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From Paris comes the news that the Abbaye de Theleme, for many years the most celebrated of the Montmartre cabarets, has closed its doors..

THURSDAY, JUNE 1, 1933,

OUR INTERNATIONAL GOVERNMENT

AND ITS VERY BAD BARGAINS

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straight-

Vivid memories of the Abbaye in its days of prosperity are re vived. Its bright red plush, its glittering lights, its dancers, its

London. the quota is to be struck, quarter gorgeous commissionaire in Ruri- An International Government na-, or half-yearly, or yearly! It in: tanian uniform scanning the noc-turally thinks last of its own coun- the same with the quots of Argen the Place try, its interests, and manners. tipe meat. turnal promise of

It is an extremely Pigalle, its curious mixture of our phlegmatic British way complicated, if not impracticable, Parisians and provincials, Grand we suffer our greatest statesmen to policy, which pleases nobody.

What is wanted is a Dukes and German tourists.

pass unrecognised, or at least un-

policy of protective It was in the Abbaye de Thelem cheered, through our streets. That forward that the late Lord Curzon had his doesn't suit Mr. MacDonald. He duties, to be lowered or raised ac Arst intimate glimpse of Paris requires the stimulus of foreign cording to the higgling of the night life. A friend who acted as huzzas to feed his vanity.:

market, but which tradesmen can his guide on that celebrated oc- What has really been gained for understand. casion remarked that the eyes of Great Britain by his last rush All this quota muddle is due to "the Marquess" were fixed with across the Atlantic, accompanied the desire of our Mr. Facing-Both- fascinated Interest on a lady with by his daughter and Sir Robert Ways to please at the same time. opulent, if somewhat faded,, Vanaittart, the permanent head of Free Traders and Protectionists. charms seated alone at a neigh- the Foreign Office? Nothing has The International Government is bouring table.

been settled, for, as our interna-waiting for the returns of its inter- After a while the lady became tional Premier. declared, what need national chief before plunging anew aware of the distinguished is there of pacts or agreements into the rocks and shoals of visitor's attention and deliberately when "hearts beat in unison toget-European, política. wirked at him.

Lord Curzon enormously enjoyed the joke on himself.

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her? Was it really worth while, Sir Herbert Samuel has alread to journey to Washington and to or nearly gone, because he is mis- picnic on the Potomac in order to guided enough to think the com get off this kind of "tripe" on the mercial affairs of England more Americans, the most cynical and interesting than the Polish cor Fame In Their Own Right.

ridor. What will happen to the From America come two little realistic of peoples? items of information about the We remember that the last time country when Mr. MacDonald and wives of the last two Presidents of Mr. MacDonald retired to his fish-Sir John Simon again pack up ing lodge with Mr. Hoover he came their bags and start off in search the United States,

To Mrs. Coolidge is to be extend-home minus a slice of the British of hearts beating in unison ed the, franking privilege, so that Navy. Luckily for the country, Mr. Geneva or Paris or Berlin one can her signature in the top right-hand Baldwin seems to have bitten off only confecture. Perhaps Sir corner of her personal mail will in as much or more than he could John Simon, who appears to suffer chew in his visit to Washington in from a constitutional difficulty in fulture be all that is necessary. Back in the eighteenth cen Mrs. Hoover is to write her 1923, and is not now to be lured taking a view other than that of biography. At their home at Palo from the orchards of Worcester- his leader, will follow Sir Herbert.. tury Galvani made dead frogs Alto, California, she is already shire, or else we should have no Samuel.

Mr. Chamberlain's Choice. The Racial Purity

lega twitch by what eventually sketching an account of the events Government at all to talk with our Fanaticism.

proved to be an electric current. of a particularly interesting and enemies at the gate. For which

