LONDON LETTER
Items From All Quarters
London, Mar. 27," I understand that the Govern- ment bill to readjust Ministerial salaries its introduction depends on the attitude of the House to- mormw.towards Mr. Maclay's re- solution-will apply to the present Parlament, writes 2 correspon-
dent
Hitherto suggestions to remedy the existing anomalies have been mad with the proviso that they should take effect only in the auc- ceeding Parliament.
If the Government decides to take the matter in hand it will make a change in an arrangement | which has lasted since 1880.
1783 are on public exhibition for the first time.
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At The Prague Fair
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Prague. Mar, 15. This year's Prague Spring Fair, & show of 2833 exhibitors, WES characterised by a record participa- For 125 years these papers were 11. the possession of the Royal Ins by far the number of several inst tion of foreign visitors, surpassing Litution. They recrossed the At-years. This increase is evaluated lantic in 1929, when they were sold to Dr. Rosenbach.
Mr. John
up to 40 p.c. over the last Fair's level. There came twice as many buyers from England, Switzerland,
D. Rockefeller. jun.. has since bought them for the Co-Holland. lonial Museum at Williamsburg.
In the collection is the letter from Washington to Gen. Howe and Gen. Burgoyne to accompany the Congressional Resolutions of July 10, 1776, which amounted to "a declaration of war.
France, Belgium and Scandinavian states than in Spring 1935. Remarkable too was the number of importers from oversca. especially America,
from U.S.A South Africa. The good Fair business :5 Australa and Souti:
due to a large measure to the par- There is also an amusing Mem-ticipation of renown orandum of Equivalents from Gen. Stores and Buying Syndicates from Department In that year the First Lord of Howe to the Commissioners for the all parts of the World. In the the Treasury's salary was first fixed; Exchange of Prisoners. By this a at £5,000.
Lieutenant-General equals one Ma-tul goods, leather articles, house-
glassware. china, pottery, toys, me jor-General and one Brigadier, or hold and kitchen equipment lines one Brigadier and two Colonels,
Taking the rank and file as the unit a Lieutenant-General counts as 1,500, a Colonel as 187, a subal- tern as 12, and a "zerjani" as 3 pri-
The Pustmaster-General was the next Minister whose salary was de- termined at its present rate of
£2,500. This was done in 1789.
Then in 1831 the Chancellor of the Exchequer. the Secretaries of State and the First Lord of the Admiralty were each given £5,000
year. The Lord Chancellor's £10,000 salary dates from 1852
"GATECRASHER” AT THE
COUNCIL.
The League Coune!! Is not often "gametrashed." I understand, how- ever, that Prof. Jeze, the French lawyer who represented Abyssinia at the League at the outbreak of the war, attended the Council's last private meeting..
Abyssinia is not a member of the Courel, and Prof, Jeze is not the offics! Abyssinian representative In London.
Members of the Louneli beleer Prof. Jeze's presence only a the end of the meeting.
THE R.H.G. 'ABBREVIATES Answering questions !n
the House of Commons yesterday Mr. Eden used the contraction "H. M. G." Realising this the House was a Bille bewildered he quickly add. ed. I'm sorry His Majesty's Gov- ernment."
The con reflon is a familiar one in Whitehall It would, however. be confusing if all the Whitehall apbrelations came to be used in the House. Among them are "F.O.", "P.M., "P.M.G."" "F.S.T (Financial Secretary to the Treasury),
and
Why the right honourable Gen- tleman should have used the ab- breviation while reading from the text of his answer is a mystery.
Foreign Office documents always use the full words. "His Majesty's Government."
DEPUTIES COMING AND
GOING
Fates.
MODESTLY ABSENT
No doubt, could be entertained as to the feeling of the House of Com. mans yesterday about Mr. Maclay's motion on Ministerial salaries, It was overwhelmingly in favour of revision.
Throughout the debate Mr. W. S. Morrison was present on duty and duly noted the sense of the House. but modesty kept most other Min- isters away Bench.
from the Treasury
business results were remarkable that also Czechoslovak best. It s
machine manufacturers did better export business.
"PERMANENT" MINISTER
London, March 25. Sir Philp Sassoon, when he introduced the Air Est.mates #12 the House of Commons last night, was performing the duty for the Minister connected with the Ser- Afth year in succession. No other
vices can claim such an unbroken record.
He can also cla.m to be the only When Mr. Maclay opened the dis-post has not been changed in the member of the Government whose cussion the Prime Minister and Sir John Simon were the only mem-
many reconstructions there have jbers of the Cabinet in the House.
been since August, 1931. Neither stayed more than a few minutes.
