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MONDAY, MARCH 27, 1933.

THE CHINA MAIL.

ON BEING BRAVE U.S. Must Awake From Self-Delusions

AND THIN.

Philosophy Of Famous Authoress.

ELINOR MORDAUNT MARRIED.

A woman

Landon.

who took every sort of risk, as she travelled around alone, peering into the dark cor- ners of the world, told her friends she was not afraid of being killed because "I am too thin for any) sort of cannibal to kill me for the

It was then that her world-wide travels really began, and in 1923 she began a world tour on sailing

interests, America should accept the loss without raising diplomatic {dificulties.

EFFECT ON EUROPEAN the contrary, the United Nations in uid

INSECURITY

HER AMBIGUOUS ISOLATION

(By Mr. J. B. Firth.)

I safe.

to

18

сваев,

however,

Doctor Prints Own Book

"Stamps On The Sigillata."

DEATH OF FAMOUS "TRAGIC MINSTREL”

Life Was Plot Of Great Novel.

Belgrade.

A blind minstrel whose story

He was tall, handsome, and He determined to use this know-clever, and everyone believed that ledge to win the degree of Doctor he would carve out a brilliant car- of Science at London University, eer for himself.

The argument is that America, having adopted the principle of to lend its forces to the defence of consultation with the League of peace.

Nations in time of international On

crisis, should recognise "the States still refuses to mortgage its obligation of sharing in the deci PREVIOUS TASK RECALLED. army or navy or its financial and sions as well as in the delibera- economic resources to the task of tions." In such

London. preserving order in Europe, though the President would require the

Dr. Felix Oswald's remarkable it now concedes the importance to consent of Congress, and Mrachievement in publishing a book itself of peace in Europe.

Simonds assypes that "consent which he printed himself because In a word, America will not join could hardly denied" when the

it was too expensive for any pu the actual guarantors, whose own fact of aggression was proved by Blisher to undertake recalls. his was the basis of a novel as famous guarantee is fatally prejudiced by refusal to stop an invasion. But even more remarkably effort on in Yugoslavia as "Lorna Doone" her refusal.

that in the light of recent experi- similar lines when he was some 30 was in England, has been frozen to The course she bae followed

Ideath. of the Senato's inveterate ence

years younger. "Can America Stay at Home?" pudiating not only the Covenant of

At school Dr. Oswald was no in- He had slipped into a whirlpool a the League but also the Tripartite since the Wilsonian debacle has jealousy of Presidential Interfer- pot, unless he is sophisticated en Such is the arresting title of

France always been ambiguous and at ence is a perilous assumption.

terested in geology that his com-of the Shapranatchka River, near book by an American pub-Treaty of Guarantee ough to know of devilled bones,"

of the times has seemed disingenuous.

Before America takes her right panions called him Fossil. He en- the banks of which he lived. Frank H. Simonds, was itself the root cause Mrs. Evelyn May Mor-1ticist. Mr.

place-which should be tered the Civil Service and spent She is

This man was Josif Antitch, of has

role played the daunt (Elinor Mordaunt), the well-who

of political insecurity which to-day She takes no part in the League, ful many still threatens the peace of Europe, but sends an Official Observer. By dominant one-in world affairs for his leisure in puream of his hobby. Vranja. When

a young man ho known author and travel writer. "Unofficial Observer" at

America's repudiation of reapon the Pact of Paris a by-pass was the preservation of peace and the In 1898 he investigated the geology served in the Royal Guard, and was Conferences, andi who has recently been married at International

of Judgment is sibility for the Treaty of Versailles made round the League linking prevention of war she must over of Armenia, bringing home copious afterwards in the King's service. Teneriffe, to Mr. Robert Rawnsley whose acuteness

and for the duty of guarding and for consultation only-Geneva and come this fatal handicap which notes and sketches. Bowles of Lydney, Gloucestershire.well established.

pre-Washington,

casts such doubt upon the ultimate In the early years of 1500 she is special importance is that it defending World Peace,

By the Hoover Doctrine of non validity of the signature of 23

of any territorial went to Australia on a sailing ship is primarily addressed to Ameri-scribed by the Covenant, was fatal

American Secretary of State. European

Great recognition Security. and from her experiences on this cans at a time when it is highly to

Dragons' Teeth.

but the expense of supplying the Then he fell in love with the the United States voyage she wrote her book, "The desirable that they should realise Britain alone has conducted her change obtained by aggressive ac-

One other point, and it goes printed essay required by the ex-daughter of an author who was at Ship of Solace."

the implications of the post-war affairs as if she believed herself tion of which

disapproves, America was enabled deep. During the Harding and policy of the United States.

