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Proceeding to remove these misgivings he said: “I have only to state a simple fact. I do hot believe there is to-day any sec- tion of opinion in this country disposed to hand over to any other country the care of any of the territories or peoples for whose government we are respon- sible, either as a Colonial or as a Mandatory Power." And the add- ed, this view is shared by H. M. Government. We are not discuss- ing the matter; we are not con- sidering it; it is not now an issue in practical politics. Mr. Amery took objection to the introduction in Mr. MacDonald's statement to the word "now", "which he said might be implied as a reservation that the Government was still thinking it might have to alter its mind and be willing to change its present disposition. Apparently,

Hong Kong, Saturday, February 4, 1939 he momentarily forgot that one

Government cannot pledge an- other Government and one Party MIRROR OF OPINION carinot pledge another Party. For ourselves, we are of opinion that his Almost a month ago Herr von the Secretary of State, in Ribbentrop made a speech to very clear statement, completely members of the Foreign Press covered the case. That the feel- Association in Berlin in the course ing in South Africă has been of which he referred to the dan-growing is clear from the state- gers of "an irresponsible press" in other countries. He added:

ments appearing, from time to time in the South African Press, and there is a good deal în what Sir Abe Bailey says: "England must bear in mind that if South- West Africa and Tanganyika are returned to Germany not only will South Africa be affected but Nyassaland and Southern Rhode- sia. It may mean the beginning of the breaking-up of the Bri- Empire tish Empire.""The Review,"

I should like further to men- tion the particularly regrettable fact that during the crisis (of September last) a number of Governments made no efforts to persuade the press of their countries to report the news calmly and objectively. If the German Foreign Minister is by way of making any collec- tion of "particularly regrettable facts" he might well add to his

* * * anthology, the almost incredible outburst by the "Lokalanzeiger,"

The London Passenger Trans- which described Lord Baldwin's broadcast appeal on behalf of re-port Board recently announced a fugees as "the limit of menda- new by-law, providing that when cious humanitarian hypocrisy."six or more passengers are wait- That was the version as trans-ing for a bus at certain stopping mitted by the "Lokalanzeiger's" places in the London area, they representative in London; the pa- must form a queue. It may be a per itself further embroidered the just and reasonable enactment; same theme with phrases like but, nevertheless, one can spare a 'Anglo-Saxon exploitation of the little sympathy for those ardent achrymatory gland" and the ad- and impatient natures who feel ¡vice to Lord Baldwin "that he the irksomeness of standing in a should not meddle with our af-queue, and will sigh at this ex- fairs like a guttersnipe." Talk tension of the method. "We are not of halters in the house of the more than six" will come almost hanged," says the old proverb; it as pathetically from them, as seems even more inadvisable to "We are seven" did from Words- mention gutters in the course of worth's little girl. Perhaps, in- such an outburst as that of the deed, one bolder than the rest, “Lokalanzeiger." Nowhere in his and wearied by constant inaction appeal did Lord Baldwin criticise at the tail of a long queue, may the German people or even their follow the example of that her- rulers; he asked only for aid for oine, and be able to say too: the victims whose existence the Nazi press does not conceal but proclaims as proof of the rigor- ous application of Nazi doctrine.

And sing á song to them. But perplexity rather than indig-

And often after sunset, Sir, nation will be the more likely

When it is light and fair, How reaction in this country.

I take my little porringer, comes it that the press of a great

And eat my supper there! people can sink so low, or imagine that abuse of this kind can do However, the orderliness of anything but react against its Londoners is such that the queues hurlers? Above all, how will no doubt form automatical- Herr von Ribbentrop not only ad- ly, without a hitch, when the or- vise but seek to compel "calmness der comes into force. One feels and objectivity" in the "irrespon-sure that there will be no embar sible" press of other countries rassing necessity for the first when this is the way in which the comer to safeguard his rights, 'responsible" press of Germany and, at the correct moment, behaves? "Manchester Guar-raise his hat, and exclaim polite- ly: "Now we are six-I declare a dian."

queue!"-Christian Science Moni-

can

My stockings there I often knit, My kerchief there I hem; And there upon the ground

sit,

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to

In the debate on Colonial po- licy which took place in the House of Commons hot many days ago "My first wish is to see this Mr. MacDonald rightly said that plague of mankind (war) banish- what was exercising the minds of ed from the earth, and the sons Members most was the possibil- and daughters of this world em- ity of the transfer of colonies or ployed in more pleasing and in- mandated territories to the cornocent amusements than in pre- eignty of some other nation, Ru- paring Implements and exercising mours, he continued, have spread them for the destruction of man- to the effect that we were con- kind.”—George Washington (to "templating transfer.

his decretary, in 1785).