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Prestige And Nationalism

the end of 1936. Undeterred

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GAINS FROM NAVAL CONFERENCE

NO MORE BUILDING

SECRECY

QUANTITATIVE LIMITATION TO BE CONTINUED

(By Hector C. Bywater)

For

Year's Programmes

reasons lucidly explained

by the Abyssinian situation and for one M.P.

At about eight in, the morning the uncertainties of European politics, the China Committee the Whips rang up the homes of One Year...... EE$36,00

has those Government supporters whe AFTER 3 chequered career the system of quantitative limi- 6 Months

of the League of Nations FLK$18.00

been unfolding its plans for had not been present during the of three months the Lon-tation established by the Wash- Naval Conference besington Treaty of 1921 and sup- helping the National Govern-night. These were asked to come don

by the ment of China to put its house to the House of Commons inme-drawn to a close, and it is now plemented

London possible to measure some of its finstrument of 1930. both of Hong Kong, Friday, April 17, 1936. in. order. For about five years, diately.

technical co-operation between One MP.'s wife answered the achievements.

which lapse on December 31, Beginning as a five-Power 1936. Nanking and Genera has been telephone.

Such limitation could be made steadily continuing,. In spite

"What do you mean?" she said, meeting it ended in what was

He hasn't Practically a tripartite conclave, effectual only by adhering to the of the vast difficulties encoun-Not at the House?

Japan broke away in the second ratio formula on which the expir tered in dealing with so un-been home all night!" wieldy and often backward 2) On his retura home at lunch month and Italy, though still ing agreements are based. Japan. Prestige is a word which we country, the results have been time the errant member was tax-nominally a member. refused however, flatly refused to consider hear, largely used these days so gratifying that China ised with duplicity.

for the time being to append any proposal embodying the ratio We have adopted it into the "asking for more."

her signature to any covenant method, which she held to be. Is- He was granted a free pardon.which might issue from the pro-jurious to her prestige. Instead English language in its French Time and again the League's however, when he was able to esceedings. form because it can only be activities are hampered by the tablish by the irrefutable evidence

she laid claim to a "common up- That the results of the Con-per limit" translated into English by

of fact that it is easier to wreck of the division lists that be had

naval tonnage. phrase. It may be taken to train

ference fall far short than

of the equivalent to full naval equality build a railway been faithfully attending to his original proposals is only too with the British Empire and the mean 'worthiness of respect or system. Wreckers in plenty beset parliamentary duties. admiration."

evident The surprising fact United States. the path of the League. Japan The Whips had made

is, however, not that compara. Respect or admiration is, or has continually tried to thwart the take. should be, evoked by moral League's plans for

tively little has emerged from: qualities such as uprightness of construction. Still the work goes

it, but that anything positive should have emerged at all. at the time, neither of those two character, straightness of deal-

Public health services OD.

It assembled under the worst Powers was able to accept this ing, adherence to the pledged being established. Quarantine

Both argued with 13- word, kindness towards others!

systems are being instituted at: The doctor coughed gravely. "I am conditions imaginable, in the demand. qualities which may be char- the ports. Communications are sorry to tell you," he said, looking midst of the Italo-Abyssinian answerable logic that equality of acteristic of nations as well as being impreved

and down at the man in bed, "that there crisis, which emphasised anew armaments would not and Economic of individuals; but to-day financial problems are being tackl-is no doubt you are suffering from the 'intimate relation of naval not confer equality of security.

small-pex."

larmaments to policies. Six After the definite rejection of The patient turned on his pillowj months before that had her claim to * COMMON upper Agriculture

and looked up at his wife. "Julia,"

the disclosure of limit. Japan formally, withdrew Agriculture is to receive special he said in a faint voice, "if any of come ability to inspire fear in others. attention during the coming my creditors call tell them that at Germany's rearmament, involv-from the Conference on January The prestige of a nation seems months. From time immemorial last I am in a position to give them ing, inter alia, a big naval pro-14. but left two "observers." to be measured.

gramme. One of the immedi As her secession destroyed the not by its countless millions c. Chinese have

ate results was a declaration by last hope of achieving any ест- moral qualities, but by the depended for their Evelihood upon

Well Supplied

France of "complete freedom of crete measure of quantitative strength and extent of its arma- the soil. Against famine and Teacher, after a lesson on the proaction” in the future develop-limitation. the remaining four ments, connoting only too often flood they have struggled to wring minent men of the day, asked the its ability to ignore all con- some meagre recompense from the members-

of her class individually ment of her own naval arma-Powers addressed themselves"

the task of devising other means siderations of right and wrong

Na-which of the persons she had men-ments.

Furthermore, the preliminary of checking Laval competition. where it deems its own material grudging hands of Mother

tioned they would like to see. Įture Co-operative societies are

Britain suggested a. plan by interests to be concerned.

"Oh,

now springing up in an amazing said the Prime Minister, and so on, talks Keld in London during the

but one small boy shouted: "Please, autumn of 1934 had revealed which each country would com~ Liberty." cried Madame de

manner in the rural areas. Themise. I'd rather see my father's acute differences

between the municate to the others the maxi- Stael. "how many crimes are Chinese Government is anxious boss!"

