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HERE, THERE

and

EVERYWHERE

THE

AMERICA'S ATTITUDE TO EUROPE

Great Britain Less Distrusted than Any Other Foreign Country

(By the Hon. Harold Nicholson.)

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World's Largest Gold Coin The world's largest gold coin was The recently sold in London. coin is a Japanese Oban, a large oval plate of gold, five inches across. It weighs about four ounces and is stamped with the The Ron. Mr. Harold Nicolson, This feeling is subjective rather seals of the Government Mint. C.M.G., the well-known author and than objective, being based not so The coin was signed in Japan-critic, has just returned to England much upon the proved iniquity of ese ink by the Superintendent of from a three and a half months'all non-American countries the Mint as a guarantee of its visit to the United States, and in a upon the constant uncertainty of purity. The signature was con- series of articles, has given his im-the Americans themselves. sidered the most important part of pressions of the country at a time'

"Magnificent Lie." the coin, and if it was rubbed.off of acude economic, financial and Predispositions have been im- the plate ceased to be current political crisis,

planted in the American character Mr. Nicolson is the third son of by their education and environ- The Oban was usually wrapped the first Lord Carnock, and was ment, by the "one magnificent lie". In cotton, wool and silk. The ||formerly in the Diplomatic Service. which they have been taught at Mint authorities were always ready His writings, other than literary school.

criticism and biography, include to restore the coin to the currency

The average American, has from if it lost its signature, but for de-Some People," a book of brilliantly childhood been led to believe that penetrating and amusing studies of the system and purposes of the ing it a fee was charged.

well-known people, published in United States are inspired by ethi

cal conceptions of right and justice The traveller who returns from which find no counterpart in the the United States is asked in-legoism and cunning of old-world- sistently what is the present atti-jdiplomacy..

money.

Your Daily Smile

NOT WORTH IT.

1927.

tude of American opinion towards One of the most essential com- "If you want to live long," says Europe in general, and Great ponents of the American Idea is a prohibitionist "you must give up Britain in particular. He will the conception that America is not beer and whisky.” After consider-healtate to answer that question only bigger, but far, far better, ing everything, I have decided with any certitude.

than any other country. Europe don't want to live long.

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On the one hand, he will wish to may have her traditions, her col- discount the exquisite manners of ture and her assurance; America, the authentic American, and to, in place of these somewhat de- make allowance for an hospitable cadent qualities, offers virtue. It "What is the difference betweer desire to say the things which is thus inevitable that the average

HOW THEY'VE CHANGED

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The China Mailed, took pains to state, even Two Burning Questions.

while attacking his local Reds,

Shall I get any holidays during that all was correct and cordial the summer?

Hong Kong, Thursday, June 15, 1933 between his Government and Shall I get summer during the

that of Russia; so in that direc-holidays! tion, perhaps, an understanding

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an old-fashioned girl and a modern please. On the other hand he will American should feel that every girl?"

be bothered by the eternal problem foreigner is steeped in original "An old-fashioned girl blushes of where the centre of American sin. when she is ashamed and a modernĵopinion actually resides.

The allocation of this general girl is ashamed when she blusbea " Is he to draw his deductions total of suspicion as between the from the conversation, of bankers several Powers is apt also to vary and business, men, from the r-with the conditions of the moment. marks of the New York intellec- At present there is undoubtedly a tuals, from the articles in the very strong and even a wide stream setting against Press, or from discussions entered of disfavour

The old sentimental at- into during endless journeys across France, the sad plains of the Middle West! tachment to that country-that old There is certainly such a thing as business about La Fayette, The Centre of Peril. is hoped for. The thought will

average American opinion, and in Rochambeau, and the rest-did not not tend to increase the security Only Explanation.

I read that one of the surest the end it is that average which survive the direct personal contact of Poland. Britain, long more

to prevent hay fever determines policy. "It is idle to pretend that the than tolerant of German desires, aye

of the war. Educated Opinion,

The ordinary private soldier” re- temper "of Nazi Germany to-day has shown with firm dignity her epidemics is to allow grass to grow is pacific," says the "New States- distaste for this new carnival of wild. My jobbing gardener seems

Yet it would be reckless for any turned with a distaste for French

conditions, to be doing his best to prevent traveller to claim that he had him- food, housing

and man and Nation." That is very hatred. France has been Won hay-fever epidemics. strong comment from a paper derfully silent and restrained, not}

self entered into contact with that civilisation. He did not like their which rarely censures any coun-seeking offence, but not in any] ́

(opinion, or that he could really language, their wine, their coun- try save its own; and possibly by mood to see treaties torn up by Slow Motion Sport.

