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Lord Grey is condemned for his indecisiveness during the period bo- tween Sarajevo and the outbreak of 'the war.

The ex-Kaiser is described as a

Eighteen months ago only two many in the end.", And the drama The title has changed hands public men actively associated with is sustained.

European war Inevitably there Are passages twice since the war-in 1921, when the conduct of the

had not written their memoirs which have already been worn thin Senor Capablanca wrested it from They were M. Briand and Mr. by the tread of ather writers. It

is the one drawback to be Dr. Lasker at Havana, and in 1927, Lloyd George. when M. Alckhine defeated. Capa-| Both had had considerable ex against te advantage of having the blanca at Buenos Aires.

perience of journalism. Both were last word. Mr. Lloyd George, how- Now Herr Boguljubow has chal-considered to be incapable of the ever, succeeds in stamping his in- lenged the present holder to sustained effort required for the dividuahty on almost every page.

next writing of a book. championship match early

M. Briand has There is no boastfulness. But Idied with his task unattempted. even In this first volume, which A Master's Career

With the publication of the first takes us up to the end of 1915, he This la Boguljubow's second at-volume of his War Memolys on stands out not only the man of vi-

but

the

who tempt on the title. He played September 7 Mr. Lloyd George hassion

with made his contribution to history. from the first moment is pressing peripatetic series of game

has and Hol- This volume Alekhine in

curious for action and for a more vigorous Germany land four years ago, and was de- geneRIS. After the war Mr. Lloyd prosecution of the War.

munificent Since then he is George received many

Valuable Judgments cisively defeated.

trained

They considered to have

un offers to write his memoirs.

prosé, There is, too, much fine well. Recently he won the cham-came to nothing. He was busy with with metaphors and similes

making a large miscent of his best war speeches. planship of Germany, where he is pohtics. He was

Like Income 18 z journalist. Nothing! But more valuable to the historian now a naturalised subject. Alekhine, he abandoned his Rus-Geemed more certain than that ho are his judgments on his contem- They are admirably con- sian nationality or account of the would postpone the effort until paranes.

cise. Sometimes they are severe. restrictings imposed on his travels.]was too late.

One day General Smuts, an old Always they are illuminated by He wan born in the Ukraine.! nearly became a priest, and start-and privileged friend, buttonhaled typical "1. G." flashes.

We see Lord Kitchener ed playing serious chens as long him. "L. G.," he said gravely, "the

will not be strength and weakness-a mixture ngo as 190G, His real mastering history of this war

But

jof sagacity and opacity. of the gane dates from the war, written for 50 years or mors.

Castelnau, 3 favourite of the during the whole of which he was the memoirs which are being writ

the interned in a prison camp at Tristen now will be the historians' raw author, is shown reading out material. You have been attacked. ¡lists of the killed to his staff. every reason to continue and to ex-berg.

If you say nothing in your own de morming the list contains the same pand the Bystem of bilateral agree-

fence, judgment will go by default."jof his own "BOB. There is a cutch which ments with those countries

Your Daily Smile

Mr. Lloyd George made up his in the throat before the name Char- mind. He began to coliate his huge les Castlennu passes his lips. Then Hong Kong, Turkday, October 24, 1933 are ready to negotiate, and to con- sider the question of the moAt-

A man. had just had his first mass of documents. He told me of the soldier reads on calmly to the favoured-nation sinuse in relation 10 game of golf and returned to the his decision to write his War end. this new poles. These steps are club house flushed with pride. Memoirs, and agreed that I could. Britain's Problems.

rendered more rather than less neces;] "What was your score?” asked #

Remarkable Index The return of the Prime Minissary by the favourable character of fellow member.

replied the

That was four and a half years; ter and of most of his Cabinet col-the most recent Trade returns. These leagues to London is a fitting ixca-returns show, indeed, that in the past three months oversex trade was

That's jolly are. Since then much has happen weak, fussy and egotistical person pro- on tu review some of those

Lloyd George has undergone a better than last year; but there is blems which will now once again

and overrode all his subordinates; still much ledway to make up if 1933

"It's not ko bað.“ agreed the serious operation. There has been who, at critical moments, overawed followed by the and the weakness, and the fussiness, confront the Government as

as a whole ja to be, better than 1932, jnovice, “but I'm hoping to do better a nutional crisis in these Ministers

formation whole.

