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N recent weeks I have heard a great deal of accepted proudly-indeed fondly loose talk about the Bri- in almost every British home as the Father of the Family and tish monarchy, Probably as the very incarnation of duti not many people share the fal public service, so his son view of a distinguished wo- Edward, Britain's "ambassador man novelist who assured of good will," was invested with me with a supremely confi- all the glory belonging to a de- bonair and democratic prince,
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MONDAY, APRIL 12, 1937,
UNEMPLOYMENT FUND POSITION Although what has come to be known as the hard core of British unemployment remains, there are welcome signs that some impression is being made
could not last more than five of royal etiquette and boldly years,
sympathetic with the cause of
But this reckless expression of the suffering poor. opinion is at least characteristic
of the widespread scepticism
which is a direct result of the Then, in ten destructive days, disillusionmont caused by the the entire - hero-edifice
tumbling down like a pack of
| Abification crisis.
came
It is of no small consequence cards. From Capetown to that as a nation we should clear Ottawa, multitudes of loyal our minds both about the dis- British citizens were dumb- illusionment and about the founded with dismay.· monarchy Itself.
MONARCHY
Millions of school children about the human drama that ascribing semi-divine attributes We may no longer pretend, as with memories still close to the was being unfolded behind the to a constitutional monarch. the revolutionary Socialists used wonder of the Silver. Jubilee scene, though the facts were to pretend, that the Throne is an asked insistent questions which known in every newspaper office institution too negligible to re- bewildered parents could not and the voracious appetite of
There is a plain political pur- quire serious study as a con- hope to answer.
the American public was being
human Imaginary
perfection stitutional problem.
Is it surprising that there has fed daily by its own Press with pose in raising on a pinnacle of The Throne under the Statute been a profound reaction in the screaming headlines and in autocratic potentates like Mus- of Westminster has become a public mind, accompanied by trusive details of the royal love solini and Hitler or proletariat dorinant imperial fact. "The misgivings which luscious affair.
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access
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the
nervous shock would have been
dictators like Stalin,
The English author who, after a recent visit to Russia, offered
should
conform
to certain
a
must vital and important link Coronation propaganda cannot Now it is apparent that the of Empire," wrote Professor altogether dissipate? Keith in an admirable treatise It has been said with mono- less severe, and might con- Jon the problem by, a variety of on this subject, "is the person tonous reiteration by politiciana ceivably have been avoided. if to bet that in ten years time all helpful circumstances. For ex-of the King and the Crown." and leader-writers that the silence had been broken Soviet Russia will have, con- earlier and Edward had been vinced itself of the Virgin Birth smooth dispatch with which the ample, the latest figures issued
Abdication was accomplished given time to measure public of Stalin uttered the mot juste.
In the British Empire we must. show that, despite additional
On the theory that the King proves the essential strength of opinion and respond to it. dispense with such legendary The painful experience of Inst incantations. It is increasing- registrations, the number of is now not only the King of the British monarchy. jobless last month was 26,000 England but df each separate That is not, however, precise. December may not have been in ly important on the one hand fewer than in February, and Dominion all the Dominions ly what ordinary people are vain if we can learn how to profit that the occupant of the Throne
have
the saying to themselves and to one by it. 280,000 less than a year ago. It Sovereign.
another.
The monarchy, after the standards set by the conventions is true that there are still more This relationship provides in- They are saying, among other rough handling to which the of the time, that in his public deed the one firm constitutional things, something like this: "If precious fable was then subject and private life ho should re- than a inillion and a half out of link between the various nations the most belauded and popular ed, is in a state of convalescence; main sensitive to the natural work, but various plans which of the British Commonwealth. prince in the world, occupying but the signs do not indicate that impulse of public opinion.
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problems would at once arise world, can be so easily disposed early extinction.
For the new king and queen, should not try to convert a vital dimunition of this number in the of-imperial-"unity"-and-one-tion,-what-guarantee-is-there who have entered upon their personality into a graven image near future. What is definitely doubts very much whether an that an unfriendly Administra heritage at a moment of intense or require of the monarch bat the constant to the good is the improved fin-effective or permanent substitute tion might not be tempted by public strain, there is nothing nothing
could be discovered.
so instructive a precedent with but good will. They know that emanation of a smug respecta ancial state of the Unemployed
In the Dominions and in the less meritorious motives to get for some years they will be bility.
under a watchful scrutiny. But The Empire in ita present Fund, the condition of which less Colonies the sense of personal rid of some future sovereign they are assured of a cordial guise would not be well served
even to: abolish the than six years ago was so low attachment to the sovereign is and
greeting in the approaching by a graven image. If it is to very strong. It gives a peculiar monarchy itself?" as seriously to alarm those im-warmth and significance to im-
preserve its direct allegiance to For many reasons the logical ceremonies of the Coronation,
After that let us rationalise the Throne, as the most, power- mediately concerned with its perial loyalties; and in particu- answer that Edward abdicated administration. It will be re- the Empire this simple anthro- sufficient answer.
