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BRITISH LABOUR
SPLIT
To those who follow the inner working of politica in the Old Country, the recent decision of the Executive Committee of the Labour Party to disafliate the Socialist League, for disloyalty to the Party, is a matter of con- siderable interest. This develop-
GOSSIP ACROSS
SCENE 1.
(The Targa Florio motor-race cours in Bicily, most famous of all racing circulla. It wanders over mountain passes and neross ravines. The car has stopped near a tiny memorial stone-one of many-set up by the Fondlalde. Kis dim description reads "Glulfo Conte-Maserati~~1925,"} BLACK: "Looks na if it's pretty dan
gerous motor-racing here.” WISDOM:
"Well, n't all motor-
racing? HEALEY: "Yes, and what's; the we? " BLACK: "Now we're arguing. It's certainly no more dangerous - than, for instance, Bunday afternoon on the Kingston by-pass." WISDOM: But does motor-racing Ret us anywhere? Does it really 'Improve the breed'?" BLACK: " Of course. You must have heard we're living in an age of speed. Progress of civilisation and the ad- vance in speed go together-look at history. Anyhow, look what motor. racing has done for carn-beiter road-holding, better tyres, reliability. As cars have got faster to they've Rot safer, even if that doesn't go for the drivers.”
HEALEY: "Maybe not much satis
faction for those chaps who went over the side here, though."
SCENE JI.
Palerino-set amid orange and lemon groves. Oranges have dropped, from the trees, le on the ground rotting. ilealey gets into the car with a bag of ranges, part of the Iron rations"
for the trip.)
HEALEY. You might think, seeing nil these oranges and lemons all round us that they'd be cheap. Well, we'vo just been charged four- pence each for these." BLACK: You should know-never 4o to the source of supply for things
EUROPE
Notos of unimportant conversations between three motorists engaged on a 2,000 miles day and night journey from Sicily to Franco by way of lioly, Jugoslavia, Austria and Germany. They talkod, it will be soari, “of many things"-and; in all,probability, 10 koop thamsolvas awako.
THE "GOSSIPERS":
Donald M. Healey, engineer and well-known compo-
tilion driver.
Norman Black, racing motorist with many successos on
two wheels and on four.
Thomas H. Wisdom, racing motorist and "Daily Herald"
Moloring Editor.
chraply. Ilaven't you heard that you can buy a Yarmouth bloster more cheaply in Golders Green than at Yarmouth, and a farmer's children have tinned milk because It's cheaper?".
SCENE III.
The notorists have forsaken their cars for an hour-borrowing a (lsber- man's beat, they have bathed from It, in the nude, In the Stralte of Messina,)
+
BLACK: "Now, who could want any- thing better than this-sun, pleasant scenery, nothing to do. 'And It's snowing in England." WISDOM: "Fine-except it'a'a,criml- nal offence to bathe without a cor- Lume."
HEALEY: "And the whirlpool of Charybdia is round here somewhere. If it's still working we may have to atay here. And this whole place was wrecked by earthquake in 1907."
SCENE IV.
(Pompell, 3 a.m. Vesuvius, a ball of blood-red Hame, topped by a column of smoke, is in the distance.) BLACK: Well, that's an amazing
ment follows hard on the heels JAPAN GETS A FOOTHOLD
of the agreement reached be
tween the Socialist League with the Independent Labour Party
and the Communist Party to
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form a united front. In order to grasp the significance of what is WHETHER the Filipinos like it or dominate the Philippine fishing in-
not, the Philippines, without the dustry. happening, it is necessary to ex-protection of the United States or The Filipinos have a law limiting plain that the L. L. P. and the some other great Power like Great the entrance of Japanese in the fish- Britain, will come under Japanese ing trade, which provides that no Socialist League are both ex-domination. Already well under way boats of more than three tons belong- penetration Ing to aliens should be licensed. But Although the American flag still fles vent this law is to bribe Filipinos to over them, the Japanese have already register as the fishing boats" owners. the Islands' lumber cut out for themselves a large colony The Japanese are also on their way In-Davao,-the-south-eastern part of to dominate
industry. Mindanao.
