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Rule Number Six'

It is understood that President Roosevelt is a strong advocate of Rule Number Six, the mystery in- structing of the American diploma-¡ {tic service. The rule was intro-{ [duced by the late Dwight Morrow, He borrowed it, however, from 2 Britian general. "·

FRIDAY, AUGUST 4, 1933.

OPEN LETTER TO MR. MACDONALD

HOW TO SAVE WORLD CONFERENCE

“DESTRUCTIVE CRITICISM

(By Stephen King - Hall.)

During the war Mr. Morrow was adviser to the Allied Maritimo Council, composed of a. British gen- Dear Prime Minister,

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July 6.. I am confident that this would'

remove the currency question from

In company, with-I hope most its present vexing position in men's

noticed

resources, For instance,

this

it

eral, a French admiral, and other Allied representatives...

of your countrymen I have been minds. On one occasion the Council sent watening with sympathetic atten- As mentioned above, the task of for a junior officer to advise its tion your efforts to make a success abolishing international trade from members on some technical ques-of the World Monetary and world which has for many cen- tion. The young officer gave his Economic Conference. At the turies bowed down before views at great length, dniening up moment of writing it does not ap-fetish would need some effort, and with a peroration that, if his pro-pear probable that the Conference certain posals were not accepted the Allies will fulfil the high hopes which the particularly in our own country, national readjustments, would lose the war.

more optimistic amongst us once but where 'there is a will there is The British general, who was cherished. chairman of the Council, pulled him;

ja way, and we 'cannot doubt that I confess that when I heard that the will is lacking. The statistical up: "Sir, you will please bear in the representatives of 66 States evidence and the speeches of states- mind Rule Number Six of this were being brought together I felt men are conclusive on that point. Council."

ja tinge of doubt, and when I studied The officer, taken aback, inquired, the annotated agenda those doubts

If It Comes To The Warst what the rule was.

were reinforced. For I

If the worst came to the worst it "Don't take yourself too damned from this agenda that the purposeght be necessary to compromise seriously," was the general's terse of this Conference was to be the and finished products which certain and draw up a list of commodities reply.

restoration of world tradef

I felt that it was akin to convenincapable of securing through their countries are for the moment quite Film Producer Renounces Faith. ing a meeting of a suicide club in OWN

Mr. Rex Ingram, the film pro- order to discuss methods of increase would be understandable if our ducer, announces that he has entering the expectancy of life of its American friends put upon such a ed the Mohammedan religion, and members. For surely, Six, the bis-list the matter of Old Masters, an- in future will be known as Ben tory of the last few years now cient buildings and literary lectures. Aalem Nacir Ed, which means Son clearly that an ever-increasing num-The Scandinavian countries might of the Savant of Faith.

ber of persons' in all parts of the The producer, who scored such a world have come to the conclusion be allowed to add tropical fruits to

with the lm, "The that international commerce is a

the list and so on. The China Mail called upon, formally or informally, triumph

to give his opinion. Like all really Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse" great evil, to avert which heavy internationally it might be wise to When this list had been approved busy men he seemed always to have and directed Rudolph Valentino so sacrifices must be made. Hong Kong, Friday, August 4, 1932. time to do properly whatever most well, says that he has taken this I think it is fair to say that there agree that for a limited period of

needed doing.

studying the Moham- is no State in While remaining step after

say, 10 years, international trade wholly British he got on easily with medan religion for 11 years, and present time which is anxious to Nations should be permitted in these at the under licence from the League of representatives of every nationality that he has renounced all those con- foster foreign imports and that all and seemed instinctively to under-ceptions of life as expressed at, by, are desirous of selling more abroad stand their points of views. He was and in Hollywood to-day.

than they buy from abroad. The appointment of Sir Eric (completely trusted by them all. even "For the 360,000,000 followers of Since this is clearly impossible, I to be kept small and be scrutinised Drummond as the new British Am-when a British issue was before the Mohammedanism," he said, "econo- have always assumed that this is with great care. bassador to Turkey caused univer League; though in such cases, if the mic problems do not exist."- sal satisfaction for the wise scler controversy was an important one, tion made and for the recognition he would hand over his relevant thus bestowed for his splendid work duties to the Deputy Secretary.

