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The Very Idea!
DYDD GWYL DDEWI
By Edward Kelly, Bacherai. LLANFAIRPWLLGÄVINGYLL
GOGERCHWRNDROBI
It's a town in Wales. Other towns in wales are LLAN
(Alright! Alright! We didn't think we'd be able to get away with it.)
Yesterday, in Llanwheelbarrow they celebrated St. David's Day. It was also celebrated in Australia
In Australia they called it Ash'.
In Hongkong they were patriotic and called it Cmiwyp Shrdlu Etaoin. That's Welsh dor
Say when, Mon!"
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Welshmen are always associated with Eisteddfods, Welsh Rarebit
Rarebit shouldn't be confused with Rabbit. It is derived from the Scottish "rarely-bif”.
Such deliveries would be very difficult to dispose of without Spectators on the chief Austral-giving a catch to a suitably-and the leek, fan playing-fields" are not so much arranged field (most of them be divided up as on ours. According; hind the wicket). ly; they are more of an "emotional entity" (now where did i that phrase?) and more liable to be infected by the herd spirit of And who would riotous unreason.
find
If, however, such an experiment were tried down under, some Australian batsman of the ultra- modern type (safety first and last to get hit on the head, and be of policemen detailed to cut a carried off the field while the dozen detrimentals out of the crowd held an impromptu com- dense throng of freeholders locat-mination service. ad, say, on "The Hill" at Sydney?
live rubber at all four points of "war" in some new version of the care to be one of a small for and all the time). would be sure antiquity is a subtle Welsh way.
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word "war" to cover those acts which by any other name stink equally in the nostrils of men and women of good will. The iden is a good one. But needs to be worked out with consider- able care or it will lead now- It is a very small minority of the, each going to the boundary, were where. What, after all, is huge crowds attending Teat matches bowled in an Oxford v. Cambridge force? There is military force. which has been responsible for match so that the batting side There is economic force. There the sometimes insulting barrack could not follow on against tired is even moral force. Which ofing of the English players. This bowlers there was a horrife külla minority consists of the loafers baloo at Lord's. If we sent a these is to be banned? Force in known as "grasschewers," and the lob-bowler to Australia who could the shape of an economic block worst sort of city "larrykins," in drop high full pitches on the bails ade was one of the most potent comparison with whom London's with unerring accuracy (as in the weapons of the last war. when East-End hooligans are little late Conan Doyle's ingenious propaganda was also harnessed gentlemen. Every good Australian story) there would certainly be to the chariot of Mars, And in would like to see tuese peats loud ululations from the crowds and Hongkong. these days of peace the Com-eliminated. They are as noxious at Sydney and Melbourne, and munist International in Moscow a nuisance to the home players as probably a protest from the Boardless Wednesday. makes no secret of the fact that to visitors, and their behaviour in of Cricket Control against "head- it is fighting for a world revolu-season, when inter-State matches line bowling."
"are the only big cricket, is often tion by propaganda; by agitation, outrageous. by subsidizing. sedition. Its striking lack of success does not alter the fact that it is using a kind of force with the object of disturbing the good understand
The history of the leek has, how- ing between nations upon which
ever, been lust in antiquity. That peace depends. It is evident, Use
the leck itself has not been lost in therefore, that merely to the word "force" instead of
of punishing the English.
Although the Welsh are reputed suspension.
Kellogg Pact will not take Europe
to be the second meanest race in the world, a Welshman was once Soo and drive the New Rockne particularly far on the road to security. Undchned, the new
known to give a hint to a friend. It is said. that if you give, a Six to-day!
phraseology would mainly pro- So when they get right out of
In a year or two, I venture to vide more grist for the quills of hand there is no remedy shart of
the militia.. Ani prophesy, all this pother and Welshman enough "l's" he can- ingenious international
quib-calling out
friend humorously palaver about "body-line bowling" tie himself into such a phraseolo blers. It is better to develop Australian
Meanwhile, couldn't extricate him. one new avenue for the peaceful suggests that a military band will be merely remembered as agical knot that even Lloyd George You can't knock the L out of the settlement of disputes than to rich in trombones should be comical interlude. devise a hundred fresh formulas engaged to start playing ff, when- let us not forget that the crowd
ever the crowd's comments be-jat English cricket matches often Welsh!
shows a lapse from gentility. I Stop us if you've heard this one, against force. The latter are came offensive.
