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"freshness". If we may use the ex- pression, of American diplomacy.

The matter is most easily reduc ad to its concrete terms by asking what are the respective relations of Mr. Stimson and Mr. Borah to the foreign policy of the country, Mr. Stimson is the bend of the State Department in the Cabinet of | the President. He announces tho Govern- policy of the American

HIA ment, or of his Department. policy in not presented to the Legislature, nor is he responsible to it. He need not defend his policy in the Lexiniature nor is he himself a member of that body, Only when he wants to pass a Rill, or to gain sanction for a foreign treaty, does he come into direct contact with it. Mr. Borah is the Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee of the Senate. That Committee constantly concerns it self with affairs, and its Chairman frequently volees his opinions. But his opinions have no necessary relation to the policy of the Govern- ment. He speaks without the res

ignorance of the real facts of the ense, may seriously embarrass the negotiations which the Govern ment may have in hand. For the

DAY BY DAY

THAT MAN'S A TRUE CONSERVA-

TIVE

MOULDER'D

~~~--Temyson.

310 Long THE

BRANCH AWAY.

Knocked down by a motor lorry in Mataukek Road, a Chinese was taken to the Kowloon Hospital yesterday fracture to the left suffering from

leg.

A Confirmation Service will be held at St. Andrew's Church, Kowloon, on Sunday, March 19, at 6 p.m. who the Bishop of Victoria will pay his farewell visit to the Church.

the Sailors' and Soldiers' Home grate

The President and Committee of fully acknowledge the receipt of to the funds of the Home i.M.S. Bruce (Ship's Company).

A

front

As the result of a fail from scaffold- ing during construction work at Embankment Road, Kowloon Tong, a Chinese was admitted to the Kwang both feet. Wah Hospital yesterday, injured in

WHO IS TO

By the BISHOP of

NORWICH.

BLAME?

If God is Almighty, why is the does not, of course, cover all the world so miserable?

ground: the whole subject of the This question is not generally origin and progress of evil in the asked with a simple desire to trace world is too big to be treated incidentally in one short article. the two parallel lines of the power But these considerations do go a and the love of God, but in a spirit long way to explain the apparent of fault-finding against God-with contradiction between Godeant the iden that Ite ought to be doing mightiness and His loving kind- better than He deca.

пеня.

To hear some people. talk you

Perhaps it is the misrepresenta- would suppose that they could run tion of the God of the Old Testa- the world much more successfully, ment which partly causes the trou- if they had their chance. knew a good many of these people is sometimes regarded as unfeeling We ble. The God of the Old Testament during the war-armchair critica we called them.

and tyrannical, But without dis- cussing the mistaken in such a. view we may remember the bit of The Same Puzzle.

truth in what the child said, "Oh, ing to these questions about God God of the New Testament with One of the difficulties of reply that God is dead!" For it is the and

His providence la that they whom we are concerned. can be put in a few words, ko a You have to look at the best iden stale riddle. But the answer must you can get of God's ways and will.

hear

can

stonebreaker received rather be a much bigger affair, for the You find that in the perfect life of ponsibility of office, and there have serious injuries yesterday when, work-subject is large, and people will Him Who in a human lifa among the rejoinder. men showed what God is like. been a number of occasions in re-ing on the hillside at Taiwan Road, not wait to

he was caught under a slide of earth. They will speak of the ways of There you see in their perfection cent years when it would almoale was conveyed to the Kwong Wah God with greater depth of sympathy and love, and mantinesa seem as if his opinions were relospital.

thought than they would give to and compassion and 'nobility and presentative of no-one but himself,

man who had made a mess of helpfulness. No one who came to There is apparently na adequate

some small business.

Ilim in the right spirit was over means of co-ordinating the views

of God's whole work, and that for friends; He laid down His life for We can only see a very little bit disappointed. He lived for His of the State Department and the

them. His ways we Foreign Relations Committee. The

a very little time. We are like a

under- Consequence la that not only is

fly in a crack of one of the columns stand. If the world had followed of St. Paul's Cathedrai that should then it would have been a happier Government continually hampered

attempt to give a opinion on the kind of pinee. by the doubt as to whether its

architecture of the whole. We do

"His Own Interpreter." policy will ultimately be endorsed

Advice lins now been received that not ave coough to be in a position the Italian destroyer Espero, which to criticine. But there is some by the Legislature, or, an in the was to have called at Hongkong, has light to guide us,

