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THURSDAY, MAY

5, 1932.

Home

it

During his two years' service Peel In Hongkong, Sir William has shown a marked capacity for getting quickly to the kernel of local problems. Possessing a re- ceptive mind and an energy and

DAY BY

DAY

I ALWAYS CONSOLE MYSELF WITH THE REFLECTION THAT MAN BEEKS HAPPINESS VAINLY WHEN HE SEEKS IT OUTSIDE HIMSELF-Bismarck.

As

wholeenle

REFLECTIONS OF A

GERMAN STATESMAN

(By DR. G. P. GOOCH)

Those allies would have brought

political blunder.

.4

taxatlon is, the imposta have been along linen to which no bo taken. great exception' can It has been a difficult problem, this balancing of the Budget in the usual circumstances prevail-

"Richard von Kuhlmann: Thoughts of maintaining peace, and in the ing, but it has been so well ne-

on Germany." Translated by Erie ultimate event of war sho could complished that Ils Excellency

Sutton. (Macmillan, 108, Gd.)

be certain of never being utterly is able to take his leave with

Kulimann's reflections on the defeated.

of the consciousness that the Colony's

causes and consequences

The obvious duty of Germany,,

finances are once

again in 11 The P. and O. liner Rampura, from World War will be read with hard-France and Russia on each flank was a liability There has, Shanghai, is due here al 7 nm. to-ly less interest in England than and an ally who healthy condition.

on their publication in Germany rather than an asset, was to in- admittedly, been

holding morrow.

at the end of 1931. For the au- crease her army to the uttermost, up of works of development, but

has himself played a England and adding her to the Mr. Wei Tat, B.A., will speak on thor speaks with the authority of instead of needlessly alarming. 'start will it is hoped be made on some of the bigger necessities "The Future that Awaits Us at the one who after the adoption of supplement usual weekly public lecture of the prominent part in the drama, and number of her potential foos:

Theosophical Society, The Hongkong he is suffelently known in Bri- nry estimates which will shortly Lodge, 17, Queen's Road Central to tish circles for us to wish to learn

his views. What is still more im no courage to the fight had they not been fairly certain of Eng- come before the Legislative Coun- day at G p.m.

portant is that he posses808 cil.

singularly cool head, and that he lish support. England's adhesion 1t In understood that Charlie can judgo events in broad per- made the conlition overwhelming. Chaplin, who has recovered from his spective. His book is short, and The entry of England into the laurs, will be leaving Singapore on might have been even shorter, for war was mainly determined by the But that was why the construction of Saturday by the .. Terukuni Maru, some Imaginary dialogues at the existence of the German flect, and in which case he should arrive in and add little to its worth. Hongkong on May 11. His brother, it is full of wisdom and insight, that fleet was sp disastrous Syd Chaplin, Is accompanying him.

and his impartiality is extraor

There is plain speaking with a dinary. He loves his country, but freshness of outlook which long

vengeance, and these pages should years in the Colonial Service have

destroy the baseless legend that the Statistical love does not make him blind. measured at not dimmed, he has proved him-

prices in The most arresting feature of Kuhlmann had pursued a bellicose self a hard worker and a wise ad-Branch of the Imports and Exports

Department

and Lichnowsky. Germany and of Metternich

three--and,

every ministrator. He has made it his Hongkong during the fext quarter of the volume is the analysis of the policy of his own behind the back

Indeed, personal business to see into the 1932 continued to decline, falling .5% relations between

German who understood England as compared with the preceeding quar- Austria. "Bismarck's marvellous All

partinl VEHICLES MAY BE INSPECTED/manifold activities of governmentter and 84% as compared with the achievement was only a

solution of the eternal German-knew that the "Flattenpolitik". in all parts of the Colony. Amen-general average for the year 1931.

problem, an imposing facade that was a fatal mistake.

basement able to reason, he has none the leas

was largely wanting in

The struggle of 1914-1918, de- never hesitated to follow a course

In connexion with the exhibit of and foundation. It tore asunder! has

Austria-" which his own common-sense

Yorkshire canaries at the coming a thousand-year-old bond of fel- clares Kuhlmann, was a war for convinced him to be the winest. Empire Products Exhibition, it is lowship, and left in existence at the liquidation of And to all his many talenta in pointed out that these prize birds cost the side of the German Empire an terrible but probably scarcely

a pair (not ench, as stated) and that official life. he has added bonhomic Itapor Vailer

unaffectedness which have everywhere" made him so popular. Of Lady Peel, need only say that she has proved a charming consort, one who has presided over the social activities of Government House with grace and tactfulness, whilst her will ing interest in all good works nu a result of a fall from staging had implanted the seed of death.agalnat it; but they were over- has been continuously demon-around the ss. Chinhun on the. No. in point of fact, the new German borne by an excited publie opinion The Empire could not be regarded as and the Supreme Command, and slipway yesterday afternoon.

