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An Ogpu Coincidence." Mr. Leslie Thornton, the impri- soned Metropolitan-Vickers engin- eer in Moscow, has been in the Og pu" building before-in very differ jent circumstances.

Some years ago the Ogpu moved from its old quarters in the Bol- shaia Lublanka to the magnificent "Dom Rossia," which extends down the other side of the street and has its front on the Loubianskala ¡Square.

MONDAY, MAY 8, 1933.

THE MEN WHO KILLED THE PACT

LITTLE NATIONS SHOW

THEIR TEETH

"TREATY REVISION IS DEAD"

(By George Slocombe.) -

Buropean history is full of shrewder idea of the references to

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more

In this building were once hous-warnings to the great powers to treaty revision made in the Rome ed the offices of William Miller and beware of the Mttle states in con-conversations than either Signor Mussolini or Mr. MacDonald sub- Co., the firm which laid the foun-cert.

I am now in- fortune. dations of the Cazalet

the little sequently admitted. Twice in seven years The top floor contained the most lu- nations have successfully shown formed, upon very credible autho- The first occasion rity, that the actual proposals xurious flats in Moscow and were their teeth. tenanted mainly by Englishmen, arose in 1926, when the revolt of made by the Italian Prime Minister among them Mr. Thornton's cousin, the minor members of the League to Mr. MacDonald in Rome with whom, before the war, he often against the cynically proposed re-jeven more categorical and dined.

organisation of the Council de-audacious than has been hinted at To-day the building has lost its layed for six months, and almost in British or Italian quarters.

From the indications I have former elegance. A huge red flag prevented altogether, the entry of

received, Mussolini would seem fies above its clock. Its windows Germany into the Geneva organisa-

to have submitted to Mr. Mac- are coloured milky-white to pre-tion which was one of the major! vent prying eyes or long-range consequences of Locarno.

Donald nothing less than photographers obtaining any in- The second has arisen

complete scheme of frontier re- vision In Central and South- kling of what is going on inside. when the attempt of the Prime

The precaution is scarcely e-Ministers of two great Western Eastern Europe.

Dictator's Plan. cessary. All around the building Powers, Great Britain and Italy, to Oppu troops, armed with rifle and create a fourpower pact with the Mussolini's proposals ar gum- revolver, are posted at distances revision of the Peace Treaties as marised by my informant as fol of ten Farda.

No one is allowed to walk on the one of its objectives have resulted lows:

in an explosion of indignation on Ogpu side of the square and street the part of the four Succession or to stand in the square and look States created or territorially aug- lat the building.

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New World Language?

lately

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1. The creation of a narrow German corridor transversing the Polish corridor from the Polish town of Konitz (Chojnice) in the West to the German of Marienwerder in the East; the two towns to be linked by a narrow strip of neutral térri- tory in which a German railway is to be constructed.

2. The cession by Rumania of the former Hungarian territories of Trans-sylvania and Banat.

3. The cession by Jugoslavia to Hungary of that portion of the Banat now in Jugoslavian terri- tory, as far south as the junction of the River Tisza with the Danube.

mented at the end of the Great War, It is now evident that the re-

town valt of these States, all allies of The 1,500 language and dialects France, has not only reinforced the of mankind are such serious bar French Government in its instine. Pact Adventures of Ideas." tiers to world understanding that tive hostility to the draft

lingual experts of many nations brought back by Mr. MacDonald have set out to find a remedy. *·

from Rome. It has also wrecked: In his book with this title, Pro-

Mr. C. K. Ogden, Director of the

all possibility of any agreement to fessor Whitehead of Harvard ilkens Orthological Institute of Cam-

revise the Versailles frontiers be- a great idea in the background of bridge, is of opinion that a means of dim eonsciousness "to a phantom world communication has been ing reached by the four Western ocean beating upon the shores of found. This language is nothing Powers to the exclusion of the Ht-

tle States directly, affected. human life in successive waves of more than simplified English. A

To put it brutally, the Four- specialization." Such waves "are vocabulary of 850 words, with per

by four men-the Steady progress has been made by as dreams slowly doing their work haps another 150 of a more acleati-Power Pact is dead. It has been

technical character, has destroyed the Roosevelt Administration to of sapping the base of some cliff of fic and

Then comes a wave which been chosen to do the work of more Foreign Ministers, respectively, of ward balancing the American bud-habit"

works the change "and the nations than 20,000. It is possible to write Poland, Czechoslovakia, Jugoslavia | get. The Economy Bill is expected echo round.” This philosopher all these on a sheet of notepaper. and Rumania.

