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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1933.
BRITAIN AND MR. DE VALERA
Politely, but. firmly, the British Government has refused to be drawn into a controversy with Mr. de Valera as to what it might or might not do in the event of the Irish Free State
proclaiming a Republic, Pre- ferring to regard such a pos- sibility as purely hypothetical, it does not feel called upon to define its attitude in advance. Mr. de Valera has sought to read into a recent speech by Mr. Thomas an implication, which it could not possibly contain, that Britain might be prepared to agree to the Free State setting up a Republic quite independent of continued association with the Crown. His endeavours to show that the Free State is being kept within the British Common- wealth by force, and not of its own free will, are too absurd to
NOTES OF THE DAY HOW ITALY
THE SOCIAL PROBLEM..
It hardly needed the roport of the Society for the Protection of Children to bring realisation' of
the vast problems of social onderv-
our that exist in this Colony to challenge the European commun-
FOUND UNITY
Bu “SENTINEL
【OST Englishmen still think cipline," as Mr. Munro warns his
The Very Idea. THIS RADIO EVIL
By Eddie "Marconi" Kelly
ON
Na ship which carried no doctor, a man's life was saved recently by in- structions received by wire- less from a doctor.
Mshat the Fascist Revolution rundere), which is the vary soul ity. The problems of industrial was merely a reaction against post- of Fascism, is manifestly a opiri- Injustice, the problems of mass War Communiem and International tual legacy from the Rome that, illiteracy, the problems of mass Socialism. They believe it was an by ruling itself came to rule the
This is nothing new; nei- affair of cudgels and castor oil, world. The Italian word connotes poverty, and the trafßes that pray ending in the overthrow of a Par "eelf-respect combined with the ther is it clever! It even waxing fat in the atmosphore llament and the aeizing of power orderly unselfish behaviour as an may be positively dangerous, thoreby .created cannot, avon In by a Dictator of the Extreme outcome of an educated sonso of In similar circumstances we the ordinary daily run, escape the Right. This widespread miscon- one's responsibilities Bociety." attention of those who, do, not ception has been crystallised in an It Is humanism la action, within once operated on our grand- deliberately shut their eyes. The erronous epigram to the effect and without an ideal which ia na father,
that, if Lenin had not been, Mus remoto from Oriental obsequious- value of the S.P.C. report is that solini would never have arisen. ness as from the riotous individu. it marshals concrete cases in a All sorts and conditions of Soallem which is a social peril In the shortage, which some of you During the recent water form which reveals mora vividly cialists in thla country, acting on Weat than any specially written treatise the dangerous adage that the end
may remember, our grand- the deplorable conditions. that justifies the means, have thought it
The chapters in which the in-father was sporting on the Fan- provall and refuses to permit the possible to reap political advantage tricate history of Italy from the ling golf course when he fell for themselves by representing the achievement of Independence down and broke his wish bone. Government to indulge the habits Corporate State" established by (Garibaldi'a Inconic obbedisco in of the ostrich.
the Duce as a personal and paraly reply to his newly-found King's He was picked up and towed sing tyranny. And this absurd order, for to march into the Tren-home by the ambulanco, to the belief is actually accepted by many tino was a truly Roman act of disgreat delight of Inspector Land, Conservatives who ought to know ciplina) to the entry Into the Great who regarded our grandfather as better.
War are miracles of brilliant con- the bugbearer of his life and had ciseness. He can make a Tacitean frequently toed him (our grand- phraso at neod and, o still rarer father) home himself (the Iner gift, prefer taciturnity when it is pector). more to the point.
OVERCROWDING
In almost every disclosure con-
What seems un-English may not cerning the tragedies of poverty be un-Italinn. That is the first and overcrowding can be found a lesson to be learnt from Mr. I. S. pointor towards the need for Munro's survey of the works and
The poor old gentleman lay on Government action,
doings of Fascism which is the withheld,
a bod of pain for weeks. Which, ripe product, of many
The fallure of Italian Parlin if you don't mind us Intruding There are, for instance, laws in keen observation and reflection. mentarianism, an ephemeral phase these intimate details, soriously the Colony governing housing It is the first treatise on the sub- of sixty years in two thousand of interfered with his occupation, conditions which are specifically Jeet which, written with a sym-, social history, is brought home to which was a taipan."-
years of
| designed to prevent overcrowd-pathetic understanding of Italian us by his deftly-drawn charactor
ing, and which are never enforced, character gives us a complete and of Giovanni Giolitti. "A specialistke all our taipans he had his
In ono ca80
Ho was self-mado man, but coherent picture of the "Blackshirt in party warfare, he jockeyed the quoted by the Revolution" in its origin and do- Centre parties to his will and little idiosyncrasies, which he kept Society, a family of seven were velopment, principles and doctrine, exercised a virtual dictatorship in a small bowl in the dining- occupying a single bed-space on applications and mechanism. Mr. over the Italian people with a room.
