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Clouds Over Vienna

The renewal of Nazi activity In Austria denarms recent. predic-

Dr. Dollfuss's position is becom- ing Increasingly difficult, not only because of the strength of the Nazis, but because of the increas- ing insistence of Prince Starhem- berg, the Heimwehr leader, active measures for their suppres- sion

Prince

on

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1934.

THE

RETURN FROM INDUSTRIALISM

AGRICULTURAL POLICY DURING TRANSITION

POPULATION SCARES

(By J. B. Firth.)

London. 1 be undertaken, absorbing

vast

A long time ago a famous Greek numbers of the unemployed, on the arhemberg's aim is philosopher summed up his general single condition that their labour clear

believes that a pro-conclusion of the world about him was offered on the same sort of be subsistence basis as the labour of two words, which may longation of the present situation (in must end in a Nazi triumph. He translated; in modern idiom. into the smallholder.

is in trans!-

Industry's Decline wishes to anticipate it-by- forcing four-"Everything

The idea is that if the usual Dr. Dollfuss to establish a Fascist tion." state.

Transition seems still to be the Labour stipulation of payment on The Nazis are making capital key-word of all the philosophers, trade-union terms were abandoned or a huge acreage could be prepared out of the Austrian anemployment economic.

for occupation and possession by a gures. Although slightly lower artistic.

of new subsistence than this time last year, they still On all sides we are being adjuredj multitude amount to 336.000. Moreover, they to flee from the wrath to come, or agriculturists, recruited from the went up by nearly 20,000 two alternatively to repair our house mass of those who are permanently weeks, recently.

.

-

Strong Man At Hebu

Major Fer belleves in action and

socini,

political,

against the approaching hurricane.{put out of industrial employment by The latest recruit to the prophets the decline of large-scale industrial- of woe is Lord Eustace Percy, who. lsm.

Lord

aro no

in his book ("Government in Tran- Here we come to what I consider The appointment of Major Fey sition": Methuen, 7s. 6d.), declares the heart of the book. the "strong man" of the Dollfuss his "conviction of the imminence of Eustace believes that for this coun- Cabinet. to command the army cataclysm and of the world's un-try the era of excessive industrial- gendarmerie and police shows the

ismi, it was before the great de-

Not be seriousness of the political situa-preparedness for it."

He admits the phrase to be pression set in, is over. tion in Austria.

failure of inventive "somewhat melodramatic." So, in-cause of any deed, it is. For against genutne power, but because there is not afraid to take it. He has a German mother, and is the cataclysms" what can one do ex-adequately expanding markete for cept prepare to make a good end the ever-increasing productivity of best organiser in Austria.

He is anti-Nazi and loyal to Dr. Carlyle laughed "Morrison's Pills" the machines.

We have thus been driven to Dollfuss. He sides with Prince out of fashion, but the pill vendors

are once more active.

secure our own home markets for again can

Sturhemberg in his desire for the' important play an

Why, however, should a sober-ourselves, but since

every other part. The common interests of immediate establishment of the

minded Conservative like Lord country is industrialising itself to the chief maritime trading Fascist state and the suppression Eustace be so terribly alarmed at the utmost and is also reserving its Hong Kong. Tuesday, Feb. 27, 1934.tions, in which the dominions of the Social-Democrats and every the population statistics? Popula- own home market for its own pro

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other vestige of democracy.

It is now a race between the

The Fascists have the

tion scares usually prove

moment.

cannot fail to be concerned, may yet lead the way to a breaking Empire Development. of what the "Round Table calls Nazis and the Fascists. The Nazis bogeys. Nature always comes back winning back the vast volume of Britain once throve and grew rich. "the ice of the frozen, export are in the majority and have the at her own optimum, or pessimum, world export trade on which Great

The I believe that the foreseen de

startling failure of the The improvement in British chunnels." The simpler pros active support of the German

Economic Conference to home industry is unmistakable. perity of old pre-war days may Nazie.

eline of population in this country World At machine of government and the One after another the great Bribe impossible of recovery.

will be by no means an unmixed which President Roosevelt's vetoes ¡evil. These islands are already gave the coup de grace-sufficiently tish banks, in their reviews of any rate, until international po- good will of Mussolini. the year just chased, draw atten-itical mistrust is cured, and the

very much over-populated unless we proved that the nations have no tion to the evidence of recover to the trading prosperity of

fear of war is abated, a

can continue to maintain an over- fatention of departing from, the over-industrialised principle of economic nationalism jurbanised and buoyancy of the British