The truth is, as

Mr. Simonds "to appear to do something for Coolidge regimes oficial America aminera stood in his way until he that time well-known in Belgrade. resolved to set up the type and Time after time she refused his "Staying at Home."

Covenant of the world peace without running any believed that a successful compro-print the work with his own hands. advances.

a "peaceful mise had been discovered, The Mr. Simonds inquires whether says that the

This stupendous task was finish- He went again to plead his love to what extent-League-like the later Pact of risk." It was called and cargo boats. She often work-ar, rather,

asanction."

United States was to stay at home ed in 1906, and one day the heads-for the last time the girl refus- "the double boat America cath keep to her own Paris-rested on

Economic Recovery. cargo ed her passage en a

politically but take a leading part from sumption that there is an equall from port to pert and she sought shores, shake herself free

It is, in fact, like the spear in world affairs, bath commercially of the university sent for him, ad-ed him, and he drew a revolver and dressed him as "doctor," and load-shot himself in the head. The bul- adventure in many old places. European entanglements, revert to desire on the part of all peoples to

Renouncing the

ed him with congratulations on the let passed through his eyes, leaving Americs In her ravels she liked particu-her traditional policy of isolation, avoid war, and that it is also pos- thrown by the feeble hands of the and Snancially.

per-him blind, but it did not kill him. among the trembling should

After that he lived as make the world safe for quality of his work and his larly the New Guinea Isles and the and so, in effect, "stay at home."sible to discover a state of peace aged Priam against Pyrrhus when Wilsonian maxine that

a "guz- Probably that is what theas tolerable for all nations as the phe burst

blazing palace-Democracy, Washington set out to small islands of the Dutch East

In 1916 he collaborated in writ-lar," a blind singer of popular bal- majority Indies. She was never afraid.

of 100 per cent. Ameri-actual system of to-day in tolerable throng in the

the world safe for

He would Great telum imbelle, sine ictu. Pyrrhus make

ing a book on Samian War which lads, for many years. are dis-for the United States and

So does Jupan. Her first novel was "The Garden Jeans would wish. They

Neither is true to the carried on.

became indispensable to all stu-sing a ballad he composed himself, Contentment." published 30 illusioned by and disgusted with Britain." of

Mr. Simonds, greatly daring, finds

But finance the scale of dents of Romen Britain. The book telling his own sad history. More years ago. One of her books which the seething cauldron of European facts.

The nations are all afraid of a precedent for Japanese action in! created a sensation was "Gin and national jealousies, and European

berec nationalist Manchuria in President Roosevelt's America's lendings to Europe he has now published, "Stamps on recently, he had been keeping A it-for war, but the

and intensifaction in Panama. He is no less $2,500,000,000 in five years-can- the Sigillata," is a complete index home for the blind in Varnia. Bitters," which was brought out ingratitude-as they see

the known names of the It was this story which sentiments excited America in 1931. There was conAmerican generosity and blindness

the persistent official not be sharply divorced from poli-of all fied by the Great War are uncaustic on

tics, especially when, as everyone potters, the types of pottery they Stankovitch used as the basis for siderable controversy over the pro- the beauty of American demo-

now understands. the American made, and the places where they his famous novel, "God'a People." feratic idealism.

appeasable by any frontiers that American denial of connection be-j

cantween Reparations and War Debts, dollars lent to Germany were used worked. Reuter. posal to publish it in England.

the wisdom of statesmen Reuter.

"indissolubly linked together", devise.

by her to pay Reparations to her The doctrine of self-determina though they were by the Hoover creditors, who paid the

SINCLAIR LEWIS'S ZEAL. be ament he deseribes as "a translation i MEMOIRS OF NORMAN the use warnings of the Fare- tion, one of Wilson's enee famous Moratorium. The Lausanne Agree back to America as war debts.

