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said so) at the behaviour of Lon- doners"? If those awful Lon- doners know how to behave in the case of royalty, why can't they repress their cursed curiosity

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It can only be tentatively con- W.C.2jectured that the poor fish ing

question have discerned some sort of dim but definite differ-- ence between people who really do wish to escape notice except on their recognised and official occasions and people whose whole career depends on constant at- tention and ballyhoo and who

Hong Kong, Friday, June 23, 1939.

THE TRADE UNIONS' sedulously angle for it by every

VOTE

device that is known to publicity agents. If Shirley Temple, or The trade unions are usually any other boostfully promoted realistic, and the conference of prodigy, young or old, cares to executives on conscription took come to England and keep a practical course. It protested quiet about it, she or he stands against the introduction of con- no more chance of being recog- scription as a violation of pled-nised and embarrassed than do ges and as a threat to the work- hundreds of far more important. ers' freedom. But it refused to people who daily walk the streets make any threats of hostile ac-of London in comfort and secu- tion and it overwhelmingly de-rity. But if they come over and feated a proposal for a general hold press receptions from the strike. The General Council's instant they set foot in South- line, and it was endorsed by the ampton, and are surrounded from conference, is that it is now more start to finish by all the infinite important to see that the con- resources for flapdoodle that are scripts are justly treated and known to the most concientious- that the Government should be ly vulgar industry that was. pressed to do its part in turn ever invented, then they assur- to build up a*"genuine peace edly will get a certain percent- front,"

including an agreement age of fools to crowd round and with Russia, and to get on at take notice. But where would once with measures to control the commercial cinema be if it prices, limit profits, and "con-were suddenly bereft of fools and script" wealth. But beyond these flapdoodle, both on and off the important immediate questions screen? the conference looked to the

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position of labour if war comes, Historian in the Militia and it instructed the General

among

Council to go ahead with its dis- It may well be that cussions with the Government on those called up for the new mili- plans for the recognition of the tia there will be here and there: unions in the war-time control a budding historian, and for them of industry. The General Coun-the reflections of Gibbon during cil's ideas are running on the his militia period should be of lines of a glorified Whitley sys- special interest. Certainly Gib- tem. Each organised industry bon' chafed a little, especially is to have a national committee, when, "after the pretence of an and the unorganised industries invasion had vanished, the popu-- are to have trade boards, the larity of Mr. Pitt gave a sanc-- whole system to be crowned by tion to the illegal step of keep- a national advisory "co-ordinat-ing (the militia) till the end of ing committee." These indus-the war under arms, in constant trial committees, it is suggested, pay and duty, and at a distance should receive notification of Gov-from their respective homes. How ernment needs and priorities and often (a proud comparison) did should "evolve the best system I repeat the complaint of Cicero for utilising labour" and deter- in the command of a provincial. mine the machinery for labour army:

ass have:

transference. There are other] The paniers of the suggestions for compulsory col- been put on the ox; it is incre lective bargaining. It is much to dible how tired I am of the whole. he wondered whether the scheme business. The activity of my is anything like radical enough; mind

has not sufficient.

it is reminiscent of the last war scope wherein to exert itself,. and it may be doubted whether and the notable results of my it would stand up to the strain industry go for nothing. I long that war would now put on our for fame, books, city life, and present industrial structure. But my home. If I can I shall en-- at any rate it is a constructive dure it provided the limit be beginning, and probably far ahead only one year; if it is prolonged of anything the Government has all is at an end. yet thought of.

Poor Little Film Star

"A youth of any spirit," Gibbon: continues, "is fired even by the- pay of arms. but this mili tary fever was cooled by the en- One of the brighter sort in our joyment of our mimic Bellona, modern Fleet Street has discove who soon unveiled to my eyes her ered a new scandal and has been naked deformity." breaking out into hot tears of Yet there was a good deal on shame and indignation over it. the other side: "In every state Why is it that the two little there exists a balance of good and Princesses can ride in a Tube evil. The habits of a sedentary train and no one tries to mob life were usefully broken by them, or Queen Mary can go to active profession, in the health- a London theatre and the rest fal exercise of the field I hunted of the audience refrains from with battalion instead ΟΣ even staring at her, while Shir- pack The discipline ley Temple's parents "will not evolutions of a modern battalion risk her in the London cro

crowds," gave me à clearer notion of the another film star "had to run" phalanx and the legion, and the from the same theatre some captain of the Hampshire grena- nights ago, and "Spencer Tracy diera (the reader may smile) mas was driven out of London, bitter not been useless to the historian and disgusted (though he never of the Roman Empire.