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It should, however, bo decided- ly interesting to see the second law of Thermodynamics applied. to the inevitable running down of the Conservative party and its ineluctable, inability to serve even its own ultimate-re- sources of energy. One thing. ought to be ensured. After long inspections of the realms of when he gets to Westminster, space Sir James Jeans, if and ought to display an approach to politics that is notably, free from the restrictions of the parish

pump.

The Statue's Fate

The announcement that a model of the projected George V mem orial has been made available to members of Parliament bears the ominous footnote: "The general

Hong Kong, Thursday, March 30, 1939, design of the memorial is being

much criticised.”

Will it ever be possible to pro- KING AND VICEROY duce à l'ondon statue which is not "much criticised"—usually with

The precedent of King George reason? When at last the Land- V's visit to India is to be follow-were ready it was said that the seer lions for Trafalgar Square ed for the Canadian visit in the summer, and the Governor Gen-lion which used to stand on the eral will continue to exercise the would not accept them as fellows, top. of Northumberland House functions of Viceroy even though the King is in the Dominion, One and Taine's criticism of the Eugenes Viennese orch. curious exception, however, column itself-"a rat impaled on made; the King will prorogue Gallic feeling, may not have been a pole," though sharpened by the Canadian Parliament if the Eugenes Viennese orch. date of that ceremony fits in entirely groundless. When King with the visit. It is not quite Edward VII's memorial appeared clear what will be the relative there were not wanting those who position of King and Viceroy, onlooked his best on horseback, so pointed out that the King never the day, whether the King will that the form chosen was not of be deputising for his deputy, or whether the Viceroy will be deem- the happiest:

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ed to have gone on leave for the the Albert Memorial, and it is Generations have made fun of Johan Strauss and orch, period of the ceremony. There

the Paul Whiteman and orch.ously in Ottawa.

cannot be two Kings simultane only recently that some of

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.Basle symphony orch.

The first time these matters of showing their superiority. It that approval of it is a new way were discussed was in 1875 when has been customary to give the Prince of Wales was going to good deal of praise to the statue India, and he and his friends de-of Charles I at Charing Cross, manded with energy that he but Mr. Winans, that authority And should be regarded as the repre-on horses, found plenty to blame sentative of the Queen, visiting in it. Allan Cunningham made. India in the Sovereign's place. great fun of the maked statues The Queen as strenuously main-of Westcott and Burges in St. tained and that the position of Paul's Cathedral, "for no British the Viceroy must be maintained warriors go naked into battle or and that the Heir to the Throne must be treated as the And the statue of the Bishop of wear sandals or Asiatic mantles." Viceroy's guest. Northbrook de Calcutta, "ogre-like and appar clared that any other arrange ently confirming two Indian ment would be damaging to his dwarfs," has caused a god deal of prestige as Viceroy. Lord Salis- ribald comment.

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the Viceroy and the India Office The Spirit of Inquiry Decame very strained, Northbrook

declaring that he, and he alone, The report that an old, rusty, was competent to hold a great and apparently innocuous mine Durbar. Finally the matter was has been washed ashore on the smoothed over by Evelyn Baring Cape Province coast recalls the (known in India as the "Vice-exciting story of the discovery of Vice"), and the usual compromise a mine on the beach at Eland's by which such difficulties are Bay, South Africa, in 1918, by a settled in England was, arranged. Boer farmer and his son. Unable

The Member for Space

to identify the strange-looking object, the two Dutchmen re- solved to investigate, and began by dismantling the primer of the mine with a large tin-opener and There seems to be a grand op- løpping off the horns with portunity for the wits of West- hammer and chisel. At this stage. minster and elsewhere to pro- they noticed a sticky substance duce a few squibson the an-melting TNT., had they but nouncement that Sir James Jeana known oozing from the ~ mine, is to stand as Conservative candi- and proceed apply a match date for Cambridge University at to it to see if would burn. It the next election. - Almost 'in did. A pillar of flame shot into sistibly Goldsmith's famous 'un the sky to a height of several iversal tribute to Burke comes hundred feet, scarin the inquisi will be hard not to tive Boers out of t slightly and present

leaving them lete

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