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SATURDAY FEBRUARY

WOMEN DIPLOMATS

OF NOTE

"THE LADIES PEACE MADE AT CAMBRAT

(By Helena Normanton.)

London.

.

Mme. de Stael was 'considered to The appointment of an official have a great to do with the exer- committee of eight to review and cise of his official functions, just report on the question whether as the consummate diplomatist of woomen should be admitted to the all time. Talleyrand, made full Diplomatic and Consular Services juse of the great talents of his

niece, the Duchess de Dino. is announced

This article shows that the con- Coming to our own day, apart cession, if mode, will introduce no from England's use of Gertrude new practice.

Bell in Irak, other Powers, great jand small, have.formally accredit- The famous "Hind" Collection

"An Ambassador," anid Sirled various women to foreign Courts disposed of in New York, has real-: ised for the American portion alone Henry-Wootton, "is a man sent to land Governments. £47,270.

lie abroad for the good of his coun-

Such synicism has pursued the

This degree of stamp-conscious-try." news among the American people is not surprising. The practice of diplomatic profession all down the philately is so silent, so sedentary, centuries.. The war period un- 80 meditative.

įloosed and even stronger brand of America's pastimes are not often criticism, which culminated in Pre- sident Wilson's famous demand for distinguished by these qualities.

"open conclusions openly arrived jat"; the implication being that the! pre-war diplomacy had been an un- derlying cause of the dire conflict.

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Spain And The Vatican

The long series of post-war con-| ferences, usually terminated by an

Years ago the Russian Soviet Government sent Mme. Kollontai to Sweden.

In 1925, the U. S. A. appointed Miss Lucille Atcheson to the Le- gation at Berue.

Mile. Stancioff was present at Paria during the drafting of the Treaty of Versalles voy from Bulgaria.

as an ea~-

President Franklin Roosevelt inst year sent Mrs. Ruth Bryan Owen as Ambassador to the Court of Denmark.

It seems that history is silent.as

It is learned that the new Spanish Government will shortly resume of arms, friendly diplomatic relations with: the Vatican.

Since the fall of the monarchy adjournment because of insufficient to any justification for the exclu- official contact between the Republic preparation beforehand, has made sion of women from practical Di

little dubious.as toplomacy, and to a large extent and the Holy See has been broken] us all now a of The post of Spanish Ambas-the efficacy of the Wilsonian pre-supports their claim to enter the Linguistic abilities, sador to the Papal court has been scription. The world is returning profession.

again to the very surprising idea tact, political flair and judgment, vacant.

that that a profession is perhaps best combined with great discretion. It is expected in Madrid

now be offered to practised by those who have been have never been the monopoly of this post will

ope sex. Queen Elizabeth fur jone sense the new instruments Senor Sanchez Albornoz. He was properly trained in it.

Women Ambassadors Of Note

nishes in her own person a notable. have widened the astronomical Foreign Minister in the Barrios

With this revival of favour to-example to the contrary. The widow and children of the horizon. in another they have Cabinet.

Notorions Rules Of Exclusion late José Maria de Castro Basto narrowed it. When telescopes The first duty of the new envoy wards an old profession, there is

The exclusion of Englishwomen tender their thanks to the many were smaller no one dreamed will be to negotiate a Concordat now to be coupled an Inquiry into friends for their kind expression of that stars would be counted by defining the respective rights of the desirability of readmitting wo from Diplomacy and the Consular Service rests upon a misconception sympathy and also for their atten- hundreds of billions. On the Church and State in the Spanish men to-the Diplomatic Service. dance at the funeral.

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

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True, the terms of reference of history, fact and law, which other hand, astronomers talked Republic.

laid down by th Foreign Secre-finally enshrined itself in full glory confidently of infinity, as if be-

tary speak of "the question of in the notorious regulations under yond the last new frontier there

the admission of women."

the Sex Disqualification (Removal), was another and another without!

This is in the usual-if not the Act of 1919. If Cllo wept thereat, jend. We recognize the Milky Famous Last Words

best-vein of dealing with women's doubtless Melpomene smile! Roadmender (lo male): "'ll

To remove

sex disqualifications pant services to the State. Is the as but one of many; Hong Kong, Saturday, Feb. 24, 1934. Way now

slick the spike in the concrete and great name of Gertrude Bell and by inventing some fresh ones was "universes" small, insignifi-

hold. When I' nod cant nebula spinning like a pin-hit it with the hammer."

my head you her work for our country in Irak no mens feat of the Parliament of already so dimmed by the passing that date. The operative regula- wheel around some dust-obscur-

of the few years since her death? tions..were, ed Sun of Suns in 220 million.

Sa soon forgotten? Look up at the stars. In the

years. Far out in space are Milky Way alone there are 170 other Milky Ways known and un- billion, according

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CITY CRAFT A fellow paid £3 38. for a hat for Opera In The Doldrums his secretary-and then entered it

as overhead charges.

Sir Thomas Beecham, who has!

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The Difference

"I say," said one of the

his "Yes, once," said tankard-holder,

window."

name

to that for which Ambas- adora were formally appointed In

later timea.

France and Renaissance Venica ware the two States in which Diplomacy may be said to have had men its very cradle. It is to the dea- the patches of the various. Venetian

backed Ambassadors that the historian

fellow unrecorded elsewhere.

