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THEN AND NOW

Many who were present at the Jubilee celebrations in Londen will have vivid recollections of the King's Coronation on Jane - 22 |1911. -..

Boys and girls of eight, who saw it at a time when memory is more retentive than in middle-age.

are only in the thirties to day

EUROPE AFTER

STRESA

DANGERS OF BRITISH

ISOLATION

ENGLAND'S POLICY FOR THE

FUTURE

(By Brig. Gen. E. L. Spears)

the curious impression we will. A situation was rapid- „VERYONE. Can remember strength we can display when

Of the eight senior, generals who, took part in the Coronation obtained by looking throughly developing in which the only procession only two, Sir Ian and the wrong end of a telescope half-formulated idea of striking Sir Bruce Hamilton, survive. Large objects appear exceeding-a bargain with Germany at our Twelve of the twenty-one Cabi-ly small and things close by expense might easily have net Ministers of the then Asquith infinitely remote

spread and taken root. Administration. are dead The To go abroad to-day is to

A Temptation survivors are Me Lloyd George, realise that we in England seem We have all that Germany, Lord Crewe, Lord. Beauchamp to people in other countries to could wish for, colonies, mar- Lord Reading, Sir Herbert Sammel have been looking through the kets, sea power. Why not, the Mr. Churchill, Mr. McKenna Mr.big end of the telescope at other nations might argue, tell objects which to them loom her to satisfy her ambitions by very Inge indeed.

taking what she wanted from That at least was the impress, and leave them in peace? sion I gained from conversa-The temptation to gain time, to tions with men in very responsecure a period of peace in this No foreign kings were present sible positions on the Continent way, might easily have proved at the Coronation, though the only a few days ago. -

Runciman and Mr. John Burus.

FUTURE RULERS

Kaiser had come over the month before to attend the unveiling of the Queen Victoria Memorial în

Facing A Crisis

irresistible had the result of Stress been to confirm the im-

It is a commonplace to say pression of our weakness and front of Buckingham Palace. that we and Continental nations detachment from European pro-

Many foreign Princes, however, have been looking at Germany blems.

through different ends of our] That is what isolation might were there. Among them; werk

telescopes for some time past, jhave meant, and that is the several future Emperors and Kings

but this applies also to other potential danger from which we Fand one Heir-presumptive, the

things the Conference at have escaped. Crown Prince of Germany.

Stresa. for example.

Our delegates found on their Three of the future rulers were

Seen from England that arrival at Stresa a mental at- little more than boys. The eldest gathering seemed somewhat remosphere whose chilliness was the Archduke Charles, the mote, merely one more of those belied the warm Italian air.

The China Mail members of the League had not last Emperor of Austria. The political discussions between The attitude of the other parti- the slightest intention of sub-second was the future statesmen, resulting as usual in ipants seemed almost ominous, mitting to that voluntary dis- Alexander of Jugoslavia.

a communique that to the aver-but the very strong team we had Hong Kong, Thursday, June 24, 1930-cipline when their own interests The third was the Crown Prince age person meant very little fortunately sent out was equal were concerned. The institu Baris of Bulgaria. He is the only beyond asserting the obvious to the occasion, and the Prime tion which was to obviate the one to have a throne, to-day. with emphasis.

Minister played a particularly

*

The Impotent League

possibility of nations taking

matters in dispute into their RIVER JOURNEY own hands was very soon shown

It certainly dawned on few happy role. We were able to people that England faced at make clear our solidarity with Stresa one of the major crises the other Great Powers in sup-

British Defences"

It is becoming more and more evident every day that the to be quite powerless to inter- A ̈ picturesque, feature of the in its history. We were and port of the collective peace sys- League, as an instrument for yene when one of its members ceremony was the journey of the of this I have been assured by tern. preserving the peace of the in fact decided to do so; and Lords and Commons to Westmin-responsible Continental states world, is fast losing any

au-leach

successive repetition of fster by river. It was reminiscent men-threatened with nothing The communique issued at thority it ever possessed. It is that course which could ap- of the days when the Thames was less than isolation

the end of the Conference re now almost a commonplace for Parently and, as it now ap London's highway. <?

This is exactly what afected a vastly improved situa- Powers with their own axes to Pears, actually be carried out Steamers Text Cadogan Pier, dwindling but Focal minority tion The danger of Europe's grind deliberately to flout its with impunity has further Chelsea, at 8 am The weather are clamouring for in their falling into a system of all- considered decisions, and there weakened the League's authort-

was unpropitions. Peers, with blindness, but it is something ances was averted, and the hope: is absolutely nothing that can ty

their robes huddled round them, we should greatly dread.

