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First "Long-Distance" Flight One of the biggest gatherings of baby 'planes ever held took place on: September 17 at Chalons-sur- Marne, to celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the drat "long- distance" aerial flight.

MONDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1933.

FAILURE AFTER 14 YEARS OF WORK

LEAGUE'S GROTESQUE

BALANCE SHEET

"INTERNATIONAL

BINDWEED

(By D. E. Arnold.)

The bottom has dropped out of fact it has done the very opposite,

In 1908 Henry Farman, the 33- year-old son of English journalist, few some 16 miles, from Chalona- sur-Marne to one of the principal vineyards of the Champagne the market for League of Nations and increased the discrepancy. district-the first fight made by stock.

¡Polish and, above all, Japanese any airman from one town to an-

[competition are but two of the The balance-sheet ofter 14 years many glaring instances of the other.

The aerial guests-for

whom is grotesque.

failure of the 1.10. two temporary airports were con-" One the assets side there is only

To-day that body is utterly "im- |structed, in addition to-the great one entry, the shell of the new appointed task it falters feebly 'potent. Instead of carrying out its military aerodrome at Rheims- also celebrated some other records League Palace at Geneva. It is an after the wraith of an international set up in the following year: asset at present, but unless sub-40-hour week convention, regard- Altitude, by Hubert Latham scriptions can be got in and some convention is already looked upon less of the fact that its 48-hour (about 1,600 feet); Speed, by Glen Curtiss (19 miles in 24 minutes); thing dong to mend the League's as a 12-year-old international joke, and Long Distance, by Farman 116 reputation there will be no staff or and that any convention which pre- | miles).

¡delegates to occupy it when it is scribed international hours of labour without niso prescribing rates of wages is not merely futilo

Your Daily Smile

Modern Manners

Modern Wover: "I say, old thing, may attend your wedding?"

ed!"

completed at the end of 1935.

The ability side is crowded but dishonest. enough. The past year has been Small wander that Japan. in an unbroken record of failure in mises continued co-operation with withdrawing from the League, pro-

every department of the League's the I.L.O.

She: "Why, I'm not even engag-activity. The mere mention of So long as the League aroused Manchukuo, Disarmament, South hitter feelings of hostility there He: "Oh, ZA bridegroom, 1 Kensington. Assyria. Anschluss, was some hope for it. But now it Four-Power Pact. or Gran Chaco is not opposed at all: It is simply causes a blush or a smile, but never,ignored. This is all the more re- a thrill of pride.

markable in view of the enormous

mean!"

returne."

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The waitress reho had taken the

tion.

€408.

of civil ser

A Happy Return. Vlear: "How did you get that

The outstanding political failure interests vested in keeping it alive. black eye, Mrs. York?"

of the League has, of course. Seen The League affects to sneer at vast- Mrs. York: "Well, sir, me the eighteen-month-old so-called ed interests when they are concern- *usband came out of prison last, Disarmament Conference. No ed, say, in armaments manufacture, Toosday, and seeing as it was his amount of formula-hunting, face, but nobody can give the League able to resist the pressure of Con- birthday. I wished 'im many 'appy saving or Henderson-peraathulat supports with a vested interest. press? Already Senator Fletcher,

ing can any longer conceal the fact the chairman of the Senate Com-

Too Many Experts that disarmament is out of the Ever since its foundation it has Hong Kong, Monday, October 23, 1933.mittee on Banking and Currency, is

arena of practical politics. demanding the issue of huge quan-

been the deliberate policy of the Such influence as the League League to extend the number of its (tities of "green backs." and there The Great Experimentands will be strongly pressed by

similar man's order some time ago now re exercised in the Sino-Japanese dis- committee "experts" and establish be little donhẹ that

turned in his table deep in medita. pute was wholly bad. Proceeding the maximum number of personal

on the fiction that all Member contacts. a large majority in bath Houses.

