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Here's what you may be doing in a few years-looking at the person at the other end of the wire. It's the latest thing In television, the "televisionphone," shown in London. The view ing screen is where the monitipleee ordinarily would be. compact set éan be used is a Highted room,
The
Partisan Blindness
DIFF
nesses.
uf
By "An Old Stager"
IFFERENT pundits at various came to the rescue of the humanities times have ascribed the world's in Spain when Red Bolshevism was troubles to all sorts of human weak ereating revolutionary anarchy be
Lust
personal hind the impotent or tolerant hands power, greed, religious bigotry, sexual ob- of that Popular Front regime.
been the root session-inany bave,
by evils denounced
philosophers through the centuries.
The conviction begins to deepen in my mind, however, that the most baleful of the lot is just sheer ignorance.
Neither side is willing to listen to ny statement of facts or arguments advanced, even by apparently, un- favour or in blased outsiders, in partiul vindication of the other. It never occurs to them that there may be some degree of truth on both sides.
The astounding thing is what
The cross-bench mind simply in- passionate fervour many people wil found on a basis of complete ignor- furiates their fanatictam. If you are unce. They will get red-hot over not whole-heartedly with them, then one side of a question as the you are inferentially whole-heartedly other side of which they not only with the other fellows. The admir- that to know all is to know absolutely nothing, but do not able nylom even make any attempt to gain en- excus! all has absolutely no fool- lightenment.
Held In this kind of mentality,
And now, Mr. Chamberlain is be- Admittedly there are certain ques- Ing assailed tooth and nail because tions that are iniurently beyond refuses to order the British fleet controversy. One does not hesitate tu bombard, or at least to blockade. to denounce, for instance, all the Cadiz or some other Spanish port! cardinal sins entalogued under the We have the absurd position of ex- Ten Commandments. Nobody in his treme Left Wing detesters of the right minil, except in the most ab- German Nazis and all their works normally exceptional circumstances, citing the German shelling of inno- tries to defend murder, arson, black- cent civilians, In reprisal for some mail, or even welsching.
military or naval affront, as a shin- ing exumple of strong statesman-
about ship.
But lots of people to-day are get- ting extremely indignant
The situation is all the more gro- things for more delicately complex
considered that than the outstanding human crimes, tesque when it is And without actually trying
these Jingo advocates of navel, bom-
blockade bardment--Or
which is only one degree less drastic, and hits
fathom any of the complexities.
to
It is of this disposition and the innocent just as surely as bora- tendency-sheer Ignorance backed bardment would-are mostly
by abject mental laziness-that our Lour people.
extreme partisans made,
are
Negation of Democracy
frequently Abnormal Profits
crews.
La-
There is no doubt about it that merchant ships, trading in essential supplies to Spanish ports, are doing No doubt there have always been so not for one moment in any al- violent and purblind partisans, but I truistic spirit of bringing susten- truly believe the world has seldom ance, to a hard-pressed" Spanish been more cursed with them, not prople, but simply because they are even in the days of the Spanish In- able to command exorbitant freights quisition, than we are to-day.
and abnormally high wages for their
There are seemingly sensate people The coal freight per ton to these who w swallow anything that Spanish Government ports is about happens in Russia, but go berserk four times the rate to other places over even the mildest similar hap- in the vicinity. And, on top of all penings in elther Italy or Germany. this, at lenst half these merchant Why should the mere fact that they ships are foreign-owned, and using are in sympathy with the polleul our national egime in one instance, and out of camouflage.
cnsign merely 立刻 sympathy in the others, warp their The only way in which France's Judgment thus?
bombing of these ships, within the three-mile territorial water limit, To an intelligent person a rose can be condemned by contending smells just na sweet in Russia as in that there is no war in Spain. That any other country, and as evil deed is a contention which, in the palpa la Just as reprehensible, in Moscow ble circumstances of to-day, seema as it would be in Berlin, or Romo or just on absurdity. Timbuctoo. Until we can find means
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12,
An Old Soldier looks at the Army Changes & says
1938.
IT'S EASIER TO BE A GENERAL NOW
I
APOLOGISE for not be-
ing properly educated. Blame the Army, not my parents. My education, in the scholastic sense, ceased when I was sixteen.
