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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1932.

DAY BY DAY THE SAME AGAIN?

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By HUBERT PHILLIPS

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of the pre-war era, rather than to utrengthen post-war democracy. There are, no doubt, very mлnу people in Germany who believe that parliamentariam has failed, but, as one writer has remarked, they may well ask themselves whether it is not the application of parliamentarism that should

In this provocative article Hubert one. Criticism in Parliament has declared wanting. Germany bas Invitations have been issued for the Phillips focuses the political situa-| been stifled by the coalition's too not yet learned the lesson of co-wedding, which is to take place in St. tion from the point of view of a complete victory

John's Cathedral on October 1, of Miss convinced Radical. He writes in a Criticism in the country is

at the polis. operation, for just as many Ger-Eileen Jeannette de Biere to Mr. personal capacity as chairman of articulate and cannot easily find In- THE NEW STUDEBAKER SIX

nnns are crying for self-sufliciency Ronald John Stevens. 70 HORSEPOWER SPORTS

a group which, on the occasion of channels of expression. But be- and independence in foreign The total rainfall at the Dotanic this, year's Liberal Summer School, hind a facade of self-satisfaction, ROADSTER WILL DO BETTER affairs, so they have not discovered Gardena for August was 23.27 inches, is putting forward some sugges-which the speeches of Cabinet

Ministers well reflect, there that domestic strength Resin The fall on Aug. 4 was 1.81 inu, and tions as to policy.

the total for Aug. 26 to 23 was 16.07;;

THE fornution of the "Nation-far-reaching discontents.

smouldering everywhere deep and BUILT TO joint effort. Herr Iitler recently

There al Government marked the have been too many palms and too SPECTIFICA-declared

Found by the police at Yaumati opening of a new chapter in little dust; the coalition in already STUDEBAKER Socialists do not believe in inter-Ising unconscious in the street, an politics. Old alliances were bro-doomed.

PERFORM-national rapprochement," and it is unknown Chinese wan

Kwong Wah Hospital yesterday morn

ken; old antagonisms went by the

And hence the problem of IN ITS clear that other elements are also ing, but he died on admission. There board. Whatever the upshot of radical policy is, as it seems to

tendencies-and their AND making an effort to isulate Ger- are no suspicious circumstances sur-current

drift is complex and uncertain are not often won on programmen. rounding the man's death.

me, imperative. Elections, I know, many from international co-opera-

the fundamental alignments of Governments like that which we tion. "To maintain this isolation,”

Mr. Theodore Roosevelt, jr., and Mr. | politics will never be the same! Coraclius Roosevelt, the young sons again.

have are destroyed by their own says a writer, "demagogues have the Governor-General of the

mistakes. But it is essential that, resurted to

For this state of affairs, which when the time comes, there should fostering hate and Philippine Islands, arrived here on the

President Jefferson after a visit to from many points of view is to be be available to a progressivo op- violence, and it is this phase of their parents. They are on the way welcomed, a long chain of causes position an ordered plan of cam-

is responsible: The world crisis, puign. political phenomena in Germany back to the United States,

which drove Britain off the gold to-day which holds most danger." A lenflet issued by the Hongkong |

I say to a progressive opposi- of tion. I do not know, and it is not Germany needs, in her present Nudist Society states that outings to standard--the abandonment

the grounds privately placed at its gold, which produced a panic--the my business to say, how that on- troubled condition, a wider grasp disposal in the New Territories will panic, which gave birth to a coal-position should be organised. But of the realities. She is seelding how take place every Sunday, weather tion-the coalition, which, like all it will not be the Labour Party

Founder members and coalitions, has already shown that went out (“equality" among the nations, but

enndidates will accordingly that it has not the elements of that party is still crushed and de- office last year; this set at the Kowloon Railway Statim stability. We view with dismay, moralised. It will not be, I fear, the underlying thought in

nt 1 pm, on Sunday, to catch the 1.18 principle is not applied to the pm. train..

my friends and I, its clumsy, self-the existing Liberal Party, which stultifying progrens. "

has "leaders" in too many camps. various political elements within

Admirers of Greta Garbo will revel

I do not mean that the Govern- Khaki. Smartly shaped.

her

Bul intense country. The

in "Mata Hari," now showing at the meat has accomplished nothing, among many young Conservatives

in both these parties- THE DELIVERED PRICE feeling which has been engender- Queen's Theatre, even if the Conceived in a moment of national too-and certainly among millions freely sprinkled with improbabilities, COMPLETE WITH BUMPERS, Į ed between these elements As a production, the film ranks high, hysteria, it has at least succeeded of electors whose political allegi-

