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THE PARAMYTE
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IF ITALY LEAVES
THE
LEAGUE
OBLIGATIONS WHICH REMAIN BINDING
FINE POINTS OF ABYSSINIAN
DISPUTE NEED WATCHING
(By Maj.-General A. C. Temperley),
called From
publication Transition"; which clearly labels litself as "An Inter-continental) Workshop for Vertigralist Trans- Imutation" one learns that the novel, the poem, and the short
London. tide of battle turned in her fa story will soon be out of date.
In their place, according to the ROM accounts of what pass-vour, which refused to make editor. Eugent Jolas, we shall the interviews in peace
It was, then, Paraguay who, have the paramyth. And this, in Rome between Signor Mussolini
unfairly,
a nutshell is the paramyth: and Mr. Eden it is clear that all perhaps somewhat
“A kind of epic wonder tale attempts to find a compromise fell under the ban of an giving an organic synthesis of satisfactory to Italy have fail-bargo on the supply of arms. Bolivia was treated in this res the individual and universal iled. conscious, the dream, the day) We know that the port of pect as the victim of the ag- dream, the mystic vision. In its Zeila and a corridor through Bri-gression
final form it might be a phantos-tish Somaliland formed part of If either side in a dispute of magoric mixture of the poem inja tentative offer, to induce this kind is angling for League prose. the popular tale of folk-Abyssinia to make substantial assistance it becomes of supreme lore, the psychograph, the essay, concessions to Italy, though the importance to put its opponents the myth, the saga, the 'humor-full effect of this proposal does in the wrong in the opening esque. Tae language of the not seem to have been very stages, or even to provoke them to commit some. possibly very paramyth will be logomantic, a carefully considered.
minor violation of territory or kind of music, a mirror of a
sovereignty. The whole of the four-dimensional universL="
There were probably other antecedent facts ought how- of proposals such as a railway to ever, to be taken into considera-
link up the two Italian colonies tion as well as the final spark.
And here. to make the thing! clear. is a specimen piece "Paramyths from dreambook:"
The Duce's Challenge
Whatever were
offer.
re
Redress By Force
"I phonehalloved. but there and suggestions of commercial which starts the explosion. was no answer, I whinecried. advantages. bellowsqueaked, I wrathshook the exact terms of the
That Italy has many genuine schimpfnouns into the receiver.they have been summarily
jected.
grievances against Abyssinia is The silence wirehummed spec-
If one may judge from the only too probable. Japan was trally
Italian leader's speeches thefin exactly the same situation choice for Abyssinia lies be-rise-ris China -- and she had tween complete and abject sur her remedy in laying them be-
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A clock which is not content to render on her part and war-fore the League. But Signor tell the time was sold at Sotheby's The Duce has also intimated Mussolini has made no secret sunrise that he will not brook any of the fact that he intends, as The China Mail item; given time there is no recently. It indicates
doubt that new silver will come and sunset, the length of the day League interference, and will Japan did, to redress them by forward in sufficient quantity to
and night, the month of the year, leave that body rather than force.
The League will] If at the eleventh hour he de-. steady the market.
and certain important events of submit to it.
therefore be confronted with acides to try to play the game, There is again talk of an the year as they occur. international conference to pro- It was made for Louis XIV, and situation of the greatest gravity ostensibly at any rate, accord- awhen the Council meets onling to League rules, he may stabilised standard his initials. surmounted by which is clearly the first thing crown, are engraved on the dial August 25 to review the situa-claim that a military advance necessary to facilitate a generali
into Abyssinia is due to the in- invented by tion. clock was
Whether Abyssinia should tolerable position created by the With our own dollar dropping revival of trade. No country is Pouilly. a mathematical, instru-
Known in ever have been elected a mem-anarchy prevailing in the fron- very gradually towards a nor likely to reduce its protective ment-maker who was
of Abyssinia. century for the ber of the League is doubtful tier districts mal value in relation to the rents duties when some other country the seventeenth
by a ingenious calendars which he de- The British Government of the which cannot be controlled from and prices and salaries reckon-can upset its economyJ
day was certainly against it, but the capital. In that event the led in terms of our currency and simple devaluation of currency-vised
inability to say "no" has always Council would presumably in- been the inherent weakness of vita both sides to stand fast and the Shanghai dollar following The desirable object is not for- a gotten: but it is extremely un- the same course, there is
Geneva.
