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"Unworthy And Ambigious"

EXPLANATION OF Here

TO-DAYS

CARTOON There The Blow Hole Of and

Kiama

TEAR: Kisma, New South

air like а gigantic sometimes as high as 200 feet.

Everywhere.

in the family.

BRITISH ARMY'S ROLE IN EGYPT

VITAL CONSIDERATIONS

TO BE SETTLED

TREATY DISCUSSIONS UNDERLAID BY MANY ACUTE FACTORS

THE

All communications intended for N

Wales, Australia, is one of MR. ADRIAN STOKES publication should be addressed to the famous natural phenomena the Editor, and be accompanied by of the world - the Blow Hole. It Arts Club in particular. lost a The London art world, and the the Writer's Name and Address is a high arched not necessarily for insertion, but great rocky basin, situated close to veteran Mr. Adrian Stokes. R. A. cavern with a notable figure in the death of the as a guarantee of good faith. the ocean and connected with the He loved his club, which he visit-

Hatter by a huge subterranean ed daily, passage While the ocean is calm humorist of the place, and was, if the accepted

(By Maj. Gen. A. C. Temperley) and the, underground water merely anything. rather proud of his abbs and flows, the air goes in and Silexus-like appearance.

THE two main issues which There have been many com- (out of the hole like the inhaling and exhaling in the mouth of a giant Stokes commanded

As a landscape-painter Adrian

will arise for negotiation (plications, the greatest of them

in stormy weather as the billows fetched 200 guineas last year. whence its name "Blow Hole." But His

good prices between Britain and Egypt in being due to the internal situa- "Moonrise" - at

Connemara" any discussion of the Draft tion in Egypt Parliamentary Treaty of 1930 are the question government as it is understood roll in, a tremendous volume of The famous Stokes trench-mor-jof the British garrison in Egypt in Western Europe is not neces- (water and spray is forced into the tar, by the way, was invented by fand the status of the Sudan. sarily an article for export in fountain, his brother. "explosiveness" being-United Front" of Egyptian provided for in the 1923 Egyp Upon the demand of the its entirety, and the electorate parties for a resumption of dis-tian Constitution includes large GREAT OPERATIC ACTOR

cussions the British Govern-numbers of electors who are in the Labour amendment to

ment intimated that agreement hardly fitted for the vote." the White Paper motion, to bel

Of all the singers of German must first be reached on these:

Wafdist Power debated in Parliament on Mon-where the temperature sometimes opera who have appeared at Covent questions. Since they are the The Nationalist leaders them- day, are essentially valid; but goes as high as 135, ice will melt Garden the most popular over a contentious part it is clearly selves, full of the heady wine we fancy that most people will completely away without leaving a period of many years was probab- useless to discuss the Draft of quarrel with some of the infer- drop of water The humidity of Herr Richard Mayr, who died Treaty as a whole until they smarting under the ences drawn from them by the the air is so Jow that the air in Vienna last year.

which they believed their coun- Labour Members of Parliament absorbs the moisture is fast as He was not the best singer: his. They have always been thetry had suffered, were without because they are based on an in- the ice' melts.

fine bass voice was of rather stumbling-block. The Cham-political experience or tradition herently false premise: that the

"woolly" quality. But he was alberlain-Sarwat negotiations in or even conduct of nations is always

superb character actor and one of 1928 broke down at the dicta- administration.

any knowledge of regulated by the conduct of in-

the best comedians in the world. tion of the Wafd, though they in though his best Wagnerian role were not then in power, over have been in power they have consequence, when they was the saintly Gurnemanz in the military question. Nahas proved difficult "Parsifal"

Pasha declared that he would with, and the Public

to negotiate His masterpiece was his Earon never accept a

Services treaty which and government generally have Ochs von Lerchenai in Strauss's "did not provide for the com-jtended to deteriorate. "Rosenkavalier." a part in which plete evacuation of Egyptian On the British side it was

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Many of the points contained

Dry Ice

In Death Valley. California.

FILIPINO CLUB MEETING Satisfactory State Of Affairs

*

to

and on his many visits England he sampled the products. He loved children, and one of his hobbies was to make toys for them.

of rural inns as an expert.

are settled.

self-determination

and

Wrongs

or

dividual men of probity and honesty. It sounds 2 pretty dreadful thing to say, but its truth has been demonstrated over and over again in history". The world is now in the throes of a conflict which would never The annual general meeting of he won world fane. The humour, territory by the British Army." recognised that it was useless have arisen if Italy had kept the Filipino Club will be held in the dignity, and yet the coarse The 1930 discussions between to negotiate either with govern-

Henderson and Nahas ments of Palace nominees Pasha, then head of a Wafd with politicians who had gained Mayr was ja private life a Cabinet, came to grief over the power by a manipulation of the brewer and a fairly rich man. He question of the Sudan.

Constitution. In the last re- 1922 Declaration

sort it was the Wafd that had Before these there were the

to be reckoned with..

British equally abortive MacDonald-

representatives of such widely differing political Zaghlul conversations in 1924 outlook as Mr. Ramsay Mac- The whole series of negotiations Donald, Sir Austen Chamber- dates from the British Declara-lain and Mr. Arthur Henderson tion of 1922, in which, after made immense efforts to find a years of friction, Egypt was de-common clared an independent Sovereign British interests

ground between State save for four subjects, aspirations, and yet each in his which were reserved pending ataru

and Wafd

settlement. These were:

has failed owing to the Wafd's excessive demands.

