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"Red Emma's" - Arrival Recently, there arrived. In Eng land, one of its most famous sub- jects, Emma Goldman, the Axar- chist, whose biography, was recent- ly published. She has not visited England for a considerable time, and indeed, she rarely leaves France now except to visit her oculist in Berlin.

FRIDAY APRIL 21, 1933.

FACING REALITIES ON WAR DEBTS

FURTHER PAYMENT MEANS INCREASED INCOME-TAX

BRITAIN PAYS FOR TIME

(Ey Brig.-Gen. E. L. Spears, M.P.)

London,

It has been truly said that by the Miss Goldman, who has been a last payment made to the United British subject for some years, is States we have bought time.

Little Time For Agreement. Yet the same reasoning the same arguments, when put forward by us have had no effect on American

an outlaw in the two most strongly- It seems bitterly ironical that it opinion. contrasted countries in the world: should be we who have to pay for No doubt, It is right to emphasize, in the United States of America, the time required for another count as our statesmen have done, the where nearly fifty terms of Im-try to arrive at an important friendly tone of the recent Ameri- prisonment could not cure her radi- decision, but nevertheless, the cir- can" Notes. "But Is Washington cal doctrines, and in-Russia, where cumstances being what they are, the America! she is not considered sufficiently people of this country will, in the

Our next payment in the sum«. Tadical.

long run, not regret the action they mer may seem a long way off, but- When she reviews, her life in re-have unanimously and with so much. the time available for arriving at |trospect the only blot on her con-dignity agreed to take,

an understanding is short. science is the memory that it was If we had defaulted, the reper- Mr. Roosevelt assumed office last she who introduced the plays of cussions of our action would have month. Normally, the new Con Mr. Bernard Shaw to the Ameri-been disastrous. States, Justified or gress would only assemble in Decant- can public.

not in doing so, would have follow-ber, 1983, Do we know, can we There is no country in Europe ed our example, and it is likely that be certain, that the President will where "Red Emma, as she Is the economic structure of the world call it in special session to deal with known to everyone in the States, would have received a shock which this question? And what certainty is less known than in England. It is ill able to bear.

is there that its attitude will be very. This time she will not give any lec-

different from that of the present tures.

Congress?

Ingenuity In Exte.

Cause Common To All, From the point of view of the It can but reflect the opinion of whole-civilised world, therefore, the the American people, acutely aware stand we have taken is of the great-of their own sufferings, greater per The Spanish monarchists who re-eat importance, maintaining as it haps this winter than those of any cently reached Lisbon from Villa does the high standard of integrity European country; the opinion of a Cisneros show less pride in their, without which international rela-nation whose savings are exhausted, successful escape, than in the in-tions are bound to deteriorate. which has made no provision for its genuity with which they im-Moreover, by her action this coun-10,000,000 unemployed, and where provised some of the comforts of try has resumed the leading position charity is coming to an end of it. civilisation in their rocky and half-which she had to, some extent lost, resources. dusert prison.

Jand which it has been proved that| To such a people the idea, (of of decisions in the World Econ-Africa the prisoners ordered sup

Soon after they were landed in only she can All

shouldering more burdens, especial Time has been gained; buty on behalf of foreign nations, omic Conference, This is a view to which an important section of plies of carpenters tools, timber, what will the situation be when unbearable. NOWERS.-At a Nursing Home, instructed American opinion now wine and even game from the furniture, cooking apparatus, food,

the days so dearly bought have Debt's Burden In Income-Tax. London, on April 20, 1988, to inclines. Had Mr. Hoover pro Canaries. They made beds for

gone by?

The average American cannot Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Nowers a posed it, however, he would have themselves out of planks and hope that the vocal and powerful 400 why, so long as we pay interest

We 'have gone on hoping against! been instantly repudiated by the country at large. It should be havas, built a wash-houre and section in the United States in on our own War Loans, we should willing, and more than willing, even a cooktail-bar.

favour of debt revision or cancella- not pay the bonds he subscribed to to listen to Mr. Roosevelt, whe-after many failures, was a ping-is to be feared that this minority courage, pertinacity, and

Their greatest triumph, achieved tion would one day prevail. But it on our behalf. It would take much ther he should favour an attack)

a great Jon the problem in isolation or its

will remain a minority. The will, deal of time, far longer than six postponement to the Conference,

the knowledge, and the courage to months, it is to be feared, to con Hong Kong, Friday, April 21, 1933. But it would be very decidedly

educate American opinion seem all vince him that Debt revision is in to the general advantage if the

equally lacking amongst her leaders, his own interests and is, indeed, prospect of another crisis in mid-

When the United States joined essential: If the United States them- June were to be ruled out with]

She:-"I couldn't find Mrs. Bee-the Allies in the way, men in au- selve are to be saved from condi all possible promptitude..

ton's Cookery Book, so I made this thority over there upheld the thesis tions even worse than those they are pudding out of my head? that seemed to us to be the only enduring now,

He:-"Well, it certainly is soft right and fair one, namely, that each country should contribute what It could to a cause common to all.

Where We Were Before.

son.

The China Mai

War Debts.

In giving President Roosevelt

Redness,

pong table!

Your Daily Smile.

And Flaky.

The Same.

THE BASIS.

To full ourselvès into the belief that we shall obtain a favourable settlement of our debt máy, there- fore, prove to be a dangerous delusion. Yet ahould we fail to obtain one,

a free hand in dealing with the The Different Kinds Of and light." war debts, the United States Congress made a welcome move, but the absence of any marked

Teacher:-"This essay on 'Our change in American public senti- A grandiose document was Cat is exactly, word for word, the

The loss of the war, would have ment on the question is far from published recently by the Na-same as your brother's."

spelt shame and disaster to all the It could mean meeting the cost of reassuring. In mid-December tional Joint Council representing Britain purchased, by the pay- the T.U.C., the Labour party, same cat.”.

Arthur:-"Yes, Miss, it's the Allies and Associated, Powers alike. Debt payments out of current re If one country, could not give venue, which would Involve about Is ment of some £28,000,000 in and the Parliamentary Labour

men, then let it give money. 6d in the pound on Income-tax, and (respect of the last war debt party. It is in justification of

Self-interest and honour dictated this we cannot submit to and re annuity, a period of six months their carlier refusal to accept the FRIEND: Why do you always

the same theme.

main solvent, as a nation. for the converting of American invitation of the Communist inquire what your patients eat? Does

The question of the 'right or There was a good deal more than opinion to the point of view that party-acting under direct orders it help your diagnosis)

Tong of the debts could be argued feminine ingenuity In Portia's plen debt-revision would be to the from Moscow-to join in making DOCTOR: No, but it helps my for ever. Either you take the view She advanced a sound point in law advantage of all concerned. a united front, in Great Britain charges for professional services.

of the common front, as, we do, or and ethics when she declared in More than half that time has against Capitalism. The Council

you do. nat. Some Americans effect that no man should be com elapsed; and it is hard to discern give a catalogue raisonne of

genuinely believe that they were pelled to pay to the point of his own any ground for the belief that their reasons, under the title of A builder prediets that private severely mulcted by the war, and destruction. the position is in any way "Democracy

We have made immense sacrifices V. Dictatorship." houses will be fitted with escala-that they behaved very generously. changed. Official American ac-They, of course, are the Demo-tors. The husband who comes

The simple fact is, that in August, taxed ourselves more heavily than to meet our obligations. We have: tion, it is true, was not to be cracy-the real, true, pure, and home late will send his shoes up 1914, the United States had a debit looked for until the new Admin only genuine Social Democracy. Arst to find if it's all clear.

