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July 17, 1941,
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THE preux "Special to the Telegraph
is used by the "longkong Telegraph" to Indicate news which is strictly copyright under the provisions of the Telecommuni- bears the intention "Up" is received la Hongkong on the date of publication by the United Press Associations, who re- serve all rights and forbid republications, elther wholly or in part without previous arrangement.
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ACTIVE PEACE
STRANGE it is that men and nations still think of peace as a passive or negative condition. One reason the world is seeing so much war to-day is this tend- ency of the human mind to take its ease, this reluctance to face unpleasant issues. Many an in- dividual has proved that he could not evade the constant conflict between good and evil and that only by meeting and overcoming evil-fear, hate, greed-could he Harry Roy & His Band. find peace. Moses at first fled
( ) Victor Silvester Orch. from the serpent but when he
(,, ) ........Victor Silvester Orch.relied on his own knowledge of
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Dark Town Strutters Ball
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Were Was 1. S.F.T.
MPG3- Tears Could Bring You Back
On The Sunny Side of the Street
MP65Let The Bands Play 6/8 One Step
My Greatest Mistake. F.T.
F1777-Study No. 3 E Major
Ave Maria,
Harry Roy & His Band.
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good and grasped it fearlessly he achieved calm and confidence.
Surely the experience of
F1786—If Tears Could Bring You Back..The Organ,. Dance Band & Me.nations in recent days has prov-
I'll Never Make the Same Mistake Again F1787-Let The Bands Play 6/8 0.8. ........The Organ, Dance Band & Me.ed that there is no peace in
There'll Come Another Day. F.T.
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merely trying to avoid trouble. The failure of the nations to engage more actively in positive peace-making by the removal of Injustice and by firm and united rejection of aggression has caused most of the present trouble. The belief that there can be peace before évi is
the
of overcome and strife rooted out of human thinking is as plainly mistaken In the affairs of nations as in
those of individuals.
Causes
Long live the of Commons!
live the House
THE Nazis themselves
set fire to their own Reichstag in February 1933. The Nazi planes bomb and set fire to oun own House of Commons in May 1941.
EMRY S
JONES
tells of how it was, how it is, how it might be
Communist,
The Nazis destroyed the "crime."
for
the jealously by the people of our race in the years that preceded ours, and gave us the heritage
Reichstag because it was a They have not in reality of freedom.
symbol of democratic
government and because destroyed
the House of
aristocratic Government of Lord Durham and Lord John Russell under his direction, and sup- ported even by working class leaders like William Cobbett, who knew then that it was hope- less to ask for more."
It was left to Disraeli to "dish the Whigs," by the second Re- form Act of 1867, to enfran- chise the working class-with some qualifications which were This Act of Inter removed. 1867, was described by Lord Derby, then a young Stanley, as "a leap in the dark" which he was prepared to take.
The next constitutional re-
The essence of our Parlia volution affecting the power of they wanted an excuse to Commons, for that does not ment is freedom of speech, the people began in 1910, which destroy the freely elected exist only in bricks and which has been asserted con- decided the supremacy of the democratic parties..
mortar but in the long story tinually and violated frequently Commons over the Lords.
The Lords did not like Lloyd So they blamed the burn that has created the spirit ever since the Bill of Rights
proclaimed "that the freedom of George's Budget, and since it ing on a few people and
of the British people. speech, and debates and proceed. had always been nccepted that finan- half-witted executed
ings in Parliament, ought not to the Lords could reject Dutchmen, supposed to be a
Your Guardian bo impeached or questioned in cial measure sent up to them any court or place out of Par from the Commons, they wished
to turn it down. No doubt, if the Nazis liament."
