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The Sign Of The Portcullis

The plan to form a House of Commons motor club is making progress.

Various designs for a members' badge have been examined, and choice has fallen on one represent- ing a portcullis, the emblem which decorates the menu cards and other articles at Westminster.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 14, 1933.

AMERICANS LEARNING TO LIVE

UNCERTAINTY BRINGS LACK OF BALANCE

TASTE FOR EVERYTHING NEW

(By The Hon. Harold Nicolson.)

towards ""'e

The members emphasise that they are asking for no special pri-

The Hon. Mr. Harold Nicolson, stinges their attitude vileges, but they hope that on oc- C.G., the well-known author and with that prevailing flavour of the casions such as the Royal Open-critic, has just returned to England provisional, and thereby, misleads ing of Parliament the badge will from a three and a half months' the foreign observer, ensure that they are

on first ac- visit. to the United States, and in a quaintance, not unduly

into assuming that held up on the way to the House, series of articles, has given his im- American civilisation is less Inten

pressions of the country at a time tional, less continuous, less unsel- of acute economic, financial and fish, and even less sincere than is political crisis.

actually the case,

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Berlin And New York The revolutionary movement of 1848 gave greater liberty to Jews the first Lord Carnock, and was

Mr. Nicolson is the third sou of Broadening Minds. In Germany, and the two young formerly in the Diplomatic Service connection that there are signs to- It is interesting to note in this men set out on their travels to con- His writings, other than literary day that all this fluidity is tending quer the world.

One was Leopold Vilstein, the "Some People," a book of brilliantly the lava in many places is starting criticism and biography, include at certain points to crystallise; that father of Louis. He went to Ber-penetrating and amusing studies of to coal. tin, and, beginning with one paper, well-known people, published in toms of transition, not the least Among the many symp the "Berliner Zeitung" which is 1927. now defunct he built up the huge The United States of America crease in the migratory instinct; curious and arresting is this de- business which has made the for- are at this moment in a stage of this increase, in many sections of tune of his five aons and his rapid, if obscure, transition. The the population, of a more sedentary numerous grandsons.

jelements of that transition are cen- and sedative temperament. The other young man was Julius,tral to the whole present crisia, and) Ochs. He went to the United, as such will be examined later.

The citizen of Jonesville, Utah, is States and founded various news-

becoming less self-conscious about In my present article I shall try his home town, less anxious to mis- papers. His son

is to-day the to indicate those subsidiary and less represent its realities. owner and publisher of the "New vital factors which at first lead the beginning to take Jonesville (that "He is York Times."-

traveller to imagine that America, clump of willows down below the however magnificent she may be, is bluff) almost for granted.

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not very true.

The most dominant, perhaps. of these subsidiary factors is the pre-

to

Your Daily Smile

In other words, he is beginning, THOSE HORRID WORDS.

tentatively, to learn how to live; he is becoming less preoccupied The China Mail by the regulation of exports or “Oh, look what I've done! What 'vailing sense of the provisional.

with the problem how best production." This means that the do you think Charles will say?"

One had foreseen the absence of

compete. work of the British Government

tradition, even if one had scarcely) "My dear, you know just as expected to find the Americans the general mass,

For the moment, however, and in the prevailing themselves ao acutely sensitive to atmosphere of fluidity and imper their own deficiency in roots.

manence, the nervous throb of the

The Tariff Truce.

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A BAD CASE.

worse

our

Hong Kong, Wednesday, June 14, 1983. jför the revival of agriculture many words as I do."

by the quantitative regulation of supplies from abroad will not be ONE LONG PARTY. essentially interrupted; and the

One was prepared to admit also provisional, inevitably affects MARY: Isn't it dreadful? Lre- conclusion of such trade agree-fused to marry Archie last Octo- that the immense mobility of the judgment of probabilities in the pre- ments as have not yet been puber and he's been drinking steadily American genius, their sheer rest sent crisis. One has the impression Eight of the principal coun-blished will not be interrupted at ever since!

lessness of energy, would still be that a complete change of system tries taking part in the World all, even if they contain provisions JANE: I should say that's keeping them on the move that the would be less alarming to the Economic Conference have for the quantitative regulation of carrying a celebration a little too

covered wagon would remain agreed, pending and during the imports.

a American than to the Englishman;" But in the second far.

