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LEADERS OF TO-DAY

-By JOHN C. CRAWLEY-

The Very Idea!

is not that Cheng should be Men Who are Making Their Mark on History absolved from punishment. It is

A POINT OF HONOUR. that, in view of the unusual na-

By Edward ("Two-Gun”) Kally. ture of the caso, including the "gap" In the evidence, the As we look back down the road| During the war he was the horo

Have we ever been in dual? tainted character of much of the of history, we see a succession of of Germany. His picturo was

Yea, air. You bet we have. evidence tendered, the brevity great men, reach of whom gave a placarded all over Berlin, and the of the Judge's directions to the twist to that road by the power words under it were "Der Rotter" All this talk about tinkering about.

of his own personality.

The Deliverer. A huge wooden with opees at North Point makes Jury, the extreme provocation

Those who have made history, atatue of him was erected in the us tired.......Yes, we don't mind suffered by the accused man, from Pericles to Julius Caesar, town, and a large sum of money if we do........stark crazy as we his youth, and the suspense from Charlemagne to Cromwell, raised by the people buying naile which he has already borne, the from Napoleon to Bismarck, wore to drive into it, so that in the end ends of justice would not be de-all great leaders of men. This it was an iron statue. feated were mercy shown him quality of leadership was the one You can measure the stature of thing they had in common-that his character by realising the fact at this late stage.

immonse force of personality that at the age of eighty-four ho which impresses itself on the mass is the greatest obstacle to the ex- of mankind, and leaves its mark tremists of both sides in Germany. on_history.

Were he to dle, anything might There is no explaining it; and happen, and that is one test of the there is no mistaking it. No importance of a man in any coun- amount of cleverness can make up try. for the lack of it. Indeed, some

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Yes, sir, it was a point of hop- our, but we never knew who the combatants were. Ono was versatile bloko. A Roads Scholar.. Know every road from here to Fanling and back. The other was also socially prominent. And to give you a hint, he was sun- burned on the back of the neck.

Yes, Sir. If we had a drop of beur, air, to wet our finger in, we could draw you a map on the coun- ter, sir. Thanks. You're a real toff.

would

There is much in recent Ger man parliamentary history to support the assumption that re-

Stalin is sometimes described as presentative government has not of those who have done most to a great leader. He is, in every. been the success that the fram-chango the course of history have thing except that quality of par- ers of the Weimar Constitution not been clover at all. Cromwell sonality which makes a had hoped. Stresemann, faced was a dunce.

hero among the people, and with- Who can claim this quality to- out this quality you do not get

Now over here was the water- with extraordinary emergencies

Un the hun-real leadership not wait for day? Which out of those which could

front. Up there behind the Ice- parliamentary action, was fore-dreds of leading men whose names scale.

we sco in the papers can be said Stalin, "the Man of Steel," has chest is the Sugar Refinery and if you took a line from the water- to obtain presidential

to be a real leader, a man who kept the power in Russia for

veering emergency decrees.

may be remembered hundreds of long time, and he really is the front to the ice-chest, in answer to hostile party years hence as the outstanding brain which directs Russian alightly towards the gentleman alignments, embarked upon figure of his country in this age? policy. But he does not lead the with the bald head, you an even wider employment The man whose name springs Russian people. He is too aloof, come to the spot where this grim of the constitutional urticle immediately to the mind as the too much buried in the details of fight to the death took place. which gives the President virtual moet powerful personality in the his work, to make himself the horo You of the nation, as Lenin did. Ho dictatorial power,

The far more world to-day is Mussolini.

Beer dries very quickly, Sir. successor may disagree with his policy, you is strong enough to impose in Rum's better for the job.....well.. drastic action of his

self-personality on the committee was based upon the admitted, may hate his methods of

advertisement, but you cannot which governs Russia, but he has it would be a good idea. Thanks.

You're a toff. fact that a majority such as the deny the fact that he is a leader never succeeded in Imposing it on Reichstag mustered was nege of men, with a character so strong Russla itsolf.

