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De Valera's Ancestry.

Mr. De Valera's recently denial of Jewish ancestry is justified by all that is known of him.

THURSDAY, MARCH 29,

DEMOCRACY ON THE DEFENSIVE

INDIVIDUAL LIBERTY

THREATENED

THE DISADVANTAGES

DICTATORSHIPS.

(By J. B. Firth.)

London.

OF

was, descended from one of the sary in these days to ask":"What Imprécąszak though the and

Hitler And Chen

Just "Repudiated

Mr. Denis Gwynn, who went carefully into the available evi dence before writing his blography, found that Mr. de Valera's grand-f father held high military rank in

Jcialists renounced · Gradualism as- Spain. His paternal grandmother It has actually become" neces- they did

thair mwiful noble houses of Spain.":

fs: Démocracy?”. Where universal | debacle in the 1931 election, -a His mother, Miss Catherine Coll, suffrage prevails, as in Great bleak change came over the face was, an Irish emigrant to New, Britain, the Demos, or the whole of British politics. York. There she married his body of the people, has or is as- father, Vivian de Valera.

sumed to have the ruling and con- No British party ever took, de- Edward (or, in Erse, Eamon) de trolling power.

feat so badly, and the atmosphere Valera was born in New York on Conservatives, except those on of rage and fury then engendered October 14, 1882. He was thus the far Right, are Tory Demo-combined with the lack even of born an American citizen, a pricrats: Liberals are Democratic second-class brains and personali vilege of which it is impossible for Liberals, Socialists are Social Doty then revealed-created a splen any man legally to divest himself. {mocrats. Cummunists, it is true, did opportunity for the ci-devants abjure the word and lump to and the intellectuals to snatch the gether all Democrats as their en-initiative from the clumsy, unim- emies, but they would say that aginative and, leaden-witted Trade. Mr. de Valera is one of a num.the class-icas society of their Unionists as they consider them ber of notable twentieth century ideal was the only true democracy, to be-and play the revolutionary statesmen whose careers have

I suppose, too, that Fascists and game in earnest. been made in lands other than Hitlerites might also aver that The Socialist Leaguo, for more those of their birth.

their Corporative or Totalitarian] than a year now, has been vic Herr Hitler, who was born Aus. State le the sole perfect expres-fously tormenting the National: trian and now rules Germany, and sign of a perfected democratic Executive of the Labour party. Eugene Chen, who was born a Brit-community.

The Executive hate being stung, ish subject In Trinidad and later Where the same word is claimed but they are. mortally afraid to became Chinese Foreign Minister, by opposites and contraries one swat the gadflies. are other examples,

may be sure that rank deception Is Nothing more politically impe afoot,

tent was ever, issued thin their To-day we mean by democratic pronouncement of. Jan. 25, where Government that form of Parlia-by Sir Stafford Cripps and the After a breach lasting four years variously exemplified in Great tion "definitely repudiated" as

mentary Government, which is Socialist Lenguera are by implica riages are invalid. It is a case Stalin.He has been rewarded

Bukharin has made his peace with Britain, in the United States and and when their propagande con- of marrying in haste and repent with the editorship of "Izvestia."

in France. refusal of parents to give their standards, and an aristocrat by ing at leisure. Usually it is the

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Gretna Green.

in cases

Moscow Prodigal

Many Challenges

flicts with the "declared policy": of the Socialist curia, They The startling fact, however, to are not excommunicated. They consent which leads to these

damned. They sre runaway marriages

birth, Bukharin is one of the most which even yet we are hardly are not

diaciplined, or put where one or other of the parbrilliant theorists in Russia. His wide awake, that Democracy has not even tles is under age; but it is dif-return to orthodoxy is an event of been put on the defensive. Publi- "on the mat. They are just The death of the owner of flcult for the parents to hold out importance.

cista have. Indeed, said for more "repudiated" as and when and ́ if. Gretna Green smithy, Mr. Hugh once the ceremony is performed. "Izvestia" is the organ of

than Afty years that Democracy Conscientious Socialists 'will' Mackie, has occurred at the age An interesting affair was that of Central Executive Committee was "on its trial," but they did not have to compare word for word

the

respectively.

throw down.

ex.

shorn of its Veto. Constitutional ing their party 20,000 volas every The French form of declaration, practice has been subject to contime he went on to a platform, reytinual adaptation, and always they would soon find means of

bridling, this too voluble lawyer.

Those who talk of the reaction-- The truth plainly is that they ary character of British Conserare no more sure than they were

of 84. As a child he was

Their settled the, utterances of Bir Stafford Thomas Hanbury the son of a that is to say, of the Government. seriously mean it. romantic shepherd lad. At the Conservative member of the "Pravda," the other

conviction was that nothing could Cripps with the declared policy!" official age of nineteen he witnessed an House of Commons--and the paper, is the organ

of the National Executive, and ser possibly take Ita place in a of the Com-

pro- "anvil marriage"

for themselves how and where at Gretna grand-daughter of Mr. Justice munist Party.

gressive and enlightened country. Green, and he determined to buy Eve, which was reported in the Their names mean

Nevertheless, alternatives have they differ, before deciding whe the property and transform it cablegrams from London a year "News" and "Truth."

swept the board. Russia, Italy ther they are zealous watchdoga into a show place. It was notjor two ago. The parents had no It was Trotsky whe once said:

and Germany, and now in the or ravening wolves. They wi until 1904, however, when he objection to the marriage, pro- "There is no truth in the News birthplace of the system ne chal course, do nothing of the o had become a prosperous farmer, vided Tom and Joan waited until and no news in the "Trath."

