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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, JULY 8, 1935

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Though a second assessment of death duties within seven years will undoubtedly hit the estate of the late Duke of Richmond, and Gordon very heavily, there is no danger that the new Duke will Gans to sell either Goodwood itself or Gordon Castle.****

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"LIVES OF GREAT MEN...

HERO-WORSHIP AND "DE-BUNKING"

OUTSTANDING CAREERS SEEN IN RETROSPECT

(By Very Rev. W. R. Inge)

HE world knows nothing of highest? The fame of Darwin is greatest men That has worn best, though I have no

Actually, the entail en Goodwood may be true, but how can we tell patience with the cuis of criticism makes it impossible for the owner if we know nothing about them who relp at the heels of Tenny- we cannot tell whether they weral Son; and as for Gladstone, I was Ito dispose of it

But there is good chance brought up to think him a wicked Although the

great Gordon Castle estates have not all that, by the time the world knows Radical, but what would we tirely recovered from the last about them, they have ceased to not give to have him back now? Our consciences and our purses death duties there are still im-

be great. mense areas of the Scottish pro-Aman usually does his best would be safe in his keeping perties which can be raided by the work just before he is found out! But the great naturalist is the secure of immortality. if he has done anything very well most

shaken his there is a conspiracy to prevent Mendel has no more

A faze than Einstein has injured him from doing it again. talent, says Goethe, is formed in Newton. stillness; he adds, however, that

character is formed in stream of the world

There are two opposite ter- of the giants seem to have had old dencies-her-worship, and a dheads on young shoulders, and to sire the pall heroes off their have aged prematurely. Napoleos

The former appeals no doubt, suffered from cancer pedestals to romantics, the latter to realists long before his death, but be movement seems to have been nearly played s great

At Goodwood itself it seems in evitable that a further selection of art treasures will have to under the hammer.

The late Duke hated selling them He stoutly refused to sell two of the finest Canalettos in exist- ence-river views of old Richmond House standing in what are now Whitehall-gardens.

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One or two more remarks may be made about greatness. Some

The beautiful tapestries in the occurs, whether in the world of out before Waterived Royal apartments at Goodwood are ideas or of politics, men choose erals were dismayed at his in- Jalso not likely to survive the work. their representative, and attribute] decision during the Moscow cam

If he is apaign of 1812; and he was only

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The everything to him. jings of the death duties.

Alexander, the Great was ab- rooms reserved for members of the Prophet, his disciples make him a 52 when he died in 1821.

those which other precocious genius. If he Royal family on their visits, topes on which to hang their own

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them and were called the "Tapes. They think the best, so that it be had lived eve

comes almost impossible to be Napoleon he would probably have said altered the whole course of his- sure what he really

tory. For instance, be ́ would The Earl of March, who The China Mail dispose of the earlier treaty by try Rooms."

thought the suggestion that the Stresa

On a small scale an entirely very likely have destroyed Rome. agreement should imply a unity becomes Duke of Richmond, is of of front between Italy, France a very different type from his fetitious character. like George That microbe at Babylon little father. Like many of his genera-A. Birmingham's Generel John knew what it was doing. There Hong Kong, Monday, July 8, 1935. and Britain outside Europe.

Britain need not resent the tion, the late Duke had an abhor-Regan, may become a legendary was no sige of failing power in It is generally believed Julius Caesar, who was about 56- allegation that the British Emrence for anything mechanical,

The new Duke was born with a that Hindenburg did not deserve when he was murdered.

The case of Shakespeare is re-.- pire was built up without re gard to the opinion of the world great mechanical aptitude. When much of the credit for the defeat!

Why did he stop To embark on that topic would at Christ Church he often rode in of the Russians at the Masuria markable.

writing plays after producing" be to engender heat in a situa-motor-cycle races.

"The Tempest?" He was only 47. Luck In Politics tion that calls for coolness.

e-and he had five more years to Signor Mussolini's speeches,

In politics, especially in

Why has nobody suggested whatever their immediate pur Whatever may have been the

volutions, there is great luck in live pose, are not calculated to re methods of all countries in the

being under the tree when the that he was writing the works of

Lenin's Francis Bacon? to fall Two ladies were attending a con- apple is ready lieve the anxiety as regards past in acquiring colonial pos-

Posterity Cannot · · Judge. They looked Once Italy had sessions, a radical change has Abyssinia.

published utterances do not-givej agreed to submit to arbitration been wrought by agreements cert at the town hall.

renouncing war as an instru- about them

one lady, the impression of much ability, Another reflection is that pos "Nice building” said

but be is almost a god in Bussia terity cannot judge of the over- the frontier incidents of whichiment of policy and by thewhat style of architecture is it?"

“I'm not quite sure," said the other He was a ruthless fanatic, at a whelming personal impression she complains it was a reason- pledges given and the machin.

when ruthless fanati-that many great men have exercis- moment

ed: A good example is the elder able assumption that the wishery set up for the peaceful lady "but I think it's Reminiscence."

cism was the winning card. Well-Timed

and William Pitt, Earl of Chatham How far were Buddias for peace would be the domin-settlement of disputes. The

“Immpson's address was well-timed

Mohammed created by their fol-Es portraits show his hawk-like-" ant note of any public utterance better mood was illustrated in

the recent proceedings

wasn't it?"