and the overriding egaliem are And more stl before the volume of

ment. The actual writing has been cemented into history with a docu- Tannot in the nature of things

trade enn be considered in any way

lurt 18 accomplished

ment revealed here for the first time. jeupe from their tasks even

satisfactory. The fact that certain

period he has months. In that

It is the ex-Kniser's marginalia to technically on buliday, and, as some markets are temporarily unpropi- lot them have rightly taken occasion |tions makes til mure newssary 10 The speaker had been droning

written a total of 285,000 words-

The Metternich report on the can Volume 1. Volume One, or that species, few to remark in event

(versations with Mr. Lloyd George spare no efforts to consolidate and fun for half an hour and showed no A guest silting intrigor of ceasing. if any

Two, which will be published this! of these problems can

Britain's position to improve

near was nodding drowsily. A allotted so definite a duration or others. The devotion of so large a

Home 30,000 words of and Sir Edward Grey in 1908 for month, and

ļa cessation of Anglo-German naval 1.0 econo- gentle tap from the toastmaster's volume Three, on which he is now the world of #scope that a neat and

įcompetition. precise

part can be found for

nationalism has speedy solution

naturally hammer roused him slightly, but actively engaged. Moreover, · Volums || mie

One has been written and rewritten. There are few indeed which

Britain compelled

to take ape- he soon dropped off again,

wielded can even be considered without re-cial steps for the protection of toastmaster hastily

For the speed with which he has gard to events in and to the views its home market, but nobody except hammer once more,

been able to carry out his work Mr.from a volume which is full of Ane owes much to his things and which holds out promise "Harder murmured the drowsy Lloyd George

Lloyd George's of other countries; and though this! a fanatic would pretend that great-

I can still secretaries.

At Churt, where he of better to come. British absolve

combative. restlers furt does not

energy; his er care of the home market involves one. "Hit me horder.

In hear him."

does most of his writing, there is a struggle for a solution of the war Government from the duty of put disregard of markets oversća. ting forward a definite policy of ideed the improvement in oversen

large filing cabinet. It contains a The Clarion Call

marvellously complete index of all in the East; his quarrel with the soldiers over the Western stalemate: own, it does make armchair criti-trade has undoubtedly contributed

An indis- cism of the actions of the Governo the Improvement on what may

this fight for shells at the Ministry "So you want to be a champion his War documents.

Is ment possess even less than 18 nor-be called the home front. Ministers

borer, sht Let's hear you yell, feretion by Clemenceau; a complaint af Munitions-the whole story mally low value. The problem with may well be encouraged by the con-|

foul!" is continuance

of the decline in un- which the Prime Minister cerned-namely, the work of the employment, and by the satisfe Disarmament Conference--olfers tory showing of the revenue re very good example both of the op-turns: though the total portunities open to and of the limi- unemployed is still colossal and the tations imposed by events upon the reduction of taxation, which would British Government. It is worth do so much to reduce that total, is

Never-jeye on recalling at this stage not only that still by no means assured. Britain in the matter of disarma-theless

over 700,000 persons have teeth now." ment has itself gone, as Sir John found employment since this time]

Facts You Did Not Bimon has said, "to the edge of last year, and such an improvement risk," but also that the British when so many factors have been

Know. Government has prepared the Draft working against any improvement

In this connection. there is a Convention which is the present at all does give ground for a rea-

story to tell. A year ago I hap pabulum of the Conference. No one soned optimism. Finally, events Signs have been invented in can doubt that the example thus since the adjournment of Parlia Europe in which the letters appear pened to comment at a dinner party given in practice and la precept will ment have strikingly confirmed the tor to pieces and then reassemble on Lloyd George's illegible hand be followed by unremitting efforte vlow that a National Government is themselves, the parts of the letters writing. Lord Beaverbrook was to secure some measure of agree-sulll as essential to the national being mounted on revolving diska. present. He pulled me up. "You're stances which must have diminished viously dangerous days of 1981. All

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The Allrounder "Ma, you said the baby had your eyes and Daddy's nose, didn't you?"

"Yes, darling." "Well, you'd better keep your him he's got Grandpa's

led.

of a National

during the

Govern-

against Kitchener scribbled by Lord. Carson during a Cabinet meeting;

May Be Fifth Volume Space forbids me to quole further

There, tald with a vigour which makes

the

a striking personal tribute by Mr. one regret that to-day, when

country's need of leadership is Asquith. He pulls a drawer, und

(Continued on Page 11). there is the record with date and greater than ever, the author is not

place before his eyes.

