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-ROOSEVELT, recently
THE
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PRESIDENT CAN DO
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Ironical
Wilson led America into the To see the President clothed in hisfull power, America must last war, against all opposition. Now consider legislation. In beat war or in a state of emer- Grent Britain measures
Army
Cabinet
CONSTITUTION
Navy
Senate
House
are
of
CONGRESS
Reps.
Introduce Bills,"
gency due to internal disturb- ance. As Commander-in-Chief brought into Parliament by the of the Army and Navy he is King's Ministers, and theoreti then expected to assume all the cally under his instruction.
The American President can't powers the emergency warrants, "charged with the faithful exe- do that. Not directly or through
From the Wille House to the Capliol in Washingtan, where Con- cution of all laws."
his Ministers can he introduce Bills. All the Constitution al- gress nicets, the powerful President sends messages reporting on the state So you see there is scarcely a lows him is to report to Con- of the nation; he derives his powers such as control of the Army and European equivalent to the American President. In some gress on the state of the nation, Navy-from the Constitution. Yet he has Cabinet Ministers who can't ways he is like a king, in others and to recommend measures he like a dictator, and yet in other considers necessary. senses he has less power than the British Prime Minister.
It's a big job and a killing job. There are often four or five widows of former Presidents alive at the same time rarely get things done? more than one ex-President to watch his successor
BRITAIN gave £10,000,000 to America's millions.
The President informs Con- gress by means of written men- sures, but these messages do not necessarily result in legislation. So how does he manage to
His Name Was Bobby Bingo
- AND HE WAS REASON FOR
He gets a member of Con- gress to submit a Bill for him, ruling and, of course, it is known whether the President is behind The American President backs any measure submitted. Czecho-Slovakia as a sop for
up his words by reminding the If the President is tied by the Munich Agreement.
Senate Military Affairs Com- Congress, well, he can get his Yesterday, according to the mittee that he is Commander- own back by exercising his veto Prague Correspondent of the in-Chief of the United States power.
Army and Navy. Vested with It works this way: If, for London "Times" (quoted in our powers approached only by example, President Roosevelt Stop Press column), Germany those given to the President of does not like a certain Bill he has demanded an amount in the French Republic, the Ameri- can return it to Congress within
can President uses them.”
'ten days of its passing. gold from Czecho-Slovalda pro-. In times of peril he straddles Then, unless the Bill repasses portionate to the number of in- the scene loaded with powers so both Houses by a two-thirds habitants in the territory ceded great that they frighten. Then vote, it does not become law.
the great democracy bends to The veto power is a dangerous to the Reich. Czecho-Slovakia, the will of a dictator.
instrument in 1 democratic because she cannot resist, has
Remember Wilson in the war? State, and most Presidents fight His word was law, his prestige shy of it. Two Presidents,not that it is a fixed habit immense, his power unlimited, though, Jackson and Cleveland,this was bright and airy He crossed the Atlantic at the used it vigorously and survived.
N
THE
THAT
APPEARANCE AT THE KOWLOON COURT
CONTRADISTINC- TION to other courts which I have attended
I began to wonder hopefully whe her I might exchange "papers" with the perpetrator of some comparative- ly decent little crime, get acquitted, and away on my lawful occasions. acceded to the demand, and has
Too risky, I decided!
Mr. X., apparently untiringly, con- ordered the Czech National
the slinking Bank to pay the first instalment,
tinued to interrogate prisoner, the dupper interpreter, the confident pollee; make an occasionst £2,500,000, to the Reichsbank. States.
nale, and ulter sentence or acquittal. This is what it boils down to: į What then? Well, democracy the President are not so great might have been cheerful.
At all events, everyone I en- Those condemned to gaol were con- Britain-has-financed-Czecho-revenges itself, turns on the man Most of the law and administra- Slovakia to finance Germany. It happened to Wilson, and there State and local governments.
it has raised to too great power. tion in America belongs to the countered, with the exception of ducted out of court, bowed and dis-
pirited-in variance with the fre prisoners, defendants and magls-quently repeated remark that Chun- The gold Germany is grabbing you had the unhappy spectacle
ese of that class do not fear prison. of the once great man ending his ties, and so on, have, however, trate, was alert and debonair. days in ridicule and discredit.
end of the war like a god, un- Except in times of depression and lacking the melancholy disputed ruler of the United such as Roosevelt has experi-reason for attendance-
enced, the domestic powers of
is British gold, and it's not go
ing to be used to give butter to German women and children.
£15,000-a-Year Job
Unemployment, trade difficul-
given Roosevelt a bigger part to play in the domestic scene.
