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LIKE MOST "good things," the game had, of course, to come to an end, and its expondent will now have ample leisure in which to conduct à post-mortem. One pre- sumes that the mistake he made lay an error of timing. Neither, the system nor the error, which

Hong Kong, Tuesday, July 19, 1938. terminated it is new. Kings and.

NEW IDEAS ON NEIGHBOURS

countries have thrived for a while on fictitious wealth, and pro- crastination has upset, many an ambitious scheme.

I have just heard of a particy- larly fast one:

"There are two reasons for thirsty, to cure it; the other, drinking. One is, when you are

when you are not thirsty, to pre- vent it

Prevention is better than cure.'

When the world has finished sending neutral and advisory INNUMERABLE quick-witted commissions to count the foreign fellows spend their time thinking combatants deposited in Spain by up reasons to justify drinking, members of the Non-Interven- tion Committee, perhaps another select commission of inquiry might suggests the "Manchester Guardian," be dispatched to Italy in order to find out what has happened to that country's sense of humour. One knows,, of course, that such a sense is not encour- aged under any dictatorship, which greatly prefers a brazen solemnity, but surely there ought spokesman went to great lengths to be enough laughter left under to deny the allegation that there Italian skies to restrain the Fas- are women in the Japanese army. čist system from making itself Probably just a couple of male absolutely ludicrous. And yet ap-sopranos caterwaulingto parently, it is not so; no folly is samisen. so plain and stupendous that it cannot get itself furiously "writ-

RECENTLY A

JAPANESE

ALTHOUGH THERE is not

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ten up" by a tame, totalitarian press. Thus the Italian "Tribuna" much space devoted to the pro- describes as an "enormity" and blems of the foreign oil companies a "glaring outrage" the news in Mexico, these days, we under- that Italian, German, and Japan. stand that they still consider the ese flags have been removed from situation to be serious. Unless we a "Garden of the Good Neigh have lost count, this is only about bours" which is attached to the No. 5738 on the list of serious. oil Peace Pavilion at the Glasgow company troubles in Mexico. Empire Exhibition.

It is not, it may be admitted at once, the kind of action that THE OLD GAG anent the fore- would have been taken by Mr. man of a jury ordering 11 sand- Chamberlain, Lord Halifax, or wiches and a bale of hay has the Non-Intervention Com-finally reached the ears of a mittee; they have their own columnist, and will probably, make peculiar conventions to main- the radio by. 1940, tain, and their official idea of

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bour, if transferred unto private relationship

get many a plain man put under said: 'I'll be a civilian in the next" wouldfTHE HERO of the last war who the protection of the Commis- had better look over the casualty sioners of Lunacy as obviously lists of Spain and China and then unft to look after his own reconsider. affairs. But as a private ges-

türe from just ordinary and in-

T. C. G.

censed citizens who are thorough-faced up to the old fact that they ly tired of dope and eye-wash on cannot have their cake and eat the non-intervention model the it One minute they are full removal of Italian, German, and of pride in their “incidents” and Japanese emblems from rationally arranged "Garden of certain that nothing except pow

any massacres, and vaingloriously. Good Neighbours"- seems thor-er-politics matters the next they oughly justified.

After all, what can you ex- because they are not regarded are filled with horror and álárm pect? Would language not be everywhere as the pink of cour- falsified by describing Italy as a tesy and consideration. The effort. "good neighbour" to Abyssinia? to combine benignity - and bar- Is making undeclared war on barity would be ludicrous if one Spain and openly boasting that side of the transaction were not Italian:legionaries will do so unti! so lamentable. *****

victory has been assured another However, perhaps there is a proof of good neighbourliness? bright spot. Hypocrisy, saya the Was Germany an especially good French aphorist, is the homage neighbour to Schuschnigg's Aus- that vice pays to virtue, Indigna tria? Is Japan a good neighbour tion at finding that bombs

are!

that

to Canton or anywhere else in regarded as unneighbourly • may China ? “The indignant leader; be the first faint tribute writers of totalitarian Italy are the barbarous tries to pay

hildren who have not yet the benign.

like