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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1937.
COLONIES AND MANDATES
Germany is about to fling the Colonics Issue into the forefront of affairs in Europe, despatches from London warn. Backed by Italy, Hitler intends to re- pudiate the remaining clauses of the tattered Versailles Treaty, condemn the mandate system, it' is stated. Just how seriously Germany intends to strive for the return of colonies, lost when she signed the treaty which ended the struggle of 1914-18, no-one will feel inclined to guess. But to press the matter at a time like the present, when nations are bending every effort to put a stop to bloody conflicts in Spain and China, seems folly. Or it may be that the time has been selected, with the object of deliberately confusing the situa tion by adding yet another bone of contention to the pile where nations even now are wrangl- Ing.
Although it has never been confirmed, there is good reason to believe that France and Britain have already offered Germany Tanganyika, the Cameroons and Togoland-at a price. They asked Germany to come back into the League of Nations, abandon the sinister Four Year Plan and enter into a scheme for freer world trade, it is popularly believed. Hitler is said to have refused. Germany did not want the colonies badly enough to make concessions, the story goes. Many would jump to the conclu- sion that Germany did not really want these three not-porticu- larly-valuable tracts of land. On the face of it the former German African colonies are not worth quarrelling about. The only reason that Britain is surrendering the opposed to mandate is that they might pro- vide bases from which her trade routes and her own African possessions could be threatened: From Togoland and South-west Africa the sea lane to the Cape Is assailable. From Tangan- yika, facing Kenya, the Suez is within striking distance, Land forces from Tanganyika, work- ing in conjunction with Italians In Somaliland, Ethiopia and strangle- Libya could apply a hold to Kenya, Uganda and the Sadan. Moreover, South Africa is adamant against restoration of South-west Africa to Ger- many; claims even restoration of Tanganyika would threaten her security.
As to the intrinsic value of these African possessions, it is For white relatively amall. settlement all but South-west Africa are virtually impossible. Only a half-caste or native stock can survive, it has been gald. But even admitted that Germany
somebody could only porsunde Mr. Cordell is the
I porsunde, M
Secretary of State (an office which corresponds to Foreign Secretary here), to stop speaking in lofty generalities and to
come
down to brass tacks he rnight yet lead the world back into the paths of rea-
son.
But it is not in Mr. Cordell Hull's naturo to come down to brass tacks. He doesn't like them. And he knows that the people of the United States of America would be very cross with him if he did.
He also knows-and in this. among the Foreign Ministers of the world, he is almost uniquely wise that politics and econo- rnica are indivisible to-day; and that if you remove the causes of economic discontent you are go- ing a long way towards suppress- ing the philosophies of political violence.
But, because freckled Mr. Cor- dell Hull is a Southerner, 'he doesn't think that time matters
Secretary of State Cordell Hull is another personality in Philip Jordan's series of
important Americans
bo a tidy document with no loose ends. Mr. Cordell Hull kes formality and despises sloppi- ness.
In ten minutes with him you. will meet with greater formality than in an hour with any of his colleagues; and if he doesn't want to answer a question ho will tell you so: he won't beat about the bush, as most men is will, pretending that he' answering you when, in fact, he- is doing nothing of the kind.
He won't tell you, for in- stance, oxactly how far the British Government' will go to: achieve this vitally important agreement which the. Foreign Office would obviously welcome but about which the Board of Trade has always been ridicu- lously sticky.
But although he will tell you nothing, although he will cm- phasise and overstate the Bri- tish case. which mears the barrier of the Ottawa Agrec- ments, he can't help giving you the impression that we being rather silly about the whole thing and that we won't sce that the political side is what matters; and that the
HE WORKS FOR ANGLO-
U. S. FRIENDSHIP
*
are
A.
very much; and because he is an men: I do not know: I only behind the terms of any Anglo- trade side must in any case be American, and therefore remote suspect that he has for them the American trade agreement would comparatively unimportant. from Europe, he doesn't know same kind of amused contempt lie an unspoken, unuttered and In a month of Sundays he that the pace of history is ac- that Stendhal had for America; unwritten political alliance, by wouldn't admit that the politi celerating all the time; and that, and that, as Stendhal knew, he whose strength not even Hitler, cal side of such an agreement perhaps, before he can say "Jack knows that to attempt to thwart not even Mussolini could fail to is what really matters, because Robinson" it will be too late for America's synthetic popular feel- be impressed.
that would be a betrayal of him to postpone a war into which ing is to kick against the pricks. Indeed, it would not be de- those principles of economic he knows the United States of But Mr. Cordell Hull knows manding too much of any Bri- nationalism to which America America, will once more be drag- that there are ways round every- tish industry that it should, if still pays lip service.. ged.
thing; and that the shortest road need be, sacrifice something to Mr. Cordell Hull used to be But if he speaks in lofty gen-
is not always the best one to achieve the completion of that an economic nationalist; and eralities with his white hands take.
agreement upon which, I believe, it will always be remembered to Mr. Cordell Hull has set his his great credit that in old age clasped in front of him like a
heart. bishop's--he does so because he
he abandoned fallacious theo- has a lofty mind which sees a His policy of making trade
When Mr. Cordell Hull, im ries and went on to reality. great deal further than the agreements may be the longer mensely tall and pale, stands rare quality in any statesman. minds of almost any one of his road, but there can be no doubt over you and, with exquisite colleagues in the Administra- that if he is allowed to complete courtesy, tells
you precisely It would be an odd fate if tion; and if his opinion of man- it, and that if the folly, greed nothing, you begin to wonder if, history were to make him the kind is rather higher than man- and short-sightedness of the after all, his detractors are not saviour of the British Empire kind deserves, that is something average British Protectionist can right and that he is, perhaps, by persuading her, in her old on the credit side of Mr. Hull's be overcome, it will not be long nothing but a woolly old gentle age, also to abandon fallacious personal rather than political before the people of America man in whose company it is a theories and to turn to the ledger,
will welcome what, in its poli- pleasure to be.