wheeled vehicle even though equip-and that this readiness to fly to Conference, not to increase the place it is clear that, if the Con-

ped with five bath rooms, two extremes is not necessarily a symp existing obstacles to internation- ference succeeds, the pursuit of

motor-cars, a frigidaire and antom of greater courage, but possibly al commerce. This agreement economic nationalism by any na-

"Did you have measles

elaborate radio; that what we call an Indication may be known for the sake of lion or group of nations will ipso than Bobby Jones ?"!

the provisional they call progress.

of a less balanced nervous system, convenience as a "tariff truce," facto be modified, for that is "Much worse, grandma. I had. One was prepared to find a crav- though in scope and in spirit it what the Conference is being 'em during school_vocation."

jing for rapid replacement," and, as cars are as truthful as any nation Individually, again, the Ameri- is clearly intended to apply both summoned to bring about;}

symbols of that necessity, those upon earth. ta tariffs and to other measures whereas, if the Conference fails, THE PROFESSOR AGAIN,

acres of abandoned motor-cars have falles into the habit of rock- Yet corporately they in restraint of trade. A better every nation after the end of

"Hello," said the absent-minded which, except at Kansas City, formless over-statement. title would be that of an "econo- August will be free to take what Professor. "How's your wife."

the rusted fringe to any American mic armistice" terminable only measures it likes. The British] "Oh," replied the man, "I'm not

town. at one month's notice after July Government have therefore been married yet, you know." 31. The contracting parties well advised to assent to the!

"To be sure," nodded the profes-that it was inevitable and balanced building is the tallest in the State strongly urged all other countries agreement. It is clear, then, sor. "Then your wife is still single, by valuable compensations; and yet knowing well that it is nothing of represented at the Conference to that the agreement was essential

one found something unexpected the sort), and yet in so doing he has adhere to it, and rightly em-if the success of the Conference phasized both its immediate and was not to be prejudiced, and the its ultimate importance. Its im-text of the declaration by the scene in the first act I didn't know FIRST ACTRESS: In my love mediate importance consisted in eight signatory Powers served to whether to close my eyes or not. the fact that, if countries meet-show

once again how closely

SECOND ACTRESS: I noticed

¡too."

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'One expected all this; one realised

and more.

Over-Statement

The hotel proprietor of, Browns- burg, Indiana, will proclaim that his

One found that the American no intention of misleading his has a taste for the provisional or

fellow citizens: he wishes only to the new as an aim, almost, in convey to them a pleasing sense of

itself. The Englishman, with his more

elevation.

Yet upon

the foreign observer this exuberant indifference to mis-

sedentary or even conservative habit statement is all too apt to leave a

of thought, is startled, for instance,

HE COULDN'T MISS. by the relish with which a Chica.sense of the meretricious-a false WIFE: Guess what I've come to goan will speak of his "ever- assumption against which he will

changing sky-line, or with which

have to be continuously on his any American citizen will recall (in the American danger, but sug- guard. It is not falsity which is

HUBBY: Money! "Oh, what a dear, clever husband pride rather than in distress) how you are!"

he himself remembered herona nest! gestibility. ing where trams now clang and

Facts You Did Not

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scream. This passion for physical!

Frenzy For Change

(Continued on Page 11.)

DIES.

Served With Italians In Front Line.

GALLANT EPISODE RECALLED.

Milan.

ing to discuss the obstacles now linked together are all the topics a similar indecision in the audience. frustrating international trade which the Conference is to dis- had put up their tariffs in anti-cuss. Though the declaration cipation of the discussion, the naturally gives prominence to Conference would have been tariffs and other obstacles to in-ask fur? made ridiculous; fór its object is ternational commerce, it rightly to obtain a lowering of tariffs does not suggest that the lower- from the level which they haveling of such obstacles is the only now reached, and not from some task of the Conference. Indeed, still more towering height which that task will be seen in even bet- they might reach before it open-ter perspective if it is consider- led. The agreement reached, ed from the point of the stabili

displacement as contrasted with THE “BRAVE FRIAR" therefore, was 50 much!zation of currencies.