By
Brigadier Alan G. C. Hutchinson,
Then I went to a crammer's. Two years of Intensive stuffing with text- books hatched me out as a Sundhurst cadet passable as a dancing partner +++ to the girls, good-mannered, I hope.
who recently retired after nearly 40 years in the Army, including servico in six campaigns.
and primed with military knowledge G.O.C. the Rhine Army, and so took Tanks and machine-guns have taken
the title for all time.
their place.
of a sort.
young
I would like to see these new pro- Do you remember the story of the Bul us for mathematics, law, economics, history-apart from the posals go further in one respect, old general who was sitting in his military version-geography, or any Why not send the budding officers club in Pail Mail, the hero of three
for two three campaigns? Timidly # of the ordinary accomplishments of to a university the ordinary boy-well, it all stopped years? That is what happens to subaltern approached hin.
rappers-which presumably accounts dend at sixteen.
for the superior sinirk on the face of the supper.
Higher Standards
WHAT I have learned since I
"Tell me,
generat," he asked, "what did you think of the Jast wor?" "Dreadful, my boy, dreadful," He goes up to Cambridge for two the general drawled. The noise years to learn all that it can teach and the people! Too terrible." have had to pick up off my im. During the vacations, when own bat. Just a matter of nous, ** other undergraduates are at play, A Scientist Too they say. Not a good system, you the sapper goes to Chatham for a will agree. It limited and stulti- little high-pressure military educa fled. It produced hidebound soldiers tion. The result is 3 Arst-class who lacked not only worldly know- oficer. ledge but everyday knowledge.
Conditions have, of course, im-
counlderably
then. since proved Educational standards are very much
The Best Officers
THAT sort of story and that sorl of general have gone for
good. The officer of to-day must be a bit of a chemist, some- thing of a scientist, a Ittle of a lot of other things-apart from being a
thist.
CAN honestly say that of all goldier.
the hundreds of Young I am glad to see that the rates of higher than they were and breaches officers who have passed, through pay have gone up. Life in the Army have been made in the narrow ex my hands both in this country and to my day had a marvellously gay clusiveness of traditional training in India I have frequently found and social side-but you paid for it. The system, which has hitherto pro- that those who came into the Army If the bank balance was thin, fun vided the overwhelming majority of
elvil was thin too. It was not quite fair officers, while retaining its best latest in life and with most
education behind them made the on us
Mr. Hore-Bellsha has altered features, is now to be put on a much best and most intelligent officers.
To-day we live in an Army work! Further, by making promotion When I read that in one day near- of nuts and bolts, petrol cans and more rapid, by wiping out the system, and by ly o quarter of the subalterns and chemistry. It is no longer a gentle- iniquitous
It has become a bust- assuring reasonably long periods of captains of the British Army will be man's war.
So ive must service, he has made the Army what automatically promoted, that pro- nesslike business,
have been---α motion in future will be speeded up, make a business of it and train our it always ought to
worth-while profession for worth- that there will be direct commission- young officers accordingly.
That is what Mr. Hore-Belsha in while men with worth-while pay as ing from the ranks, that rates of pay
a reward.
wider basts.
will be increased, that Army educa- up to,
I sit back and watch. My Army So that eyebrow of mine may tion will be expanded and intensified, and, finally, that in future any boy days of horses and guns have gone, come down with a run in the end. from an elementary school in a back street, say, in Manchester, stands a
of reasonable chance going, via n secondary school, into Sandhurst or Woolwich free of all charge to his parents, I raise my bnt to the Minister for Wor.
WOR
But I raised it with one eyebrow faint also cocked. There doubt behind my unspoken cheer. it was this:
POLICE
COURTS
-And The Poor
usual
Good though the new system looks NEW things are more creditable to Wales. The maximum allowed on a un paper It has one potential defect the English system of criminal legal aid certificate in the summary
105. A more the promotion of the "examina-justice than the Poor Prisoners' De- courts is £2 tion" type st
at the expense of the main fence Act of 1930. So far as offences allowance is £1 Bs, and this is as who has character but lacks peade- tried at Assizes and Quarter Sessions much as I have ever received. mic distinction
But, even assuming the maximum are concerned the Act works well Distinction ns 22 scholar is not out enough in a soldier. An officer who not many poor persons go un- grant in every case, the expenditure defended. But few people know on Poor Persons Defence since the 13 to
to command the respect and that the powers which Parliament Act was passed works out at an affection of his men must be a leader in that he possesses that in intended to be used for the benent average of about 14s. 4d. per cent. Surely the country can of all poor persons accused of crime per annum.
