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By
VISCOUNT
New and mighty forces ROTHERMERE
have come into existence on
the Continent. They threat-
en to produce another great upheaval. Even if this can which he has discharged his high.
the dignity and courage with be avoided, many moment- responsibilities in circumstances ous decisions must be taken that have sometimes been of un- before the present condition precedented difficulty and deli-
cacy. of strain can settle into Mr. Baldwin's attitude in the stability.
various crises of home and It is at this time, as the climax foreign affairs arising under his of a tense situation approaches, administration has undoubtedly
The internal quarrels of other very effectively the and aircraft could jeopardise our that responsibility for the na- reflected tional fortunes of Britain is about opinion of the majority of his sea connections with almost the countries must be left to settle
whole world.
themselves. But in considering fellow-countrymen. to pass into new hands.
But though the strong patriot- The major blunder of British the various possible issues of According to all reports, Mr. ism and outspoken honesty of the Government policy in recent the present confused situation, Neville Chamberlain will after
present Head of the Government years has been its deliberate dis- the, new British Government Coronation-Day-exchange-the-are recognised by all, the plain armament of the country at a should realise that the worst of comparatively restricted respon facts of the international situn- time when Centinental States all from Britain's point of view sibilities of the Chancellor of the tion prove our recent foreign were openly adding to their would be a Red Spain domin-
forces. visitor Exchequer for the supreme post policy to have been disastrous.
ated by Moscow. of Prime Minister.
MONDAY, MAY 10, 1937,
THIS BEGGAR. PROBLEM
There is scarcely a coming to Hongkong who does not comment on the beggar nuisance. Time was, and not so many years ago, elther, when this Colony enjoyed relative im munity from the organised men- dicancy which has become such an unpleasant fenture of the streets of the city. Compared with other Far Eastern centres,
No man has ever succeeded to a more onerous charge.
Three problems will confront the new Prime Minister with relentless insistence. They are:
(1) Foreign polley. (2) Rearmament.
Six years ago we were on ex-
The boast that we had "disarm- As Chancellor of the Exche- cellent terms with Japan, and had ed to the edge of risk may have quer Mr. Chamberlain has given close friendships of long standing gratified a sanctimonious sense of proof not only of great states- with Italy and Portugal.
superiority at the time, but it has manlike ability but of British To-day, as a result of officious brought us into a perilous pre- armaments .which has to be and unsuccessful
interference dicament which it will cost for made up. with the national affairs of these more than £1,500,000,000 to countries, our relations with remedy.
After being responsible for
Japan are difficult and strained, From the very outset of his introducing the scheme of loans while with Italy and Portugal Premiership Mr. Neville Cham- and taxation required to repair they have lately been almost berlain will have to see that our the deficiencies of the past, it hostile.
foreign policy in entrusted to a will be his business as Prime Minister, or Ministers, who will Minister to see that this money, T would have been hard to find never again plunge this country and as much more as may be into the perils from which it has necessary, is wisely and ef- three nations with which it
so narrowly escaped..
ficiently spent. was more unwise to quarrel.
Unwise to Quarrel
IT
All of them alike command
If the Foreign Office continues In doing so I trust that he
(3) Food provisioning, Under the best possible condi- tions these would be grave it was a relief for tourists com-buns, but it is in no such cir- ing here to be able to do theircumstances that Mr. Chamberlain shopping and sight-seeing with- will assume them.
The recent foreign policy of out molestation. Nowadays, it is impossible for visitor or re- Britain has been marked by sident to pass through the busi blunders now plain in retrospect
to all, and denounced at the time points of overwhelming import to be dominated by the same will take an autocratic line with ance to the strategic defence and misguided principles as in the the Ministers concerned, and neas centre of the town without by some of us in vain.
trade communications of the past, it will end by wrecking with the "experts" who have being pestered on all hands
British Empire. A further in- not only the Government but the such a paralysing hold on them.
whole country.
Some of Mr. Chamberlain's crease of tension with any one of either by children or by maimed Futile Gestures
Our next Prime Minister will public observations in the past and disfigured adult beggars. FOR years the British Govern- these countries might indeed con-
ment has persisted in the il- front us with a situation of the find that the only course of safety about British rearmament have for Britain lles in bringing our been too reassuring. Speaking To stand for a few moments in
foreign policy into accord with at Birmingham last spring he conversation is to invite atten-lusion that the safety of this utmost peril.
