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There appear to be straws in a wind whose direction is far from veer to
the
settled but which may more hopeful quarters in near future if a recognition of economic facts by all nations con- cerned can be translated into political sanity.
Fashion's Forelock
Paris says that spring will.sge bangs being worn again, and the hair "definitely down." It is safe to venture that every sweet young Hong Kong, Monday, March 13, 1939. thing and her elder sister, too
AUTARKIE AND INTERDEPENDENCE
has already made the calcula- tions necessary to bring her own locks in line once more. Perhaps her mother, having developed a philosophy in such matters, will Politics never made stranger smile knowingly and quote clas bed-fellows than Autarkie and sically, "I do not set my life at interdependence. The one aims a pin's fee." Meaning, of course, at- national self-sufficiency, the the hairpin!
other recognises the impossibility Of all the world's dictators, of achieving it. Herr Hitler's Fashion remains the most fickle “export or die" phrase has start and the most permanent. Back ed reverberations the world over in Nero's day, long hair enjoyed because it is frank recognition of the preference; but both before
a fact which many had supposed and after his time other styles was not to be emphasised in Ger- were in authority. One can only many. That fact is that nations deduce that if a woman's hair be must depend upon one another. her crowning glory, it must also Germany must export her pro-be true that uneasy lies the head ducts to acquire foreign ex-that wears it.
change. To make exports pos- To office and to school one day sible the German Government is they scuff in low-heeled boots, prepared to go a long way toward with rakish cuts done up in pea- absorbing losses which its trad-sant scarves, and the very next ers incur through selling in for- they startle with a demure glance eign markets at prices below cost out of Godey's Lady's Book with of production. To meet German upswept curls and a lover's lock! undercutting, other governments The labour must be frightful, and subsidse their foreign trade as the cost excessive. Likewise ex- Britain has in Central Europe, cessive the time to train “each and may more vigorously in the particular hair to stand on end, near future unless new under-like Quilles upon the fretfull standings can be reached on in- Propentine." ternational questions.
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Up and down, off the face, un-
Last year saw a severe decline der the hat, page boy, wind- in German exports. And the an-blown, short, long, now free and nexations of Austria and the flowing, now close plastered to Sudetenland, far from being of the head. It must be very economic advantage, resulted in hafrassing! But what to do? additions to Germany's unfavour What, indeed, but to bear with able trade balance since these them, remembering "a man's a and so's a areas likewise were buying more man for a' that”. than they sold. Moreover, the woman, too! "drive to the east," politically
expedited at Manich, appears to But Does Ferdinand
be running into obstacles raised
Care?
by fears among the smaller na- tions. As producers of raw ma- terials Germany's eastern neigh-
The course of popular adom- bours must constantly guard tion never runs smooth, straight against the possibility of becom- or very far. Its twistings and ing German "economic colonies." turnings are bridged by sighs of Such, terms as have been offered vain regret. The victory of by Germany in that part of the United States Senator Henry world have underscored this pos- Cabot Lodge over Ferdinand the sibility for the peoples there. Bull in the Colby Junior College's That Germany's need of foreign "master man of 1938" contest trade is becoming acute was in affords poignant proof that there dicated by Herr Hitler's phrase, are as many burdocks as prim- Connected with this need was the roses on the path to national German demand for colonies, popularity.
though the return of undeveloped Naturally it is rough on the colonies could mean only a minor romanticists who had box-officed — and for a long time a negli-the Bull Brummell of Hollywood gible contribution to Germany's into world renown. But life is economic welfare. Exports to not all shade trees and flowers as colonies could be only as profit-even the Colby poll must show. able to Germany as the develop. A man must get out and paw the ment of those colonies permitted, dirt, so to speak; he must fight Such development requires the his way to the top. Fighting was very capital which Germany ap- never Ferdinand's forte. Add up pears to lack, and a protracted the "sportsmanship of Dona ka period of investment and patience Budge, the smile of Douglas Cor- which it seems Germany could rigan and the savoir faire of the now ill afford.
Duke of Windsor, the girls Programmes of political expan of Colby Junior, and you get the sionista are less desirable, even debonair hero of political arenas, from the point of view of a coun youthful Senator Lodge. – All of try needing. somic... “living whichy leayen the bithesome room, than
to find this foriculturist of movieland qut on rom by
ops looking to a limb of his favourite cork tres.
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