He owes, too, something to his two typists, who alone of living mortals con decipher his mánu. seript. When they fall he has to Ire-write the passage, being unable| Ito decipher his own handwriting,

Writes lu Bed

wrong," he said.

20 years younger.

CAPTURED WOLF BARE-HANDED

10-Year-Old Shepherd's Feat In Yugo-Slavia.

"DARED TO STEAL SHEEP**

Belgrade. Bogomir Jovanovitch, a 10-

ment even in the shadow of circum-wolfars as it was in the more ob- The California inventor of a new To prove it be produced several year-old shepherd boy, will long

*

the hopes of any large, immediate, the signs both of increasing hope motion picture projector claims that letters written to him by Mr. Lloyd remember with pride the day and general reduction of armaments, and of perstating difficulties which it produces twice as much illumina George. The writing was clear and when he caught a full-grown These circumstances, the adverse have already been tabulated show tion with the same expenditure of legible. But Lloyd George with a wolf with his bare hands.

pen, and Lloyd George with A While watching his flock in the character of which it would be use that the unfettered empiricism of electricity as standard profectors,

stumpy pencil which he never mountains near Kurshumllja he less to deny, may be said to have the Government has secured a rela-

Apparatus that simulates the con- sharpens are different men. And saw what he took to be a dog given the Conference even greater tively greater degree of economic ditions encountered by aviators at the manuscript of his memoirs, entering the sheep pen. Importance as the best immediate stability in Britain than anywhere

He crawled to the pen and, ap- chance open to the world of avoiding in the world and, at the same time, great heights is being used in a written in bed between the hours of a reversion to the rece in arma-that the need for united national German laboratory for studies of five and eight, am, is all in pencil, proaching the animal silently, ments, which has once thrown and effort in every field is undiminish-linesses caused by high altitudes, The illustration which accompanies found to his surprise that it was

this article is suficient indication a wolf. would again throw it into chaos. ed. Moreover nobody can study

Now young Bogomir's father The second' problem of which the either the recent proceedings of the the desire of both for unfettered of the difficulties of his typist...

With the exception of his little was a great hunter, and he Government will have to resume Trades Union Congress or the re-power and the conviction, singular-

had told the boy that if you consideration is the possibility of ports presented by the Exsentively unsupported by past history or volume on reparations this is his

loose skin of its back it can do socuring some measure of economic Committee of the Labour Party: to by new arguments, that they would first book. At seventy he has catch a dog or a wolf by the and monetary co-operation.. Here the party Conference without per-use it well. The absence of any learnt a new trade. How, bas be

you no harm. again events since the adjournment ceiving the confusion of those who alternative Government, le not by mastered It?

The revelations in the book will Wolf or dog, it was all the of the World Economic Conferetoe alone fervently desire a return to itself a strong argument for sup have not developed favourably in party government. The Labour porting an existing Government, be the subject of bitter controversy. same to Bogomir. He flung him. the sense that it would now be Party itself seems much more clear but in this pass it crowns and con- They will damage more than one re-self on the animal and held on opportune to resume the Conference about Its desire for the complete arms the impression of unshaken putation. My concern is more with to it until friends, hearing his. which important nations found to supremacy of the party caucus than strength derived from an examing the manner of the writing. Let it shouts, came to his help and Asked whether he was not be inopportune three months ago. about how the details of its policy tion of the past achievements, and be said at once that as a narrative bound it with ropes,

The prospect of world-wide agree would work, and the Trades Union present efforts of the National the book is first-class reading.. ment, pasconomie policy must be Congress appeared very little en Government Ministers may con- It opens dramatically with Lord frightened when he saw the wolf, remote, but the necessity of pro-amoured of this kind, of, political finns their work untnranged at Rosebery's comment on the an Bogomir replied: "I think it was

dictatorship mieting Seepromley

Nothing, definitsem- least by any fear that the country nouncement of the Anglo-French mad to dare try stealing my döss brit still"wide area become

pant, or Prospective desires change in the character Entente in 1904. "You are a sheep in broad daylight,-Beu-- wrong. It means

Gerster, "body, erbept of that Governmeát.

portionatel