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"GOOD GOVERNMENT

(By H. E. Wortham)

Englisman

Exton's anything about Egypt tions to good government.

who barrier of Himalayan propor-

Maltitude Of Provisions

speech in which, as Prince

In the nineties it cost £100 to will feel for Sir Miles Lampson,

It was Lord Milner who said Wales, he told architects

buy a private stall; boxes being the pivot on whom our negotia- they were "charged with the duty

priced according to their seating tions with Egypt will turn in that they interfered with every of educating the people of your capacity on the same scale. Now the conversations now in pro-activity of administration, from the prevention of false coming better Eving."

the price is halved. The last two. Hgress. The wedding between Mr. WRI.B.A. determined to show the

If a more particular fellow-to the regulation of a cabstand. C. Mair and Miss Isobel MacBeen best designed "everyday things stalls to be sold yielded £50 apiece.

The hall's full name is "The feeling stirs the hearts of Sir Even the mosquito flourishes which was to have taken place at which Britain is producing.

Royal Albert Hall of Arts, and Miles's predecessors since 1914 under their sway. Every visi→ the Union Church, Kowloon, this LTD.

Taxe are more than 2,000 Sciences." Since its foundation it Sir Henry MacMahon, Sirtor to Egypt and the Sudan is afternoon has been unavoidably hibits and it is claimed jpstponed. Arrangements will be everything needed in furtishing has seen exhibitions and perform Reginald Wingate, Lord Allen-offered or was when I was last by, Lord. Lloyd and Sir Percy (there a striking example of ances of many kinds. Jannounced later.

a house costing up to £1,500 is re-

As its secretary. Mr. Reginald Loraine-it is, one may be sure, the difference which the pre- sence or absence of Capitula- presented.

Askew, once said, "everything has untinctured by envy.

to the most Kitchen Section

For the British High Com-tions makes The kitchen section is remarkable, been staged there except a bull-

fight"

missioner, as the man on the jordinary amenities of life.

In Cairo the tourist who fails Cooking stoves are not generally

spot, has to advise the Foreign ornamental, but here is one which, LIFT OF 1851 VINTAGE

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The Blue Book

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Your Daily Smile!

"Oh. Mr. Butcher, about that joint you sold met last week. Did you say it was imported or deported from Australia?"

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Conditions In-Cairo

are

any time of the year. And the cerning the origins of the women. Mrs. D'Arcy Braddell, formances and exhibitions of liv-Lord Milner in the nineties.

Englishman who dines out of ing warworks. Franco-Soviet Pact puts quite a the wife of an architects, has de-

"Old Air Of Unreality"

doors in summer-as everyone different complexion on the Ger- signed a gas cooker which can be The Albert Hall also claims to

"The anomalies. the intri- does who can must wear two 2 match. An man occupation of the Rhine lighted without

have the oldest hydraulic lift in gas, England. This was first shown in cacies, and the shams" with pairs of socks if his ankles are land. and suggests that there electric switch ignites the

later which, as Lord Milner remark not to be stung by the probosces removes the 1851 Exhibition and are more factors to be taken and a special channel

ed, the political system of of those ubiquitous insects. into consideration in evaluating any fluid spilled when a saucepan moved to Kensington.

In Khartoum, on the other the importance of this matter boils over,

Princess Louise and Princess Egypt positively bristled at the

still frequent end of the last century, flourish hand, mosquito curtains Beatrice, who are than one had supposed neces-

visitors to the ball, accompanied with not less exuberance to-day-unknown and the mosquito is sary. It has all along been a

Queen Victoria when she laid the and they influence the Egyp-almost as rare as the crocodile. ¡feature of the German excuses

tian attitude towards two of the The reason is simple. In Khar- for the remilitarisation of the

of Sir foundation-stone.

greater problems in the Anglo-toum, where there are no Capi- Rhineland that, since

Mr. John Milbank, son the

Egyptian question, that of the tulations, it is an offence Franco-Soviet Pact invalidated Frederick Milbank of Barning-

defence of Egypt and of the punishable with a considerable the provisions of the Locarno ham Park, Richmond, was severe

government of the Sudanon fine if mosquito larvae are Treaty, the German Govern-ly injured when he was thrown

the latter of which the 1930 found in any water within one's ment no longer considered them from his horse last month while binding. But from the Blue following the hounds at a meet of

treaty negotiations fell through. compound.

News from Cairo that the Book now published it would ap- the Zetland Kurt.

