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THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 27, 1937.

|more guilty on the face of it than of other members who sit

The China Mail with them on the same legisla

Ninety-Second Year of Publication

tive body.

The debate in the Ceylon

BA Wyndham Street, Hong Kong. Council revealed the depth of feeling in the matter, and the "Ceylon Observer, confessing to

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Telephone 20022.

London Office:

7, Garrick Street, London, WC2 entire lack of sympathy with the Notice To Contributors, political creed embraced by Mr. referred to the All communications intended for Bracegirdle, publication should be addressed to “utterly unconvincing efforts of defend the Editor, and be accompanied by the Chief Secretary to the Writer's Name and Address, the Governor's indefensible ac-

'strong con→ · not necessarily for insertion:-'-bustion" } and to the as a guarantee of good faith. demnation of His Excellency's

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ill-advised step The Legal that the Secretary admitted ¡Order-in-Council under which the Governor acted ought never to remain on the Statute Book at all, and went on to argue there, the Göy- fernor, could not be criticised for making use of drastic powers he would only be justified in exer- cising in a state of grave emer- geney.

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Hong Kong, Thursday, May 27, 1937 that as it

THE BRACEGIRDLE

AFFAIR

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over

The Bracegirdle “affair which Mr. Bracegirdle, as it happens, triumphantly out of has been agitating Ceylon for has come several weeks past involves vital the affair and perhaps, in the principles affecting the liberty of long run, the threat held o British subjects which are by no his head will be beneficial. For means limited to the senior if one thing is certain it is that Crown Colony. The incident, the Secretary of States for the happily terminated with the ac- Colomes cannot allow the matter tion of the Supreme Court in to pass by unnoticed. And with Colombo in overruling the Gov- the dangers lurking in the grant ernor's order and releasing Mr. of such extra-legal, arbitrary Bracegirdle under a writ of powers so plainly exposed, the well feel that habeas corpus, could have happen-Government. may ed in Hong Kong just as easily in this year of grace 1937, the as it happened in Colombo. It is powers which might have been true that there are marked dif- warranted by circumstances pre- ferences in the constitutions of vailing sixty to seventy the two Colonies, Ceylon having ago are an anachronism to-day accomplished what Hong Kong and utterly opposed to ordinary has somewhat half-heartedly concepts of liberty and justice. sought in vain, namely, some

form of democratic and repre- sentative government, but the

Order-in-Council under which Sir A Censor Of Names Edward Stubbs purported to act

years

resembles very closely the Order- A psychologist at Nebraska in-Council which grants very University has been issuing some wide and arbitrary powers to the advice to parents on the wise Governor of Hong Kong. There choice of children's names, for, is nothing to prevent the making says he, an awkward or unsuit- of an order for the compulsory able name may "definitely handi- repatriation of any individual cap a child throughout his or her who incurs the displeasure of the entire life.” To which, in the authorities without the necessity language of the psychologist's for supplying any reason for the own-country, some of us might action whatsoever. The dis-be inclined to reply "Sez you!" cretion granted is unlimited, at for it is tolerably obvious that the same time as it is completely merciless parents who inflict

most elemen-labels like “Jubilee Jones" repugnant to the

or their tary conceptions of justice and “Coronation Cook" upon liberty. It is difficult to believe luckless offspring can do nothing in the possibility of despotic later to ease the victim's passage action of the kind suggested. through life's long obstacle race. But Ceylon, too, failed to visual But actually the Nebraska au- ise a Bracegirdle incident until thority had subtler points in [it occurred."

mind. His aim seems to have The allegation against Mr. been to predict names that will be unpopular by the time that Bracegirdle, an Australian, was, apparently, that he engaged in the bearer of them comes to maturity. For instance, he has Socialist activities which were considered injurious to public ruled out "Daisy" and "Pansy" for girls and ""Hector" and peace and order in Ceylon. That Percy" and "Horace" for boys, "dread" word, Communist, was used concerning him, but there though some people might argue that the decline in popularity of is no evidence that he was any those names is already evident more than an enthusiast of

in tendencies who was radical rather put out by what he con-

Roughly speaking, one may sidered, probably quite fairly, the narrowness of the European conjecture that any name which section of the Ceylon community. is run too hard with one genera- The true blue dyed-in-the-wool tion will be out of favour with unless it is of the type of die-hardism with which the next we too have to contend in this plain, unpolished variety like Colony, seems to have roused in John or William or Robert or him a will to action, which is not Mary

or Jane. But it needs quite the thing for a Euro rather a shrewd and far-seeing. pean. Even so, his principal parent to divine in advance of offence appears to have been as the next generation when satura- sociation with the Sama Samation point is being reached with jist members of the Ceylon names which are still → fashion- Council the Sama Samajists able and approved but which being rather of a socialistic may yet swamp the parish regis- colour in their politics. At that, ters with the thoroughness of

his sin of association was no flood.

many places, if not in Nebraska.