make no troop movements which momentary hull in comment on likely that the method of a
What is now certain is that would aggravate the situation general principles, and talk is general conference will again be
the while it is being investigated. It will be a long pro-
benefits mostly confined to speculation (chosen.
and the assistance
Playing For Time which such membership brings about what is likely to happen cess, and will only be completed ject to my marriage, dad. Is it beAbyssinia is entitled to
The after what Mr. Cordell Hull Dad Yes, he's hopeless.” ́ during the next week
with it. She has behaved cor- They should have done this at same thing is true of the United called "a de facto stabilisation”
Visitor-"What a beautiful view rectly in making an appeal to the meeting in June, but they States, where the novelty of the jhas been achieved and main- eloquence of the latest oracles tained for some time; the con- that is
Farmer-Maybe. But if you had the League under Article IL of doubtless knew that the Italians. has worn a little thin. Senator fusion of going back to a gold plough thas view, harrow in cut the Covenant, and it is under would refuse, and
is breach would have been preci- the standard that cannot be made vate it, hoe it, mow it, fence it, and its terms that the Council Huey Lang has not at
pitated. They were, in fact, moment the leisure to press his permanent is too disastrous to pay taxes on it, it would look darned seized of the dispute
playing for time. The Duce with its be faced again. What then can ordiniry"
Manchuria Parallel popular campaign
has, however, so frequentlyTM slogan of "Share our Wealth be dore?
The usual crop of accusations expressed his open contempt for he has to deal with a newly Our own line of thought is She: "I doubt if women are realty || organised opposition in his own that the League of Nations vam Yen know, women were made and counter accusations from for the League, and has already the interested parties have been warned off" the Council.from State of Louisiana. Father should have Begun its work in before mirrors.”
He: "Yes, and they've been before circulated, while warlike pre-interfering. that he is unlikely Coughlin's style has been to the economic rather than the
parations and the despatch of to bother to try to justify his reinforcements some extent cramped by the political field; for half the poli- them ever since."
are feverishly action to the League or avoid Bishop of Detroit, who appears tical trouble is caused by finan- "Now," said the teacher, "suppos-j
On the Abyssinian its condemnation. to have admonished him to keep cial distress and confusion. The ing I y I have an impression in my pursued.
He may thus go straight within the orbit of the Papal present standard gold bar is head, can any of you tell me what aside a programme of armament
proceeris under obvious difficul-[shead, and he seems, indeed, to- Let the impression is?? Encyclical, which is from begin-worth about £4,000.
