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Notice To Contributors.

An Ambassador Looks At

EXYILLIAM C. BULLITT, Ameri-

WH ca's first Ambassador to

to

Soviet Russia has just gone France to head the embassy in Paris. He has taken up his duties

Europe

perceives it, and are suficiently. cynical to keep their mouths shat until the public is ready to agree with them.

"There is, in my opinion, a third All communications intended for at a time when democratic France, reign of fear in order to solve our ballet, mentioning the fact that type of statesman who succeeds in publication should be addressed toraled by a Socialist government, is economic problems.*...

the Bolsheviki had retained at the the crises of democracy. That is the Editor, and be accompanied by disturbed by the dramatic struggle As Mr. Bullitt spoke it was evid- head of both of these enterprises the man who perceives the truth the Writer's Name and Address between fascism and communistu ent that he had more than one the same person who had directed far in advance of his compatriota and knows better than they them- Not necessarily for insertion, du! which has the whole of Europe as country in mind. His words ap them under the Czarist regime. as a guarantes of good faith.

its stage. Mr. Bullitt has been a plied with equal force to Russia, It was in 1914 that Mr. Bullitt selves the unrevealed desires of close observer of the Europeas to Italy and to Germany. One first entertained the idea of tak- their hearts, who dares to speak scene for the better part of his envisaged a seething Europe, rack- ing up diplomacy as a career. He the truth when he perceives it and life. He visited Lenin on a secret ed by two opposing forces, each was 23 at the time, a graduate of take the consequences. Men like Sometimes a Yale, and a student at the Harvard this are the leaders. mission just after the World War endeavouring to gain control,

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ended, and he has performed other Europe torn by a struggle between Law School. His father had died, they are called radical.

One saw and in order to divert his mother's "Some people, no doubt, regard- important diplomatic duties, apart conflicting fanaticisms. Hong Kong, Thursday.. Jan. 28, 1937. from three years of service as Am- two antithetical ideas gripped in mind he decided to induce her to ing some of the things which Mr. Roosevelt has said and done, have bassador in Moscow. An intimate a life and death struggle, the vic- travel.

"We had never been in Russia,” felt he is radical. He is radical knowledge not only of Russia but tory of either meaning little but of Europe in general has convinced misery to the innocent but delnd- he told me, "and we went to Mos- as the pioneers who dared our Despite cow and stopped at the National wilderness and as the founders of MATHEMAT CSaim that the democratic form of ed individual citizens.

guvernment, is by far the best. the images which Mr. Ballitt's at Hotel One night we were awak- our nation were. He is of exactly A Philadelphian of wealth and titude rather than his words call- ened by shouts in the streets. the same quality, the same über More than twenty years 480 distinguished lineage, Mr. Bullitt, ed up, however, there is another Suddenly the sleeping city was and the same blood as the men Stephen Leacock, professional humorist, made amusing play tall, the and debonair, embodies side to the picture.

in his appearance all preconceived

with the conventional symbols

#

enor

filled with a wild uproar. The who signed the Declaration of In- war had started. I was young at dependence and who wrote the the time and I hated w, and Pil Constitution of the United States. confess to you that I was naive He is simply applying to the pro- enough to make up my mind thén blems of to-day the old spirit of

perceived the truth in advance of and there that I was going to stop the fathers of our country.

his compatriots. He dared to act upon it. He had

plan. And

the war.

and phraseology of mathema-notions of what a diplomat should

"Demand in Russia to-day, tics by bringing them into look like. It is not hard to im- quaint apposition with ordin-agine him poring over State docu- said the Ambassador, is ary human feelings and affairs ments or carrying important se mous and the standard of living He dramatised A, B and C the cret messages across well-guarded is rising so that a new demand is trantiers. Yet he is so outspoken being constantly created. A con- heroes of arithmetic, and lodged Euclid's prim phrases in that his candor is puzzling. En- crete example of this was pointed

"When I first went to Eussia as the plan worked." dowed with a sense of humour, he out to me by one of the leaders of

the American Ambassador out.. 2 ridiculous boarding-house

is awed by nothing; appreciative the Soviet Government just with a landlady who was "an oblong angular figure which the dramatic, he finds the thea short time before I left. He call- country had no home for its em

ed my attention to the fact that a bassy. The Russians had kindly HONG KONG AND cannot be described but is tre of statecraft appealing.

few years ago a good Communist made arrangements for my recep insisted on wearing an old shirt tion, and I was ushered into a Mr. and having his wife dressed in a suite which they had reserved for

equal to anything." The i- humanity, for numerous gen-|

**

erations, of academic mathema- SE

EVENTEEN years

280 Bullitt advocated the

were

The

great war."

of the

He

THE CORONATION

Souvenir Programmes From England

shapeless garment. To-day that me. My daughter was with me, tics made room for this satiri- cal treatment of a worthy cognition of the Soviet. Union, not same man. demands white shirts and imagine my feelings when she science grown ridiculously re- because he believed in its policies, and stiff collars, and he demands and I entered the identical rooms

The Coronation Publicity Sub- mote from human aims and in- but because he thought that the many of them. His wife wants in which my mother and I had

per heard the first outeries

Committee has decided that the terests, at least in those as- United States should not attempt fashionable clothes, rouge,

channels to be used for informing pects which it presents at to decide for any nation what form fame and powder..

