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There should be no obstacle, therefore, to the emancipation, except the difficulty of finding time in Parliament just now for any new business.

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The need for ultimately ordinating all forms of transport, in order to secure the full value of their capital and energy, is emphasised in the Report.

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The present milk policy of the Home Government is provoking signs of dissatisfaction both at the producers' and at the con- sumers' end. A producer mono- poly (like the Milk Board, which represents only 160,000 dairy Where and what is Danzig? farmers) cannot, naturally, look As this German city at the end after the interests of the 20,000,-- of the Polish corridor is evidently 1000 electors who consume milk.. the next danger point on the map of Europe, it is well to explain that Hitler's aim in annexing it will be, as usual strategical.

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The latter know that milk is not as safe or cheap as it might be. Making butter and cheese

The great encirclement alar-dearer by restricting imports will. encirclement of Poland. From only increase public resentment. Danzig his guns can control the undeniably Polish port of Gdynia.

Farmers should safeguard their own future by demanding The internal control of Danzig a Milk Board with a majority by the Nazi gangs is already com-nominated by the Government, plete. The "free" city enjoys the sort of freedom permitted by as in Ulster. This would restore Hitler. The Jews are expelled or public confidence. persecuted. The Third Reich

grasps Danzig in its mailed fist.

Why then a new Danzig crisis? With Flowers

Not because of oppressed Ger- mans. Simply because (as in

Edward Heard, a young labour-

the case of non-German Bohemiaer, was fined £1 by a Folkestone: and Moravia) Hitler now ap magistrate the other day be parently wishes to control non, cause flowers are worth more to German Poland. That is all. a. corpse than a live human be

As well, we think to explaining. That, apparently, is the this before the woes of Germans conclusion one must draw. in Danzig are used as an excuse,

And also before appeasers begin His wife was very fond of to tell us that Danzig is a far-off flowers. Heard was very fond city "of which few have ever of his wife (whom he married in

heard."

Tax-Dodgers

January) and, as he could not afford to buy her any on his. small wage, he took some from a grave.. The magistrate called it.

Legislation toils panting after a "mean and disgraceful theft." the tax-dodger, who always seems

A theft is a theft and the: to succeed in getting round the taking of the flowers probably next corner. This year's Finance annoyed the person who put them Bill introduced by Sir John Simon, there. But, looking at it contains some new provisions from another point of aimed at checking evasion. What view, who would benefit would probably have more effect more from the flowers the would be a tardy discovery by the living, or the dead? Law Society and the Institute of Chartered Accountants that it is disreputable on the part of their members to assist in cheating the revenue and in shifting the bur- dens of the rich on to the should ers of their fellow-citizens,

Railway Emancipation - -

The railways' claim to release from the present archaic system of rate regulation has been fully endorsed by the Report of the Transport Advisory Council.

His

that.

lawyer suggested Heard's mind was not normal" at the time of the offence. Surely he was more normal then many people, having: rationalized the problem of his wife's desire for flowers and their presence on grave, and carried it to its logi cal conclusion.

The blame lies 'not on 'a doting · labourer, but on that civilization which makes it impossible for a man to take flowers home to his wife without spending money he cannot spare..

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