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Diplomatic Grievance

The appointment of Mr. Thomas Morris, British Consul-general at Strasbourg, to be Minister to Bolivia is likely to aggravate a grievance, which, although it finds no public expression, is nevertheless strong

the

younger British

among

diplomats.

MONDAY, MARCH 5, 1984

HITLER ACHIEVES

GERMAN UNITY

INDEPENDENT POWERS DESTROYED

SEVENTEEN

STATES AS ONE

(By E. C. Bentley.)

ΠΟΥ

In nearly every country in the The German Reichstag has now,, reduced; have remained as a prac world except England, diplomatic on the first anniversary of Herr tical handicap on political develop and consular appointments are in-Hitler's becoming, head of the ment, being carefully safeguarded terchangeable,

Government, passed into law the by the Constitution of the Republic. Yielding to popular demand, the bill for the Reconstruction of the It provided, for instance, that in Foreign Office have recently been Reich.

case of any dispute about powers |appointing consular officers to senior

Six hundred obedient Deputies, any State could drag the Reich diplomatic posts. Since the war all members of the Nazi party, put Government before the Supreme. 10 Consuls have been promoted to this six-clause

measure through Court for a decisión: the rank of Minister.

all its stages in a matter of At the present moment promotion a few minutes by the simple pro-

Hitler's Blow For Single Power in the diplomatic service is badly cess of rising to their feet, as an done, at Kerr Hitler's orders, is to

What the Reichstag has blocked.

expression of assent, when the first destroy all the remaining indepen British diplomatic Counsellors clause was put to them, and not re- dent powers of the seventeen Fe and First Secretaries feel that, if suming their seats until the third deral States. Before Hitler · no Consuls are to be promoted to Minis reading had been satisfactorily statoman, and no political force, ters, some of the consular plums disposed of. should be reserved for younger

has been strong enough to root They thus accomplished a reform out these hampering relies diplomats.

The grievance is not unjustified. which had been a definite aim of German "particularism." The present haphazard system has for more than

enlightened German statesmanship After the war the Constitution- a century, and amakers at Weimar had the old more or less realized need of the ideal of unification before them. German people for nearly three [There was a group that fought for centuries. They brought that the abolition of the historic State people, in other words, under one boundaries, and a rational system national Government with full of provinces subordinate lo the na-Centre, on the general European restaurant, and a wafter "bustled tional Government in Europe pus model. But no more than a cer

ttle to recommend it.

Your Daily Smile.

MISERABLE.

The sad-looking man entered a powers, such as every other & CO., LTD.

up.

What will you have, sir? Some cold shoulder?".

“No, thanks. I hnd that this #morning.

"Well, then, some tongue?" "No, thanks. I'll get that

"the discovery of a dish as "fur more interesting even than INTON-On 5th March, 1934, at the discovery of a star, for we

the Canossa Hospital, John have always stars enough, but night." Reginald Hinton. Funeral will"we can never have too many pass the monument at 5.30 p.m."dishes; and I shall not regard No Place For Him.

"the sciences 2.5 sufficiently

A young man walked into "honoured or adequately repre- Sheffield shop and asked to "rented amongst us until I see a

mind

to-day.

The China Mail

The Art Of Dining.

*

acases.

of

tain extension of the powers of A Makeshift German Empire

the Reich was achieved.

The reform of which Liberal pa- The Germans are not commonly trials had dreamed ever since the thought of, outside their own fall of Napoleon seemed far en- country, as lacking in any of the ough away, if it could not be ac- to essentials of nation-hood; and cer-complished after every throne in tainly they possess most of them. Germany had crashed down in ruis. They are predominantly of one It had been the rulers, front the race. They have one language and Kings of mighty Prussia to the. jone culture

Princes of tiny Lippe, who clung They have an intense national obstinately to a system that per

own dignity and petuated their traditions. It was the peoples of the separate States, kingless and- priceless now, who seemed less loath to be drawn together.