A general clection Was ever managed to get The House of Lords began, fought, and under the threat. to England they would try you may say, with the Witena that the Prime Minister would gemot of 996, consisting of no- ask the King to create enough to destroy that, too; but it bles, clergy, and the King's peers to get the measure would take longer than it servants, which came to be through the Lords, the did to destroy the spirit of known as the Great Council at Lords gave way. Parliamen-
Nanking
Regime
Changes the Weimar Republic, which the time of the Norman Con- tary privilege was broken; as we
know now, to the benefit of both
CHUNGKING, July 17 (Central began with the end of the quest. News).Rumours are rife that there last war and was executed Then Magna Charta defined Houses and the nation. will be a drastic reshuite of the per-almost without a murmur the Council, which declared that sonnel of the Nanking government
patch.
The Japanese authorities are sald
to insist that Wan Keh-inin, former
This revolution in which the following the return of Wang Ching-of protest when Hitler came when the King wanted "extra- King was called to play a part ordinary aid" he must summon emphasised, the right of the the Council and ask them for it, King to appoint as many peers wel from Japan, says a Shanghai dis-to power.
But we are not Germans, The Commons joined the assem- as he liked on the advice of his Charman of North China Polical and our history is not Ger- bly of nobles and clergy when Ministers, so that any legisla the King called the Model Par- tion might be pushed through
Parliament. liament of 1295, defunct Reformed Government in The "talking shop," some
two The
were houses the called Nanking, should join the Nanking people have
separated in Edward III.'s time, government white a new Minister of House of Commons, though and then Parliament assumed in the most intelligent of our outward form its present ap- people have not fallen for pearance.
Affairs Commission, and Chen man either. Chung-fu. former Chairman of the
Finance should be appointed to re- place Chow Fu-hal.
Proposals They have suggested, that Wong Ching-wet be Chairman of the Nan- klug Government only while Chen Kung-po Mayor of Shanghai, be op Yunn; Chow Fu-hal be transferred as pointed President of the Executive Mayor of Shanghol; Kinng Kang-hu, Vice-President of the Examination. Yuan, be
of the appointed Chairman Overseas Affairs Commission; and Wang Keh-min and Chien Chung-fu Minister of Finance and be made President of Legislative Yuan. Both Fu Shih-hsuch, Minister of Railways, and Chao Agriculture and Mining it is said, Yu-sung, Minister of
will be transferred to other posts,
Is said that Wang Ching-wel is trying to defer the reshuffle on the ground that such drastic changes may ffect the smooth working of the bogur government.
JAPAN-AND. MEXICO
Ban On Export Of War Materials
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" MEXICO CITY, July 15 (Domel). Mr
Yoshiaki Miura, Japanese; Minister to Mexico, this afternoon conferred with local Japanese mer- chants at the Legation once with re- card to the Mexican Government decree banning the export of war materials from Mexico outside Western Hemisphere,
the
A New House?
IN this brief record the
struggle towards full par ticipation in the government of
In a night of horror and fire, the Houses of Parliament, seen above on a peaceful spring day. were blitzed in May. The Commons Chamber was destroyed. Victoria Tower, at loft, was damaged, and the world-famous Big Ben, at right, was also struck.
description.
stupid
It is understood that the Japanese Minister will make a representation
that to the Mexican Foreign Minister, Senor Ezequiel Padilla, to-morrow Mosley regarding the Mexican embarge.
Military Attache
these last. SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" TOKYO. July
(Domel)-
was not
among
Outwardly only, for the great the country is only implied. change did not come until the Blood and tears were shed in the Reform Acts of 1832. The pre- making of it, and "blood and vious centuries were a period of tears and toil and sweat" are To them I say: "Go into struggle in which the democra- now being shed in the defence Colonel Naokata Utsunomiya of the the House of Commons at tic weapon was merely in the of it. Army has been appointed Military
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Brazil and concurrently Military At-
tache
to Military Attache
the
zer divisions of the real demo- Now, as the smoke has been Attache to the Japanese Embassy in question time. Listen there raw material stage. The pan-
seen drifting up from West- to the Japanese Legation into the great ones of the na- crney had not arrived. Argentine.
tion, the high Ministers of
minster, it is possible to foresce that perhaps when this grim Lient-Col, Haruo Telima has been State, being questioned and Blow To Peers named
business is over we shall build The frontier .community Japanese Legations in Peru and cross-questioned on almost
Bolivia.
comes SCHEMES to obtain a fairer for ourselves a House of Com- which tried to appease outlaws
representation in Parlia- mons worthy of the noble strug- The two offelals are replacing any subject that only increased the reign of Lieut-Col Yoichi Koko, Military within the range of human ment were not seriously con- gle.
