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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1938.
QUASI-FASCISM
have been heavily reduced. A cut about Japan to present a caricature agriculture, but la rapidly becoming
an industrial nation. Her position place between Japan and of 110,000,000 gallons in the month of a country in the form of a of October, was offected, thanks hungry, dovouring, blood-thirsty is almliar to that of England in the Soviet Russia, and we are
Century. to the restriction of supply to ogre, an oppressor of wenker Eighteenth-Nineteenth
Editor's note: You shoot off
eight hours daily, compared with nations (the Koreans and poor in- On account of the absence of wars, getting in with our story a full supply in the same month of nocent Chinese). Their commer-improvements in hyglone, and the 1982. It seems pertinent to on clal competition, too. Is said to be abandonment of a certain element before they beat us to it. quiro why, with the rointive unfair, The writer, who has reary practice of birth control, her Besides, the Editor is out, positions as regards storage in cently epont covoral months in population has increased by leaps favour of 1933, such drastic rea Japan in close association with and bounds from 84 millons in and-- trictions should be considered Japanese business men, and who has 1874 to 64,400,000 in 1988, and the necessary now when none had been had the advantago of several con-excess of births over deaths is at imposed twolve months ago. Par. Yersations with Ministers, politie. the rate of over 800,000 per annum. tial explanation is, perhaps, to be lans and public men, feels it is hia With 17 per cent, arable land avail- found in the fact that smaller duty to endeavour to give a sketchy able for cultivation, she is unable supplies are being taken from the picture, representing the real posi- to raise sufficient food to feed her populationBy force of--circum- mainland but this again may be tion of Japan as he saw it, a matter of choice. On the faco of things, present sources are ample to maintain the present standard of supply, even if no further raid falls, to the end of August, next; which seems to be looking unaccessarily far ahead, It looks to be a matter which might come up for review at the end of November,
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Eddie's note: The Editor wlil. have hic little Joke
Editor's note: Shouldn't that _bo "hla?"
Eddie's note: Yes, yours.
Our story is all about Russia. It is a horrible tail about a man who was attacked in the rear. A tale about fools Russian where ankles fear to tread.
The night was dark and stormy, Ha! Stormy weather. For this free advorileemont we will accept one gramophone record.
-Swiftly the pair made for the
When the Japanosa adopted stances and by the dead-woight of Western civilisation, some 60 years her population she is compelled to ago, they took from it all that they trade in order to live and to fred thought useful to them, but they ber people, but apart from Man- remained Japanese. They have chukue and Korea the individunt their skyscrapers and subways, Japanese is debarred from emigra their golf, baseball, tennis, and tion. Korea is not a suitable land other games. They have their for Japanese immigraton, as it has cinemas and dancing halls and their dense population of its own, with motor-cara, etc. Their business a lover standard of living than the men have adopted European clothes Japanese. Actually, indeed, Kor- for office and public occasions (the cans emigrate to Japan and under- women have mainly remained faith cut the Japanese in agricultural ful to the Japanese costume), but and manual work. A remarkable now invention de- in their hearts they remain Japan- In every other country the Japan- signed to end aerial bombing is ese, faithful to the traditions of css emigrant is friendless and un- claimed for a British aviation ex- their race, and it is quite usual to welcome, but still they claim the pert. It consists of chaser- meet a high-class Japancae in his right to live. Is it astonishing The smoky lamp cast a pale light. aeroplane or a flying bomb which office, dressed in impeccablo city with their ready, intelligence and on the dirty table at which they cannot help hitting its target as attire, and meat him again in the industry that they have learned the sat. Uitchi Iscratchi, called the its overy movement is directed by ovoning in his home, or more pro-lesson of competition and that, by Terrible, was fingering the stem of
most up-to-date the target. Once the "plano" has bably In a Gelaha Restaurant, sit-adopting the been catapulted into the air, itting on the tatami (mat) in correct methods and most modern machin his empty vodka glass, while his flies towards the Invador and Japanese costume-ne worn during ory, they are able to compete suc- comrade, Nix Onderwiski, was strikes. Instead of a pilot, the the Bhogunato period-and looking cessfully in certain lines of manu-drawing deeply and contentedly at " "plane" carries a photo-electric more dignified and more comfort facture against the rest of the his pipe, long drawers being
world? eyo so delicate that it responds to able in it.
fashionable in Bolshevik Russia. any image that passes across it.
