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The volatile Mr.'Insull,' who has been arrested in Turkey, for ex- tradition to América, still has his admirers in the United States. No man worked, harder, or 'knew his. job better than Insull.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11, 1934.

BRITISH CABINET RIFT IN 1922

INNER HISTORY OF THE COALITION'S FALL

HOW LORD CURZON'S REVOLT DECIDED ITS FATE

(By J. B. Firth.)

Hia secretary got no holidays.) Even on Sundays he was at Insull's house by 8 sm. for a tour of in-i spection of one of the Insull

Strange, is it not, that for the | plants.

most graphic account of what On rare occasions the two men occurred at 10, Downing-street on went for a walk. It was not much the eve of the Carlton Club meeting] fun Insull's mind never relaxed. which destroyed the Coalition Gov-

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ernment in 1922 we should have had to wait for the blography of a provincial politician-Salvidge, of Liverpool.

Londoner By Birth Samuel Insull was born in Lon- den, and owed his rise to the in

Liverpool knew Sir Archibald vention of another Englishman.

When at the beginning of this ruler of men. So did the chiefs at Salvidge for what he was—a born Parsons turbine arthe Conservative Headquarters in century the rived in the States, the American London, for he kept Liverpool! engineers were sceptical,

staunch to Unionist principles even] Insull saw

its possibilities at in the worst days of 1905... once and ordered a turbine capable

He was a real, not a nominal, of producing 5000 kilowatts.

Tory Democrat, and he made the The American technicians were Working Men's Conservative Asso- Istaggered. When the first trial ciation a, far, greater power in the took place the chief engineer ad-northern city than the Conservative vised Insull to leave the turbine Association proper, and from being station.

Is the thing going to blow up?" dictator of both.

"boss" of the one eventually became Jasked Insull.

Break Up Of The Cabinet

was no

"It was an absolute bombshell So the much-vaunted loyalty of the Cabinet towards LG. was myth. Already the Coalition's Foreign Minister had a foot in the other camp. There more to be said and I rose to go. "As I reached the door Bonar called me back. He got up and came towards me. "Tell Auster. and F.E. to be moderate,' he said. *Do

think I or Curzon imagine we can rule the country with the sort of people that will be left to make up a Cabinet after the break to-morrow? I must have Austen and F. E, back at the first possible opportunity But there will have to be an in- terval.. Tell them not to let it be protracted by unnecessary bitter. ness," "*

you

From that interview Salvidge, after a short walk to arrange his impressions, drove straight to.

His story is told in a biography, Downing-street. There he found a group of leading Cabinet Ministers

"Well," said Sam, "if the thingSalvidge, of Liverpool," first pain anxious and inforinal conclave.

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He stayed. So did the turbine.

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Stoughton, 185. The author. is Mr. Lloyd George: welcome him. son, Stanley Salvidge, unhappily boisterously with both hands and has not lived to enjoy the success took him straight into the Cabinet which his book assuredly deserves.room, jocularly saying, "Come along Stormy Petre!

Salvidge's most brilliant "findin. So you've joined the Cabinet Hong Kong. Wednesday, Apr. 11, 1934 Kellogg Pact satisfies France, the

was F. E. Smith, and as F. E. rose at last." Mr. Olaf Kelson. "stormy petrel higher and higher he took Salvidge

Salvidge at once began to tell the one because it is too limited in of Samoa," has been sentenced to up the ladder with him into the company of Bonar's resolve to take Political Realities Of

its scope, the other because it is

exile again. He is too vague. Here there is no hope

appealing inner councils of the party. They the other side at the morrow's party Disarmament. of a change of policy so far as

jagainst the sentence.

maintained the closest contact, and meeting: Western Britain is concerned.

"That, of course, was not en- Samoa is administered each was a tower of strength to the "Anxious, but not desperate." guarantee of the present Rhine mandate. Mr. Nelson has long been keep Liverpool it was necessary to by New Zealand under a League other. To carry Liverpool or to

tirely unexpected, but when I reached 'the lis Mr. Eden's summary of the frontier represents the utmost

news about Lord Curzon there was 'n gasp of con- European situation as he saw it European commitment that Bri-thorn in the side of the adminishave Salvidge's whole-hearted sup-

tration. after his visits to Paris,

sternation all round. Someone port. That came to be well under- Berlin tish public opinion will support.

Son of a Swedish father and a stood by the Tory chiefs, and that France finds it Inadequate be and Rome. His verdict is

'So our punctilious Pro- the more, instructive because it is cause she is obsessed by the European Samoan Welfare League policy such as the Referendum on Samoan mother, he is leader of the is why on general questions of

consul has ratted, has he?' based, not on official pronounce-spectacle of a Germany, at least ments of policy, but on the per-her equal in resources and in-and a strong supporter of the Man, Tarif Reform, the Irish Settle-

or League of Samoans. sonal impressions of an observer mensely her superior in man pow-

įment" of 1921, and a score of other Mr. Nelson is a wealthy man: 'He subjects' his approval was eagerly

Britain's

with exceptional opportunities., bent on remodelling the map Wis once the proprietor of two sought.

Samoan newspapers,

the "Times"

There is, he finds, if not a gen-of Europe to auit her aspirations. This Franco-German antagonism Jeral will-to peace, at least a gen-

eral dread of war and a clear in policy and all the ill-will which and the "Guardian."" realisation of what the break-it breeds is the fatal obstacle to down of the Disarmament Con-progress in disarmament nega- Your Daily Smile, ference would imply.

