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PEACE PRIZE-WINNERS

The award of this year's and last year's Nobel Peace Prizes to Mr. Arthur Henderson and Sir Norman Angell coincides with the most war- like moment in the history of post- war Europe.

A cynic might be tempted to point out that failure is the chief qualification for a Nobel Prize win jner.

LORD BIRKENHEAD

IN 1926

DOMINION PREMIERS

IN LONDON

PENETRATING COMMENTS ON

IMPERIAL AFFAIRS.

(By his son, the present Lord Birkenhead)

London element has been provided by thể. THE late Lord Birkenhead, the representatives of the Irish Free Of the previous post-war winners hardworked Secretary for State. But this must not be

Gustav Stresemann died a bitterly

disappointed man: Briand is for- India, besides daily attendance misunderstood. Their position and is, of course, more difficult than gotten by his countrymen: few upon the Coal Committee

advising on the economic pro-that of any other Dominion. The people understood, much less reblems that arose out of the fatal only opposition they have to meet member, why General Dawes was strike, was called upon in the is Republican and anti-British given a prize.

autumn of 1926 to play a pro-land as you well know, the policy The new recipients are no excep minent part in the Imperial Con-of every Government must in tion. Both men are ardent pacifists. ference.

jevitably be conditioned upon the

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THE GREAT ILLUSIONIST

But neither Mr. Henderson's work for disarmament nor Sir Norman tance. The Irish Free State was tion...

It was of exceptional impor-point of view of its own Opposi Angell's "Great Illusion" have abat-represented for the second time; "They have raised tiresome ed the war fever in Europe.

moreover, the presence of General points, frequently being in a Hertzog, the South African minority of one, but their manner. Premier, was awaited with some has throughout been extremely Sir Norman, whose real name is anxiety as he had been at pains courteous. Cosgrave at the first Ralph Norman Angell Lane, is the to gratify his extreme Nation meeting said on behalf of the complete Internationalist. He was alist supporters by insisting on Free State that they desired to educated at a French lycee and at the Union's right to secede from see this Empire great, and pros Geneva University. He has ranch- the Empire if it wished to do 80. perous. ed in the Wild West of America.

In 1905 he was appointed man-

Dominion Statesmen

They have all expressly recog nised the Crown as the common

ager of the Paris Daily Mail, and Fortunately, all went well link of Empire, and an Irish became for several years the "sonny Lord Birkenhead wrote on Oct Minister is to lay a wreath on boy" of Lord Northcliffe. Too much 21, 1926, to Lord Irwin in India: the Cenotaph side by side with |book-writing put an end to hla We are living at the moment his colleagues from the other

whole-time journalism.

in a whirl of business springing Dominions. When you recall the

Your Daily Smile!! The children were arguing.

"It is "It isn't."

Strike's Aftermath

To-day, he lives on a little island from the Imperial Conference state of affairs which existed only in the Thames estuary, in a house There are lunches, and dinners four years ago, I think you will built mainly by his own hands. His every night, and innumerable agree that the Irish settlement is working better than in our age in the form of pensions cal-hobby is sailing. He salis danger speeches. Hertzog made

ously.

observation which you will have most extravagant hopes we could culated on actuarial principles. He makes more money out of his read and which caused anxiety in have anticipated."

During the war and the engu- ing dislocation of industry not lectures than out of his books. For some quarters. I attach no im-

The long drawn-out Coal Strike only did the number of appli-years he has been a popular lecturer portance to it myself. After all cants for help increase beyond all in America. Pacifism is raising his having regard to his record, he

was bound to say something to came to an end in November, calculated ratios, but the fact lecturing stock in Britain also. satisfy his own supporters in 1926. Lord Birkenhead was now

Short, sandy-haired and impish, that there were hundreds of

South Africa. I thought that able to take a brief holiday, and The very interesting cables thousands of out-of-works who he cloaks a certain hard brilliance behind enormous horn-rimmed

he said the very least that could to give some thought to the legis were only on the streets because

lation that must be passed to- that have been sent out to us they had been, giving their ser

have been expected. glasses.