Interpret the majority feeling of try, their war, their habits of ac- this time, after all that has been such hands as Hitler's. A great "Century at cricket match that vast and multi-form continent.countancy, their plumbing, or their said and done in the last few deal depends, and will continue This seems to prove that the game Subject to such reservations, it marked commercial instincts. weeks, its comment may be to depend, on the attitude of is definitely too long drawn out. stronger still. In making be- Italy. Massolini has, it may be

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Is permissible, perhaps, to quote Post-War France. the opinions of those who have for The virtues of the French-

their vitality,

amazing long made it their business to dis-their criminate essential opinion from culture, the brilliance of their in- All play and no work makes the fleeting squalls of vociferation telligence were not disclosed to

lated discoveries it is following said, a foot in both camps, and Exchange is no Jobbery. the lead of another Radical or can influence many policies. The gan, the "Manchester Guardian," Hitler party has counted on him Jack a "dole" boy.

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which pass across the surface. It him. He only noticed their faults. is permissible also to record those He returned to his Middle Western aspects of the American attitude farm permanently convinced that . than towards the outside world which it was not worth while having of ocean in un-strike the traveller as unexpected. crossed 3,000 miles

which as long ago as early March as in some measure sharing its declared: "The most important views a fact which he may, if duty of the (disarmament) con-discreet, exploit for the further-Libel Suit Pending. ference is to prevent the re-lunce of peace. But it is believed "Although he is now more arming of Germany." Every mo-that he is far from admiring the seventy, Lord-still goes about

I should thus wish In the first order to rescue France from in- ment that passes seems to in-needless excesses of the Brown hanged"

place to record crease a thousandfold the truth Shirts, and that fact also may

my surprise. atvasion.

For the mass of the American finding that the educated American of these grudging admissions, help to check fresh madness. which are so much more convin-Fascism in Italy was a mild thing

public were far more interested in, people the war is not regarded as A spendthrift is one who uses ab and informed of, world conditions a great adventure, not even as an eing than the outbursts of sup- indeed in comparison with the adjective in a telegram. posel "jingoes." To-day mil-Prussian imitation, and it has to lions of people the world over its credit a record of ordered

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DEFINITION.

Facts You Did Not have the firm conviction that, as work which few expect to sec

Know. Viscount Grey expressed it, "the from those whose delight it is to great security of peace now is glorify militarism as the chief of That Germany is not armed, and all virtues. If they had one

Voices and music have been not in a position to go to war" spark of Mussolini's statecraft, mitted 25 miles on a ray of light by Here is the centre of the world's they would find other themes to a New York scientist. many perils at Berlin. It draws reassure Europe than a chant of all eyes. The hopeful utteran-unrepentant defiance. For Eu-

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than I had been led to expect. exploit of heroism. It is regarded The space devoted to foreign as a horrible episode -Into which newa In the more important America was somehow entrapped, journals of the continent is as-jand it is an episode which they tonishingly large, and the editorial desire ardently to forget..

Had the French Government, trans-comment is in many cases serious

and sane. The correspondenta em-since November, 1918, behaved ployed in Europe by such papers as with gentle pacifism they might The New York Times" or the bave recaptured the ground which "Chicago Daily News" provide they had lost. But the American France leads the world as an ex wide and increasing public with public have been sincerely shocked ces of President Roosevelt re-rope is both forewarned and foreporter of toilet preparations and really balanced information as to by France's attitude on garding the prospects of econo-armed. Alarmed and distressed ranks second for fertilizera. mic agreement, utterances which as she well may be at this re-

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in normal círcumstances would vival of menisce, she does not Hats have been invented in convey a note.of cheer, cannot therefore stand in awe of it. She England of a

plastic material divert men's minds from the has means with which, in the which, when heated, enables them menace of a new Kaiserdom. The last resort, to confront it firmly to be accurately fitted to men's deadlock of the Disarmament a reason for solemn thankful-heads. Conference surprises no. oneness.

seems, indeed, only natural.