But of establishing effective guaran be done about it. Italy with the The analogy of a civil police carried their coronets in their why, it may be asked should tees of peace within the League Corfu incident, Japan with her force is sometimes applied to hands. The members of Parla-such a possibility have arisen emerged once more. Manchurian campaign; and now the League by those trying to ment, all in court dress, Turried suddenly?

At the subsequent meeting of Italy again in Abyssinia: «all outline its general conception into shelter.

The answer is that it was not the Council of the League af have displayed that any greatland capabilities infortunate After the ceremony in the Abbey

sudden. As we were looking at Geneva the Foreign Secretary, Power may with complete im-ly the analogy is false. Every they returned home by the same Europe through the wrong end who had previously been much punity ignore alike the recom-civil police force has the full route, exhausted by the long hours of our telescope we had been criticised by Continental mendations and censures of the authority of the civil law be of waiting and footsore from the missing a good deal of what opinion, took up an attitude League; and at each successive hind it, and the authority and pinch of unaccustomed buckled had been under close observa-League. Thanks to his lead. was going on; but we ourselves which may well have saved the step the prestige of the the means to use force to see shoes. League has weakened while that its decisions are obeyed! In return for a small payment hours. The fact that we could vote in condemnation of Ger tion by our Continental neigh-there was an almost unanimous successive withdrawals and The League has been associated they were allowed to keep a pot make up our minds either as many's action in establishing threats of withdrawal have fur- too much in the minds of cercarious memento: the cane-bot-regards an armaments, policy or by conscription an army of over ther helped to render the tain earnest people as a pacifist tomed backless chairs on which as to what we were prepared to 500,000 men in violation of her League of Nations impotent as institution, holding up its they sat during the service. a world force. Of course, the hands in horror at the ab- whole thing is a tragedy of thejstract idea of force in any first water; but it is in the im-shape or form. Nobody sug- perfections of the League, not gests that the League should be as an ideal but as a concrete an instrument of military entity, that the solution may might, flaunting its powers of

The Continental point of mined. be found

destruction and generally roam-

view was well put in an article To-day the situation. provid Briefly, it was created on the ing the world like a hired bully

inspired by high authority ined we keep steadfastly in at a side-show. But until it is Jassumption that all its

41 may say I'm regarded as quite the Popola di Roma, in which the the necessity of playing bers would play fair. Those

in a position to deal with of the stenographer's position. Tve Everything will remain flaid and security, is not unhopeful.

smart, announced the applicant for following sentences appeared part in achieving collective vague and impracticable things

fenders against its code in the won several prizes in crossword and unstable so long as we do not know called "sanctions were devised only manner they will recognise jigsaw puzzles, and word picture com what is in the mind of the British

(Continued on Page 107 as a safeguard, but at best ther by force--and by the strength petitions lately.

"Yes, but I want someone who can were only a very remote safe of its superior force be in a guard; and in the first burst of position to insist on its deci-ed the prospective pojes retura

employer. idealism in which the League sions being accepted, it will "Oh, this was during office hours. was created, it is safe to say never enter the realms of prac-said the gr that the possibility of their tical usefulness. It will con ever being called into action was tinue to bleat its ineffective re- considered to be too remote to monstrances and censures, and Teacher: "What is the feminine of itresolate. To be irresolate is the be envisaged as practical poli-the bad boy in the case will bachelor tics: But at the time many continue to snap his fingers and Boy: The feminine of bachelor is public men with a sense of do as he likes.

lady-in-waiting reality warned the League that Nobody with my nous at all unless it was in a position to advocates a return to the bad enforce its decisions its in- old days of individual "action, potence would soon be estab and right being interpreted as

TREAT-

Your Daily Smile!

"Did you summer in the cente "No, I simmered in the city."

Smart in the Office:

Young Webster

contribute towards European treaty obligations. Had the security was causing much un-League failed to assert the favourable comment

sanctity of treaties its value- even as a moral force would- have been most seriously under-

Lulation's Peril

Government. The fortamate thing

is that it does not appear to know itself what it wants; it certainly is

anxious that peace should be main- tained, but is not certain whether: to- morrow it could or would defend peace by force

SKELETON. FOUND IN HOUSE

Body Found Behind Locked Door

It is no use being strong if you are

equivalent of being wenk

Uncertainty and irritation. A skeleton dressed in Euro- were greatly increased by the pean clothes, believed to be that action of the Foreign Secretary of a Chinese, was discovered at in going to Berlin without con-2 pm yesterday by a hou Mr.Webster at Home "Papa, what is an egotist?”

sulting the Great Powers equal-named Ms Thik Sang on the An egotist, any boy, is a man wholly affected with ourselves, by cond floor of 588, Fak which you intended to tell him about conscription This was ken The far had be

to be a breach of solidarity: several months: tending to prove that we were

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