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FRIDAY, JUNE 16, 1933.

HOW AMERICA VIEWS THE DEBTS

"No nation is less greedy, less

Behind the announcement of the materialistic or more open-handed"

scheme to harness the tides in the estuary of the River Severn, at a cost of over £38,000,000 les the story of years of research and ex periment carried out by a Professor of Manchester University in his laboratories. He in Professor CM.G., the well-known author and acquisitiveness in terms of money, Arnold Gibson; his work in connec critic, has just returned to England but to a general suspicion that the tion with the Severn Barrage plan from a three and a half months leagued together to do the Ameri- diplomatists of Europe were began in 1928, when he was invited visit to the United States, and in a can tax-payer down. Mr. Ramsay. to construct a model of the River

(By The Hon. Harold Nicolson.)

The Ben. Mr. Harold Nicolson, not, therefore, due to any personal

Severn estuary at the Victoria Uni-series of articles, has given his im-MacDonald, owing to the enormous in the United versity, Manchester, where he has pressions of the country at a time prestige he enjoya been Professor of Engineering for of acute economic, financial and States, is perhaps the sole Euro- pean who could widely dispel this many years, and to undertake

illusion. series of experimental investiga- tions

political crisis.

Mr. Nicolaon is the third son of Wonderful Model.

the first Lord Carnock, and was Professor Gibson had bullt

a formerly in the Diplomatic Service large-scale tidal model of the estu-His writings, other than literary ary; la a long series of experi- ments spread over seven years, he criticism and biography, include has examined on the model the effect "Some People," a book of brilliantly of various types of barrage on tide penetrating and amusing studies of levels and navigation in the River well-known people, published in Severn

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But even his endeavours will prove fruitless if he be forpedo ed from behind by suggestions that there exista a covert conflict of intention between Europe and the United States.

The American people, again, are curiously susceptible to the attri bution of false motive. The ex- pression, "The American Shylock," has wounded them to the quick They know it to be totally untrue. They are with justice aware that

Attributing Motives.

more

A Bismarck For London In my four previous articles I In his desire to enlighten public have endeavoured to indicate some no nation on earth is less greedy, opinion in Britain on the real state at least. of the phases of miscon less materialistic (and I say this of affairs in Germany, Herr Hitler ception through which an English with full conviction) or is sending his most aristocratic sup-man is liable to pass on first visit- porter to London.

ing America. The English reader, open-handed than the American

nation. -This is Count Gottfried Bis- however, will demand a more topi-

The English visitor who recalis marck, grandson of the "Blood and cal application. Iron Chancellor and brother of He will want to know what lies that Shylock gibe will blush in shame. Few epithets could be Prince Bismarck, formerly second behind the present economic and more ignorant, more disgraceful,

in secretary to the London German financial crisis the United Embassy.

States; and to be given some in-or more dangerous, Count Gottfried Bismarck, who dication of its present limits and

The American people are pre- The China Mail be his job to accompany the two is Nazi deputy for Pomerania, ar-future development

I am not an economist, and I or three selected to set out to rived in London recently. He re-

pared for immense self-sacrifice, scale the last 500 or 1,000 feet. turned to the Royal Institute of have found from experience that once they are convinced of the Hong Kong, Friday, June 16, 1933. His chief pre-occupations have International Affairs on the Nazi my forecasts of economic and honest intentions

He has been a warm social potentialities are lavariably whom they are to come to an ar- been in supervising the transport morement

for false. I question even whether the

Įrangement. At present they are of food and equipment to the supporter of Herr Hitler

several years.

most expert economist would ven-not so convinced. They are still Doomed Everest. various camps and keeping his

ture at this present moment upon suspicious of the motives, as of the Įmen together and in good health

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mind. The present situation may a degree which we ourselves, could. have the most unexpected conse scarcely realise.

