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THE EMPIRE'S
Showing the Strategic Position by
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By
AUGUR
To-day we publish an interest-
Great Britain And Europe-No. VI.
RIGHT
OF WAY
The
true friends of this country, by met only in the air, so that make its position secure in a re-. Along the route to the Cape the Navy at best becomes an stricted area...Through that there is not a single potential auxiliary, if not merely a specta- area Great Britain possesses a enemy to-day. This favourable tor. Neither Gibraltar nor right of way. On that basis an situation, however, will de- Malta can provide suitable ne- agreement should be easy to teriorate if the Azores, or the commodation for a powerful air achlovo. Canarios, or points on the fleet. In the case of warlike The writer hus had the
tho African coast can be used by complications
Admiralty advantage of personal contact Germany as bases for airplanes must count with the probable with Signor Mussolini.
wants and submarines. The drawback interruption for a considerable latter
An agreement will then be apparent that we time of the Imperial communica- with Great Britain. But, as ourselves do not possess such tions through the Meditor- far back as 1921, with his bases in the Atlantic and on the rancan, and this whether Great uncanny talent of foreseeing West
African coast. Great Britain takes part in them or events years ahead, Signor Mus- Britain has nothing in that remains neutral..
solini wrote that Anglo-Italian to compare .with N this changing world quarter
British policy.
A NEW MAP OF THE WORLD Casablanca and Dakar, which the cartographers still belong to France.
in the Mediter- Our map shows, too, ranean depends
ing article by Augur on the State of Europe. Aupur covers the name of a Diplomatie Correa- pondent who has built up an at- most unrivalled position for dealing with the European situation.
our
uphold their law of value to British trade of entirely upon putting North at the top of the right of way through the nature of
the Mediterranean and tho Sometimes this Suez Canal
relations the map.
into the Red dims political vision.
with the Ita- The Sea. It cannot be a matter for
surprise that this wonderful lians. This is a position of the British Em- short-cut has pushed into the delicate subject Stubbs Road pire, for example, becomes background the truly British but to broach at a longer route round South Africa. time when the clearer, if we dare to give to And yet in 1935, had this safe memory of the East the topmost place in alternative not have been avail. conflict over able, the tension between Great Ethiopia sti!! world. Britain and Italy would have lingers. our map of the
Yet it
unpleasant
Thongkong Telegraph. British naval strategy in its presented the Admiralty with an is at the bottom
FRIDAY, Frogany 12, 1937.
HOPE FOR THE LEAGUE
of the Mediter-
relationship to the problem Supremacy on the oceans does rancan problem.
more to preserve the right-of- of the Mediterranean cer- way through the Mediterranean The object of than a display of force inside the British policy tainly becomes clearer.
sea itself. To control the ap must be to pre- proaches is more important than serve intact the to concentrate a force inside. In right of way we LET us look at the the past the Russians were possess through Mediter- masters in the Black Sen, but the world from this new angle. East is at the top. The the British Navy held the ranean. fact then stands out that Europe Straits, and there is no dispute may be achieved with Asta forms one continent, about which Power had the with or against In any case, no Italy. After Four oceans wash this mass of upper hand.
This
more of
land with its adjacent islands local display of force can be of 1935 there can be no question (Australia included)-the At-se unless it is backed by a lantic and the Pacific, the Indian supremacy on the oceans out any side. and the Arctic. We now ace the British Isles in their central
The success which the League of Nations has registered by a' satisfactory adjustment of the Alexandretta and Danzig prob- lems is giving fresh hope to those who believe that, despite other failures, it can still be
Rome obedient- As explained in the article, the position of the British made an institution of world-
ly following in Empire, especially in relation to naval strategy, be- the wake
comes much clearer if the East is substituted for the of.
usual North at the top of the map, ...... wide value. It is realised that if position in command of trade TO-DAY the problem of London. Italy other nations are to be brought routes, and the importance to
the Mediterranean 'has moved definitely Into a relations would become really this country of the short-cut to cannot be back into the League, reform is the East through the narrows of strategy alone. In theory it is in the Mediterranean. This does the Mediterranean had been solved by naval position of Great Power, at least close only after the problem of Search Heroique de Szabady essential. A committee, consist the Mediterranean and the Red possible to put into that sen a not mean, however, that Italy threshed out between the two
ing of the representatives of Sea is evident.