lenge after another being Like the National Executive, that he was able to realise his they

will wait and see. were nearer twenty-one. He was not far wrong. ambition; and thereafter he grew and they carried their argument|

Parliamentary government-in]

Gradualism Gone more prosperous. It does not right up to Gretna Green itself,

Great Britain has steadily grown. Why this extreme diffidence? It always pay to be romantic, but with happy result. But if they

The French Taxpayer more democratic with every

is not at all the National Execu it paid Mr. Mackic, for we are had not had the forethought to

tension of the suffrage. The Mon-tive's natural form. Their usual told that 50,000 people every charter

British tax-payers who complain archy, if I may so put it, has be style is to leap to blind conclu an acroplane, the of intricate income-tax assessment) year pay sixpence each for the chances are they would have forms may be glad that they are The House of Lords has been that Sir Stafford Cripps was los come more and more Constitutional.sions. If they sincerely, thought privilege of visiting the famous been too late. A little later, not Freench citizens. smithy, where some 300 mar-Gretna having been cheated of riages are celebrated annually by its prey, the formal engagement printed in small type on the blacksmith, Richard Renni-was announced. Leas auccess paper, used to be even more in the democratic direction. son. As a matter of fact, there ful was the effort of the novel timidating and perplexing than the are two marrying places at writing father of Charles British paper. Gretna Green. The one is the Peachy. Charles ran away to Old Toll House, which has been Gretna Green with a daughter new and still more complicated chievous nonsense, which they Sir Stafford is tipping a probable It has now been replaced by a vative Governments atter mlaat Hastings last October whether in use for over a century; tho of Admiral Wemyss. There, form, known as B 1931. other is the smithy, where Dick over the blacksmith's anvil, they provoked even the income-tax in too lazy to think. Under Conser-disapprove is his manifest desire It has can only believe because they are winner or not. What they really Rennison is the presiding genius, clasped hands, and. Dick Renispectors in France to a public provative Governments the democra. to jump the claim to leadership, as Gretna is on the Scottish border, son pronounced them man and test. and its marriages have given wife. An application previously

tie pace has been slowed down a

those who desert their class · In some concern to the Church of made by Charles for a marriage the collection of

There is one respect in which little that is all. Conservatives, order to turn demagogues so fre Scotland, for many of them are licence in London had failed, be more human in

income-tax is in their turn, have often denoun- quently do. not marriages at all, according cause the irate father had taken

France than Inced an revolutionary politics?

(Continued on Page (8) to the law. Some years ago the the trouble to polat out that he

Britain,

changes which are now recognia MEDICAL SOCIETY Church conducted an inquiry was a minor. One cannot help

If the tax-payer in engaged in ed to have been strictly evolution- into the growth of irregular forgiving the young fellow, for

agriculture he has the privilege of ary in character.

AT UNIVERSITY, unions in Scotland. It was as no doubt he had romance in his paying part of the tax in kind. certained that of 31,244 marblood, seeing that his father had This dispensation sometimes trans- riages in 1928, no fewer than written those pretty tales "The forms the offices of rural tax col

Mr. Wu Hung tak 5712 were irregular, and of 216 Right to Love" and "Cuddle'. Lectors tato farmyards.

Wins Essay Prize which took place at Gretna ums! And as for the girl, be Green only 18 were registered as ing the daughter of an Admiral, of a legally binding character. she might be expected to be pos Thus it will be seen that tragedy sessed of a fair measure of cour walks not far behind these Boot-age and a love of adventure tish border romances. When Youth is subject to the emotions Lord Hardwicke's Act of 1764 of youth, and perhaps we shouldj. abolished clandestine marriagea make allowances; and having piece of machinery, in England, the romantic young had it impressed upon them in capable of a speed of 560,000 people who said "What fun," song and story not to mention lutions a minute will whirl the lead of the wisest and the best.”“. found hospitality awaiting them the films, that all the world out of allver alloys, loving only the at the border village where, loves a lover, no doubt a good latter metal Owing to the lax marriage laws many of these young people ex-

of Scotland, the toll-keeper, far pect, to be forgiven for thel

Facts You Did Not Know.

Bald, to be the

single within

with a steel

world's fastes

centrifuge

ryman, hotel-keeper, or some capades when the excitement is **Beven leaf springs, built other pbliging person, was will-all over. Not that all marriages ing to declare them well and at Gretna Green, however, rare fruly married for a small con-of this type. Dick Ren sideration Witnesses were to his

be had for the asking, and the qui ceremony was delightfully sim- ple. It was made a little mora dimovlt in 1856 when Lo Brougham had an Act passed making it obligatory for the Les to live in Beolland period of not less than!

efore, the

have

rit and covered ate to exclude rain 'an English Inven- obiles wheel that uses a

know

A Bleak Changs The kernel of a Democratic Parliamentary system, as we it in that if is evolutionary, accepts" the essential form and

satisfactory Fear work was" frame of the Constitution reported by Dr, Lim Gim-kheang, who strict observes, the traditional presided at the annual meeting of the rules of procedure by debate and Medical Society of the Hong Kong persuasion, and rejesta violence University, held in the Union As and force.

sembly Room yesterday afternoon. Mazzini defined Democracy as The prize for the Essay Compe "the progress

through tition

the Ooducer

all, under the

was a statement of ideal Woodrow Wilson's:

It Laid not believe that the moral judgment would last Judgment, judgment "In the "Kaswell as at the God, I could not "puler gövérnment,” "Something on those lines always been, the Liber a big

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