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THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 22, 1987.

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“I have had my hour, and pass soon into the shade. You--(the Empire youth)--are the governors of the future"--MR.

And Now

OING. Going. Gone. There was.

parting. No boasts. No threats. No fanfare.

Only humility.

"--MR. BALDWIN

.. "Youth" Carries

The torch of youth.

our

On!

was in

prenticeship in England politics Later, when Neville Which Mr. MacDonald, at sixty- and passed out with the honours Lausanne, it was reported that he two, received in 1929 from the hand that are requisite for Premiership. was in bed with a new attack. The of Mr. Baldwin, then sixty-one. Only he has joined the Aged Hier- manager of the British spa, on his

Which

the archy from whom

leading mettle, then issued an official com- . Mr. Baldwin-yes, Mr. has same

Baldwin-received at Ministers are picked like old ripe munique:

hand of the plužns. fifty-seven from the same Mr. MacDonald at the col- lapse of the country's first Socialist Government in 1924.

**Soon," said the man who achieved so much for England, and yet is sad that he achieved so little, "goon I shall go down to the shades."

And then-for it was to those young boys, young girls, that he was speaking-came these inspiring words:

"The torch which I pass on to you, and ask you to pass from hand to hand along the pathways of the Empire, is the great Christian truth rekindled anew in each ardent generation.

-

Now. Mr.

was

"The statement that Mr. Cham- berlain has an attack of gout is in- correct. A 'phone message from Neville Chamberlain has Lausanne says the trouble

No. 10. caused by an unduly hard boot.” The torch of youth which fifty- stepped from No. 11 to

Of course, it couldn't have been five-year-old Baldwin received in Carrying his bowler, his near-Hitler

So Northampton 1923 from sixty-five-year-old Bonar moustache, his umbrella, his sixty- an Empire boot. Law, who received it from fifty-eight years, his fishing rod and his Town Boot Manufacturers' As80- ciation offered the Chancellor a pair nine-year-old Lloyd George.in 1922, torch of youth. who, had taken it from the sixty- He will, of course, make a pretty guaranteed not to pinch. four-year-old hand of Mr. Asquith sound job of this Premiership, just as Mr. Baldwin did. And just as in 1916.

he himself has made a pretty sound job of the Exchequer.

It's vacant again now, this torch of youth. Once more it needs a "I have had my hour.. but life steady hand to clasp it and to pass still lies before you...

"

I was moved, but I smiled. The torch of youth....

Which Mr. Baldwin, at sixty- seven, received in 1935 from the hand of Mr. MacDonald, who was sixty-eight.

THE

THE

it boldly on.

The man?

Neville Chamberlain.

His age?

Sixty-eight.

Well-played, but not “out.”

Mr. Chamberlain will embark on no wild schemes.

He will see that our money isn't squandered.

He will preserve our democracy. He will work as hard as any man of sixty-eight who has led an active

Only he has served the full ap- life can work.

But-

WORLD GOES BY By "ULYSSES"

the,terpolated: "No representation, scene in Act 111 of

A battalion at murders

the Imperial no

shifts (with

of Having

ar-

you,

some

taxation.'

head.

of

the

Mrs. Chamberlain, acting with plenipotentiary rights, turned down the offer. The following statement was issued:

"Your letter has been handed to Mrs. Chamberlain. She does not know how the rumour has arisen that Mr. Chamberlain's further at- tack of gout was due to faulty boots, as this statement has no foundation.

"Mrs. Chamberlain does not anti- cipate that there will be another re-

Yes. This is where we begin the currence.” "buts."

You MUST Be Old!

that

Isn't it time we realised years-and years and years-are not necessarily a politician's Asset Number One?

That sometimes "years" can be his liability?

"He be a Premier until you ARE old! couldn't Take a look around the world, Nobody please.

Most of the rulers who are busy make history elsewhere would still be the promising pupils of Britain's

pened to be born in England. political kindergarten-if they hap-

Politics is still the only, trade in Conference and at the Dorchester Guards marched slowly across

don't need to sudden- floor of the House to the tune of Britain where you bewildering

Blue Eyes." worry about the hairless head, the ness) to the League Nations "My Baby's Got Big

In the press gallery the Fleet Street toothless mouth, the lumbago and building at Geneva.

with the the gout. Where old age is the glori- rived here, we will pass on to the gentry yawned, bored

of never-changing routine

the ous grazing ground for all who Wilhelmstrasse, just to fool and, to fool you again, will return to Mother of Parliaments. (Who was would be Premier.