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ALL THE WORLD'S A
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familarity. Thieves have been at it again.
We are all of us, I believe, sub- conscious thieves of thoughts and ideas. Not only do we assume them from newspapers and literaturo, but
time,
Doll's Song--Tales of Hof-twenty-eight of the League perial territories all round it. this cannot suffice to open the the contrary, now that the post the trouble over Ethiopia Signor The Indian Ocean has Im- petitors out of the water. But from now on is our enemy. On Governments. At the outset of LIGHT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA C-2759 Mannin Yeen (Dear Isle of countries, is accordingly now It is the British Mediter Mediterranean for mercantile tion has been made clear, there Mussolini foresaw, and said, that studying the various proposals ranean. With the exception shipping. In its narrow waters is no reason why the interests the issue of the relations be- of France other naval there is no spot secure from the of the two countries should not tween Italy and Great Britain which have been put forward.
Power exists in these waters. roving air raider from the land.
would come to a point. He now This body is well-supplied with The link with the Atlantic is not It is not the Italian, or any other, un parallel. Great Britain is --waits-for-a-sign-from- this side- material as a basis for its la- through a narrow strait, but in Navy which is dangerous. The an Oceanic Power, covering the that the discussion of the Medi-
it the is a British of aeroplanes. This menace can Mediterranean. It seeks to on an equal footing. last summer, only eighteen coun-Dominion, The Arctic. supplies tries had submitted their views an alternative route to the Pacific, but navigation is difficult, in writing, and there were pub-and Russia is in absolute con- ished under the title of the trol. "application of the principles of The Atlantic is the home of the British Navy. With the Covenant of the League of that position strongly held Nations." At the present time, Great Britain need not fear
On the NE of the most unscrupulous forty-two countries have put for-set-backs elsewhere.
other hand, defeat in the Atlan-thieves that I know has just left ward proposals for making the tic would be fatal. It could not smile and not the slightest shame in Ine, having stolen with a cheerful League a more efficient, peace be balanced by gains in
any his felony one of my most valuable possessions. To-morrow or the next machine. It would have been a other part of the world.
day, no doubt, he will come again to the world. The funny tale about from each other. I have many times miracle if all these States, in
to exercise the curlous privilege the tomb was part of my repertoire, been shocked to recognise personal which is granted to such as he something personal, part of my reflections of my own, over which I different parts of the world and
social armoury. Is it mine any namely the privilege of going longer? Not a bit of it. That felon HE difference between unpunished for helping himself to us ulched it from me, made it his those who have stolen them and made have taken not a little trouble, be- with widely varying outlooks, THE
ing tossed heedlessly to and fro by the Atlantic and the property of this particular kind.. had hit upon exactly the same Mediterranean is just this: the make off with a pocketful
Were he to enter my house and own, told it as his all around the them dishonestly part of their own
of my town. Others of his kidney have individualities. And I am ready to ideas for "League reform." The ocean is the basic position, whilst table silver or with my wrist watch
collared as theirs. My graveyard
consciousty guilty of the same thing. remarkable fact is that certain the sea is but one of the two I should have full redress. As it is whimsy--and I dearly loved it has admit that I have myself been sub-
fallen upon by this
this thlavish Yet one's inlviduality, like common conclusions run through great routes of the Empire. The he has only, so he thinks, given me a be and now if I
if I try to tell it I am map shows that the nerve centra pleasant two hours of his company. pack wil And In this case where. It is personal, and it should Incalculably precious belonging. In effect, he has robbed me of
"Oh-that one? Yes. It is expressed here, there, every the majority of the replies. of British naval power is in the hours of my own. I can take no I've heard Nobody has suggested that the area between Norway and the action. I cannot even accuse him justly consider myself victimised, but be inviolate. But is it? Not in this best interests of the League will western extremity of Africa of his theft for fear of mortally I have no redress. None of us has. world of cheerful robbers,