Mr. Simonds deals unsparingly'

There was published recently, with righteous but it is a highly explo-jof the Hoover advice to Laval."

this astonishing financial, The author is bleakly pessimistic;

abruptly ended simultaneously in seven languages, for sive principle. Forty millions of

novel, Or, rather, "Back Again,"

in fact the people.

self-about the political state of Europe. episode, which were rendered

re-when America ceased to lend and Mr. Sinclair Lewis's new such reversion WAS

exultant He is fearful lest "economic policy of Harding and

the consciously proud and

It is America's And then a new political chapter he won the Nobel Prize for litera- "Normale" period after Congress nationalists by its application. At covery may not arrive in time to found her billions frozen hard. "Ann Vickers," his first story since and the American people, by an the same time a new minority of prevent conflict."

It is a study of a modern bus!- ium had its origin in America's juverwhelming vote, ad ruthlessly ten millions were rendered sullen duty, therefore, in his view, to use opened, and the Hoover Morator-ture.

her best endeavours to secure

anxiety to thaw the ground and re-ness woman, and parts of it seem likely to raise a storm in America. cover the dollars. A forthcoming book that will be destroyed Woodrow Wilson's gran- and intransigent.

The whole trouble, in fact has breathing space. Scheme for making the]

To that end his practical Bug-

"Red" Lewis's hard hitting has Now she finds that mingled

Theodore eagerly bought by those able to af

must have made him, along with ford 50 shillings for a ropy--and United States, through his League started over again. The only two

among the dollars been a sackful of dragons' teeth. Dreiser, a sort of stormy petrel of there will only be 500 copies--ap of Nations the virtual arbiter of nations which have really solved gestions are that Ameries should the world's offairs. He saw him-their minorities problem are Tur-implement the Pact of Paris for means of affive or ten years, by promising to

The moral of this remarkable American letters, and this crusa- reform in the pears early in the Spring from

all other signatory! thatto and Windus entitled "Look-self if not his successors-deliver key and Greece, by

of populations in "join with ing Back. The author of this aging Rhadamanthine judgments ac- transference

thing to placate his sworn focs. tobiography

Douglas cording to the dictates of American mass terrible piece of ruthless Powers in economic and financial book is that America must awake ding zeal for a is Norman

Burgery carried through without sanctions against any nation which from her self-delusions as we from American prison system will do no-

refused to evacuate foreign terri-ours. anaesthetics.

World Perils.

tory which it had invaded and still

DOUGLAS.

Only 500 Copies Of "Looking Back."

London.

whom everyone knows as the au thor of "South Wind."

So they raise the ery in chorus

-it is specially papular in the Senate of Back to Isolation and

well Address of George Washing-Fourteen tor.

Idealism.

Dream in The Dust, however, How that wonderful dream wus that Norman Douglas was the son reduced to dust and ashes, mainly

Not everyone knows.

2

Points,

may

to

A

Mr. Simonds presents his main persisted in hostilities."

Senate and President. Or, if that be loo much for of wealthy people who lost his because America's one philosopher jcriticism very temperately :

words for While on the one hand the rise

he with the World War and the purple mistook

Germany has American isolationists, then money

na-would have the United States "con- who, after pre-War years of cul-deeds and believed that he could of nationalism in

refrain German pur sent during that time to tured travel and comfortable tri-overcome the forces of evil-as he spread apprehension among

type- tions menaced by

lessen fling, had to get down to the sweat understood them-with of writing in order to obtain his writer, is brilliantly told by Mr. poses, and therefore has reinforced from all action likely

That is to say. Simonds, who handles his tragic the conviction that force alone can the efficacy of the sanctions of the bread.

and pity insure security and peace, Ameri- League Powers." Since then he has distinguished theme with the power

can perception of the perils for the if the League Powers, while exer- Slates from European cising economic and financial sanc- himself as a writer of travel books, that tragedy deserves.

offender, come He is Moreover, Mr. Simonds sees and United

not produced any tions against an essays and as a novelist.

that the anarchy has

refusal into collision with American trade also an accomplished biologist and frankly acknowledgea

artion of the United States in re-modification of American archaeologist.-Reuter.

Street.

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severence.

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