Outside To kick against a man merely be- London, where the House of Com-the father, by the way?).

in Westminster, hundreds of cause he is an old man would be mons was sitting.

As usual, most of the members unemployed hunger-marchers howl- absurd. But in England you can't

ed for the Premier's were dozing, some snoring,

told us to eat cakes if we Those mem- talking in their sleep. bers who were, for a change, looking get bread," they shouted. intelligent, were merely trying to paid catch the Speaker's eye to deliver their opinions (as if they mattered) on the Home Rule for Baluchistan Bill. The Conservative member for Hackney Wick, whose name have forgotten and doesn't matter in any case, was delivering a mas- terly speech on the situation in the Balkans, being, like most M.P's, slightly vague geographically. strode Suddenly into the House the Minister for Agricul- ture

Fisheries, Mr. Per- cival Fitz-Allan, to a fanfare of trumpets and noises off. A band in the Distinguished Strangers' Gallery burst into the ballet music from "Faust," and two members from the Clyde sang the Mad Scene from "Lucia.”

and

·

I

And I don't mean only the dicta- tors.

any notice. A deputation from the Depressed Areas waited on the Prime Minister. They had waited three days and were to wait “Hig Majesty's another year. Government will never consider the return or leasing or selling or dis-

Franklin D. Roosevelt burst into posal in any other way, manner or leadership when he was eighteen by any means under Section 111 of

years younger than Neville Cham- the Dangerous Drugs Act of His berlain's present age; proceeded to Majesty's colonial possessions as I stage the biggest political and social have stated before and state again clean-up the New World has ever and will probably have to state a known.

Well?

The time will soon be here for Mr. Chamberlain to carry on the work of Premiership.

That he will do the job well we cannot doubt.

Praise Mr. Baldwin for what he has done.

Praise Mr. Chamberlain for what we know we are about to receive... his level best, his great allegiance to King, to people, and to duty.

But

Now really!

Isn't it just a little hard to ask Mr. Chamberlain to take over six- nine-year-old Mr. Baldwin's torch of youth.. at sixty-eight?

ARTHUR CANNON.

thousand times more His Majesty's He's no baby, perhaps. But in Bri- Government will never consider the itain fifty-year-olds are politically HOW TO OBTAIN return or leasing.

The Scots just out of their rompers.

"

voice droned on and on and on.

It Two more of the key States of Europe are led by men who would come under the Closed Shop ban în Westminster.

of the President was the Lord Council, Mr. James Ramsay, whose clarity of expression had always en-

Benes of Czechoslovakia. deared itself to the Opposition, both

Van Zeeland, of Belgium. Conservative and, later, Labour. "Here endeth the first Lesson," in- A Point About Shoes——— the toned a Labour What has this to do with

mining member.

NOW course, idiots. Suddenly a shot rang out, as shots story? Nothing, of I'm just enjoying myself. (Well, get have a habit of doing. This shot on with it, then.-Ed).

hours later.

*

*

BACK TO YOUNG ENGLAND.

BEAUTIFUL SKIN.

A soft, smooth, unblemished skin- this surely is the desire of every woman. But frequently it happens that an otherwise pretty face is mar- red by pimples and blackheads; sun and wind, too, play havoc with delicate skin, causing chapped lips and other

sores.

As A

skin preservative there is nothing better than She-ko, a fragrant, cooling, non-irritating ointment, spe- Neville entered Parliament in cially, devised for the curative treat- rang a bit flat, however, and missed 1918, after some years in municipalment of the skin. Its antiseptic heal- ing properties are also of great benefit its target, the Member for Little politics. For nineteen years he has in cases of ecteina, ringworm, itch, wet The House of Commons. Two Puddleton. Instead it hit an in- heen quietly making his way to the and dry sores, and similar skin trou- nocent bystander, a charwoman who Premiership while we have been bles Also for the first aid treatment "Roll up that map of Europe. It had not concluded her labours when cracking jokes about his bleak of cuts, scratches, burns, scalds, bruises will not be wanted these ten years," the House assembled and had stay smile, his moutache, his salmon and other minor injuries. Obtainable

from chemists everywhere roared the Home Secretary, adding ed, fascinated by the fiery rhetoric fishing:

She Remember the joke about his "It's out of date anyway, like every of the nation's legislators. thing in this place.'

protesting gout?

He went to a British spa for

lieved him.

carried The Foreign was

"The violently.

Secretary retaliated with:

lights of Europe are slowly, going More of this on Thursday. treatment. Mud and peat baths re-

Long-suffering Ed).

out.”

A Communist member

(Why?

SHE-KO

Cooling.

Soothing