If we are satisfied that He was and Bishop nearer to the mind of God and Inception of the League of Nations proceeded direct Shanghai, accum-Butler long ago warned us of the understood His will better than we itself, be turned down, but the panying the new flagship of

Italian Far Eastern Naval Division such light na we have because we is representation of God.

the fally of rejecting the guidance of jean, then we may take Ilis estimate, members of the Committee, in the cruiser Ternio, Admiral would like it to be brighter.

And | Cavagnari, who has been appointed as

No le spoke of God as supreme and Contander of the Italian squadron man would be so foolish as to re-as a Father, h in the East in aboned the Trento.

fuse the fitful light of the moon children, and takes thought even cares for His to help him to pick his steps on a for the little ones, for the lies of dark night on the moor just be the field and the sparrows of the cause he would prefer the noonday town. With auch light already Aun to be shining. This puzzle la thrown by im upon our puzzle, nothing new. The war and its we make a great mistake to allow aftermath have not created new what we do not know to rob na of dificulties: they have only shown what we do know. We can be pre- up some old ones in a larger size.pared to wait for the day when we It is no discovery of our own hall know all "Now we see The following cable at the close clever days that God's ways are through a glass (ie., only by re- of the sugar market yesterday has past finding out. It was often saidflections in a mirror) darkly: but been received by Messrs. Pen-in the war, "he or she has lost his then face to face." treath and Co.

or her faith" but was it a faith K we can trust the God Whom that was much worth keeping if the Master has shown us, we can it could only stand strains, or if it leave the rest. We may not yet be was only equal to facing the able to explain it all to our minds. troubles that had so far fallen But our hearts will be content, an

pan other people? "Now it is be ready to say with Cowper the come upon thee, and thou faintest." poet: The scale of the working out of the puzzle may be greater in our own times, but the puzzle has been the same from the beginning of human history.

Committee, unless the Government transmit papers to it, which often may be impossible, knows no more Than the man-in-the-street what is going on, and has not yet learnt, or so it appears to the foreign onlooker, when it is wise to trust

the Government and keep silent. No wonder then that foreign Gov. ernments scarcely know how to dent with the American State De-

partment. Where really does it stand?

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Mankind's Choice.

Blind unbelief is aura tn err And scan His works in vain, God is His own interpreter, And He will make it plain.

Next, we cannot justly attribute PHIPPS among

to God all the evil in the world.

When God gave mankind the gift THE TOUGH GUYS.

of free will, He gave to men and women the chance of choosing good or bad. And certainly individuals. and nations have constantly chosen

And behind this anomalous re- lationship of the Executive and the | Legislature is the President, who at any moment may turn down his Secretary and scratch the whole of his policy. He again

may Le watching the great American de- The difficulties which. America mocracy, holding, as did President and Britain, with her colleagues Wilson, that it is necessary to wait on the Lengue, have had in coming till it is ready before taking action. to a working agreement in regard The system of safeguards which to the Sino-Japanese conflict

the founders of the American Con- not entirely, nor, we suspect, stitution so ably drew up works,

Guy's Hospital operated success- fundamentally due to a difference it might le contended, well inside casting Company, in view of the very badly; and have only them fully on St. Bartholomew's Hos of polley. We think that the mat the nation. It presents formid.

fact that all educated northerners selves to thank for the consequent pital at Richmond, removing the ter goes deeper. America has notable diflculties in the formation

who have not been to n southern to do what is right; and by doing Rugby Cup without an anesthetic. misery. God does not force people latter's hopes of the Hospitals yet wrought out a recognisable and making of a foreign policy, and university use the former, have wrong they often set out on the technique of political and

Guy's collected eleven points (2 diploin the carrying out of diplomatic been compelled to admit that the read to evil, sorrow, and pain. tries and n goal) from

other nations, malle usage. It may be that she negotiations with is attempting to arrive at one, and which require care, delicate hand-short "a" is just as good as the Pefare men blame God, let them other. Some nuthoritles. Indeed, be sure that they themselves, or that in the meantime she does not ing, or flexibility.

say that it is better, as being other misguided and perverse peo- wish to be hampered by the Euro-