Italy to-day dominates our the now international equilibrium said: tion from these creatures. country and Empire could be
vague idealist main highway to the East, which has come into existence on Tourists complain that these founded on a
called "Collective Control of the Mediterrancan the Continent. The complete re- conception
resides in her superb Air Force, organisation of our foreign reln- mendicants even tug at their Security." clothing, some of them exposing The men responsible for our which can reach the farthest tions is the most urgent task that their disfigurements in a most national preservation were lulled limits of that sea from Italian lies before him. objectionable manner and often into inactivity by sterile talk at bases. following them into shops, Periodically, the police carry out raids and for a brief speil there is comparative immunity from the nuisance, but soon the old, are back familiar characters aguin, pestering everybody with their importunities: So far as the adult beggars are concerned, the mischief is that, no sooner are they sent out of the Colony, than they almost immediately re- appear. This is one of the pen-
It is a good omen for the new alties of Hongkong's geogra- Premiership that Mr. Chamber- phical position at the doorway of lain himself frankly admitted that "the policy of collective South China, since facilities are security based on Sanctions has readily available, at the cost of been tried out and it has failed" Htions for an ideal husband:
"We are determined to build up an Air Force posвcssed-of- such terrific striking power that anyone will think very long before they start hostili- ties which might bring that Air Force upon their heads." He told the Conservative Party building up huge armaments use by some other Power of the AMONG the most pressing
matters in this field await- Conference at Margate in Octo- which are now the dominant fac- Azores, in mid-Atlantic, as a
naval base, in the same way as ing his attention is the civil war ber last that "When our pro- Spain. -Mr. Chamberlain gramme of expenditure is com- tors in the European situation.
Such futile gestures as the we have obtained from the Egypt in
accond to none.”. Peace Ballot were allowed to in- lan Government the use of the would do well to make it his plete we shall have an Air Force fluence the action of the National harbour of Alexandria. Based guiding principle that Spain is The foredoomed on the Azores, enemy submarines no concern of the British nation. Government.
Geneva while the dynamic Dicta- If we antagonise Portugal, she No Concern of Ours tor-States of the Continent were might retaliate by allowing the
crusade of "Sanctions" which they started has recoiled on our- selves in heavy expenditure on naval and other armaments and the decline of British prestige abroad.
-If you're a Man-
I wish I could share our next Prima Minister's confidence, but no aerial programme yet put forward by the Government justifies these two statements,
Urgent as the need for vigor-· ous rearmament is, however, the rapid creation of adequate war-
This Will Make You ThiNK reserves of food is just as vital
TERE are my seven qualifica
a few cents, to enable the return and that last October he wrote to trip to be made to the beggars' a Conservative candidate that 1. He must be healthy-obvious-
"This is no time for dangerous: ly. hunting-ground. The case
sentimentality or rash interfer-
of
child beggars is somewhat more ence in the affairs of other coun- 2. He must be intelligent-to 7.
With many of trics." complicated.
them, they have either to break
the law or to starve. Here we High Røsponsibilities
ensure his making his way in the world, and also to ensure my respect for him.
He must be 35 or over-few men under this age have had sufficient experience of life to become husbands.
It's one woman's idea of a perfect husband
a necessity. The best defences will not save a starving garrison from defeat.
We won the last war mainly of because we held command the seas; the danger is that in the next one the far more for- air He must possess the gift of midable command of the sympathy and understanding, will tle with our adversaries.
have no use for the man who The City's Confidence laughs scornfully at a woman's
I
whims even if they are as MR. CHAMBERLAIN has a of weakness! Besides, I, like first-class public record be all women, am inconsistent and hind him. He enjoys the entire trying sometimes..
confidence of the City of Lon-
I should not want my idealdon. His first Budget in 1982 4. He must have a sense of husband to be tidy or docile. I was introduced at the very humour-the inevitable prob- should not care how untidy he worst of the slump. The one lems and quarrels of married was in the bathroom. Nor should which he is now preparing will life are unbearable if one I be selfish in regard to his plea-reflect an enormous increase of
national prosperity..
5.
hasn't.
sures.
He must be popular with I should not expect him to come In bad and in good times alike
encounter the slough of poverty TAKE this opportunity of as-3. in which the masses are engulf- sociating myself with those One Sanitex Moth Proofed. But, as has been pointed who rightly accord to the retiring Bag, giver with each out by the Society for the Pro-Premier their sincere respect for order of wearing apparel tection of Children, many of the amounting to $2.25 sent juvenile mendicants are almost the general begging nuisance are] certainly being exploited for admittedly immense, but the their earnings as beggars. The public rightly feels that it is the Society, in conjunction with the duty of the authorities to take police and the sympathetic adequate measures to see that
he has shown firmness, and men. It is invariably a bad home on Saturday afternoons to Magistrate in charge of the at least the business centre of sign when a man is not, and it mow the lawn, or put washers on Juvenile Court, is able to make the city is rendered free of the
Indicates some invisible, in- taps, or take me to the cinema courage in conducting the coun- As Prime Minis- sidious trait which will mani- when he wanted to go to a foot try's finances.
ter he will need those qualities. some small impression on the motley horde of importunists
ball match or play golf. fest itself later. problem, but, in the absence of encountered day in and day out.j
We should have to have the more than ever in coping with a suitable institutions for the care This can only be achieved by un- and animals. Without this people. balleve this is far the Foreign Office and slackness 6. He must be fond of children same tastes with regard to legacy of confusion and folly at of these children, only the fringe remitting action. It must be
quality he is not eligible as a more essential than being in and incompetence among the de- of a most complex and baffling done if the Colony is to get rid husband, for the future with terested in the same pastimes, partments responsible for the problem is thereby touched of the unsavoury reputationHim would be too uncertain for such as golf or bridge. It is a supreme task of British rearma The difficulties of dealing with which it now enjoys.
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