The Japanese have their eyes on a The Quezon administration is oc- cupled with the Japanese problem 300,000-ton deposit of high-grade in Davao. President Quezon has been chromite ore, a 10,000,000-ton deposit making inspection and first-hand of lower-grade chromite ore, a 500,- 000,000-ton deposit of iron ore, and parcels of land in Davao. Although
impel the Labour Party to adopt more drastic methods of Social- ist propaganda.and practice. The Socialist League has remained a constituent member of the Lab- our Party, working for a more extreme policy from within the
Party; whereas the L.L.P. had to study of Wegal holdings of large arious deposits of copper, lead, zing,
names
and
a wrecking I dummies. For the use of their out of the islands which
labour
to
Asic,
Australia.
pas
com-
leave the Labour Party some the law of the Philippines prohibits manganese, coal, asphalt, gypsum,
phosphate, sulphur the acquisition of land by aliens, guano, years ago because of its intran- Japanese have acquired 170,000 acres cement.
Japan needs these materials not sigeant attitude. The Commun- of agricultural land and many more
only for her industries but for war acres of forest land. ist Party has tried to obtain en-
Investigators have found out that purposes. No wonder Japanese ex- trance to the Labour Party, but Japanese are acquiring land with the pansionlsts regard the Philippines has been refused on the grounds her through the use of citizens as
unpatriotic Filipino the answer to their fervent prayers.
There is no doubt that Japan lawyers
in as soon as the United States acts Statoves that its policy. is
Palau, onɔ ɔt these dummles
10 per cent, of the policy and not one of co-opera-
the Japanese yearly
Produs Bet
less than three hours distant by tion -in measures aiming at.
feel that the Japanese are plane from the Filipinos
the Philippines, mand of amelioration of
con- in Davao to stay. When the Secretary
the southern part plete command of the Department of Agriculture and
of the
the archipelago. With the Philip- ditions and the gradual intro Commerce could no longer stand the pines under Japan, the Japanese coul
Socialiam. duction of
gibes, of the Manila Press for his
his completely command the coast of Now,
fallure to
he cancel legal cases,
dominate the route from the in defiance of Labour Party re-announced that he would cancel Pacific to the Indian Ocean, the route solutions and general policy, the several thousands of them. Prompt to India, and bring themselves nearer
ly President Quezon ordered him to to the Dutch East Indies
and Socialist League has decided take no action. form a "United Front" with the Whatever will be the President's
Then, Indeed, they would have a solution of the problem, Filipinos real island empire, with sure markets LLP. and the Communist Party believe that it will not be expulsion of for their products, sure outlets for for more extreme methods and the Japanese possibly will be their surplus population, sure source aims. Sir Stafford Cripps, the lenition validating existing lenses of of raw materials.
President land, prohibiting new ones.
The Filipinos, however, are deter- well-known M.P., is the leader of Quezon knows he cannot drive the mined not to meet Japanese Invasion Japanese away or scare the like lying down. They are building an the Socialist League. His utter-Fipino mountain bandits. Assuming army under the leadership of General ances of late have incurred the an attitude of defiance, the Japanese displeasure of the official Lab our Party, which considers that his tactics ara calculated to hin- der rather than advance the rea- lisation of progressive Ideas. We may possibly see his connection with the Labour Party severed in the near future. The point of special interest in this Labour dispute is that the three bodies which are in conflict with the official party have no great fol-ahow their relative strength and in- for would be averse to any pact lowing; they are made up of ex. Auence. They are rapidly supplant canteeing the neutrality of the ing 80,000 Chinese as the Islands tremists who seek to attain retail traders. They control now 35 Philippines, he shattered one of the
strongest hopes
of an independent their ends by means which de per cent of the retail trade of the
islands. The Filipinos prefer Japan- Philippine government. Significantly not make a popular appeal to the ese goods to American, British or the
The Japanese renounces the Idea of electorate. Happily, the Lab-other foreign products, because they Governman said:
are much cheaper. This is especially great Powers concluding agreements our Party, though at the mo- true in the & texille trade.
guaranteeing the freedom, integrity, ment with little prospect of refishing waters, and yet 80 per cent. of
The pride of the Filipinos is their or neutrality of other nations.”
