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"Siam's Foreign Policy

coup

the

my

GERMAN RULE IN THE SAAR

RESULTS OF ONE YEAR

OF GOVERNMENT

SCHOOLING THE POPULACE IN NAZI PRINCIPLES

The Nazi Herr Bueckl's

in England or locally, should be "I reached New York on

(By A Special Correspondent). fixed and paid in Hong Kong, cur-way home from Hollywood." ke rency, thereby eliminating the said, "on the night the death of danger of speculation in exchange King George was announced. The INCE the plebiscite of Janu-party. under

London, February 24. from week to week- and unbalanced badgets occasion obvious sincerity of the emotionary 13, 1935, when 90 per leadership, now have the Saar

lof every New Yorker I met was cent. The Colony's finances should not something which

of the Saar population in complete control. I shall always voted in favour. of return to The Saarlanders' real feel- fuctuations of exchange. Nothing the King, not your King or the dencies at work which with country to the Reich may be subjected to the vagaries and remember. With everyone it was Germany, there have been ten- ing about the transfer of could be more illuminating and King of England.” ”

Jallys

convincing than the following broad

facts. During the last few years

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the lapse of a year-have pro-may not be disclosed by the duced some striking results. following anecdote I heard in`a One of the most notable has cafe in Saarbrucken. the highest rate of exchange was THROUGH THE GENERATIONS The successful first

been the steady flow of capital | quoted in 1920 at 6/2 and the

Twice As Long d'etat in Siam a few years 480 lowest rate was quoted in 1931 at

There was an interesting fea-jabroad.

"Do you know," I was asked, was engineered chiefly by the 10310. per dollar.

a dramatised version of

The Saar was formally hand-that the barbers' unions in the The difficulty ture in army, but it was supported by of balancing the Colony's budgets Bleak House" which was recented over to Germany on March Saar have doubled their charge and received its creative urge under such conditions is quite obly performed by amateurs in a1, 1935, but under the League for shaving?" from a group of civilians vious and requires no explanation. North London suburb.

of Nations' agreement the "Why?" allegedly actuated by com- In the course of his pertinent

Reich laws, such as those which The cast included a daughter prohibit export

"Because faces have grOWD munistic principles-not in the remarks, Mr. Le brought to the in-law of Dickens, who wrote that from Germany, do not

of currency twice as long." was the answer, narrow party sense of the word. notice of the public that 60 per book in 1853. She was Lady into effect until this month.

come and a roomful of people rocked but in its wider implications. cent. of the Colony's revenue goes Dickens, the widow of the late

with delighted laughter, One of the leaders of this fac-to the salaries, based at 1s. Sd. Sir Henry Dickens. tion was Luang Pradit Manud What would be left of the total harm. the present Minister of revenue should the rate of Foreign Affairs: When the change drop to one then King. Prajadhipok. accept-dollar? ed the principle of a constitu tional monarchy propounded by pointed on October 19, 1928, con- the revolters. steps were taken sidered that the salaries of officers, He is Mr. Dick Sheridan, Mrs. to form a National Assembly ordinarily recruited in England Clare Sheridan's son, who

The Saleries Commission

is a

In the past 10 months, it is It is interesting to note that estimated, over a hundred mil-the most severe critics of the

If a young actor who recently lion marks have been transfer-Hitler regime are the women in ex-made his debut on the London red abroad; there is not a house the Saar. In Germany they shilling per stage achieves one of his ambi-or a works that is not fort-are the most staunch National- tions he will perform a still more gaged up to the hilt. And the Socialists, and their feeling for apremarkable feat

flow continues.

the Fuehrer amounts almost to It is economic difficulties and idolatry. A high Nazi official fears of a 'coming, inflation in told me that recently, when

State, appointed on democratic sterling while an officer is on leave Brinsley Sheridan.

Thousands of people throughout in an inn on the Koenigsee, principles. The first such in-in England or in another country

He hopes to play Charles Sur the Reich have been making near Berchtesgaden, a woman dependent Ministry to be form having a gold standard.

¡face in his great-great-graad use of relatives and friends in came to the innkeeper, and ed. under Phya Manoprakarn,

Things have changed since, and father's "The Rivals."

the Saar to place their savings offered him 100 marks if he was strongly Conservative England is off the gold standard.

outside the frontiers.

would let her occupy the bed almost Monarchist, in tinge:

Your Daily Smile!

which the Leader had slept in.

led by responsible Ministers of should continue to be quoted in lineal descendant of Richard Germany which have caused it. Herr Hitler had stayed a night

long-

It would be preferable to ab-j and Luang Pradit was encour-stain from indulging in aged, with the help of a State drawn arguments causing tedious grant of £1,000 a year, to leave reading, as the value of such a the country and reside outside

letter as this lies in its brevity. its borders. It was alleged at This is a mere suggestion, apart the time that the communist" from any recommendation for the plan which he is supposed to reduction of sterling-paid officers have drawn up, for running the without impairing the high effxi- country according to political ener of the Administration. principles borrowed from Rus-

The Colony should also look to sia, had received consideration the future by making provision from the King and his Minis-

for some unforeseen ters and had been rejected by such as its defences, etc. them as totally unsuited to conditions

Thanking you in anticipation for in Siam.

