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CONSTITUTIONAL

· EVOLUTION

"

ADVERSARIA

Nero is

HISTORY REPEATS: supposed to have fiddled while Rome burned, and a Czechoslovakian an- thropologist has just finished study of types of eyebrows and eye lashes.

..

STATISTICS prove that at 60 m.p.h., your car travels 88 feet per second-which is 80 feet too fast for many people.

man

DR. GUIDO SCHMIDT, former Austrian Foreign Secretary, who was recently revealed as the who unlocked the gates to Hitler, is now, the manager of the Hermann Goering Steel works.

IT IS REPORTED that Herr Hitler took his own cook with him on the visit to Rome, chiefly be-

cause Hitler never ents

eats anything.

his cook hasn't tasted first. The cook, fat, round-faced Seop Kannen- berg, is also the cour jester, amusing Hitler with accordian solos and imitations of Goering.

MANY A MAN'S ability to put on a good front is due to his amah's ability as a washerwoman.

have

expres-

begets

By: etc.

"It would almost seem that occult forces have been working,' SOME IN THE COLONY [said Mr. Winston Churchill, evidently never heard the recently, referring to the outery sion: "Confidence often against the British Air Ministry, confidence men." the sacrifice of Lord Swinton, |the Air Minister, and the Gov-

ernment's refusal to hold an in- A WORD TO THE WISE, quiry. There had been no court Instructors left a gas mask at a martial on Lord Swinton, Mr. Westminster house so that parents Churchill said-'what had hap could instruct their two small daugh- pened had been a private executers. A few days later the mask tion:"

was missing. Investigation revealed But the Government continued that the younger of the two to exist-the same Government girls had exchanged it for 2 gold- minus Lord Swinton and one or fish.

two other Ministers. There had

been violent attacks on the air

sense.

9 own--business,

programme with which evidently EVERY MAN IS GIVEN a majority of Members of Parlia-enough to mind-his ment sympathised. But the but too few men are willing to let House of Commons did not pass it go at that.

ja vote of no confidence in the Government-it was content that one Minister should be thrown to the wolves, and the rest of the Cabinet carried on, as if the old theory of ita collective res- ponsibility h had never existed,

*

FOR SOME UNACCOUNTABLE reason, no one has ever mentioned the new and Mysterious tack of the arms race between the Powers of the world to-day. Hereafter no the world today. Hereafter no

Nor is this an isolated exam- ple of procedure apparently at variance with British constitu- European navy will be quite com- tional usage. In the later period plete without a flotilla of unidenti- of Mr. Stanley Baldwin's Minis. fled submarines.

try there was a remarkable exam-

ple, of one man'a being made the

vletim of a major error in which

T.C.G.

the Prime Minister himself clearment (accepted in a critical ly participated. The occasion was period) which presupposed that that in which M. Pierre Laval for all parties were represented. Brange and Sir Samuel Hoare for Actually party conflict has not Butam agreed to a scheme for completely ceased; the Labour The partition of Ethiopia. Mr Party has considerable power, and Baldwin removed his Foreign the Liberals are not extinct. But Minister, changed his policy, re- the House of Commons seems to ned in power and continu be accepting the doctrine of receive the support of the perpetual Government fouse of Common

resigns, but sa Now neither of these incidents, desire for change by

which

the

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