The Filipinos are spending much of | turning to office, has managed the fish supply of the Manila markels the money they need for education
have announced that they are ready to raise a huge defence fund and ex- claimed: "We will never step off our land. There will be trouble if any one should drive us away,"
By JAMES G. WINGO.
(Reproduced from_the_January "Contemporary Review.")
night-worth coming all this wag to
scr."
WISDOM: "It's so unbelievable that The whole thing's probably a stunt worked by the Naples Chamber at Commerce to attract tourista." HEALEY: "It's an odd mixturen vol. Cano In eruption, the ruins of Pompeil, and here we are on modern autostrada.“
a
SCENE V.
(Naples, 9 a.m. The streets aro crowded, but everyone walks on the side of the street according to their direction-one pavement is “doan," the other up." Policemen seo that none tries to walk the wrong way.) BLACK: That's a fine idea for nar- Tow streets. Shouldn't think peoplo like it much, though." HEALEY: "If they don't the Ane to Ayo lire, paid on the spot. "That's one of Mr. Smith's ideas" WISDOM: "Bet it would appeal to our own roads dictator. But what a Hope of getting away with it in England,"
SCENE VI.
"
(Rome, noon. The driver sounds his horn, which brings the populace to a hall with looks of awe upon their faces.) BLACK: "Looks as if I shouldn't have
done that." HEALEY: "Quite right-sounding the hooter is forbidden in Rome. What was once the noisiest city is now the quietest."
Wisdom (later): "Well, it seems to work; but narrow squeaks seem more frequent. D', you see how the cab drivers and errand boys get over it -they just whistle at you."*
SCENE VJI
(The leaning tower of Pisa.)
WISDOM: "That was bult in 1350, having been started in 1174. It's 170 feet high and leans more than 10 feet out of the perpendicular, Beerną they got it half way up, saw it was leaning and got the top half straight."
BLACK: "Sounds crazy to me-even for 600 years ago. I should say the ground Just subsided." HEALEY:** Maybe, but it wouldn't be half as farious if it wasn't leaning.”
SCENE VIII.
.
(At Padua, over a flask of chinnti.) HEALEY: "Well, this stuff tastes just
liko red ink to me.”
WISDOM: "De as the Romans do
chianti in Italy, vin blana or vin rouge France, alivovich in Jugo slavia, rakisi in Turkey, lager in Ger many. schnapps
the Baltic countries, and real beer in England." "Well, at this present BLACK:
moment you can have the lot for one real cup of tea.”
SCENE IX.
(Between Trieste and Ljubljana, on the Italo-Jugoslarian border. The road is Ice-covered, and Healey is furiously winding the wheel in a successful en- In the Philippines is an organised Douglas MacArthur, former chief of deavour to keep the car on the road.) Japanese
Tours
to staff of the United States Army, HEALEY; "The Germans have the propaganda. Japan have been subsidised by Tokyo. Recently the general announced that
most descriptive word for this stud can mako the
-they call it verglas." All over the Philippines lawyers are he
Philippines learning the Japanese tongue. A invasion-proof with only $8,000,000 BLACK: "Yes-like the French word school has been established in Manila a year: Since the Philippines have a
glissanta for a road that's slippery when it's wet." by the Japanese for those desiring to coastline twice as long as the United
(LATER) learn
"the coming language of the States', Americana took the famed country.
Announcement with a grain.į WISDOM: "Seeing we seem to be deal
ing with this sort of thing fairly muc- A conservative estimate of the total of
Japan's Foreign office cessfully, how would you explain Japanese population of the Philippines When is 20,000. That number does not spokesman sald the other day to snow and ice driving to the novice?” correspondents
HEALEY: "Well, now fallen snow, so long as it's not very deep in car? enough. Just keep going, no violent. braking or acceleration and, if there, ero rats, be very careful to keep in them, otherwise if you overatear you'll end in the dich. Don't use chains for that sort of thing. On ica you want chains on the rear wheels. Bonte people use ono chain on the front as well, but it has the danger that it may wipe off the side-lamp wiring. BLACK: “ And don't try to go fast. You may get away with speed-stuff for 100 miles, but on the 101st you will probably collect the ditch or worse."