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ser

"cook in the first class of theme motor-cycles. "I don't

the price," he said, "but it must

are

were

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pride and patriotism, which in our own time have enabled them, as a people, to support unparalleled etrain and suffering in the great est of ware.

What Germana have not, and never have had since they were welded into one nation by Bis- marck, is a sound machinery of national government.

not

even

"Institute." Ladeed, another au thority who has written on the be a very speedy machine."

"Certainly. sir," said the usɛis- Hong Kong. Monday, March 5, 1934.subject of gastronomy, about

Įtant. "I've a machine here the which there is 題 considerable!

of which could only be

Hitler has changed all that; literature, has remarked that the seed

and the astonishing cane: with name of Loule XIV's celebrated shown at night when the roads are

which he har done so is at least maitre d'hotel. Becharbel, is a clear. Come here at one o'clock in

03 striking a proof of the There is a movement in Eng-surely destined to immortality the morning and I'll guarantee we

strength of his movement land to restore the "art of din- by his sauce as that of Herschel are in Wigan by three."

Three hours later the man re 1871 was a makeshift. It was a

The German Empire created in anything that has gone before. ing." and (of all places) it has by his star or Baffin by his bay.

Until he came to power, the bare Under Louis XIV., we

in-turned, his features twisted with started at Bloomsbury. A 80-

federation, a grouping together of suggestion of a measure to sweep- formed, "cooking made prodi-hard thinking. "I'm sorry." ciety has been formed with the "gious advances, being employed anid, "but I don't want tho

German States which had existeding would have aroused overwhelm- in independence for centuries, anding and furious opposition. To intention of "raising the standard to give a zest to his glories, and chine. I won't have it." jof cating and drinking" through-then again to console him in

which had frustrated more than day, without an audible whisper "Why not? It's speedy."

one earlier attempt to bring them of protest having arisen. out the country; and, casting"their decline. Liqueurs

"I know. But I've been think-

into unity.

fron Bavaria, the historic storm- aside the crudities of roast beef "invented for his use in his oiding. Who wants to be in Wigan at

Hitherto, in the ordinary affairs centre of "particularist" sentiment, jand roly-poly pudding, it has "uge, as were 'cotelettes la three o'clock in the morning?"

战

of life, the German citizen has felt nothing is left but the bare. been decided to make a beginning “Maintenon' to protect the royal]

the control of the State in which graphical framework of the HE WON'T. towards a higher life by organie-stomach against grease." But

he dwelt much more than the con-States. Even that. as 'Hitler's own fing a luncheon with an Alsatian there were great men before this

"Albert, baby is now two months trol of the Reich, the central au- repeated words make plain, is menu. But why should the very gastronomic Agamemnon! Learn-old. Have you told the registrar thority. His particular State, too, doomed to give way to a better ba-

rank ed men have agreed to first luncheon under the new or amongst the most valuable works

yet 7"

might be a well-governed and pro-lanced system of provincial dis- der in England

"No. if the registrar lives with-gressive community, or it'might be tricks with no more powers-pro- Alsatian? be

of antiquity a didactic poem on in seven miles of this house, he'll the reverse. Are there no good English cooks the art of cating by Archestratus, need no telling!"

bably a good deal less-than those capable of cooking good English who traversed earth and sea to

Yet through the Middle Ages of our own county administrations.. the Germany were a united people victuals? Truly, "theso Eng become acquainted with the best

(Continued on Page 11). lish," as Max O'Rell remarked of things which they produced.) his dear neighbours, "are a pecu-holding intercourse with none liar people"! There is a story but those who could advance his His poem has been of a dinner given under the aus-pleasures, pices of the venerable Sir Wil-described llam Curtis, which cost the party science, every verse a precept." between thirty and forty pounds in considering these words, how- apiece, for, amongst other acts ever, we must have regard to the me-the fifth. One of them was

somewhat imperfect state of the the same person twice."

What

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"a treasure of

re

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under оде strong Government.

