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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
TUESDAY,
JULY
13, 1037.
Men and Things Abroad. by W. N. EWER
ALL'S CALM in the
A
FRIEND of mine has
just come back from a tour of Central Europe. There is nothing very unusual in that. But this par- ticular_friend-whom I am afraid I must not mention by name has unusually good op- portunities for getting good in- formation and forming good judgments.
He went out very anxious and depressed, He has come back not entirely but
considerably very reassured,
Things. he says, do not look nearly as bad when you see them trom Prague or Vienna as they did seen from London.
And generally people's nerves are much steadier, their fears much less, their outlook much calmer than some months ago.
Wrong Perspective THAT often happens, of course, when you go and have a good look at numething alarming. You And that it is by no means so bad as it seemed at a distance.
Just as with a horse who is shying at something to him quite terrifying. If you can lead him quietly up to it so that he can sce that it is really only a bandker- chiet, he gots over his fright.
One of the big troubles about international, affairs is the dim- culty of seeing things as they really Are: and then of getting other people to see them as they really
arc.
Especially as quite a lot of folk Beem to get quite a kick out of being scared: and just hate to be told that it is only a handkerchief.
Panic is Fading ANYWAY, It is quite certain that
in Central Europo itself there is-compared with last year-a considerable dalm. The panie psychology 13 fading. People no longer talk as though war were a certainty.
Of course, the alarm-area has varled lot.
There was a time--not so long ngo-when the Polish corridor and Upper Buesta were the storm- centres, where, said the prophets, war was quite inevitable.
Then Memel: then Austria. More recently Czechoslovakia. The Nazis were getting ready to start a revolt of the "Sudeten- Germans" on the heels of which the Reichswehr would cross the border, and "it" would begin.
Prophet Without Honour ON February 24, I drew attention to the prophecy of one of our most confident "straight from the horse's mouth" scaremongers.
He had not only the fact, but the date.
It was all to happen on Corona- tion Day!
True, there was just a little hedging. If the war did not begin on Coronation Day it was to begin in June: such a nice month for a war.
Well, Coronation Day has come and gone without anything very noticeable in the way of insur rections or invasions.
Czech Co-operator NOW let us turn from them to
more worth while people.
I have just received the full text to the of Dr. Krofta's speech Foreign Affairs Committee of the Czechoslovak
and Chamber Senate on May 21. Dr. Krofta, as I expect you know, is Minister
of Foreign Affairs.
This is Krofta on Germany. First, he referred to a recently
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From Prague things don't scem nearly as bad as
London:
in
concluded Air Convention and to negotiations now going on on tourist traffic, on commercial pay- ments and so on.
The old experience plainly mani fested itself, namely, that the great similarity of many economic, social and transport problems in Germany
neighbering
Czechoslovakia facilitates mutual understanding re garding them and creates very favour. able conditions for collaboration,
"Yurious pronouncements by those responsible for Germany's polley to clay permit un to express the ranviction that to fundamentally anti-Czecho
lovak
Dolley can be attributed to Germany
Similarly, we on our part most em phatically refute the accusation of any anti-German policy.
I muy certainly my that all the Czechoslovak Government parties, destre without exception, sincerely friendly agreement with Germany. and that they see in such agreement one of the primary conditions for ap peasement in Central Europe."
Mind you. I do not anticipate
ernment-rentice
well,
that perfectly
Hear Dr. Krofta ngain. He wants: "a systems of econointe co-operation and of mutust facilities....
1001
as posible uniformly applied among all the Central European States, dur regard being paid, of course, at the, same time to the recognised interests of the two Great Powers which by virtue of their geographical position occupy a special place in this area- Germany and Italy."
You can be sure that that sort
of language is being not a little ap- preciated in Berlin, where it in being more understood that good the relations with economic Danube Staten may previde the so- lution to lot of Germany's
troubles.
A
Spanish Lesson
of the need for economic co-opera- tion right through Contral Europe and of the necessity for political condition of appeasement as n such co-operation-is one factor which is having good effect.
GROWING realisation
Another ta the lesson of the Spanish War.
Every General Stat in Europe - has learned that the chances of a swift smashing and successful in- vasion of a neighbouring State are not so good.
There was a school which held
tanks, that aeroplanes,
and mechanised units had given the offence a new superiority over the defence, and that a war could ba short, sharp and decisive.