having emerged from the danger Germany drifted to her doom. An will strated. The whole Colony

man's condition may be serious,

zone as Anally consolidated until equally brief chapter to-morrow bid her ladyship and

the question of the dissolution of Treaty of Versailles pronounces His Excellency udicu, in the hape

the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy it the worst and the most unwise It of the comprehensive settlements that they will benefit from their

had been finally cleared up. holiday, and will look to the time

was with his fearful handcap that of modern times, which fullod the new German Empire began its Bismarck's terrible prophecy that again re-

alao when they will once

career, and under this fearful the loser in the next great war turn to those who have come, to

handicap Willium II. ascended the would be bled white. He appreciate their many qualities of

throne. The task presented to condemns the humiliation inflicted heart and mind.

The following cable at the close German policy by the inevitable on the German delegation during of the sugar market yesterday dissolution of the Austro-Hun- the negotiations. Count Brock- has been received by Messrs. Pen- garian Monarchy, the task with dorft-Rantzau, we are told, never treath and Co.

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THURSDAY, MAY 6, 1932.

HIS EXCELLENCY'S DEPARTURE

and

we

The Onth in Ireland. Despite the warnings of friends de us opponents, Mr. To-morrow, His Excellency the as well Governor will be laying aside, for Valera is pressing forward with a few brief months, the rares and the Bill for the abolition of the responsibilities of office when he Oath of Allegiance with what Mr. goes, in company with Lady Peel, Congrave describes as unwarrant- on well-earned leave to the Home-ed haste. Mr. de Valera has land. All sections of the com- weakened any case that he may outh munity will, we know, unite in have had in regard to the wishing them both an enjoyable by putting his repudiation of it It is two on the same footing as the re- and beneficial holiday.

of B debt. It is years, almost to the day, since His pudiation

impossible to argue Excellency arrived in the Colony, quite bringing with him a reputation away the terms agreed upon in between both us an able administrator and the financial 'settlement

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A brief that they are guaranteed to be the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, inavoidable step in the further de- of the chapter on the World War, as we best pedigree strain obtainable in which the beloved figure of the velopment of Europe."

arlato- should expect, condemns the naval the North of England, and every one monarch, the splendour greatest and wealthiest of them is colour-fed.

warfare, submarine cracy on the Continent, and the authorities for the declaration of prestige of the ancient, rich, high- unilmited

In a report to the police, Mr. Gly civilised city of Vienna masked which brought America into the an in- even of a drawn battio. The Kal- Bird, head watchman of Taikon Dock- the truth that this was a slowly fray. and destroyed the last hope the Chancellor, was yard, stated that ilo Yat, aged 32, decaying State, in which reading at 20, Tai Ning Street, re-tensifying principle of nationality set, like ceived injuries to his back and fect)

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which history confronted William forgot or forgave the treatment 1, was hardly to be solved with- to which he had been subjected, out a bitter struggle for existence, and the resentment motived his task was subsequent policy. The Treaty re- But the fact that the there, that it was the essential gistered the momentary distribu- soun passed situation of 1919 political problem, was not clearly tion of power in Europe, and the recognised by anybody."

away. It was the merit of Briand, That the Hapsburg Monarchy at once a far-sighted patriot and was inevitably doomed would still a good European, to work towards New York Terminals, be contested by many well-informa readjustment; but his task.wan ed Austrians; but the thesis ap-complicated by the fact that he May 1932 .51 down 1 pt.

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post-Bismarckians

A long and interesting chapter- mental errors, both in East and

former they de-on Germany since the War de- West. In the

as a man of charming personality the British Government and thetish Empire and of losing advan-stroyed what little was left of Bcribes an achievement which the

which he has more than upheld. Government of

for Peel we think it can be said that Government in the wrong.

common-sense-a

in

any

the Irish Free

Lages which are more essential to their hold on Russia, with noth-author holds to deserve a place ing to show for the sacrifice but beside the much-advertised "Five other to Irelund than

the Bagdad railway, "which com-Year Plan, The German people. In the comings and goings of Stale, signed by both sides

ad-bined the minimum of commercial had to make two recoveries, the perfectly de-Dominion-particularly the Governors, it is inevitable that we 1926. They are

of trade. If he per-advantage, with the maximum of first from defeat and revolution in In the 1918, the second from the -col- should have experience of varying finite. If there is anything un-vantages types. Each has his own foibles fair in the agreement, it is opensists in that action, there is no political encumbrance."