"Come," Ultchi 'sat up suddenly.. IN BRITAIN
The eye is divided into quarters,
It sooms to the writer 'doubtful It is useless for the cotton spia- "Work is ahead of us, Cómrado.” one at least of which must pick British politics are beginning up the objective and act upon the whether a European, or rather say nera of Lancashire, or for the an Englishman, will ever under-electric bulb manufacturers of to grow, interesting. The
electro-magnet that controls the stand the mental make-up of the Holland, to say that the Japanese bar, and Uitch the Terrible leapt ponderous mass of the National machine dives to evade the attack, all for modernity, more according vantage, that their standard of rades," he whispered hoarsely, "the rudder The Invading bombing Japanese. On the one hand he is manufacturer has an unfair ad- up among the empties.. "Com- Government's majority is los- it is picked up by another section to the standards of New York or living is lower and that they em-time is ripe. We have free love. ing its original deadening effect; of the eye and relentlessly pur- Chicago than, London, but on the ploy ewented labour. The writer Why can't we have free beer? sued. Provided the flying-bomb other hand he believes in his own has seen the workpeople of Osaka Down with Yow!”............and no longer is it quite certain is faster than the objective, a col- faiths, Shintoism and Buddhism, and other industrial centres. They Ultchi collapsed in a heap, clutch- that it would hold together on lision cannot be avoided. The ap. He keeps his fete days as devotedly appear to be happy in their working at his breast.. a crucial test. Internal rumb-pearance of a few inventions of and regularly, as any Roman They are well clothed for their
"The Ogpul The Ogpul ho língs havo given warning this type will make it convenient Catholic (many of these fete daya standards, they are certainly ex- whimpered. aingals: The tendency among serve the peace.
for would-be aggressors to pre-are similar in origin and object) ceedingly clean and appear to be
Instantly there was pandemon- and above all there is his unswory very well fed. Where does the the preponderant Conservatives
ing devotion to the Emperor-or lower standard of life come in? It ium.
In the doorway, a menacing mob we should say to the Imperial certainly is another standard of House.
life, but who is to any that the blocked the dreaded Orpu from A nation of 65 million people be- Lancashire mil girl's dietary is reaching the wounded Uitchi and port has been missed it has been undertakings as the Health Ex. Neves not only in the divine right better or that her standard of his comrade, Nix
"Nix, you must fly quckly, while because the rebel groups have hibition held at the Ellis Kadoorie of kings and emperors, but that its living is higher than that of her each concentrated on their own School. The exhibits ranged from Imperial family is a sacred one and Japanese competitor, or that the there is yet time. They're got me pet grievance, have found no dimple charts and illustrations descends directly from the gods: it Dutch workman's standard of lv-this time, olo pal," Uitchi groaned.
"Never," said Nix, "I will stay showing the dangers of infection also believes that its Emperor, its ing is higher than that of his common ground in their urge and disease, to objects the elemen- people, its civilisation and Ita Japanese confrere? Each country until the bitter end.
Uitchi groaned. towards revolt. Let them find tary principles of hygiene and other nation in the world. It is a which is appropriate to its peopl country are unequalled by any has its own standard of living, it, and there might be assultation.
were given
(Continued on page 10). no common standard for com- general election in six months by public-spirited helpera on nation which has been developed on and to its climate, and there can be health topics Parties from other militaristic lines and whose army What is more important, per-schools attended under the guid- and navy are at all tmes proud and parison,
STILL GOING STRONG haps, is that the unrest is notance of their teachers, and it ap-happy to die in defending these
ideals, no longer, however, fatalis confined to Parliament but has pears that averything was donetically, na helpless victims before a of what may be called neutral man who jumped into the een the
Apart from China there are many The atory of the Chinese gentle-.. that could be done to give been sprending slowly through maximum of value to the Exhibi- better armed aggressor, but to nations which will buy in the cheap other day to get away from two fight to the death with equal arms est markets. Wo British can pro- men reminds us of one of our the country. For those who de- tion.
