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BACK TO THE BAD

OLD DAYS.

By ROBERT LYND

The Very Idea!

THESE DICTATORS By Edward “Naal" Kotly,

Dictators springing up all over

WHAT with

hope for disarmament, no hope: for anything of moral value. It is a serious question whether the strength of the League's posi- tion in the dispute would not be entirely dissipated by making an arms embargo apply to both partics. And it is clearly time number of eminent German politic come more and more general, and you) does the work. Just put in the matter. Laissez faire is poses "on the run." That this tury nearly all the inhabitants of South America, we're begin- the nations ceased to temporize ans are to all intents and pur-by the end of the nineteenth cen- the place in Europe and

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It la reported that at present a Since then, toleration has be

a pre-war sophistry and a pre-should be so is typical of the League argument. It cannot be widespread modern tendency to re- pursued any longer. In a very turn to the spirit of those ages In real sense the material inven- which political opponents were tiveness of man has caused us treated as public enemies. to be our brother's keeper. The wealt is more than ever at the merey of the strong. The world has a duty of protection to per- form.

What Do I Know ?

England had learned to tolerate.

if not to love, their religious and ning to feel rather dicky. Our headache is getting had political enemies,

Lord Sallabury nover dreamed

notions. of impeaching Mr. Gladstone as a traitor and the enemy of his Our Dictaphone has been country,

trying to Dictate to us ever The Archbishop of Canterbury himself would have opposed any since we married her. So attempt to banish Cardinal New- far we've always had enough may or to send him to the Tower.

century, for poverty and alums

and

of Increasing tho

secured the Queen ordinary man against the terrors of persccution such as exist in all ages of intolerance and violence. Even the poorest man living un- der the shadow of Mount Etan Ja- The same thing might be truth-happier when the volcano is not

in eruption.

THE ESSENCE of 24

PARTY GOVERNMENT.

The type of men wanted would require the strength of charne-

I suppono that, if we look back over the history of the world as a whole, we shall have to admit that this is the normal state of affairs, An era of tolerance has always

This was not as romantic as life over at the end of the month been the "exception; an crn of in the days of Queen Elizabeth, to pay our club fees, but a violenca or suppression has been but it resulted in a greater dis- the rule.

tribution of happiness than would man never knows.

Be it ever have been possible if the In-

so humble, During the post-war troubles industrial Revolution had inaugurat- Michel de Montaigne, in whose Ireland, when the country was ined a contury of civil war. It there's no place like the memory celebrations are being the throes of Black-and-Tan and would be easy to exaggerate the Club. held this year, lived 400 years Republican violence, a famous achievements of the nineteenth Getting back to Dictators, ago, but the keynote of his

Lord Mayor of Cork was asked by have both outlasted it, but at least we think it would be a good famous "Essays" strikes a chord a journalist what he thought of it was moving steadily In the idea, if they could lend us a to which the modern world well the situation. He replied: "Nor-direction nay listen. Through those self-mal. The situation in Ireland in ordinary man's chances of enjoy few in Hongkong. revealing, self-analysing writ- more normal to-day than it has ing life ings runs a quiet refrain of been since the days of gentle tolerance and suspended Elizabeth." judgment. It is as though he were ever asking "Que scais-je?" (What do I know?) to quote his own words in the French of his time. He lived in an age which fully said when trouble breaks out only too well resembled the pre-in any country.

We are cometimen inclined to sent, in a world of wars and ·

Even in England there are many rumours of wars fomented by think of England as a country ily

ing in the perpetual pence of con- people to-day who do not seem to grievous - misunderstandings.

stitutional government; but the realise this. Whether they sym- at the Victoria Hospital to Mr.The peace of his own study in England of the Wars of the Roses pathise with Communism or with the pertinacity of a shroff,

at Perigord and Mrs. C. G. Melchers, No. 512, his chateau

was and of the seventeenth century Fascism, they are impatient of the The Penk, son. (Shangbai violently invaded on at least one was no more peaceful than a vol-peace of toleration and long forstood. Papers please copy.

occasion: Men dwelt in constant cano in eruption. Eminence in something

catastrophic,

One beauty about having a dread of insecurity. Injustice public life might then lead to the some volcanic unrest that will

make life normal again, if act couple of Dictators in Hongkong secthed all around Montaigne, scaffold or to axlle.

which would appeal to pedestrians but his serenity remained un- The Opposition had not yet, by more comfortable.