Well, the cause of this meter- tive in character, sufficient to that he has built a nation in his Elsewhere on the Continent we dramer was obscure, like every- pass a vote of non-confidence, own image.

find plenty of notable men, but nothing else about. Only we were leaders on a national or inter in the know, sir. The parties met but unable to undertake any con-

A Great Force

national scale. M. Herriot is a shortly after dawn; They'd had structive législation. But there

In the earlier of his dictatorship skilful politician, but no more than met before dawn, a infuriated is no small measure of accuracy every blank wall in every village that. The dictators who are scat were they, Parbleu, but it wasn't in the contention that this situa- In Italy had his plcture painted tered about the Balkana are rulers light yet. No, Sr. tion in the Reichstag was the on it by stereo, with the cry "Long but not leaders, and King Carol, They fought with long apears product of attempts of successive Live Mussolini" toscribed beneath the only king on the mainland who which they borrowed from THE CHENG CASE Chancellors to mould parliament. His face looked out on you where is not a puppet, retains the irre-aborigines. Frightful weapona.

ary action rather than to rever you were. That is no longer

A long handle, with a jagged end. Our plea that, even at this spond to the line of party dove-

necessary, for not only his face,sponsibility of a schoolboy. What About Britain?

and in the hands of an expert, sir. the eleventh hour, clemencylopment. And credit as well but his whole personality, makes

You may go through the states- | a nasty mess, sir. i itself felt wherever you go in Italy. should be extended to Cheng must be given to the parliament- He has transformed the country of men of Britain without finding one Kwok-yau, now lying in Vicary regime for liquidation of Italy and the Italian people.

with the qualities of leadership and the power. Lo toria Gaol under sentence of the war, for 'fighting the battle I heard him address great

The

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MONDAY, JANUARY 16, 1938.

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"It's all the same to us, Sir. We always get our man."

death, has, we observe, been com- against Germany's domestic gathering from the balcony of his qualities.

The only two statesmen with a nasty glint in one eye, the other bated by the Daily Press, which difficulties and returning the na-study in the Palazzo Chigi in Rome Aces no reason why the duetion to a place at the councils of some time ago, and I could feel the personality to lend men are being buslly engaged in keeping Mr. Churchill and Mr. Lloyda look-out for the authorities. process of the law should not be the world. Perhaps the feeling the magnetic power of his eyes, George, and neither, of these has Roads weighed him up and decfd- put into effect.

men to lead. Rightly or ed he was no use as a specimen The proper time of those who believe change in just as I could hear the

Thank you, kindly, sir.- for appeals against the curry-Germany's governmental system booming of his voice, from the the

wrongly, they are bath classed by

the next minute he large numbers of people as men ing out of the sentence, says our is not only necessary, but i could feel that I was in the pre-who are too clever to be trusted. struck a reef and sank with all

the evitable, was best expressed in sence of a man who could make contemporary, was before matter came before the Execu- the private remark of a states-millions follow him wherever he and without trust leadership is hands. We tried to put him in

impossible.

a bag sir, but he was so full of tive Council. Inasmuch, how-man who, now that Germany no went.

But wo do find one man who jagged edges that he made a hole After Mussolini we may look

per- in the bag and fell out, sir. How ever, as it was known that a longer requires colonial gover- widely-signed petition for re-nors, has returned to mainland round in vain for a man who leads comes through the test of

ment in directing our endeavours, But your glass is empty and so prieve was being presented to affairs: "There have," he said, a nation and has become embodied sonality, the test of real achieve-vein it all seams, now.

"been too many governmental in a nation. But there are other and the test of public popularity is ours. What? you stingy old that body, there was a natural theorists in Germany. The men who have the quality of S. MOUTRIE & CO LTD. tendency to hope that

It has been my privilege to ob- the next one chokes you. Weimar Constitution was a de- leadership, who can dominate any That man is the Prince of Wales. blighter. Goodbye, and we hope would be shown the accused man.lightful combination of the eys-gathering and have put the stamp serve the Prince of Wales at shan't tell you the rest of the story, of personality wherever It was only after the plen had tems of western democracies. they have gone.

numerous gatheringe, usually-in-see! failed-unexpectedly failed, weThere was only one thing the

thecluding men at the top of many President Hindenburg is

"MANHUNT". might add-that we conceived matter. It didn't fit the German chief and most ignored of these. Professions in life. it our duty to make a final ap- people. The task now is to use He is ignored because the active caston the Prince has dominated

"You realize the difficulties in peal for the staying of the full some common sense and base the part he plays in Germany is small the assembly, nor merely by vir-

may say in all modesty that we force of the law. In taking this Government on something that now, and because other men, like tue of his ranks, but through his this position?" "Yes, sir, but we stand, we were influenced by no coincides with institutions, tradi- von Schleicher and Hitler. have personality.