Then the courtesy of publication of the another military cosp occurred; Phya Mano's Ministry was re- moved. in favour of a quasi- military dictatorship under Phya Bahol, and Luang Praditat present existing but he was recalled, first taking up the ladded quite uneqivocally that

abote.

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In Court

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Full Of Nazi Uniforms The first thing that strikes The housewives' case against the visitor to Saarbrucken National Socialism in the Saar fortune."

to-day is the air of aggressive-rests on what they have already the increased Second Lawyer: "Whose was it?"ness and triumph adopted by experienced in the Nazi party.

In Germany cost of living. Prices of house- the political importance of the hold commodities, I was told. A London man ordered coffee and storm-troopers. Herr Hitler's have gone up from 30 to 50 should have put in his order earlier appeared with the June 30 months. Food prices are State passed away before he got it He original brownshirt, army, dis per cent. in the past nine

"blood purge.” Military-con-controlled, and are the same as scription has also helped to de-prevail in the rest of the Reich, but under the French regime plete their ranks. "Do you recognise this fountain. In the Saar the storm-in the Saar food was consider- pen?" asked the judge,

troopers now have all the politi-ably cheaper "Surely, Your Honour," said the cal power, and their ranks are defendant.

Change Over Ah, at last we are getting some-growing from day to day.

The change over from the where!"

The streets of Saarbrucken franc to the mark is partially That's the same one you have and Homburg are full of men in responsible for the increase, but been showing me every day for Nazi uniform and there is a the fact that the rich agricul

Your Honour." week,

Nazi festival almost every day.tural districts of Alsace and Whereas in the rest of the Reich Lorraine are no longer within economic difficulties and recent the same frontier has its effect.

obscure. the Nazis' achieve-brought into the Saar from Ger- Iments, here in the Saar Herr many..

Hitler's prestige is growing] (Continued on: Pass 10)

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Aha!

madam,

“BELIEVE IT OR NOT" by Robert L. Ripley

L

and latterly, on the resignationing any special rights or privi "I want you to teach my son a for-food shortages have tended to All food products have to be of several Ministers from the leges to one country, to the de-Certainly,

eign language.”

French, Ger- | Cabinet and its reconstruction. triment of the interests of any man, Russian, Italian, Spanish- the portfolio of Foreign Affairs. other Power. He continued. "Which is the most foreign?"

All these details of Luang with some general references Pradit's career need to be re-to the "Asiatic League-Asia called in considering any pro- for the Asians" that Japan is nouncement from him about the supposed to be endeavouring to policies of Siam at the present create, which suggestion he time. In judging them or their thought was "a dream.” sincerity or their value it is ast Luang Pradit's statement well that the political relation-will be unhesitatingly welcomed ship of Luang Pradit to his by the other nations who have country be recalled. Because interests in Siam, in correcting

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her

WILLIAM

his latest pronouncement seems or at least disavowing-a on the face of it to run so ranch tendency which caused them counter to what might have some concern Siam's treaty been expected that one is, en-relations with Great Britain, couraged to think that Siam. France and other European and after suffering the growing Western Powers have been pains incidental to her emer- most cordial for a couple of gence as 2 constitutional decades, ever since extraterri- monarchy, is at last settling toriality

removed, was first down to a period of harmony leaving only British and French and sound sense actuated by legal advisers to sit in the best democratic principles. Courts of Justice with Siamese Anybody studying the poli-judges. The arrangement ́has ities and policies of the country worked perfectly satisfactorily in the last few years must have and allows, we believe, far com- been struck by the drift into plete juristic and legal indepen- the arms of Japan which was dence after an agreed period of plainly visible. A Japanese years. The point, however, is professor was appointed to that the anti-European and pro- Bangkok University: for some Japanese tendency which time it was hinted that the appeared to be quite plain in Adviser in Foreign Affairs, Siam's external politics gave a hitherto an American citizen, certain amount of misgiving to was to be replaced by a Japan- the nationals resident in Siam, ese; and lastly, the series of no less than the Governments. repressive measures passed of the European Powers most into law, zimed chiefly at concerned. Luang Pradit's un- the Chinese, was obviously equivocal statement that no inspired by Japanese sym-such political alliance is in fact pathy. This drift caused contemplated will be welcomed. a certain amount of con-Luang Pradit, in fact, appears cern among the nationals of the to be settling down and dis- other foreign Powers with in carding his role of inspired re- terests in Siam-concern which voluntionary in favour of that appears to have been respon lof $5 responsible statesman. frank interview; on Siams will more and more enjoy the foreign policy by the present confidence and support of the Minister. Luang Pradit. In it various European and Western Luang Pradit admitted freely Powers to whom the peaceful that it was the desire of Siam emancipation of Siam in some to improve trade conditions thing more than a sentimental with Japan and to strike a consummation devoutly to be balance more nearly equal than wished.

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