and with an unconquerable spirit teet car own markets to a certain alcoholic friends whose nolay return. clined to necept the verdict of
bordering on fanaticism, convinced extent by preference between the home aroused the wife of his bosom East Fulham, the speeches of
that the ultimate aim and glory of Dominions, the Colonies, and the and an enquiry as to what was the Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, Mr. If only for the reason that the life and death are the sacritice
Mother Country, hut what of the matter, Im-hic-boing themselves to the honour of their Dutch East Indica, Malays, Siam, down by two-hlomon, m'deat Stanley Baldwin and Sir John Exhibition seemed highly success Emperor and the honour of Japan. South Seas, South American Re hi-Haig and Haig." Simon in London on Monday tinuance as an annual feature in ful, we should like to aco ita con-
publics, and certain parts of must, at least, prove convincing. fact, a query is prompted as to Let us now consider the economic Africa? What can be done to im- The cynic, obviously, would whether activities cannot be en-position of the country aa regards prove the situation from the British come to recognise the trend of arged into a Colony-wido Health Industrialism. Japan was at the point of view?
Campaign such as is being held time of her transformation nothing recent political developments; elsewhere, Singapore notably. In the movernent must, indeed, be stead of being confined to the serious. And it is. A very de- Education Department, the Gov- ernment Health Department could finite threat to constitutional by an organized programme take democracy is rising rapidly al- the campaign to a point where the though, how Бооп a challenge community as a whole would be benefitted by instruction afforded may come cannot be foreseen. on the dangers of overcrowding At the moment, no one Fascist, and insanitation-two root ovile quasi-Fascist, or neo-Socialist which have rendered largely in- effective the work of the Dopart- group has succeeded in captur- ing the popular imagination. By itself, none has sufficient in fluence to be regarded as of im- Oswald
portance.
Blackshirts, Sir Stafford Cripps's
There is much value in such
Talks
AN ENLARGED CAMPAIGN
ment in the past.
deserve it. None of the "New Englanders" has yet presented Mosley's a programme offering sumelent compensation for abandonment Socialist intelligentsia, the of long-held political principles. Yeats-Brown "corporate state" Nevertheless, the vigour of the campaign carried on by all may faction and all others impatient prepare the public for a coup by of Parliamentary government, the one astute enough to delude would be incapable by them- them into expecting what would selves of making any lasting be termed "ordered planning impression. By the mass effect of the State" without the loss of on the public mind of the in- individual freedom and Ilberty tensive propaganda conducted associated with every known by these organisations, the con- | form of dictatorship. Aftör all; | stant reiteration of the thesis there is much that, is valuable that Parliaments are a Victorian | and desirable in some of tho
$12.50 hang-over unsuited to the pre- reforms advocated. To present
sent age, carried on without co-the rest in apparently more ordination of any kind, but los-palatable form should not provo ing nothing by the fact that the especially difficult. The re drumming acema to come from spones of the National Govern- all quartors at the same time, ment is likely to bo more so. is n factor to be reckoned with. It will not be found in counter- The attempts at mass sugges propaganda, that is certain, tlon do not lack subtlety; care Preservation of constitutional in taken to give full credit to the democracy may ultimately de
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mont; at the end comes the bost features of the quasi- hint that Massrs. MacDonald, Fascists programme into the Baldwin and Simon need a rest, I parliamentary system.
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The Japanese
(Continued on Next Column.)
"Sho is gaining awfully fast. I hope she's not going to take aftor your mother.”
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DID YOU HEAR ABOUT
held.
The flea that loved to walk under ladders because it was not super- stitches.
JOLONELESE
There once was an irate colonel Whose language was simply in--
folonel
But the words-and- Are now things of the past Since he's found that his soul is,
etolonel.
BEDTIME STORY
a time there were Once upon threa Nudists in Hongkong. There was the fathar bare, the mother. bare, and the little baby bare,
Governmint feel that Japan is Isolated, and would welcome an understanding with Great Britain, a renewal of the former alliance which it is believed was dropped in order to please the United States of America. It should not ba im. possible for our manufacturers to arrange. with their confreres in Japan a re-division of world trade on certain lines and conditions" which do away with undue competi tion, and allow such markote, to be. rationally developed. For instance, It might be possible for our mand facturers to give up making some of our cheaper Hines, for which their coat price la higher than that of the Japanese, and to concentrate on" higher class goods. The writer Bods no way of salvation unless some compromise is achieved. The pressure of the Japaneko mukt basi coma stronger and more irrestatt- blo, not only in cotton goods, but in many other articles of commerce.
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