The Bag. Magistrate: "You and your car The Immense disaster of the Thir- becoming a menace to the ty Years' War shattered their unity. countryside. Do you realise that it has never been restored until this is the sixth person you have now. knocked down in one year?"

States Within The Republic Sweet Young Thing? "Pardon

The Empire of 1871 was no care- fully planned and ecientific federal" system, such as that of the United States of America. It included. mut great kingdoms, small grand-ducal vasovereignties, and a few little city Stater which were not even mon-

Facts You Did Not Know.

left

PORT ELIZABETH HARBOUR

Official Opening By Evans Of Broke.

STIRRING ADDRESS

200-

ald

Agua Port Elizabeth.u

into the union on their own terms, more conscious than ever of the archies, Some had to be brought | "We of the post-war Navy), are Up to the time of the Great War part we have to play. Beyond the Kings, of Bavaria, Saxony, and being seafighters and good seamen, Wuerttemberg had the right to be we have to study empire trade pro represented diplomatically In blent and economies and do all in foreign capitals; and their armour power to assist progress and es, though at the disposal of the prosperity in every port and Reich, were separately organised. corner of the Empire. The Navy Every State, grest or small. - is the cement which bolde the Com- tained powers such as, in all other monwealth of Nations, together. modern countries, balong to the na-Without that cement the Empire 6ix wooden statues can be

tional Government. The very will crumble, disintegrale and at once by a German Inventor's must always be King of Prussia,

fact that

at the German Emperor fall," machine în'

This striking passage formed tools the greatest of the Stater, emphas part of an address that Vice-Ad- leed the unbalanced and irration-miral E.E.G.B. Evane, Commandar- al nature of the central organisa-in-Chief of the Africa Station, de Hony

Ilvend at the opening of the Port

of extravagance, they despatched sciences at that time. a special messenger to West chiefly strikes us about the Try This on Your Deaf Aunt phalia to choose a ham. And, Grecian and Roman banquets, the Thieves who broke into tearooms talking of hams, we are remind- very mention of which tickles couldn't find any money or ed of the princely notions of the our palates as we read of them, ables, but cooked themselves cook employed by the Prince de is that they must have cost a large meal. They must have Soubise, who has been immor great deal of money,Think, for feeling very fod up talised by the sauce named after instance, of a dish composed of him: His master having an- the brains of five hundred pen- nounced his intention of giving cocks or the tongues of five hun- dred rightingales though the ja supper, the chef presented a

most classic example of swallow, specimen menu, with an estimate ing most money in a given time Traffic posts that can be lowered of cost, and the first thing on it is Cleopatra's decoction of pearls! into openings in pavements when was "fifty hams." The Prince One Roman work which has been not in use have been invented by a remonstrated with him; "Are preserved for posterity bears the California man. "you going to feast my whole name of "Apicius in honour of "regiment, Bertrand?" he asked. the connoisseur, who spent about "No. Monseigneur, only one ham a million and a half in termage "will appear upon the table, but our present-day money ingg "the rest are necessary for myfying his palate, and ther “espagnoles, my blonds, my gar- finding that has had "nitures. Give but the word, fifty thousand" pound "and I promise you will put all himself for fear of dy "these hams which confound you wer. These thing

into a glass bottle' no bigger what a serious; busi than my thumb" What could and' drinking used to the Prince do but accept a menu out the Christmas-nea presented by such a man of would be very, bad science? It was. H. Henrion de true that the Pensey, President of the Court have never been of Cassation a magistrate of the French and whom one authority has said cookery, but' that regenerated rance had when Englis | most), forson to be proud--who|ingly chall

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follows to dimini

three of the

ment of pedred "I regard the art of

follow the lines

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aquatic

bost, and half;

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essentials, that organisation Elszibeth barbour,

ed up to the present day, Desi the changes made on the

stablishment of the Republic int

the administ

any

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rds of

Hls £2,000,000 HMS. Dorsetshire,

fint vessel to tie up alongside

the North Quay -habbur?works.

of the nes

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sumgllent deep-water

Lourivansals. Up to the

al