It was a tempting thought for
"We want friendly agree meni says Czechoslovakian
Foreign Minister Krofta,
politicians nursing ideas of aggres-, slon.
Spain has compelled second thoughts: has suggested that the defence has still the upper hand, that any war is ilkely to be a long
war.
And long wara are dangerously unpredictable of result.
Rising Baroincter So, what with one thing and
another, the whole situation
in Central Europe bas sensibly cased. Nerves are steadier, dread of war has diminished. Statesmen are thinking more of settling dlf- ferences and improving relations
"the than of preparing for inevitable."
It may not last sa, New and disturbing factors may come into play. The present phase may pass. But for the moment it is quite which sure that the barometer, was falling. is steady and even rising.
And that is good to record.
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ROM the Chilterns to the coast. England shines with increasing beauty when you have read Mr. Massingham's journey over the legend-studded hills,
He leads us through milous of years that have etched their days on the face of his beloved Downland; he guides us through the lives of the pagans whose burial places, occupying the dramatic points of vantage, imitate the- curviliniest fashion of the Downs country.
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To him "the nspirations of man- kind, defeated age by age, scem figured In those shapely humps and elreles, at once a tle Downland in them. selves, and half-way to the sky-world the thought that raised them desired."
The Downs can give us all that "sense of freedom, triumph, and ela tion that the mind is capable of," and Mr. Massingham can give us all the beauty of their unbroken ridges and Buted hollows, of their dipping and soaring ranges, and of their inled solitudes.
their
But do we really fear these ghost- riklen stretches of sky-line, with their
grounds and pixy-breeding ancient landmarks of pre-Christina peuples, as much as Mr. Massingham suggests in his oly attack on the butter- Angered cowardice of the Machine Age people traipsing around in herds?
Anyway. In. Downland England" he takes us by the hand, and with ruff. fatherly interpretations of the beauties he reveals, we go with de- light through Wiltshire, Dorset, Sussex. Hampshire and Berkshire, trending the solitudes that only rare flowers know, A. L. H.
ORANGEMEN'S FESTIVAL TO-DAY
"Twalfth" and the Influence of New Economic Relationships
Traditions of the “
By HUGH A. LAW
show
anything spectacular in the way of the North of Ireland, is by no fully guarded by its owner. Watch attired in which he would stand at
German-Czechoslovak Entente.
But I do say with a great deal of confidence that relations between Berlin and Prague have improved, are improving, and are going to improve.
Danube Folly ONE of the main reasons for it is the growing realisation of the need for economic co-operation among the Danube States.
In the past there has been an the economic endeavour to use needs of those States as a political instrument-to try and build them up into a sort of anti-German economic bloc.
That was always folly. Austria. Hungary, and the Little Entente countries cannot get on their eco- nomic feet again except in col- laboration with Germany and Italy; for the simple reason that these are their biggest markets.
As someone shrewdly remarked to me the other day, to build an 'economic confederation of the Danube without Germany would be rather like building an economic confederation of the British Com- monwealth without the U.K.1
Remember..
BUT the important thing is that the Danube Governments--and especially the Czechoslovak Gov-
two
in drum's edge celebrate to-day
honourable unt and several times High Sherif Orangemen
of his countywho, when advancing Northern Ireland the anniversary of wounds. William III.'s victory at the Boyne. In hundreds of cottage gardens tho years forbade him to head the annual for him a orange ly rears its houd, proudly procession, had made ǦME_twalfth," as we know it in conscious of its destiny and watch- waistcoat of blue and orange velvet, means to be confused with that later fulness indeed is necessary; for pious a window to take the salute of the
marching ranks. und less Important festival "the theft is to be feared.
The waistcoat
excellent Is still in twelfth.
remember to have heard of an
of generations Grouse-shooting is very well in its elderly cottager who, espying at condition, in spite of having served children for the youngest and midnight two inuidens engageuner "dressing-up"; but is unlikely ever way; but only keenest of shots home for the boll- an unauthorised survey of his flower
things move, even in days can perhaps get quite such a beds, leapt from his bed and, attired again to be used as Its creator in- thrill from the first day on the as he was (which, to put it deliente- tended. For
than half attired!), Ulster; and the plous, glorious and heather as yearly fills the breast of ly, was less
immortal memory of William of middle-aged Ulstermen at the dawn- pursued them for miles barefooted
Orange grows a little dim, and blasphemous. Ing of the Orange Festival.