well remember the first barracking Six men were wrecked on an is chiefly important as they dis
at Lord's at Oxford v. Cambridge Jand. seminate a calmer atmosphere so
Two of them sat in either side It should be remembered, more- which was got up by a group of that the former can begin to over, that the Australian specta- festive youths (bene nati, dene of a palm tree, staring vacantly moderate docti-very into space. They wouldn't speak and probably does, need another "an" than more sedate moderately in most cases) to "get because they weren't introduced In the a rise out of Webbie," This im-to each other.. Both were English; formula to lessen the feeling of English eye-witness. unrest that exists on account United States those who go to promptu rag attained its object,
Br-base-ball matches take an active and some of my readers may have beach, coats off, belting the spine of the unsolved frontier blems. But unless the formula part in the hostilities. They yell
homily. Nowadays, on any fire The third couple were declaim- because they love noise for ita Saturday afternoon when there is ing bardic verse and walling a “'WAR" AND "FORCE" is re-inforced by something de- at the top of their voices, not only a record of Mr. A.J. Webbe's little out of each other. Bolk ware Brigh
finite in the way of machinery own sake (as children do), but
an Eisteddfod. drastic comments on the play and were starting There is more than meets the for peaceful revision of unsatis- also with the deliberate intention good cricket at Lord's you can hear Cymric dirge to each other. They Hwyl HywL Arglwddy la eye in the announcement from factory settlements. somebody of putting the pitcher or the man the players. And at the Oval
will soon find an
a bunch of chardwriaidd ynh! (Welsh for excuse for batting off his game. And their there is always Geneva that the Drafting Com-treating the ban on "force" in spoken criticisms of the pinyera
the gasometer's mittee of the Disarmament Con- exactly the same way as the ban often reach the height of Eliza- irresponsible and irrepressible Abyssinia). ference has agreed to a proposal, on "war" in the Kellogg Pact has bethan hyperbole thus, where spectators in originating with Britain, that already been twice treated in the we might say a fieldsman drops grateful shade whose noisy noise too many catches, they declare annoys an oyster (meaning the
was there, however, I heard resort to force, under circum-ove short years since it was that he couldn't hold a ball if it contemplative connaisseur).
was handed to him on a platter Surreyite, arguing with a Lan-
We and Pete were asked to stances in which the Pact of inaugurated.
castrian about the relative merits Paris forbids war, shall be ex-
of the teams, who clinched the judge the costumes, and it may be pressly forbidden. The kernel
The polite hush, punctuated by controversy by saying: "Any'ow, only a coincidence, but from all of the matter is the distinction
quiet complimentary "asides," of vou ain't got blokes like our four the Pierrettes, Foilles, Gipsy Girla and
temper costume as the prettiest," drawn between "force"
Dr. Yen's journey to Moscow a match at Lord's strikes Trans- H'Ayward, Ayes, 'Obbs, and and whatnot, he selected
atlantic visitors as fantastically Itch 1"
while we picked out his half- "war." By the terms of the will formally complete the Sino- funereal. Not so long ago I took
section's as the most novel. Kellogg Pact, war is renounced Soviet rapprochement, after a
charming American girl- In "Days in the Sun" Mr. After all, charity begins at home. as an instrument of national lapse of five years. The U. S. S Southerner with a low, soft, clear Neville Cardus tells us how a Then came the judging of the best
advertise policy, but at the same time it S. R. played a very active part voice, like Devonshire cream out packed mass of 25,000 Yorkshire dress representing an is recognised that there may be in building up Nationalist China. of a silver spoon-to see Oxford folk once turned a sunny after ment. Now the Hop. Elizabeth circumstances in which seeming-At one time, indeed, it seemed as v. Cambridge (not "Cambridge v.
melodramatic struggle for points brilliant idea for winning this, ly aggressive action may be de- if the new China were destined to Oxford" as come pathetic "Tabs" into Bedlam. It was a had slready said she had a fensive in character. Unfortun- become an appanage of Moscow, would now have it). On the way in the first innings. Lancashire Elsie's had been advertising utely, there is no machinery for | Between them Borodin and Ga- to Lord's 1 noticed that her having scored 307, and the howls Empire. Marmalade, and defining an aggressor, and that lens (now called General Blu- vanity bag had a big bulge in it, of the spectators at every ball plastered the district with pic
and asked if she was bringing bowled were as
tures of a girl wearing a red and is one of the weaknesses of the cher) organized the Nationalist along an unnecessary flask furies: The passions of the mob yellow frock, in a yellow and red Kellogg Pact. Indeed, in her Revolution. In 1923 the new was a tin with pebbles in it and passed like hot fluid through the beret hat. As the woman said, ranka; it was a Shakespearean if she turned up dressed like this, actions both in Manchuria and movement, after sweeping over slung on a strap, a substitute for
thea rattle, with which she intended crowd in the sudden changeful- Shanghai, Japan' has taken re- south China, settled in
We ought to have seen the red fuge in the Pact's proviso, Yangtse Valley. Then Marshal to encourage the "Oxford boys" atness of its emotions." Parkin was she would be bound to win.
