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"Let me remind you, I'm Commander-in- Chief of the Army and Navy” --ROOSEVELT, recently
JUST WHAT
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That right belongs to Con-
Roosevelt startles the gress, and Congress la the two Houses of Parilamont-the world by being re- Senate and the House of Re- miles per gallon according to results ported as saying that the presentatives, which consists of announced by the American Auto-United States frontier is 135 members.
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Ironical
ance.
To see the President clothed in hisfull power, America must beat war or in a state of emer- gency due to internal disturb As Commander-in-Chief of the Army, and Navy he is then expected to assume all the powers the emergency warrants, "charged with the faithful.exe cution of all laws."
So you see there is scarcely a European equivalent to
where war becomes inevitable.
That's how America went to war
with Mexico in 1845,
Wilson led America into the last war, against all opposition. Now consider legislation. In Great Britain brought into Parliament by the King's Ministers, and theoreti cally under his instruction.
measures ате
The American President can't do that, Not directly or through his Ministers can he introduce
Army
Cabinet
CONSTITUTION
Navy
House of Reps
CONGRESS
Senate
From the White House to the Capliot in Washingtan, where Con-
Bills. All the Constitution al- cress meets, the powerful President sends messages reporting on the state the lows him is to report to Con- of the nation; he derives his powers such as control of the Army and 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 introduce Bills, like a dictator, and yet in other considers necessary. senses he has less power than the British Primo 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 more than one ex-President to watch his successor ruling
The President informs Con- gress by means of written mea- surea, but these messages do not necessarily result in legislation. So how does he manage to get things done?
He gets a member of Con- gress to submit a Bill for him, I and, of course, it is known whether the President is behind The American President backs any measure submitted. up his words by reminding the If the President is tied by Senate Military Affairs Com- Congress, well, he can get his mittee that he is Commander, own back by exercising his vato in-Chief of the United States power.
BRITAIN gave £10,000,000 to America's millions.
Czecho-Slovakia as a sop for the Munich Agreement.
Yesterday, according to the Prague Correspondent of the London "Times" (quoted in our Stop Press column), Germany has demanded an amount in gold from Czecho-Slovakia pro- portionate to the number of in- habitants in the territory ceded to the Reich. Czecho-Slovakia, because she cannot resist, has
Army and Navy. Vested with It works this way: If, for powers approached only by example, President Roosevelt those given to the President of does not like a certain Bill he the French Repubile, the American return it to Congress within can President uses them.
ten days of its passing.
N
His Name Was
Bobby Bingo
- AND HE WAS THE REASON FOR THAT APPEARANCE AT THE KOWLOON COURT In times of peril he atraddles Then, unless the Bill repasses the scene loaded with powers so both Houses by a two-thirds
I began to wonder hopefully whe- CONTRADISTINC
ther I might exchange "papers" with great that they frighten. Then vote, it does not become law. the great democracy bends to The veto power is a dangerous TION to other courts the perpetrator of some comparative- the will of a dictator.
instrument in R democratic
which I have attended by decent little crime, get acquitted, Remember Wilson in the war? State, and most Presidents fight Two Presidents,
-not that it is a fixed habit and away on my lawful occasions.
Tao risky, I decided! His word was law, his prestige shy of it. immense, his power unlimited. though, Jackson and Cleveland,
Mr. X., apparently untiringly, con- the slinking He crossed the Atlantic at the used it vigorously and survived. this was bright and airy
Except in times of depression and lacking the melancholy tinued to interrogate end of the war like a god, un-
Occasional disputed ruler of the United such as Roosevelt has experi- reason
for attendance prisoner, the dapper interpreter, the
confident police; mako States.
enced, the domestic powers of
note, and utter senience or acquittal. 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....zon-. Czecho-revenges itself, turns on the man Most of the law and administra-
piri:cd-in varlance 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- It happened to Wilson, and there you had the unhappy spectacle of the once great mun ending his days in ridicule and discredit.
acceded to the demand, and hus ordered the Czech National Bank to pay the first instalment, £2,500,000, to the Reichsbank.
This is what it boils down to: Britain has financed Slovakia to finance Germany. The gold Germany is grabbing is British gold, and it's not go ing to be used to give butter to German women and children, It's going to be used to make German bombs, which one day may be killing the British men who paid that gold into the Treasury. Flare Up
TURN TO Palestine. Terrorism flares up again in this un- ruly member of the British family. Palestine is no blood relation. She is a kind of step- child once removed: Who will relieve our Commonwealth of this troublesome mandate? No- else body-because nobody wants it.