Yet, though shorn of some of its In my youth, when I stayed with Even in noise-and noise, as we cousins in County Antrim, one of the importaner, the "Twalfth" is likely to be celebrated still for many a year human mast
familiar of summer Bounds, is dear to the
hard-working all know.
ΤΟ come.
the animal I would back the drum, blending not disagreenbly with farmer, labourer or
artisan it pre- de- beaten as our people bent it, against hum of insects and song of wakeful sents itself as a providentially
birds, was that of the nightly designed break in a monotonous exist-
My cousin's coachman Add an impressive ritual, sashes
stableboys were all keen Orange ence, a true Saturnalla, when once of violent colour, banners of strange men, from whom, in addition to pos- in each twelve months Jock is as master-or even better, good as in fo device, processions
and
useful instruction the sibly more flamboyant enough to please
"rag," the authorities may reason- most primitive taste; add to all these horsemanship I learned something since on this day It is he who calls the comfortable knowledge that dur- of the mind of the northern working the tune and when, an in a college man, a mind in which, then as now ably be expected to turn a bene ing twelve precious hours one may pride of ascendancy consorted oddly votent eye upon anything short of with impunity indulge in such "party enough with a democratic egalitarian- cries" and other agreeable recrea- tions as would at other times draw em. upon one the unfavourable attention of the police; and it is not difficult to
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To party leaders the occasion is not less welcome; for without it they DAYS OF WILD RIOT
might not find it so easy to drown the those discontents to be expected in with acquaintance Orange Order I had none; for my an industrialised community in times cousin himself, though after 1886 he of sinck trade, especially in a com-
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is temperamentally DRUM-EDGE WOUNDS had somewhat reluctantly
submissive to constituted Liberals of far less with the "dissenilent" Moreover, the day itself is the that day, was still, save in the dif- authority than the Roman Catholic culmination of a period
After all, they can hardly forget, growing excitement. For weeks the cult business of Home Itule, faithful peasantry of the other Provinces.
though their followers may, that the bands have been practising along to the old-fashioned Radicalism of the roads, and wrists caught on the his Presbyterian forefathers.
It was otherwise with some of my feast itself commemorates successful
with "AE."
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or quarryhole Is "Counties), has undoubtedly been 'a'
20 Just the dance for Sally with a
band.
or less torn to pieces. said all shades are a minority in the six 21 Hidden in Clue 11. mothers are still to warn their offspring that the
to Lord Craigavon and his 23 Here you can have your fling.
24 Save it although it's rather tempting
friends. I doubt if the most fana-
thin. of wee Pote
28 A solitary effort. But I notice that the orators of tical of Orangemen regards Partition
28 Unloader. "the Twallth" are each year drawn otherwise than as an evil in itself.
largely from the ranks of those. But the determination to resist any politicians whose attendance may be reversal of the old order of things 13 ever among the almost regarded as a professional is as strong obligation; ond the oratory itself, masses; while, with economic self- though full-bloodel, scoms to. lack suficiency in the accendant, the The shipbuilders and linen merchants of averse something of the old passion. county families, once so prominent Belfast are quite naturally on these occasions, now rarely put in from risking the trade of the forly million Inhabitants of Great Britain Common- not to speak of other an appearance.
markets for anything the A MEMORABLE WAISTCOAT wealth
rest of Ireland can offer.
If I were a maker of drums or
I doubt if any of them would now display quite the real of an old banners, I should not shut up shop kinsman of mine-Deputy-Lieuten- yet awhile.
30 Queer stations (anog.).
DOWN
2 This file is as narrow as pos-
sible.
3 Hidden in Clug 11,
4 Astonish,
6 Clasps at one end only.
U Not at all a suitable lament for
Leap Year.
7 Though threatened, starts in, and finishes with its time clear- ly indicated.
9 Look here for the Welsh Harp. 10 Swallow up, or, alternatively,
stop down.
14 No description of the Sahara. 15 Only little things, it's true, but
they alter the times.
18 The great bulk of the measure means murder on a large scale. 20 Hidden in Clue 11.
21 Byron wrote about one with an ate: but they all have that.
22. See here, my soft fruit, Thomas
stops at nothing.
20 China's antithesis..
27 Not instructed in the past, but
In the present, tense.
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