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please the boys," he said. Any attempt to analyse the baiting, however, was, in his present critical stage in the opinion, not original enough for Czech situation in advance of the purpose. He remarked that Herr Hitler's Nuremberg speech "Scotsmen could very well serve must be liable, inevitably, to for it." So his cartoon showed considerable modification. Only all sorts of people, possessing the one fact can be confidently as distinct characteristics of the serted: that the next fortnight Scottish nation being dragged to may well decide the fate of concentration camps. Europe. France has already seen Mussolim is less original. He fit to call up her reservists, a has always been an opportunist, purely defensive gesture, render- and has taken what suited him ed logical by the German concen- where he found it. Now that tration in the Rhineland, coupled they are dissatisfied, "the boys” "Bread with alarming hints of a German need some recreation. plur to attempt a swift coup in and Games," the old Roman slo- Czecho-Slovakia, hoping that gan,. can only be applied for the France would be presented with last part. So the games will be a fait accompli before she could, there, and, therefore, he has swal take action. In Prague, a very lowed body and bones the race determined effort is being made theory of Berlin, and the special to meet the Karlsbad demands application thereof which he where they do not impinge upon has condemned as the sovereignty of Czecho-Slova- and repudiated many a time. Con- kia. The new plan goes to the ditions must be rather trying in limit of concession and upon the Italy. In that country, however. Sudeten Germans, with know there are only 50,000. Jews avail- ledge presumably of the Cover-able for the games. ing influence of Herr Hitler, the

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final responsibility will be thrown. The Untidy Great Should the Hanleinites refuse these proposals for a reconcilia-

Sir Ronald Storrs, as one tion, which have been approved without a doubt by Lord Runci- his closest friends, has been “de- man, in his capacity as adviser, bunking" certam legends about trusted to persuade the Czechs T. E. Lawrence, denying, among to go as far as Dr. Hodža now other things, that he was some- says the Prague Government has thing like a Hollywood film star gone, it may be taken for grant- and mentioning that he was pro- ed that Prague will be justified in bably the untidiest officer of the the eyes of London. The support war. We are accumulating a con- which the British Government siderable.body of evidence in gave her on May 21 will then favour of untidiness as being an again be hers in the event of a attribute, of the eminent. Only the other day it was mentioned threatening conflict.

Meanwhile, Germany stands at that Sir Maurice Hankey could cope with his puttees. the cross-roads. If she gives her never approval to the compromise, an Charles James Fox was one of arrangement which must make the untidiest of men. Mrs. Glad- the absorption of the Sudeten stone had a good deal of trouble Germans by the Third Reich im- with "William"-he would go out possible, she must resign herself with his hat on the wrong way to the frustration of a cherished foremost, and when he was mak- ideal. For the sake of a free ing a speech his tie would wan- hand in Central Europe, Berlin der round towards his ear. W. H. has hitherto not been prepared Smith mentioned that he had to accept an agreement with Brit-found the eighth Duke of Devon- ain, which would open the pros-shire at Hombury dressed like a poct of obtaining colonial ter- "seedy sailor." Lord Salisbury ritory. She has now Austria in as a boy at Eton was taken to her power, and if she were to ac-task for a "mischievous spirit of copt the fact that a further ex-negligence" about his clothes, pansion in Contral Europe has books, and other belongings. “His been made impossible she might hat is generally reported as successfully broach the colonial missing once in every forty-eight tutor. problem. Should she not do this, hours,' lamented his then we must even assume that Monckton Milnes, Lord Hough- her resignation will not be of ton, was described as attending long duration. It would not be the House of Lords in clothes for surpriang if the demand for col- which no old clo' dealer would onfea as the price of peace in have given five shillings. Har- Central Europe was the motive court turned up at a levée-with- for Captain Wiedemann's recent out his sword, but got out of the trip to London

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