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WESTMINSTER WOOING

Misa Jenny Lee and Mr. Aneurin Bevan, M.P. are Parliament's first matrimonial "pair."

They were members together from 1929 until the General. Elec tion of 1931, when Miss Lee Was defeated. The Runcimans and the Mosleya were married before they eat together in Parliament.

OXFORD'S GLAMOUR IN FOREIGN EYES

SOME

MISCONCEPTIONS REMOVED

OVERWHELMING FORMALITIES

(By Adolf Schlepegrell)

The writer of this article has much the same way as the German spent two years at Oxford as a schoolboy. He will usually my German Rhodes Scholar, and is that he has various interests, but Other women members have suc-secretary of the Oxford Union that he does not know yet what.

Society.

OXFORD

ceeded their husbands. There have

he is going to do, been other Parliamentary romances,

London. While the German university is but not with two members in the

XFORD enjoya a good but a place where specialists are being principal parts,

strange reputation abroad. produced, and where people go be Mr. W. S. Morrison, M.P., met The name is known to almost every cause they have made up their his wife in the secretaries room of German, certainly to every student, minds what their profession is the House. Mr. Morrison was then but it is connected with rather going to be, and because they want private secretary to Sir Thomas vague and undefined 'ideas. to be trained for that profession, Inskip: his wife acted in a similar Everybody knows that there is a Oxford is like the upper forms of capacity to Mrs. Hilton Philipson boat race between Oxford and the German school-a place that Mr. Geoffrey Mander married Cambridge. Everybody immediate prepares the young man for life in Miss Grylls, who had been both ally connects the word Oxford with general rather than for any parti- political secretary and a Liberal the words "sport" and "gentleman."cular profession.

candidate.

AFFINITIES

".

Most people think of Oxford as

The German student visits the being a nice old town where B small number of extremely wealthy become a lawyer.

university because he wants to 2 doctor, 公司 Miks Lee and Mr. Bevan have and mostly aristocratic

young engineer, or a schoolmaster.

The much in common. Both are miners' people lead a life of luxury, and English undergraduate goes to children; both are gifted with fiery, leisure,

Oxford because he wants to get a earnest eloquence.

The average German does not broader general education either While Miss Lee went out of the think about Oxford's value na an before he enters a profession Socialist Party with the I.L.P., Mr.academic institution. Only among which has no direct connection Bevan remained in, but at heart he those who have some connection with his studies, or sometimes eovenia is just as meuh a Left Winger as with the German universities, or before he begins to think about“

who have more detailed knowledge his career.

she la.

College Discipline

This fact impresses the foreiga jstudent a good deal. From the day when he entered his university he had concentrated all his working his future.

Misa Lee's oratorical style resem-of England, is Oxford known as bles Mr. Maxton's (who dandled her jone of the greatest centres of on his knee when she was a baby), learning, She has all his gesture, gently! swinging her right arm by her side The German student who finds and thinking around of experts on finance for the as she leans forward; bending her his way to Oxford is at first some profession, he had already felt a The China Mail

purpose of making some rational left arm till her fingers teach her what overwhelmed by a number of lawyer or a doctor; and in Oxford settlement about German Repa-shoulder and shooting the arm out Hong Kong, Saturday, Oct. 13, 1934. rations. The absurd provisions!

Не formalities.

has in dramatic gesture.

finished he finds that all these questions of the Versailles Treaty, which!

Mr. Bevan is Welsh, ready-witted of the many German university

school and left home to go to one are still very distant problema. stipulated for payments that land fluent. would have been beyond the

In their earlier. Parliamentary in which he was in his own master.

towns, where he has led a free life!!

Lectures Abroad reach of all the Great Powers

so left days both were regarded as some-He took a room wherever he liked, graduate decides what he wants to While at Oxford the under- The unfortunate death of M. put together, and even

what precocious. Louis Barthou, the French the door open for them to be in-

Misa Lee in her maiden speech his time or when he came home in then based on a certain amount of and nobody cared how he spent de in later 'life. His decision is Foreign Affairs, creased, were to be greatly in lectured the House on the Budget the evening.

duced, and other War Debts in proportion. It was M. Barthou if she was teaching one of her

sensational

M. Barthou

Minister of

brings to an untimely end a

Afterwards,

Everyone can

Mr. Beyan's most

which

Your Daily Smile!

ditches.