more in negordance with the ple, are not to blame for the larger pean tradition. The net result at

essential sharpness and incisive part of their misfortunes. present is that there tends to be

Self-Will. ness of the English tongue. ine inevitable friction.

truth is that, while an overwhelm- ing superiority, can be claimed for and of the way he has apollt the This thought of man's self-will none, a strong case can be made out world which God gave him as a for any accent.

home of righcousness and beauty

Pruise, to the Accent. There is said to be a greater uni- The Stimson policy as Inid down formity of speerk and accent among in the note of January 7th might all classes of society in England at have won British assent if there the present day than there has ever Jind not been grave precedent for been before. This disappearance doubt as to whether it could, when of the accent from linguistic cur- the time came, be implemented. It rency, hastened by the spread of meccasarily has a nebulous appear education, Increased facilities for ance, and the precedents referred travel, and the national standard to would warrant the view that set up by the British Broadcasting hther nations in subscribing to it Company, arouses mixed emotions. might find themselves, in virtue of Some persons, who see in a man's the traditions of their foreign accent only an undesirable badge office procedure, committed further indicating his social position, wel- than a future American Govern- come it, while others consider that ment. It lins been explained from its passing takes with it a colour the British side that commitments and a variety that English specch already formed with the Lengue can afford to lose. Many will } precluded Independent action, feel that the intter are right. Dif These commitments, moreover, led ferences in accent apring from so towards a definite policy, evolved many other causes than clasa dis- aten by step. It must be acknow- tinctions that their offensiveness leiked. however, that the in this respect is amail. But, on fensibility even of this policy the scure of vividness, and colour, might become doubtful in view of and character, one can well aym- economic realities and the fact that the League itself, though pro- youngest sun In St. John Ervine's pathize with the complaint of the ceeding on the lines of traditional The First Mrs. Fraser," that his diplomatic methods, has to work father has taken from him his; out a new technique of interna tional action. The American decent for the featurless uniformity rugged and distinctive Scottish ne- claration. If it could have come of speech acquired in the halls and from a Government as able to im playing fields of Oxford. More- plement its policy as the British over, if, in future all Englishmen Government, would have ensured

freedom of action, and avoided the are to communicate their idens to absurdity of giving even the most each other through the medium of formal sanction to the deplorable the same system of noises, what happenings in Manchuria. But particular system of noises are they the trouble los with the nature of all to adopt? Which accent is the Américan procedure. This la correct one? Is the short "a," for limited largely by the peculiar example, or the broad "a" proper? kafeguards of the Constitution The New English Dictionary says though partly also by the incurable the latter, but the British Broad-

FICTION

“What, no umbrellas? What kind of a drug store is, this?”

patients, who made They're tough, Guy's.

their reply.

The trail to Richmond was cray

ΠΟ

to pick up. It had been widized with flour It appears that when one medient student is annoyed with another, nothing in the world re- bug of the best self-raising aver loves his feelinga like unloading a the source of his annoyance.

Several hundred students must have relieved their feelings on the way to Richmond, judging by the Arctle appearance of the district.

Floury Language.

The football was distinguished rather for enthusiasm than finesse. The ball frequently played Cinderella, while the players wore apparently trying to establish a practice on the spot.

In the meantime, exceedingly floury language proceeded from the touchline, where community sling- ing had broken out afresh. Above the din I could distinguish;

"B-A-R-T-S---BARTS!" And then an answering gurgle of: "GUY-UY-UY-UY-UY-UYS!"

Guy's early established an as- cendency. Bart.'s were not taking their passes too well, but Guy's looked as if they took them three times a day after meals. It was. not long before P. C. Alexander, getting the ball after a serum. walked through the Bart.'s defence In a positively besides manner, The try was not convorted.

Hall-time.

both sides,

Consultations on

The second half brought the mix- ture na before--both teams going:- at it hammer and forceps. `Guy's scored, another try. Would they convert? Several hundred sup porters took their pulse. Guy's converted. Several hundred sup porters said “Ah!”....

A final try for Guy's settled it The spectators finished their flours and departed,

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