NOW YOU KNOW budget has encouraged confidence generation age must seem illus-

community. I'am in entire agree-or of removing the obstacles to ory. Moreover, the very 3d- "When we were first married 1

international trade. Every trade in the Treasury's management

vances of scientific production used to waken my husband with a

agreement will hengsforth be a of both the national accounts and have made some old political kiss every morning.” the currency diffi ultes. A boom courses obsolete. Emigration "And now?" in investments denotes the an- swering confidence of the indivi-from Britain to the dominions,

The

return

་

Your Daily Smile.

dual investor, big and small. In a State-alded policy, is an in- himself an alarm clock." home industry the latter half of stance. It is only ten 1933. says

"Westminster the

ONE DIAGONISES

ment with the cannot.

author that

Wo

But what puzzles me is the matter of hard and close bargain- worried, nervy and over-anxious ing. "After three months be bought tone of the book. It may

New Peasantry be be- cause Lord Eustace has not sorted What, then, follows? Surely thin, years

out his ideas very carefully.

that Great Britain will have to since the Imperial Conference be-

agricultural For a politician, whose official seek employment in lieved that a British emigration Bank Review." "witnessed £ flow to the dominions could be on returning home one evening, in-suspended. Lord Eustace is

A Jew, whose son was very ill, career is. I hope, only temporarily production for those who have lost gradual but definite recovery ofį

un-place in industry. It will be a hard the economic well-being of the position by the assurance, in re Moses, Rachel ?"

made practical business

pro quired of his wife: "How's poor usually outspoken. But he has the and cannot hope to regain their nation." If equal headway turn, of British markets for the not yet proclaimed for the ex dominions' agricultural produce, wen't take any interest--" port trade, and shipping especial- Already the increasing claim. ly has yet to enjoy the better times acclaimed by many other upon British markets of the Bri-won't take any interest? He must about him. industries, nevertheless some im-tish home farmer is dimming

that scheme. But there is much be dead!" provement in these directions, too, supports the general trend work to be done by the proposed permanent Empire Committee to

of confidence. An intensification study and direct this Imperial

latest "Round Table." in a strict-

great advantage of representing the and painful path to tread, but what "Very bad indeed, Isaac. He constituency of Hastings, and so alternative is there if the burden can better afford than other candid of their maintenance is not to be "What," broke in her husband; and original Conservatives to lay thrown permanently upon diminish-

ing industry? He has a poor opinion of

The first moves may be scen in House of Commons. What he says the new agricultural policy of the THIS AGE

about the waste of time owing to National Government; the far hard- "Molly says she's wildly in love the present rules of procedure is er task will be to persuade the

*

the

doubtless true. But I should chal-descendants of those who drifted "Yea! Another case where man lenge his statement that "the most into the towns from the country-

#

SMART

of economie confusion in the development, and many difficul- with her new motor-car" United States induces a note of tics which attend migration set caution still in London. The tlement to-day will prabably dis- is displaced by machinery. ly cautious article, declares that appear when the requisite bold- forth- "this country has never since the Aess and confidence are slump began seen imore cheer fulness or better signs," Bri- tain is on the upward climb, though the "Round Table" thinks)

coming.

The Planet Thaws.

dangerous weakness of our Con-side one or two generations ago to stitution is that neither House can return to it and live, as it will seem claim to represent the views or the to them, much more laborious days, A little girl was entertaining needs of trade and industry."

Štatesmanship, in a word, has to |callers while her mother was get- Labour's Unconcern

find the means of restoring the ting ready. One of the women re-

balance between industry and

marked to the other, with a signmen who know the needs of trade agriculture and ́of establishing on

{ficant look: “Not very p-r-e-t-t-y”

"No."

The House of Commona is full of

the land a new body of subsistence and industry inside out, and so it

agriculturists able by their own has been for the last fifty years. Labour to supply their own needs. said the child, quick!, Again, the House of Lords is full One result of this will be that we

Facts You Did Not Know.

of experts où commerce and agriculture.

