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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1933.

THE FRENCH WORLD VIEW

A PORTRAIT OF THE

RADICAL MIND

CONSERVATIVE DESPITE ITS

ORATORY

He is a Rhinelander by birth, has charming manners, and is fifty. Until now he has been com- manding the cavalry regiment which still retains the traditions, If standing factor in the affair of den! to be done in widening and not the name, of the old Mecklen-uations in these troubled days-in Improving general education. While qucations such as war debts, disar opportunity is given to the clever burg 17th Dragoons.

peace. What is boy, the State education in the pri- Baron von Schweppenburg will mament, worlä

It can be gauged mary schoole is not carried to a meet here in England an old col-that viewpoint P

as from the attitude of the Radical sufficient age. There still lurks in league-General Renner, who Colonel Renner was German mili-party, the party of Herriot and the many minds a suspicion that too tary attache in London'when war party which must remain the pivot much, education is not good for the

of all government combinations, najproletariat. broke out.

matter how often the government | The great strength in doctrine may change. The viewpoint of the and weakness in execution of the pre-Radical party is its attitude to- General Renner has had an un-French Radical is herewith usual career. He married an Eng-sented. lish wife, a Kleinwart. He fought and against us during the war, was one of those soldiers who pro tested against the submarine cam-party is always a shrewd mixture and social service and in the just of high principle and mutual help. distribution of the burden of taxa- ¡paign.

After the war he transferred There are no Frenchmen so clan-tion. But somehow it never seems ser-nish in many ways as the Radicals; to get the answers right in actual into the Gorman diplomatic vice, was employed as Counsellor among them there is a strong tra- practice.

Without Unfriendly people allege that it in Tokyo and Madrid, and then bedition of Freemasonry.

reflecting on any-for all of us are is because the French do not pay came Minister in Athens.

a good strong their taxes. That allegation is His last post, from which he has human-there is just retired, was Helsingfors. He touch of Tammany in. France's founded on an entirely wrong con- ception of what happens. If, a has now settled in England, and Radical Socialist party. intends to make his permanent home here,

The French viewpoint is an out-though there is still a very great

gold.

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ward public finance. It believes in By P. J. PHILIP.

a balanced budget, in economy, in Faris. the reduction of military expendi-' Politics in France's democratic ture, in the increase of education

Though, as in all political parties Frenchman did pay all the taxes in all countries, there are sections that the State demands of him he from all classes of society, it may would have nothing left to live on be said of the French Radicals that, and leave to pay his death duties. while their numerical strength lies Ways of dodging are indeed, in in the South, they are essentially a many cases provided for him by the middle-class party representing the law. conts middle classes from all over France. There is another aspect of the For nearly thirty years-with the French Parliament's method of exception of few disastrous dealing with finance which, though if periods-they have been the pre- it does not concern the Radlenls

dominant party in the country.

Until the end of last century, de- There is always much bother about

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A Motto for To-day.

Hats off to the past-and been speedily snuffed out.

1920 off to the future. In the House of Lords in a revenue Hong Kong. Friday, Feb. 10, 1933 case decided that a person, bet-

An official reports says that ting at a tote was not betting] with the operator of a tote. This London didn't spend millions Doom Of The Tote interpretation was wrongly ns-Veer de rode port on

sumed to free the tote complete be able to get about. Truly The announcement that the ly from the prohibitions of the streets of London are saved British Government proposes to Betting Act of 1853, although suppress tote clubs and will in only in the previous year legisla Bridge Players' Love Story. troduce any necessary measures tion had been thought indispen- for their complete suppression able to establish the,tote, will gratify those who recogniz-sterilized of private profit, on an ed the growth in England of al approved racecourse." The menacing evil. The official de benefit of any doubt about this cision occasions no surprise in was freely and boldly used-so

I read that three-quarters of the view of the Report of the Bet-much so that

the whole grey-population and all the officials of ting Commission. The Commis-hound-racing business was rein- Lincolnshire village are sion, though varied in member-vigorated by the prospect of a Snagge. Old Lincolnshire. proverb: ship as a good jury should be, new, certain, and simple source There's a Snagge in everything.