the people who live under such conditions do so because they can- not afford botter.
EDUCATION
tion.
SWEATED LABOUR
Rome
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of
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had no waistline.
"Make an incision low down on
the left side."
We did this.
a floor where, in one room, seven Munro adopts the historical method, soverity scarcely exceeded in Fas- families lived in four cubicles living up to his prefatory quota-ciat timca. But his outlook was doctors near him, which hurt us Anyway, he wouldn't let any and six bed-spaces. And Gov- tion: "Let us study these things: that of a shrewd electioneering more than it hurt him, as we were ernment, knowing the facts, the observing the state of times past, agent. Parliament was his chess his sole heir. This was another conditions and the perils, ac- the doings of men, their govern- board, and the game was office. quiesces in the conversion of the ance, their counsels and their on- He was the master of a Centre of his little folbles, and in addi newly-developed area on Praya East Reclamation into a and judge rightly of things pre-all its principles in the market of canteen from the Army, and the deavours; so that we may discern whose Liberallam bartered away tion ho was also a Pacifist. He once offered to buy a naval similarly health-wrecking rabbit-sent, and foresce wisely things to compromise."
because they rejected his applică....... warren. The official excuse is come."
tion he could never afterwards that action would inflict hardship,
That has been the doom of stand any mention of war.
Ho because the probem is economic In a preliminary chapter on the Liberalism all the world over! hated the Army and Navy so much "Tangled Odyssey of the fate of Mussolini, when he appeared above that he used to spend hours on the Italian people after the fall the political horizon, becoming the the Praya poking his tongue out at of the Roman Empire, when they dictator of revolutionary Socialism the battleships in the harbour. were divided among themselves by 1914, was to Giolitti as a meteor under shifting multiplicity
Whore the devil were we? (You were about to operate on foreign masters, he shows how to a candle-flame fiickering in patriotic ideais survived to be every breath of opinion. English your grandfather.) Yes. Well, we
arrangements to expressed first in the Risorgimento, crities are too apt to forget the rando
have The Government, nevertheless, finally in Fraciam. Dante, the amazing career. He
carlior öpisodes In. the contributes practically nothing first apostle of Italian unity, Poned eleven times for his political kong doctors, Having thoroughly Duce's Instructions broadcast fro KZRM, was impri- Manila, not trusting the Hong- towards efforts, to raiso
the peared at a time when the political feonacinam, in Berne, Lausanne, sterilleed the standard of living in the Colony.disintegration of Italy was most
axе and other should be an important factor, is of patriotism, which became a con- places, "and every time," he told father out on the table and turned Ita educational polley, which completo. He kindled a watch-are Geneva, Trent, Forli, and other instruments, we laid our grand- purely negative. Of the large flagration more than five centuries interval of repose that I would
Emil Ludwig, "it was the same on the radio. suma devoted to education in the later when the successful fight be not have given up of my own frees below the waistline." Which "The appendix," said the radio, Colony, the bulk goes towards the gan for Italy's freedom. creation of offico clerks; tho
will." In such intervals of en- olementary education which would the Fascist Revolution, really the worked out his plan for the recon-
That is why the tenth year of forced reflection he must have was a bit tricky aв qur grandfather do much to improve social condi- explosive ending of an age-long ciliation of Socialism and Nation- tons, by giving the offspring of evolution, was celebrated by an alism then so vehemently opposed. the poverty-stricken at least, an opportunity to better themselves, at Ravenna. On that oceaalon act of homage before Dante's tomb
"Place the hands on the head is largely denied the entire those Cantos of the "Divine Come education effort being expendeddy" which deplore the unnatural industrial policy. "By work," he wards from the hips." We did
