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BRITAIN LACKING A FOREIGN POLICY

MUDDLING INTO ANOTHER WAR?

(By Viscount Snowden.)

London. gent person outside, politics if aske

very rare honour. He was a bri liant young artist, but the claim |that he discovered the secret of the lost art of the ancient craftsmen is one that he would have been the We muddled into the Crimesed that question give a clear and | Inst to make.

165 War.” We muddled into the Great simple answer? Could any person That secret was, recaptured many War. Is the National Government inside, politics give an answer? To years ago, largely by Powell of muddling us into a Greater War? judge from the speeches of the Blackfriars and Chance of: Birm- Everybody agrees that the situa- Prime Minister and the Foreign ingham

tion in Europe is critical. ⠀⠀ If not Secretary, I should say: not.

The demon- be- . bitter

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Rivival Of Pedestrianism

Your Daily Smile.

"In the sense that the process is perilous. People are talking and Instead of clearly, and firmly in Jealously guarded by the few who writing about the "next": war as the ears of the whole world declare understand it," one of the leading though it were a certainty, No-ing where, we stand and what we stained-glass-artists said recently, body believes that peace is secure. are prepared to do and to insist "it is still a secret. In the bad. On general principles war-talk is upon, our "statesmen” run about period-about 1800 to 1870-1her to be deprecated. It only aggra- Europe asking the rulers of other tried enamelling on glass, with poor vates a dangerous situation. It in-countries what they would like us results. The old glass was per tensifies fears. It necessarily leads to dostate manent, the colour going right to increased" preparations "for war For the past thirty years Britain. through. This is done to-day by defence. It helps to bring about has not had a foreign policy of her those who know how to do it.”: the very thing it deplores.

own. In all these years the foreign But It is no use refusing to face policy of Britain has been dictated facts,

by France. The British Foreign And the facts are that a wir Office has been an annexe of the Another undergraduate has been walking from Cambridge to London vaster and more terrible than the Qual d'Orsay. for money.

But Mr. Whitney Great War has become something it was this policy, which led, un

more than 3 possibility. All into the Great War. It is this. Straight is not the universal uncle Europe has become a huge powder policy which to-day paralyses. Bri- on this occasion, as he was recently.

This kind of thing flourished be magazine, and at any moment a tish action. All this is intensely unparalleled | galling and humiliating to those fore the war. In one bet at Oxford, park may cause an

explosion...

who want to see Britain assert her- the accepter of the challenge had to

Modern wars have almost always self in the Councila of the Nations, attend Christ Church Chapel, which finished at 6 p.m. bicycle up to and

been precipitated by some trivial She is in a position beyond all other London (54 miles) and catch the Crimean War arose out of a ques

unexpected Incident. The nations to insist upon her demands, Other countries' have little to 9.34 back...

tion of the status of the Greek give us. We have everything to He did it with five minutes to Churchi in Turkey. We went to give them. We gave them a mil- sheer nonsense. as the United spare; but he had to -wear shorts States, Japan, France, Russia, underneath

war on the side of Turkey after ale lion British lives in the war and a hig more decorous Italy, and even Switzerland and church-going clothes.

had rejected a settlement which thousand millions of money in s this country had pressed upon her conflict in which, as Mr. Balfour, fast expanding His tyre went flat, and he had to

The murder of an Austrian. Arch-, said, no British interest was direct- their air forces in spite of the run the last mile and a half to duke started the Great War, which involved. And very little grati conference. In Paris we see Paddington. Democracy's Last Legs middle-class, supported by

the uprising. of an indignant

ultimately involved the greater part tude we have got for it..... of the world.'

But these things are of the past. working-class element,

Mr. Lloyd George has told usThe lasson to be learnt from them Events in both London and against B Radical-Socialist

that a study of the papers relating is that we must see to it that our Summed Up

to the Great War has convinced him, policy, or lack of policy, does not Paria during the last six weeks Government.

The minister was having a rest that nobody wanted war. Sir Aur lead us into a greater dienster. must strengthen the impression strators that parliamentary democracy cause, after they had been call from his duties, and the pulpit was ten Chamberlain has said that we Britain is now openly committed under the Locarno Treaty to take has failed. It is ceasing tred upon to bear what is for them led by a stranger. Auked for just muddled into it. work satisfactorily in the two unusually heavy taxation, they his oplaton of the sermon, the The nations of the world are now part in a war between two 'Great countries which have had most found that their country was beadle, Wullie Mintyre, said:so bound up in alliances and exclu- Powers in certain circumstances. experience of it, and its break not one whit the better for their "In the first place, it was read. sive understandinge that a war This commitment puts us in a In the second, it wasna well read cannot be confined within narrow strong position to insist that there down is now hardly to be con- sacrifices. 'Their indignation Was the politicians cealed. In France, parliament against

In the third, it wasna worth read- limits. The peace of the worlds Continental Powers shail pursue a ary democracy has brought gav deepened by their beller that ing."

at the mercy of any one (rresponce policy and shall remove all Jernment to an impasse. Minis- what I known in the United

alble State or foolish statesman.",causes of friction likely to provoke try after Ministry has collapsed States as "graft", prevails in

́ ́And what is the British Govern-War Azkenean tem because of the multitude of parliamentary quarters. They] Salesman-Madam, this fire- ment doing about it all? Time was)***"""""Drift" Policy Results groups in the Chamber. In therefore proceeded to tactics extinguisher is guaranteed to give when this country was looked to The condition of Britain's accept-....." Great Britain democracy entered which, in moments of great you.service for 50 years.

for a lead on all grave, matteri ofance, of the serious obligations une : the twilight two years ago. Bri-popular excitement, have been Elderly Woman-But I shan't be international importance. That is der the Locarno Treaty in that, in tish demagogues all but ran the traditional in France since the here all that time,

not true to-day, an

the meantime, the heavily: arméd ship of State on the rocks in Fronde.

