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THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 29, 1939

The China Mail

Ninety-Third Year of Publication

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and women who work long hours for wages so meagre that they would be better off on public re- lief. We do not, however, re- [gard that shocking state of af- fairs as an excuse for worsening the condition of the unemployed.

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tain, having, after discussions lasting for a quarter of a cen- tury, provided itself at last with the site for a National Theatre, is naturally keenly interested to [see what one can do.

state

The illustrious French

theatre is well qualified to satisfy this desire. It is also well quali- fied to show on how large a scale la National Theatre must be or- ganised if it is to succeed. The [naturalist Owen is said to.....have reconstructed an entire prehis- toric-animal from the single re- lic of an ankle bone, and the amateur of the drama can de- duce the immense scope of the

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Hong Kong, Wednesday, Mar. 29, 1939, Comedie. Francaise's activities from the apparently trivial, but expressive, fact that the proper- ties of the theatre include - 682

-NEW ATTACK-

MR. CHAMBERLAIN'S pairs of curtains, 509 tables, [3,000 actors wigs, 850 actresses' wigs, 450 changes of scenery,' and 28,000 costumes.

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Mr. Chamberlain, having com- mitted the country to paying The influence of the French £2,100,000,000 as the price of theatre upon the English

been very great in the past. It "appeasement,” looks round » for savings to stem the tide of bank-was the visit of the Comedie Francaise company in 1879 that ruptcy. The wings of the arms first stimulated in England the profiteers are not to be clipped. Upon the size of arms profits and idea that the drama was poten- the extent of tax evasion, no the ambitions that led to the es tially a great modern art. It fired

doubt, depends the response to the Conservative Central Oftablishment of the famous actor-

such mánagers,

Tree and fice appeal for election funds, Alexander and Hare. Many peo- with which the Prime Minister ple to-day hope that the present associated himself recently.

Comedie Francaise company will

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So Mr. Chamberlain turns to similarly rouse and fan enthus- the unemployed. .There are iasm for an English National "work-shys" and "idlers" among Theatre.

them, he declares. And he pro-

poses to exercise the power which

the Unemployment Assistance On Entangling

Board have possessed since 1934,

the power which they are now Appliances

keen to wield, to force unemploy

ed men into work camps on pain

Somewhat confusing, and not

of refusing them relief from the fall due to static, must be the cruel conditions of poverty for effect of nationalistic radio 'pro- which Government policy alone paganda on foreign listeners these is responsible.

days. Berlin's shortwave Wash- Mr. Chamberlain's threat goes ington-anniversary broadcast to even further.

America-neatly intertwined with An unemployed man may take quotations from the first Pre- the view that if he is given work sident's warning about entangl to do, his labour should be re-ing alliances-must have struck warded at Trade Union rates. He many listeners as somewhat in- may feel that, otherwise, he is congruous for all that it was being forced to accept the role of plainly calculated to undermine wage-cutter. That is a proper Americans' support of their coun-. view, shared by responsible opin-try's foreign policy of helping to ion in all Parties.

rearm the European democracies. An unemployed man may con- By using radio propaganda to sider that his health and fitness discourage American entangle- for work may be better main-ments in European affairs, Ger- fained by eating more food than many only complicates the anarl by entering, under compulsion, a in which every press and radio concentration camp to undergo flash from Europe entangles drilling and become regimented American opinion all the closer. by non-military (!) manoeuvres. A world war of words has been That opinion is backed heavily by raging for some time, as millions expert medical opinion..

to whom the radio is a common, But neither view will save the household appliance naturally unemployed from incarceration know. Propaganda which ap- if Mr. Chamberlain gets his way.peals to Americans to ignore this The very fact of being unemploy-fact simply projects a further ed the very fact of the Govern-note of controversy into issues in

which onlookers are...

bound to ment's failure to provide work will be sufficient, subject to the take sides. One way Americans usual set of safeguards designed may try to avoid the kind of to protect nothing but the super-foreign entanglements: radio bas

ayer's

man to

Gov

Efficient and Secure

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the unem

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If this

condemn

brought about is for them risonment turn off their radios, and stop

iption of

king. Such Juggestions do make sense in a country whic afeguards free speech and nister's cherishes the right of the sympathy with Lancashire men dividust to think for himself.