Attache to the Embassy in Brazil and life.
sidered until the death of
The old Chamber was a poky. the Legations in Argentine, Chile,
George IV.; until the French Peru and Bolivia.
well as the great that affect the statement by the powerful find a seat, and from the small "See how the little things us Revolution in 1830; and until place where there was not room enough for every member to your daily éxistence are
injustice and crime until drastic measures had to be taken. A Tew years ago racketeering and kidnapping renched alarming proportions in the United States. There was no peace in letting them spread. Something of the same condition has now deve loped in international affairs.
MALAYAN WAR TAX
Commons Question
'brought out into the open, how Duke of Wellington that the re- and inadequate galleries. It was presentation was "perfect" was next to impossible to hear what justice is done to the innocent,
clearly challenged. and how faults come in for
they were saying down below. criticism,"
In 1832 the big towns were Well, why not contemplate a enabled to send two M.Ps to the new House of Commons? On Not enough criticism in my House of Commons, the smaller the south side of London's river
LONDON, July 10 (Reuter)-It opinion, however, for there are towns one each, and the number there is an excellent alte
on
Is estimated that the total yields from weaknesses in the parliamen- of county members was in- which there could arise a build- and the Federated Malay Stales for
war tax in the Straits Settlements fury system
that we have
ing worthy of the great tradi-
The Reform Acts took control tion of the old-and more in
STEAM LAUNDRY CO. Much as good men recognise
that war is not the method for the current year are respectively neither eradicated nor seriously creased from 94 to 159.
$10,000,000 and $4,000,000 said Mr attempted to eradicate in these establishing righteousness in the G. H. Hall, Parliamentary Under- days of crises,
of the constituencies, disen. keeping with the necessities of franchised the "rotten modern government. world, they are coming to see Secretary for the Colonies, answering
the question in the House of Commons
boroughs," and freed them from Such a building would fur- that mere avoidance of it does today,
tolerance, the decency, the good the hands of the peers who had ther dignify the House of Com- not bring peace. Thoy
Me Hall added that the yield from will, and the criticism, that en- Rro
previously been able to buy and mons and beautify the south of war taxation on rubber exports In realizing that the anarchy of 1941 in climated to be respectively, nobles Britain and dignifies the sell the right of nominating the Thames, which is now hard-
Straits Settlements $310,000, and the British race. How wise are candidates. Hongkong Benevolent Society violence cannot be tolerated in Federated Malay States, $3,000,000; these politicians and political
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the world community and some police power must be established. That attitude is nclosor approach to positive peacemak- ing than the belief that ponce can be made with ovil.
Yet,
there you
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ly worthy of the capital city of
but since those estimates were made writers who scom to guard too The struggle was not over, a mighty Empire. ⠀ the rates of duty had been doubled jealously the rich privileges of however. Five-sixtha of the Besides, after this struggle, In both territories.
The question asked for the approx-this bastion of rights of man. population was still without the what a worthy memorial this imate number of Malayan residents Almost alone in Europoit vote, and since there was a sort would provide to those who, died carning incomes respectively between stands now as a citadel of hu- of "Means Test," the working and for those who come After. £070 and £720, £720 and £3,400 man dignity, and it is being at class were left almost voteleas. A worthy Temple of Freedom and over £3,400,
Evon Ro, it was a step for built on the nation's sacrifice for Mr Hall replied that no information tacked as vigorously-by the was at present available...
enemy now-as it was fought for ward, carried through by the freedom.
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