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A STRONGER BRITAIN FOR PEACE

DEPLETED DEFENCES A

GRAVE DANGER

DISARMAMENT CONFERENCE

MENACE

(By Robert Boothby, M.P.)

This is a further article in the China Mail series in which prominent men put forward their plans for establishing world peace.

fed to drag on Indefinitely, it may yet succeed in goading the now thoroughly frightened nations of Europe Into war. The first thing to do if we want to secure peace is to bring this hypocritical and THE chief legacy of the war was dangerous farce to an end, and

London.

THE an insurgence of turbulent attack the real problems before it

and combative nationalism without is too inte

He has gained a certain amount of support among the peasantry parallel in the history of the world. Fearing To Face Facts but not sufficient to make his This was due to the collapse of No doubt the French are greatly clatm other than ridiculous.

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VALET TO STÅge heroes.

An interesting Chinese visitor to Landon is Mr. S. I. Hsiung. He has translated works by Shaw, Hardy and Barrie into Chinese.

Having given British drama to the Chinese, Mr. Haiung Is now re turning the compliment.

a much more

the Central Empires and of the to blame for the present situation. whole Continental political struc-Those of us who were regular ture, the rise of the Soviet Union, visitors to Germany after the war the doctrine of self-determina jobserved, with increasing alarm lion," and the Treaty of Versailles and despondency, the disrepute into The refusal of the United States which the moderate democratic in 1919 to implement the treaty forces steadily fell owing to the.. for which she bore so large a share failure of their leaders-Erzberger,

Rathenau, of responsibility enormously in-Wirth,

Stresemann, creased the difficulties and dangers Bruning-to deliver any kind of which beset Europe. Thence- goods.

B

His preface to "Lady Precious

forward, to the German sense of These protagonists of the policy Stream," a famous Chinese play of which Messrs. Methuen have grievance was added the French of reconciliation, and they include

sense of insecurity.

some of the greatest statesmen Just published his translation, | deals with the functions of the Months passed, and the funds-Europe has produced, were all atage-hand, who is

mental problems of international broken by the Intransigeance of Governments, prominent person in the Chiness affairs began to appear in sharper successive French

outline. They resolved themselves which finally drove desperate theatre than in ours.

(1) French people into Hitlerism. He remains throughout the play 'into four-namely

But can we escape all"ahare of in full view of the audience, and security, (2) reparations and war Then there is constitutional libis duties include providing the debts, (3) the relationship between responsibility? I think not. herty, which means an equal actors with cups of tea after a the Western Powers and Russia, There is in the British character share for every citizen in decid-iongspeech, breaking the hero's and (4) treaty revision.

a certain reluctance to face Hong Kong, Saturday, August 18, 1934 ing what, sort of Government is fall when he dies, and smoothing American Debt Troubles palatable facts which, when it is

to hold sway.

Personal liberty with loving hands the long red Cast your mind back, over the applied, as it frequently is, to means our right to conduct.our beard and gix-foot feathers which last fifteen years, see how

foreign affairs, causes us to be own lives in our own way; to distinguish the inevitable bandit genuine attempts have been made regarded abroad with considerable think as we like and say what| chief.

The China Mail

Freedom

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many

un-

To talk about, ·.

to grapple with any single one of mistrust. The novel and varied experi- we think, to eat and drink what

Too often it is accompanied by a these problems, and you will realiso ments in administration and the we like; to go where we like and

how fearfully inadequate European kind of "moral uplift" which finds organisation of industry that do what work we like. The NOT ONLY IN CHINA

statesmanship has been ever since expression in a tendency to lecture have been set afoot in Russia, fourth form of freedom, econo-

You need not. as a matter of the war.

the rest of the world, and produces Italy, and Germany, and in some mic liberty, is what is making fact, go as far as China to see the French security-upon which all general charges of hypocrisy from other less important European all the trouble in our present Property man at work.

else depended-was never serious indignant foreigners who do not Suppose we can- countries, to say nothing of the disturbances.. New Deal' in the United States, not get the chance of doing the In an amateur performance in ally considered for eight years. The like being lectured.

little Yorkshire market town. question of reparations dragged on A Menace To The Country have given rise to an impression work we like? No work, no pay.

gas footlights and from conference to conference,

For example, our so-called “paci-. that there is a general trendIf we have nothing to eat what There were away from the old ideals embod-is the use of the other freedoms? headlights in the fit-up, theatre. holding up the economic revival of fista and there are many of them

In England an elaborate sys-

The dramatic effect of the play the world year after year, until it never tire of abusing the Govern- ied in an abstract conception of Freedom, and towards a new and tem of unemployment relief has depended entirely on the sudden finally petered out at Lausanne ment (1) because they do not dis- stricter form of authority than been based on a weekly compul- lowering and then the swift rais- after the advent of Hitler to power arm completely, and (2) because

had become inevitable,

they do not take "firin" action" would have been tolerated by our sory contribution, which is of ing against of the lights.

