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FRANCE AND BRITAIN

WOMAN'S PLACE IN POLITICS

If war, it is said, teachen ) (a), during the period for which un geography, it also teaches us the allowance is payable sho does econonjes. Out of ovil comethany work as an employed or self- good, although the reckless disai-employed person, or fails with- pation of our zesources on war out good causo to observe any

High price to pay for a prescribed rules of behaviour; knowledge of economics,

in

Even the women, if my corre spondence is anything to go by, are beginning to show an interest in what used to be called, very foolishly, the denial science. I say "even" because, presumably. women have less time to give to such subjects than men

have, although the general run of men are pretty ignorant under thi hend, na is revented by the Intuous remarks at Socialist Ministers have made, and still unblushingly make, un various occasions.

But there is no royal rand to learning about it. I wish there were, for then we should not have to witnesa the spectacle of 50 many people voting to their own detriment at elections people who are carried away by the un- fulfillable promises of BORD-box

economists.

Apart from the general ques-

"Economy" means the manage- tions which engaged the Foreign ment of the home, and in the last Ministers of the lour Powers in analysis that is what economics Paris, it is reasonable to suppose means. So it is only-fitting that that Mr. Bevin and M. Bidault women should concern themselves with it. Economica is the most conducted private discussions on practical of all studies, and this Matters which have halted the fact is being impressed on women proposals for an Anglo-Frenchmore and more in this aftermath treaty of alliance. The easier at of wax. mosphere induced by the settle- of the Syria-Lebanon dis pute, and by the departure from office of General de Gaulle, was definitely recorded in April after the speech by the new French Premier, M, Gouin, advocating a French alliance with Britain as a complement to that with the So-| vier. This statement was prompt-j ly accepted by Mr. Bevin as an opportunity for the British Gov. ernment's reconsideration of the whole question. The main stum hling-block which had. hitherto stood in the way, nately, French insistence on the prior political severance of the Rubr district from Germany, segined partly, at Teast, removed by M. Gouin's spečeli implying acceptance of the British plan for Allied economic control only. Unfortunately, M. Bidault's subsequent statement on behalf of the French coalition denied this construction and mark- ed the end of public exchanges on the topic.

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b) she fails without good cause to attend for, or to submit her self to, any medical examination in accordance with subaction 3 of this section."

On the face of it those clause seem harmless enough, but when one pondera on "prescribed rules of behaviour" the full extent of

By

CANDIDUS

the arbitrary power thus placed in the hands of the bureaucracy becomes horribly apparent. The whole Bits heavy with unplen. sant potentialities for Ghamillat- ing, and cheating, the eltizenry.

Now let us turn to economics.

There has been of isto a recur- of the rumour that the rence Government propose to past leg-

lalation which will limit the divi- dends paid by public companies, Women might pardonably com- ment, if they were not investors. not possibly "this could

that

j

The degree of success or failure in that aim is the ultimate font of the goodness or badness of legisla tion.

Legislation, of course, la incap- able of affecting many aspects of It cannot endow our existence.

uz with an appreciation of litern- ture and the acts. for instance, though it can help. But it can decide whether or not the butter (when we get it again in quant- ties that merit consideration) to be spread thrick or thin on our bread. It can decide whether wo are to spend our time on this distracted planet

creatures fashioned in the Imago of our Maker, or whether spend it as robots responding to bureaucratic manipulation of the strings and pulleys.

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we

are

to

It can, in hort, decide whether Ilfe is to be worth living or not, and that, surely, is a matter which deserves the closest, the most constant, and the most in- structed attention of the sex from whom life 'springs.

France Wants Another Loan

Paris, May 30. Following her Buccessful no gotiations with the United States touch me."..

for $1,370,000,000 loan, Franer 1 There is no royal road. That i

now preparing for negotiations must be emphasised be-| truism

They would be wildly wrong.

with Cannda for a further credit, cause women often write to me | If dividends were to be limited--

M. Felix Gouin, the French Prime I am ignoring the unfairness of Minister, disclosed today. asking me to point out such n road in relation not only to eco-

robbing those who have risked nomics but also to politics, the their money in Ordinary shares Canada has already granted a dividing line between which there would be no point in la- loan of $340,000,000 to Franc

dustrial enterprinos striving to at three Der cent very blurred in these days,

but Gouin nenalising one section of the com- stated that the present credits keep costs low, and consequently would enable France to meet only the housekeepers of this country about une third of her balance of would have to pay through the payments. nose for nearly everything that i goes into the honic,

For example, a woman reader ecently suggested to me that I should go through all the Parlin- mentary Bills and extract from

them the parts which speciflenlly affect women. The mere sugges- sign enabled me to understand how Hercules felt when he con- templated the Augean stables.