If it cannot definable e-spirit which we know us have been and are, so far as the afford more than this. "character." The Greeks had "Police" Courts are concerned, prac- would it not be better to do away
word for it, but as I have no eduga-leally a dead letter. ilon I forget the
word.
Field-Marshal Sir William Robert-
son rose from the ranks to be one
THEN
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pendix, of course (7),
of the best-loved and most efficient The Criminal Statistics for 1030, greater in the "Palice" Court than officers in the British Army.
test published, show that the magis before a judge. There is seldom A ranker also was that gallant trates in that year found 817,073 any presumption of Innocence in but tragle soldier the late Major-persons guilty of various offences, cases tried by the lay magistrates. General Sir
Hector Macdonald, That Is, they dealt finally with over The mere fact that a charge has enough whose memorial pillar dominates the 3 per cent. of all offences. To these been brought by the police is eno
those who grey harbour and grey houses of 817,873 persons and
for the average J.P. The accused Dingwall, the east coast Scottish were
magistrates has to prove his, or her, innocence. town which is proud of having once granted 303 certificates for free legal The only help he gets from the owned him as a shy young draper's aid.
court, ns n rule, is to be told harshly Under the Act of 1930 two condi- that he must ask questions and not assistant.
During the wor I remember hear- tions must be fulfilled before legal ing of a very efficient brigadier who aid is granted to a defendant in the make a statement. began life as Mr. Godfrey Jones, a "Police Court. His means must be miner working at the coal face in insufficient to obtain it for himself. Ebbw Vale. He was only one of
and by reason of
There are few more pitiful sights the gravity of the
1 poverty-stricken man or rge or of exceptional circum- thun some 20 or more miners who rose to slunces
jcharge high rank, and gave a first class ac interests of justice that he should to say in court, confused by the must be desirable in the woman trying vainly lo think what count of himself.
have professional help in his defence, unfamiliar surroundings and shrink- University Training
It is true that many
of the offences ing from the ridicule which is far tried in the "Police" Courts are of too often poured out by the Bench another a triding nature, and that a large and their clerk. brigadier who in civil te number of persons plead guilty. But Legal aid is actually more neces- had been a cab driver. A few years the magistrates, nearly all of then sary before lay magistrates than be
judge. A judge is always ago there was a policeman on duty lay justices and not stipendiaries, in fore at Barry Dock who had commanded 1938 dealt with 38,504 Indictable on the watch for irregularities. The a battalion during the war.
offences, mainly cases of theft, by only thing that magistrates can be Before the war," when I was a persons over 17, and sent nearly. a relied upon to watch is the clock.
there young man,
The justices dislike defended cases was that grand quarter of these persons to prison.
In 1030, 10,443 persons were sent because they take more time. O'Connor, V.C., "the greatest ranker to prison by the magistrates for non- old soldier Major-General Sir Luke
11 One may have dim recollections It is significant that it is always
of such a heavenly event (7). offences. of them all" before "Wullle" Robert- | indictable
Altogether advocates for the defence who are
of 10 across in 14 Put the start Aon became Chief of the Generalnearly 20,000 persons were sent to accused of wasting time. No ad-
humans to infuriate (0). Staff, Chlef of the Imperial General prison after trial in the "Police" vocata wartes time intentionally, as Staff.
I have had 18 This day is usually a festive G.O.C. Great Britain, and Courts, And 383 persons only, out for him time is money.
one (5), of well over three-quarters of a 30 years' experience of the courts 20 Engineers often take this In million tried, had the privilege of a of summary jurisdiction, and I have
hand (0). never seen a defendant who could 22 A little tug on the line? (0). which came from the last European Poor Persons Defence. War in already being forgotten. The card Ironically suggested, that the sentation.