SPARE TIRE AND TUBE IS at Jeast having

result while, of course, Miss Garbo contriin soothing our shuttered nerves. ance is ill-defined, there is a grow- hutes her full share to the success by There is thus an illusion-uning consciousness that What I namely, the taking away of the reason of her clever acting: the illusion not without psychological have called the Soames Forsyte reins of government from the opening exotic di

diner is

is a real triumph, value that things are on thejnttitude is, quite frankly, not good Ramon Novarro, who has the mule mend. The international outlook enough. people and placing it in the hands lead, is not so convincing: he is not is brighter; and here Britain, with rigid or lazy minds; of rene- We are tired of old men reactionary lictatorship,ton good in the talkies.. Other roles though many of her actions have tien masquerading as order; of standard of acting is high. There is have done a great deal worse. But, penditure Imposed in the name of arr expably taken, and the general been temporising and timid, might restrictions On productive CX- plenty of excitement in the film, taking the Government policy by economy." quite enough "ob stuff." Certainly woll worth seeing.

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and large, there is little that is [good to be said for it. On the We want to bring into focus---

the

of light The Most Worshipful Grand Master) whole, it has been

changing of all opposition to the von Papen of Freemasons in the Philippine Is ridden, unimaginative, and reac-circumstances-constructive poll- regime. It is inconceivable that fans, Mr. Antonio Gonzalez, will tionary.

cies which are the only alternative five Masons of his jurisdiction in bend a

to Britain's industrial disintegra- delegation of about twenty- Adjectives are cheap enough;tion. visit Amity Lodge, No. 106, P. I. Can those I have used be justified? in Shanghai next month. This Linge, Let us take a rapid glance at the That is why we have boon try- of which Mr. H. C. Mei, is the Wor situation.

ing-a small group of us-to con- shipful Master, was formed two years

sider as a whole the tasks of the The outlook for the world at immediate future and to ask how Lago by u

Key but hate matte nam shrewil, level-headed people like the Germans will long tolerate such a situation.

PHILIP

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un 2nd September, 1932, at the Fassa Hospital, ages 51 years, Funeral will pass the Monument Saturday at 3 pm. Manila, Shanghai, Macho and papers, please ropy.

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A "Free" Manchuria.

group of prominent

Chinese and foreign Masons with a member large is improving. Good. The ja forward-looking polley would Ship now of ever sixty and is the first light from the pound has been cope with them. Mancheria's declaration of in- edge of the Philippine Jurisdiction, averted. Good.

In a senso, Wo The Budget has took as Japan dependence is really no new de- outside those Islands. Mr. William been balanced; a successful con- Yellow Book of 1928. But, groatly our starting-point the velopment in recent history.

ItYinson Lee, one of the founders and version scheme is launched. Ex during, we have endeavoured to has been done off and on since the arting senior warden of the Lodge, cellent. But any Government that think imaginatively over even

who is now in Manila, will accompany had a grain of sense in it would wider field. establishment of the Chinese Re-the delegation, which leaves by the have striven to do these things,

Hongkong Telegraph. public in 1911. Mongolia has President Lincoln on September 10th.

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1932.

THE GERMAN CRISIS

and will pass through the Colony on The trouble with the one we have Internationalism Monetary policy

is simply that we have bought its Empire 12th. Arrangements are being made- for degree work and other functions services so dear. at the British Masonic Hall in Shang- about one week in duration, hai during the visit, which will be

RUGBY-SOCCER-HOCKEY. at any rate, Germany is being vireume back into the Chinese foldment will develop which gives ing policies. We are

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The Stock Exchange is tem- these are our half-dozen load- east them off as a political ges

porarily buoyant; the rentiering themes, I do not suggest we ture, but as a permanent bid for

dreams of a lowered income tax.jhave accomplished very much. Treedom, at least from China. In

But there arc more important but we have been working, ng a Manchuria. Chang Tso-lin, during Manchuria come under the ban?uant-tariffs are slowly throttling months, and have arrived at full things than those. Trade is stag-jgroup, for something like nine his long reign as the Governor-Unofficially the State Department it. Unemployment is still increas-agreement in our conclusions. We Whatever else has emerged from General of Manchuria, always already is said to hold emphatic-ing, with all its attendant miseries, are offering them, for what they the political manoeuvring in Ber-seceded from China when the con-ally that

