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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1933.

PACIFIC BREEZES

Although little has been heard

NOTES OF THE DAY

THE NEWER NUDISM

19, 1933:

THE MIRACLE.

AUSTRIA FINDS HER SOUL

By ROBERT BERNAYS, M.P.

The Very Idea!

WE EVILS By Edward Kelly, Grub WAR has been declared weevils. Large

Won

titionIENNA has been a great aur-Soviet Russia. Ever since the stocks of flour, held in go-

prise to me.

War it has been ruled by a Social-

1 had expected to find a city in lat

Bishop Hall's request, soon after his arrival in the Colony will be recalled by a comment in the Obseruar, which remarks that the displenishment of threatens to become an epidemic. Mr. Elliot's depreciation of mili soveral other politicians, and now latest news from the frontler, dose of despotism. there comes an appeal from the angry demonstrations outside the Bishop of Bristol againat being German Embassy, uniforms every- addressed as "My Lord." He Is whore, full-throated cheers for probably not the first prelate to Dollfuss whenever he appeared. feel the dificulty of balancing DOLLFUSS occlesiastical dignity with Chris AT BAY. tlan' humility, But the hope is

municipality. Yet to-day downs, contain weevils, and of rather than risk a Nazi Invasion to prevent them spreading,

tary style has been followed by a tumult of anxiety-groups

excited citizens discussing the it is ready to stomach a temporary the government has ordered

expressed the movement towards

nudism in nomenclature will not go too far, for it would make the lists of "those present" most

monotonous.

PARIS TALKS

I had been in Berlin in the early

days of the Nazi revolution when

It was. Hitler against the world,

realise how well the and I Germans stage themselves. Hero it is Dr. Dollfuss at bay-the little Chancellor only 4ft. 11in. In height standing up against the blustering might of Berlin-and I expected the same atmosphere of the theatre.

The feeling for Austrin aa samo. that the flour must be 'des- thing worth over fighting for to

The government, in fact, seems to have chosen the lesser of two weerlls,

the death is naturally a plant of troyed. slow growth. It was Vienna as the contro of the Hapsburg Empire, not as the capital of Austria, that inspired loyalty and reverence before the War. Then

memberment..

came 1918 and its complete dis

We have made a special study

Vienna that was the political, of weevils. For instance, did commercial and cultural centre you know that the weevil is a of an Empire of 52 millions was member of the group of Coleop- left the unwieldy head of a state tors, more commonly termed

of six millions.

What

illiteracy!

Ita former territory was split the Rhyncophora? among four new states, each of And did you know that the which contains more inhabitants Rhynco-thing, in turn, embracea There has been none of it. A than the Austria from which they four familles-the Curculionidae, Cabinet meeting that lasted cieven were severed.

the Scolytidae, the Brenthidno. A favourable Impression has been hours and was known to be con-

Vienna remained a mournful and the Anthribidoo? created in Paris as a result of the sidering a complete rupture with monument of past glories. Even

depths of for a foreigner it is impossible not Anglo-French conversations, but the Germany did not bring half precise implications of closer un-dozen people into the Ball Haus to moralise about the passing of What unutterably degrading lack

greatnesa in modern of knowledge. What

As we wero derstanding cannot be derived from Platz. I have not seen a single earthly

of the Holmwehr, the Vienna-this vast imperial city

enying when we member Berlin the officia communique.

dofence force organised against without an Empire. The mighty let our passion get the better of frankly displeased, however, and the Nazi menace, in the streets of palaces of the Hofburg and Schon us. We Rre often overcome by there is more than a. suggestion

Vienna. Those that can afford it bruun atand empty and decaying, pasalon. It's just our raturo, that Britain is likely to concede

Lady and gentlemen weevils are to French views than to assert her are in the mountains: those that the War Office that once cast its

cannot are in the vast swimming shadow over all Europe now the same. The publishers of the own. It is probably inevitable. In baths along the Danube, and those houses the Ministry of Commerce, Encyclopedia Britannica, tell, in to the booklet known as VET the present state of Europe the French, while speaking vaguely of that can afford neither are sitting the Ministry of Agriculture and

on the shaded benches down the new Ministry of National Defence;|ZYM, of the secret love of # trial periods and International con- trol, are obviously uneasy, and will centre of the Ring strasse, hungry embassies have become legations, young Curculionidao weevil for

and though admirals look down a fascinating Scolytidae voovil. not lightly relinquish their assumed

from pinnacles there is no fleet military superiority.

left to command....