"From the moment that, at the

the dis-

what is happening in London, armament question, by her post- Paris, and Berlin..

war treatment of Germany, by her Clubs and Societies..

(Continued on Page 10:) Moreover, the special reviews and quarterlies, devoted entirely to

external questions are numerous WELL-KNOWN POLISH

ALPINISS DIES,

Trapped By Storm In Tatra Mountains.

and popular, and sometimes, as Inotably that excellent publication entitled "Foreign Affairs," reach a not equalled in the Lausanne conference last July," A Maharaja's Exile, provided the machinery for carry-standard

Ing them into effect, in an English (Eastern hemisphere, q saya the National Review,' "Ger-

Prime Minister, an English Re- I was struck also by the many many was freed from the pay. There can be no surprise that venue Member, and an English clubs and debating societies estab- ments due to the countries the Maharaja of Alwar should have Chief of Police. So little did the lished in universities and colleges whose civilisation she had tried been given the choice between co- Maharaja show any disposition to for the express purpose of the dis- to wreck, it was obvious to any operating with British officials in co-operate

*In the necessary cussion of foreign problems. I one who could think that the the reform of the finances of his changes that the Revenue Member found, too, that the women's clubs of Posers, regarded as Poland's Geneva talks were completely fu- State and a temporary personal re- resigned, and there has been (which represent so wide and best Alpinist, has died in the tile." Pacifists who, up to a tirement from power. Nor will subsequent clash of views between potent an element in American Tatra Mountains of Slovakia, as few weeks ago, derided and de- those who know the temper of this the Maharaja and the Prime Minis- culture) always included in their a result of exposure and cold. nounced such sentiments sa ruler wonder that he has chosen ter. A situation such as that lecture programmes some informa- Accompanied by Professor wickedly bellicose, are to-day in a period of exile, during which he could only have one sequel. In tive discourse upon external condi- Gron of Gnesen, Poland, he was Borrowful agreement with them will have opportunities of discuss days when the East is advancing tions.

Prague. Professor Burgermeir, aged 35,

My making an ascent of the difficult The song of the sword (which ing his affairs with whomever he with unprecedented rapidity the It may be that the interest in Ganek peak. The two men were nowadays simply means the air may choose to consult. There are Government of India can turn no foreign affairs is confined only to caught in a storm during the bomb and the poison-gas) has si-native States in India where the blind eye on the native States. the intellectuals, who naturally ascent and, finding the wind too lenced other sounds in Germany, administration is not inferior to Where rulers treat their revenues constitute but a small and not im-strong for them to pitch a tent, and raised uneasiness on every that of British India itself and in as their personal property to the mediately influential section of decided to return down the moun- fromfer. Austria, a friendly na conducted with less friction, but extent of arousing...... dangerous, re-the nation. Be this as it may,

tain

taken a w tion, is insulted and threatened. Alwar is certainly not amongst volt among their subjects, and op- there can remain little doubt that They had taken a whole day Poland is challenged at Danzig them. At the beginning of this pose efforts to bring about better the old indiference to the outside to cross a narrow Ice-field, in the Little difference is discernible be-year there was a revolt of Moham-conditions, they must take the world is not na universal as course of which night overtook, tween the effect of these acts of medan subjects of the Maharajá consequences. The treaty protec- formerly,

them. After spending the night enmity and the impression pro- which compelled him to seek the tion given by the King-Emperor 1 found also that certain main in the open they attempted the duced in more than one country assistance of the troops of the will never be used to cover an open streams of opinion were noticeable descent early in the morning but by the visits of the most unfor Government of India. Quiet was wrong. One obvious advantage of throughout the country, at least in Professor Burgermeier collapsed tunate goodwill" delegates who quickly restored, but the Viceroy, a federation of India would be that those strata of the population on the way. ever ventured from one nation to recognising" the rising was the administration of the States which I was myself able to observe. His companion struggled to the another. Have the Nazis left based on real evils in administra- would almost automatically be im- The most constant. of these nearest police station but the themselves with one external tion, could not rest at that point proved by closer contact with the opinione was an almost instinctive rescue party despatched friend? Herr Hitler, it was not. He insisted on vital reforms, and remainder of the 'country, tee * suspicion of all foreign, nations. layed by the storm-Beuter.