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The Colonial Empire
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"W
STORY
by F. G. H. Salusbury
HETHER Holly- wood intends to or not, the movies are painting our picture for posterity. It won't be too accurate a portrait. We aro going to be prettled and sillided."
That sentence is from a book ("We Saw It Happen," Harrap, 8. 6d.) in which thirteen men with thirteen typewriters have set out to knock the Hollywood attitude endways.
The men are all correspondents of the New York, Times"--a newspaper which one of them sedately describes as the best in the world—and they all write for dear life, because, as every re- porter knows, while there's fe
here's hope.
And these men have hope for us. That is the thing which emerges from this collection of world-wide atories, as cheerfully as a cork from a bottle.
The cork may hit us in the eye as it pops out-Britannia gets a lovely black eye in the chapter called "The British Way"--but the draught which-follows is cer- tainly invigorating.
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I HOPE that historians will not overlook this book-which shows, in- cidentally, that reporters are head- aand-typewriters above novelists as writers for it reeks with the spirit of the age: disillusionment
no faith in the everywhere, present, hope only for the future. The Thirteen Disillusionists ride high and wide and low.
G. E. R. Gedye goes through Central and Eastern Europe. what a babble of devilishly idiotic. noises overwhelmed, bim at last! And above it all he magnites two voices-Schuschnigg making his final broadcast to the Austrian people. his words climbing pas- slonately to "God protect Aus- tria!"
of John Kieran on American sport; of Arthur Krock on high politics in Washington. But a choice must be made, and I concentrato оп Ferdinand Kuhn and F. Raymond Daniell,
Kuhn is the London corre- spondent of the "New York Times." He writes about "The British Way." He writes sympa- thetically. He understands 19. And he drags skeletons out of our na- tional cupboard and makes them dance with clacking bones. The. Essence of Kuhn is the decline of British democracy.
DANIELL. 18 n reporter In the United States. He writes about the Ameri- can Way under tlie title of "The Land of the Free." He writes as sympathetically as Kuhn. He, too, drags out his skeletons. They dance, as beats American skele. tons, to a brisker measure--what strikes me as a more lunatic one. The essence of Daniell is the de- cline of American democracy.
This seems important, I do not suppose either Kuhn or Daniel! looked over each other's shoulders as they pounded away on their typewriters. but both see Fascisг.
In some form as the common fate for us and the Americans, unless wo pull ourselves together.
makes his best point Kuhn when he refuses to see the British nation whole. He sees it as two The upper class has re- classes. tained Ita hold, its direction of affairs, by a snake-like subtlety- a dishonest subtleness of mind, as It strikes Kuhn-which will not work for ever.
saw
Up to the Era of Rape, which the successive disasters of Manchuria, Abyssinia, Austria and Czecho-Slovakia, the British policy of surrendering the non-essen- tals, while keeping the essentials, worked pretty well.
Recent years have witnessed marked reawakening of public in- terest at Home in the affairs of the Colonial Empire. This change of attitude has been stimulated on the one hand by the claims of the so- called "have-not" Powers, and on the other by the sporadic disorders in various parts of the Empire which have drawn attention to unsuspected defects in its administration. It is a change shared also by the Colonial Office itself. In a notable passage in his annual review of the Colonial Empire for 1938 the Colonial Secre- tary observes that he "inherited from his predecessors the tradition of trust- ing the man on the spot, of leaving local legislatures to make their own laws, and of encouraging each de- in- pendency to work out its own
THE shadow, so far na dividual development within the
the upper class is con- non-interference Empire." The
of
cerned, consists of the social benefits such as that mag- Whitehall was due not purely and assistance to dependències in need. nificent body of insurance laws (I simply to deliberate policy. but
Kuhn). unemployment., The Labour Adviser is on a visit to quote
health and old age, which have kept their effectiveness to this day
And Henes, President of Czecho- Slovakia, saying in 1937, "Let the carca of Central Europe slip quite easily off your shoulders, my poor worried friend, Nothing-will happen.
And then came 1938. The tragedy of this goes too deep even for jeers. I wish I had space to describe the activities of all the Thirteen- say. of Louts Stark, who believes that the Bacco-Vanzetti case was a monstrous miscarriage of justice;
It failed in this era because British statesmen mistook the essentials in international affaire. They thought it was more im- portant to have peace at almost any price you remember Appease- in Co-operate ment?-than to checking the disease of aggression.-
In home affairs, this policy of keeping the substance by sur rendering the shadow, has served the upper class excellently. The substance. of course, 1s power. privilege, the rule-shail one say?
of the Old School Tie.
"largely to the Colonies being out of; the West Indies, the Chief Medical sight and even out of mind." It is a Adviser has toured East and Central and preserved Britain from the THE HONGKONG & SHANGHAI HOTELS, LTD. | healthy sign of the times to have Me Africa during the past year, and the Worst miseries of the American
PAGES ELON MONEZ Riz dakie MacDonald's assurance that this ob- livlen is now a thing of the past, and that the Government's trust in its distant representatives must be "on a basis, not of lack of contact, but of co-operation,"
POP! GOES THEIR HEARTS, Errol Flynn loves Olivia, Olivia loves Patric, Patric lovos Rosalind, & Rosalind loves Errol
Any way they're all'in
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Agricultural Adviser has visited Malaya, Ceylon and St. Helena, the last-named a much neglected Colony, whose chronic distresses have too long awaited the attention of the Mother Country.
