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THE CONDITION OF EUROPE.

Impeachment of Allied

Zimmern.

THURSDAY, APRIL 14, 1921.

sponisble for the commission, at the close of the war, of a viola- tion of international right, as plain and as flagrant as that: committed by German states. manship, at its inception, in the viatation of Belgian neutrality.

CHARACTERISTICS OF SCOTS AND ENGLISH.

Impressions Of Cebebrated Anthoress.

Spaaking of the subject of some "The Belgian Treaty was mate

racial differences between the in 1839 and broken in 1914. The Scots ant English. Miss Annie S.

was Pre-Armistice Agreement

burgh.

Statesmanship. Professor Alfred E. Zimmern, has a remarkable article on “The Condition of Europe" in the Welsh Outlinsk.

He says that the presentede on November 5th. 1918; the Swan (Mrs Burnett Smith) de- Scots Society in the Y.M.C.A. condition of Europe is due firstly British Premier pledged himself livered an address to the Young. to its violation in speeches less to the character and length of than a month later be redeemed Hall. St Andrew Square, Edin-- the war, and secondly, to aution is pledge in a Treaty signed on taken or not taken by Allied June 28th, 1919, and ratified in the When one found an English- statesmen since the Armistice.

of character, said the "By the end of Armistice week succeeding weeks by over-whelman with the Scottish dogged. Britain had torgotten her con-ming majorities in the British and ness

Dominion Parliaments. These speaker, it was a far more dang tinental responsibilities, abdi- feated her moral leadership and are now palatable facts. Thoy.eroun quality than when it wan have, therefore, never been made found in a Scotsman, because in trivial plunged herself into

clear to the British people at the English it was accompanied The Pre- domestic controversy.

home and overseas. But they with a grace and charm, with, a mier had made his first Coalition

remain facte. Those who seek pleasant way of covering Over lectoral speech,". says Prof.

further details will find them in disagreeable truths while uttering "The General Election of 1918 the careful analysis of the terms them a quality the Scots sadly

of the Pre-Armistice Convention lacked. in which, with rare exceptions, and of the Treaty of Versailles in The Englishman would have his the defeated bore themselves the volumes recently published games, and his leisure time off; with as little dignity victors, stands out the further by the Institute of International and that was one of the reasons affaire. "(4) British economic why Scotsmen succeeded so well one moves away from it, as a policy since the Armistice has in England, because they were milestone in European history heen far from generous more great sloggers at their jobs. Per It will take Britain a generation especially towards Allies who hapa this referred more to the to live it down. It is a monument have suffered more severely from past that made Scotland great; to the political slow: wittedness of the war than ourselves. In part- and the only cure for their pre-i the British people and to the political unscrupulousness of the icular, our action in extracting sent ills, was to take a page out of Tammany Bosses and the Hearst monopoly profits ont of the export that old history. Until the joy of our coal, which was, second to of the cunning workman was re- Press (use there American credit, the most indispensable stored to labour-by hand or brain parallels advisedly, who between factor its the restoration of-they would never be able to them dragged a weak Glover European productivity, has been Roop and hold their place among ment and

animaginativel An

shortsighted tu the verge of the nations and repair the waste electorate through the mud. difcriminality, as every recent tra of war. was the direct cause of the policy pursued during the sne- ceeding mouths at Paris, which aggravated instead of relieving sickness of Europe, and made of 1919, the looked for year of hope, perhaps the blackest year in European history.

FOUR CHARGES,

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valler in Allied lands can testify. Poverty in Scotland had always "Such being the spirit and been very much more dignified methods of Allied statesmanship, than she had found it in England. it is not surprising that Europe it was informed by a finer in- has been plunged, during the last telligence, and although people two years, into a vortex of petty were poor in Scotland, the love of intrigue, accompanied by a uni- education for its own sake was! versal mood of lassitude and is very marked, and the absence of usion. Recovery will be slow, it was more noted in England! "Four changes in particular for things being what they are, it than anywhere else. The Eng- can be brought against the Allied will come from the peoples. from ish scored over the Scots by being. atatesmen. (1) They did no the activity of individuals and more tactful and more agreeable make peace, lostead they sat groups; rather than from govers-It was not insincerity, but a for months drawing up Treaties.