Capt. Margesson, the Chief Whip. entered the House while Capt Cazale was speaking. "It is dif ficult to deal with the salary of the Patronage Secretary while he is sitting in the House." Capt. Cazalet observed.
At once
the Chief Whip rose. Smiling broadly, he left the Cham-
ber.
As he also had 4 years at the Air Ministry under Sir Samuel! 'Hoare in Government, Sir Philip Sassoon's the last Conservative familarity with his subject--05 | shown in his speech- -Is under- standable.
AIR-MINDED-WITH REGRET The speech was not unmarked by those Idiosyncrasies o1 enuncia- After pronouncing despite" tion to which I recently, referred.
though it had no Anal "e," he confused Mr. Churchill by pro- nouncing "prices" as though it rhymed with "crisis."
Mr. Churchill interjected, "What
PRIME MINISTERS' SALARIES Although, as I pointed out the other day, the First Lord of the Treasury's salary of £5,000 was fixed in 1660, at least up to 1834 crisis? Sir Philip retorted, "No the Prime Minister was beiter pald-prices." than he is now, apart from the fact that the value of money has greatly diminished in the last 100 years,
M
In his peroration he referred to
Sir Philip hinted that he was one the Wels alm, "Things Come."
who would not welcome the over. mechanised world Mr. Wells fore sees-3 point on which Mr. Bald win holds similar views.
Sir Robert Peel in 1850 told the committee which was then inquir- ing Into the matter that Lord North, Pitt and Lord Liverpool, Ar-minded Sir Philip Sassoon when they were Prime Ministers, stressed this by his one quotation also held the Lord Wardenship of-from Cervantes "To her har the Cinque Ports:
the art got wings."
Lord North in 1780 drew in ali self, when he formed the short- about £10,400 a year. Peel hun- lived Tory Cabinet of 1834, became
While Signor Mussolini cast aside the Italian Chamber of Deputies in favour of a National Counch of Corpontious. Herr Hitler provides himsell with a brand-new Relch- First Lord of the Treasury and strong as did her first book, which
stag.
cent years.
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The life of a Deputy has not been arduow in either country, in re-
Reichstag, memsers are pala £600 a year. As ne House now meets normally twice a year and then its for not more than about two hours. Nazi legislators receive some £2 19s a minute.
The German and the Italian De- puties have both enjoyed the privileg of free travel on State railway The Italians, however, were paid only a little more than half the German salaries.
On the other hand, within the Chamber building in the Plaza Montecitorio at Rome, all drinks and amokes are free--"on House," as it were. This is an advantage over the House of Con
Chancellor of the Exchequer.
salary of £5,000 apiece, but ac- He could have taken the double
cepted the suggestion of an earlier committee of 1830 that the holder of the two offices should be con- tent with £7,500.
NOT A LIVING WAGE. Peel found, however, that to combine the two was impossible. and the Prime Minister has since then received only £5,000, even if he performed other duties as well.
Yet in 1850 Lord John Russell declared that he had never had & debt in, his Ilfe until he became Prime Minister.
When asked:
With respect the
to the whole of those First Lords of the Treasury whom your lordship has now
Called "The Face of Mother In- dia, it criticises the Hindus
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caused Miss Mayo to be burnt in' edgy in the main streets of Cal- culta and Bombay.
This didn't prevent the American authorees from visiting India again soon after,'
MR. BALDWIN UNMOVED Her opponents in this country have already communicated with Mr. Baldwin and the Secretary of State for India, Lord Zetland.
Not getting much change there. they approached Major Attlee, and. I hear that the Leader of the Op- position has promised to raise the question in the House of Commons. The Soviet, French, German and American Ambassadors have also received protests on the subject,
Meanwhile, Miss Mayo, I imagine," le smiling happily. She couldn't
for her book...
mons which the new Council win enumerated, with the exception of possibly have got "better publicity
no doubt endeavour to retain.
TAKE-IT-OR-LEAVE-17
SYSTEM
A similar system of election has
of
those who had large private for- tunes, is it, not a matter notoriety that they all died in debt?
prevailed both in Italy and in Ger-affirmative.
many. In Italy a rest of candi-
dates, to be accepted or rejected
as a whole, is drawn up by the
QUEEN MARY'S SURPRISE...
THE KING'S ROOMS The King has now-decided which private rooms. he will use at Buck-
Lord John had to answer in the ingham Palace, and hear that
they are soon to be redecorated.
Plain pastel colour schemes will predominate, pale green 'being the shade the King likes best for in- teriors.