**The Soviet Union is more than

the public of both local and Em- school and college. A disgust-of government it should have,

a country; it is a continent, the It was three years after Mr. pire coronation celebrations ing dryness has discouraged "I still think," he said recently, surface of which is scarcely Bullitt had decided to enter the would be the Press, the Broad- many a person of good intellect that the thing to do is to look facts scratched-a continent containing diplomatic field that he obtained a cast, and the Hong Kong Travel from understanding it. If it in the face. A government de over a hundred and seventy mil position in the Department of Association. All three have ex- clothed again with the facto should be recognised irres- lion human beings. The develop State as an expert on Germany pressed their willingness to afford romance and warmth of its so-pective of whether we are in ac- ment of our country after the and Austria-Hungary. In the in- all possible assistance free of cial history and invested with cord with its principles or

not. Civil War WES phenomenally terval he had been a reporter on charge. the excitement of its astonish- That has been our guiding prin rapid. The development of the The Philadelphia Public Ledger Some discussion took place re- ing train of discoveries, those ciple since Henry Clay, as Secret- Soviet Union promises, unless war serving as a correspondent both garding the suggested production who have always jibbed at itary of State, declared that as soon shall intervene, to be even more in Washington and abroad. But of a Souvenir programme of the might turn to the subject even as stability and order are main- so.

it was not until the close of the local celebrations.

The sugges- as a recreation.

tained, no matter "by whom,

war that he was really introduced tion was, however, discarded as it When one considers mathe-should consider the actual as

to the wiles of diplomacy.

WZJ ascertained that King matics as a product of chang-true government.

"The Soviet Union is just be He accompanied President Wil- George's Jubiler Trast will place ing human society, and not, as “On the other hand, we reserve ginning its great task of internal son to the Peace Conference in on sale in all countries copies of we are wont to suppose, as a for ourselves the same right of de- reconstruction. Industry and Paris, where he became Chief of the official Souvenir Programme miscellaneous assortment of termining the form of government agriculture have been reorganis- the Division of Current Intelli- of His Majesty's coronation. This tough but sometimes amusing under which we desire to live, and ed. Life is going ahead. But the gence of the American Delegation, will be en sale in Hong Kong book- puzzles emanating from the we should never permit any na new Russian economic life is a and was sent on a secret mission shops about three weeks before the brains of a race of clever tion to interfere in our internal young tree. It is, after its own to Lenin in an effort to secure coronation an schoolmasters, one no longer affairs.

fashion, strong and vigorous. It terms which would make the Rus». The Programme will bear the

and

we

the

will

оп the

sees it as the coldest, most de "Americans have no idea how will grow into immense stature sians acceptable to the European Royal Coat of Arms in Colour and tached and inhuman of blessed they are. They should be unless it is stunted and twisted by nations as members of the Peace will consist of 32 pages.

It will sciences. Prehistoric builders, eternally grateful that they are live war. Unfortunately it is impossi- Conference.

contain a special message from ancient philosophers of China ing under a system which assures ble to say that there is no chance

the "Bing to the Empire and the and India and Greece, Moorish them liberty and the pursuit of of war in the world to-day-”! physicians, and mediaeval mer-happiness.

The mission was successful in full text of the Coronation Sex- ..**The Russians," he added,

vice together with an introduction chants have contributed to its "Never since the foundation of "have a genuine admiration for Russia, but the negotiations came

to manight. Young Ballitt, die to the Service by the Archbishop of discoveries and inventions. The our Republic has there been abroad our ability to grapple with the binomial theorem, for instance, in the world such contempt for hu- physical difficulties of life and gusted with the Treaty of Ver- Canterbury. The contents valuable applications of which man freedom as there is today. In overcome them. During my star sailles, resigned from the Depart- include a special photograph of are known to mathematicians, endeavouring to find solutions for there I heard over and over again ment of State, and in a scathing His Majesty and of other mem- letter to President Wilson predict bers of the Royal Family, Corona- statisticians and academic economic difficulties, many foreign the expressions American temped with prophetic vision what tion verses by the Poet Laureate book-makers, converges, in the cations have submitted to privileg and 'American methods used in a would result from our adherence an article entitled "The King's vista of history, with the sad ed persecuting orthodoxies laudatory sense. Moreover, the

Majesty" by John Drinkwater, a sweet quatrains of Fitzgerald's which sacrifice human freedom-on hardihood of our engineers, and to the treaty.