Not in politics or in war, but in were with the North West Mount- other considerations than the

tions and national character." been more, in the public eye.

Hitler is a leader of men, but while the conduct of our everyday life, ed Police for eighteen years, and strong force of public opinion encountered on all hands, in

he can inspire fanatical devotion he has been a leader who has in-in all that time we nover failed. both the Chinese and foreign

among a section of the German spired confidence when it was most Sometimes we rode for days people, he cannot inspire real con.needed, given very necessary ad-through the bitter cold without vice (as in the matter of sales-food, without drink, even. But in communities, and by considera- distinct tions of humanity as

On the eve of the meeting offidence throughout the nation.

manship), and used his popularity the end, sir-we always got our The Warrior Statesman A Committee of Nineteen at Geneva,

to further landable objects. from mere sentimentality.

Hindenburg is like a great figure No man alive has done more to "Hum. You always got your further point made by our con- Japan goes on from one "justific temporary is that Cheng had a tion" to another, occupying that of Buddha. He leads men with bind the Empire together than the man. But, you see, in this post- Amid the Prince, and there is no man who tion you will be up against more You will fair trial. We agree, if by this it city because it harbours a Chinese out moving himself.

whirligig of German politics he has worked more steadily and un- than wind and snow. is meant that there was not the patriot and that area because a slightest departure from the movement in that direction might sits still, saying little, rarely tak selfishly for Britain. He has es- have to stalk human quarry that tradition in is gulloful with the guile of all constitute & menace. There is ing part in national affairs, but tablished traditional impartiality of Bri- no anying where her militarists directing just by virtuo his leadership, and it is a tradition the agca."

due will decide tish Courts, but with all

stop.

If A we great

amok respect to the trial Judge adhere to the view that the sum-in this fashion, what becomes of ming-up was quite inadequate, in the peace treaties, which are the view both of the length of the real frontiers of the lesser na trial and the character of the tions, their true shield and buck- evidence. We are twitted for er? Japan's action has done more having uttered no protest when to disturb their feeling of secur- three young men were recently ity than any other action since the World War: The test now. hanged for murder. The two

seoms to centre upon the accept- cases are in no sense analagous.ing or ignoring of a formula which Even our contemporary describes would satisfy the requirements the crime of these three young of justice as well as of peace, men as "a brutal gang murder." namely, the Lytton report, if the In point of fact, the victim was conflict can be settled within the kidnapped, held to ransom and frame-work of this report, then To their great then mercilessly done, to death. small nations will be able to re- There was no question here of gain their ease. the perpetrators of the deed la-credit the lesser states showed

statesmanship on this occasion bouring under any sense of which did not always characterize grievance; no extenuating cir- their deliberations. Some obser- cumstances of any kind. To the vers expected that, responding to submission that the Privy Coun- their emotions, they would Insist cil does not stand upon techni- on a forward march to Article 16, calities when a life is at stake, the "sanctions" article in the Len. our reply in that that body is gue Covenant. But under the M.Eduard notoriously loth to hear appeals able leadership of against murder convictions. Benes, they stuck to Article 15, And we repeat that, but for the which permits the fullest explora time factor, Cheng would auto-tion of conciliation. So much is at stake and so important is the poR- matically have had a right to aibility of ushering in a new modua secure a full review. of his case, of relations in the Far East that since it is known that the cres-the utmost patience is justified tion of a local Court of Criminal in striving for a peaceful settle.

As it ment. If the world will stand to Appeal in contemplated. was, the efforts to secure a hear-gether, the legions of Japan in ing of the appeal in London fail-all probability will be brought to ed. In other words, as we sub-rennon, after they have recovered mitted on Friday, local deficien- from the excitement of their cleu in the code of criminal pro-rampage. There scema no pres cedure shut him out from a right sure that can immediately be ap which, by all considerations of piled, unless Japan will accept the Report which must be prepared by As fairness and humanity, the con- the assembly, together with its re.

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