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JUST

Neurath as Foreign Minister. But it is early in the day yet to envisage the full mear- ing of Hitler's accession power.

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to

The Small Change of Conversation

'TISN'T DONE"

MEN

By Edwina

The Very Idea!

BECOMING FINANCIAL

By Edward "Threadneedle” Kally, If Governments con *borrow money at six per cent, and convert it to 8.1/3 per cent. there's no rouson why we shouldn't.

Anyway, Pote and us have boon out raleing some internal loans of our own, a la some of these Treasuries..

We started off with a shroff who

An Englishman can't talk about word "gentleman" implies that he Mr. Robert Lynd has recently the public school system without cannot do them without losing and delightfully revealed that being accused of prejudice. He cast, divides us into enemy camps. ho resolved can't get away from the fact that Every one understands why cheat many years ago

conversation he is, or is not, a public school man, ing at cards is "not done." Not naver to open a

every one understands why wear- the himself. with trite remarks about

But a more woman can raise her Ing a diamond on the little until weather. All went well

voice in praise or protest, especial, Onger le mot done" he was introduced to a youngly if she has been educated, as I From a woman's point of view, lady who had also taken the have, in America, because her a "gentloman" is a man who is same resolution. Then the long point of view is detached. Both literally gentle. But it takes the and embarrassed silence that de- the public school men and the public school man even longer scended upon these two cham-secondary school men ask her to than It takes the secondary school one man to forget about his training conversation marry them. She compares plons of original showed Mr. Lynd that cliches type with the other, draws her and come to a similar conclusion- I can only any that although the have their uses. They are in- conclusions sees them an men if he ever dues.

public school man is in so many dead the linchpins of social in- rather than products of tradition. tercourse. It does not require

It seems to take the average Ways to be envied and admired, I much imagination to perceive "gentleman" about ten years, from would never went to marry him bo that cliches always have served the day he leaves Eton or Harrow, fore he reached thirty.

man, but I should want to be abof investing it. 4 valuable purpose. In the old to outgrow his snobbishness and rather have him than another hanging on to their money instead days they were of oven greater become literally gentle.. service than they are now, for then conversation had to be

Growing Out Of It.

IF YOU HOLD NO DRIVING] kept going at all costs, for there at least five years to outgrow the LICENCE PERHAPS A FRIEND were no gramophones or radios of the "gentleman's" 1am-better- THE RISING

WILL OBLICE.

THE HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE.

Stubbe Hold

BIRTH.

Happy Valler

DICK-On February 1st, 1933,

the Victoria Hospital, to Mr. and Mr. J. Dick, a son, both well.

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1939.

THE TRIUMPH OF HITLER

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Bad Grammar

has

Unfortunately, however,

tem.

renl in-

ko

clothes, and his of "savoir

called to see us and cracked it for ten cents. He didn't want any faterent, but he hasn't got a hobby, and he's going to spend his declin- ing years trying to get his money back.

The office accountant explained in a few words, mostly objection- ablo, that he wouldn't lend us a bean even at 100 per cent for 8% minutes.

That's the trouble with this I would Colony-there's too many people

GENERATION

Full of idle curiosity I pleked up

We got thrown out of the Hong- kong and Shanghal Bank and the Manufacturers' Life.

Then we went to one of the lead- Ing institutions and were told that tho talpans were having a board meeting. Shortly afterwards we mot the C. O. of the Anzacs who said, "Not on your -life." But don't think we failed.

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That's just list of people and

By four o'clock in the afternoon we were throwing the small ones back. Hero's a few of the small. once we kept.

A Powerful Story of the Future

Manager of the King's Theatre, I began to read. The writer did $5 and a cigar cach-at 84 per cent.. not trouble to explain the prin- Bob Charles, the sporting man, 82, ciples upon which he had con-after we had given the two King'a structed his vision of the future. Theatre elgars an interest for the He left it to the reader to exercise first year. his own imagination, which at the

We got five separate dollars in the Telegraph office, which seema age of eight is very extensive.