It is now being adequately realised
There is abundant testimony in the for the first time that while each annual report to the varied efforts dependency has Its local and which are now being made to develop individual problems, there are also the resources and improve the social many problems common to them all and economic conditions of the Co- of which the solution must be sought Ionial Empire generally. It is easy by advice and co-ordination from the to attach an exaggerated importance | centre. The. labour disturbances, to the unrest manifested in somo de- for example, which have occurred in pendencies in the past two or three regions as far apart as the West years, for, as the report points out, Indice and Mauritius have resulted in the regions affected include only a the main from certain fundamental fractional proportion of the area and social and economic causes operating population of the Colonial Empire. to a greater or lesser degree through Reforms are now taking shape which out the Colonial Empire. There are, should obvlate further trouble in again, the questions of malnutrillon the future and, above all, the public and of health generally, for which conscience has been stirred. At the the same kind of remedy, subject to same time, 'there still remain certain local conditions, is applicable every occasions for uneasiness, particularly where. All the Colonies share the with regard to the unsatisfactory same need for the organised improve- political conditions in Cyprus, and ment of their agriculture. It is which receive seant notice in the symptomatic of this altered outlooks report. Now, es never before, is the that the Colonial Secretary hos public conscious of the duties of the created new posts and new sub-trualeeship which, in the last resort, departments which will enable the ls the purpose, and justification of Colonial Omico to render systematic our Importal mission.
depression.
"Remember
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peasement?"— Mr. Chamberlain with his Munich "pact" (above).—— Schuschnigg(right) and his
"God protect Austria!" Saccound Vanzetti (below) "a' mor, strous miscarriage of justice."
* Joseph
Chamberlain," writes, "told the propertied classes that social legislation was the ransom they must pay in exchange for the security and wealth they enjoyed."
And Disraeli, long ago, made the same point. The "haves". must
pay for their possessions and privileges.
re- the
Thus, by knowing what to sur- render, Kuhn sees Britain after establishing herself Great War, strengthening the bonds of Empire by apparently loosening them with the Statute of Westminster, and saving her people from the American abysses of social disorganisation.
KUHN also sees Britain as a democracy a hun- dred years behind the times. He sees an "appalling gulf of class distinctions which, after hundreds of years, still separates one. section of the people from another."
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rity-a little bit here, a little there- -so that her Conservative rulers. can stay in power? I wish I felt sure that she would choose the democratic way."
So much for Kubn, an American looking at Britain. What of Daniell, an American, looking at America?
A large part of his chapter is devoted to that fantastic Agure of tyranny, Huey Long, Governor of Louisiana, who was assassinated by Dr. Welss:
Danfell thinks that "the tide of Fascist philosophy embodied in the organisations founded by Huey Long, Townsend and Coughlin " may haye evaporated to a great extent under the sun of Roosevelt's. administration, with its principle of a new deal in social reforms.“
"But I do know from my travels to all parts of these United States that the mental attitude on which. Fascism feeds exists here just as it does in Germany and Italy. while the seeds of Marxism fall upon barren soil."
"Every other democracy nowa- days," ho says, "is wise enough to recruit its brain-power and leader- ship, in politica and business... from the whole nation; Great Britain is content to recruit hers from the privileged three per cent. who have been educated in the so-Kentucky farmer who firmly be called public schools'
the odds
of an elementary-school boy-that ► is to ahy, a poor boy-getting into one of the reserved scats' of life In England are a thousand to one."
And that is why, says Kuhn. our serpentine suppleness will not work for ever. The challenge facing us 19 more desperate than the depression of 1031 or the un- rest of the post-war years. Will Great Britain meet it by breaking down vicious class-barriers so that she can get the best out of all her people when the trouble comes?.
"Or will she imitate the totall- tarian States by shedding her liberty, hot tolerance, her integ-
GRIN AND BEAR IT
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By Lichty
"Stop brooding, Gilhooley. Thom fenders gotta get dented some time !"
Kuhn may say that Britain's working people compare unfav- ourably in physical or intellectual resources with the masses of many poorer and weaker lands, but Daniell comforts us for that with his description of the bewhiskered
lieved that Negroes were only half human.
His authority, he said, was the. Bible. There were no women in the land of Nod, whither Cain fled, but Cain had issue. Therefore Cain must have married a baboon, and Negroes were the result of this unnatural union.
with HOLLYWOOD," which I
this began review, o merges, as
frankly mad. "By its marvellously sustained detachment from con- tomporary life," writes Frank Nugent," it has become the eighth, and ninth wonders of the world. It is all things to all men, and ali things and Robert Taylor to mest women,"
There is enough class distinction there to give Kuhn a seizure- "And I suppose," mid Nugent, after a dose of social niceties, "that the producers speak only. to God?'
"Oh, no!" was a Press agent's. reply, "some of them are very democratic."
This is a good book, a straight book. Readers have front seats. They can aven see the Thirteen Disillusionists pounding away on their typewriters with tears in their eyes.
Bomb Thrown Into
Barracks
Lieutenant-General
Sir
Jackson, General Omeer Command ing-in-Chief, Western Command, re- cently made the following citation in command orders:
On May 22, 1939, at Seaforth Bar racks, Liverpool, Lance-sergeant W. Rawcliffe and Private E. Lynch, De- pot, The King's Regiment, were successful in
in preventing the explo alon of a high-cxplosive bomb, which hud been thrown over the barrack Thie wall into the gymnasium. prompt'nction undoubtedly prevented consequences which might have been serious, The General Officer Com manding-in-Chief desires to express hia
of this act of gal- appreciation lantry, which showed great presence of mind on the part of the two in dividuala concerned, La disregard for their personal safety, and great die vallon to duty, and he directs that an entry be made in documents of Lance-aergeant Rawelfte and Pri vate E. Lynch, in accordance with the provisions of the King's Regulations.