How far was Socrates features, his large nose, his glas Italy might Geneva in which, as Mr. Eden

"Yes, two thirds of the audience lowers? the subject. continue to strengthen her said. "both parties had accept-had their watches out before he created by Plato, and Samuel ing eyes; but we rely on contem

that led the co-operation of the finished" USE

forces in East Africa.

Salad Comfort Italy and Abyssinia are men- right she had reserved to her-League in seeking a settlement"

Mrs. Jones: "I don't believe OUR

but aggressive talk of hers of the League of Nations, standing over

a hot stove in MOTH war would cease. But recently and their disputes as to fron-summertime"

Mrs. Smith: "Yes, there's nothing at Cagliari. Signor Mussolini tier incidents and as to the de PROOF while affirming that the Italian limitation of boundaries can be like salad comfert.“

people had old and new accounts peacefully settled by the ma- BAGS

to settle. declared that no nochinery which the League pro- tice would be taken of what vides. Italy would make a su- might be said "beyond opreme mistake if. after heri frontiers." because Italy was earlier acceptance of the offices! the exclusive judge of its own of the League, she imagined interests His later speech in that she could defy the public Sardinia, with its reiteration of opinion that Signor Mussolini contempt for pablic opinion, derides and ignore the under- contained a passage even more takings she has given. significant, although Abyssinia was not specifically mentioned. Pointing to the fact that Sar-

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JAPAN'S RECORD BUDGET

But Retrenchment Need Stressed

The two porary records for what we know?" Johnson by Boswell? · last would have been almost for- of his ascendancy over the House- On one occasion a. in gotten bus for the genitis of their of Commons.

member rose to assault him as be the loyal admirers.

Pitt looked at Carlyle, a great romantirist, left the House. thought that history is made by a him and he sat down.

Colonel John) Goethe must have possessed this few great zen.

remarkable degree. Buchan gives us a very different power to a picture of one of Carlyle's heroes. When Napoleon met him, be "ex- Oliver Cromwell-s not very claimed, “Voila un homme!" and clear-headed opportunist, a rather he never forget him typical English gentleman, not But after all history is not first-rate in any way except as much more than "une fable con- cavalry leader His portrait of

There would be some venue" the Protector is convincing: very strange surprises if the re- Carlyle's is not..

cording angel were to publish his Tokyo. So there has been a violent documents. It is therefore vain. Following a two-hour meeting reaction against the romanticist to think much of the verdict of recently, the Cabinet formally view of history. Lytton Strachey posterity, though there is some amounced that the Ministers who had an animus against the thing fine in Francis Bacon's will, had come to a complete agret Victorians, writes with a vicious in which he commits his name ment on the policy to be fol-determination to belittle them all and memory to men's charitable lowed in drafting their budget He is amusingly unfair to Arnold speeches, to foreign nations, and appropriation demands.

the next ages"; and still more in. fof Rugby, unpardonably unfair Retrenchment, with particu-to General Gordon He evidently Kepler's words, "I can well walt lar emphasis upon a concerted wished to gry Queen Victoria, but

a century for a reader, since God effort by all departments to could not keep it up. ^

aas waited six thousand years for Jobviate the necessity for a large Wells seems to hate all great 2 discoverer." London deficit bond issue, was the key men, especially if they wear John Sheddon, & trainer, of note sounded in a five-point pro- crowns or epaulettes. He will hardly admit that Julius Caesar

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The finest spirits have felt alone to judge of its interests is:

"with me it is a very small thing. not one that the facts endorse.

that I should be judged of you or Mr. Eden has already called at Lynton-avenue, Colindale, ap gramme.

This, however, should not and Napoleon were really great.

Those of whom of man's day." tention to the fact that by the peared at Marylebone Police

Intellectual Giants

the world was not worthy” have treaty of 1906 Britain, France Court recently. Det. Docherty necessarily mean a decrease in

Here I cannot agree. These generally received far more kicks. and Italy undertook to consult explained that at the beginning the size of the entire budget,

Mr. Takahashi indicated in al together on all matters relating of last year the accused was

course, for which they had to la gloire?" says Flaubert. "Faire to Abyssinia. If no such treaty arrested on a charge of stealing supplementary statement. This men had their

opportunities, of than halfpence. Qu'est-ce que year's record-breaking budget thank their luck or their star, but are beaucoup de betises sur son

pete ter of deep concern to the two by a trick a banker's cheque for

25 from Muriel Annette totalled -2,193,414.000. Countries having important in Arnand. of Craven hill-gardens. terests on the borders of Aby w sinia that peace should not bel

existed it would still be a mat

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they were intellectual and practi- cal giants So, I have no doubt, was Marlborough, that curiously unpopular hero to whom George

of Africa. Signor Mussolini's Cognizance in the sum of 50Thermos Flash, Jacket Trevelyan and Winston Churchill own paper, Popolo d'Italia, basand failed to appear. He was acknowledged that Great Bri-arrested and sentenced to one tain has interests in the waters month for stealing the cheque Bowing from Abyssinia that and a charge to show cause why feed the Nile, and that there are he should not forfeit bis reco French and Italian rights in nizance was adjourned.

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