STUMBLING-BLOCK

but silent.

It is almost as dificult to find a plcture-postcard of Chancellor Dollfuss as it would be of Mr. Runciman in England.

It is this apparent apathy that Is the greatest obstacle to Hit- ler's success, The Austrian speaks Gorman,

"and all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death."

He met her in a godown, and" presented her with a bunch of Nours.

were, they never squealed as they

Weevil get married straight With such a heritage of humilia away," he said, and their anten-.. tion it was no wonder that it was naes met in one long, lingering We are face to face with a situ- of the matter in the last week or ution which prompts some of the but that is about the only link he/ difcult to inaplro in' the hewi kies.

They were married, and had generation a feel for a country which under the surgery of several million young grubby two, the ownership of the small beat European observers to quee has with the German mentality. na- tion whether substantial disarma- islands lying between the Philip-ment is possible before a general Austria is not a militarist Versalles was little more than a children. Then war was declared by the Hongkong government. pines and Indo-Ching recently political settement. They urge the War.

One scea that in the geographical expression.

But it has been done.

No, less than 20,000,000 woevlin In 1918 the whole country was were captured and imprisoned. occupied by units of the French the cart has been put before the of the pre-war days. In Germany for joining up with Germany. that, as matters have turned out, few picture-postcards that remain

Well-bread gentlemen that they Navy must not be regarded as a horse. Disarmament may, follow, they emphasise the grandeur of The Provisional National Assem dead issue. Canton and Nan- but cannot precede, conditions of the military pageant; in Austria

constituent part of the German were cast into the 800.

Which is why weevila marry king are closely interested, part-confidence. It is true that it will such as survive anke jokes about bly declared that Austria was 'n

in its turn increase the confidence it.. ly because of rumours that of nations in one another,

The Austrian has no love for Republic". Two years later all tho some Chinese fishermen have but

does not take parties had put a union with young. When we found out how proposi uniforms and he 18 a practical tion it is impeded by the be readily to discipline. When the Germany in their programmes. young weevils were when they removed to another

with Germany. and only 900 a club (8) three hearts; (4) a islands and partly because they new menace of war. While sup because he worships physical fit against. In 1926 Chancellor Siepel lead pipe; (5) a sudden jork of do not appear to know exactly porting the demand for the fullest ness or exalts endurance into a

disarmament where the islands concerned areant, am at the earliest mo- religious creed. The Jews are said that 90 per cent. of the Aus- the chair after slyly asking us to probably only a little less power-trian voters favoured the Customs sit en it; or (0) but If you think and imagine they have a claim obstacles which have been revealed ful in Vienna than they were in Union. As short a time age as we're going to sit here and think Bovereign. The "breezes" by experience. Unquestionably the Berlin, but there is little hatred 1929 one of the Socialist leaders up methods for you to knock us

greatest stumbling-block is the fact, of them as such. The most suc-aald no politician would dare come over, you're crazy. will blow from the Japanese as Dr. Edwyn Bevan has pointed cessful remark at a musical show out against it.

And now? direction, however. Japan out, "that the present map of I visited in Vienna last week was

Europe is one drawn according to to the effect that since the Nazis THE NATION, strongly insists that she has the judgment of the victorious were so anxious

to search into OF MOZART, prior claim to the islands, her allies, one detested by Germans and one's parentage-for-Jewish-an-For-all-the-Austrian Nazis better. The

is more, the course, is usually placed In-charge anxiety, being brought about by imposed upon them by force, with no oppurtunity ever having been commercial interests on the one given for mutual discussions." hand and strategic reasons on the other. Just after the War when guano commanded a high price, the Rasa Island Phos- phorus Ore Company sent an expedition into the South China Sea to look for islands covered

been dispossessed and are beingef, widely held; that failing a re- young Austrian climbs a mountain, in a plebiscite in Salsburg in 1921 married you could have knocked

to

with guanò. They found sever-

EUROPE'S PROBLEM

Anyway, the weevil, who mar- ries young, also marries often. He figures It out that If one mate is a good thing, two or three are third mato, of

costry, the only safe thing to be bluster and, what

a foundling. It German money behind them, they of swabbing down the deck.

in Germany was

the

a

•

a third of the Hence, the term "grub" is al- will be many years before such a hardly represent

nation. The rest are for in-ways applied to male weavile. joke produces laughter in Berlin.