The result is that to-day The world 1911 EXT4M 14

watch In these circumstances it is hardly a penny for your thoughts, young over their own territories, it mis vants, professors, doctors, lawyers,

"Ah," said the customer brightly,States are equal and have control there are thousands with sympathetic, it somewhat surprising that financial opimon in jajous, eyes the development of Mr. New York and elsewhere is watch-

lady."

ted China into relying on League politicians and propagandista Roosevelt's National Recovery pro-ing events with me anxiety, and

scattered The girl rained a pair of inquiry support and embittered Japan.

throughout the world The new Administration the recent fall in the exchange value

Impotent When Needed who anxiously and tenaciously been in office for seven of the dollar must be attributed to

"Well, sir," she said, "we are very When it came to action the ling to the possibility of a trip to '' 18 not surprising the uneasiness

Quay today, and I was just wonder-League was impotent. The Lytton Geneva as a high-spot in an other. felt by American therefore, that the people of the holders of spital at the danger of bit or a boiled fowl."

jing whether nou were a stewed rah-Report was still--born. Japan has wise humdrum existence. United States should be beginning currency Inflation. Yet, in spite of

jcarried out the polley she thought it is to be hoped that the last has to take stock of the achievements of all these disquieting prospects, it

sulted her best, just as though been heard of the hoary excuse thetr new leader and should be would be altogether premature to|

there were no League. It is true that the league is but an infant. In asking themselves how the gigantic assume that the Roosevelt experi-

that Manchukoo is not to be re- the 14 years of its life it has had experiment inilisted on March 18ment is heading for disaster.

cognised internationally. If this luvjaked upon it more opportuni- working out. It is, of course, far one can expect the path to recovery

means that Manchukuo as such is ties for international action and too early to make even a tentative to be anything but thorny. Checks testing laboratory have discovered national parties, no doubt she will extated throughout the whole of Engineers in a Boston pavement not to be invited to any inter- more International goodwill than estimate of the efficacy of the heroic and complications are from the na-a new type of non-skid asphalt be able to grin and bear it. measures taken by Mr. Roosevelt to ture of things inevitable, but when

the preceding two thousand years. hit the United States out of the seen in their true perspective they vehicles to travel at a speed of 100 League turned to South America. failure are obvious, but they re- paving that will permit motor After being snubbed in Asia the The lessons of the League depths of the depression; but there should assume much lens formid. are signs that some sections of the able proportions. For the progress

miles an hour safely.

Bolivia and Paraguay, both Mem quire to be emphasised if the ener are beginning to look towards community

ber States, were engaged in one of vating habit of "leaving it to recovery already effected for concrete results, and it is cer- by Mr. Roosevelt during his first Of China's imports of flour last their usual quarrels. Following Geneva" is to be shaken off,

that before Congress ressem-seven months in office" has been year the United States supplied 57 the fashion set by the East, they

first lesson is that the in January the demand for sufficiently astonishing. His im- per cent and Australis 12 per cent, carefully refrained from admitting League is built on what, in the pre- even more radical measures will as-mense courage, hin readiness to as-while Australia furnished 60 per that it was "a state of war," for sent state of political development, sume formidable proportions unless sume almost

unparalleled respon- cent of the wheat and the United that would have given the League is complete fallacy-that an a rapid improvement in the general grudities, and his bold and fertile States 19 per cent.

en official reason for blundering in. Member States are equal. China economic condition of the country empiricism have certainly succeeded

Eventually the League decided to was the first example of this takes place in the meantime. In-in infusing a new

adopt Its usual course of sending fallacy. Cuba was another. life into the must appear strange indeed. deed it must be admitted that dur-American

(Contlaved on Page 11). people. Compared with Mr. Roosevelt, however ignorant hea Commission to the Gran Chaco. ing the past few weeks the rate of the

The latest news in that the two almost abject despondency may be of the academic teachings|

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Darkest Africa.

STUDYING AFRICAN CULTURE

And

Dar-es-Salaam.. Twenty miles from the nearest white person, alone in the depths of Central Africa, a young Ameri-

recovery has appreciably slowed which characterized the final of the economists, docs thoroughly disputants have told the League down: the vigour of the first on-months of the Hoover regime the understand the psychology of his they would rather have an inquiry slaught on the depression seems for change which has taken place in the own people; and the devices which by the Governments of Argentina, WHITE GIRL ALONE the moment to be partially exhaust-temper of the public has been little superior persons are. Inclined to

