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THE HONGKONG. TELEGRAPH.
Is the League Dead?
ESPITE all that the pessimists say, the League is not even moribund: And never before has the need for everything for which the League stands been so great as to-day.
It would be idle to deny that the working of the League's machinery has disappointed many of its staunchest supporters. Its failure to stop the rape of Manchuria and its sudden collapse when success was in sight' during the Italian conquest of Abyssinia came as dismal shocks to those who looked to Geneva,
But the reasons for these fallures are now too well known to reflect on the system for which the League stands. The machinery of the League was there to hand; subsequent events have shown it was not through any fault of the machinery, but of those who refused to uso it that the Italian aggression for one remained unchecked.
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And the very Governments which did most to damage the Lengue's prestige. -among them our own "National Government-have since shown that they have no alternative policy to that underlying the League Covenant-that of collective consultation and collective action.
I
T is fashionable to talk of Geneva
as a dead letter, to accept blindly "the failure of Governments for the fallure of the system. "Look at the Spanish affair!" you hear people say. The League could not deal with it, so you had to have a Non-Intervention Committee in London." *
But the Non-Intervention Committee is not an alternative to the League. It is simply a miniature copy of it.
The possibilities of individual inter- vention in the Spanish rebellion opened up such alarming vistas of inter- national friction that it became - imperative to arrange that all Governments concerned should gather round the same table to see what could be done about it.
which, in essence, is precisely what the League is for.
Whatever one's views may be of the non-intervention policy, the fact remains that Governments can do nothing without inter- national consultation and inter- national action. And they know it. Reluctantly, in many cases, they have realised that the old policies of glorious isolation and of indivi- dual action have never made, and can never make, any contribution to world peace.
For no Government has any better policy to offer than a League poilcy.
B
new
will RITISH cinemas shortly be showing a
At Alm taken Geneva and covering the activity of the League in all its many spheres. The film is introduced by -the-Becretary-General of the League, and M. Avenol delivers himselt of a fundamental truth when he says:
"Do not forget that no dispute is ever brought before the League until it has proved too difficult to be handled by ordinary diplomatic channels."
"
When that is universally realised there will be a greater appreciation of the League's difficulties, as well as of the League's fallings. Gov- crnments know that there is another stage before the inevitable declaration of war which hitherto marked the breakdown of dipio- matic negotiations, and that is a
WELSHMEN HONOUR ST. DAVID
President Speaks In Ancient Tongue
-NO!
says Bernard Moore
One of the mural paintings adorning League of Nations Assembly. They depict the horrors and futility of war and are by a Spanish artist, Jose Maria Sert, who now knows what war means.
the walls of the
tremendous contribution towards world peace.
Unhappily, memories are short. For the League has not always falled.
was
In 1925 troops were ranged along the frontiers of Greece and Bul- garia; an ultimatum had been de livered and the outbreak of war with terrible consequences only a few hours off. Hastily, the Council was' summoned, and. almost at zero hour, hostilities were prevented.
A short two and a half years ago a man concealing a machine riac under his incket broke through a thin-police-cordon-at-Marseilles. Jumping on the running board of a passing car, he poured a stream. of bullets into the bodies of its occupants,
reigning killing n monarch and a Foreign Minister.
N
angry Jugoslavia,
A mourning the loss of
a
the assassination had been plotted
terrorist
whose fr
camp existence had been winked at by the Hungarian authorities. For forty-eight hours Europe was over- shadowed by war clouds. Fortun-
welcome he had received when he
Hongkong arrived in months ago,
nately there was a League of Nations. The much abused ma- chinery of Geneva was set in motion and Europe was saved from catastrophe.
To have stopped two wars-even "teeny-weeny wars-is not a bad record in less than twenty years of existence. The pessimists should remember that if the League has had its failures it has had its suc- cesses too.
