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Notice To Contributors.

3 Months

Ilesser breeds without the law.

This austere exclusiveness is in-. deed magnificent. In one high- pitched apostrophe of their mani- Committee of the Socialist party National Executive festo the

declare that the present Govern- ment "is betraying both peace: and democracy, and imperilling the very security of the British Commonwealth itself"; and they add that on a victory at the next

the

All communications intended for publication should be addressed to election "the salvation of the Editor, and be accompanied by people and the world depends." the Writer's Name and Address, With so very much at stake, it not necessarily for insertion but as might have been supposed that a guarantee of good faith.

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be ready to waive their doctrinal differences with willing helpers -that even the possible contam- lination of the Socialist movement

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insignificant beside the greater risk to "the salva- tion of the people and the world." But it is not so. Unless the So- cialist party can avert this cos- at mic disaster by their unaided ef- of forts, they are content to see it

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J. J. Toomey M.M., John Aloysius preposterous claim actually ap- Thomas, second son of Mr. and peal "to all that is best in

to all men and women Mrs. Galvin of "Tramore" East nation Malvern, Victoria, Australia, of good-will to make victory Eileen Mary, daughter of Mr. and for peace and democracy possible Mrs. F. P. Anslow of Hong Kong, while there is still time." In other words, they will accept assis- tance from those with whom

Hong Kong, Wednesday, June 8, 1938. they refuse to associate, on con- dition that they have neither to acknowledge nor to require it.

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