VISIT Queen Mary, wearing deep party and presented to the elector-mourning, paid a surprise visit to site. I reproduce to-day a ballot Adelphi-terrace, London, yesterday, paper for the Reichstag elections.
and went over the buildings erect- From this it will be seen that there
ed by the famous Adam brothers, la no "Vein."
before they are pulled down to make way for a modern estate.
Those who do not wish to vote for Herr Hiler and the Naz list can record their dissent only by apoll- ing the paper. Only in large centres, I imagine, would this be a safe proceeding.
The ballot paper is identical throughout Germany except for the name of the voting area (wahlkreis), which in my illustra→ tion is lift blank.
The piper as photographed 18, duly filed in with a cross over the
printed drcle;
1 GENERAL-1,500 PRIVÁTES In New York this week the "Leadquarters Papers of the Bri- tish Army in America from 1775 to
She went into the house where David Garrick lived, and walked through the arches and passages where Charles Dickens played as a child.
Representatives of the owners explained how the site is to be developed.
THE FACE OF MOTHER
INDZA”
has already been banned in India, Not, content with the act that it
I hear that great efforts are now being made "behind the scenes" to ban Miss Katherine Mayo's new book all over the world. This is a distinctly optimistic venture.
Some of his present furniture will be transferred from York House, including Chinese lacquer pieces and the cocktail-cum-radiogram cabinet made especially to he order last year,
THERE'S A MORAL HERE rounds about Mrs. Osborne, form- There's a good story going the erly the much-publicised Miss Primrose Balt, who is now back in ́ England following her marriage in
India.
She startled the world of fashion some time ago by appearing with shoulder "pips." earrings made of leutenant's
Not to be outdone, another girl. very popular in ce Army procured major-general chevront, and fixed them to her ears with wire.
She got blood poisoning.
TUESDAY, APRIL 14, 1936.
CROSSWORD PUZZLE
18
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5
28
27
83
22
20
NOTE--Figures in parentheses indicate number of lette: in the words required.
ACROSS 1.-Let's have a holiday as re-
gards tax (6).
6. Every one takes part, in this
song (8),.
10. Just the fellow for a railway
tug-of-war (7),
11.-If you say to him; "Take my tip," he almost certainly will! (8): 12.—" Tinsel" (anagram) (8). 13-Ambassadors (7). 16-Not the best part of India, It
would seem, to which to take your plane (5),
17.-In Ireland tennis certainly
!
5.--Forearm bone (4) 6-Package from a Mediter-
ranean island (4).
7-Plant of cordial association
(5).
B. This tongue is seldom found
In modern mouths (5). 9-Valleys (5).
14-A kind of colour change (5). 15-It's up to an artist to make
this headdress (5),
19. Our bosom pal makes the most of this sort of chop (5). 20.-Sultawie store for American'
railwaymen (5).
21.-So, behind the hill, we find
trunk (5).
one of
lacks a head (5). 18-A mean sort of fellow, he. 22.-Condition of
the and (5).
U.S.A.? (5). 23.-Multiply it by two, and this language will be quite incom- prehensible (5).
19this one's mainly a low one
(5).
22. Should not be taken by those seeking impartiality (5). 25.-Carry on in a supernatural
manner in the theatre (7). 29.-On appeal, he will give his
decision (6).
30.--The "casus belli" in the case-
of Tweedledum and Tweedle- dee (6). 31-Worn next the skin, so natur- ally tingles when disarranged (7).
32.-To many of us. this is the
moving spirit (8), 33-Only one animal-yet which of two, one might almost ask? (8).
DOWN 1.The mountain-ash (5). 2-"Let's all sing like the birdies
sing" (5). 3-Alphabetical charm (5). 4.--Certain to upset stratagem
(4).
24. She begins to clip (5). 26-May be drawn to conceal but not necessarily by an artist (4).
27.Noisy frolics (4). 28. Ship's company (4).
YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION The following is the solution of yesterday's puzzle:
Plumber: 10, Vista; 11, Armed; 12, Across:-1, Lamps; 6. Picks; 9.
Ram-part; 14, Dunce; 15, Yam: 16, Elude; 17, As-hen: 19. Set: 21, Get- up; 23, Extreme; 24, Prong: 25, Re-bus: 25. Uniform; 27, Needs: 28, Swede.
Down.-I. L-1-v-l-d; 2. Misan- thrope; 3. Spare: 4. Mummy: 5, A- beam; 6, Frate; 7. Combustible; 8, Sidle: 13, Paper: 17. As-pen; 18, Negus: 19, Stair; 20, Tepor: 21. Germs: 22. Paste
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