Explanations taunted for his failure to get a light when we frat went in. We claiming that she has been com- Chiang Kai-shek, "bourgeois" critical moments.
even wicket or
Bevere avoid
saw a girl in red and yellow, so' pelled, for reasons of self-de-leader of the moderates, won followed, and it was dropped out
other fence, to act as she has done. real as well as apparent control, of the window of the taxi. For a punishment, and when
by the way the temperature went. Whilst it can be conceived, es- The succeeding years have been quarter of an hour the cricket was bowlers did better, the universal we tapped her on the back, and ly playing themselves in. So she Put Parkin on! In the end down that we had put the salt on pecially in cases where nations marked by a thorough "purging" very slow, the batsmen laborious chant was: "Put Parkin, on! said, "Hallo, Liza," but we realised run border to border, that a of Chinese nationalism. The turned on me a "beautiful lorat Yorkshire were out for 306, on the tail of the wrong bird.
Later, in the Grande Parade we country getting in the first blow word, is Chiang's. The action look," and asked in a thrilling run behind, and "a silence fell may really be acting defensive- has been his, too. Though the whisper: "What have they done over the field more significant fancied we saw another girl dress. even than the loudest of the after-ed in marmalade, but unfortunate- ly, the generally accepted inter-Nanking, or Nationalist, Gov- with the corpao?”
thousand car-splittingly we took no notice. pretation of defensive warfare ernment set-up was modelled on
The Hon. Elizabeth pranced up does not extend to the carrying Soviet Russia's in that final
THURSDAY, MARCH 2, 1935.
Soviet and China.
the
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Another two were down on the
HOT WEATHER.
In order to provide Hot Soup for the Heathen, we recently. ran a Fancy Dress Dance.
our
had
silk. Next came somebody else, ditto in cotton. The third was similar, in paper. The fourth' was the same.
.No crowd likes innovations, noises; it was the silence of men of operations into another's ter-authority is vested in party or which it doesn't quite understand, and women sick at heart through first, a la Empire Marmalade, in ritory. The operations in Jehol, gans, Chiang has been thorough- When a couple of loose balls, hope outraged." for example, cannot seriously be ly anti-Communist, elevating viewed as being dictated by his attitude almost into the rai- considerations of defence. To son d'etre of his Government. revert to the plan now propound-Repressive measures
are often ends.
ed in Geneva. Its object obvious ant to defeat their own ly is to prohibit undeclared war, In his case student Communists under which category the Japan-were driven into underground ese operations in Manchuria, agitation and Communist armies Shanghai and Jehol would come. went on the warnath outside the It is true that the "défensive" Nanking zone of influence, both stipulations of the Kellogg Pact activities being so successful would still apply, and until some that, as is shown in the Lytton means are devised of adjudging report. Communist China now whether specific operations are controls a fifth of that great or are not defensive, there would country. In some measure the be nothing to prevent a country restoration of Sino-Russian rela- from taking advantage of these tions may be due to a softening stipulations. There is ground of Chiang's Inflexibility toward for thinking that the original his own Communist problem. British proposal has been weak-Whether it will lead to under- ened by modifications. What is standing between Nationalist needed is a declaration under China and Communist China, which the use of force would be however. may be doubted. Its barred under any circumstances true explanation lies in China's whatever. In a word, war, how difficulties with Japan. Nank- ever, described, should be outing cannot afford to maintain its lawed once and for all. Recent long feud with Soviet Russia in events bring us to the conclusion the face of Japanese encroach- that, though war remains, the ments upon China's forflung age of calling it war is past. territory. History is repeating The word "war" has become itself, as it has done throughout demoded. It has definitely lost the entire Manchurian crisis. caste even if it has not yet reach The Sino-Japanese war of 1894-' ed the status of an untouchable. 96 led to an agreement between To this extent the Kellogg pact China and Russia amounting to has left a loophole for casuistical a defensive and offensive alliance Argument. Hence the British against Japan. Tokyo will Government's understandable-doubtless see the same object, end laudable-desire to extend the same realpolitik behind of
"If this is for the paper. I'd rather you'd use the picture
By the time the fifth parti coloured damsel stood in front of us, Pete pave a gasp, and said he felt unwell, the dirty dog. One of the stewarda led him to the bar. where, we are pleased to say, all' he could get to reviye him was pork pie and a glass of milk.
Left to hold the fort by ourself, and we watched numbers seven eight, both marmalade, file up and deploy in open order.. If we had been Solomon," we should have done the same as he did.
After some time we remembered that Pete's car, was just outside the door, and that it will accelerate to eighty miles an hour inside a minute. so we awarded the prize to the Hon. Eliza, and disappeared.
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FROM OUR POSTBAG.
Dear Mr. Kelly.-When I play cricket with my kids 1.let them
I beat me if they want to. It pleases them and makes no difference to me. Why can't we bowl the Aus- tralians the sort of balls they like?-A Rector,
Dear Mr. Kelly often play "osilour cricket" with my little Cairn terrier Fide. We use a soft, woolly ball that my married: daughter.made for me. Could not gallant lada "down under" be per- Auaded to play with same 7- (Mrs.) R. A. Blowhard.
Sir-Does any sane person care tuppence whether we Tests or not?(Gen"
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