doubt that Great Britain will re- latter the naval policy drove Eng-lapse of the mark in 1923. The faith. land into the arms of France and latter, he declares, plunged the and characteristics, some of which to Mr. de Valera to ask for re-

But to repudiate it is gard it as a breach of

into the most appalling misery. attract and some occasionally call vision.

against themselves: criticism. Of Sir William surely to begin by putting his with his eyes too closely fixed on Russia, thereby tilting the balance generation on which the blow fell The domestic issues, he does not up- So long as England remuin- And yet, taking a long view, he he possessen most, if, indeed, not issue of the oath is altogether of pear to realize how dangerous ed outside the Russo-French al-believes it to have been for the liance, Germany had the prospect best to inflict the entire burden of the sins, and errors of the past all, of the virtues which the com- another character. There is no course he is steering.

on a single generation rather than doubt its retention was regarded

to mortgage the national inherit- munity regards as essential to a

ance. The internal debt has been good Governor. Above all, he has as an integral part of the treaty and by

practically wiped out, and the Re- shown himself to be a man of by both Great Britain

paration plan is unlikely to ba sound

quality those Irishmen who for ten years governed the

carried out in its entirety. Yet Germany is to-day struggling which we assess as being, in the have successfully

against a host of difculties-the case of the Governor of a Crown Free State. But it is possible to Colony, of inestimable value. argue that the Statute of West-

world crisis that began in 1929, a difference,

the burden of short-term loans, the The two years which His Excel-minster has made

lack of fuld capital. The acono- Jency has spent in our midlat and ingenuity can get round it But a

mle outlook at the moment could have had their special problems, even without that statute.

hardly be worse. notably that caused by the slump statesman is on weak ground when in the sterling value of the dol- he has to discover an unsuspect- Jar. The effect of this developed meaning in a treaty by hair-

of finances ment on the

the splitting interpretations of words. Colony is too well known to need Mr. de Valera puts his case' more emphasising. It has rained the forcefully when he says that the whole issue of the cost of Gov- "onth has been the cause of all ernment. Sir William Peel took the strife and dissension in the an eminently sensible line on this Irish Free State since the signing an of the treaty." It is no doubt true problem when he favoured

operation.

exchange compensation plan that to those who have clung to which would have provided some the idea of republicanism the relief to the Colony's finances had path has become a symbol of the He old domination against which they it remained in based the case on what the Colony fought. On the other hand, it

ont to pay hould afford

in should not he forgotten that it emoluments, even though in the has also been a symbol in the process he would be called upon eyes of the British expressing the to make the biggest individual sanctity of the treaty-a trenty ancrifice, and also on a bellefon which a minority in Southern that Cly Servants should shureIreland roly for protection. Tho In the burden

tho dlo- rest of the treaty would not real- preciation of the dollar hadly be impaired by abolition of the thrown on the community. Un-path-if both parties to, the treaty happily, other counsels prevailed, agreed to it. But to abollah it but that in on

detracts without such agrooment. In to from His Excellency's willing threaten the validity of the treaty gesture. As a conaoquence, extra itself. By unilateral action. Mr. bo found, da Valera runs the risk of put- revenue has had to but, unpopular na all additional ting his country outside the Bri..

which

senso

HOOSE OFFICE

"I'm going to send her one more money order and, when that runs out, she can just give up this movie star idea and come back home,"

Economiea and politica form an indivisible' whole, and the econo- inle distress Ainda expression in the appeal of Bolshevism and Fas- clam. "Nothing impresses Ger-. mens so much as energy,", declares Kuhlmann, "or rather the gesture demonstrative of energy. A fist banged on the table brings a cer- tain sense of relief, and its sub- soquent result is not very care- fully thought out." The author is much too wise to seek a remedy in dictatorship, to which he devotes a suggestive chapter, and he pays high tribute to the Welmar Con- stitution. Its faults, as he, aces seems them, are the vast conati- tuencies which substitute party lists for personalities, and the inck of a Second Chamber less on- tirely dependent on the caprices of opinion. These changes could' be made without a revolution, for there is still a majority for de-. mocratic self-government. Though the author exposes with almost ruthless clarity the errors of the past, and describes without sup pression the perils of the present, ho is sturdily optimistic in regard to the future. The intention

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