"Yes, Sir, shouted Willie, "Anties in view of an unofficial and take the line that he can liquid- ning to end a defence of private League recognise that bar or property used under moral con- another of specified weight and impression is a dent on a soft spot. hardly justifiable embargo upon ate the dispute so far as the war material destined for her. League is concerned by the sim- 25 conservative fineness an International
The preliminary moves bear ple expedient of withdrawing forces have been more than Bar. Let it also recognise a TELEPHONE WIRE
(an ominous resemblance to the from it. But this will not bear THEFTS appeased by the decisions of the silver bar of the same weight
Manchurian affair, which start-examination either juridically Supreme Court, and have been nd fineness. Modern expansion
jed in September, 1931- At or practically. inclined, while inserting amend-requires that there shall be as
present there is a lull in the dis- It takes two years for re- ments wherever possible in the much elasticity in currency as is
Iturbed area, as climatic condi-signation to become effective, Tax the Rich" legislation, to possible consistently with some
tions make active operations and during this time the pledges support the President lest worse security against artificial infia- befall The consequence is that tion: and the old bimetallic sys-
and to await mediation by the Mr. Morgenthau, all the more tem with its fixed ratio is out
Should the dispute then, as is! (Continued on Page 12) because Serator Key Pittmann jof date. But it is also umeces-
Admitting eight of nine-charges openly threatened, develop into is temporarily out of favour sary. Let each Central Bank be owing to his connection with a bound to honour its own domes of theft of telephone wire, the war, the most serious crisis merger of several important tic notes and also to sell either property of the Hong Kong Tele-which the League has had to silver interests,, has plucked up metal in return for the other at phone Company, Limited, Li Tit-face will be provoked, and the! sen-question of the aggressor be- The yung, alias Li Hin, was courage to say that he would current market price only buy silver when it was "in brokers would then very quickly tenced to six months' hard labour comes a matter of capital im- The the general interests The im- establish a world price which by Mr. E. 1 Wynne-Jones at the portance under the system of which has been investigating the plications of that pronounce would only vary by the amount Kowloon Magistracy this morning collective security provided for nights over northern Scandinavia
The new of freight and insurance.
The thefts were committed be in the Covenant. ment as introducing a
of certain mystery planes,” “has In the Sino-Japanese dispute ed a report stating that facts policy, and the consequent fall value of silver would be stated tween July 17 and 31 at various in the price of silver to 70 cents, in a gold price, and vice versa. addresses in the Shumsbuipo dis- the Lytton Commission, months indicate that the planes at their are too obvious to need under The ratio would not be artificial-trict. It was found that a total of after the event, were by no hases on board some vessels, sta lining. So long as the Treasury ly fixed, but as any change would 51% pounds of bronze wire were means sure which party had tioned off the Norwegian coas
first blow, though price is confined to buying affect the whole stock of metal stolen, but defendant admitted struck the
the evidence produced by each "domestic silver" nobody has reserve throughout the world, stealing only 241⁄2 pounds. any reason to make any remark; variations would be very slight Mr. A. C Jeffreys, engineer of was included in their report and abstinence from wholesale and slow, and would tend to can- the Telephone Company, stated The fact remained, however, purchases on the open market cel each other.There would be that defendant was formerly em that it was the Japanese who mean that the price will gradu-no interference with existing ployed in the Telephone Company exploited the situation ally fall. It was only to be ex-channels of trade or centres of but after 15 months service he re-made themselves masters of a pected that the new support of arbitrage. A certain amount signed to return to his native vil-whole province.
Chaco War and the silver price would lead to the of regulation definition lage His father, who is dead.
straint
The
Purloined And Sold To Hawkers
ACCUSED ADMITS CHARGES
impossible until September or to seek a peaceful settlement
October.
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reopening of some of the old might be needed, and in any served in the Company for 20 In the Chaco war, which was mines which were shut down as case should be provided for, but years. Great inconvenience had not referred to the League for ror-payable After an absence this could easily be delegated to been caused to 25 subscribers, who the first two years of its exist of many years from the news the Bank of International had had their instruments discon-
the original aggressor has fence liters the famous “Comstock Settlements at Basle. That rected for one and a half days.. never been established, largely Lode" in Nevada, the discovery Bank could at any rate supply Detective-Sergeant Pointz stated because, as in the present dis- of which turned silver from definite information that would that defendant admitted that he pute, the frontier had never being a precious to being only make the calculation of current sold, some of the wire to marine been delimited. There is mach a semi-precious metal, is to be and future rates a simple mat hawkers for 10 cents a cattle. The to be said for the view that Bo- resurveyed with a view to being ter and get rid of the disastrous wire was valned at 31 2-pound, and livia started the war, but it was brought once again into the sudden migrations of large most of it had not been recovered Paraguay later on, when tactive list. That is only one sums of "funk money?
as the hawkens could not be traced.
“MYSTERY” PLANES
Swedish General Staff.
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out of me.
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