Another Element Another element in the situa- (b) The defence of Egypt against tion has been King Fuad. aggression.

A. firm believer in autocratic gov- ertzent, as well as an astute politician. he has been able,

remove

have

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assume

Opposition Overruled

The meeting had dragged on and on. The president, Mr. Smith, was

a few obstinate members who insisted

(a) The security of the com- munications of the British Empire in Egypt

(c) The protection of fareiga interests and minorities. (d) The Sudan. **

her pledged word; twenty-two the clubhouse to-morrow at 3 p.m. lechery of the interpretation were Mr. years ago the idea that a writ-when the report and accounts will unforgettable. ten obligation could be treated be presented and officers for the as a "scrap of paper" precipi-year elected. tated-or considerably helped At the end of January last, the was fond of walking in the coun- to precipitate a world war credit balance of the Club stood and there are many other in- stances to be found in the his- the end of the same period stood at $64.76-while the membership at

tory of the world. from the

jat 80. most ancient days until now. The Labour amendment states

surely reasonable that "as the safety of the coun-

Your Daily Smile! try and the peace of the world now, at long last and after the cannot be secured by reliance most careful trial, that they

Younger sister: Mary won't be lour failed miserably and Mr. Smith, she's just putting on her on armaments but only by a resolute pursuit of the policy of utterly to achieve what they disguise

set out to get. And now it is international understanding. adherence to the Covenant of surely time to face matters the League of Nations, dis-face them as they are not as without equivocation, and to armament and the progressive they ought to be or would havaianxious to leave, but there were still improvement of international labour standards and economic been if everyone had played aon continuing the meeting until the straight game. You cannot matter in question was settled, al co-operation so as to

was apparent that no pro- the causes of war, this House deal with outlaws with honeyed though

gress was being made.

It was never intended that time after time, to play off the cannot agree to a policy which words and appeals to reason or

At last Mr. Smith could stand it this declaration should do more Residency against the Wafd sentimentality. When a thug seeks security in national armaments alone, and/Pushes you up against a wall favour of adjournment may signify tiation, and it is unfortunate periods he has succeeded in

longer.... He said, "All those in than cover the period of nego-and vice-versa For and demands your wallet with by getting up and leaving-opposed, that no real basis of agreement ruling through his own nominee long intensifies the ruinous race between the nations, inevi-menaces, sweet reasonableness the same!" tably leading to war

is not enough.. When a nation The ideals mentioned in that breaks the rules it has itself part of the amendment are not

subscribed to, what then? The new they were introduced into stern reprimand, the admoni- world politics with a burst of tory finger, the appeal to better enthusiasm immediately after nature or sporting sensibilities? the last war, and machinery

A cynical diplomat once remark-j was set in motion to make themed that the millenium would be something more than elusive upon us when the nations loved ideals, distantly placed beyond ambassadors say they do.

each other as much as their: It the ken of men and of nations-would be appreciably nearer if It is surely only commonsense

one-tenth of their protestations to recognise that one by one could be relied upon. since that time, they have been plain fact is that they cannot be. But the aspired to and dropped, have Ergo, it behoves those who play receded ever further and fair to be on their guard, and further away from the realm of actual politics "A policy of prepared for any emergency.

în fact

the

It is futile for the Labour international understanding:" everything that the League was worthy and ambigious foreign Party to talk about the "un- ever created for points to this policy" of His Majesty's Minis- "Adherence to the Covenant of ters, except insofar as it has the League of Nations:" it has been unworthy because it has been openly, cynically, shame postponed the facing of reali- lessly flouted on at least three ties, and ambigious because it occasions in recent history-at has failed to make it clear that Corfu, in Manchuria and now in it would implement all its obli- Abyssinia "Disarmament:" one nation, and one nation only wise there has certainly been no gations to the letter. Other- has made the slightest pretence deviation in towards progressive disarma- worth mentioning since the end British policy ment-Britain; all the rest have of the war. gone their own sweet way, and has been in power it has sedu- Whatever party memory of that damp lously pinned its faith to the squib, the International Dis- League of Nations and every- armament Conference, will not thing that it represents in the bear thinking

about "The progressive

social and political fields, to the improvement of international labour standards tive security,

[unequivocal principle of collec- and economic

to the firm co-operation:" honouring of its obligations, to with the world's recent records disavowal of the savage princi- in these matters showing an ple of "an eye for an eye" to endless succession of "open the whole policy, in fact, of let- doors" that represent nothing ting bygones be bygones and so much as hermetically sealed. building up a "brave new world" air-tight chambers; tainous

moun- by a brave new order of poli- tariffs; exchange tical relations restrictions; all the nations short, no grounds whatsoever There are, in snarling at each other like dogs for the gibe; and the Labour over a bone for what little Party knows that as well trade there is going.

anybody else. The only differ-İ Not even the most perfervidence is that they cannot resist Labour commentator will deny the temptation of picking up that British policy, especially any stick to beat a dog with since the war, has been framed In this they are human, but are on what these principles repre-they strictly fair? The answer sent in world politics. It is seem to be: "Hards

as

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And he walked out.

was found.

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