London was being besieged by unbelievable, including 60 conts enemies from a mythical State from "Bully off", which WIS named Pan-Europe. A short but miraculous, and $1.50 from the highly technical description was Editor of the Critic, who scorned

on

A new

On the other hand it seems to solutely certain that he wasn't 'a

snabl take the educated man in the street) inferiority complex which is horn to help it out. It is easy to 800 than-you are sort of attitude. that since there are cliches now, From a woman's point of view, there were cliches then. What both of them are ruined by class-

top-dog is not so obvious is that they consciouness-the were precisely the same cliches. arrogant out of cancelt. and the under-dog out of self-defence- When men and women of to-day and neither of them come to their magazine belonging to my eight- cannot think of any original re-

sonses until they are old enough your oid son. Expecting to find mark they say exactly the same to forget their

and to it Alled of institutions void of all public think us their ancestors of two realise that a gentleman' isn't bad and with wild-west stories of spirit and business acumen.. or three hundred years ago necessarily a public school man, hip, what was my astonishment to

I have known any number

find these large headlines: used to say in the same situa

THE INVISIBLE DEATH A Christmas book of victims to this funny British ob tion 1982 reprints part of Jonathan scesion, representing both camps. of course, but I am thinking at the Swift's "Polite Conversation,"

moment, of a Eccondary school which he began to compile in man. His father belonged to the 1696. Every sentence in it is working class, but my friend, be- a remark which by constant re- ing unusually clover, had taken petition has become trite. Yet scholarships, and been through University. He was one of those two or three centuries later

are described 08 people who these old and tried phrases con- "nature's gentlemen," and to me, tinue to perform their tradi- the woman, he showed hin tional service of preventing the self-consitive, idealitie, and conversation from collapsing. nately cultured. Some, to be sure, have slightly

In could not be any of these things given of how the British forces had tho ides of interest, remarking changed their appearance.

been defeated until, anally, Lan-andly, but with his usual natute The formation of a Hitler 1690 a young lady would retort and fall to notice shack at deavor, don itself was in danger. It was foresight and perspicacity, that it Cabinet is the logical outcome

full of high-sounding scientific man, fair" when ordering a meal in terms which the reader could not was the last he'd see of the prin- of the confused political situa-to an over-smart young

"You make me laugh." Now, well-known restaurant, branded

¡cipal. possibly understand. In particu- tion in Germany, since the if we may believe the talkies, him inferior.

In three hours we had a reputa- Nazis are the strongest party in the last word would be altered.

He was anything but Inferior, far the word "super" seemed to

co-occur more often than any other. tlon. Reople in the Hotel whisper- the Reich and сар therefore

The forces in the war were noted to each other, "See these two claim to be more representative But most of them have not really, but in self-defence he

this even

small vered up the feeling of pain with

we know them. They were men over there with the beer undergone of popular feeling than any

"А реппу

for a loudness of manner, in vaflsh- modification. other faction. It is suggested,

the fighting They're spending money like conscious ill-breeding which did not less or rays. All

was water! Tourists from America!" we note, that the Nazi regime your thoughts" is heard now ness, and a general disply of class-mechanical and directed by wire- bottles stacked in front of them? "Good gracioust And I just re- will enjoy a comparatively long nearly as often as in the reign belong to his nature. He injured took place in the air, and life, but this seems rather doubt of William and Mary. So are himself, and he injured what might carried out with different colour-

Then lie'd come over to us and ful, unless its strength in the "Enough's as good as a feast," have been a brilliant career. Ruted death-rays, which had each an fused one of them $51" and "Some are wise, and others to me, the woman who knew him, extraordinary power.

The climax of the story was apologise and say that he was Reichstag is increased as the result of a further appeal to otherwise," whilst the equivocal it seemed to be less his fault than

if the fault of the nublic school sys-reached when, by working at tre- sorry he couldn't lend us the mendous pressure, British money at the time, but he'd just the nation. Hitler cannot, ex compilment, "She looks as

ray collected same and would wo like If I had my way, public schools scientist invented cept by the goodwill of the butter wouldn't melt in her

mouth" may still occasionally would conse to be confined to the which nothing could possibly stop. It now?

Then he'd walk off quite pleased Centre Party, command

be encountered. The familiar one class, the men whose parents The two young heroes of the tale

then destroyed, by means of with himself. majority in Parliament, and he

conversation of

two hundred are willing to spend several this ray, the whole enemy air feet We're good at it. We only will thus be much restricted in

ago and fifty years

a year stinting) adred pounds

with one investor his actions. At any moment,

themselves to afford it very often just as it was about to wipe out slipped

"Voritan." He gave us a dud familiar air even, to-day. under existing conditions, he is

and risk their sous becoming London.

I went in search of my son. Idollar for two free theatre passes. liable to be overthrown, al-

snobs. The benefits of a public

stretched at full That matter will be adjusted school education are obvious, and found him

the though for the present there

nursery floor, even if it takes both of us to ad- If they were extended to the hun-length would appear to be a tendency

In Chile they are thinking of dreds of small-incomed people Around him were scores of lead just it. on the part of those who are

DANCE LITTLE GENTLEMAN. sending to prison persons who who deserved them, the snobbish-soldiers in khaki, steel helmets, make grammatical mistakes in nese might be crushed out by force and gas masks. They were ar of numbers, and the class war ranged in fighting formation.