Intellectual, social and moral dis- Mr. Mac- a common-sense precaution that Donald said that the dangers of

placement is justified by the if it had not been reached-at "serious

Lacking moving parts a flasher Americana as being yet another misunderstandings, for electric signs has been invent-splendid symptom of their energy least after it had once been moot-trading confusion, and political ed that economizes on current and and youth. ed-grave doubts might have damage" would persist until au reduces wear and maintenance. been thrown upon the sincerity agreement on this point was] of the participants in the Con-reached, But the relative values ference. In these circumstances of currencies to each other is plane equipped with wheels, chain these frenzies of displacement con- Germans have developed an air- The foreign observer may find little time need be spent in cal-very largely a reflection of the treads and pontoons that can land firm his admiration for American culating how much credit may relative demand made by the ci-on solid ground, marshes.or water, ardour and inventiveness, yet he Friar" of the Great War, has died Friar Haro Dossi, the "Brave be given to this or that country tizens of one country for the for assenting to a "tariff truce." currency of another.

will consider it strange, that a people at Rovereto, in the Trentino. He At what- For keeping vegetables fresh a who It may be quite true that Great ever ratio to a common standard sprayer has been invented. that accuracy and persistence) will re-throughout the country as a result (with often irritating in-became famous among soldiers ¡Britain is a low tariff country of value-be it gold or anything efects jets of water only six one gret the absence of roots in their of an episode during the Great War, and that some other countries else-national currencies are thousandth of an inch. In diameter, own past, will seem so unaware of have extremely high tariffs al-stabilized, those ratios

In 1915 he was a Friar in the cannot ready. The fact was pointed out endure unless they roughly re- now that a final settlement will ing roots for their own future.

the need and opportunity of creat-town of Ala, in the Treating, which by Mr. MacDonald during the present the volunie of payments be possible Morcover it is

was then in the hands of the "Aus Washington conversations, and passing

However wistfully, defiantly, trians. The Italians attacked it and reciprocally between difficult to see how any agree-prondly, and unscientifically the Friar Doss1 Heard them coming. his mention of it was, as he countries. There are, of course, ment upon debts, tariffs, or ex Americans may insist upon their He dashed into his church, seized said, "considered reasonable." It other factors which exercise an change restrictions is possible own youthfulness (an insistence a Crucifix from the Alter and ran is also true that both the tariff influence on the relative values without currency etabilization as, which, when it does not suggest in- out to meet the Italians, who were system in Britain and other mea-of currencies. If a country is it is to see how an agreement, fantilism suggests the coy chir-advancing at the double. süres now in preparation for politically unstable, or spends so upon currency Stablization can piness of the adolescent of forty-A pitiless barrage rained down securing a better relation be much that it is clearly heading endure without a settlement of two), the problem which forces it from the Austrian lines. But Friar, tween supply and demand are injfor insolvency, then its currency debts, tariffs, and exchange re- self upon the attention of the for-Dossi stood his ground, his Crucifix many points still in the forma will not maintain its value. strictions; for there can be no eign observer is why, if they are raised on high, blessing the Italian tive stage. But there are two Nevertheless there is nothing certainty about either debts or so sensitive to their lack of back-soldiers as they rushed into the unanswerable arguments which quite so likely to upset the value tariff's so long as the currency in ground in the past, they should do town, donde show that Great Britain, in asof a currency as demands made which or with which they have all within their power to destroy senting to the "tariff truce," has upon a country which that coun- to be paid or levied is unstable, those backgrounds

The Austrians were unable to not in fact given all in return for try cannot discharge in goods or and exchange restrictions are a grandchildren might inherit

which their resist, and the town fall into Italian nothing. In the first place the services. That is why the Prime consequence of unstable ex- No American plants avenues for After the incident, Friar Dossi

| hands. undertaking is "to refrain from Minister reported his agreement changes. All these matters are future generations; he thinks in always insisted on being in the new initiatives" in imposing ob-with President Roosevelt that indissolubly linked together, and terms of the immediately personal, front line among the troops and the stacles upon commerce, and this "the Conference cannot be fully any solution must be compre- not In terms of continuance; he Italian soldiers came to look on his undertaking is also subject to the successful unless the Debt ques-hensive if it is to be enduring, thinks predominantly that when the mascot Wherever he was, proviso that the Conference will tion can be removed before it The tariff truce" is therefore a moment of fruition arrives be him- they said, there were fewer casual- consider "whether a better level finishes," and that is also why hopeful omen and a proof of sin-self will not be there of prices could not be obtained there should be some indication cerity.

ties than In any other part of the It is this habit of thought which line. Reuter, v

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