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HERE,

THURSDAY, MARCH 9, “1933.

ARE

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EVERYWHERE

Mrs. Roosevelt.

It is almost unprecedented in America for the wife of a Presi- dent or Presidential candidate to be active politically. But Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, wife of the Democratic candidate for the Presidency, is an exception. She works by his side, helping him mentally besides assisting to make physical efforts easier for his frail physique.

HERE AGAIN

SWORD RULES HALF

OF EUROPE

CHEATING THE TREATY

(By George Slocombe.)

The Junkers have returned.

Vaida Voevod, the first National Nearly 15 years after the war, Peasant Premièr, got rid of two of more than half of Europe is again then was forced to resign over a King Carol's military friends and governed by the sword.

She is a woman of energy, tall blue-eyed, with waving brown hair. Her activities include run-

question of foreign policy. M. Between the Baltic and Black Manly, his successor, attempted ning a furniture factory, teach Sea military dictatorships, open or more boldly to seized the military ing three days a week in a girls' school, making political speeches, disguised, rule populations bull by the horns and was defested. attending rallies and publishing which total 164 millions of people. During the past few days, M. a magazine.

Some of these soldiers-governed accepted the situation, and returned Vaida Voevod has philosophically Formerly she was chairman States are among the most vocifer to office, but the fact that another of the Women's Division of the ous advocates of disarmament at and even National Democratic Committee) and vice-president of the League for Women Voters. She is 48, is a niece of the late President Roosevelt and the sixth cousin of her husband.

Comparatively Poor.

It is not generally known that they are comparatively

poor.

Geneva.

more powerful military officer, General Samsonovici, is Min-

In making the above statemente that the army element is still a¤-

ister of War in his Cabinet.suggests

have ignored the highly-disci- powerful in Rumania.

plined dtatorships in Russia and Italy, in which the army is not only

the chief armament of the State, Rumania's neighbour and ally,

but also the chief defensive weapon Jugoslavia, has endured a military She was educated in Europe of the regime. I have also ignor-dictatorship for some

years past. and married Mr. Roosevelt whened the proportionately large con.Parliamentary government in the she was.

21. They have one script armies in democratic States country

is a fiction. Some years daughter and four sons and se- like France, Belgium, Spain and go, as the sequel to a series of veral grandchildren.

Czechoslovakia.

parliamentary crises which demon- Nearly 15 years after the war the strated the absence of any real Junkers have re-conquered those majority in the Skuptschina, King His salary, as Governor of New turbulent and largely agricultural Alexander publicly assumed the York State was their main source countries which divide Western responsibilities of government, and of Income. If they enter White Europe from Soviet Russia and its since then the executive power of House they will probably have to vast background in Asin.

Jugoslavia has been effectively a solid basis. For a year or spend nearly every cent of the Hitherto, the German democracy, vested in the hands of the King and

generous Presidential salary,

under civilian rulers, kept the in those of his Minister of Defence, more German politics have been which is 75,000 dollars (£16,000 turbulent Junker States in check. General Stoyanovitch. in a state of flux. The rise of at par) a year plus liberal travel But now that two Hindenburg and

It is this virtual military dicta- the Nazis and the Communists and entertainment allowances.

Hitler, govern Germany, there is torship in Jugoslavia, confronting little in character, personnel, or ob. over the narrow waters has upset the equilibriuma, main-

jectives to distinguish between the Adriatic a civilian dictatorship even tained by compromise, which

pseudo-Republic of Germany and more stubborn and autocratic in permitted government to be car-

the pseudo-kingdom of Hungary. A Italy, that makes the present Italo- ried on, Germany to recover herj

field-marshal governs the one. An Jugoslav conflict over Dalmatia so place in the comity of nations,

admiral — Horthy-seconded by a potential a war danger. of general Gombos governs the and the reparations issue to be the floor.

other.

In Bugaria thero is another-mill- various problems provisionally closed at Lausanne. of which confront Europe has been The recent election promises some

Philosophy,

The China Mail

Hong Kong, Thursday, March 8, 1933.

Instability In World

Politics.

It is a commonplace that one of the chief obstacles to the set- tlement

Your Daily Smile.