"President Cosgrave made a prevent the recurrence of Ruch during the last few days show vices to, the State in the ranks

good very

little speech-ruinous follies on the part of very clearly that the Western of the Army made it impossible

the trade unions. thought from our point world of Europe and America, to tell such men that their only resource was to apply for what no matter how emphatically the was still called "pauper relief." politicians may assert their isola- Public funds had to be used to tionism or nationalism, are in the the extent of about a hundred it grip of a movement which is and fifty million pounds.

* * stronger than any individual only were the public finances.

In the Middle upset, but under the guise of administration, and wider than such titles as "transitional bene-

The visitor called at Mr. Jackson's any of the narrow nationalisms ft" the boundary line between house and asked the butler if he could

see his master. that are still the popular topics the actuarial pension and chari- "I'm afraid he's not down yet," re-Conference:

table relief was obliterated. plied the batler airily. of perorations in local elections.table

The caller began to lose his patience Prime Minister of Canada, hag/alarm the certainty that our two "Mackenzie King, the Liberal Prospecta, But I view with During the present year Far-

"Vat, vat!" he exclaimed. "Yester- The outstanding facts of the

main measures will be, the first liament is re-establishing - order (day you say I cannot see him because responded. enormously to the situation are that the civilised by a clear division between the he is not up. To-day you say I cannot civility, respect and hospitality Trade Unions, the second to in- to curtail the powers of the world has revolted from the final earned pension or unemployment see him because he is not down. Then, which he has received in this crease the powers of the Peers. sanction of the competitive capi- allowance and the gratuitous oh, when vill he be in the middle?" talism that rested on the maxim "public assistance" which is to be Approximately 260 varieties of food "if a man will not work, neither administered by committees of are canned in the United States.

various local bodies under the with mulligatawny made up of what shall he eat." Modern sensibili-control of Lord Betterton, who is left. ty cannot stand the sight of a admittedly a master of the whole man sitting down in the gutter subject.

"

Not even if it isn't."

of view admirable. In fact, there. He wrote on Nov. 25 to Lord was nothing in it from first to win: "You ask me about our last which was not extremely trade union legislation. I think. tell you it is, 'cos Mammy says encouraging.

that the Committee will recom I could not Help is, and if Mummy says it is, it la feeling what complete justificamend the strictest possible con

tion his presence and that of his trol over picketing. It will re- ** commend an explicit declaration colleagues afforded for our much that a General Strike is illegal. criticised Irish policy.”

"I am not very much alarmed On Nov. 4 he wrote again to by the effect these proposals are Lord Irwin about the Imperial likely to have upon our domestic

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country. He has never been in I am, and always have been, any way troublesome, and when alarmed that we may find our Hertzog propounded a formula selves involved in another Feers is laying stress on the indepen and People election, in which all dence of the self-governing the active anti-Conservative Dominions, King said that he forces in the country may estab Orator: "Now, is there anybody in could not possibly go back to lish a fugitive common foothold.. What Mr. Lloyd George is now the audience who would like to ask a, Canada with a formula containing The persistency of George or the lack of opportunity to earn proposing is the further step of question?"

Younger the late Lord Younger, Volce: "Yes; when is the band go providing work for the unem

chairman of the Unionist party la living be the cause of his dis-

ployed, so that they may earning to play?" Itress.

their own "unemployed benefit." The recognition of the claim of The difficulty of course is that

to starve, whether his own faulf

a man to get food on the ground they must either, be doing some

of his humanity and not, of his thing that people will pay for, in

LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES

this word.

Parado

Of 1914 "In my opinion. It is more organisation] landed us with this antisfactory to us to have a obligation when he manufactured Liberal Government in power in week by week machine-made Canada, as long as these are the resolutions in order to embarrass sentiments of the Prime Minis the Coalition. And the incredi

capacity to earn money has a which case they may be compet. There was a clean bill of health ter than a Conservative For ble folly of Salisbury in advising- long history in England stretch-fing with the men employed in in the Colony for the 24 hours and the presence at an Imperial Con- the Unionist Peers to dismiss the ing back to the days of Queen the ordinary way, or else they ea Thursday. Elizabeth, when his claim was may be doing unremunerative].

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