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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1030.
WORLD ECONOMIC
PROBLEMS
If the world situation is such
ment was genuinely promoting policy. And now you are after the collective organisation of old-time imperialist deals with peace and not undermining the unreliable people like Mussolini League of Nations, our people and Hitler. You are going on might take another viow."
as if your League of Nations 'didn't exist.
"Our public opinion just slides back. The President's line at
ONE points out that the Chicago gets less support. And United States Govern- even 1, who want to support ment has at least acquiesced in your Labour policy, I, who am some of these policies or made no friend of isolation and am a no active stand, and that It also, friend of collective security--I under Congress legislation, has am driven to admit that, as phohibited the supply of arms things are, the Isolationists here to the Spanish Government. "I have a case.. know," is the answer, "but what "If things were different on else can we do 3,000 miles away your side things could be differ- when you people in the middle ent here. I believe the President of it are betraying democracy wants to do the right thing, but and doing little or nothing for he's got to carry public opinion. the active organisation of a And your Government just lan't peaceful world?"
giving him a chanco,"
I met definite friends of col- lective security, of whom there. are a large number in the
S fairly as I can give AS United States. Leaders of
it, there is a state- special organisations for the ment of a cross-section of Amo- study of foreign policy, Liberals, rican public opinion. It is best, Socialists, a number of the trade I think, that my fellow country- union leaders; and, so far as I men should know about it. could tell, my speeches expound- ing the British Labour Party's
Hon.
By the Rt. Herbert Morrison
If France is involved in a first-
ass w will be found on the side
Britain
other and worse 1914.
of France. If Britain and. France were in danger of defent at the hands of the Fascist Powers, it is two to one that Americh would sooner or later come in on the side of the democracies-if they are still de- and you muddied things in the foreign policy went well, parti- mocracies. So both Britain and Abyssinian business and you re- cularly in Labour and Liberal America may just drift into an- cognise the Italian conquest. circles and among the keener In your own way you have vic- students of inetrnational affairs, ment will not do is to take the But what the British Govern- But all of them told me that much smaller risks involved in timised the constitutional Gov- ernment of Spain. Your Mr. British foreign policy under our mobilising the peaceful Powers Chamberlain has been steadily "National" Government had put representing the vast moving away from co-operation the clock back in America,
jority of nations, people, and with the peaceful Powers and
"Take my position," said an economic and military power- warmakers. Your Government union official. "I think you are because of that, America atanda moving towards the Fascist intelligent and important trade not for war, but for peace. And has got a pre-1914 mind.
right about all this, and I want aside.
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THERE is much ¡uola- tionalism among the American people, and they have a better practical case for it than we have. But to a great extent it has been perpetuated by the policies of democratic Govern- ments in Europe. The essential case argued for their isolationist views is that the statesmen of Europe (including our own) are not to be trusted.
"We went into the Great
"The latest Italian agreement to support you. I am not an American instincts are sound. War," they argue. "Late, we not only once more betrays isolationist. But that it is possible for the League admit, but still at a vital and Spain, but is a full-blooded old-
The people of the United States. "Well, Roosevelt made his are firm champonis of demo- of Nations Assembly to get critical moment for the Allied style imperialist document. And quarantine speech at Chicago cracy. They are against dicta- Powers. We went into it with now your Prime Minister Cham- last Fall. A risky and courage- torship. They hate the tyranny through its normal programme
ideals, similar ideals to those berlain visits Lord London- ous thing to do. He got some and militarism of Fascism. They of work, economic questions will, your Government had officially derry, whose close relations with support and it did good, but he are genuine friends of peace. It
And then after the German proclaimed.
Nazis play a not inconsiderable-part in the victory we got the same old known,
are well got a lot of criticism. And then is precisely because of their vir- what happened on your side? tucs that they are unwilling to the near future. A proposal imperialist deals, and the sort "What's the good of talking He got no real response from the run the risk of being used na that measures for raising the of peace that was so vindictive to us about co-operation with British Government. On the catspaws by a muddled Europe
that it was only an interrupted Britain and the other peaceful contrary, ita polley steadily got and Chamberlain Imperialiem. standard of living of the masses, war.
Powers when Britain and appar- worse, and it hasn't been much ently France are
Perhaps, the only means of themselves good, even under Eden, since winning the co-operation of the shall be the subject of special "Your statesmen pulled the moving away from collective 1931. Then came the Eden re- American people for the collec wool over President Wilson's security and the League and to signation (or dismissal under tive organisation of peace is the investigation by the League is
eyes and we were so disgusted wards imperialist deals with 'the foreign pressure) because Cham- defeat of Mr. coming before the Assembly at with the whole business, that aggressora.
Chamberlain's If your Govern- berlain wanted a still worse Government. we kept out of your Treaty of the next scasion. A preliminary
Versailles, League of Nations investigation has already been and all. Finally, you have' carried out as a
failed to pay your debts to us. result of 11
Why should we bother about resolution adopted at last year's | Europe and its troubles? We Assembly. The report on this is are, a long way away and we
don't have to bother anyway."
There are others who take n more modern view of things
being submitted to this year's Assembly.
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Another report by the League's Economic Organisation LAUGHTER FROM
that is also in the hands of delegates is the annual World Economic Survey.