Unfortunately, in the House of Commons the Labour members conspicuously the miners are not

it will be a slow climb. The Evidence of a rise in tempera-spelling the word. "Economist's" index of business ture during the fast half-century activity shows that the advance in Northern Siberis will not as but awfully s-m-a-r-t!" in the last quarter of 1933 was tonish geologists. The story very rapid. Unemployment, told by rocks, the ten thousand which embraced nearly 3,000,000 lakes of Northern America and Jin January, had declined to little Europe, the gorge of Niagara more than 2,000,000 by the end the clay banks that were once of the year. The imports of raw river beds, is plain to him who Resembling a gasoline torch, the concerned with trade and industry material support the evidence of has the skill to read it. We are fame of a device invented to detect at all, but only with the class In- increased orders in British fac-living in the melting period of an gas leaks in refrigerating plants teresis of their special constituents. tories. The policeable improve Ice Age which began about 55, changes colour when the gas is en- The actual slogan of the Miners' ments in the fron and steel and 000 years ago—one of several ice countered by drawing it into the Federation before the stoppage of woollen industries reflect greater Ages which can be traced back a fame through a tube. demand in the home markets million years. Five million

1925-6 was to stop the mines from making a penny of proft, and they

rather than for export, Except square miles of ice in the An Sweden's population at the begin-succeeded all too well. for increased coal shipments to tarctic, a million elsewhere-thening of the year was 6,190,364, ac- Lord Eustace suggests that Par the Scandinavian countries un-total is still but half what it was cording to official statistics, an In-lament might confide to a revital- der special trade agreements, the when glacial sheets last awept uplift in exports is mainly to the down into the United States and create of 21918 or 4.52 per cent last ised and reconstituted Privy Coun dominions. As the "Bound buried Northern Estops. If the year, migration exceeding emi-cil the function of offering advice to Table" * ́says, "financial confi-immense deposit that still regration by 6870./

shall take less of the primary pro-, duce of the Dominions, and they in turn, as they become more and more- industrialised, will need to import. fower manufactured goods." · ·

(Continued on Page 11).

ALL-JEWISH SHIP

· MAKES HISTORY

Flies National Flag Of Palestine

FIRST FOR 2,000 TEARS

Ministers of the Crown on economic questions. I think the Privy Coun Southampton, Hampshire. dence, cheap money, and a gener-mains were to melt in a few de An English railway is experi-cil is far too old a bottle to hold For the first time för 2,- ally optimistic Industrial pay-cades, a civilization would be desmenting with a rail bus driven by auch very new wine. Ministers can 000 years a· Jewish-owned chology," have stimulated the trayed. For the oceans would economic recovery in Britain; rise nearly 200 feet and inundatel automatically stoked always get the best advice for the ship with an all-Jewish crew has malled the seas under the but continuance of the pace of the capitals of the world will being used for fuel, the vehicle be asking. The trouble is that they

Tag of Palestine.sedaya recent improvement depends the white sheets at the Polos be in controlled by its driver from will not take it, if unpalatable, wall

The author's attack on the insur History has thus been made by upon a relaxation of the world stripped away and earth stand either and t

ance principle. th our various the trading schooner "Emanuel" wide hindrances against a freer forth naked in the sun at it did general exchange trade. The a million and more years ago? guard against its perils. Thirty-schemes of social administration which docked at Southampton aigns are that Britain will have Or, as some believe, will the five thousand years is a long time and especially in connection with recently with amargo of grain.

The ""Emanuel” gaila under the to follow other countries into the blanket of snow and ice thicken to look ahead, but it is only unemployment, is highly dangerous protection of national shipping and bury a culture which began Beeting shoond in the history of when one considers how deeply we new national fag of Palestine. or the enforcement, under threat 35,000 years ago, when Neander a planet which is 3,000,000,000 are pledged and what utter confu- She is to trade with various Con of retallation, of reduction of thalers roamed from Palestine. to years old. Bo the studies of sion any change would create "Baltinental ports before going to foreign countries restrictions Spain? The questions are of im- geologists have their uses for all he drives "home a valuable point Jaffa where she will be employed against competing British ship-portance to the human race. If their seeming remoteness from when he shows what an immense in trading along the coast of

amount of development work would Palestine, ➡ Beute ping: Herbin Empire sentiment we can predict the future we can the issues of daily life?