CeЯRDE takers

to Oxford or Cambridge.

ог

The foreigner also realises after

In Oxford all this is very difwill be much better founded than knowledge, and in most cases it rareer which was of challengingat in a very incisive speech not school classes arithmetic. interest to Englishmen, though

ferent. merely slew the scheme but dan effort was an attack on Mr. Lloyd work is given to him, and he is 16 The undergradsste⠀ he was never anything of anced on the corpse.

looked after by his college, his the decision of the schoolboy.

Once understood, this system Anglophile. There is always a

seems the most admirable start for pathos about a career of vivid merely to save the face of the George on the Coal Bill,

+ ง ม colour which ends with a mark Conference, a set of admirable rattled "LG to a degree never supervised in many wayɛ.

a successful life; which unidr His freedom is limited, and the resolutions about currency were equalied. of interrogation. A man of

young German feels that suddenly tunately, will always be reserved

jonly to those whora wealth force and originality, he had adopted unanimously, but which

he has gone back to his school days. eminent scholarship enable te gó reached the opportunity of test-were afterwards ignored with

The discipline and the many regu- ing his powers with his policy of equal unanimity.

lations of a college are most what has come to be rather see now that the original propos- There are 2,500,000 golfers in the strange to the foreigner, and many | quaintly called "an Eastern Lo-als would have saved German United States, unless carno"; and at the moment when Industry, and with it much of have overlooked a few in the deeper may feel that they are unworthy some time that he can find in Ox- ford that type of university educa- of the earnest young student.

tion which he has left behind. He the fate of his scheme was in European prosperity; all that we

But these things are only out- the balance he has been shot have learned in the interventing

can get the education of the expert, ward signs, and once the foreign and he can get it from men of the down through the mere accident years is that the rejection of the Pastor Jones: "Brethren, we must do

realised that of happening to be in the same due to any failure to apprehend

proposed pacification was not somethin' to remedy de status quo." undergraduate has

highest academic standards, - Deacon: "Brother Jones, what am de during the school years not only jcarriage with a visiting monarch

the learning, but almost the entire high academical qualities, of Ox- It is, perhaps, a pity that the who had come to receive hospi-that they would have the desired status quo?"

a deliberate rede mens we's in."

Pastor: "Dat, brother. en Latin for education of the young Englishman ford are so often forgotten and result, but to tality and to talk business,

lies in the hands, not of his underestimated. Oxford is clear- The type of barrister-journal-jection of the result as a thing ist-politician is very much more Lloyd George's first major de to be desired. Genoa was Mr.

parenta, but of other people, hely divided into a higher school “Yes,” suld the young wife, proudly, will be able to understand them. common in France than in Eng feat, and his reputation never re-father always gives something expen-

and a university in the Con- land. Rules of procedure in the covered. Another casualty, was the when he makes presente."

No "Hangry” Looks tinental sense. They are both" of Courts give more opportunity to the belief in International Conaway, the year husband replied plea- and to the somewhat inferior treat is so much more striking, and is "Bo I discovered when he gave you The key to Oxford's discipline the very first class, but the school the man who possesses the same ferences as a means of getting antly. rhetorical ability that is useful

Jon the platform; the signed ar

anything done:

of

A Name for It

An Example

Oh, Oh!

ment of people who, after all, are so new to the foreign student that practically grown up, lies in the that he is apt to overlook the unf ticle is the rule rather than the The second occasion was Some Hollywood actors were discuss public school that a university like versity at first. exception, and some men like course the recent Disarmament ing loneliness when one. amted ege- Oxford can be understood. In a The system of teaching also re- Clemenceau have entirely built Conference, the failure of which maniae, remarked: "I could stand be

Personal Pars

sity. Most lectures do not teach

undergraduate more than what he can get out of books.

(Continued on Page 10.)

up a great reputation by their has left everything worse than ing on a desert island with the one I Way, it is a continuation of the flects the school and the univer-

school. signed articles before they have it was, before. There was a time love."