The Austrians are kindly, toler-dependence. That is the miracle And, just in case you're read you're finishing off ing this na ant, slovenly, charming, humorous that Dollfuss has wrought,. and unambitious-just the quali- The Austrians are a deeply your bread and butter at tiffin or tles, in fact, that no good Nazi sentimental people. It would be a dinner to-day, what's worse than

surprise if it were not so in The feeling is growing in many can afford to possess.

The ordinary Austrian working nrtion that has produced Mozart finding a weevil in your bread; Half a weevil, Hot Hot Hel responsible quarters that if there is to be disarmament it will first man knows what Hitlerism means and the Vienna waltzes. To-day be to convert the unconsented map and though he is not vociferous in it takes the form of an adoration

THE DEAR DEPARTED of Europe into a consented settle his patriotism he is not going to of Franz Jouef. There has been no such sceng of enthusiasm since That is the meaning of the the war as there was when "White

He was a great man. Broad- al and promptly started to work ment. In other words, revision have it if he can help it.

which will stabilise Europe on a

of Vienna Horse Inn" was produced in minded, big-hearted, absolutoly Genorous, too. Ho them. Owing to the slump in basis of mutual agreement, instead extraordinary silence 1929, the works were

a basis of superior force, under the Dollfuss dictatorship, Vienna and the old Emperor ap marvellous. closed of on

perhaps Vienna is

most peared before them. The band used to give his wife all his money

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and consider her every whim. He down, but the equipment such is an essential preliminary to a

This does Socialist city in Europe outside disarmament accord.

nayer came home late. Ho did not as derricks, light railways, etc. not mean that all German and.

amoke. Strong drink never passed hig lips. His speech was clean was left-presumably in the other claims must be granted.

and free from foul epithets. He hope of better times. And now, What it means is that the claims must be examined, and that there

was a great chap. How do we to the Company's disgust, the must be free negotiations. It

know? We're the poor fool who married his "widow. French have formally annexed means that the problems must be the islands! France says they threshed out. It means that even- tually a proper compromise, which are wanted as being on the

will be taken as final, must be direct sea-route between Indo-renched. It means that consent China and French New Cale-must be substituted for imposition. donin, which from the map and the known difficulties for navigation

rather a feels that the guardianship of flimsy excuse. The Japanese the Pacific Ocean and the China are prosecuting their case with Seas is her business. The same vigour. The Foreign Office at question in another, and more Tokyo is extremely active, but serious guise will crop up when the difference of opinion so far Japan's resignation from the has been limited to one of dif-League takes effect, unless she ferent interpretations of inter withdraws her, notice before At the moment Japan national law. The French claim then.

seems

their annexation was done in a holds a League Mandato over a proper, formal manner, where large number of islands in the as the Japanese was not. The Pacific. She has already said Japancao say that as their ex- that she will not surrender pedition erected landmarks and them, on the plea that they are renamed one at least of the now "vital" to her national de- Islets, they must legally belong fence. The League Mandates to themselves. Though this Commission, too, is disturbed single incident will not produce because of rumours of naval any ill-effects,(It may be biso construction In the Mar- brought to the notice of the shall group. In short, the Permanent tional Justice Court of Interna-aggressive nationalistle mood of at The Hague; or Japan-quita apart from her

LANE CRAWFORD, LTD. conceivably the League of Na- efforts in Manchurinis likely

„tions may be asked to arbitrato); to become a menace to peace bit ahows oNCE ITE

and when we finally do meet some nice people and have them in for bridge, you lose your tempor and tear.

LIBEL

We have just read a book. It's all about Hongkong. The title is "With a Pasaport, and Two Eyes" by V. C. Buckley. Frinstance:

Visitors (to Hongkong), should Bay ・never miss accing Repulse

Hotel, even if only for the sake of being handed by the Chinese boy at lunch a menu which contains seven hundred differant items from which to choose.

The far sighted author goes on to say: We visited the Peak, and as it was a clear day, wa could see Canton 80 miles to the north.""

If we know, his address, we'd write and give him a few ntore. suggestions for "With a Passport. and Two Eycs." (Ho pass Hong- kong port, aye, aye, sir Joke.) "We sat in the Legislative Council. (wo would write), and, as there was a water shortage, we wore able to predict that, this time next your there would be a water shortage! "Visitors to Hongkong (we would add) should on no account: mies living at Kowloon. On a clear, bright day, they will be able to 200 the famous Peaks, although" Kow loon poopta never can do to them helves

There are several other things. we could say, but we have 'come) end of our column,

the

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