¡Powers concerned on funda-mum aggregate of naval tonnage committed in thy name?" To

of five or six years. Various ob- jections to this scheme were rais- In view of these antecedented by the other parties, and ever-

where nations are concerned, the led meaning of prestige appears to

have become narrowed down to

day the same might almost be that they should develop along the right lines. Through the League, said of prestige.

something."

Teacher: "Why?"

Some

could

to

Boy: "Because, teacher. father mental points of naval policy. it proposed to build over a period

*

*

A Swollen Mile

Ratios Overboard

This conception of the wordlar expert technician has been se says he has over 200 hands.”

cured in Mr. Campbell, who comes prestige has grown up with, or from Ceylon with a unique reputa- Daddy, why is it that a nautical events, a conference aiming at tually it was replaced by a less perhaps because of. that exces-on in these matters. sive form of nationalism which

Expert's Help

water.

in

to

comTM

mile is nearly a seventh longer than the retrenchment of naval comprehensive plan. which has Ja mile on land?"

forces seemed to be foredoomed jfound general favour. is at the bottom of most of the

-Hm-mm-er-er-that's simple An Italian expert is helping to

to failure. There was, indeed, It binds each Power world's troubles to-day.. That those speaking

Ja widely-held conviction that it municate, in the early part of each develop and improve conditions in enough. You know things swell the same

must prove utterly sterile. calendar year. reasonably full de- language, and in the main un- the silk industry. Road questions.

Happily, that belief has been tails of its shipbuilding program- able to speak any language but the conservancy of waterways and

more falsified.

me, the number and types of ships their own. should cling together irrigation are being dealt with by

From

the Anglo-American concerned. their tonnage. arma-

*

*

Proof

Visitor: "Do you find it

Housewife: "Very much somy

is only natural, just as it is five experts appointed by the Lea-economical to do your own cooking." natural that, in the course of gue's Communications and Transit time, they should form habits Organisation. Many nationalities husband doesn't est half as much as viewpoint the main purpose of lment and other relevant data. and customs differing

from jare represented among the advi-he used to." those of their neighbours; bat sers-British. the possession of a common ever Yugoslav.

language does not give any one mation the right to consider

French, Dutch.

(Continued On Page 10)

itself the moral superior of all EXPLANATION OF

other peoples or to impose its

own particular culture and ideas upon others, regardless of all considerations. Such nations jare a constant menace to the peace of the world, since their neighbours live in constant fear. Another unhappy manifesta- tion of nationalistic" megalo- mania is the urge to ‘expand'—

to

TO-DAY'S CARTOON

The Ship That Shot Itself

"Ouragan came into dry- though how, in an overcrowded LAST Winter the destroyer Europe, one nation can expand dock at Brest, France, disabled its territories, short of by total by one of the strangest acci- She extermination of the inhabitants dents ever know at sea. of the country desired, passes had shot herself while at sea, the wit of man conceive, and reached the drydock with a Japan can, to some extent, find torpedo plugging a hole in her an outlet for its overflowing hull The torpedo, fired in tar- population in Mongolia and get practice, shot out to sea and Siberia, though even there it is then swung around like limited by climatic considera- boomerang, smashing into the tions. Italy makes this need side of the ship. No one was for 'expansion' one of the feeble hurt. The freak accident was excuses for her wholesale mur-attributed to a faulty gyroscopic, der of the unfortunate Abys-rudder in the torpedo. sinians--though the possession When Is It Safest To

lof the whole country will not

jgive an outlet to more than

a few thousands of the surplus

Italian populace.

+

A

Land A Plane?

a

N aeroplane lands faster

What a farce it is! The during the daytime than at three nations of the world most night, "and a parachute jumper dominated by this excessive and makes a harder landing in day- overweening nationalism-light than at dark. The reason! though Italy is only so since the is that the air becomes heated advent of her would-be Caesar by the sun's rays, which cause -have for years been urging the air to become rarefied and

The air is lighter be-l the production of more children light. and offering prizes to the most tween noon and 3 p.m. than at prolific mothers; and then, when any other time of day or night, their countries can no longer and, consequently, it will not support the populace that has support an aeroplane or a come into being by order, they parachute as well at that time! complain that they are being as it will at any other time of denied their place in the sun day. When will the women of these

One case of enteric fever and nations realise that the children they thus bear in pain and four cases of cerebro-spinál fever languish, are but future cannon-were reported to the Health an- fodder, created but to serve the thorities in the 24 hours ended an 'ambitions of their Dictators? Wednesday.

the Conference was to continue (Continued on Page 10).

"BELIEVE IT OR NOT" by Robert L. Ripley

SKANG MERCURIO

CLEVELAND, OHIO

BOWLED 99 GAMES

THE SHIP THAT SHOT ITSELF

THE TORPEDO BOAT OURAGAN FIRED A TORPEDO

WHICH REVERSED ITSELF AND SHOT THE SHIP THAT SHIT IT'

RIPLEY 15 A LIAR

RIPLEY OFFERS PROOF OF THE AUTHENTICITY

OF HIS CARTOONS. IF PEOPLE BELIEVED HIM Đ HE WOULD NOT NEED TO FURNISH PRODE, “

ANY PERSON WHO IS NOT BELIEVED UNTIL HE

PROVES HIS ASSERTIONS IS A LIAR,

-By DANIEL DOCCHIO

ALIQKIPPA, Pen...

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