It may be, of
as I have afford it without professional repre- 23 Palsonous horse artist (5), course, wounds of 1014-18 are not yet
In colloquial 25 Popular -game [explanation is that crime is practi- healed. They are gaping hideously
guise (0). The
wealthier Imbecile disinclination to
20 Town (7). in a general disintegration of civically confined
classes. But this disquieting theory consider, or even to hear- a word
lised traditions and aspirations: is negatived by the fact that 1,705
29 Rigorously traffic In
severe result of about, the other 'kide of the case is
Surely it was wise British policy, legal old certificates were granted those of a trivial nature the drivers introducing skill in the distance In itself a positive negative of de-
when the fires of civil war started in
27. mocratle theory. Yet we find it to- Germany and Italy. But ever so Spain, and various international fire in respect of the 7,078 cases tried of private cars are as a rule repre- sented. Lorry drivers, unless they day developing into something susretan ignore the equally brigades came rushing In with in-t Assizes and Quarter Sessions,
not, belong to a union, usually are strenuous intervention by Russia and cendiary equipment piciously like an advanced democra France. If the latter has been less
to spread the
Kleptomaniacs with means who help flames, to use the utmost endeavour
themselves at expensive shops al- effective than the former, does that eve It has been peculiarly in evidence, affect the ethical values of the ad-
---even at the necessity of sometimes Some benthies have peculiar ideas most invariably have advocates to 33 With so few At a position might from the very first moment, over tion?
turning a diplomatic Nelsonie telea as to what constitutes "lasufficient explain the molter. Poor women 34 Our belt gives a spot of bother! troubles in Spain.
cope to the blind eye-to keep an means." I have myself heard a man who steal the
Broadly speaking there are but two schools as it has been in past history, the
Spain might easily have become, originally purely Peninsular quarrel whose sole means were 10s. 3d. per have to do the best they can for
from extending the
to
whole of political thought about Spain in cockpit of another
of week unemployment pay refused themselves. European war. arined Europe?
These things breed discontent, and legal aid on the ground that he could this country.
Would the Spanish Government's Ten years hence, I fancy, we shall afford to pay for it.
Justifiably so. No alteration in the Call for Reprisals
partisans in this country have re- congratulate ourselves that in 1030 Another explanation, and to some low is required. All that is needed lished that prospect? In the long we were far-seeing enough not to extent a true one, is that the justices is that the existing low should be is firmly persunded that run, would even those
Spanlarda make Franco jumped in, without the who are on the side of the Madrid partisans the excuse for punish are afraid of the expense involved. put into effect by those whose duty
for staging a They have been very successful in it is to administer it. slightest justification or provocation, Government have appreciated 117
second edition of Armageddon. keeping down the cost, for during The Home Office is fond enough One Great War in a century is just the six years, for which statistics of circulars to the justices. They about enough. It is certainly as have been published 1,005 certidentes might try the effect of a circular on much as Western civilisation can in all have been granted by the 1,044 this point. stand.
"Police" Courts In England and.
-A Solicitor
Everybody with any sense deplores
to extirpate this partisan madness. the fact that the Spaniards have not whether by an improved education been left to fight their quarrel out or some other expedient, I fear amongst themselves. We have done there may be grave danger for our our utmost to secure such a situation, democracy.
and if our efforts have not been suc cessful, the fault certainly does not lie with us, but with overmastering circumstance.
No one defends the intervention
ild practice.
One
to sabotage a Popular Front Govern- Keeping Out of It ment, in order to assert a military Fakelst control. The other is just as It suvely cannot be the case that firmly certain flint Franco merely the appalling disaster to the world
+
to
the
offences
other than
from sixpenny.
storos
32 There are two graduates any- how, in this part of America
O..
not be this (7).
(7).
DOWN 1 Certainly not giving the im. pression of a live body (10). 2 ts home may caally be twig-
ged (4).
a Wherein there is a private ma-
jority (4).
4 One might cook the final bird
in it (7).
Ŏ A useful fellow,
specialist (8).
but n10
6 Weary finish for. 'a · remnant
(0).
? It might be lanced but one can
make light of it (0).
12 Flower (5).
13 It will be found in Europe a
century hence (5).
15 A good defence (5). -
10 It's a safe bet that this anto is
fair (0),
17 It may contain many points of Interest to the seamstress (10). 10 This may create a musleni at-
mosphere (3).
|21 No marine helper, in the or-
dinary way (8),
[24 What the runners were in the
dead heat (7)2.
20 Bird that chases its tall (6).. 27 A cattle pen (0).
30 A card game (4).
31 He is Hable, later on, "to lose
his wool (4).
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