This, I belleve, is due to a new and motorists alike would be the disturbed. It was a period when a noble paradox, come to be wel political passions, untempered by comed as an essential assistant in kind of fanaticism, or at least to a utter simplicity with which the

new admiration of other people's traffic problem could be solved, thought or reason, spurred men the Government of the State.

fanaticism.

No fuss, no worry, just a couple to quick and violent action. It is sometimes said that the

Rationalists used to believe of machine guns, and a battalion humone treatment of But, like a cool, healing stream,modern

that, when religious fanaticism through the pages of the political opponents was originally disappeared, it would be succeed-r so of hired assassins, and tho "Essays," flows ever the kindly due to the indolence of a reated by an age of universal tolera-thing's over and done with.

atatesman, Sir Robert Walpole, who was too lazy to persecute.

BIRTHS.

MELCHERS-On 18tг April, 1033,

PRISMALL-To

Mr. and Mrs. A. Priamall, at the Victoria Ho- pital, on April 20th, 1928, a son.

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

THURSDAY APRIL 20, 1933.

ARMS EMBARGO,

insistent ples and humanty.

for

Foot

tolerance

•

"Our old

wag na

THE NEW FANATICISM.

more

·

ter of a Presby- terian schisma- tic, the impla- cability of the Peak, the omniscience of.

a taipan, the effrontery of borrower and

Even then we're much misunder-

Appoint à Dictator who is a motoring enthusiast to fix the pedestrians, and appoint another Dictator with autophobia to fir the motorista. Everybody could wipo everybody else out, and then there'd be no trafic pro- blem.

tion. Unfortunately, their pro- It is doubt Certainly it was during his life phecy has been falsified. To-day, ful if any other writer has time that a new moderation came no longer rules the life of nations; religious fanaticism, if not dead, been so consistently read and into politics, and came to stay.

its place has been taken by admired. Perhaps, to-day his

political fanaticism. And the LESS ROMANTIC- An embargo on the supply of essays and letters are more BUT HAPPIER.

political fanatic of to-day is as arms and ammunition to either widely pondered than at any

Intolerant of his opponents as was "From that time," as Macaulay the religious fanatic of the seven- or both of the belligerents in the previous time during the past: Far East has now emerged as four centuries. There is great says, "It has been the practice-teenth century.

A leading Presbyterian in the Then there's the water shortage. practical politics. The House of need in these times of interna practice not strictly according to the theory of our Constitution, but

century, soventeenth

protesting We could do with two or three tional bickerings and disputes still most salutary-to consider the

of the Indewater Dictators in Hongkong. Representatives has authorised for that mature, deliberate ato me and the public dis- against a proposal the President to forbid ship-titude that refuses to be swayed approbation, B

A popular Dictator would be the punishments Pendants that all sects should be tolerated, wrote to his fellow- ments to any part of the world. by one-sided, overwhelming pre-auffelent for errors in the ad believers: "We hope that God will one who, in view of the shortage

not imputable Mr. Roosevelt is thus endowed judice and passion but asks ministration

to assist us to demonstrate the wicked of water, would order all the Hotols to supply whiskey to add with executive authority, the instead; as did Montaigne, in the personat corruption."

ness of such a toleration."

Rewrite that sentence in the to the whiskey when you ordered Senate having passed a similar spirit of judicial and temperate policy," he adds," resolution three months ago. inquiry, "What do I know?" absurd as that of the King in the phraseology of to-day, and might Whiskey and water, current water Eastern tales who proclaimed that it not have come from the pen rates to be charged for the extra The only restriction upon the before it passes judgment.

whiskey, any physician might come to Court of a Hitlerite, a Fascist, or a American President is that he

The President of the Kowloon and prescribe for his diseases, but Bolshevist? shall first procure the co-opern-

It seems to me that many sup- Residents' Association would make good Dictator. He'd tion of "such governments as he Same Shoe-Different that if the remedies falled the ad-

venturer should lose his head."

rorters of Fascism and Communism another deems necessary." The main

There were other things besides in England, who are perfectly prompty order the abolition of the obstacle to the success of the

the laziness of Walpole that con- tolerant themselves, do not suf-Ponk, and inflict the death penalty British gesture is now removed.

tributed to that birth of what we ficiently realise that in effect they. on anyone living on the island.