Near it are the two sectors, in offending him and gaining for my There, is no protection against the
Ecli reputation of anti-social whole world which is a thief, Without Acknowledgment be served by drastically over which British supremacy may be boorishness. hauling its machinery. There challenged. One of these is the he fancied himself considered a thief. with cash. A man may steal my dress
He would be shocked, indeed, if system. The law is concerned only
Mark the woman who dares to with individuality, skill, is, indeed, a discreet recognition North Sea, where the German But he is one, though his term for wife, and I can proceed against him patience, and thought. Mark how Navy is at home. The other is his thlovishness is neighbourliness, for allenating her affections, but only the thief-pack of other women swoops of the simple truth that the in the Straits of Gibraltar-For some reason, it is admowledged upon a cash basis.. He may steal my upon her and stents a bit here, and existing machinery merely needs the sally-port for the forces of and not generally thought ill of that friend, on the other hand, and I am a bit there, an idea about line, an
a Mediterranean Power like human beings have a right to im- quite helpless.
other about colour, and until she is driving power, That, of course,
pase themselves upon other human
valuable virtually denuded of her Italy,
belas. Time that is not given away Sub-Rosa Soul-Mates:
presence. These thieves are both too must come from the Member-
It is fortunate for Great should, it appears, be taken away,
clever and too feminine stoal States themselves. The pro-Britain that the United States,
with 1 France, and Portugal "are for posals, in general, atm at
one moment to the time thief. is able offences. You give a party to feeling spry and alert rather than is a presumptuous conceit; the law of which, many of your friends 'come. strengthening and not weaken-
property takes no account of such In your house the Browns meet the with homes. The woman who ing the powers of the League. enabling the League to act firm- valuable abstractions as time, We Robinsons for the Arst time. The lavishes thought and care upon her are enchanted with the home, designs it with excellence, It is unlikely that many actually as soon as there is any danger can sue for loss of money, but not o
Robinsorm. They remain together in stamps it indelibly with her personal- of war. It has always been as-
a corner for the duration of the tyis the safe from the robber- amendments of the Covenant
sumed that a unanimous vote is Stolen Stories
party. If you look closely you will band? No. They pounce upon that sco a surreptitious (for there is a home, grab the expression of that will be recommended by the necessary for action under This same wretched man, ILM
guill-sense attached to this particular women's ideas for themselves, and Committee of Twenty-Eight. Article 11 of the Covenant, and matter of fact, pillar of legal form of robbery) exchange of cards,
dsrever let it be sold with acknow- righteousness though he 10. goes a scribbling upon the backs of ledgment to the author. No desire for drastic changes is one useful reform would be to through life quietly and unashamed-envelopes. And
you may depend
One day, maybe, a law more, are just ingenious than pure of-to-day, will evident in the roplies of the alter 'n practice which enables a ly possessing himself of all manner upon it that the Browns
of things which do not belong to him about to make off with the Robinsons devise a scale of appropriate penalties. Governments. The question of party to a dispute to impose its other people's own, particular good under your very noge. At the time for social thievery May it be so, the interpretation of cortain veto. There is also a desire to stories that story of mine about the/nothing is sold, but you see the for is it right that I may go to prison.
for instance
for approprialing my neighbour's Then one day, maybe weeks later, timepiece, while I can sin against evor, may well be raised. The a ronlity, so that the League may regard that tell it. I farrated it you are startled to meet them at a him day, after day, unpunished, by majority of League members become an instrument for peace-the privled in
Charles Gordon. have stressed the importance of ful change.
out, reloleed In It. and prepared to party of the Browns, whom they are helping myself to his time? give it in small and sprightly dosen Christian-naming with the greatest
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