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Germany are roused by one of the demands. Japan⠀ fis now pressing on China: to help fight - Communism. But it seems un- likely that a connection exists between the move of the Far East's quasi-Fascists and the policies of Fascist, powers in | Europe It does happen, how- fever, that this demand appears to set up two rings in the ideologi- cal circus and has the effect of

Hong Kong, Saturday, August 14, 1937. keeping the world's neck, busy and the world's head dizzy. It is too much to watch all at once.

TOO MUCH CIRCUS

History has a way of not quite

Great Britain is in a super-

repeating itself, which makes Superlatives - the similarities between one episode and another all the more interesting. When the Japanese army overran Manchuria in Sep-lative mood. She is spending all tember, 1931, the pretext was a the summer trying to find out bombing of a railroad in which who are the eleven best cricket- they had an interest to protecters in England to meet the New Who bombed the railroad is "sta Zealanders; at Wimbledon she a question. The movements has attended in her thousands Japanese troops in China to day day after day to see who are two have an origin as obscure. There best amateur lawn tennis players had been some shooting. Whether in the world, and in the columns Japanese or Chinese troops start of the press she has been dis- ed it will soon be one of those | cussing what are the best lines questions that does not matter, that any English poet has ever if indeed the question has not written. already become quite unimport- The first two problems have been tackied on a strictly con-

ant:

And here arises another ar. temporary basis, but in the solv resting similarity between de-ing of the question of poetry the velopments to which the interest-wisdom of the past has been call- ed Powers are attempting to ap-ed in. It has been recalled that ply outside restraint and those Meredith's choice was Tenny- the which in 1931 engaged the at- son's magical picture in tention of all signatories to the Idylls of the King"- violated Nine Power Pact. Not only are Mr. Cordell Hull and Mr. Eden still reminding the Japanese and Chinese govern- ments of their interest in peace in the Far East and indeed, in while Tennyson himself is said the world, but the reminder will to have preferred Milton's

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reach a Japan in which liberal and moderate elements such as Mr. Stimson hoped to strengthen at the time of the Manchurian: crisis were again beginning to

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