And, because it is always the son- sational political developments
that get the widest publicity, the many activities. of the League in other than political spheres are: lost sight of While the League was "failing "over Manchuria and Abyssinia the League's technical services, its soclul and human- tarian committees, worked steadily, of ridding the their task world of the ills that breed wars.
on
THOSE cinema-goers who seo-the League's Alm will get some idea of the tremendous scope of these Some of non-political activities. them are known to a few. Most of them have never touched the fringe of publicity,
Few of those who talk glibly of the League, which is to them a vague resting place at Geneva for itinerant statesmen, know, for in- stance, that every week in the Far und Middle East, powerful radio
broadcast to stations
ships' port authorities caplains and warnings of the outbreak of the dread bubonic plague or the in-
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READ OFFICE=UONGKONG, BOARD OF DIRECTORS:-
WEDNESDAY,
sidious spread of smallpox and cholera.
The Singapore office of the League (only a few know it even. exists) receives reports from all Eastern countries every fow days describing the national situation of epidemic discases, These reports are analysed and broadcast by ten atations once a week.
In distant Rio de Janeiro a League research station has been engaged for some years in study ing at Drst hand the disease of leprosy. National laboratories in England and Denmark distributo vaccines, standard samples of organ extracts and drugs for the guidance or doctors and hospitals throughout the world.
Those standards have been nxed by the League's health organisa tion after consultation among the createst medical authorities in the world. Results of research into malaria and yellow fever in tropi- cal hospitals and swamps are co- ordinated at Geneva in the search for prevention and cure.
P
some
In OLICE authorities
receive every country
000 cach year reports showing how drug smug- glers seek to evade the authori- ties. As soon as a new, ingenious method of smuggling is discovered,
it
1s described through the League to the police of all countries, so that gradually a net is drawn round the traffickers.
Since 1930, as a result of the League's efforts, the trade in drugs has fallen by a half.
Indefatigably,
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the League's Social Committee has been work- to stamp out the traille in women and children, especially in Eastern countries. Through its insistence, no fewer than 18 coun- brothels tries have abolished entirely, while seven others have Slowly but done so partially, surely the League is tackling the problems of the neglected and delinquent child; its services en- 'deavour to co-ordinate and univer-
MARCH
1938.
WAKE UP YOUR
LIVER BILE-
Without Calomal-Aid Kon')! Jung Dat of Bed Fall of Vini and Vigour.
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The liver should pour but two pints of Igold bile into your bowela dally, if this hila not flowing freely, your food doesn't digest, It just decays in the bowels, Klan bfonte sip your stomach, You met constipated. Your whole syulera is poleaned and you feel sour, sunk and the world looks punk.
Laxatives are only makeshifts, A mere bowel movement doesn't get at the cause. It take those famous Darter's Ištila liver File to get these two pint of bille flowing freely and make you feel up and up, Hargi love, gentle, yet amazing in making bila flow freely. Look for the name Carlar's Little Liver l'ile on the red package, Ilafusa kay. thing else.
S. O..S. Leung Sal Tor, aged 11, is deaf and dumb..
He came up before the magistrate for being without visible means of subsistence.
What means 'could he have until he is taught a trade and taught how to understand and make others understand him? So we are putting him into the Deaf and Dumb School.
Is thore anyone who would maintain this little outcast-it only costs $7 per month. HONGKONG SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF CHILDREN Room 308, Bank of East Asia Buliding.
salise the best reforms of prisons The P. & O. Banking
and of criminal law.
• Through the League, govern- ments and the public learn of im portant world economic develop- ments, for its staff of skilled and Rifts. sorts economists examines and analyses different economic trends in all countries.
T8 annual publications cover all matters rolat- ing to production and trade, prices and money, banking and public finance. Last week an conference, International sugar organised by the League, succeeded in securing international agree- ment on the vital question of world sugar quotas.
Buch widely diverse subjects as Inland and maritime navigation, buggage and lighting of coasts, common universalisation of the
road signals famillar to-tho- motorist, are all dealt with in League services unheard of by the general public.
There is no such service in the world and never has been. Talk of the League being dead is as non- -sensical as talk of General Franco as the Apostle of Freedom.
