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A SOCIALIST LOOKS ALL

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There is

ish newspaper

Nyon

have made an end the Mediterra

for

back

ar 25

age, marine is Republican.

cing in every ons reader perceives the

because the of this exception.

believed to

piracy in Belligerent Rights

It would be an exaggeration

that the Nyon- agreement re-

Franco's xrises.

hts: but it comes ver

doing so.

near to

or may the patrol in such a case do anything to help a Nor- wegian, Russian, or Dutch ship.

The reader will perceive that a ane wide range of action has been left

to the pirates.

Not so wide, after all, the ex- perts tell us, for they insist that ries it is virtually impossible for a submarine to observe these rules of humanity. Really? Why not? The Mediterranean is in part a can gather, the rather narrow sea. It is often

By H. N. Brailsford

chief ground for congratulation is that at last Britain, France, Russia, Turkey, and several minor Powers sho

shoulder, arm have dared to stand up

as, indeed, gallantry as it is unusual. Here to sure, I must join the chorus,

too, am glad.

The exploit, none the

with patriotic pride

it seems to me that these

and united Powers have do

a fraction

have done.

it 18 daly sant,

ven if the patrol is there, it must sant look on impassive.

British Nyo

One may agree that ships are probably safe, but cer tainly not Russian,

assigned a little job

to suppress piracy in We must end with a query. The nian Sea

only Since published agreement deals

with submarin No restrictions ate in thes are placed on seaplanes.

or on great har

has been

Tyrrhe

do not

here was no But now Italy in other

AT EUROPE

We are told that some measures words, the arch-pirate given for a are being worked out to deal with commission to hunt her own cubs their depredations, but at the mo- over some part of the main Medi- ment of writing they are not avail- terranean route able. Yet these two engines of There is, one infers from sev attack have together done more eral indications, a disposition at mischief than submarines.

the Foreign Office to pursue wit

Here also, presumably, the same an obstinacy that nothing can dis limitations will reappear.

What Of Italy?

age its favourite pr

buying Italy out of her virtual al- liance with Germany-

It would toss Abyssinia to her

Such, then, is this very faulty if it could; it would fing Spain agreement. But defective- in-after Abyssima, if it dared face calm for days together. The sea-

though it the total alienation of France. tentionally defective Finally, frequented. sare roads

is, it may achieve rather more But if the reconciliation still lies, the victims are marmed (as they

than a literal interpretation would far ahead, at least the Foreign were not in the Great War).

Office wishes to avoid needless de lead us to expect.

lays.

Where is the impossibility? submarine appears on a calm day, within sight of land.. It gives warning, the victim lowe the

THE

At any rate, some risks now at tend the practice of this species of propaganda.

花

WORLD GOES BY By "ULYSSES"

It is perfectly within the bounds

to entrap the delicacy as it descends in the right hand

for

They, all of them, knew that

“I am always nervous at dinner this Italian piracy was the merest parties, but if there is asparagus 1 of etiquette to elevate the face so as detail in the war that Italy was suffer something dreadful. My hand waging, at length without conceal-shakes so much I can never get the ment, in flagrant violation of the asparagus into my mouth first go, Covenant, against a fellow memand generally end up by dropping ber of the League of Nations.

it inside my waistcoat or down my They wink at war and shy at neck piracy. Murder, like commerce,

"If I refuse the asparagus I feel

is always respectable when prac-all the others will think it's because tised on a wholesale scale.

Legalised Piracy

I don't know how to eat it, so

force myself to take it and then,

Facing Facts

The drama of this Spanish struggle sweeps. far beyond - the episode of the pirates. Hitler brought us back to some of the simpler and bigger realities in his speech at Nuremberg-

What he said about Spain con- fronted us, like all the doings and sayings of both dictators, with the customary dual issue.

He emphasised the "ideological"? conflict against Bolshevism, and this drifted, rather absurdly, into Sets of rubber asparagus

an argument over the balance Practice

available power. Home

Yet Russia cannot apply her nowadays, and if you will forward $50 we shall be pleased to send a military power at this end of the set with full instructions.

of course, I make a fool of myself Social Notes again. Can you help me?

"Clumsy."

are.

Seen at the Races last Asparagophobia-the complaint of was Mrs. de Vere Vere.

Mediterranean. The Republic, as we all know, is a parliamentary democracy. As for Spanish Com- muniso, it is rather more moder. ate than the official doctrine of Transport House

eek-end Stalin, finally, has purged his She look governing caste of all the well- With this preamble, let us look! rather more closely at what the Powers actually settled at Nyon, which you are manifestly a victim ed awfully smart in her chinchilla, known Jews who were pron The negative aspe of it is no a terrible toll of the middle for which, I hear, she has not the in, the old days. less remar

the positive.

defin There stands out sharpl

the ed one immer claim that piracy has been sup pressed. On the contrary, it has been legalised, provided that the victims are Spanish ships.

and has been known to remotest possibility of paying, A German "Colony"

اخری بار موردی

even in some of our oldest understand that the quen

families.

It is almost invariably caused by some humiliating experience over

sparagus during adolescence early maturity.

shrous

scence is never

Fontside her

Hitler is a realist under less then three deep.

speeches, for he blurted out his Major Pulkthrough was also seen, looking very gallant with a sweet suspicion that England opposes young thing in tow. A fellow him in Spain (does she oppose

him?) for reasons of trade." For example, eating it the wrong officer tells me he drinks more like

In short, we confront in a new The rule is clearly laid down end through ignorance. Or tilting a fish than ever. He certainly looks

form the old issue of the "Haves and the "Have-nots" am has that the international patrols may the head too far to receive it and like one.

not infre

Seen in the press box were,

the making of a vastly more valu not in any circumstances interfere falling over backwards when the pirates, said to be of quently on to the hostess's Peking might be expected, representatives able "colony" than any that Ger-

of the local press. As usual, they

many lost at Versailles. unknown nationality, are sinking less. Spanish ships.

were dressed in the height

They may

83

M Litvinov is right when by mation over the piracy question

One particularly severe case was

a fashion, though one reporter 18 congratulates Europe on the for- do that without that of a gentlemen who had in rough, water, leaving morbid dread that when the as- thought to have gone too far no time to their victim even to paragus arrived he would drink the wearing lower his boats. And this they, water in his finger bowl and rinse check

in broad daylight on the his fingers in the butter. He in striped

in the variably did.

boots and a loud

"Peace Front morning coat and in plain da,

Engl

which means of a grouping and Russia, with

your case:

poor

he is not associated with mik, Mail"

neurotic eccen-

your aim, hold your

fill-up space,

ght the

your nose.

as Lord Utt

ence but there

such a