Meanwhile Great Britain made against Japan or Germany or some fathers. It is very doubtful course an interference with the If went splendidly at the after- whether the impression is cor-freedom of spending our earn noon rehearsal, but in the evening, an independent debt settlement other country which has temporari- rect; it leaves out of accountings at our own sweet will. At alus! the lights went out altogether. with America, fatal alike in con-ly evoked their hostility,

These people are, in my opinion, quite a large number of coun-least it is so provided for the Whereupon the handyman walk ception and result, which bids fair tries that have managed to car- hand-worker. Why not for the ed solemnly across the front of to poison the relationship between by far the greatest danger to peace ry on with their old constitu- whole of the rest of the workers? the stage with a taper on the end the two great English-speaking in this country. tions; and it ignores the fact the labour party were large of a long pole and relit the lights. peoples for a long time to come, applying "sanctions" unbacked by that dictators as a rule have ap-minded enough to agitate for The climax of the play somehow As for Russis, the choice surely force is nothing short of criminal, peared in countries where self-and secure a national system, missed its maximum dramatic lay between military invasion and and in doing so they deliberately government had had a very the Unemployment Fund would effect short period to take root. It have command of large enough also ignores the fact that the control of Industry. In fact, as

resources to gain practically a Your Daily. Smile! revolutions have had an econo- mic origin; they are an attempt every man has to eat, the result "Wiliam the Conqueror landed trade development, on the other.quate armaments.. to cure by means of greater ef- of thinking any system out to here in one-o-double-six," said the The Allies adopted neither" course, (Continued on Page 3) ficiency the mere mockery of its logical conclusion is to arrive telephone girl to her escort as they and in so doing got the worst of freedom which is all that can be at the suppression of any rival strolled along the Hastings front. both worlds and added to the enjoyed by a hungry man. The and antagonistic plan of organ balance between the claims of isation. The line of moderation freedom and order requires that is very difficult to draw, and is "Film Stara Marry" says A Head-

line every gain on one side shall be dependent on so many national paid for by some sacrifice on the idiosyncrasies and local candi By gosh; don't they! other. It is safe to say that we tions that one cannot get away are all broadminded enough from the suspicion that in all} nowadays, to adopt any change cases success depends on good which proves that its gain ex practical statesmanship and the ceeds its loss; what the enthus-will to learn from the success or lasts object to is the operation failure of experiment:

One cannot but follow these of weighing the one against the other; and accordingly, their distant controversies with inter first act has always been to sup-jest, but we ourselves seem alspot." preas all criticism. This seems ways to be an exceptional case. rather like a body-line method How can we apply the lessons At The Ald School Dinner, of political bowling.

(derived front homogenous and Old Eatonians.

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LIMERICK There was a giraffe who said, "What is the use of my tea strong and hqtfit

With a neck of such length It loace its strength And is cold ere it reaches

the

the overthrow of the Soviet regime deceive themselves, and others. on the one hand, and the establish- If we pay attention to them, an ment of reasonable political rela-we did before 1914, they will once tions, accompanied by maximum again land us in war, with-izade-

general sense of insecurity.

They Kept On Talking:

Is it to be wondered at that in

these circumstances economie war fare broke out in every quarter, and armaments, began to grow?

And what did these precious They con- statesmen do thent. tinued to shirk all the main pro- blems which confronted them--both, political and economic-and” start-

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Belgrade.

Three strangers came, to the" house of Ivan Viak, of Subotitz,

ed a series of discussions about the and asked him to put them up for armaments of which those pro- the night.

blems were the immediate eauše??

more

From all over the world polltt-He did so and gave them a clans, accompanied by worth it good dinner, with wine, as well During the night "Ivan' was At any rate it seems quite na permanent populations to our

admirals and generals, arrived at], tural that Sir Henry Samuel, own cosmopolitan' and fluctuating

NOT WHAT HE MEANT

Geneva, and started talking about awakened by something cold press- who is the leader of the Liberal inhabitants? Our invention of a

"Why

tombs, tanks, and artillery. Newing against his forehead. It was didn't you run

the muzzle of a revolver. up, the party which throve on denuncia kind of perpetual dictatorship

and pressing dangers, which had target when I blew the whistle?" not hitherto been thought of,

The guesta were three notòrl- tion of privilege, and which has for the purpose of securing per- become almost extinct because sonal freedom is paradoxical; What do you take me for a floom light; no agreements were reached

shouted the sergeant to the recruit suddenly appeared in a menacing money and, when Ivan said he had ous bandits. They demanded-

It has fulfilled its mandate, but it does work better than any

fing squirrel?" asked the recruit.

none, proceeded to search- the should have recently been mov-alternative that has been pro-

or seemed possible; and gradually house-In vain. ed to consider some of the old posed. The difficulties of pro-

public opinion in many countries. Then the leader pressed his re conceptions, and how we stand miscuous naturalisation need not Facts You Did Not Know became more and more exacerbated volver against. Ivan's head once in relation to them now. Sir Her-preclude a residential register

and alarmed.Vary) bert belongs to the generation which might confer a denizen For cleaning spark plugs a device The International economic war" shall, count ten," he said. “If that was fired to enthusiasm by ship on which could be based has been invented that subject them to wae intensified, and armaments you have not told us by then where the last perorations of Gladston- some social amelioration which blasts of a cleansing compound while steadily increased, while the poll your money is I shall shoot s lan eloquence; and he has no de would be better than our present they are in a receptacle, the operatielans, the admirals, and the He counted ten. Ivan remained lusions as to the distaste of our neglect of the whole social proton resembling sand blasting, generala talked. era for what Mr. Gladstone blem. Special solutions for

Approximately 90 per cen

This Dangerous Furce

"Now I believe you when you said in 78." He analyses, the special circumstances is the mo

cent of all motion • picture films shown in the Alas! they are talking still..1 say you have no money," said the abstract word freedom into dern word of wisdom.

Philippines are American productions, am convinced that the present bandit. "You are "good fellow with Chinese, French and Italian neDisarmament Confe

has and it is a pity are so poor counting for the remaining ten per become a definite men cent

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