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CHARLIE'S" OLD Here

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SCENES FROM "THE KID”

There and Everywhere.

Notice To Contributors- All communications intended for After forty years' service at BILBERY . HEALY (and Other) publication should be addressed to Cuckoo Schools. Hanwell Mr.. Mr. Justice Hilbery and Mr. the Editor, and be accompanied by Henry James Holmes is retiring-Maurice Healy, K. formed "an the Writer's Name and Address And the school-where Charlie ideal team of after dinner speakers not necessarily for insertion, bu Chaplin was once a pupil is to when they replied for the guests ¡as a guarantee of good faith.

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Mr. Holmes remembers Charlie. Byass, the G.O.M. of the wine THE Emperor of Abyssinia has administrator, but he believed "He was here for four years,"trade. took the chair.

been beaten in a hopeless in education for his son, and be, said, "while his mother was ill Sir Malcolm Hilbery remarked race with time. The man who young Tafari Makonnen in Southwark Hospital. His that this was the first occasion to-day shares the fate of Napo-educated by French tutors and brother Sydney was

here for 11 upon which a judge had been "led" leon and the Kaiser tried in a in Mission Schools. At 15 be few short years to bridge the was made a Governor with the Hong Kong, Tuesday, June 9, 1936, months, but joined the training by a King's Counsel.

ship Exmouth:

Mr. Healy, who is an authority gap of history between King title of Ras, but all hopes of "Charlie's film, The Kid, must on claret, replied that the differ Alfred and President Roosevelt succession to the throne seemed have been based on his life here.lence

them was that If he gets a rest now, it will to have disappeared with his I recognised several scenes and whereas Sir Malcolm represented be the first time he has had one father's death, and his cousin, drinking on the bench, he repre- since he started his public Lij Yasu, was nominated the situations."

sented drinking, at the bar. career at the age of 15.

successor. Discovery Of Thomas Lost One of the truest of plati- The schools were named after! Sir Malcolm gracefully compar- Time moves fast with men in Vices "Rationalised" tudes is the remark that his-the bird, and not the hill. of the led Mr. Healy with a KG that Africa, and the little man who

Dissolute kings have lived tory repeats itself. When same name in the neighbourhood. defended a client who nevertheless tried single-handed to lift an before, but this young gentle

Empire from barbarism to civi-man "rationalised" his vices by nations grow they seek terri- "A cuckoo has no nest; nor had went to prison.

On his release the prisoner said:lisation bears the weight of all toying with Mohammedanism. torial expansion, much as we most of the children who came are told of the Helveti of old: here," Mr. Holmes explained. Tre been wanting to meet you his 45 years.

Lawrence of Arabia extinguish- Pro multitudine autem hominum There was a time when aban-again, Sir, because I think it is Fighting for his own handed his chances during the war et pro gloria belli atque fortitu-doned babies were appropriately only right that you should know he was making his way against when he visited Abyssinia and dine angustas se fines habere named. For instance. Molly Black that you are very "ighly thought the church, the rulers and even say that photographs of him in the habits of his own country, Arab robes were distributed to arbitrabantur. In view of the was found in a coal cellar. Thomas of in Wormwood Scrubs

but his race for civilisation has his Christian subjects." abundance of their population, Lost was discovered in Hyde Park

been lost to the barbarism of their military renown and their at the time of

Tafari led an armed revolt the Exhibition in valour, they considered that 1851, and is still alive; and George!

poison-gas-

against him and won. Quiet, No one will blame him if he persistent, superior in his wes- their territory was too narrow Brition was wrapped in a shawl in and this is now the view of Little Britton-street, near St Teacher: "Where does the Rhine throws in his hand to fate and tern education, he had prepared becomes an Emperor Emeritus,the way with the other chiefs, Cockney Pupil: "Down the drive, living a life of civilisation and but he was only made regent. abandoning such practices as Lij Yasu was handed to a life eating raw meat.

of imprisonment and abortive No Resort To Violence ¡revolt.

Tafari's revolt only got him The little hero is no iris'

las far as ideal.

The a Regency. Drawing-room school

throne was taken by a remark- methods would have meant an end of him and the chance for divorced her fourth husband in lable woman, Zaudita, who Abyssinia many years ago. He order to clear the decks for

Paul's Cathedral."

Your Daily Smile!

flow?

Germany, Italy and Japan. At present the position is that

Soon, only the central block of sir." Great Britain and France are the school, and the "Garden of the beati possidentes, while Ger- Remembrance, dedicated to boys many and Italy are as Helvetia who fell in the Great War, will re- was in Caesar's time. The pro-main. blem is familiar to all the statesmen and peoples of the

Rain to Hi

Remote CouSİN At the wedding anniversary of a Scottish magnate, one of the guests, Every week many old papils re-noticing a somewhat lonely looking

and rather shabbily attired man in world; what is not too easy to visit the place, and hundreds of corner, walked over and sat beside determine is the best method of letters come from all parts of the him. combating it.

world to Mr. Holmes.

It is obvious that the only way to remove the unrest is to eradicate the causes underlying chiefly of boys from this school.

it, but this is not such a simple matter, as some people would! have us believe. Sir Arthuri Salter and Lord Lothian pro- pose that the mandate system should be extended. The idea is that Great Britain would pat. her tropical possessions at the disposal of the League of

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I was introduced to you, but A popular orchestra that re-did not catch 'your name," he said.