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at Geneva. Sir Eric Drummond General, in accordance with his rule Teo True. has just retired from a post unique that no official should be commission-

nationals

the

or

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The Mystery of the Used Car. How much? By whom? How t

the world

articles. But may I express my conviction that the list would have

It would not, for example, be le

Banana Problem

only a tactful way of telling bank- ers, shippers and others whose gitimate for Great Britain to add livelihood depends upon the volume bananas to the list. This fruit can of international trade that they are easily be grown under glass in this really superfluous and parasitical with great benefit to the glass, gardening and coal industries. Many a bachelorship la wrecked excrescences on the body social.

I visualise acres and acres of glass Now, Sir, the fact that I have. pointed out that the Conference was thousands and thousands of tons of heated to a suitable temperature by bound to fail, because its terms of reference asked it to do something

coal extracted by miners at present junemployed. whien was contrary to what every- one wished, may rightly be con- sidered destructive criticism.

The older school of economist have, however, certain constructive would try to argue that in these cir- Proposals to bring to your notice, jcumstances bananas would be more which, if adopted, would save the expensive. To this old-fashioned ar Conference and bring about a mark-gument the obvious retort is that ed degree of international co-opera-economists tell us they want the tion. I have good reason to think prices of agricultural products to that even President Roosevelt would rise, whilst the profits of the British find himself able to agree with my Banana proposals and with his delegates.

THE DAILY QUESTIONNAIRE

Are there any letters? Whose deal is it?. Got a cigarette? What time is it! What'll we play for! What are trumps? When do they open? How do we get there?

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They Do Things

No World Trade

It may, I think, be taken

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Corporation would, of own course, be an important item of na tional revenue and so, by relieving taxation, reduce the burden on in- asdustry, and thus permit of a rise in

No, Sir, the list of articles enter-

in history. As frat Secretary-Gen-jed to consider a dispute in which his on a permanent wave. era! of the League of Nations, no-jown country of origin was involved. minated to his post in the Treaty of He became by force of constant A Thriller? Versailles, he had to build up an in-practice an expert at reconciling ternational Civil Service, the first apparently incompatible theses. His which the world has known critics might indeed discover a weak- It is composed Di the ness in his insistence, which acem- of over forty coun-ed sometimes to be over-insistence, tries; it is bilingual: and it on the need for an apparent settle- works with a smothness, efficiency, ment when differences remained in and public spirit worthy of the best fact unreconciled. Rightly Civil Service in the most highly or-wrongly Sir Eric took the line that ganized individual State. Though the first business of the League in international in outlook, it has ac-political matters was to Bad agree. quired a corporate feeling, and is ment. He shrank from any open uniform in spirit and in purpose. conflict between the League and one which 18 nothing less than of its members. His object has been service of the human to meet the immediate emergency. race through the medium of na-He has been ready with Marry The Girl tional Governments. The.

Secre-continual compromises, even "What is the best cure for in- axiomatic that the technique of In-the consumption of bananas, tariat provides all the countries of when his own position and the somnia, indigestion and palpita-ternational Conferences has shown the world-for it is used even by authority of the Lengua were at tion?" States which do not belong to the their highest two or three years ago. League--with a ministry and He has always been bent upon ob- How clearing-house for political, econo-taining universality for the League; mic, financial, social, and humani- and be seemed sometimes extremely itarian business. It is not its proper reluctant to refuse requests insis- business to formulate a policy. tently preferred for fear of losing a London has lately seen something of member. No doubt Sir Eric con- its organizing work, performed away sidered that It was his duty not to from its offices and its files in initiate or even to direct policy, but, strange surroundings. The case as the principal international Civil with which, working only at half Servant, to harmonize the policy of strength, it adapted itself to them, his many Chiefs to the best of his and the proficiency with which the ability and to keep their Govern routine arrangements of the Econo- ments at least officially in union. If all men are alike, why does mię Conference were carried Under Sir Eric Drummond the Maisie want three or four? through, convey some idea of the League increased steadily in effective machinery which has been fulness and prestige until a year of set going at Geneva. The creation]two ago; but it must be confassed of this international body has been that he left it at a moment when the great work of Sir Eric Drum-the growth of its reputation has mond. He built it up from nothing. been checked. It may be that under. Operated automatically by services), and the representatives of He had first of all to collect his hubis safe and skilful guidance, it photoelectric cell affected by light the USA Germany, Italy, and man material; he had to sift and or reached a position where more was passing through samples of water, Russin would, I am sure, be glad to man's belt, belleved to be 3,000 ganize it when the work it had to expected of it than in fact it is yet apparatus has been invented perform was still scanty and ill-de- capable of performing. Unless and add chlorine to public drinking views on this matter.