If only-England--and--Europa-

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Warn

a little more fair-minded

Man has its measure. To exag-ficult of attainment, and few gerate Everest's formidable de- people will fail to find some spark

I shall refrain from any attempt were

towards America we should find a fences, however, would be dif- of inspiration when reflecting on have to live 1,000,000 years to be to forecast those consequences.

response more generous than our ficult. The men chosen to assail the courage and high intent of certain of being killed on a British But I do feel competent to them must first possess the those climbers who, in the flower railway. The difficulty is to find my countrymen against certain spit-across-the-sea school can pos-

Jaibly know of: finest physical strength, well-of their manhood, risking all, some one to give up so much time forms of illusion, and to suggest, Although, however; I am con- balanced minds

to them the atmosphere in which; with pounding -men who will will scramble bring to such tasks a joy in at hearts up hazardous slopes, gasp-

Impending developments will take vinced on these three points, there {place.

remain other problems which fill tempting the almost impossible.g in an epic struggle, to lie ex- "The modern girl never lets a fool A mountain able to make its own hausted on the. "top of the hug her," says a povelist. Or a bug instance, that the theory that the have been asked, for instance, I am absolutely convinced, for me with a greater incertitude. I weather conditions and unchain world" From the dawn of his

fool her.

abandonment of the Gold Standard whether I believe that the Ameri- forces almost cataclysmic to tofy the highest mountains, the hottest deserts, and the loneliest

by the United States was a cun-can inflation can remain controll- keep Inviolate its crowning

ed. A Long Job.

ning, move· directed against the heights, is an opponent only for seas have held out a challenge to

Mr. Roosevelt says that the Unit- external world is a damaging and depend, I suppose, upon psycholo

The answer to this question must the lion-hearted who have minde mankind; and though it is a fared States was "dying by inches" ignorant theory. open to the lessons of philosophy.ery from puny nomadic con- when he took office. Oh, well, is not thinking in terms of ex factors. Do I believe, for instance, gical, es much as on economic, Calm, clear eyes have watched quests, the days of Jason and there are a good many Inches internal belligerency; she is think- Everest send wide and mighty the Pillars of Hercules, to these 3,742,000 square miles. avalanches of ice and snow of eight-day world flights and hurtling a thousand feet down voyages to both Poles, the spirit Safety First Hint. its granite precipices with a roar now, as then, is the same. As To prevent burglars breaking in- as if the world had gone to pieces: holds no serely the sail pond to the house leave the front door These eyes have smarted in the holds" not "to beyond! ореп. rarefied air, have seen sudden

the sunset,” but "to follow storms burst on its sides of tow-knowledge like a shining star." HOW NOW, HERCULES?

America to-day

ing in terms of internal alleviation. that the Administration will be lable to keep within channels of More ́specifically I .. should imagine that President Roosevelt's comparative normality those tor precipitate action was determined rents of hope which it has released in agricultural districts, both in by a desire to forestall the rabid inflationists of Congress. He saw respect of increased prices and the that the public clamour against reduction of debts and mortgagent low prices and Internal debt wás Conflicting Impulses.

On

ering ice walls and rage on its Yet, if absolute success be the Mr. George Lansbury complains becoming irresistible; he saw that I have no serious answer to such knife-edged ridges.. Men with prize, and above the shouts of that he cannot understand Mr. Mac-under pressure of this clamour a question. I do not know, these visions have looked on the Fraise a sceptical voice is heard, Donald's speeches. This is import the Senate might pass legislation the one hand, you have the fact crumpled bodies of hardy native asking, "What is the result? Is ant. It reveals that somebody has of an Impulsive and ill-considered that the farmers are widely Ladebt hillmen, paralysed by a freezing it of use to anyone?" the answer tried to. wind, and yet, undaunted, they is, "Yes; it is an achievement

nature which would open the flood-ed, and that in the last few months gates to a spate of inflation; he there have been incidents which, foresaw that to veto such legisla although they have been exagger tion would expose him to ignorantated, do in fact indicate that the criticism and slow down the im-law of contract is in certain States petus of his present popularity, an being openly defied Coffee is sealed in a new can that impetus which he must know to be..