lar among the coloured races of of his own free will is not a our attitude to the Throne. Let ful unifying force in our im us be on guard against the perial relationships, it will look the. Rovereign for the called that the situation was so pomorphous conception of the Again, ordinary people are danger of putting any royal to grave in October, 1931, that, imperial bond transcends all sore with the Press. They feel personage, on a pedestal of in- magnetising human qualities of they have been duped. Their fallibility and looking at him sympathy, understanding, in-
a haze of pseudo- dividual intelligence and according to Lord Snowden, then
That is why the crisis of the suspicions have been aroused through
romantic mysticism.
certain moral courage. Chancellor of the Exchequer, Abdication, and the poignantly on the subject of newspaper
"The King can do no wrong" If only we will give it a chance there was a danger that in an intimate circumstances which it. king-worship.
brought into, the light of day, other month's time "there would came with a crushing shock have been no money to pay the upon the people of the Empire unemployed," if drastic mea- in every part of the world.
Year after year, by means of sures had not been adopted to an elaborate process of highly deal with the problem. As the selective propaganda, there had result of the financial and poli-been built up a form of king- worship such as was never ap- tical crisis a National Govern-proached in the far-off days of ment was formed, and prosper-Absolutism when there was no ity was gradually restored. To-wireless, no popular Press, no
news-reel. day the Unemployment Fund is
|are deeply embedded in the hearts of - his compatriots in the Far East-and not only solvent but it has
estimates. There will be a still RARE
ARELY, with possibly a single exception known to history, by Far East must be included, besides accumulated an unexpectedly
in the annals of Macao, dating back more than three and a Hongkong. such places as Shanghai further improvement this year, large surplus. Employment has and the committee confidently half centuries, has it ever been known that the same official has and other clues in China and even In Portuguese scattered throughout for Dr. Barbosa has shown increased to such an extent that expects to have a surplus of been appointed for a third term to administer the government of
the colony.
this British Colony, the Treaty Ports, a special committee, which has £17,250,000 available for dis-
This unique record has, however, to be placed to the credit and the Empire of Japan are not less Spread over the of Dr. Artur Tamagnini de Sousa Barbosa, who accepted the key Portuguese in his estimation than those been dealing with Unemployment jtribution.
the mother country.. Insurance, has recommended two eight-year trade cycle, this gives of the city of our neighbouring colony from the hands of the
an annual available surplus of Chief of the Senate, on behalf of the inhabitants of Macao, at the ure statesmanship of his adminis substantial improvements of un- £2,250,000 which will be devoted traditional function invested with so much pomp and dignity on tration, can be justified by the employment benefit. A year to a reduction from six days to Sunday last as the symbol of his free entry into the Portuguese extremely successful diplomatic rela
tions which he promoted, fostered, and ago the committee announced its three of the waiting period be city.
developed in the past between Macao The columns of the English news-Barbosa which it is desired to chronicle and Hongkong on the one hand, and plan for building up a subatan fore payment of unemployment papers published in Hongkong during in these columns, for the record of Macao and Canton on the other. His tial reserve during favourable benefit, and in some cases an in-the
week-end have been his past administration during two 19 a record of which any Governor trade periods for use in times of crease in the number of days for Alled with details of receptions terms of office within fifteen years, may be proud.
and .speeches of welcome to and the fact of his re-appointment by Many must be the recollections of dopression. The policy adopted which boneft is paid. These the new Governor.
"New" is, the Colonial Ministry in Lisbon for a the occasions, both official and private, covered the whole period of a are substantial improvements, however, not a term that can quite further terre, bear testimony to the when he visited Hongkong and both appropriately be employed in respect rare qualities he possesses which have he and the late Donna Maria Anna, participated in demonstrations years. It was expected that the by sound financing methods, the a new term of omlee, but not of a of Dr. Barbosa to administer for the of
new governor. The new term will third term the government of this
Colony. The Orogramme of Inter- accumulated reserve would in- Government is now in a far bet-be that of a tried and capable official, far-distont Po
national folk songs and dances which crease last year from £21,150,000 ter position that ever before to who has shown his worth not only The warmth of
of the receptions ac- the late Madame Barbosa organised as an administrator of merit and ex-corded to him and the glowing tributes and produced at the Club de Recreio to £32,272,000; actually the re-assist those who, despite the perience, but who might be sald also of admiration and goodwill were not with so much success in the cause of serves at the end of the year gradual national recovery, are to be a diplomat with ambassadorial replete with empty Battery; they were charity was one of the finest entertain- attributes and qualifications. In say the enthusiastic and sincere expression ments of an International character were £6,700,000 more than the still unable to find employment ing so, it is no empty praise of Dr. of the recognition and gratitude which (Continued on Page 4.).
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is a useful legal fiction. But in the Throne, I believe, has still a democratic country it is un- a conspicuous and indispensable For nearly a year the British necessary and may be perilous role to play in the affairs of the Press creditably kept silence even by implication to go on British Commonwealth.
MACAO'S
Past
NEW
GOVERNOR
HAS A UNIQUE RECORD
(Spacial to the "Hong Kong Telegraph.")
that
who come from
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trade cycle, estimated at eight and they serve to indicato that, of Dr. Barbosa, IL is in point of fact dictated Dr. Oliveira Salazar's choiceship and goodwill in this
Holony.
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