Superficially, it may seem to the non-investing sections an attrue- tive move to frezze dividends at a certain level, but by unjustly munity every other section would suffer, Partisau legistation, con- Not that the suggestion is ridi-ceived in envy and apite, is always culous. It is eminently censible, if double-ediged tool, end the edges anybody is tucky enough to have are mighty sharp. the thine to carry it out.

company with men, Women, in unknown to themselves being fettered in totalitarian bonds by much of the legislation sponsored by the Socialist Govern- ment.

For

An example of what Gave in mind is supplied by two provisions in the National Insur- ance B.

import to women

It is safe to affirm that almost all legislation of a "social" kind is of greater than it is even to men, for. this good, and simple reason: that solitics and economics, as I have The Bill enacts that a woman stated above, are aimed, or should whose condition entities her to an be at rendering life happler for allowance may be disqualified "if | human beings in their homes.

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BY THE WAY BEACHCOMBER

With other contemplated crudits from the International Bank to be established under the Bretton France has Woods agreement asked for $500,000,000 from this source, which would emblo her to recover half of her deficit by credits,

There were no restrictions-to the loan negotiated with the Unit ed States.--Reuter.

Palestine Navall Rating Sentenced

Jerusalem, May 30.

The military court here today sentenced Peter Martosh, 20-year- id Palestinian naval rating, to six years imprisonment with an cial treatment an each

of wo charges of possessing un collon and detonators while on board the British destroyer Chevron April 30 this year.

The sentences are to run con- currently.

was the

There is no cridence that this assertion of the French demand for a prior settlement of the Ruhr question has since been modified. If the British Government be lieves that it can eventually con- vince French Minstera that what France secks by way of security can be achieved without cutting Taff the Ruhr politically from Germany, there is no sign of any yet.. Mr. Bevin's statement that Anglo-French friendship nught "at the appro-i priate moment to be cemented by a treaty of the same character as

Two recent bits of news have If the meteorologists were fore- the Anglo-Soviet agreement"

our woather by the seemed to offer M. Bidault the brought a lump into my throat. I telling chance to advocate an alliance of A zoologist is making a census throw of dice they could not be

Martosh, who denied that the better current co-operation than all the bugs in the world," wider of the mark. It is highly knbag containing explosives and and a girl and two men have amuting, in, this cocksure age, detonatora was his, was one of the exemplar. The French produced "the smallest metal to note that the old countrymenį 13 ratings whom the Chevron that

Minister's reply left no doubt, tube in the world." It is "so, who watch the skies and use carried from Alexandria to Haifa however, about the French peo-light that 1lb. of it would mea- their long experience seem to be for demobilisation. ple's sentiments. "The mutual aure 8% milea."

far more accurate in their fore.

(The Chevron

ship I would like to introduce the casts than all the instruments.which intercepted the illegal immi- desire for this alliance," he said. Members Enclosure $3.-

"has never since the Entente Cor-three inventors to the zoologist, In the market town near my gration ship Brigadier Wingate There are a limited number

home they are sufficiently ur- inside Palestine ynters of Telävly of Boxes available upon diale been called in question, and with a view to getting some e application to the Clerk of the Course, Lt. Col. J. R. Edgar has been very clearly reaffirmed." the smaller bugs housed ip the ban to keep on repeating, like in March 25).

"The radio caya... M.B.E, H.Q. Land Forces. (Telephone No. 34121-Ex. 26).

But such kentinents alone will tube. This I would call coopera-parrots. Wing Comdr, F. W. CHADWICK,.,D.F.C..