We have istration entered upon office at Whereas the Communists stand the beginning of last month; and for Dictatorship, and British New Torture. it is likely, indeed, that Mr. Labour is against all Dictator Wireless is to be installed in dollars, a turnover of 17,000,000,000 on the altar of financial probity. Roosevelt intended to move in ship, whether of the Right or of every cell of an American prison dollars in five years and five months. this matter without delay. But the Left. "If the British work- That will teach them not to bej But the last thing we wish to de tragic events intervened and ing class," says this hurried convicts. there has been an unavoidable manifesto, "hesitate now between interruption. How is it, then, majority and minority rule and with the self-education of aver-toy with the idea of Dictatorship age opinion on this subject? It-Fascist or Communist-they

A TRY ON.

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Facts You Did Not Know.

to

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balance of 2,000,000,000 dollars and any people in the world.

bled ourselves to the point of ex that at the end of 1919 she had, a

haustion, pouring out our substance credit · · ·balance of 14,000,000,000 |

(Continued on Page 11.)

Personal Pars.

Is to enter into controversy with the American people on this or The forthcoming marriage' has Kindred subjects. We only wish to been announced, of, George Fer tackle our own problem; but to do and Komor, merchant, of 292,

torlum, the United States Gavera Nathan Road, Kawlsan. this we must face realities.

Prince Edward Road, Kowloon, and Following upon the Hoover Mora- Zinaida Alexandra Pospeloff of 24,

ment made it clear that until we

came to an understanding amongst Comdr. H. J. M. Mackenzie ourselves the question of our debts Grieve, who has been appointed to to her could not be considered, We H, M. S. Bridgewater, and Comdr.

is a question impossible to will go down to servitude such as Mechanism contained in a new answer. What may be hoped they have never suffered." The with some confidence is that moral is that workers should card table shuffles a pack of cards America has grasped the fact rally to the Labour party and and delivers them one at a time that payments to Washington on and march quietly, peacefully,

four. players in turn. the terms of the existing debt surely under its Parliamentary settlement are at an end; that and Constitutions banner to the world's largest passenger came to such an understanding at (E). I S. Rome, who has been ap this strain upon Britain's Promised Land. And yet these tions for 2132 passengers, was order at America's instigation.

ship, having luxurious accommoda- Lausanne, Europe, put its house in pointed to the Medway, are due in economic organiam has been im-same people like to consider launched in France recently. posed for the last time. But if themselves tolerably Red. They

that is grasped, it does not neces- have recently abjured Gradualism New sleeve, protectors that are sarily follow that the idea of ro- with the most horrid impreca- held in place by rubber bands are vision by agreement is any more tions against those who cunning transparent so that wrist watches popular than it was among y diverted them into that can be read through Americans. "Pay or default, heresy. Only last October, at

was the popular cry last year, Leicester, they abandoned them-

and

cialist St

Is the wisdom of avoiding large-selves to an "All Red Week," and scale international defaults, which they have now gone back to fractiousness prevalled at long last upon all "Workers Control, which is Capitalist into Germany's creditors at Lausanne, nothing else but the Industrial by means of s better understood across the At Dictatorship of the least intellementary output lantic than it was? One fact, gent. When Graduallam was the would perhaps may be counted en-key word of Socialist policy the humane, refined, rear

strictly couraging. The new President's National Joint Council, could rising to the height of a vast claim with some reason that the less financial emergency, has clothed

him with a moral authority that tions

might, if applied to this, other.

financial issue, work wonde

Failing revision now, there be a war debts moratorium

such time as the questioj Deen re-settled as part of

party vara. Conatitu-

working along

Hong Kong on board the s.s. Patro Reparations and War Debts owed elus on April-28. by European countries to each other were to all practical purposes

|| celled. Fund

The forthcoming marriage of, Frere Henry Hamilton-Pipe, AC- We have done all that Mr countant of Mindanos, Phillipine: Hoover suggested, yet to day we lelands, and Marla Emilia. Alves, were before,

of Valverde," Prince Edward except that in so far as Great Bri Road, Kowloon, has been annour- Itafn: Is concer

menta, from

since: the Itors have: they say them would endanger

otional

ble, and

blood

ced,

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