While it is impossible not to feel

dia..... Physiologists have ever since varied life. Naturally, the book much thanks, Mr. Baldwin. Herr Hitler has always made been telling us that nervous en will include a description of the Mr. Runciman, in announcing, bis uneasiness as to what new

years. she and Mr. Hoover spent in negotiations with Denmark and culty our international Govern- racial purity a leading pinciple of the Nazi creed. He is anti-ergy is electric energy and that London at the house on Campden- Germany, was candid or innocent ment, with its peripatetic Premier, Semitic because he thinks that thinking has something to do hill which was once the home of enough to tell us that the reaf rea-may land us in on the Continent, intermarriage with Jews conta with clectricity. The brain and Lord Conway of Allington. minates the "white race"--the nerves are invariably likened true "Nordic” Germans. The

either to s telephone system ar Dortmund Commissioner of Health, in announcing that mixed to the dynamos and wires that marriages are to be prohibited supply our homes, with the elec I read that seventeen attempts new Germany tric energy by which we light our have been made to hang a man in accordance with his lamps and drive our motors. Arkansas, but he's still alive. Gee, master's idea, perhaps goes a little beyond his brief in When. therefore, Dr. George W. couldn't a fellow like that make declaring that German families Crile tells us that we have in our are to be classified as those whom braine four quadrillion electric the State wants, and those for cells (some place the number whom it has no use, and in ob-

the

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Your Daily Smile.

WHAT A NECK!

my laundry feel small!

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son why he and his Liberal friends there is one black cloud hanging joined the Government was to try over as about which, unfortunate- and get more Free Trade, which ly, there is no doubt or lack of he claimed he was now doing by definiteness. I refer to the new. hargaining with Germany and Den policy for the relief of unemploy- ment which the Chancellor of the mark......

Exchequer has promised us in the autumn session.

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It Cannot Succeed. Observe the point. The Liberal

Writing on this subject in wing of the International Govern-t previous article, 1 pointed out that ment regard Free Trade as a thing Mr. Chamberlain, in dealing with so good in itself that more of it, the relief of the able-bodied unem if possible, is to be secured by ployed, had his choice of two sels. tariffs. But the Tories think Free of figures and two departments of After a round of golf one of the Trade a bad thing and Protection a administration, the Ministry of serving that the logical conse higher, others lower), he follows players entertained the other threa good thing in itself, not only as a Health and the Ministry of Labent, His means of extirpating the virus of land, disastrously in my opinion, quence will be compulsory steri-a line of reasoning that has the members of the, foursome,

wife entered the room and frown Cobdenism, but of securing more He has deliberately preferred the lisation for the second class. respectability, of age. Ás new ed when she saw the whisky bottle. work and wages for British hands.

Ministry of Health, although the Nazl enthusiasts, however discoveries are made this elec "Please put it into a decanter, So that the Tory and Liberal sec experience of Sir Hilton Young's whose leisure is devoted

tric brain acquires more auxi-John," she said; I think a bottle tions of the "National, or Interns Board is not to be compared with to the study of

Don't tional," Government were not "ad that of Sir Henry Betterton's staff. Herr Hitler's "My

Struggle"liaries. Dr. Crile's 1933 model, is such a horrible sight..

[you agree with me, Mr. Mc idem," as lawyers say, the Liberials The reason is obvious. Sir Hilton their Bible, may well lose all being the latest is formidable. Intosh?"

wanting more Free Trade and the Young's figures sulted Mr. Cham- sense of proportion and all or- Bipolar cells, hormones, the new "Yes, indeed, said the Scots Tories wanting more Protection. berlain's policy better, and it was dinary human feeling in contem-

How can a Government, formed the line of least resistance, for it plating

the 100 per cent. ly discovered rays given off by guest, promptly; "especially when

it'a' empty."-

on contradictory principles, suc- shirked the application of Means German ideal of their leader. living tissue-all play their part

Iceed? It can't: it must be a half-

Test. There Are limits eren toin his hypothesis. That electri

hearted Government, one wing per-

ONE THING NECESSARY.

the Nazi dictatorship. . It city has much to do with the ac "Old Bob's going to marry Miss petually surrendering Its prin

its own

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LONGER LIFE IS POSSIBLE.

cannot -treat

She can ride, swim, ciples to the-other, That is the subjects with more cruelty tivity of all cells, whether they Flighty

dance, sing, drive a car, and pilot explanation of all this muddle

which nobody] than the ex-Kaiser's favourite lie in the brain or in the feet, Huns or the Mongols and furks and that brain activity is probab-en airplane. Real all-rounder!" - about.... "quotas,"

"They ought to get on fine. Old understands, and which I believe displayed to alien conquered ly governed by the ordinary Bob's a good cook."

