAD GONs okrona: Philippe turtin, a young Parisian actor, has been carrying on a mild fitri) tation with Yooring, who la mari ried, Their rendezvous la a mo tion picture thentre. Philippe, in the darkened houao, takes a nunt opposite Monique Pelorin, miz taleing her for Yvonne, to ass her, and the slaps kim, creating A scene, The pondarmes.ard sun- moned.
Chapter Two
*** IDA LUPINO
[per when at the Pelerin home he Kels an inkling of the "kina" opi- mode.
"What is this?" he asks. “Did someone kiss Monique?"
"Yes," says Pelorin.
Count Alfredo turns to his fiances, "Wero you kissed, Monique 7"
"I was kitsed," zaya Moniqua. "If there is any kissing of Mo nique going on, Count Alfredo #aye with dignity. "I bould bo-kept in formed."
"Don't worry!" says Peloria, "The way things are going, you'll hear plenty."
Ile does, 8o does Philippe. The newspapers denounce the young no- tor as a flend. Ha fellow 'nelors make fun of him during rchesranks.. Only die promptor, Toto, attckn by him
PHILIPPE, THE FIEND Madama Prezident la, as good ne her word. Bho carried on. The very
Phillippo ban a minor part in a. next morning the pays a visit to Monique's father, publlaber of the musical play that is doomed from "Morning Journal Monsieur Pelo- the beginning to failure. Five of the rin receives her coldly. Iis not chorus girls have already quit bo Interested In her clory of nome cauo they had not been paid. The maning who bothered a girl in nelectricians and stage carpenters motion picture 'theatre, he is not wait out in a body for the same interested in her Society for the reason The stage director throat-
Protection of Publle Morals, and fens to quit, too. Ia hna received he in not interested in her. Thereo calory for cl months.
cno."
more weighty 'neva In the world, "I haven't paid rayself anything "What if the iri happened to for a year," saya ialist, the pro- your doughter?" Madamo Presidures. "Maybe I ought to quit. 17," dent demands,
In decides instead to tiro aine- "Fortunately for me." anya Pele hudy. The victim is Philippe, Mail- rin good-naturedly, “such là not the lot at knowledge that has the "end" in his employe cornea "Mana cur Pelerin," anya Modame when the reportera descend upon Prculdent Impregnively and trium-him. They want to know all about phantly, "your daughter. Monique, Philippe. Who is his favorite au was the girl at the cinema."
Thor? Doen he prefer blondes? Inu Pelerias shaken by thin infor- he ever attacked any of the girla mation, but nut too much. It was around the theatre?
Maillot turns to his necretary, anly a king, and borider, his daugh- tor knova how to take care of her- Fellee. "Has he," he ask
"Not me," answers the secretary. Ballet sight with rellet, Zieverthe lean, he decides to get rid of the "matter." No telling when the lunatic may break loone around the theatre. The stage director Inter coden for Philippe in vain.
"He's just the fellow I want," nays the sluge director,
But Madame President and the Indien of the S. P. P. M. are not to bo no lightly diainlased. Deneend- ed from the cackling geese whe onco saved Rome, they are now prepared to save Paris. Aadams President visita the Minister of Jus- tico and demands action in the
"Yes?" cays Maillot. Well, he's Case, he also give the story to all the newspapers. They pick it up just what the pallee want too." And gleefully. The Affair of the Klan he pointed his finger at Philippe. threatens to overshadow the Drey-"You couldn't act in my theatre fuss Case, or the Staviaky Scandal even if you could act."
All Innocent of the storm that is brewing, the principals of the affair begin their day cheerfully enough. But trouble descends upon them
A process acrver arrives and pre- early, Monique is engaged to be married to the Count Alfredo Don-sents him with a summons.
What is this? naks Philipps. atelli de Pignacellidt Rostigasst, what do they want now?'*** ete. Ho is an amiable gentleman, "You," довска tho process but moro distinguished for his good tempor and his family than for his server, "To appear for trial at the brains When the newspaper pho Court of Correction on the eom. tugraphera descend upon him he is plaint of the Socialy for the Protec
ilon of Public Morals." Battered.
lie lasca some of his good tem-
It is a hectlo day fur Philippe. Yvonne visits him to beg him to Keep her name out of it whatever happens. He promisca.
To be continued.)
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