Having witnessed even a por- tion of the latter's morning
A uniformed poliseman,
no deut
with my constantly shifting, aching foot, approaches, asks to see my "ticket of admission,"
The President chooses his own work, I marvelled that he was YES;
beaming as though regarding It's going to be used to make THE powers, given freely to Cabinet Ministers, but most of able to maintain human revem- Paradise, sympathising
the President by the Ameri- the other appointments are blance. German bombs, which one day can people, are vast, approach made by the senators, and the may be killing the British men those Hitler and Mussolini have jobs they can hand out is often the price the President has to who paid that gold into the taken for themselves. Treasury. Flare Up
I ha
:
Madum
3
wrong court. But there is one great dif- pay for their support. How. OF COURSE, I was directed to the began to have suspletons after ference: the American Presi- ever, there are a lot of jobs that dent, no matter how far his the President himself can hand half-an-hour's interested and fellow-much needed alllp when in No. 12 "dictatorship" goes, is always out; and so you have what feelingish attention to the procession spoils of delinquents-hawkers, snatchers, on the end of strings laid down Americans
system."
obstructors, and what not. in the Constitution.
TURN TO Palestine. Terrorism flares up again in this un-
His £15,000-a-year job is ruly member of the British
three: foreign family. Palestine is no blood divided into relation. She is a kind of step-affairs, making laws, and ad-
ministering them. child once removed. Who will First, it is the President alone; relieve our Commonwealth of who appoints Ambassadors and this troublesome mandate? No- Ministers to foreign countries, body-because nobody else and he receives those sent to the United States, as the King wants it.
does in Britain.
That's the casiest part of his work on foreign affairs. Through of State the his Secretary American Foreign Secretary- he has the direction of all! negotiations, and he can take the initiative in foreign affairs.
Britain was "awarded" the mandate at San Remo in 1920. She is in Palestine for better or worse and she must carry on with her task of restoring order from chaos.
He can persuade his country into taking a certain line in foreign policy; his influence is naturally tremendous-like king in a democratic State.
But his is not the last word in deciding foreign policy, for if he wants to do a deal with an- other country, to sign a treaty with it, then he must get the approval of two-thirds of tho Senate, which consists of two members from each State
For some this land is a haven. Thousands of Danzig Jews are the latest who want to go there. They can see the writing on the wail. But since the immigra tion quota is only 5,000 semester, it is impossible for all to be accommodated.
The quota cannot be altered until the whole Palestine prob. lem has been thrashed out at the current conference in Lon-
So that's why you hear so don. And that conference has much about the Foreign Affairs become a bear garden, with Committee of the Senate; they Jowish delegates refusing to must be kept informed by the meet Arab delegates, and with President of any negotiations Arab delegates refusing to meet he is conducting with a foreign
Power. the Jews. Not only won't the conferees meet, but they've Power in Foreign Affairs started quarrelling amongst TECHNICALLY, the President themselves.
cannot declare war.
call "the
GRIN AND BEAR IT
What's this? Dog? Wrong court, 3 Dogs over the way, No. 12, Sorry!"
My self-importance received
discovered that Mr. Z. was appar- antly expecting my advent. But this was somewhat feeling, of elation dashed by the realization that I was half-an-hour late!
He courteously enquired the num- ber of my summons. I, in turn,
By Lichtynformed him that I was merely an
"There really isn't a thing torong with me ho just looked at my tongue and said all it needed was a rest?”
Interloper, a proxy, and he proceeded to probe into the true facts of Bobby Bingo's
aliced bite,
I put myself in worse caso than necessary by stating that we were "pleading not guilty".
Of course It should "picading not guilty".
have been
Why do these brilliant ideas come too late? I began to think that I yet might end the day at Stanley.
"Oh, well, I'm sorry, but I can't take the case, then. Proxies only be heard when a case is un- disputed".
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women
Did I read his thoughts aright, or was an unjust aspersion? other of these confounded
ning to tell me that her yapping little brute never biles, can't bite, won't bite, and so on!"
I enquired if further details of the "anine crime could be dilated upon nt some future date, when the legal wner could appear to answer well and truly.
"Yes, yes, the 14th. Same time”, I thanked His Worship, His Honour, His Grace-how does one address a kindly,
weary but "rio-nonsense
here" sort of official?
I departed, snuffing the air as a free-born Briton should.
no
OBBY IS exonerated, and
longer alinks beneath the sofa at the mention of Kennedy Town.
We won our case", or to be exact, the charge was wihdrawn Why? To Be Continued In Our, Next!
N.B.Whitestone