By December 10. were of one mind on what should of revenue.

of

The

1. Hearts. 2. Diamonds. 3. Clubs.

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spite her many revolutions, control balancing the budget and much of the government in France had discussion about appropriations and somehow always managed to slip revenue, but there is no real co- back into the hands of the aristotrol of expendituro. The figures cracy and the very wealthy. It was, are mostly hypothetical, and in a the Dreyfus case, above all, which country which has two or three contributed to the organization of budgets. of hypothetical figures it this middle-class party which adopt is only natural that the income- ed the name of Radical and Rad- tax payer who never can know how ical Socialist to mark its tendency his money is really spent should a somewhat hypothetical rather than its creed. For, in try return ing to frame an opinion of just figuré. what the Radical and Radical So- International Affairs the reader should disassociate from his mind the ideas which are con veyed in American speech by auch a title.

cialist party of Edouard Herriot is,

In international affairs the Radi- cal's doctrine is for co-operation. But representing as he does the commercial classes, his attitude is best summed up in his own phrase, "Donnant donnant," which may be interpreted, "Nothing for nothing."

Just how middle class the party is can be shown by its composition. of its lenders, Herriot. Daladier,

Added to that the Radical has the Milhaud. Nogaro and François A French passion for juridic right, bert are or have been professors; and when one comes to a con- Chautemps, Caillaux, Margaine and crete cate like that of the interalli- Julian Durand all began their ca ed debts he is always to be expect reers in the upper branches of the ed to show himself a firm creditor civil service. Albert Sarraut is 2 and at least a very argumentative newspaper owner. Many, like those debtor.

In all the departments of politi- two young intellectuals, Pierre Cot and Gaston Bergery, are lawyers. cal life the Radical programme is al- The party members are the shop ways more or less a compromise between doctrine and expediency.

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be done. They roundly recom-1982, there were as many as 187 mended that "the conduct in any tracks at work at Great Britain, place of totalisator betting with about 130 of which were equip good looks longer than men. Paint, persons resorting thereto, whe-ped with the tote, and another of course, is a wonderful preserva ther on a credit or cash basis, fifty-five were reported as pro- should be declared illegal injected or about to open England and Scotland, save as evolution of the tote club is not Nine existed provided by the Racecourse Bet-less spectacular. ting Act, 1928." In part this before the end of 1981. Another advice caused to surprise and sixteen were opened by the end little argument. There is gen

of June, 1932, and 259 more by Italy's wheat harvest for this eral agreement that the tote club December 10-eighty-seven in year has been officially estimated at is, in the Commission's words. the single month of November 7,300,000 metric tons, the largest "a gravé social menace" and and no fewer than sixty-one in on record. ought to be banned The more the first ten days of December.

A New York physician has de-keepers, the State employes, the contentious effect of the pro- The scandal of these figures re-

all the lesser, bour- posal will be the closing down of quires no demonstration. Other veloped a system of classifying encs farmers, the doctors, the school- the tote on all greyhound-racing besides practical reasons also to identify and aid in searches for masters and

geoisief France, with, of course. recraft from the upper middlo tracks, and indeed on any kind weighed with the Commission. wanted persons.

Many of such The air. of the gambling laws- except - racecourse

The Central British Association German statistics Indicate that class and the workers. courses for horse-racing as are which may require modification specifically approved by the to meet modern conditions" the danger of fire to geagoing them are favors in country towns.

By its very composition, there-ure holding a dance at the Central statutory authority set up unter should be to prohibit or restrict vessels has increased in recent fore, it is conservative in the strict British School Hall to-night, when

guarded the Act of 1928. The obvious "such facilities for betting and years, while they are

sense of the word. The heritage of the Star Orchestra will be in atten- liberalism to which it always pays dance,. difficulty of denying to dog-gambling, and such facilities against weather, hazards to a

tribute comes from the tradition of racing the new betting facilities only, as can be shown to have greater extent then ever before,

An exceptionally large crowd that have been granted to horse- serious social consequences if

