THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, Tuesday, JANUARY 31, 1939.
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Disunity
IT IS ONE great strength of
Mr. Neville Chamberlain's Government that his opponents, united in oppositoin to his policy, refuse to be united in organisation.
The Labour Party has it in its power to promote a united front in opposition. But at present it is not willing to do so, and even went to the extent last week of expelling one of its members, Sir Stafford Cripps, for breath- ing those heretical words "Popu- lur Front." Consider the posi tion of the Chamberlain Govern- ment: It is still called the "National Government," and it retains this title in view of the fact that it is supported by persons who designate them- selves "Liberal" or "Labour" with the prefix "National." But the forces of its opponents in and out of Parliament have been increasingly articulate, and on one point at least these are united-in their conviction that a different foreign policy is re- quired.
Against Mr. Chamberlain, of course, are the solid battalions of industrial and political La- bour, and the latter has now received the promise of electoral support from the well-organised Co-operation Forty. Against him, also, is the Liberal Party, small in Parliamentary repre- sentation, but still capable of turning at least two million votes in the country. And last- ly, there is the new Conserva- tive opposition, led by Mr. Dun- can Sandys, which has come into being in consequence of what some Conservatives regard as Mr. Chamberlain's excessive complaisance in the face of Fascism and National Socialism.
This small but virile opposi- tion includes such formidable lenders as Mr. Anthony Eden, Mr. Winston Churchill and Mr. Albert Duff Cooper.
United, all these parties and people opposed to Mr. Chamber- Jain might spell defeat for the Premier at an election. But official Labour is jealously ex- clusivo. Its backbone, the men who have built it up on the basis of the trade union mave- ment,
unwilling to ally with themselves
any group which will not subscribe to the Pas- whole of their policy. slonately, though most of their members feel about Abyssinja, about China, about Czecho- Slovakia, about Spain, about
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HERE are two diametrically opposed inter- pretations of the new political and economic
Munich-Godesberg plan, with the additions Imposed by the triumphant German negotiators.
One interpretation is that Czechoslovakia has been so weakened Industrially and politically that its survival, independent of Germany, is open to serious doubt. There would be some ground for this belief if the Polish-Hungarian plans for a common frontier were carried out and Slovakia and Ruthenia were olther cut off from Bohemia or so partitioned as to be useless to it.
There is no indication, how- ever, of this spoliation taking place. Apparently both Ger- many and Italy look on a joint Polish-Hungarian frontier with a certain amount of disapproval.
The other interpretation is much more constructive and hopeful. It is based on the belief that the new Czechoslovak - Ruthenian State, even if it granted almost complete and of autonomy
Slovakia
sufficient Ruthenia, has in it economic strength to be capable of reconstruction.
The point must be emphasised here that even now Czechoslovakia Is industrially, at least, unwilling to be brought within the German orbit.
After studying conditions in Prague and discussing the indus- trial and economic situation with. those most competent to have a view, one cannot escape the con- clusion that something can be done new and vigorous to build up a State.
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It is essential that any action of constructive nature should be taken at once and it should not be obstructed by political provisos.
What Has Been Taken
ZECHOSLOVAKIA
has
Cost in all about 33 per
cent.-40 per cent. of Its industrial productive capacity-rather more than three times that sustained by Germany as result of the Versailles Treaty; a loss made Good; incidentally, by the latter within a period of less than six years.
All of its lignite resources, most of its glass works, chemical works, a large proportion of its coal-min- ing, iron and steel, textile and woodworking industries have been transferred.
factors
Certain compensatory must be allowed. Ever since 1931 the ceded Industrial areas de- pended mainly on export and have seldom worked near capacity, and In the worst years presented a ple- ture of inactivity not unlike that of our own special areas: they con- tained industries producing mainly materials or semi-Arilshed which were worked up further in large plants located round, Prague and Brno.
raw
The greatest single loss sustained was not in Bohemia but in North Moravia, where the most import- ant coal-mining, iron and steel combination and one of the most modern installations in Europe has gone over to the Poles.
This company had an output of more than 4,000,000 tons of coal, 1,000,000 tons of steet and 500,000 tons of semi-finished products and supplied the requirements of the finishing industries round Prague.
Czechoslovakia still has its most successful and profitable engineer- ing works, the great woollen firms round Brno and a great aggrega-
by Hugh Quigley
toho ta chief statistician and economist to the Central Elec- tricity Board and a recognised authority on gconomie planning.
tion of smaller firms scattered throughout the country.
By deliberate and courageous planning based on what it now has in industrial experience, adminis- trative capacity, zaw materiala (Slovakia has potentialities not yet fully explored) and manufacturing enterprise it can rival the achieve- ment of Germany and make good in less than a decade.
Must Be Self-Sufficient
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To do so it must replan and partially rebuild its communications, road, rail and water, change the direction of its industrini and trade routes, and specialise on the intensive develop ment of Czechoslovakia itself as a market.
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It must move away from an economy based on coal to based on electricity derived from Its great rivers, with its consc- quences in railway, industrial and rural electrification.
It must link up more completely the outlying parts of the country, particularly Eastern Slovakia and Ruthenia, with the centre.
Agriculturally, the new State should be more than self-auf-
raised in this country (with the prospect of assistance from the American investor) under a aya- tem like that employed in the old Trade Facilities Act or specifie legislation such as the Railway Finance Act.