ments. But two encouraging natural kindness and courtesy. the last of which is not even get tendencies can be mentioned att Speaking of the impression of) ratilied,

that, twenty-five the conclusion of this necessarily Scottish meanness, she said the months after the armistice, the disheartening survey. Thanks to Scots were more careful in spend- official end of the war is still the wise and self-respecting state-ing small sans of money, but eluding us on the horizon. Had manship of President Masaryk that was just because they had the procedure of 1814 er of 1871 and M. Benes Czecho-Slovakia always been a small and poor been followed, peace prelimina has drawn together some of the country. Scotsinen, however, ries would have been concluded ex-Hapsburg countries-notably were liberal in big things. They Intween the five enemy States Jugoslavia and Roumania into were not so niggardly in the and the Allies, as could have the so-called Little Entente, for handling of big sums of money as been done in weeks rather than mutual protection and co-opera-¦ of small ones.

CHUCKLES.

in months in 1814 it took five tion. This marks a turning away weeks), leaving the voluminous from dependence on Paris and details to be settled at leisure London to a mood of selfdepen. after commercial relations and dence. Czecho-Slovakia and normal intercourse had been Jugo slavia, as their exchanges resumed. With incredible folly testify, are finding their feet, and The Allies and especially Britain, should lend support and stability

In these days of by-election I demobilised their armies, whilst Loothers. A similar influence

like the story of a member for a remaining at war with their will be increasingly oxerted by Scottish constituency, where, to enemies. The present situation the peasant parties and groups his dismay, stories circulated that in Armenia, Greece, and through whom the chances of the blockade Cut the Middle East is the result (which altered the economic|

PROBLEMS IONORED.

balance between town and coun-

he was becoming strongly addict- ed to "tasting," writes "Beach-

(2) The Allies ignored the try) have every where brought in comber" in the Daily Express, problems presented by the to fresh power and prominence.

On going down to refute these Libels he was surprised to be met e onomic prostration of Europe. I Whatever Lenin may have

The chief of The interallied economic organ: hoped, Europe is being painted, at the station by a hand and

cheering crowds. isation built up during the war, in these post-war years, hot red which could have been turned but green. Her towns are di- his supporters came forward and into an agency of relief, was disminishing, but her peasants have grasped him warmly by the hand. "I've come," explained the mantled. The result was chaos become more opulent, not only

chefly to deny Out of chaos, after much wrang-paying off their mortgages. but ratified M.P. ing, there emerged charity on acquiring their own properties, this calumny about my drinking. Wheest! Not a the one side and mendicancy and From France to Russia, from paap-rism on the other. It is Sicily to the Baltic Provinces this word o'that." exclaimed the other. "It's made ye the maist popular too late now, to hope for interna- movement is in evidence; and! tional or governmental measures despite the inevitable reaction man in the town." on any large scale, fo restore and clericalism that it involves, Europe to productivity. We are it is one of the strongest. sources

As elderly lady of very prim seated thrown back upon soup kitchen of hope to those who believe that, and severe aspect was methods (which the Germans, it in her present state of prostration. next a young couple, who were cidentally, are not slow to use for Europe's two grea est needs are, discussing the merits of their the purpose of sowing dissension first stability, and then a revalna-motor care. She began to "listen between the Allies), and upon the tion of valves and a return to in" to the talk at the point where ÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷~inflow of private captial. Europe is simpler and more genuine ways the young man asked of the girl

in the condition of an undeveloped of living." area calling out for foreign com- missionarice. If Vicenna or Riga, or Sofia, or Moscow, cannot afford

Mine," replied the man, "is to buy their own raw materials

brown with wide yellow stripes." they must look for so them and

This was too much for the old set their machinery running and

An explosion at the Diana lady. Rising from the table, she their demoralised labourers work.

theatre in Milan is beloved by exclaimed to her hestess" I ing. But the political consequen- the police to be a protest against really must be excused. When ices of this turn of events Malatesta's imprisonment, Enrico young people come to asking each

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EXPLOSION IN MILAN THEATRE.

"What colour is your body?" "Oh, mine is pink. What is! yours?"

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