"The Civil Service Commis- sioners hereby give notice that; with the approval of the Lords Commissioners of his Majesty's Treasury, they made the follow- ing regulations under the Order in Council of the 22nd July,

1920:

"1. (On behalf of the Secro- lary of State for Foreign Af- faira):

"All posts in the Diplomatic Service and in the Consular Ser- vices are reserved to mon.

2. (On behalf of the Secre- tary of State for the Colonies):

"All posts in the Government Services of the Colonies and Pro- tectorates to which appointments are made in the United Kingdom other than posts for which wo men may be specially recruited, are reserved to men.

"B. (On behalf of the Secre- tary of State for India):

(Continued on Page 6).

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in the old romantic days of devoted a good many years of his haphazard exploration, no hoping life and a good many hundreds that an unknown planet will of thousands of pounds of his gathered round the bar in swim into the astronomer's ken. fortune to propagating opera in village inn, "have you over It is the camera and not the eye England, declared to the Incor- horse?" that has revealed the 170 billion porated Society of Musicians, in

It is, therefore, of considerable suns of the Milky Way. Obser- his vivacious way, that opera in

"Did you win or lose " ́asked the Importance to recall that In the Ivatories are now laboratories.] Britain was a "wash-out," and

sixteenth century the French Am- Their work is planned.. Novac advised ambitions singers to rat interestedly.

of some make their careers abroad. Not The other grimaced as he recol-bassador to Venice was a Madame specialty

Delahaye-Vagtelaye. are. the

Contempor watchers new stars which sud-with any view of underrating a lected the incident.

"Well," he replied," "I lost five aneously a noble lady, the Countess denly flare up and which, accord-problem that bristles with dif-

TWO GOOD COMEDIANS ing to Professor Zwicky, may that the operatic position in Eng

ficulties, it may be pointed out pounds. I backed him into a shop Claude de Clermont, was appointed to receive, on behalf of the Crown account for the cosmic rays: land, unsatisfactory though it is,

of France, the Ambassadors sent

"Hello Hong Kong", Henry Bel- Double stars that revolve around is no worse than it has often Sunday Afternoon Thought for by Poland to announce that the ift's All-American Broadway Re- each other to the vast delight of been before, and in some res- Some Husbands

Duc d'Anjou had been elected King rue, which made ita debut in Hong when of that country.

Kong last night at the Queen's mathematicians engage, the at-pects, indeed, shows signs of Money talks

In the early part of the next cen- Theatre, proved an outstanding suce tention of others. Temperatures real promise. The Vic-Wells you have married it.

tury France continued her diplocess and is probably one of the best and luminosities measured in 'de-Opera ts-with all its limitations

matic practice by sending as Am-performances of its type we have grees of an appalling number-an institution with a settled

bassador to Poland a lady named yet witnessed in the Cology, and in candlepowers that cannot home and a loyal public. Then

the Marechale de Guebriant. come when

The company provided light en- be grasped are studied by still a the time must

All this was in the old French tertainment, especially the two the B B. C.. will tackle kind are unked what is behind opera as decisively as it has taccased. In concrete, cable con- tradition. The Emperor Charles comedians Moran and Wiser, who third group. Questions of a new

kled the lesser problem of the dults have been laid under a Sany, and Francis L. were at war from kept the house in roars of laughter that relation of star-light and symphony orchestra The old Francisco bay channel that are ex- 1520 to 1529, when the Treaty of in "Hats, Hats, Hats." star-size which Eddington dis- foundations of operatic institu-pected to serve the needs of the Cambral was, negotiated for and Robert Rhodes in "Down in covered and which constitutes tions are insecure in nearly all community for a century, one of the great triumphs of in-countries. In Berlin as in Rome

especially

Facts You Did Not Know.

dustion? If the outer rebulae in Paris as in New York, direc-An airplane beacon visible 160 are rushing away at the rate of tors and impresarios are very miles will be placed on top of 12,000 miles a second, is it safe far from being care-free, Not tower 2,800 feet high French an- to conclude that with the 200 peculiar to England is the pro-gineers are planning to erect on inch mirror even remoter ones blem of saving the masterpieces 500 foot hill near Parls, will be discovered which are still of opera in a changing world. Sir

drafted by, Louise of Bavoy, and the Dixieland" deserves special Princess Margaret, aunt of Charles tion for his unusual merit in ex- y-hence the alternative title of pression and vocal ability. He waS Treaty of Cambrai "The Ladies' heartily encored for his rendering of that popular "Show Boat" song "O!"" Peace,"

Louis XVI-le roi Soleil Man River." systematically excluded French Hello Hong Kong" Improves as women from great offices of it goes on, and is well worth seeing. State The French Revolution The stage effects were excellent and was a further blow to them, by far the best we have suem. In the its setting aalde by Napoleon Colony,

Thomas Beecham chose to em- For washing dishes a rotary speedier? Is it possible to reach is the difficulties. We look brush in which soap can be inserted the very confines of spaceThis to him on a day of brighter has been invented to be attached to is the end. Beyond there is weather to divine some of the kitchen sink faucets and revolved about completed the process, How Matinos performances are to be nothing, not even space. Will saving possibilities in an inex tain and jungle regions inhabited ever, when M. de Stael was Am given on Sunday and the astronomer ever say that? In haustible world.

lby the flowing water,

bassador at the Court of Sweden, 5.30 pm::