To-day's Thought- TROUBLE springs from idic- ness, and grievous toll from needless case,
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was discouraged in his langunge
T. E. Pearce, Esq. childhood and anid he was glad that
Chairman. better counsels had since prevailed.
Hon. Mr. J. J. Paterson Welsh had been spoken over 2,000
Deputy Chairman.". years ago, before the Romans, Saxons
shares of J. K. Bouaßeld, Esq. and Danes invaded the
Ion. Mr. S.
Alor Star
Amritsar
Bangkok
J. R. Masson, Esq."
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Britain, and to show that he had not. H. Compton Eas
Dodwell K:S: Morton, Eay, Welshmen in the Colony gathered / forgotten it, he would give a short on. Bir, M. T, Johnson A. L. Shirkin. Esq.
speech in that longue-with the ex-
at the roof garden of the Hongkong pectation of applause in the appro-
Hotel last night for their annual din-priate places!
ner in honour of their patron saint.
St. David. Throughout the evening
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nire, including the Anthem, "Land then declared
mian.
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they should pay homage to his bless- CHEFOO Among those present were Mr. E. ed nonto in the language he had loved W. Davies, President; Mr. H. Hall, so much. They owed a debt to him Foochow Vice-President; Mrn. I. Hall, Secre- as a saint and as a patriot, and his HAIPHONG
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Wales was a very small country HONGKEW
ILOILO Mr. but it was a dearly loved place. Her E. I. Wynne-Jones, Mr. and
J. and Mrs. Whyte-Smith, Mr. Whyatt, Mr. and Mrs. G. B, Gifford hills were inore beautiful than the soone
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Toasting "Our Guests," Mr. Hall sident, while the Vice-President gave "Our Guests," "Telegram greeings'extended a most cordial welcome to of from Shanghai and Singapore were them and male that read out and it was atuted that re- them had joined the members so re-
gularly that they were almost plies had been sent.
Expressing his appreciation of the Karded as members, and their pre-
Mr. Hall explained their numerical conducted by the Hongkong honour of altting in the President's sence was much appreciated. chair under the Red. Dragon, of weakness in Hongkong by saying at Hanking Corporation. Wales, Mr. Davies said he had taken that Wales was such an ideal place obtained on application. the place of a member who had gone to live in that not many people wish-FOR TANGKONG AND BUANGHAI on leave and would not be back une ed to leave it!
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1 This leads to a poor state (14),
9 Sarcastic action at the card
table (7).
10 Musical instrument that seems
to urge Its owner to play (7),
ten
11 "Could I come near your beauty
with my. I'd set my commandments in your face" (Henry VI.") (4).
12 Despised wealth (5).
14 Oriental ruler (4).
16 Nothing repeated after this is
prohibited (3).
18 Country of Europe (0).
28 The river on which 26 ucross in
situated (9).
21 What would provide sulțubic musical accompaniment to n song about n storm at sca? (7). 22 Meal for one who takes a little
drink? (0).
24 S. American cowboy (6).
20 Town of war fame (3).
20-This musical instrument is also one with a following or in (4). Christian name of
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nctress (5).
33 Dance (7).
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30 One of the U.S.A. (4).
34 Nisk (7).
famous
35 Not necessarily dumb but show-
Ing no feeling (14).
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1 Without definite result (14).
2 Trouble with an Irishmen shows
up a good man (7).
3 In this in uselessly (4).
4 A tasty dish (0).
5 Very fine (8).
One might decapitale but could
one curtail this feline? (4).
7 This might be in there or there-
in but is this (7).
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"Helps spfte home" (the devil
of an anagram, this) (14).
13 Frankness (7).
16 Musical Instruments (Scottish?).
(5).
17 useful grass (5).
19 "Bring with thees from kell" heaven or blasts from ("Hamlet") (3).
20 One of the farmer's flock (3).''. 23 This bird is not to be found in Museum the Natural History
(7)
26 Bed-place and lake make
circle (7).
20 One of the. U.S.A. (8).
27 South Seas Island (6).
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32 Little drinks upset made to go
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