IRELAND
OUR VOICES GIVE US AWAY
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A RECENT article on noses is a in a pair of blue eyes. An arustic tence, he can quite safely be placed reminder that many famous men Grecian nose may be allled with as a being of uncertain temper. vealing power of physiognomy. have had a profound belief in the re- duli, expressionless eyes. A mouth
which is a thin, colourless line may The ecstalle voice, eternally over- Shakespeare's reference to faces as betoken a hard, disagrecable person- emphasising trivial points, is the cor- " book whereon men may read ality. It may just as easily, be a tain hall-mark of the hysterical, strange writings" is famous. Cow-music which conceals someone who shallow-minded person, An un- per, Scott, and Hazlitt, three widely is painfully sensitive. different men, all believed that we
naturally solt, purring voice, assum-
Should be taken at our face value.
entes a disciplined, kanely-balanced A rich, well-modulated voice ind-
personality. A voice of this type is usually the result of training, not of accident.
But there is one cafe way of an-ed for the occasion, reveals the self- sessing characteristics; that is by secking, hypocritical type. Lockhart, speaking of a contem-studying velces. For the voice is an ponry, says that "his fair and very infallible register of the emotions, gressively honest self-made man who At the other extreme is the ag- handsome physiognomy carried and, whether we will or no, we THE. Green Isle is famed for being be mistaken by any who could read to those who can read the signs has many excellent qualities, he is bland astuteness of expression not to betray something of our character refuses to tone down the accents of his humble childhood. While he the home of uncenscious the plainest of The Survey. begins with the humour, and the sayings of Pat and writing."
Nature's hand-eright.
not an easy person to live with. his cronies ure quoted all over the atatement that "The year 1937. world. There ist nothing forced Undoubtedly, the evidence in sup-Sign Of "Nerves"
A duli monotone is usually assum about their humour, and often they port of this face-reading theory is
ed to betoken a vacant mind, but it marked for many countries a themselves fail to realise that they in placing too Impllett a reliance on nearly always pitches his voice in dreamer whose thoughts are for re- impressive. Yet there a danger A nervous, highly-strung man may just as casily belong to the are being unwittingly funny, as this the message of the face. turning-point from expansion to collection of stories will testify.
too high a key. If he has, In ad- moved from the company. The threat of an aggressive chin dillon, the irritating trick or raising) contraction of trade activity.
In an Irish paper the following may be belied by the kindly gitam his voice at the end of every sen- lucid statement was printed:"On The rapid rise in the prices of last Boxing Day some of the public- houses were closed and some re- primary commodities in the early muined dpen. This year it seemsi part of the year was intensified by the prospect of heavy and
increasing expenditure ол re-
Armament." In parenthesis it may be added in this connection that the Bureau of the Disarma- ment Conference is to meet during the Assembly to consider
the very reverse is to be the case."
The story is told of an Irish) mother who, during the war, met the pries! In the vinge, "Have you had bad news, Biddy?” he inquired. "You are looking very sad. Have you heard anything about your con?” sadly, "I have that."
"Skure, your honour," she said
"Did you receive word from the War Onice?"
"No, scrr. I received word from himself."
"But how could you do that?" usk-
the replies of Governments to aed the perplexed priest. draft convention providing for "Shure, an' ho sent me a letter. Budgetary publicity of arma-Says he, Dear Mother, I am now in
the Holy Land." "* ments. At the present time the armaments Budgets of certain Į countries, notably Italy and Japan, are not known.
A travelier in Ireland spent, the night in a remote country Inn. He was surprised in the morning to find that the boots he had left auside his bedroom door had not been cleaned:
"Why do you suppose I put my boots landlord angrily. outside the door?"
He asked the
An interesting comparison between Great Britain and the United States is made in the Sure, an' I don't know, sorr," was Survey. We are told that "In the reply, "unless it was that, beg
King your honour's pardon, ye wert comparison with the United drunk." States, the United Kingdom had
"Have you any references?" asked the mistress of the house.
"Shure, mum, lots of thim," ro- by 1937 reached a much more plied the prospective matd.
"Then why didn't you bring some
you?"
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"Well, you see, mum; they're just like me pictures. They don't do me Justice."
GRIN AND BEAR IT
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By Lichty
4-17
"I don't know either how lifting the hood helps--but I always zee Henry do it when he's in trouble?".
It is interesting, too, to note the volee of our acquaintances off guard. -Think of the Impression created by a woman who addresses a casual friend in dulcet tones, and im inediately after in overheard shrill- ing a sharp reproof at a subordinate..
Heredity Tells
the
A volce, like character, is often à noteworthy heritage from parents. Qulte frequently every member of the family speaks in exactly came tones. Rider Haggard once described how the deep, boeming notes of the "Haggard volce" were peculiar to every member of his father's family.
That a physical defect in speaking bitokens extreme nervousness generally recognised. But it is not so well known that it is usually oc companied by a particularly high level of intelligence. Mr. Somerset., Maugham has confessed that his stammer had a
a great deal to do with adoption of a literary career. "My innbilty to speak properly," he commented, "made me more sen- ative and introspective than I should otherwise have been, so that I see things a little differently from other people."
Then there is the question of nge. With the majority of us age is in- rvitably
betrayed by the voice, Think of the clear, musical treble of the child, of the thin reedy noctes of the aged,, not fo, apenk of all the varying infl-etions in between, and It is impossible to doubt tha
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