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argument with the normal "big navy". demand, and the well- known fondness of President Roosevelt for the Navy.

Police And Firearms

With the sugar conference

Efforts are being made to rapidly nearing an entirely satis provide the French police with factory ending, Mr. Norman weapons more modern and more David will be free to carry out humane than firearms. In the his true mission in Europe: fatal riots at Clichy, as in the which, of course, is connected

far more. serious shootings of with the present tension and the February, 1934, it was clear that problem of disarmament. Mr. Parisian police faced by a hos Davis, as it is, has spent little tile crowd are dangerously apt time.at the Sugar Conference, to draw their revolvers, indivi- leaving that to the competent ex dually or under orders, as a na- perts who travelled with him tural means of self-preservation. But he has, and still is, taking Recently the police have given advantage of the opportunity to orders for a number of special study the increasingly acute pro tanks equipped to fire not bullets blem of the world's rearmament but a kind of ping-pong ball filled with Foreign Office officials, in

and tear-gas; also an the hope of finding a formula to with sand and tear-

issue has been made of steel bring it to a halt. From Lendon helmets. The extension of such Mr. Davis will proceed to Paris, for conversations with French officials, and then to Geneva, for the meeting of the steering com~

means of offence and defence will not safeguard the French police against all possible occasion of

mittee of the permanent Dis-drawing lethal weapons, but it armament Conference at the end

may provide the confidence and the method required for that of May when it is hoped that the Lansbury gesture will persuade police force may have to exercise forceful persuasion which any the delegates to a more earnest when political tempers run high. study than at one time seemed either logical or worth while.

While our

British police neither

Mr. Davis's mission brings to methods, which require

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a culmination months of inten- firefirms nor tear-gas, can be sive examination of the arms enviably contrasted with condi- problem in America and con- tions across the Channel, this is understood, the probably due in large measure to stitutes, it is decision by President Roosevelt the fact that lethal weapons are on the type of contribution as difficult for the civilian to which the United States is able come by in Britain as they are to make to the search for a way in practice easy to acquire in out at the present time. In in France. A rigorous enforcement formed quarters it is explained of the control of the sale of that the decision has been de firearms would go finitely against any overt step or towards helping the police to proposal but that this negative dispense with such weapons. decision is coupled with a con-France, as Hong Kong, has to viction that the situation is im-arm its police in accordance with But the proving somewhat in Europe; the risks... they run. that the United States should in Colony might almost be held up its own self. interest aid, if pos- as an example. Rigid control of sible, in the search; and that the arms in the Colony has done coming

disarmament. session much to eliminate the risk. might conceivably provide an

some way

opportunity for a "break" in the Air Raid Stamps

arms race.

In one quarter in the State Hong Kong purchases of large Department it is being contended quantities of stamps for the that if the United States would Pacific First Flight will be in- add two or three more battle terested in the views of Major ships to the current programme Tryon, Postmaster-General in calling for two new battleships London, who at the exhibition of to be started this year, the total air-mail stamps at Selfridge's of American construction plus said that "the day is not far dis- Britain's th might provide the tant when air conveyance will be foundation for an arms limita-accepted as a normal method of tion conference at which other mail transport and the levying of nations would be willing to re- air surcharges will gradually consider existing rearmament become a thing of the past?? It programmes if Britain and the was a curious thing which he United States would do the same. pointed out

that the special

It is not to be assumed that air-mail stamp, which is the new- there is any optimism as to the est philatelic toy, will before long prospects of bringing about an disappear, almost completely.

Meanwhile arms truce. In fact, Mr. Davis's

air-mail stamps, European journey has been ac- while they last, must appeal to a companied by increasing evid-wide public. Schoolboys like ence that high Administration these stamps particularly. Ad- circles are leaning toward a new venture colours them so largely American naval construction pro- and, incidentally, seems to be im- gramme which would start the portant in their valuation.

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