But, stay! How is the But in the countryside they go Secretary, H.K.S.R.C.

not build it for the new and un-zoologist to be sure that a bug by their own knowledge. And Chevron arrived at Haifa on May certain post-war world. The al- or two has not evaded his no- nine times out of ten they are, the kitbug was, discovered over liance, which M. Bidault declar- tice? What about a certain right, and the drug-victims of ed detonators fitted and fully prim-

the ship's magazine and contain- ed caine into effect quite natural-beetle in North China? When radio wrong.

soon as common dangers he has finished I will introduce arose twice during the past 25 him to Ahmed, the Syrian years, seems still the most natural grocer, who is making the first development in the present state census of the graina cf sand in

the Sahura. of Western Europe. The Western Democracies cannet but stand to gether for the maintenance of

Merrie England" became an in- Western civilisation, and the An- I am preparing for my collea-

credible memory, a Midsummer glo-French treaty would pro-gue Mr. Agate, who likes the iden

Night's Dream of doubtful origin vide its essential basis. In their of condensed versions of Dic- survival "Reformers" tave de- and quality. But there are increas

nounced it as an anachronism, a ing signs that "Merrie England" is hearts all Frenchmen must surely kena ("with continuity narra-

childish stupidity in the modern

coming back, with Goose Fair in realise that the place of their tive." says the author of a re- world; J. B. Priestley, in his pre- the van. For one thing wartime "Great Ex- war, "English" wrote of "Holidays at Home" have demon- country in such an international vised version of

he saw at strated to the authorities in all the understanding for security and Dectations"), shortened editions the "syphilitic

of Cornelle, Racing and Mollero, | Goons Fair: Geell Roberts, another common prosperity would be vastalace nobody has time to read novelist and a native of ly more advantageous than any much today. This experiment | žom,,

satirised

the aldermante thing which France could win for will be followed by brief ver ass won of a civic opening. road on cockatoos on herself and by the prosecution of sions of Beethoven'a

che pocasion. Sym-

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An Old English Custom

For the last

half-century Nangham's world-famous carni val has been febting a battle for

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By

LEWIS RICHMOND

an isolated French policy for the phonies, with a number of bars fait cried the veteran Alderman big towns that the people want Ruhr, even if she could indefinite- omitted, selected limbs of the Tom Ward, everyone of his white unir recreation grounds to be

collaboration with Britain in the great task of European reconstruc- tion, the very conditions of peace and order which are essential to France's own recovery cannot be brought into being.

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ly maintain chat policy in the beat sculpture, and parts whiskura trembling with indigna- something more than flower beds. peace. conference. So long as famous pictures. Half a Vela, tlon, when the City Fathers were and ornamental ponda: they are. preparing to banish it from the demanding "attractions," music. France remains aloof from close quez is better than none.

City Contre.

variety showe dances.

garden The origin of Goose Fair is lost partles, sporting events, competi in antiquity. We find it flourish Lions and "fun for all."

The attendances at Goose Fair While the Governors of Nar- ing, in the fifteenth century and

Kuch kover School wore "holding-n

Its popularity that it pro continuously on the up-grado. тап for over а week. The The fact that it brings in some specially convened meeting to authority in the middle of the £5,000 a year! In ald of the city's discuss what could be done to nineteenth century cut it down to rates is merely incidental. Every Foster the almost unbellovable Chree

days,

and shortly after the year the showoceple deviso some outbreak of honesty at the last war it was "removed" from now "sensation," and now that the school("the first sign of de- the Great Market Placs to "The lights are up again the Forest concy for thirty-one years," to Forest," a mile-and-a-half distant treos and greary slopes encloso quote a Governor) news camo But Goose Fair refuses to die. All ton thousand trioiding lamow and

colours. muking that two of the junior masters through the war years it has gally glittering

of warmth and galety, survived, despite the absence of had been arrested for house- breaking in the neighbourhood coconuta. Grantham ginger bread, unparalleled in the whole country. Rock. and The firmest supporters of the "I thought it was too good an adequats entering facilities be true, said the Chairman

Why? The gloomily.

found. I think, in that it meets an Inherent taman need-the need for communal fun and frolic and of escape from the

dally

round. ||Recognition of this human demand. Ever since it has become pon- for pleasures commisbally enjoyed 'sible to prophesy shout the week! | prak: 1089 i

ARAB LEADERS BREAK BREAD

Cairo, May 30. King Abdullah of hea or Baud: and Emir Crown Prince of Arabia "broke bread" at a ban quet given last night by King Farouk of. Byypti

Arab observers see in this evidozzon that, - neededirik të Ársh tradition, all differences betwien

In Passing

brandyanag.

Gouse Fair

TORBON

Goose Fair ramember the words of be Ronald Parr

The Pilgrim rode to Palestine

to seck the Holy Shrine,.

toper travelled into Spain day to taste the Spanish

The

The veoman rode to Nottingham, de for ran there not the fals

addime the youngrens maidena”: