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by

In India Abanindranath Tagore

HITLER'S PRETEXT FOR BREACH

JURIDICALLY A WEAK

CASE DISCLOSED

FRANCE'S OBLIGATIONS IN TREATY WITH SOVIET

(By Harold Stannard)

The bride, who was given away has a house at Sautiniketan, thei

her father. wore a "Viola settlement near Calcutta that wasOR Britain the Locarno Thus the German contention Dimmitt modelled white crinkled [founded by his uncle. In this Treaty means one docu-that the Franco-Soviet Pact is satin gown with small matching settlement lives a miscellaneous ment only-that in which directed exclusively against coatee. She carried a sheaf of international collection. It in-Britain and Italy appended their Germany is directly countered Jarum lies

Icludes a co-education school Ajsignatures to an undertaking by the language of the docu- The bridesmaids. the Misses Swedish кошар instructs thejby France. Belgium and Ger-iment itself. Edith and Laura Nolasco da Silva band-weaving class, and everyone many to settle all their disputes It is not surprising that M. Hilda de Sousa and Pauline Choa.salutes the dawn with folk songs by

peaceful means and to Flandin offered to submit the wore gowns of old gold taffeta and dances.

respect both their present whole issue raised by the trimmed with blue flowers at the

mutual frontiers and the demi-Franco-Soviet Pact to the For a nation famed for its lo-neckline. They carried posies of FAMOUS FAMILY

Hitarised zone in the German Hague Tribunal Under the ric, there seems to be something blue flowers te match.

Rhineland-

provisions of the main Locarno The Tagore family has for se- jamiss in the solemn charge of the A navy blue gown with hat to

For Eastern Europe different Treaty to which England is a French paper Le Temps of a

match was chosen by the bride's veral generations been the centre arrangements were made. Ger- party Germany has pledged her

of cultural life in Bengal. Rabin-many did not accept her exist-self to accept such an mother.

offer. vacillating policy" on the part

Tagore's Mr. Leo D'Almada è Castro, Jr., dranath of Britain being responsible for

grandfather, ing eastern frontiers, but The first and strongest legal Tagore, and his undertook not to alter them point against Herr Hitler is that The ELIZABETH ARDEN'S way having "contributed much to the and Mr. Pedro Nolasco da Silva. Dwarkanath

Sr., were the groomsmen.

father were leaders of the except by peaceful means. he has torn up a treaty which present European crisis." The! A reception was held later at Brahmo Samaj movement to re- phrase is. of course, what Mr.Shorncliffe" 7. Garden Road, the form Hinduism; his sister, Mrs.ment France signed separate accepted on the strength of a As guarantor of this arrange- he had previously specifically to Beauty.

Winston Churchill once described) ļas a "terminological inexactitude." bride's going-away dress

home of the bridegroom. The Ghosal. is a Bengali novelist; and treaties, identical in form ex-faulty interpretation of another was a another of his nephews. Gogen- cept for the names, with Poland treaty-faulty because it dis- Land even in its least lucid mo-

brown silk ensemble with acces-jandranath Tagore. has made a and Czechoslovakia. The text regards its specific language. ments Le Temps ought to be able isories to match. The honeymoon name for himself as an artist. of these treaties was communi- to see that British policy ride is being spent at Repulse Bay The work of the two nephews cated to the German Govern-

The Covenant ris Europe since the end of the war has, in fact, followed a mort remarkably underiating policy. despite the revolutionary changes involved in the accession to power of the first Labour Government. But not even that unprecedented circumstance caused a deviation from the consistently declared po- icy of conciliation in Europe, pro- gressive reduction in armaments and security based upon the col- lective system, as represented by Admiral Sir Charles Little, yes- "Yes, the missile struck my head," the League of Nations. Indeed, terday evening paid a visit to said Albert, "and then went careen-jfirst if there is any question of vacci-H.M.S. Cornflower. the training-ing into space." [lation it would more reasonably ship of the Hong Kong Naval Did they get it out?"

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is characteristic of Santiniketan ment. Herr Hitler refers to Herr Hitler's other main con- - Oriental in conception and Oc-them in the most laboured para- tentior is that in the event of cidental in execution. Abanin-graph of his memorandum de-war between Germany and Rus- dranath is best known for his il-nouncing the Rhineland Treaty Sia "France would act as though lustrations of fairy stories and He admits that the treaties neither the Covenant of the the Arabian Nights, and Gogenan-with Poland and Czechoslovakia League nor the Locarno Pact.. dranath for his savage carica-were framed in general terms, which refers to this Covenant,

but insists that the Franco- were still valid.” Soviet Pact goes far beyond makes it necessary to compare. It is this declaration which their provisions. This conten-the language of

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At The Office Mrs. Hen: “I wonder if I could borrow your rug-beater, Mr«, Peck**

Mrs. Peck: "I'm sorry, Mrs. Een, but he doesn't get home till five o'clock."

ly in the tendency of the Labour was accompanied by members of "Dad, what is political art?" and National Governments to lean his Staff. was preceded aboard the "That my son, is the art of not too much on idealism lastead of Cornflower by the Commodore getting your views mixed

those of your interviewers." realism in the forming of policies. in Charge, Hong Kong,

Com- Disarmament. for instance, was modore C. G. Sedgwick.

Rip Van Winkle slept for 20 years. Following the inspection of the but of course, his neighbours didn't carried to a point of distinct dan- xer in the void and fond hope ship, the Commander-in-Chief ad- have a radio. that the example would be follow-dressing the Volunteer Officers, ed; fidelity to the principle of col-stressed the importance of

Social fact is making, your com- lective security all bat brought work they were doing for the pany feel at home, even though you Britain to the stage of a defence Colony and the Empire and the wish they were.

* less nation in the midst of a camp interest he personally took in the armed to the teeth: never once movement.? in the last 18 years has the foreign policy of Britain been centred upon any other idea than that of letting the dead past bury its dead and building a new order ion a new international relation Grenham. Sub-Lt. F. Baker, Sub- ship. All these ideals have been Lt. R. Edwards, Sub-Lt quired at; the only vacillation has Stevenson. Sub.-Lt R. P. W. been in the degree and force of | Ashby, Sub.-Lt. H. C. Meeke, Sub- the aiming.

Lt. G. C. Dudley, Sub.-Lt. P. With the utmost respect to our Daily, Engr. Sub-Lt. A. C. Ford: French allies, we suggest that it Cadets. J. Gardiner. W. W. C. would be more appropriate to say Shewan. L. D. Skinner. J. Middie- that the "cacillating policy" has ton-Smith. R. more often come from them. It Ralph, Burgess, Rev. Cyril Brown. is surely futile and rather incon-Surg. Lt L J. Davis. Pay. Lt- {sequential to say now that "Italy Cdr. J. Hampton-Ross. Pay. Lt. has been treated too severely." E Grossman, and Lt.Cdr. R. S. either with or without the corel-Barrie, R.N., Officer Instructor. lory that Germany's. defection has

Lt-Car. J. Petrie, D.SC., Actg. Commanding Officer; Lt. R3 D.C Grieve. Lt. R. Stock, Lt. J. C. M.

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called forth "too much indul-half-heartedly applied. Precisely xence." To make these charges the same procedure took place! at this stage of the proceedings is when oil sanctions were originally putting the cart before the horse mooted. The slightest show of with a vengeance. France possi-determination from the other jbly needs the reminder that firm League Powers involved — in- support from her in the first în-cluding France — would have re- stance instead of an adroit sitting sulted in their firm application six on the fence by the "honest brok-months ago, with some prospect | er" would probably have liquidat of actually bringing the wanton jed the circumstances in which any slaughter in Abyssinia to a full- netion whatever is necessary stop. But what happened? Who against Italy, long before they pursued a "vacillating policy?" tad time to develop as they have. England, with her insistence, in For weeks before the actual event season and out, that the Powers of Italy's adventare in East should take a firm stand on this Africa" the British Government all-important matter, or France jendeavoured to obtain some sort and the other weak-kneed Powers. of definitive statement of policy forever sliding out of committing from France. When the question themselves because a bombastic of the responsibility of the mem-jupstart threatened "reprisals?" bers of the League for the terri-The fact is that Britain has been torial integrity of one of their badly let down by most of the number was first introduced into other Powers concerned, and the dispute as a matter of prae- this can be traced the whole fail- tical politics, Britain took the lead ure of the collective system which in endeavouring to secure an un-has, in its turn, encouraged Ger- {equivocal, undertaking from many to take the bit between her France, among the other signa-teeth. The situation in the Rhine- tories, that she would implement land would probably never have her signature with something arisen If Europe and the world as more than honeyed words. Again a whole had shown some conais- M. Laval hummed and bawed, tency in their protestations and Iblew hot and cold, wheedled and had implemented them by firm co-| cajoled, while Italy went her own hesion. As it is, the way is now sweet way, confident that shejopen for any outlaw nation to do. could get away with it.. Finally; as as it pleases, with the utmost con- we know, economic sanctions were tempt for the law-abiding States.

FRED "RIPPER"

tion must now be examined.

Not "Undisputed"

the Franco- Soviet Pact with the language of the Polish and Czechoslovak

The German memorandum's Pacts which were known to Ger-

point is that

many when she entered into "It is undisputed that the Franco-her Locarno Soviet Pact is directed exclusively Both the Polish and the Czech undertakings. against Germany."

Treaties referred to the Coven- It is in fact by no means un-i disputed. The parties explainant of the League of Nations. in a memorandum attached to Législation by reference indeed their Pact that what they de is becoming almost as irritating sired was::

fin diplomatic documents as it is "A treaty of assistance between

in Acts of Parliament. the U.S.S.R, France and Germany, The references in question under which each of these three are to Art. 15, Par. 7 and Art. States would be pledged to come 16 of the League Covenant. to the assistance of any one Art. 16 is the well-known Sanc- them subjected to an aggression un

the part of one of those three tions article. The reader may care to be reminded, however,

States."

The memorandum goes on to that the Article also includes say that the provisions of the a reference to military Sanc- Franco-Soviet Pact

tions, and it is to such Sanc "should be understood to. come tions that both the Polish and into play only within the limits Czech Locarno Treaties and the contemplated in the Tripartite Agreement previously projected..”

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