The Four Men. to result in a saving to the Govern-finds his first illustration in the slow They can also be put on a gramo-

None of these four Ministers had ad-working of ideas that finally result phone record without crowding! $525,000,000. In of

ined in the freeing of steves through- When we remember that millions any prewar experience in diplo- dition, there ja

Polish Minister, now

out the greater part of the world. of Britons make themselves under-macy. The estimated sight an

revenue

This came just a hundred years ago stood in all their daily affairs by Colonel Joseph Beck, is a profes-i the tax $150,000,000 from

on in England and in all her depen- the use of still fewer words, this sional soldier not yet 39 years old, Celebrations of the event number ceases to appear insuf-ja tall, dark, acquiline-nosed young beer. The combined effect of these dencies.

whose only previous ex- two measures, so speedily put for- (Parlament having taken the step ficient. For instance, hundreds of man

and voted £20,000,000 for their pur-(English verbs are superfluous'in or perience of foreign affairs was ward by the new Administration, is chase and release in 1833) and also dinary speech, and after long and gained a Military Attache in yesterday evening committed suicide

of the death of painstaking tests only eighteen Paris. to reduce the prospective deficit for of the centenary 1983-34 by $575,000,000. With the Wilberforce, who died in that same have been

ment

of

afd of this large sum, in itself near-year, extend through the coming world language, at present called Foreign

months in England. Professor Basic English.

Your Daily Smile.

gure 13 necessarily an estimate. which made slavery thereafter im-

the progressive led ten years and she's never told

races.

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4. The ccasion by Jugoslavia to Austria of the former Austrian province of Krain.

5 The ancient kingdom of Croatia, now Incorporated in Jugoslavia, to be autonomous.

(Continued on Page 11.)

News In Brief.

Leung Kee, Chinese male,

by throwing himself from the retained in the new Dr. Benes, the

Czechoslovak second floor verandah of the Ming Minister, is one of the Fung Tea House at West Point. most brilliant amateur diplomata He has

yesterday A blind beggar was thrown up by the war. ty equivalent to the entire expendi-Whitehead's tracing of the idea ture of the Government before the from the centuries is a timely con-

acquired, in the course of inces-knocked down by private motor car and war, the margin between current tribution to this double centenary,

sant journeys from Prague to No. 666 in Hennessey Road, "I don't think any woman can Paris, London, Berlin and Geneva, taken to the Government Civil costs and current income has been though he doubtless had no thought of this. The Methodists produced

a knowledge of European problema Hospital. reduced to about $200,000,000. This the "final wave of popular feeling" keep a secret."

"My wife can-we've been ma second to none. He la, moreover,

Cheng Mo, a Chinese seaman, one of the few truly European But the calculations on which it is possible among

The conception of the bro-me why she's always wanting minds developed by the League of was yesterday sent to the Govern Nations, and to his agile Intelli-ment Civil Hospital suffering from based include, on the alde of ex-therhood of man

and of the im. money!"

gence is due the creation of the compound fracture to the right leg, as a result of a fall into a hold penditures, only such economies as portance of men was to them

Little Entente. It succeeded, how- were actually authorised by Con-vivid reality."

Keep smiling-That Is if You've

The third of this remarkable on the sa. Kaiapol. gress, while, on the side of income, ever, because it came at the right

time, In the sixteenth, seventeenth Got the Right Sort of Teeth for It quartet is M. Bosko Jevitch, a

A purse containing $10 and some man suave, soft-spoken

to the Water- eighteenth

the they assume a smaller yield from and

centuries,

Mrs. Newlywed as entertaining. black moustache who was King papers was brought Internal revenue than the Treasury Church of Rome had a "concera" for

"When did you learn to cook? Alexander's Court Chamberlain un-Police Station, Kowloon, yesterday til his cromotion last July to the evening, by a street hawker from Itself expects and no payment what-the races groaning under European

Kimberley Street, "When my husband was away.***

Jugoslav Ministry of Foreign ever on the war debts. In this ad-exploitation, "which far surpassed asked her visitor.

that of the combined Protestant

"And what did he say when he Affairs.