to he unworkable. peoples. That Herr Hitler's be laws of physics and chemistry,

Sir Herbert Samuet seems to lief in a pure Germanic race has been abundantly proved by

have opened his eyes, a little late Professor Foresees 180 should still find adherents in a Sherrington and Adrian in Eng

It's a darn funny thing, but I in the day, to the false position Years As Normal Span country which boasts of its edu-land. Indeed, it may be said

Miascow. cation is strange' indeed. The that the whole purpose of modern can put as much air as I like in into which he and his friends have

itaents at Darwen:

Death comes to humanity too late Houston Stewart Chamber-biology is the reduction of the my car tyres; nobody's thought of fallen. He now tells his consti-

There is no reduction in Ger-early. We should all live to be 150 lain became popular at the pre-living cell to a physico-chemical taxing it yet. war German Court, by expound-system. All this, however, is

many's tariffs. Not one of our to 180 and the normal period of life ing a similar doctrine and, inci- far from telling us what thought This is the time of the year trades, except the mining indus- should, and possibly can be, extend- dentally arguing that Christ was is. The problem is much like

try, gains the smallest benefit of ed to these limita, according to the any kind, and the mining indus-academician, P. Lazarev, în an- Nordie Nazarene But Cham-that with which we are confront when the modern maiden is all for berlain's theories were repadiated when we talk over the tele

try has only secured the right to nouncing the results of his many ed by all competent ethnologists, phone. Voices are changed into

send just one-half of what was years of experiments in biophysics. He declares that the age of 20 wan who showed that the population electric impulses, and the electric We had a new cook just before sent two years ago, What is the of Germany is a mixture of Al- impulses back again into voices, dinner last night. She started well, value of the extra coal tonnage the time when the nerve centres of pine and Nordic strains and var. We hear. But we are left ask but she didn't stay the courses.

to our trade? Possibly the brain reached their maximum £1,000,000 a year to replace a loss sensitiveness. And the hour of 2 ies from district to district, as ing: "What is electricity. We any observant traveller may see, get vague answers about elec

of £20,000,000. While this is the pm. is the best hour of the day- A large Slav element is found introns. Similarly, external sense

consequence for the coal, indus when we think, see, smell, and. bear ( try, for all the other Industries better than at any other fime. From Brandenburg itself, the reputed impresssions are converted into

there is nothing. Mr. 9 am to 4 a.m. is the worst hour, jcentre of undiluted Germanism, electrical impulses by the central

Chamberlain said the negotia- when we are least capable of resist There is no need to lament the nervous system, and the impulses Consisting of a flat steel bar with fact, All the leading nations of do something to brain-cells that a hook on one end, a detachable lock tions with foreign countries, had ance. Which explains, he said, why been conducted with success. If deaths and child-births so frequent- the world are similar race-mix-passes for thought in Dr. Crile's has been invented for desk drawers.

this is success, what is failure? y occur at this time. tures, with the United States as hypothesis. "Mind is a product

The agreement with Denmark Is Professor Lazarev believes that

by means of physico-chemical in little better, etc... If the Free Trade Liberals are fluence the sensitiveness of the not satisfied,, who is pleased, exnervous centres of man may be cept Germany?

NO STAYER.

Facts You Did Not Know.

the melting pot for all races. A of electricity generated by mat- There were 3900 patents granted pure race at this stage of the ter" Is it? Experimental pay in Czechoslovakia last year, com- World's history is scarcely to be chologists who follow. Pavlov will pared with 8850 the previous year, found except among the most have none of this dualism of and 8,232 applications were filed. backward savages in remote mind and matter. It implies work

corners of the globe. Two ten-that physicists know a good deal when the atom of a new water The Quots Maddie.

With regard to Denmark, w turies ago and more, Daniel Dafoe more about matter than they do, valve is removed for repairing or killed a similar passing craze for and especially about electrons repicking a ball in the seat of the import very large quantities of return "true-born Englishman" by that supposedly manifest them valve rises and shuts on the flow dairy produce every year

satire which refers

cels of

fork which, Denmark in to British cool for the ent-per cent, of har beans Mr Rantiman expla

talla of agreement to the Commons Did anyone

maintained on a high level during

the whole period for which they are intended-180 years.

He is now undertaking experi- ments along this Une-Reuter.

port

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