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been; moreover, it would seem that it-even now exists, for the grievance which caused it has yet to be remedied. (And it is idle to say that sabotage Communists must have been rest ponsible for it). In the Admiral- ty review of conditions in the navy which was issued recently the Lords Commissioners have Hong Kong, Saturday, May 22, 1937, included an entry which is head-

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ed "Requests for Better Quality Braces," and under that heading appears the merely procrastinat- ing assurance "A new type of braces will be introduced in due Many people must have read course.And what happens in

the meantime? with some astonishment and ped navy to

Is our handicap- call Franco's bluff perhaps pleasure, the account of

when it is not even certain about Dr. Schacht's recent interview the security of its own trousers? with members of the Press at Brussels. Only a few weeks ago the trumpets of Germany ap- peared to be announcing her de-

Mistinguett. termination to become self- That Hitching Process

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There is, it must be admitted, against Bolshevism, especially as a certain amount of historical it was embodied in that arch support for the tradition that keep the seafaring man enemy of civilisation, Russia, would In Belgium, Dr. Schacht, the more or less on tenterhooks in official emissary of Germany, the matter of those not unim- Mme. Damia.sounded a strikingly changed portant

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garments. The point note. His country has found was put by "Ingoldsby Barham "the system of self-sufficiency in "Misadventures at Margate": more expensive than a return to free trade, and therefore dis-† posed to join her efforts to those of countries which might undertake the return to a more normal and liberal regime:'

And then he hitched his trousers up, as is, I'm told, their use;

It's very odd that sailor-men should wear those things so loose.

Armaments? They only exist- ed, said Dr. Schacht, to enable Germany "to negotiate con ma footing of equality? Europe, and But in the case of the Royal Germany with Europe, he de Navy it cannot be said to be odd clared, desires permanent and at all if the Lords Commissioners lasting peace. In the event of an of the Admiralty will not supply international commercial agree- their underlings with braces that ment being achieved, would Ger- can be relied on to take the many admit Russia as a parti-strain. Even now the position cipant? "Why not?" replied Dr. (as well as the trousers) hangs Schacht, "does not Germany al- in uncertainty; the Lords Com- ready do much trade with missioners do not say that they Russia 222

will introduce the "better quality braces demanded all they

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It would be entirely wrong to promise is “a new type of braces imagine that Dr. Schacht was in due course.” It may be new attempting to deceive the world. and still no more trustworthy The above expressions of opinion than the old. For that hitching are genuine. He has always process is deeply embedded in exercised a moderating influence naval traditions, it is actually in the councils of Nazi Germany, enshrined in one of the move- One may legitimately hope that ments of the hornpipe. The to-day his influence is prepon Lords Commissioners may mean derant. If this hope is not illu to ret

retain it at all costs → sion, the change may be ascribed the cost of providing a new type to a number of reasons. Promin of braces that is still liable to let ent among these has been the the wearer down. gradual awakening in all coun-

tries to the need for genuine The position (like the present international co-operation. - Tast braces) is not good enough, the year the League of Nations suf- navy of to-day has enough to do fered what Mr. Båldwin termed to hold its own without having to "abitter humiliation.” The first hold its trousers as well. The reaction was perhaps one of position is unsupportable and bewilderment and defeatism. questions should be asked about The second and more lasting has it in. Parliament. How would Sir been a conviction that the peace Samuel Hoare like to gó skating of the world, that "permanent in nether garments which could and lasting peach" to which Dr, be kept in position only by the Schacht referred, can in the long frequent 1'exercise ofű manual run only be achieved on inter- dexterity?