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THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 5, 1937.

THE

WORLD

GOES BY

66E.

M.-Pluralise; panegyrise:

paralyse.-T.”

(GERMANY'S

COLONIAL CLAIMS

ANOTHER ASPECT

New light on the present con- troversy over Germany's ex-colonies la thrown by a debate in the March issue of "World Review" edited by Vernon Bartlett, between Mr. W. H. Dawson, the well-known his- torian, and Mr. Duncan Sandys, M.P.

This "agony," which appeared in a Home paper recently, puzzled all readers, save E. M. of course. It Taking a different aspect of the might mean anything, so out of case curiosity I got in touch with some Mr. Dawson bases his argument on se from that usually put forward.

of our noted amateurs of crime.

the promise of a "free, open-mind- Lord Peter Wimsey rammed his ed and absolutely impartial adjust- eyeglass into his eye, lit an Abdul-ment of all colonial claims"

which lah, then took down a folio Shakes-was one of President Wilson's Four- peare and looked up a reference. teen Points. This promise, he main- "There's a spot of international tains, has never been kept. The diplomacy behind this," hesaid German Colonial Empire was all "Brown of the Foreign Office is ob- obtained by peaceable means, viously the man to help you. Plura-

the administration, he states, lise is obviously Mussolini's what either cruel nor inefficient. On the not. You know, cannon fodder and contrary, Germany's work was bene- all that. Panegyrise well, that's

ficent. pretty Mussolini too. And paralyse that's easy. Look what he did to the League of Nations.

"What Right?”

and was

Germany, Mr. Dawson says, will need outlets for her growing popu- And Lord Peter departed to a lation. "What right has Great Bri- luncheon of sole colbert and Lieb-tain," he asks, "to possess one-quar- fraumilch.

Mr. Reginald Portune, whom

I

found sitting on the small of his

ter of the globe, and that at & time when Britons are unwilling to emigrate, while Germans are more eager than ever to colonize?”

With the objections made to the back in Scotland Yard, was busy transfer of subjects from one coun tasting Mersault with a nectarine. try a rule to another, the writer He mumbled:

deals by saying that this has already "I could bear to know who 'E.M." been done on several occasions be- is. Might be Delafield, but it doesn't fore, notably by the Treaty of Ver- feel a Delafield story. E. M. Dell,

sailles. Shall we, he asks in cons no. E. M. Hull, the sheik woman! Clusion, risk war again with Ger- Pluralise is Mohammedan wives, many rather than renounce territory panegyrise is a play on the Arabic still hers by moral right? for camel Paralyse that's

what happens if you ride a camel far. At least, it did to me.'

tes:

>>

Mr. Duncan Sandys, M.P,, in re- ply, questions the legality of the proposal to transfer a mandate, and denies that there is any precedent for such a step. Nor was there any

Mr. Philo Vance said, between contravention of President Wilson's puffs of his favourite Regie cigaret-Fifth Point, since the interests of the native populations had to be fconsidered and were in fact recogniz- ed by the establishment of the man- dates system.

ful

Strategical Danger

"It's extraordinarily interesting. There'll be two more murders be- fore the pattern is complete. Y'see, it's too alliterative. Come and have some Currie's coffee after the

Mr. Sandys examines Germany's next murder. I may be more help reasons for demanding colonies, and

And lay in a new stock of points out that no more than apostrophes.

per cent of the world's raw materi- als comes from colonial territories. Mr. Sherlock Holmes (I rang him rency difficulties he reports

To the German argument about cur- up in despair. Clouds of shag Germany is in fact doing a great that smoke came over the wire): deal of trade with the British man-

*

"It is obviously the instructions dated territories, and that in 1985 of Moriarty to his henchman, she had in fact a favourable balance Moran," he said. "Moriarty is of trade with Tanganyika. planning to steal the Crown jewels. There were only 20,000 whites in He wants Moran to strike up an Germany's pre-war - colonies, Mr. acquaintable with the Beefeaters. Sandys points out, and climatic con- Pluralise their drinks to get in-ditions are unsuitable for large to their good graces. Panegyrise-

scale settlement. It would mean in- praise the regulations that preserve calculable danger strategically to the jewels from risk of robbery. And Great Britain to have Germany back paralyse that means make them in- in Africa. But over-riding all these capable.

"Elementary

son.

So They Say

dear

considerations are the interests of the natives for whom Britain has ccepted guardianship. It would be wrong, he concludes, to buy our safety at the expense of defenceless

African peoples,

Under the heading "Hands Off! Men like simple hats, but are in forceful views on the same subject for a shock. We have gone com-are quoted in the Review from ing adorned with birds that will ance, Portugal and Australia. send them reeling, Irene McLaughlin.

Ca

lie enemy, as an author of revolu- tinm. "American college president.

All over Europe people are going to extremes, and those who wish to The owl is a fool and you can quote follow a middle course are having a me as saying so. The owl is simply hard time Sir Keith Murdock. like a lot of people he doesn't say much, because he doesn't know any.

The unbridled economic go-getter thing to say.-Colonel Sheldon may be identified as a practical pub-

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