DANCING NOTE Self-possession is nine points

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In each case executive power is tary dictatorship-that of King nominally in the hands of a de-Boris and his War Minister, Gen- the precariousness of government stability and Hitler may succeed wife's dressing up is likely to be each case power has been abrogated West of Europe in the little aword- The man who complains of his mocratically elected parliament. In eral Kissioff. And in the extreme and the difficulty of foreseeing in restoring Germany to a mea- answered with a dressing down. the course that a nation will sure of prosperity. In France

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by a dictatorially imposed govern ruled Republic of Portugal, with its ment Tile Republican President seven millions of inhabitants on the Hindenburg, like the Monarchist Atlantic seaboard rigidly under the Regent Horthy, has challenged sad thumb of their soldier-President, devitalised parliament.

But Germany and Hungary, the

General Carmona, his Prime Min- ister, General de Oliveira, and his whole cabinet of army officers. Minister of War. Colonel Mateusa

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take. The upheaval of the war two Ministries were dismissed Henry Ford's Money. has had both social and political within six weeks, and M. Daladier Automobillions. repercussions which even the has met with many difficulties. Economy. traditional composure of Britain No doubt falls of Governments An insurance man walked up to has not escaped. In Britain the are a familiar experience with the quick-lunch counter and, taking two greatest victims of the Treaty statutory life of a Parliament is the French, and do not, in gen ordered bread and milk. The jellou reached most vigorously against that! his place on one of the vacant stools, of Versailles and the two who have five years, and as a rule a Gov-eral, affect the lines of French sitting on the next stool asked:---

And finally, half in Europe, half ernment runs approximately its foreign policy. But these fluctua

futile Instrument of peace, are not in Asia, is the youngest and most full term, its charter often being tions in the European scene are

alone in restoring their junkerdoms, spirited of the post-war Dictator- Germany's most aggressive neigh-ship carved in one plece out of de- ships, that of Turkey, a dictator- renewed upon an appeal to the not a fortunate preliminary to

bour, Poland, had already set the feat and out of victory, and headed country. Yet in little more than the

approaching conferences,

example. For same years prior to by the enigmatical, vigorous and a decade Britain has had by which have momentous issues to drive so quickly they miss the bean-man Reichstag the Polish Sejm bad whose official title of Glazi signi It is said that most motorists the effective silencing of the Ger martial figure of Mustapha Keraal- turns a Coalition Government, & decide. The Disarmament Con-ties of the countryside. Slow and been gagged by the military dicta fenntly means The Victor. Conservative Government, a La-ference, the ground having been behold!

woven.

"On a diet!" "No. Commission,”

Driving Hint.

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Problem for Husbands.

Keeping a wife in cheque.

A FINE UPSTÄNDING GIRL. Mary sat down on the ice, She said she didn't care,

la more than Mary dare.

Facts You Did Not Know.

hia

torship of Marshal Pilsudski. In Western Republican countries when of the Paris treaties became sym- With Mustapha Kemal the defeat a President reaigns or his term of bolical. He was office expires he passes into the Junkers to triumph over the ruins the first of the obscurity of civil life. In Poland of peace. How shall the other Pilsudski-once a Russian terrorist Junkers of post-war Europe-the

abandoned the Presidency of the Schleichers, Republic only to become the silent Filaudakis, the Stoyanovitches, the the Gomboses, the dictator of Poland.

Samsonovicis and the Kissioffs not As Minister of War, he still makes take courage by his example and and remarks the Cabinets of his arm? country. His entourage of generals and colonels contemptuously over- rides the decision of Parliament,

and even on occasion (as happened several years ago) arbitrarily ar rests and imprisons deputies of the Opposition in the military fortress of Brest-Litovak.

CANNOT RETURN TO HUSBAND.

Maintenance Case At Kowloon,

bour Government, another Con-cleared by the submission of servative Government, another various proposals and counter-

Sure Tough. Labour Government, and two proposals, is now getting down to senior assistant.

The movie director sacked National Governments, the second real business. This month Bri- rough luck after all those yeahs.