Elations. It is not disputes among tion, therefore, admits of hope experts about figures, but the Very Strlet so long as the Conference con-mutual distrust of peoples which

The situa-

The confirmed bachelor

tinues in being. On the other keeps Europe on tenterhooks, would not even court trouble.

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Of No Account

It also explains why in 1922, when the cabal in the Conservative! section of the Coalition became so įserious, Salvidge was summoned to London by Lord Birkenhead and pressed by Bonar Law at that! who time outside, the Government for reasons of ill-health-to see him be- fore he made up his mind.

It was currently reported at the who had been time that Bonar Law was still 'un calling so frequently on Mabel at certain as to his course when he last went to see her father.

went to the fateful Carlton Club: "It's a mere formality, I know," meeting. But the fact is that he The began, "but we thought it would had fully resolved to throw in his be pleasing to you if it were oblot with the Tory malcontenta, and served in the usual way."

: his purpose in sending for Salvidge Mabel's father stiffened. "And on the day before the meeting was [may I Inquire," he asked, "who to tell him so, A swelling revenue is always suggested that asking my consent

hand, the Conference has failed and it is the mereat folly to sup- to solve its problem of reconcil- pose that a state of mind which ing equality with security, has has a thousand years of history failed, in other words, to bridge behind it is dependent upon the of the British the gulf between a France which political colour han regained all she had lost and

Government. means to keep it, and a Germany which feels that she has not only paid the full penalty of defeat, but has been doomed to impo- tence for ever. Mr. Eden's own) way out of the impasse is two-

Tariffs Vindicated By Trade Returns

The young man

fold on the one hand a measure open to the criticism that a Chan- to Mabel's marriage of disarmament real enough to cellor of the Exchequer has mis- formality?"

Not so very long before Salvidge

suid,

"They knew then that their whole position had been given away..Bonar would not be act- ing. now merely on the advice of Baldwin of the Board of Trade, and abscure and ineffective Dia- Hards.

"To me the biggest surprise of the whole evening was Lord Balfour. When I had finished my tale he banged the table with his fist and shouted, 'I say, "Fight them, fight them, fight them." This thing is wrong. The Con- servative party has always acted on the advice of its leaders. Is.. the lead of Law and Curzon to count as everything, and the ad- vice of the rest of us as nothing? This is a revalt, and it should be crushed.' 'Nothing could have been less like the dreamy Balfour of tradition."

(Continued on Page 11).

was a mere had earnestly counselled his friends, FORGED $100 NOTES

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Batisfy Germany, on the other a But Britain's foreign trade returns man replied.

judged the necessities of the year. "Mabel's mother," the youngtinue, to bring Bonor back." His reconstitution of the League permit no such challenge. They strong enough to satisfy France.

The alternative, as Sir John Si-are an accepted and infallible in- Cantradietary mon impressively pointed out, is dication of the way in which the

remained outside the Cabinet there

The successful cobbler who says ter to whom discontented Tory the riot of fear and suspicion affairs of the country are going. that his heart is in his boots.

The figures for February show that revival is a reality. Febru- Queer Taste

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revolt. Salvidge, therefore, went PRINTED OUTSIDE HONG KONG' limited and unsupervised scrama-

to see Bonar Law. prepared for a ble in rearmament. Mr. Chur-ary is the shortest of our months "Jockeys Like Spoilt Children!" dramatic denouement, but hoping chill and Sir Herbert Samuel in working days and some falling saya

Kwan Chi-cheng, a 28-year-old un- have both called attention to the off. As compared with January, tional-very few other people do. fortunes might still be tided over. six months' hard labour. by Mr. Q. a heading. They're excep-that the crisis in the Coalition's employed Chinese, was sentenced to realities of the situation. They was to be anticipated, but the drop are grim enough, and must be in exports is negligible. In com- faced. The plain truth is that, Parison with February of last year as Mr. Eden has pointed out, a exports have risen by £2,860,000 member with him to hear his pro- breakdown of the Conference and imports by over eight millions posal to a girl, so that it could be will leave Britain's security sterling, mainly in the

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"A manservant entered and A. A. MacFadyen át 'the Central whispered something to Bonar. Police Court this morning for being When the servant had gone Iin unlawful possession of three made my final appeal. I remind-forged bank notes, of $100 deno ed Bonar of the day in Downing-minations on the Mercantile Bank street, just after the war, when of India, in Main Wa Lane yester- he told me of the tremendous day. gratitude the nation owed to Lloyd. Actused claimed that the notes George. We must never let were given him by a friend ten days the little man go. His way and ago to sell for $20 each. ours Me alde by elde in the future.

Sergeant Hemsley stated that the Bonar flushed deeply notes were printed outside the and made no attempt to hide how Colony, and that the Police were un- home ..... much the reminder had gone able to trace their origin. He 'ank- ed that a serious view should be Then he said that Lloyd taken in this case, as this practice George bad falled "to secure the was increasing." wing of the Coalition, and our on behalf of the Mercantile Bank of adhesion of the Conservative Mr. Tan Choung-bing appeared

retorted that L. G. retained the party must be kept together. I India.

of his Conservative colleagues in unswerving support of every one

the Cabinet.

"Bonar puffed at hly pipe for the Commonwealth House of Repre

The Hon. Mr. Green Member of a few moments. At last he said sentatives, for a New South Wales almost regretfully, without the constituency, accompanied by his alightest note of triumph in his wife, arrived in the Colony on Mon- voice, I may as well tell you Lord day by the Australian Oriental liner Curzon la bord. He waiting Changte, on a health and pleasure

in another room?”

Personal Pars.

tour of the Far East,"