Know.

enough to exploit while it lasts.

have crawled to within 900 feet which focuses a bright white Facts You Did Not of the beckoning coronet. Mr. light on the supreme triumphs of Hugh Ruttledge's party, has in man, potent and perfectly disci possession all the experience plined; it representa British gleaned by the three previous pluck, endurance, and persever- Everest expeditions, by the ance, the magnificence of trained has a spring top containing a diminishing, and which he is wise). Bavarian and German, assaults minds and bodies, the will to gasket, on brutal, unvanquished Kan-succeed, to face up to difficulties chenjunga, and by Smythe's con- and, to a point, life against, About 99 per cent, of the popula quest of Kamet. Spurred by the death." The airmen conquered, tion of New Zealand is of British knowledge that Englishmen of and have their triumphs to show, ancestry. heroic daring have carried light The land party, victorious or not, tents to 27,000 feet, Mr. Hugh will also bring back trophies. Ruttledge, encamped at an alti-

tude of 19,000 feet, has this ad- Socialism's Blind Spot,

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He thus determined to “faire la AUSTRALIANS HAVE jpart du feu,” and to organise a- "LARGE" NOSES.

controlled inflation while there Having toothed jawn, a new kit- still wâs time.

More English Blood chen. Implement crushes ice cubes]:"1 am convinced - also- that the fecile anti-American cackle of

Wanted. into crystals.

those who attribute to the United vantage overall other expedi-

Melbourne. tions: already he knows of the The General Council of the small motors have been invented in egoism on the debts question is Children's scooters equipped with States an attitude of deliberate

Australians possess two not- conditions prevailing at 28,000 Trades Union. Congress in Lon- Germany.

both ignorant and unfair,fed able characteristics; they have feet. Of the eleven men in his don has voted £1,000 to the fund

The American people, until quite large poses and small jaws, charge, most of them represen- for German political refugees. the Socialist party's deep concern recently, have had little conception A sculptor, Mr. Paul Montford, tative of young modern English It is a worthy cause. But before for the victims of the Nazis and of the effect upon themselves of has discovered these facts about mountaineers, all, except Mr. it proceeds further with its pro- its almost complete indifference the transference of debt payments. Australians after many years of Ruttledge and the two doctors, posed campaign against Herr to the fate of the two British en- They have been inclined to suppose study and modelling, are well under forty, half of the Hitler the Council should consfgineers in the Moscow prison. that the debtor countries bave ap- To make Australian features number being one or two years der whether its record as the The Government's efforts on be pealed to a vague improvisation more regular he suggests that either above or below thirty, the enemy of dictators la clean. The half of the prisoners have been regarding credit-faidity in order there should be a greater infu idéal age for such an adventure. German Government will not be persistently maligned and mis- to keep their debt payments at sion of English blood All are expert climbers, men of greatly Impressed by protests represented because the Soviet home. Mr. Montford sttributes the superb physique, imbued with a from English Socialists who have prétends to be a Government of The Instinctive suspicion of enlarged noses to nature's ad- wonderful team spirit and alert eulogised the dictatorship of the the workers. Yet everyone something which they do not justment to a hot dry, and sultry for many of the grave perils and proletariat, and sought to excuse knows, or should know, that the understand may have led them to climate. Men breathe faster and difficulties ahead. Mr. Ruttledge its worst excesses because the Soviet is the most absolute and combat this theory in crude terms; deeper in hot-Australia, he bei has an extensive knowledge of dictator happens to be a Russian, arbitrary dictatorship in the but today they realise that the leves, and as a result, their noses mountaineering, his familiarity and zot German ce l'allan, world. But the T.U.C. can only theory was not wholly actitions, developing t with the Indian snows having Decent, Britishers must feel dis see Herr Hitler, and is blind to the stolid attitude adopted by He does not know any, reason few, if any, rivals, It would not at the contrast between the grimzer reality of Stalin. America on the debts question was for the small jaws. — Reuter,