*that
his
to preserve its sanity of out- 18 Japanese caught. Provided with and public health on national defence, fast motor boats, strong nots and They are organising an army, which look..
sofentific training, the Japanese (Continued on Page 41)
SCENE X. (Third night on the road, Supper- Lime-Brst covina in two malted Palle tablets, followed by a pleco. of barley
sugar; dessert is an orange apiooo.) WISDOM: "Most unsatisfactory-I'm
still hungry.”.
BLACIC: "I'd give a pound for a steak
and half a pint of beer." HEALEY: "And then you'd go fast anlerp. If you've got to keep awako the less heavy food the better." WISDOM: "Well, the theory, may be
all right, but
SCENE XI.
(On the Sabburg autobahn, 60 miles Sof dead-straight, double-tracked, con-
crele motor-road,)
-
HEALEY: "We've got nothing like this In Enginud. Why is it that the roads of Italy. Franco and Germany are " better than ours?" WISDOM: 'Ask me another-except of course, that these German auto- bahns and Italian autostradas are military roads."
BLACK: “There must be some other reason, Why, there are more cars In England than in Italy, France and Germany combinedit And motorists England pay some seventy mil llons every year in special motor Laxatlon. It's litte wonder there are accidents with Dur out-of-dete ronds.
WISDOM: "Maybe we think the future of transport is in the air, and that's why we talk a lot but don't do much about the roads." HEALEY: "Well, we've seen that they are building now roads and good. ronds as fast as they can all over the Continent-aven in poor coun- tries, with little motor tramo liko Jugoslavia. They are looking to the future."
BLACK: "Look at those wonderful Italian roads lined with whitewashed 'milestones every few yards, with every single corner, even over moun- tain passes, with its warning of black and white stripes."
HEALEY: Yes, it's easier and safer to motor abroad than at home. And Italy's the best in fog or at night." WISDOM: "I should like to pack a couple of hundred of our rood 'ex- perts into a dozen motor-conches and send them on, a tour of these roads."
Hore- HEALEY: "And make Mr.
Belisha go with them. BLACK: "What a hope."
SCENE XIL
(Near Munich are expled German con- scripta running across a snow-covered deld. Every now and then they flop down in the now and aim their rifles
at something or other.) • HEALEY: "Poor devils--what a life. You'd have thought they would have waited for a line day. They wouldn't. make our fellows do that." BLACK: "Yet, one day, so they say, those fellows will be doing the same thing in earnest. So why not let 'em practize it. It's logical." 7 WISDOM: "What a waste of me, though. Men are doing it all over Europe. It's crazy." (Later," in Munich's best hotel, the motorists are having their first real meal in three days and three nights. Vegetable soup (thin) and chicken cut- Inta (complete absenes of chicken.........It's meatless day) farm the "fixed
lunch.")
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HEALEY: "Well, they've got a won- derful roads system and a fine army, but there doesn't seem much to cat.' BLACK: "Yes, but it's better than
we've been having.” WISDOM (tiring a cup of coffee): "This sugar, 1 suppose, is the new stuff made out of wood, which i why it doesn't taste like sugar."
SCENE XIII. (At Birnabourg. The motorists are exi- Ing again--this time páté de fole gras.
· and beer,) WISDOM: "Did you sea they are re- building the fortifications, on each aldo of the frontier, bridge. The bar- man here says that there are both German and French mines beneath
· BLACK: “ Wonder who the chaps are who sit near a switch waiting for orders to start 'em off.” HEALEY: "I'd like to know why it is?
that in a city that was once German you can't get German boer but only this French onion water. When you ‚ ̈have to change your nationality do you also havo to change your Lastes?
1.
"The allas used by mors wise foreign-
tourists in muy reformos to. Kisly's ruler.
Incorrect. Britain haa moro vobletes, thin Germany and Italy combined,' *but only six thousand more than Fesnos. –Totals: Germany, 1,235,000; (Italy, 805,727;) Franes, - 5,182,135;.
Great Britain, 2,153,026,