The wedding arranged between vance toward a balanced budget the churches." But it was the Quakera

The fourth is M. Nicholas Titu Miss Maria Emilia (Mimi). Alves, Administration succeeded incidental- who gave the first modern formula came back!"

The young wife blushed.

lescu, the Mongol-eyed Winston daughter of Chev. and Mrs. J. M. tion of an explicit purpose to pro-

"He went away · again,” she

Churchill of Rumania, whose rest-Alves, to Mr. Frere Henry Hamil ly in redeeming two campaign cure the abolition of slavery." - The

replied.

less ambitions, brilliant intellec ton Pipe, will take place at St. pledges of the Democratic party and "idea" which finally got itself. ex-

tual powers, remarkable fluency in Teresa's Church, Kowloon Tong, on in taking a long step toward fulfill-pressed practically in the act of 1838

five languages, and natural instinct Sunday, May 14, at 4 p.m. This puts the pub back in re for diplomacy have made him an ment of a third. The platform and in the tremendous episode of U. 8. Going "Wet,"

the "American Civil War, con- adopted before the American elec-tituting the climax of this sombre public.

Inevitable Instrument of his na-

While Lieut. Col. E. R. Macpher ton's destiny, whether an Minis-son, O.B.E., R.A.0.C., was driving tion campaign promised "immediate journey of civilization toward the

DEPRESSION SMILE.

ter in one of the western capitals, his motor car 2627 towards, Sheung modification of the Volstead act to light," had its beginning in the dim

"We're as busy as Eve's

as permanent delegate to the Shui on the Taipo Road yesterday. provide therefrom a proper and need-apprehension of the intellectual and

League of Nations; or, as in the near the Taipo Railway Bridge, his, moral grandeur of the human soul maker.”

present instance, as Rumanian steering gear jammed. He lost cd; revenue." It favoured restrict-which had haunted the Mediter

Minister of Foreign Affaira. control of the car which crashed ing veterans' relief to ex-soldiers ranean World since the time of Here is a paragraph which

Quick Action.

into a telegraph post sustaining suffering from "disability or dis- Plato.

Acting with a rapidity of deci-jalight damage. ease caused by or resulting from intimates the adventure of the idea.

Germany has a school in which tion and a closenes of co-operation

During the month of April the St. slavery out-of-the-civilized world::

dogs-are-trained-to-lead-blind per- which has astonfabed those ob ipledged an immediate and drastic "Thus in the evolution of the

grievances, Poland, and the Little Ambulance branch, dealt with 261 reduction of expenditures to accom-strands of thought which constitut-on and the latter are taught to be servers aware of their many mutual John Ambulance Brigade Motor Entente have effectually replied to cases The Chinese Athletic As- plish a saving of not less than 25ed the final stage in the destructioned by them,

of the iniquitous slave-foundation

A dictionary is being prepared the Mussolini-MacDonald doneciation's branch of the St. John per cent. in the cost of Federal or civilization, there is interwoven that will give definite meanings to clave in Rome Poland has re- Ambulance Brigade, have to date Government." When the new Ad- the insights and the berolams of words used only in the motion ple-torted by the inspired resignation vaccinated 121,040 persons, while ministration

commaad in skeptical humanitarians, of Catho took

of her newly-appointed: Ambassa- the total amount of persons vac ture Industry.

dor to Italy, Count: George Potocki, cinated by the Brigade amounts Washington, current expenditures lics, of Methodists, of Quakers. But

the intellectual origin of the move Interlooking bricks made of glass The three States of the Little En- to 430,452, for 1983-84 were estimated, ut

ment is to be traced back for more with roughened surfaces have been tente, henceforth acting in foreign The continued hearing of the caseO $5,158,000,000. The $525,070,000 than two thousand years to the invented by an Englishman, for affairs as a Great Power, and after in which Hui Sal-ho, claimed the rhe which it has succeeded in cutting speculations of the philosophical street pavements,

consultation with the Polish turn of $1,000, the security for rent Greeks upon functions of the human

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Its ultimate victory treaty revision without Lion, Mr. Roosevelt has authority lieve that other ideas, such as that char

usafon operation

From the very vollema from Congress to reorganise the of the abolition of war by the na- will be the "victory of

Plato con- over, foros. The idea is a pro- odations, may Federal bureaus and commissions in colved the notion of the

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a search for further econom

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