Ever since we were once called advertisements,

might become less of a problem. Hero and there were It cisewhere. hoardings, or

guns, and artillery."Sahlb" by an Indian policoman It is assumed all over the world machine It is fairly apparent that mat sound a perfectly good idea. that "the word of an Englishman Overhead were suspended bomb-who mistook us for a gentleman ters will not be placed on

because of our evening dress, we really satisfactory footing until Imprisonment for grammatical is his bond," and the finest type ing aeroplanes,

I thought of the Disarmament have always had a strong weak- lapace would be an admirable of Englishman is aimed at, through

moment, ness for glad rage. The practice one of the parties Becures Д

rebuke him. has its disadvantages. more emphatic expression of reform. Then we might extend tradition and systematic training Conference and, for a

The other night we had to meet Then I realised that I too had public support than was obtain the penalty to other maltreat of youthful Ideals, by our wonder was tempted to ed, at the last election. If ments of the King's English, ful old schools.

But the very fact that certain once passed through that stage, a friend for dinner in one of those

N. P. C. A. Hitler can, at a new election, such as mispronunciations, in things are "not done," and the receive a more decisive endorse- which not even wireless ment of his aims, then his posi-nouncers or Trade Union leaders tion will be rendered infinitely would be permitted to cultivate Bolecisms. Misspellings would more secure, in which event the full implications of his policies involve their practitioners in will be made more manifest. like punishment. This would For the sake of Parliamentary engender a proper respect for Boya government, it is to be hoped our mother tongue in even the that, should a fresh appeal to most reckless breasts. the nation be made, there will would be exempt up to the age be no recurrence of those condi- of 18, and women until 30. Sex tions of atalemate which have equality is a principle that looks characterised elections in the very pretty on paper, but to recent past. However that may apply it absolutely would be be, there can be no questioning much too brutal for these days the point that the Nazia have when a distinct revival of in- a far greater right to direction terest in chivalry, to say nothing of Germany's affairs than of palaeontology, is noticeable either von Papen or von on every hand. Being rather Schiecher had, since neither of good at discovering flaws in the two latter, could command (the best-laid schemes, it might the man in any resi Parliamentary backing. be sald by Whether Hitler's assumption of the street that to imprison power will mean ultra-national- everyone who committed vio- ist or reactionary policies re-lence on the King's English few at mains to be seen. As we have would leave very hinted, this cannot be definitely large-perhaps only a few dons, determined until the Nazi power each of them convinced that in the Reichstag is increased. the others were lucky to have There will be considerable escaped by the skin of their speculation as to whether the teeth. Well, what of it? The latest developments presage a vast majority of the population possible restoration of the having been safely established Monarchy. No immediate reac-in jail, one good result would tion of this kind appears likely, soon come to heel. Thousands, but it is well to keep in sight even millions of people, for the currents moving along these the first time in their lives, lings. On questions of foreign would begin to concentrate their policy, some assurance of con-attention on the necessity for tinuity is promised by the ro- simplifying, logicalising, sanitis- tention in office of Baron voning the English language.

not obviously of the Left to give the Nazis a chance of stabilis- ing the political situation. Yot

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on

posters,

an-

tanks.

"If he takes a trip this winter, I'm next on that chair by ..

the window."

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places where they leave out the table in the middle of the Roor so that you can shuffle about between the courses. Our friend was late, 80 we sat down near the door to walt for him.

Presently the saxophone gave tongue like a wounded elephant, and a very large and forbidding lady walked up and inspected us.

We naturally stood up when she us and spoke, and she grabbed took us on to the dance floor before- we could escape. We danced. Or, anyway, she danced, while we fell over her feet and bumped into her. She kept us a prisoner until the last encore, then dragged us back to our acut.

a dollar She then handed us with the remark that we were the wornt gigolo she had sampled, and she'd seen plenty.

Which only shows you that we gentlemen-well, what we mean le that a dollar'e a dollar in these hard times, anyway.

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Answers to Correspondents

Myrtle. Yes, dear, why not fol- low Football?. Lots of girls do. We believe Kowloon is a very good team; they call them the United Services, we don't know why. Another good aide was the Inter port team, but they, we bellovo, play "Rugger." We will ask Mr. Veritan if you would like to kodw for certain.

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Olivo. We have never BOON knitted pyjamas, though it in cor- tainly "an idea." Of course, they Од might be a little "tickley." the other hand, if not a success as nyinmas, they would coma in nicely for winter sports.

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