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The Colonial Empire
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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 prettified and Billined."
That sentence is from a book ("We Saw It Happen," Harrap, 8s. Od.) 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"-1 newspaper which one of them the world-and they all write for sedately describes as the best in
dear life, because, as every re- porter knows, while there's fe there's hope.
And these men have hope for us. That is the thing which emerges from this collection of world-wide stories, as cheerfully as a cork from a bottle.
The cork may hit us in the eye na it pops out-Britannia gets a lovely black eye in the cimpter called "The British Way "--but the draught which follows to ecr- tainly invigorating.
I HOPE that historians will not overlook this book-which shows, in- cidentally, that reporters are head- nand-typewriters above novellets as writers for it reeks with the spirit of the age: dialllusionment everywhere, no faith in the 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 idletle noises overwhelmed him at last! And above it all he magnifies 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 concentrate on Ferdinand Kuhn and F. Raymond Daniell.
Kuhn the London corro- spondent of the * New York Times."
He wiltes about "The British Way." He writes sympa- thetically. He understands us. And he draga skeletons out of our na- tional cupboard and makes them dance with clacking bones. The essence of Kuhn is the decline of British democrncy.
DANTELL is a reporter in the United States. He writes about the Ameri- can Way under the title of "The Land of the Free," He writes as sympathetically as Kuhn. He, too, out his skeletons, drags
They dance, as befits American skele- tons, to a brisker measure-what strikes ine as a more lunatic one. The essence of Daniell is the de- cline of American democracy.
This seems important. I do not supposo elther Kuhn or Dantell looked over each other's shoulders as they pounded away on their typewriters, but bothi see Fascis "In some form as the common fate for us and the Americans, unless we pull ourselves together.
Kuhn makes his best point when he refuses to see the British nation whole. He sees it as two classes. The upper class has re- tained its 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.
Up to the Era of Rape, which Saw the successive disasters of Manchuria, Abyssinia, Austria and Czecho-Blovakia, the British polley of surrendering the non-essen- tials, 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- mugy | called “have-not" Powers, and on the other by the sporadle 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 Ofer itself. In a notable passage in his annust review of the Coloillal Empire for 1938-the Colonial-Scere- tary observes that he "inherited from his predecessors the tradition of trust- ing the man on the spat, 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 as. dividual development within the
the upper class is con- Empire. The non-interference of
cerned, consists of the Whitehall was que not purely and
nicent body of Insurance laws (I social benefits such as that mag-
simply to, deliberate policy. but
quote Kulin). unemployment, "largely to the Colonies being out of the West Indies, the Chief Medical kept their effectiveness to this day health and old age, which have THE HONGKONG & SHANGHAI HOTELS, LTD. sight and even out of mind." It is a Adviser has toured East and Central and preserved Britain from the
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Any way they're all in
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And Benes, President of Czecho- Slovakia, saying in 1937, "Let the cares of Central Europe ally 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 jeera.
I
wish. I had space to describe the activities of all the Thirteen- say. of Louls Stark, who believes that the Sacco-Vanzetti case was a monstrous miscarriage of justico;,
assistance to dependencies in need. The Labour Adviner is on a visit to
It failed in this era because British statesmen mistook the essentials in international affairs. They thought it was more im- portant to have peace at almost any price you remember Appoast-- ment?-than to co-operate. ไท checking the disease of aggression. In home affairs, this policy of keeping the substance by stir- rendering the shadow, has served the upper class, excellently. The substance, of course, is power. privilege, the rule-abail one say? --of the Old School Tic.
| healthy sign of the times to have Mr. Afrlen during the past year, and the worst miseries of the American
MacDonald's assurance that this ob- livion 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."*
Agricultural · Adviser has visited Malaya, Ceylon and St. Helena, the last-named a much neglected Colony, whose chronic distresses, have too
tong 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 sociol many problems common to them all and economic conditions of the Co- of which the solution must be sought loalal Empire generally. It is easy by advice and co-ordination from the to attach on exaggerated importanes centre. The labour disturbances, to the unrest manifested in some don for example, which have occurred in pendencies dir the past two or three regions as far apart as the West years, for, as the report points out, Indies and Mauritius have resulted in | the' regions affected includo 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 obviate farther trouble in again, the questions of malnutrition the future and, above all, the public Land of health generally, for which conselence has been stirred. At the the same kind of remedy, subject to same time, there sull remain certain local conditions, la applicable every occasions for uneasiness, particularly where. All the Colonica 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 scant notica in ie symptomatic of the altered cutlook report Now, as never before, is the that the Colonial Secretary has pubile conscious of the duties of the created new posts and new sub-trusteeship which, in the last resort, departments wilch will enable the la the purpose and justification of Colonial Office to render systematic our Imperial' mission.
depression.