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.
£15,000-a-Year Job
State and local governments.
Unemployment, trade difficul- ties, and so ca, have, however, given Roosevelt a bigger part to play in the domestic scene.
with the fre-
YES:
beaming as though regarding
prisoners, defendants and magis- quently repented remark that Chin- ese of that class do not fear prison. trate, was alert and debonair.
Having witnessed even a por- tion of the latter's morning The President chooses his own work, I marvelled that he was THE powers, given, freely to Cabinet Ministers, but most of able to maintain human regem-Paradise, sympathising
the President by the Ameri- the other appointments are blance, can people, are vast, approach made by the senators, and the those Hitler and Mussolini have jobs they can hand out is often the price the President has to taken for themselves.
wrong court,
मे
✰'
A uniformed policeman,
по doubt with my constantly shifting, aching to see my toot, approaches, asks "ticket of admission."
What's this? Dog? Wrong_court,
Sorry!" My
self-importance received But there is one great dif- pay for their support. How. OF COURSE, I was directed to the Madum! Dogs over the way, No. 12.
I began to have suspicions after ference: the American Presi- ever, there are a lot of jobs that dent, no matter how far his the President himself can hund half-an-hour's interested and fellow-much needed filip when in No. 12 "dictatorship" goes, is always out; and so you have what feelingish attention to the procession I discovered that Mr. Z. was appar
spoils of delinquents-hawkers, snatchers, on the end of strings laid down Americans call "the
obstructors, and what not. system." In the Constitution.
is His £15,000-a-year job
foreign divided into three: affairs, making laws, and ad- ministering them.
First, it is the President alone who appoints Ambassadors and Ministers to foreign countries, and he receives those sent to the United States, as the King docs in Britain.
That's the easiest part of his work on foreign affairs. Through his Secretary of State-the American Foreign Secretary- he has the direction of all negotiations, and he can take the initiative in foreign, affairs.
He can persuade his country into taking a certain line in foreign policy; his Influence is naturally tremendous-like a king in a democratic 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 wall. But since the immigra-
But his is not the last word tion quota is only 5,000 in deciding foreign policy, for if semester, it is impossible for all he wants to do a deal with un- to be accommodated.
other country, to sign a treaty The quota cannot be altered with it, then he must get the until the whole Palestine prob-approval of two-thirds of the lem has boon thrashed out at Senate, which consists of two the current conference in Lon-members from each State.
So that's why you hear so don. And that conference has much about the Foreign Affairs bocomo a bear garden, with Committee of the Senato; they Jewish 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 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.-
Power.
GRIN AND BEAR IT
ently
expecting my advent. But this somewhat feeling of elation was dashed by the realization that I was half-an-hour latel
He courteously enquired the num
I, in turn. ber of my summons.
him that I was merely an
By Lichty informoper, a proxy, and he proceeded
"There really fen't a thing wrong with me he just looked at my tongue and sald all it needed was a rest!"
to probe into the true facts of Bobby Bingo's allend bite.
I put myself in worse case than
necessary bv
| "pleading not gulliṣ?",
that we were
Of course it should have
"we were not defending".
been
Why do these brilliant ideas come too Inte? I began to think that I yel night end the day at Stanley.
"Oh, woll, I'm sorry, but I can't take the
then. Proxics can only be heard when a case is un- Did I read his thoughts aright, or wat
disputed".
it an unjust aspersion? "An- other of these confounded, women going to tell me that her yapping tile bruto never bites, can't, bite, won't bite, and so on!"
I enquired if further details of the canine crime could be dilated upon at so
some
owner lure date, when the legal
and
could appear to, answer welt truly.
"Yes, yes, the 14th. Samo_time" I thanked His Worship, His Honour, Tris Grace-bow does one address a kindly, weary but
here" sort of ofcialt
***no-nonsense
I departed. souffing the air, as a |free-born Brilon should....
and
no
OBBY IS exonerated
longer slinks beneath the sofa at the mention of Kennedy Town.
We won "our case", or to be exact, the charge was withdrawn. Why? To Be Continued In Our Next!
N.B. Whitestone
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