urgent realities of the age. It tical effect, will be little else than Mr. Cordell Hull believes-and
But later, when you think over would be an odd fate if he, of an Anglo-American alliance. what he said, and when you be all men, were to save capitalism. in my opinion believes rightly---
If Mr. Cordell Hull can bring gin to ferret, about in the cor- by admitting into its practice that the one sure guarantee of off an Anglo-American trade ridors of the State Department, precisely that part of the peace in this troubled world agreement, however slight may you realise that he knows what Marxian doctrine which is cor- would be an Anglo-American be the provisions which it con- he wants and that equally im rect the indivisibility of poli alliance. But Mr. Cordell Hull, tains, he will have achieved portant--he knows just how far tics and economics. for all his lofty generalities, is something for which the demo he can go to get it. And within But it wouldn't be a bad fate. very far from being a fool, and cratic peoples of the world will those limits he has fitted the I have an idea that the shade of knowe that the temper of the never be able sufficiently to framework of his desires. Mr. Cordell Hull would not be American people being what it thank him.
is, he might as well ask for the
moon.
Perhaps Mr. Cordell Hull de- spises the bulk of his country
If the Anglo-American trade offended if a future generation
Mr. Cordell Hull, with whose agreement-which we so foolish- were to raise a statue to him. name in this instance must be ly threw away when Norman in Whitehall. But it would have.
very coupled that of the President, Davies last came to Europe to be very classical and is well aware of the fact that should ever come to pass, it will traditional in design.
I Wrote 70,000 Words
And 10 Words Were Used
written over 70,000 words, of which ten (ten words, not ten thousand!) were eventually used.
NUMBER of authors who have worked for film companies have found in their experience material for salire Fiction-stories have ap- I have written my first script and peared successfully antirising (to the hnd it received with enthusiasm, only lay mind) the nerve-storms of stars: to and that it has been handed over the violent neroballes of a director the next day to a writer who was on the set the Incompetence and not even on the staff. ignorance of producers.
They make good reading and good fun-on die smallest basis of truth. But this astonishing business of making talking pletures lends itself easily to such leg-pulling,
I have been through the mill. I Jave worked for a company, and
I have developed stories to lend to a definitely built-up climax, only to and the completed picture has en tirely missed the point.
I have evolved s character and worked up essential detail, to find the cluracter remains, but stripped
of
A scenarist's job is to take its small significant actions, so that author. instead of being an integral part of a story and adapt it for the screen. the story it has become an unhappy He understands what screen-con- ghost wavering through several thou- tinulty means (the narrating of the story in a cinematic sence as opposed sand feet of celluloid.
I have worked from nine to five to a literary sense) and what makes like a clerk in an office, clocking-in telling situations.
He knows how to link up his and clocking-out, I have worked ali
sequences, when to "cut," to "dis- to "fade through the night, laying down my
ten o'clock solve," to "Inde in" and pen at down, and at a
But that doesn't make him an He work up. And I'm not grumbling. author. He's a film-technician. story conference torn the whole out"
am not grumbling at all. And is adapting material into which the- the reason is I believe the author has breath of life has already been got to play in British pletures of the breathed by its original creator,
Now there are scenarists who exist future a far greater part than he
аге not They has been permitted to do in the past. in England and who at the same time
have authorship. A script-writer lan't necessarily on
numerous. The man or woman who can originate a story, put it into carry the material through to shooting-script could force the pace of present the homeland's exports. Simi- only two solutions possible for treatment-continuity, immigration in South-west larly, in raw materials the Ger- Germany's difficulties," says von complete with dialogue, is rare. Africa (1,000 a year) and Tan-man colonies could only supply Ribbontrop, "elther through a have heard it said that such a one is ganyika (300 a year) ten-fold, a fractiona! portion of what return of her former colonics, gifted above bis fellows, I don't be
(or through the German people's lieve it. I wish producers could be:
made not to belleve it, what is that compared to her Germany required.
only other own strength." That sounds Prestige is the 450,000 a year increase in popu-) lation? What is such a figure hending under which such a sub- very like a threat, and while compared to the "ten, twenty, Ject can be treated. Admitted British instinct is to help the
The cause of tallure of a great: odd way in itself is trivial, unconvincing, com-
yes, thirty millions more popul- ly the winning back of a Colonial nation "down in its luck," Bri- many pictures is because the story tlon" for which Dr. Goebbels re- Empire might brighten the Nazi tish feeling has an
cooks have
cantly appealed, adding: "Wa pride. They could any they stiffening against hard words, monplace. Too many
the turgid Boup. The
the
Tum,
will know where to find room for had recovered what a former: If Germany wants her former stirred
daw of the tale muddled, But is the colonlos she would be wise to odginal conception has been lost,, them." Not in Africa, surely, regime had lost.
As for trade If in 1913 the possession of these lands worth support the mandate system Dick and Harry have added their
colonies hnd a struggle at this time? Is it which the majority apparently Hitle bit. German African bought all their goods from worth disturbing further the approves, because on that basia Germany the total would have relations of Europe in order to alone is she likely represented just 0.7 per cent. of win this point? "There are them.
The cutting-room has allecd away
to obtain at larry, Dick and Tom. The clear.
cut outlining of a situntion, has be (Continued on Page 5.)
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