Egyptian leaders are demand- pear that the pact was not

ing the abolition of the Mixed concluded without its full im-cial Wireless message stated:: was taken, it trans- plications being studied before- "Action hand. Diplomatic enquiries pires, both in Berlin and Faris, were made; the text of the but so far as Germany was con- one sort

* treaty and the Germany objec-cerned difficulties of tions were noted; on August 1. and another successively inter-

Nothing Like That 1935, the German Government vened to prevent the German

Nan: “I wouldn't marry the best

This is the question of the published communication Government giving definite re-man living"

2

Dan: "Well, I wasn't asking you Capitulations. "noting with satisfaction the plies to the points raised from

All British administrators in leges upon foreigners resident declaration of the Locarno guar-London." This is probably a to."

Egypt have agreed that the in the country. The most im

portant of these are as follows: antors (Britain, Italy and Bel-jeuphemistic way of saying that

Capitulations should be ended (1) No new tax can be imposed on gium) that their rights and Germany, asked to define accur-

She: "I never could see why they or mended. The merest glance duties could not be prejudiced ately her reactions to the pro-always call a boat a 'she." or altered by the act of another posed pact, sidled out of giving He: "Then I guess you never at their scope is enough to con- signatory Finally, it appears a definite opinion no doubt tried to steer one." to be established that it was having fully prepared for her only on learning at Stresa from pending action in the Rhineland 2 communique published in Ber-beforehand, to be carried lin on April 14, 1935, that the either with a legal excuse German Government would en-without.

out

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ter into an Eastern pact of non- The Blue Book also appears. to aggression notwithstanding the establish beyond all reasonable; fact that some of the other doubt that the British Govern- parties.might conclude arrangement did, in fact, concern itself ments for mutual assistance, considerably with the political that the French Government de-trend in Europe, and did not, as cided that there was no further its enemies are so wont to de- hands reason why they should not pro-clare, sit back with its ceed with the negotiation for folded twiddling its thumbs and the Franco-Soviet Treaty, waiting for something to hap

These matters seem to us to pen.. One would suppose, if one be supremely important in con-depended entirely on the oppo- sidering the plaint of Ger-Isition press for one's informa-

'MARTELL'S BRANDIES many, that she was freed of her tion, that the most reasonable

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treaty obligations because conception of the British Gov- France, by entering into the ernment should be that of Franco-Soviet pact, had in-great dólt, smirking with self- validated the provisions of satisfaction and completely obli- Locarno. One may leave aside vious to political trends all at the moment the question around hira. Votes of censure whether Germany is indeed the invariably focus the impression best judge of her unilateral that in its guilelessness and lack action; there seems to be little of zeal the British Government doubt that if her juristic case is leading the country-and în- was as strong as she makes/cidentally Europe and, the rest out to be, placing the whole mat- of the world-to perdition. ter before the judgment of The is just as well that the Blue Hague Court might have been Book has now been published, the best means of strengthening since it indicates, directly to the the legalistic aspects of her ac- contrary, that the Government tion. Conversely, her refusal to has been fully alive, all along, subject the matter to the in-to the menaces of the political dependent judgment of The drift in Europe, and that it Hague Court seems to argue probably foresaw just such com- that her legal suppositions are plications as have since, arisen recognised as somewhat flimsy. -perhaps not in the drastic. In that case the inference is ir form that they have actually resistible that the violation of taken, but certainly in the direc Locarno as a sufficient excuse tion of Germany's increasing for the violation of the demill-tendency to take the law into as to force! tarisation clauses of the treaty her own hands so cannot hold water. We are the issue. It is to be hoped forced back to the conclusion, that all, gibes and suggestions that Germany's breach of her to the contrary will now.cease. treaty commitments was even The times are too troubled for more deliberate than had been dalliance, with recriminations. supposed. There is ample evid-What is wanted now is con ence in the Blue Book that juris ciliatory action which will re- tic points such as these were build the peace of Europe on the continually raised by the Bri-foundations of the new order tish Government before the which, willy-milly, must now be event. Thursday's British Om-taken for granted as irrevocable.

At The Stocking Counter

"Sheer?"

To apply this regulation in

"'d like to get a pair of stockings Courts, shows that the old air Cairo is impossible, because of unreality, which Lord Milner Sanitary officials are unable to for my wife."

complained of breathing in inspect the premises and gar- dens of foreigners without con- Cairo, still hangs round the

sular authorisation. other outstanding problem of Egypt's national status.

"No, at home."

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Briefly, the Capitulations may be described as a device for con- ferring extraterritorial privi-

foreigners without the consent of the Capitulatory Powers.

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