"Wouldn't you rather have someone This impression is strengthened the gone into what we call political when the conjuncture of Strese with you?" quickly asked another of by the fact that, with few excep life at all; the rapid changes of mann as. representative of Ger the party.

tione, the undergraduate at Oxford Ministries not only gives more many, and Briand of France,

is free from all material troubice. men a chance, but is favourable something solid might have been

The German student has not seen to the ambitious young barrister achieved; but the moment of op-

such thoroughly happy and con- who is willing to act as the portunity slipped past. The ad-

The Rev. and Mrs. R. N. Bland tented faces since he left schoo). mouthpiece of his party and vent of Hitler, with so

many arrived in the Colony yesterday by Oxford does not know the hungry learn the art of administration militarist declarations behind

the 8.6. Changte.

look of the young student who by practicing it as the head of him, made schenies of Disarma

has not had a warm meal for days; a Department. The system of ment appear academic; for even

It is officially notified that Senor Oxford has never seen the small political groups also gives if the recent pacificatory speeches Trinidad Eugenio Lacaya, Honorary who toils in a workshop all day and an opening to the man of legal are 'absolutely genuine, all professional training, who can Europe has a feeling that the Consul for Nicaragus and Salvador sits over his books at night. hardly be accused of inconsis- Fuhrer is liable to go off at a

A comfortable living, sufficient

at Hong Kong resumed charge of

man

tency when he joins a new com- tangent; and nobody is inclined the Consulates on October 1. food, some books, and a fair

bination in which it would in to take chances.

Dr. Lo Wen-kan, former Minis- amount of amusement, are essen- any case be impossible for him The "Eastern Locarno" nego-ter of Jifice, arrived in the Co-tal parts of the life of the Oxford

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PALACE HOTEL ROBBED

Indian Watchinan Faces Charge

CUTLERY AND CROCKERY MISSING

pen, the

to get more than a share of his tiation has not been fully dis-lony yesterday by the R.M.S. Em undergraduate. There is also that Alegations of larceny of crockery own policy. M. Barthou had been closed to the public. From the Minister of Public

Works time of the famous speech of preas of Canada from Shanghai, extreme luxury which has created

Dr. Lo left almost immediately for But it is soon realised that this is Bukan Singh, were made at the a reputation for Oxford abroad, and cutlery from the Palace Hotel by ·än Indian night-watchfan (twice); of the Interior; of Posts Sir Austen Chamberlain at Gen- Canton. and Telegraphs; and of Justice.eva, the British Government has

unimportant, while the large num-Kowloon Magistracy yesterday by ter; but only during the last in the East of Europe; that ne- the as. Conte Verde, which left He had twice been Prime Minis-disclaimed all wish to interfere Among the passengers on board ber of scholarships, together with Mrs Oxberry, the proprietress of the rules about admittance and the Hotel. The defendant was also year, as Foreign Minister, had gotiation would have required no he become known internationally visit of M. Barthou to London here on Thursday for Europe was residence, show that brains and charged with larceny of a pair of as a man with a policy of his The catch lay in M. Barthou's Mr. Wang Ying, the elder son of work and not money are the deter gloves, the property of A. Bower, own and the power to carry it proposal to include Russia in the Mr. Wang Ching-wei, President of mining factors of the university manager of the Hotel, larceny of a

The difference, however, between gold mounted fountain pe Tout

"Western Locarno," on conditions the Executive Yuan, Mr. Wang is So far as British policy is con-at present not known Whatever on his way to Germany, where he the care-free life of the young property of 1. S. Beach, formerly cerned, for the Eastern Le might have been acceptable will enter a military college.man at Oxford and the sorrowful of the Falace Hotel and larceny of days of the German student is not a blanket, the property of Lai King, carno” is only of indirect inter- twenty years ago, it is quite ver-

easily forgotten, est to us, he has twice been the tain that with all the informa-1M)

a boy employed at the Hotel. There Training For Life

were alternative charges of receiv protagonist in defeating the pro- tion we now have about the de-plate again the issue of peace or posals of our Government very disive events in the crisis of 1914 war for England in the hands of There is another indication that ing on all counts. completely, and with an obvious and the crucial importance of either of those two Governments Oxford is but the last stage of the Mr. C. D'Almada Castro, who ap relish. The first occasion, was the mobilisation orders issued by in any case the proposed pact school education. The Oxford peated for the defendant entered a

the ques- ples of hot gulity to all charges. at the Genos Conference, to the Russian Tsar and the Ger appears to have been decisively undergraduate answers the which Mr Lloyd George went man Kaiser, nothing will ever in rejected by Germany and Potion: What are you going to do After evidence the case was with a very distinguished retinue duce the people" of England to land. ↑

when you have finished here?” in journed until Tuesday aft