The nation's standards of welfare are worth, at the Summer School; it does. And publie lin, it is clear that, for the present trol over the Chinese Government opinion undoubtedly will support my view-there has been an almost in print.

are declining. Worst of all-in in a series of short addresses, and slipped out of his hands. He that position. Whether a govern-total suspension of forward-look- tually ruled by a dictatorship. The when China came back into his. evidence of

Our positive contribution, as I planning representing more nothing; constructing nothing: co- say, may amount to little. But I rezent election. Iooked at from this The decision always belonged to genuinely the population of Man, jordinating nothing. At a time um certain that our basic assumy- atandpoint, appears to have been Chang Tso-lin. Say what

Bound-that radical when there onechuria and whether a refusal of energy and vision, a committee of opinion is to-day more fluid than

is urgent need of tions little other than a faren, since it is may about the relations between diplomatic recognition would seri-Soames Forsytes has taken charge. usual, and that we need to take clear that the von Papen Govern- Chang and the Japanese, Chang ously check the ebullitions of the

into account the facts of a chang- ment is determined to have its own always managed to do things in Japanese military are

That is why there is bound to ing world. Political problems are questions be a violent reaction from this so complex that the mero con- way. Thus the Chancellor has been his own way, and the matter of for the future,

Government's policy or lack of templation of them is apt to pro- invested with full powers by the his Chinese allegiances was one

voke a dull despair. Yet we have President to dissolve the Reichstag of them. This is the great differ-

to solve them, or to perish. ence between the old indepen- if it demands the annulment of old

We are not out to organise dence and the new. In the or- or new decrees or attempts to coun-dinary course of things the dig-

new party. There are too many parties now, some of which are, teract von Papen's domestic policy.unity in China might have severed

frankly, derisory. I have been The Nazis, anxious to effect n coali- Manchuria from China as it has

asked at intervals, ever since the tion with the Centre Party, have severed Canton. As it is, how-

conlition took office, to co-operate in forming a Radical group. My thus for all intents and purposes ever. Japan may talk about a

answer has always been the same: been rendered impotent. There spontaneous separation until she

what is wanted is not a new party, are distinct possibilities of a dis- is black in the face, but she will

but a comprehensive and intelligi. ble policy. The rest will follow. solution of the Reichstag, but not persuade the world of its there seem Hittle likelihood of a existence. The fact is that Japan fresh election, as present opinion in the saddle in Manchuria. in that any

new appeal to the Japan now has in its hands all the strings that guide the political people would not produce any more movements of the new Chinese definite result than the last. Thus generals in control of the Man- the prospect remains of the venchurian province. In proclaiming Papen oligarchy remaining in con-Manchuria's independeneo, these trol of the situation, despite the militarists have simply recorded feelings of the other political par- their muster's voice. The deci. tion.

xion of Japan to extend "recogni- It is clear that von Papan and histion" offers a test, with some com- supporters have not much time for plications, for American diple- mincy. On January 7, in n note beralism in the political life of that is likely to be epoch-making, Germany. On the eve of the last Mr. Stimson stated by inference general election, the Chancellor that Japan had violated the Parls declared that "the emergency struc- Pact by her conduct in Man- ture of the Weimar Constitutionchuria. He also laid down the does not do justice to the unfold- doctrine that this violation con- ment of the manifold powers and ferred rights on Japan's follow abilities of the German poople." signatories to take suitable action. This, it has been suggested, is Ho chose to define American ac

tion as the withholding of re- proof of the point that the Junker-

cognition from any, arrangement Nationalist regime has not forgot which was reached as a result of ten its plans to revise the Reich's the violation. Does the establish governmental from along the linos Lment of an independent rozima în di

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This is not speculation, but a [certainty. We are already gel- ting invitations to speak, from all over the country. All manner of Liberal organisations-in particu lar, young people's organisations -havo shown themselves respon- jsive to our suggestions, After all, our only hope is in the young. the | Myself, I have passed into

"hungry forties" (Mias Pamela Frankau, I suspect, would find me ja bit of a forgey); but most of my colleagues are thirtyish and they at least are young enough to learn. The post-war generation has quick wits and quick sympathies. It will not tolerabo indefnitely tho kind of government wo have now. For consider. It is nearly 14 years since the Armistice. We have had all that time in which to heal our wounds; to apply, In the service of a re-vitalised pros- perity, the technique and the resources of modern times.

And what have wo achieved? Paralysed trade; three million unemployed; an atmosphero of economic defeatiam. Don't tell. mo-I know that our problems. are international; that individual (Continued on Paga T: MEMO

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