Brazil, Chile and Peru. When one ed; and it is clear that the testing short of miraculous. And this ridicule under the terms of "oop-ear in mind how little the South tlane of the huge and complicated change has already translated itself la" and "Ballyhoo" appear at any American republics lore each machinery of State regulation which into concrete results tos striking to rate to have engendered a spirit of other, this is a sad commentary on Self-Imposed Sojourn In Mr. Roosevelt has improvised has be ignored. Industrial production, war-time enthusiasm which should the futility of the League even in now arrived. The voice of criticism though it is still far short of the itself prove a valuable factor in the minor disputes. is beginning to make itself, audible prosperity level, has risen by leaps war against depression which he Turning from politics to finance among the farmers, who are not and bounds; prices have shown a has undertaken. It is this war and economics, the failure of the satisfied, in spite of the marked anbatantial recovery, and unemploy-time spirit which has enabled him South Kensington Conference increase since last year, with the ment prices of their staple products such Though the reabsorption of 6,000,- revolution in the economic struc, bothers to use the stock apology diminished, in seven months to effect a real needs no emphasis. It was so abject a failure that nobody even as wheat and.cotton. Among the 000 workers by September, which ture of American capitalism, and that "it cleared the air." industrialists also the increased was so confidently announced by has induced the most individualistic, burden of labour costs entailed by General Johnson as the immediate of nations to assent to measures of Justice And Labour the, various codes, which have been objective of the National Recovery far-reaching control. But the ques-|_ The judicial organ of the League, can girl is working hard to win a negotiated with auch surprising Administration, has not been at- tion, so vital not only to America the Permanent Court of Inter-scholarship. rapidity is already beginning to tained, the total increase in employ-but to the world at large, still re-national Justice, may be dismissed Little is known of her, except give food for serious thought. Nor ment cannot be very far short of mains: Whither in this gigantic In a few words, for it had ceased to that her surname is Mandelbaum, have the codes themselves been 3,000,000 and that is no small experiment leading? Is it to pres-be taken seriously. Ever since its and that she has exiled herself for brought into action without creat-achievement. Meanwhile, in spite perity, or to the abyss of currency decision on the legality of an Aus- year in the African bush so as ing a certain amount of disturbance of immense difficulties, Mr. Rooss-ination and economic collapse? tro-German Zollverein it has been to make a first band study of between the relations of capital and velt claims to have succeeded in And here the experience of the past utterly discredited as an impartial African culture in the hope of labour, and strikes have taken bringing something like eighty per may be no sure guide, to prediction. tribunal, The question was re-winning a scholarship. 2 place in many parte of the country cent. of the industry of the country The economic and financial conferred to it before the prosent Miss Mandelbaum has gained the lover disputes arising out of their within the framework of hinditions in the world are so unpres Hitler regime. When Judgment complete confidence of the local

interpretation.. Moreover It is "codes," including the coal industry, cedented that it would be rash to was given it could not be concealed tribes, widely admitted even in Govern- where opposition threatened to be-venture any dogmatic assertion, that the opinions of the different

She lives in a native hut, where ment circles that the Increase in come really serious, and the auto- Where there is no certainty thera judgen were in line with the for she can be seen bending over her purchasing power, which the rain-mobile industry, where. Mr. Ford can at least be hope, Mr. Roosevelt eign policy of their respective books, with an African girl attend- ing of wages and the diminution of still appears to be maintaining ahas undertaken a gigantic task with countries. The man in the street lig to her wants. the hours of labour was intended kind of passive resistance. The immense courage, and he has dis-refuses to believe that this was a When he desires companion to effert, has so far failed to result problem of the weaker banks has played a singular freedom from pre-mera coincidence,

ship, her only resort is to associate

In any proportionato revival in the also been attacked under the de-conceived notions which has enabled As for the League's Inter with the people of the tribes among demand for commodities. Hence on posit guarantee law with the aid of him so for to adopt a frankly ex-antional Labour Office, that body is whom she lives.

all sides there is a growing demand the Reconstruction Finance Corpora perimental attitude. In an in-now dithering before the chros It These simple people answer her for direct currency inflation, and tion, though it must be admitted that credibly short time be has set in has itself helped to create

questions politely,

this is likely to be intensified great financial opinion is still far from motion great and unpredictable! It was instituted to safeguard They think it strange for her to ly when Congress meetain three being convinced of the soundness forces. Will he be able to direct the standards of living in advanced have to work so hard, but evidently months' time: So far Mr. Roose of this procedure. All this has and control them? That is the Industrial countries by raising the wish her well, velt has declined to make use of the been accomplished with a magnifie question to which not only the standards in backward countries, Miss Mandelbaum's nearest Inflationary powers conferred on him cent disregard of all the known United States but also the other so decreasing the handicap of low white neighbour lives 20 miles. by the Thomas amendment to the canons of orthodox economics and nations of the world are anxiously wages and employment standards away-at a small British Govern- Farm Bill But how long will he be by methods, which to European eyes awaiting the answer.

In International competition. In: ment post-Reuter,