The first porcelain-steel residence 1796 and 1848, from the revolt of racing, although under stringent not checked." The Report, after

the middle classes against the attended the Dairy Farm Cola. conditions, has from the first this definition, calls attention to in the world has been erected in throne and the aristocracy which annual dance, held at Lane Craw These dates ford's restaurant last night. Dane been widely acknowledged. The the "enormous increase" In bet-Cleveland, a steel framework being collapse of the law against lotting facilities provided by grey-covered with sugar cane fibre in-abused their power.

function being marked with "great ed the other day by Herriot. teries, top-heavy in itself and hound-racing; and they are un-sulation and then reinforced porce are still invoked-they were invoking continued until a late hour, the

more lain shingles. undermined

Dublin deniable. It is not by by the

But, though the modern Radical-success. Socialist likes to think that he is of sweepstakes, first showed the latitude here that the law re

To-morrow is the last day of the need for a considered review of quires to be modernized. Horse- public policy on gambling. No racing, which has never been or the profits that may have been the race of the Revolutionaries, it sooner had one wing of the law separable from betting, has created by undertakings in con-would be more accurate to say he exhibition of paintings and sculp does not fliet with the spirit and, as it is the conserver of what the Revolu-ture work executed by Mr. and Mrs. capitulated to. paid sellers of never depended and sweep tickets than the other, set now depend on it. Its basis is now appears, the letter of the tlonaries won for his class, and he Wentscher. to keep betting under reasonable the breeding of bloodstock. Dog-existing law cannot support any intends to hold on to his inheritance been shown in the exhibition which more Hotel and which was opened by the rest his liberalism control, disclosed a large gap in racing with the mechanical hare plea for its amendment. Nor is against all new challengers. For is being held at the Hong Kong | its ́ array.

Another army of owes its existence to the revenue the community as a whole any profit-hunters, daily reinforced, to be derived by those who have richer for them. Responsibility marked in some leaders than in Mrs W. T. Southern on Wednesday.

Personal Pars. began, to pour through it. Be- promoted it from betting on the for the risk taken rests solely others might very easily be con- strued as a stbut determination noc The The difference supplies with those who took it. tween then the lottery, by mass course.

Countese. Frijs is a passenger on attack, and the tote, by subtler a criterion applicable to gam-dog-tracks without the tote will to permit church interference with penetration, looked like altering bling of all kinds Whatever not be in a worse position than liberty of conscience, a warm de the whole disposition of the law freedom the State may be, as it they were from 1926 until two sire to increase education and op- the Naldera from Shanghai, bound

to give to years ago.

The recommenda-portunity for the deserving, and a for London.

great anxiety to prevent the State, Mr. P. J. Thornycroft le on his before public opinion had had ought to be, ready time or opportunity to speak, spoutaneous indulgence here and tions, of the Commission are in the shape of the tax collector,

ing boarded the vessel. at Yokohama. The story of the latter invasion there of the gambling habit, it necessarily restrictive.

vate affairs.1994. is told by the Report in n'euc cannot suffer individuals to extrue alternative to them is free from prying too deeply into hią pri- way to London by the Naldera, hav- With the church he fought his Lady Seafield is a passenger on cession of facts of which the ploit and organize the habit pro trade in gambling on courses and cumulative effect must be as-gressively for their own profit, an endless application of the tote

Sho boarded the ship tonishing even to those who are That is a principle of gambling to all kinds of contingencies. battle twenty years ago and won. the P. and O. 3.5. Naiders bound generally familiar with the bet- legislation which modern ex- Since this is not, and never will But since then, having established for London. ting developments of the past perience has wholly confirmed.be, public policy it is difficult to the late principle, he has shown at Yokohama. two years. If the recent judg. Exploitation, alded or at least see how a substantially different himself very lesient toward the meat in the High Court had unrestrained by uncertainties in answer could have been return been delivered two years earlier the law, has forced the pace ed by the Commission to the there would have been no tots until an emergency exists, and alarming, facts and the urgent clubs in England, and probably the emergency has recoiled on question that have been put to none in Scotland, and the first the exploiters. The employment it.

The

Education Benefits.

activities of Rome.

Great Interest has

Mr. C. E. Hubbard, Mr. R. W. Stoclair and Mr. P. E. Robertson For education the Radicals have were passengers on the 6s Naldera undoubtedly done more than any which arrived in Hong Kong this other political party In France, morning.