(3) An Anglo-Czech marketing commission should be created to advance mutual trade.
Do the reconstruction of Czecho- slovakia can be founded a plan for revising and extending trade in Bouth-Eastern Europe, but it is dangerous to assume that a propo- sal based on wider territorial issues than Czechoslovakia would lend to success.
We have had some experience in the
Inter- post-war years of national schemes and their patent- futility.
Let us not mix up the possibility of strengthening the economic position of South-Eastern Europe as a whole with the much more urgent and concrete problem of rescuing one country to whom we have not only moral and political, but also economic, obligations.
If we are in carnest about assistance to Czechoslovakia we shall have no difficulty in holding and extending our influence in the South-Eastern European market.
It is true that politically we have almost committed suicide in Cen- tral and South-Eastern Europe, and have left the way open for a bold attempt at German economic penetration, not only in Europe, but also in Aala, but our economic and Anancial strength remains unabated, and this strength must bo used with intelligence and determination.
This Menu Would Do It
An average loss of 3lb. per week continued for 20 months is an out- standing achievement. The caloric content of a diet capable of producing this effect could not be more than 1,500. This would be given by a menu on 6tch lines as: Breakfast:
Two water biscuits.
One cup of tea with milk and sugar. Lunch: lb. grilled steak.
Small portion of green vegetable. One slice dry bread. Tea: One cup without food. Dinner: Fish, 2oz fillet.
Or one egg. Winter salad.
Two biscuits.
Glass of orange or tomato julee. This diet would require supple-
felent, but it may run the danger menting with a few drops of a high-|| of having to export immense ton- ipotency preparation of Ash-liver oil nages of agricultural products to to ensure adequate vitamina A and import expensive machinery it, D. could manufacture itself.
Loan Of £50,000,000
Assistance given by Great Britain in the provision of capital would be economically justified as well as politically and morally expedient.
What is required is:
(1) A loan with full British Government guarantee of not less than £50,000,000 in total (spread over number of years)
to reconstruct transport éystems and the public utilities and ser- vices.
The present loan of £10,000,000 is destined mainly to enso cur- rency difficulties, and has conse- quently no direct connection with any plan for Industrial and economie reconstruction.
(2) An Anglo-Czech economic mission should survay at once the potentialities of the new State, determine where and to what extent now Industries should be established, and what capital should be required not only for now manufacturing' capacity, but also for mechanica- tion and re-equipment of exist- ing factorica,
The new capitai should be
dictatorships, their leaders are NEW GUINEA FORESTS containing 50,000,000 super feet of
still reluctant to join with those
who share their foelings but do
doctrine.
CANBERRA.
hoop and klinkli pine and a quailliy
A large ares of forest counter in of codur and scoondary timbers, is to not accept the whole Bociallst the Bublo district of une audit be thrown open by the administration
mandatadritory of New Guinea, for milling.
Crinolines
Webster defines the word Crinoline thus: n. (F. fr. crin, hair. L., crinie) 1, A'kind of stiff cloth. 2, A woman's akirt of any stiff material; also, a hoop skirt.
E example the Queen has set in wearing a crinoline makos women think.
During the last few months we have often toyed with the idea of the crinoline, liked to scc
hung
mannequins,
but were not
quite
certain
it
whether
we dared
to intro-
It
duce
u
Deives.
Who
be
cgan wearing
the cri- noline,
ננס
1840-1935
anyway? Mine Pompadour in the 18th century, Queen Victoria revived the fashion in England in 1510,
The style survived for many years. Women went shopping la crinolines, climbed into Hansoms In them,
First declaration of Indepen- dence apparently came from the three brides Ellen, Edith, and
Annie Beeman
Hughes in 1807, when they discarded thelg t:oops and
walked down
ney
Hack-
they
in
reported 1917, "was a most during thing to do."
Crinolines
went
then,
Hout**
Gu
and
timea
many since they've threatened to como back,
In 1911 M. Folket, a Purly dress designer, 3914
created a sen- sation by reintroducing them in his winter collection. They came as a direct contrast to the "notorl- ous horem-skirts" which had a rather lecting vogue. But M. Poiret
couldn't quite get the Oriental bins out of his mind; his
erinoline was of an Oriental style. In 1914 they said, "The crinoline not only threatened, it has arrived," and
is
the high light WIS
a model mode of taile- Lits with ц skirt "describ- ing a series of puffed circles with line
corded
each c
No exaggeration
of width, of course, and I don't know how they had the temerity to call it a crinoline, be- cause the hoops
absent.
were
In 1921 they Bald,
"Crino lines have
1921 come at last... women can wear them with the full balloon effect. beloved of their grandmothers, having due regard to the con- tingencles of modern life."
In 1023 it was crinolines again; In 1925 a demand for busties and, supposedly, an end to masculine fashions.
But it wasn't 50. It was just a reaction, in the same way as our return to crinolines now is a reaction. Having become eman- cipated, presumably we want the- best of two bargains, and hope to be considered ultra-feminine too. As a concession to the ΠΑΓΓΟΥ doorways of modern flats and cars
crinoline hoops the
GRACE HERBERT.
new
pliable.
are
GRIN AND BEAR IT
By Lichty
'unk's teacher, said you should talk to him he got
in conduct this month?''