They triumphed, for Salesman (misunderstanding her It ought to be true, and it might Powers, would undertake a large 1931, and the country was only M. Daladier resigned, and efforts meaning)--Oh, but you can take it be true. On half a dozen occasions measure of disarmament. This saved at the last minute by the are now being made under M.with you, when you got

In the last decade a 'clear and deter- condition has not been fülálled, and formation of the National Gov. Doumergue to cleanse the parlla-

mined lead from Britain would we should be morally – justided th ernment. But now this very Na mentary stables. But, deep in

Well-Known Name.

have saved a situation which, lack withdrawing from our undertaking. tional Government has lost 'Its!

of a growing Publisher (to struggling author)ing it, has led to disaster.

(Continued on Page 11). sense of reality, and is bemusing multitude of Frenchmen in the

The record of the "National" itself with attempts to force feeling that democracy is becomYour work is quite good, Bad Government in foreign affaire der LOCAL EXAMINATION has style, but my Erm, is interested disarmament upon Europe. ing a danger to the State.

It

only in the work of writers within the last two years is a tragle ought to be taking such steps' as]

This Government through a weak), and Indecisive polley is in a con- afderable measure responsible for the pitiable failure of the Disarma-] ment Conference. Sir John Simon. The local examination repre- by playing the cards given to him sentative, M.-H. K. Yew, FC.L by France, drove Germany from has received an notification from that Conference and from the the Institute of Bookkeepers, Lon League of Nations. That action don, of the result of an accounting has greatly aggravated the German examination held on December 6 menace to the peace of Europe. their local centre, the Commercial

The British Government is allestitute, 18, Shelly Street. ways protesting its belief and faithThe results as follow

the minds

Misunderstood ta

would give Great Britain that "Planning" St. James's well-known names security from foreign attack

Tactless

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Author (delightedly)—Splendid! We can come to terms. My name's which alie has lost through the It may be assumed that no ob-Smith, you know.” progress of aviation. It is imjection will be offered by the] possible to deny that the regimes Ministry of Health to the appli- in power in Rome and Berlin cation of a "town-planning" find their justification in what scheme to the fourteen acres

The party was at its height, but is happening in London and lying between St. James's-street an elderly woman sat near the door Paris. In both Rome and Berlin and the Green Park, London looking very glum. totalitarian Administration are in That is eminently an area which

"What's made her so solemn 7" authority, and these act swiftly, requires to be safeguarded asked a guest." economically, and decisively. In against haphazard and piecemeal "Well," said the host, she's London words reign, accom- development, and the Coramie-temperance advocate, - and s some panied by waste and delay. The stoners of Crown Lands, and the blundering idiot told her that her two debates on Disarmament and London County Council, acting smiles were perfectly intoxicating National Defence have yielded in conjunction, have done well to nothing but futile orations and take time by the forelock. It confused excises from the politi-is not only that the long and clans. Before. Europe could dis-beautiful Green Park frontage arm as the British Government requires to be protected with wants, Great Britain would have jealous, care, but the "rentle Twice daily airplane service to undertake vast and indefinite eminence" of St. James's-street, each direction has bean established liabilities in the direction of arm- as Disraeli once described it, and between Belfast and Glasgow, fed intervention against any the vista closed by St. James's

Facts You Did Not Know.

[Power" that transgresses the Palace are among the most at | -The use of crude rubber through- limitations which are to be placed tractive features of the West out the world in the on its forces. But for these vast end. What the fate will be of months this year increased five liabilities on the Continent Great the town houses and mansions

son with Britain is totally unprepared. whose windows face, the set There is even some reason to sun over the Green Park we will believe, in the light of certain not speculate By whatever figures given in the House of buildings they may be rep Commons by a Bocialist, that by is certain that. next May Germany will have a mansions such as very márked superiority. air and Warwick craft to Britain, No steps have for bul been

one.

RESULTS.

Six Successful In Accounting Test.

in the League of Nations la Stage II (Associate) Chu Ka cowardly nequiescence in the aur Chun (int Class), Miss Shu Memey roader to Japan, when she defled (2nd Class), Leung Kam Chee (2nd the League and repud obligations under the

treatfen to which she had

Class) Chan Lo Chat (2nd Class). and Stage 1 (Elementary:-Miss rib- Wong Teal Ping, Li Yee Nin

ed, has inflicted a severe blow to The next local examination the public confidence in collectire be on June 6, while the exa

becom

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