to pool for the common good their years old, has been discovered in fined; and he breathed into it his until the constituent countries are water supplies to destroy germs. town ideal of the service of humani prepared to pool a larger, share of

that action without agreement. Ising into international trade must be the danger that must be watched, kept. very small, so as to stimulate and that every effort must be made technical advances and encourage. A man vill smoke because some to reach agreement and then let the production of synthetic rubber

think he shouldn't,

action look after itself. I have there and other substitutes from natural And women smoke for fear meni

think they couldn't.

fore looked for some great guid sources of supply. The experience of A man will love to make his pulses ing principle to which all can agree, the war showed what scientific men

tingle,

and I believe I have found it in the can do towards making a country A woman loves to keep, from' stay simple expression

"No World self-contained. ing single.

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Lines to an Old English 'Inn.

Bee-lines.

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Answer Me' This One.

Facts You Did Not Know.

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Printing of pictures in their na

Trade."

Let the Conference therefore drop its present title and call itself "The No-trade Conference.". Let its com- mittees at once address themselves to. the task of working out and co- ordinating internationally plans for national self-sufficiency.

Everyone seems to want to bel

the self-contained (except

few parasites I have already mentioned who produce nothing except certain

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3,000 YEAR OLD. BELT FOUND.

Bronze Age Relic In Austria.

Vienna

A beautifully decorated wo-

about 1,500 B.C. and beside it

a grave at Sieding, near Wiener Even in our own case Major Neustadt... Walter Elliot. could be relied upon It' dates from the Bronze Age ty. The first Secretary-General had individual sovereignties, the fullest Tones of a new piano can be so for an interesting contributión./ the advantage of having himself use cannot be made of the machin amplified as to resemble music been trained in that branch of the ery which it offers for the peaceful from a full orchestra or reduced in be easy to abolish all international pins evidently used for fastening I will not, pretend that it would in the grave were found bronze British Civil Service which deals jaettlement of disputes and the com volume so that only a person play trade at one fell swoop but much clothes. with international affairs; and he mon regulation of multilateral pro-Ing the instrument can hear them could be done by increase the was further qualified for an excep[blems; The extent to which it is with the aid of ear telephones.

Remains of such belts have range and scope of quotes and mak-frequently been discovered, but tionally diffenit post by a character used depends entirely on the deci which combines shrewdness with alon of independent Governments

ing greater use of the embargo, nowhere in Europe has a speci good nature, official dignity with in-The Secretariat is perhaps of all the tural colors on a high speed new-to do something about currencies, been brought to light.

It would, of course, be necessary men in such perfect, condition formality, and a great capacity for organs of the League that which is spaper press has been made pos because otherwise there would be a It is only comparatively re work with a complete absence of most certain to endure; and its essible in England by the invention competition between depreciated cently that the Indus Valley and fuss. Of the seventy-three sessions tablishment and consolidation are of a camera that takes three nega-currencies, and this might lead to other finds have convinced of the League Council held to date the particular achievements of Sir Lives at once. In the primary, colors, fexport trade. I propose, however, scientists that civilisation is far Bir Eric Drummond has attended Eric Drummond. It already pos seventy; and those who have seen sesses

that a number of currencies ahould folder than had been supposed. a' fine tradition of service A new form of chimes to announce exist side by side. I suggest the and there is little known about him at work have been amazed at the which his own ability, impartiality, the hours and quarter hours from franc on gold (and other gold coun- the period of this find. coolness which his judgment never and devotion have inspired. It is a towers of churches and public tries), the £ sterling, the American It is thought, however, that Jokes amid the clatter of questions tradition of objective efficiency buiklings amplifies the sounds pro-dollar and the "gen, and that it the belt derives from an Indo great and small, about which, in which it is the known ambition of duced by striking metal tubes to should be made. a penal offence to Germanic people had probably Committee, in the corridors and at Sir Eric Drumond's successor, M the loudness of the notes of large deal in foreign exchange, or even to came from the North to that meal-times, he has been habitually Avenal, fully to maintain.

bella.

quota exchange rates;

part of Austria-Beuter.