Which seems of which seems to be firmly en-tain and America will discuss the] trenched. This record of vicissi-war debts, in a review of which tudes is unusual for a country the restoration of the finances of which regards the excitement the world is considered to depend. produced by changes in govern-Later in the year, the Economic ment as a nuisance, albeit a Conference will meet. The three) necessary one, and is anxious to questions of disarmament, fin-But to sit on anything since then contests the elections to the Sejm, get on with its job. But Britainance, and economics are inter has been a model of stability

But what progress can compared with other nations there be unless a party to an about to play a leading part in agreement can affix his signature negotiations with an intimate to it with the assurance that it! Experiments in California have missed his civilian Foreign Minis- bearing upon world affairs. We will be honoured, and what sort shown that forest fires cut be con-ter, M. August Zalesid, and replaced "I cannot go back to him and live may think what we like about of assurance can be given when trolled and even extinguished with him by one of his own army friends, the life that I have boen Hving late- Fascism, but Italy has the merit the Governments of two great blasts from motion picture wind Colonel Joseph Beck, a former mill-ly; it has been a very unhappy one," of knowing her own mind. Powers appear to be built on machines, especially if sand is tary attache in Paris. And since said Mrs. Ida Spary of her husband, Signor Mussolini made it up for shifting sand? Any decisions

thrown into the currents of air,

then this imperious Marshal is re-in reply to Mr. D. B. Evans, at the her, and in respect of disarma-reached by these conferences will

ported to be contemplating the re-Central Magistracy, yesterday. placement of the principal Polish The defendant, Mr. Austin Spary, ment has placed her carda on the be subject to ratification by the flywheel and clutch European en-

To perform the functions of both Ambassadors abroad by other mill- of the P.W.D., was represented by table. In the immediate future Legislatures of the nations con- which the force of the driving gineers have developed a wheel in

Įtary officers, "27

Mr. Horace Lo. Italy can probably be relied upon cerned, but

Mrs. Spary said that no monthly proposals are liable] member is transmitted to the driven

allowance was made by her husband to pursue an unswerving path at to be rejected in consequence of one by the force in flowing oil.

South of

Poland, and closely allied for herself or her children. home and abroad. Russia, except a sudden turn of the political

to that state in its foreign policy, mother helped her financially, is Rumania. Carol, the present king the rare occasions on which her

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Recently Pilaudald summarily dis-

Her

On

for one spectacular occasion at wheel to debate them and adopt research laboratories uses tiny throne after several years in exile threw a dollar or so on the floor for A machine developed for use in of Rumania, only returned to the husband gave her pocket money, he Geneva, when her delegates ad- them would be a waste of time, jets of water to cut through metals as the result of a military coup her to pick up. vocated, with 'doubtful sincerity. The essential to success in nego to determine the rate at which such d'etat. And since his return the her husband was only drunk on She denied that the complete abolition of armatiations of this kind is the know-metals are worn away when moved public offices with which he reward-festive.ocessions. ments, has kept herself aloof ledge that the participants can, at high speed in moisture laden at-led the chiefs of the army who had Speaking of the defendant's” at- from International deliberations their principals. If the Govern

within reasonable limita, commit mospheres.

befriended him have not ceased to tempted suicide, she denied that Russia is an incalculable factor ments they represent have no

embarrass kis civilian ministers, she had repeatedly said" that it. a situation already perplexing, security of tenure and both in cigarettes in China has risen tional Peasant Party-traditionally She admitted that once she threw a Since last summer, when the Na-would be better if he were dead. and a factor to which regard France and Germany the outlook more than 78,700,000,000 as compar-hostile to the Court and military brass vase at him, and threatened to must be paid. France and Ger-

is obscure the mospects of ed with about 500,000,000 f2 1900, clique were victorious at the Gen- Jump out of the window, NE tangible achievement in Geneva, förelas ensol msnufacturing plant eral Elections, two attempt have "Mm. Spary denied that the start many have not succeeded in ob- Washington, And London are pot and diftributora supplying more been made to get rid of the military of the trouble was her association. taining a Government resting on ove

than 50 aer cent of the demand. element in the government. 3. with serving knap,"

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