normal party are advocating a return to an age All Hongkong tourist publicity It was fully understood from

To the necessities for some now regard

many which mentioned the exotic beauty the beginning that the British delay in the payment of debts politics. The spirit of reason was of intolerance. No doubt,

was lies have been told both about Italy of Hongkong by night would be. Government's original embargo may be added the British com- growing, and fanaticism could only remain effective if it mercial regulations, lessening weakening. The ordinary Intelli- and about Russia, but the fact re-destroyed by public bonfire, and gent Englishman was weary of a mains that in those countries a all buildings used for the housing became international. On March our means of payment by pro- condition of affairs in which one political opponent is treated as an of records or the harbourlag of 18, it was announced in the hibiting us from carrying in our body of citizens regarded it as a enemy of the State just as in ages members of the Ponk Besidents" House of Commons that though own bottoms our own produce to crime against God to let another of religious fanaticism a religious Association would be handed over the opinion of the Government their Dominions in our neigh-set of citizens who disagreed with opponent was treated as the enemy

of God. was unchanged, the arms cm-bourhood, and excluding valu-them live in peace.. bargo would have to be removed able branches of it from their owing to complete failure to ob-home markets by prohibitory tain the co-operation of the duties. The means of payment Powers concerned. Throughout constitute one of the motives to the negotiations undertaken by purchase, at the moment of Sir John Simon it was made in-purchasing. If these means are creasingly plain that unless and taken away by the creditor him- until the United States Govern-self, he ought not in conscience ment was in a position to fall to complain of a mere retarda- into line with a common policy:tion of his debt, which is the the arms-producing countries of effect of his own act, and the Europe could not and would not least injurious of those it is take any step In support of

the hasty Great Britain. With President capable of producing." But for

the word "British,"

Roosevelt free to act upon his reader of this quotation might own initiative, things may now think it is an excerpt from bo-expected to move in a new some speech or note on the war direction. A fresh impulse will be imparted to the advocates of debts by Mr. Neville Chamber- lain, the Chancellor of the Ex- the embargo, The primary

issue which must then arise is chequer. In point of fact, it whether efforts should be made was written by Thomas Jeffer- to achieve co-operation in a son, as far back as May 29, 1792, Many problems arising out of dis- refusal of arms to both

the treaty ending the Revolution- putants, which would involve no

a source of breach of neutrality or whetherary War remained the embargo should be limited friction between Great Britain to the State generally defined and the new American Republic, as an aggressor. This latter One was that of debts owing. condition is possible in view from pre-war times to British of the League of Nations' verdict creditors. After receiving re- and that America is prepared to peated complaints from London go the whole way is suggested about American delay in meet ing these obligations, Thomas Stimson's dictum: by Mr. Neutrality is almost impossible Jefferson, as Secretary of State, to-day; and impartiality in sell- indited a dlapatch to the British ing arms to both sides impos- Minister, from which the above Bible. If naked force is to bo is an extract. The whole noto, allowed to triumph in this world which is a model of style and once more, then the now planned erudition, would bear very care order of peace that has been ful rereading at a time when the

shoe' is on the other foot,

"Now get this, once and for all I'm 89 and we have been

married only 12

to the Society for the Fropagation

of Cruelty to Peak Pomeranians..

What was left of the Peak would bo given over to the Cabarets; where anyone who played the Saxophone, gramophone, radio- phone, xylophone and other phoney musical instrumionts after mid- night would be Incarcerated.

Really, this Dictatorship bu- siness has possibilities, and we are prepared to dieuss the mattor with other Dictators.

Not just at present, howover. We have just received a phone call from the headache, who onld that If we're not home by 6 p.m., she's coming after us. ·

*

MAD MELODIES.

"When bathing on the beaches,

Its sometimes wet or fine; And everyone and each is, Addicted to the brine,

And that is why the pebbles, In every mangrove swamp, Are nasty little debbles, Which annoy us when we romp. So if we must wear sandals, At Castle Foak or Shek-` Oh-that is where the vandais, Their skins and papers, scatter, Till the rainy season comes, And then it doesn't matter: For moonlight nights are dronzy.. Unless the water's warm; And when it is one's dreary, If moonlight bathers swarin. And we, your Edward Kelly, Catch minnows by the score, Though some are made of jelly, And they Just make me sore. So if upon the mountains, You find your whistle dry, Try sarsaparilla fountains, You're another-80 am It