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Blsck."

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EXPLANATION OF TO-DAY'S CARTOON

THE HERALDIC PUZZLE

simple but it is obvious that loyalty in

the

Typographical Error

The typographical error is a slippery

thing and sly,

You can hunt till you are dizzy, but

it somehow will get by.

would have been where his early opponents went, dead in

action. Ras Tafari now became chains or hanged on a public The hardest time of his life be- Negus, or King, of a province. tree.

But the slight man with the his time, but he did so with the gan. He learnt perforce to bide noble head, soulful eyes, and de-dream of an emancipated Abys- licate, thin hands, is no blood-sinia in his heart.

thirsty ruffian. He has never resorted to violence when he could avoid it, because it was

Opposing Forces

Blessed by the fierce old Em-

his fixed ambition to rise above press, every reactionary and

Till the forms are off the presses it the era of violence.

He even jealous force opposed

him."

is strange how still it keeps, went slowly and circuitously But Ras Tafari had built up his It shrinks down into a corner and is about his schemes of moderni- own army and he was able to

never stirs or peeps,

sation, and the fate of Amanul-hold his own, to defeat attacks That typographical error, too small lah, murdered by the Afghan on him, and finally, when the

for human eyes,

grows to mountain size.

HE cost of arms of the city of Sevilla. Spain, is à rebus products granted to all rations granted it by King Alfonss the Till the ink is on the paper, when it natives he tried to civilise over Empress called on her discarded night, showed that he was at husband to raise an army he It all sounds very nice and Learned in recognition of its The boss he stares with horror, then any rate wise in his own genera wiped him out with the aid of

13th century. It

he grabs his hair and groans; tion. Only Kemal Pasha in an aeroplane under a French this policy presumes two very consists of the words "NO" and The copy reader drops his head upon Turkey has succeeded in any-pilot, and a few days later the important things: first, that "DO" separated by a twist

his hands and mon

thing like his gigantic task. Empress died and left him as everybody else with colonial yarn, called "madeja" in Spanish. The remainder of the issue may be

His father was a local Gov-Negus Negusi, King of the clean as clean can be.

only thing you see.

as fierce a fighter-as he was an (Continued on Page 10)

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second, that the rights and m'a deja DO" (She has not privileges of the colonial saken me). The King was a peoples concerned are not jeo-lover of this form of wit Now. pardised in any way. There is the "madeja" has long been the a third point which also must emblem of loyalty of Sevilla and be taken into consideration. appears on public buildings, uni- Suppose, for purposes of argu-jforms, decorations and jewelry. ment, that some pooling of territories could be secured in wholly undertaken for the pur- this fashion. The next step pose of securing.access to raw would be redistribution accord-materials. There Was very ing to the individual needs of largely behind it the desire to the "have-nots." And what wipe out the defeat of Adowa then? Is there the slightest and to secure 2 Roman guarantee that once their legi-Imperium something which timate demands were satisfied would revive, the glories of the the "have-nots" concerned old Caesarian days and pander would sit back, satisfied, and to that megalomania to which implement the new order in the Duce has undoubtedly led peace and harmony? Is it not the Italian nation. Countries much more likely that, having desire colonies for glory as well secured a little in a way which jas profit. Britain and France is all too easy and aboveboard have great possessions over- their appetites will be whetted seas; why should. Germany, to ask for still more and more. Italy and Japan be without until a similarly dangerous them?

situation arises? There are, It is manifestly absurd to in fact, ample opportunities for suppose that Great Britain will blackmail is this apparently consent to surrender her tropi- simple solution of a confused cal possessions to the League of problem. A recent cartoon in Nations while France, Spain,. the Evening Standard depicted Holland, Portugal, and others an aggressive Hitler standing retain similar possessions. with arms akimbo, fronting a Equally absurd is it to suggest shrinking group of the states-that we should throw open our. men of Europe, asking: "How tropical Colonies to the trade of much will you give me not to all and sundry, while every kick you in the pants for say other Power in a similar posi- twenty-five years?” It is idle tion excludes us and every other to attempt to pretend that this country from its colonial mar does not, in fact, exactly mirror kets. It is just possible that the attitude of the dictator-led if we consented to make trade countries in the present day; concessions, on condition that land that attitude in only likely all others did the

same, the to be hardened once it is de-tension would be relieved slight- Imonstrated that in face of ally But in the first place, it is: threat of disturbance of the very unlikely that we could win peace the rest of the world will assent to such proposals, and in be only too glad to make con- the second, they would not Icessions

satisfy the ambitions of Italy, It should also be remembered Germany or Japan. We are that this thirst for territories thus left with a dangerous is not always based purely on a situation, and there does not need for access to- raw seem to be a remedy. There is materials. The question of scope here for some serious national prestige comes into it thinking, which the statesmen Įvery strongly also Italy's of the world would be well

Abyssinian - adventure was not advised to do.

“BELIEVE IT OR NOT” by Robert L. Ripley

MEL

MARTIN

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CITY& SEVILLA IS A REBUS.

TWIST OF YARN (MADEJA) BETWEEN THE WORDS NO AND DO

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