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The British Commercial Coun-1 sellor at Shanghai, in his report which was recently published, | vividly describes a lottery which! had the unusual object

Chinese Air strengthening the Force. He writes:

of

́THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1934.

"HURRAH FOR THE FASCISTS

WOULD PUT NEW LIFE

INTO POLITICS

GIVING BRITISH YOUTH A CHANCE

Because

(By Viscount Rothermere.)

London.

"The course of the recent camp-; aign against the Japanese In Jehol

What are these Blackshirts who when Chinese troops, fighting on

Fascism comes from hold 500 meetings a week through- the most favourable ground, were completely routed by aerial attacks, Italy, shortsighted people in this out the country and whose uniform has filled all clanses of Chinese country think they show a sturdy has become so familiar a feature of with an overwhelming desire for national spirit by deriding it. our politica! Ho? un efficient air force of their own. If their ancestors had been equal- They fall mainly into two distinct All over China, and in Chinese ly stupid. Britain would have had age-groups. One consists of those communities abroad, subscriptions no banking system, no Roman law, part in the war, and have been dia- have been raised for the purchasonor even any football, since all of couraged and disgusted by the in- of military aircraft.

these are of Italian invention. competence of their elders in deal- "And with the same end in view The Socialista, especially, who ing with the depression that has the Ministry of Finance has re-jeer at the principles and uniform followed on it. The other is made

Blackshirts cently organised huge State of the

as being of up of men too young to remember lottery for the promotion of air foreign origin, forget that the the war but ready to put all their ways and highways. Half the pro-founder and High Priest of their ardour and energy at the service of ceeds are to go to the Government, own creed was

the German Jew a cause which offers them a vigor- and the remainder is divided up in Karl Marx.

ous constructive policy in place of of the drift and indecision of the old prizes.

Though the name and form "So great has been the success Fascism originated in Italy, that political parties. of the first venture, appealing as it movement is not now peculiar to Blackshirts proclaim a fact which dating from pre-war dues both to the patriotism and the any nation. It stands in every politicians

will never face that love of gambling of the people, that country for the Party of Youth. It days

new age requires new it has been decided to hold four represents the effort of the younger the such lutteries every year."

generation to put new life into out-methods and new men. They base their contention on the simple of-date political systema.

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The monster cult seems

spreading round the world.

gaining in respectability as it goes,

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That alone is enough to make it a truth that parliamentary govern- ba factor of immense value in our na- ment is conducted on the same lines as it was in the eighteenth century, and tional affairs,

Youth is a force that for genera-though the conditions with which to it deals have altered beyond 1- Recently, a new member of the tions has been allowed to run

Britain. This country cognition. They want to bring our clan appeared in the B.B.C. news waste in

back national administration up to date. This purpose does not rest ΟΙ of three or four separate Govern-bulletin. A gentleman gave a hair-¡has been governed since far The China Mail

ment Departments; and for two raising description of one that had in Victorian times by men in the

been sighted on Boxing Day in middle sixties. When prosperity theory alone. It can be justified by gigantic revival of national years Stavisky played with it as

Sicily,

was general and the international the Hong Kong. Thursday, Feb. 15, 1921. he liked, while Cabinets came

feet It was over fifteen

long, horizon calm, that mattered little, strength and spirit which a similar land, went. With passing of the

of modernisation has in Italy and Ger- Chautemps and Daladier Govern-struck the peasants dumb, and was but to cope with the grim problems process

of of the present day the energy and brought about Political Unrest

ments, M. Doumergue has con-hunted by a special party, one vinced that he intends to carry whose members fired two barrels at vigour of younger men are needed. many.

New Spirit Imperative Being myself in the middle sixties, out the most comprehensive and it.

These are beyond all doubt the Like all good monster it then dis-I know how stealthily and steadfly

antions in Europe Two Governments have fallen searching investigation that is

without that seventh decade saps one's pow best-governed and the position of a third has possible, and to take action swift-appeared into its swamp,

to-day. era and stiffens one's prejudices.

From repented visita been imperilled through the exly and ruthlessly upon the facts having its picture taken.

Under the inert and irresolute both under their present regime, I plosion of

control of these elderly statesmet, can vouch for it that in no other a major financial disclosed. He has now reiterat- scandal, The Stavisky affair. ed his pledge to this effect..

An unusually large number of the British Government is equally land does the over-whelming major- however, has features of its own Friends of France will hope that which place it in a separate class, he rides out the storm. Now bunyips are being sighted in Ads-without real popularity at home and ity of the people feel such confidence

prestige abroad. In the vital mat and pride in its rulers. and which have infuriated the that the general strike is ended,tralia.

If our own aystem of government nation to a degree that is re-ja return to normalcy appears

These monsters, which are dan ter of air-defence this country has!

Ben-serpents/been allowed to sink from the foreware reorganised in the same way, flected in the agitation at the probable. Political stability in

gerous, and resemble

to most to the lowest position among and full scope accorded to the en- Every France is a European interest.

with lions' heads, are belleved centre of public life.

ergy and enterprise of British party in the Chamber has

live in water-holes and deep river the Great Powers. While the lead- pools in the interior. They preferers of ather States are reorganising youth, this country would soon re- its own store of ammunition to

to break gain its old position of world' pre- Jexpend against the Government.

very dark pools, overshadowed by their national resources

the crushing grip of the world-eminence. With our present out. or other parties, or the police, m

eucalyptus trees.