"Remember ap- peasement?”. Mr. Chamberlain with his Munich "pact" (above).— Schuschnigg(right) - and his God protect Austria!" Sacco and Vanzetti (below) "a mou- strous miscarriage of justice."
"Joseph
Chamberlain,” he writes, "told the propertied classes that social legislation was the ransom they must pay in exclrange for the security and wealth they enjoyed."
And Disraeli, long ago, made tlic same point. The "haves"-must pay for their possessions and privileges.
re-
Thus, by knowing what to sur- render, Kuhn sees.Britain catablishing herself after the 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 diaorganisation.
KUHN niso sees Britain as a democracy a hun-. dred years behind the times. Ha Rees an "appalling gulf of class distinctions which, after hundreds of years, still separates one section of the people from another.".
"Every other democracy nowa. days," he says, "is wise enough to recruit its brain-power and leader- ahip, in politics and business. fromthe whole.... nation:- Oron!- Britain. is content to, recruit. hors from the privileged three per cent. who have been educated in the so- called · public schools" the odds of an elementary-school boy-that Ja to say, a poor boy-getting into one of the reserved seats of life In England are a thousand to one." And that is why, says Kuhn, our serpentina suppleness 'will not- work for ever. The challenge facing us is more desperate than the depression of 1931 or the un- rest of the post-war years. Will Great Britain moet it by breaking down vicious clars-barriers so that she can get the best out of all her people when the trouble comes? € "Or will she imitate the totali- tarlau States by shedding her liberty, her tolerance, her inter-
GRIN AND BEAR IT
By Lichty
brooding, Gilhoolby." Thom fendørs gotta get
donted some time 1”
rity-n little bit here, a little there so that her Conservative, rulers can stay in power? I wish I felt sure that sho would choose the democratic way."
So much for Kuhn, an American looking at Britain. What of Daniell, an American, looking at America?
A large part of his chapter is devoted to that fantastio figure of tyranny. Hucy Long, Governor of Louisiana, who was assassinated by Dr. Welss.
Daniell thinks that "the tide of, Fascist philosophy embodied in the organisations founded by Huey Long, Townsend and Coughlin " "may have evaporated to a great
extent under the sun of Roosevelt's. administration. with its principle- of a new deal in social roforms.
"But I do know from my travels to all parts of these. United States that the mental attitude on which Fascism feads exists here just as it docs in Germany and Italy, while the seeds of Marxism fall upon barren soll,”
Kuhn may say that Britain's working people compare unfav- ourably in physical or intellectual resources with the masses of many: poorer- and --wenker: lazds, but:- Daniell comforts us for that with hia description of the bewhiskered Kentucky farmer who firmly be- iloved that Negroes were only half human.
His authority, he said, was the Bible. There were no women in the ∙land of Nod, whither Caln fed, but Calri had issue. Therefore. Câin must have married-a baboon, and Negroes were the result of this unnatural unton...
HOLLYWOOD, with. which I began this reylow, emerges na frankly mad. “Ey Its marvellously sustained detachment from con- temporary life," writes Frank Nugent, "It has become the eighth and ninth wonders of the world. It is all things to all men, and all things and Robert Taylor to most 'women.”
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There is enough class distinction there to give Kuhn ï'selaure- "And I suppose,” said Nugent, after a dose of social niceties, "that the producers speak only to God?!
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"Oh, not 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 even see the Thirteen Disillusionists pounding away on their typewriters with tours In their eyes,
Bomb Thrown Into
Barracks
Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Jackson, General Officer. Command- ing-in-Chief, Western Command, re- cently made the following citation in command orders:—
On May 22, 1939, at Souforth Bar racks, Liverpool, Lance-sergeant W. Rawcliffe and Private E. Lynch, Do- pot, The King's Regiment, were successful in preventing the explo- sion of a high-explosive bomb, which had been thrown over the barrack wall Into the zymnasium.
This prompt actionaich might have been undoubtedly provented consequences which serious. The General Officer Com roanding-in-Chief desires to express his appreciation of this act of mi- lantry, which showed great presence of mind on the part of the two in- dividuals concerned, a disregard for thele personal safety, and great de- votion id-duty, and he directs that an entry, be modo in documents of. Lance-sergeant Itawcliffe and Pri vate B. Lynch, in accordance with the provisions of the King Regulations
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