He returned to America and short story of the King's life, and famous Rubaiyat, to the brain the bloody altars of their fanatic specialists who have gone into the of Omar Khayyam the Persian faiths.

Dictatorships based on wilderness have called forth great caused a sensation when he de an explanatory article

clared before a Senate Investigat Coronation Ceremony and the poet. Poetry and romance in-secret police and firing squads, praise from the Russians, deed are not so far from mathe-have been set up. The noblest

ing Committee that Robert Lan- Procession. sing, then Secretary of State, had Relay of Ceremony matice as Hall and Knight words that can issue from the

The Hong Kong Broadcasting - told him that he thought the treaty. and would have us believe. Pre-mouths of man have been prosti- 41 am fond of the Russians as

Station hope to be able to relay sented along with the relevant tated, and the noblest sentiments individuals. In a sense they, like was "pretty bad.”“

the ceremony, from Westminster history of each discovery, and have been played upon by propa- ourselves, are a pioneer people.

Abbey and the possession of a the social conditions in which ganda to conceal the simple truth Siberia stretches out before them Comparatively little was heard copy of this Programme will ex- it arose, mathematical facts that dictatorships are tyrannies in the same way that the West did from Mr. Bullitt thereafter until able listeners to follow the Ser- and techniques acquire a signi- imposing, their dogmas on enslav- before us in our earlier days. It Franklin Delano Roosevelt was vice word for word. The public Scance far different from that led peoples.

is perhaps easier for them than elected. President. He had pub- are therefore advised to order Which characterises the bare

for the people of any other coun- lished one novel, travelled in En- their copy from their booksellers presentation, without comment,

try to understand and appreciate rope, and studied the private now in order that a sufficient "In those lands men and wo the pioneer quality which is the papers of many statesmen with a quantity may be obtained in time Orch. Raymonde taries of intellectual progress. men live in fear of an invisible basis of our national life."

view to discovering the primary from England. Lancelot Hogben, in his ad- hand behind their necks, ready to That this pioneer quality should causes of the war.

In addition to the relaying of Tino Rossi mirable: "Mathematics for the seite them in the night and drag appeal to Mr. Bullitt is put He was in Europe shortly before as much as possible of the actual Albert Sandler und Orch. Million (Allen and Unwin) them to prison or exile or a firing strange. For he is a descendant Mr. Roosevelt's inauguration, and ceremony the Hong Kong Broad- calis mathematics the language squad. Tetre Acericans are ad- of Patrick Henry's sister, and is a Republican Senator charged casting Station will also arrange of size. To learn this science is vised by foreign apostles of those related in one degree or another that he was sent there for the pur- a special local coronation-pro- to acquire its grammar, a task fanaticisms to set up a universal of kinship to many Virginians pose of discussing war debts. The gramme.

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through the Bullitts, Harrisons, charge proved ridiculous. After The Hong Kong Travel Associa- Washingtons and Langhornes, to Mr. Roosevelt became President tion will take steps to inform all bama say nothing of Focahontas herself. Mr. Bullitt was appointed Special likely visitors to the Colony of which signifies so much to be to count how many in a Despite this intensely American Assistant to the Secretary of what they may expect to see and civilisation. The average stu-large gathering of presumably background there is something es- State, and in that capacity was hear. dent is led to study the gram- educated men could solve a sentially cosmopolitan about him chosen executive officer of the mar of the language of size not quadratic equation. Nearly all It was the cultured man of the American delegation to the World with the desire to read the lan- of them would have learned world, sitting with head tilted for Economic Conference in London. guage and use it as a means of algebra but without much of ward, a smoking cigarette grasped In November, 1933, he went to communicating ideas associat-the thrill of discovery, and for in a long thin finger, who recount- Moscow, ed with the needs of human so no earthly purpose except the ed anecdotes of William Orpen ciety, but as an end in itself. He barren one of persuading ma the Irish painter who told of the resembles Browning's Gram-triculation examiners that the opium-dazed Francis Thompson t marian in his detachment but bag of tricks has been master, nodding at the fireplace of Alice Europe MZ Bullitt said: "In lacks the Grammarian's noble ed. Thertzue

aliscovery Meynell, and who recalled some of foreign countries devotion. When hê, is confront-is indeed and ed with modern science, with er, but, like its strong tendency to leave or-poet's emotio dinary language behind and the true break into mathematical Ian of the emotion of guage, his meagre and for discovery, can") ised equipment breaks dow teaching be. COST

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