There was another Australian crisis, our own are content to drift worn machinery of State and feeble the civil administration, or the

are persistent

personnel of Government the con- The possibility that an Anglo- Republican regime under which

only in preparing British abdica- nuance of its decline is certain. citing time. such things can happen. Every French trade war may be avoid-monster which had an unusually ex- and dawdle. They

in India and Ceylon by the party, too, is uncasily conscious ed and that negotiations may

It was supposed to live in Lake Lion be commenced for a new that further revelations may soon quite possibly involve members commercial treaty provides most George, near Canberra, and made a same methods as lost Southern Ire

terrible roaring noise, which many land to the Empire.

Movement Makes Progress of its own body in discredit or welcome news. The new severe

people heard.

The Blackshirt movement is thei The Blackshirts are the only po suspicion. In such an atmos-cut in the British Quotas came phere of excitement last week's into effect on January 1. This

organised effort of the younger gen litical force in Britain that is work. Even If they eration to break this stranglehold ing for these ends. grave riots and bloodshed occur-has been engaging the close at

which senile politicians have so were on the wrong lines, it would ired. The exasperating novelty tention of the British Govern-caped,

and a Note of protest.

long maintained on our public of-be to the benefit of the country that of the Stavisky affair may be ment,

Facts You Did Not

fairs. In Ita organisation, aims. its younger citizens should be tak indicated by the single fact that drawn up in the strongest terms,

Know.

and methods it is purely British, ing an active interest in national this man. whose plundering of was sent almost immediately to

and has no more to do with Italien affairs. But which of our older· investors and of State funds was Lord Tyrrell for transmission to carried out by an adroit use of the French Government: The

Employes of an eight story, 1000 Fascism than the Italian Navy has politicians, looking back on his own: record, dare assort that they are on the machinery of the public ad- anxieties of British exporters in car garage in San Francisco ride to to do with the British Navy,

not only a this matter are faithfully re-and from the upper floors by stand- Such an effort was long overdue. the wrong lines? ministration, was rogue with a record of convic-flected in the statement issued tions, but was actually in process by the Federation of British In-ing on platforms attached to an The nation's realisation of the need Government by one or other of endless belt, ramps instead of for it is shown by the astonishing the long-established political partice of being prosecuted on a further dustries. The Grand Council elevators being used for the auto-progress the Blackshirts are mukhad proved such a failure that over serious charge during the whole found that £8,000,000 of British. mobiles.

ing, especially in the big industrial two years ago it was abandoned.

To it Ebere succeeded an artificial" of the time that he was market-trade is imperilled by the French

areas. Reports that reach me from ing fraudulent bonds to the tune cut of 75 per cent. in the quotas, Carried by a motor truck, a tele-the provinces go far to substantiate alliance of the leaders of all parties.. of millions sterling. How he was and they unanimously called able to obtain the long succession upon the British Government to scoping tower that can be elevated their claim to have the largest sc- The record of this merger of polis of adjournments of his case, take the most effective retaliatory to a height of 30 feet by a tive membership: in the country. A tical talent consists almost solely of hydraulic jack has been placed in crusading spirit has come back to a series of abortive International which has never been tried, is action, at least to the extent of service at Milan, Italy, for repair-British politics. Yet many people conferences In this country and one of the questions awaiting ex- the damage inflicted, unless they ing electric power lines and street who would be vastly impressed by abroad.

OF a similar movement in France If "discussion" and "exchange of planation Why the prosecuting could secure an early withdrawal

lights. authorities allowed this without of these highly injurious mea-

the United States have so far fail-views" were an effective substitute with- protest is,,another. There are cures. If they are now

Virtually circular in form, aled to realise the profound impor-in human affairs for action, the Na- many more; but the essence of drawn, and the British Quotes

by ■ Chicago Lance of the new national activity tional Government would be the best. restored, as the United house invented

(Continued on Page 13.) the matter is that Stavisky, durare

Recently Lake George dried up. The fish died, but the monster es

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Ing the two years that he was States Quotas have been within architect has glass walls that are which is stirring all around them. living like a prince on stolen the last few days, the way will supported with the second floor money, was not merely "known be cleared for the renewal of the and roof from girders radiating to the police," but under their negotiations for a new general from a central steel mast net in a special supervision as an accused commercial treaty, which were concrete slab that forms the first person with a criminal record. threatened with serious inter floor. There has never been anything ruption, Both countries equally

quite like this, before; and the desire such a treaty: The re-frame of mind from that in comparing of Stavisky with quest came from France early in which she talks tariffs with, say, Kreuger and others does scant 1982, and was recently renewed: Germany or Italy. The new justice to the unparalleled im- but it is no less desired in Bri-conversations must begin with a pudence displayed on the one tain. The diplomatic Instrument more reasonable and a truer hand in this case, and the in-governing Anglo-French commer-perspective. Britain, desires as credible laxity on the other.cial relations is hopelessly out of much trade as possible with There is one point that the date. The conditions of 1882 Franco, but only on fair Chautamps Ministry is entitled are quite obsolete to-day. The terms Nor, considering the to plead if it will. If political most favoured-nation clause has complementary character of the responsibility is to be pushed been in fact reduced of recent commodities of Anglo-French ex- home to its logical conclusions it years, more especially since the change, would an impartial third- Es not only that Ministry but era of Quates and surtaxes set party arbitrator find a fair bar- some half-dozen of its predeces in to a most unsatisfactory and gain difficult to strike, "If the sors that are involved. The perplexing condition. France, start can be made without pre- elaborate administrative machine indeed, has not yet fully forgiven vious threat of retaliatory mea ry which was supposed to guar Great Britain for abandoning, sures and on the basis of the anted the soundness of municipal Free Trade, and she enters into státus, quo of 1933, Itself nons pawnshop.bondati is, under the commercial discussion with too favourable to Grast Britain, supervision, at different points. Britain in a rather different the prospects of success should

be reasonably bright

We must keep up with the spirit

national discipline and organisa tion.

of the age. That spirit is one of

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