On that occasion he defined his and swing-backwards-and-for- on a secondary atandard in the divisions of interests, often, of Individuals Italy and recall the power of Im-itive middle classes and working to get your shoes from the Fourteenth-Century sald, "is meant that of the produce this also. "Be aure," it went on who could well afford to pay more perial Rome, were duly declaimed. classes of town and country. No Shanghai Shooery." And then, for the better standard of educa- There are distinct, if distant, echoes privileges to the former and no very harshly, it said, "Beat up the of Dante's prophetic conception of privileges to the latter; but the white or an egg! Remove the a preordained" world-protection of all intereats that appendix.. Cover with inely power, as well as of the practical harmonise with those of producgrated cheese. The hands should atateamanship of Danto's fellow- tlon and of the nation." Here is be thoroughly rubbed with lemon countryman, Machiavelli, in Musso- the germ of the Corporate State, julce. Then out popped the little Hal'a historic speeches. At the same time, nothing effec- Machiavelli
From which is founded on (1) a basic bunny rabbit three times a day, the Fascist tive la done to prevent or check learnt the truth of the saying that (2) the enrolment of every worker lettuce. The patient should be call for refutation. The legal sweated labour. The S.P.C. speaks no prophet in the world's history of whatsoever kind, whether em kept in a warm place and wall leader charter of rights for all employees, before meals and garnished with COMING position has been made quite of a woman carning $10 a month, has ever succeeded in realising his player or employee, in an appro- corked."
clear by Mr. Thomas's latest which after paying rent, left her ideals without an army. Dante and priate Syndicate, and (3) the legal "What the hell are ye dofn"!” statement, for, as he rightly clothing for five persons, and it first Fascists.
with $6 to provide food and Machiavelli, no doubt, worg the recognition of these Syndicates by said our grandfather. points out, the 1921 Treaty adds: "Although it is recognised settlement was approved by the that the giving of relief in cases Free State Parliament and sub- of this nature might possibly re- sequently confirmed
Buit in enabling employers further at the to exploit sweated labour, It is General Election. No amount of also realised that there are hun- quibbling will alter that fact: who would be gind of steady em- dreds of women in the Colony In point of fact, of course; Mr.ployment at $10 a month." The de Valera knows the position challenge is there, but the more quite well; he is not quite o such facts are brought to light, obtuse as he pretends to be. He knows, also, the alternatives, They are simply summed up either a willingness to remain within the Commonwealth, as- suming the responsibilities and enjoying the privileges, or a decision to withdraw, there- from. There is no halfway It is up to the people of the Free samo time there is wide scope house; no room for compromise. within it by force. Yet at the
Stato to make the choice. If for diversity of outlook, based they decide for secession, they on a degree of freedom which must automatically lose their makes the Empire unique rights as people of the British amongst political creations. Empire. They cannot have it There is room within the Com- both ways-repudiation of alle-monwealth for each and all, Toy.giance to the Crown and reten-given a disposition to recognise |tion of the privileges which they a common link and a desire to now enjoy. To talk, as Mr. deserve a common end. If the Valera does, of the Free State rish Free State leaves the Em- boing in danger of aggression; pire, it will be of its own choos is so much sheer nonsense. The ing. But we imagine that even whole structure of the British Mr. de Valera will-hesitate be Commonwealth reata on mutual fore taking a stop which, he willingness amongst its commust know, would be equivalent ponent parta to maintain their to giving up the bone for the free association. No unit is kept shadow.
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the State, which exercises the unf "Add a teaspoontul of olive oil fying control "In short," says Mr. à drop at a time!" yelled the Again, disciplina (not to bo Munro, "team-work on a national wireless. adequately rendered by our "dis scale,"
"You know, Bertha,' I don't mention it often, but I was pretty....
·Jucky to "get you.”
"South China have just been awarded a ponalty, and don't forget that Hongkong Beer is the best."
It was then that wo began to think that there was something wrong with the wireless. Hastily throwing a sheet over our grand- father we went and examined It. Our gridleaker was short-circuited with the revolving gaffle plate, thun diaconnecting the directional gibbler, causing the gyratory snugging flap to fuse. We switch- ed the thing off and went back to our grandfather, who was pacing" up and down the room in a great
rage.
There he was, covered with: grated cheese and breadcrumbs, wringing the lemon juice out of his whiskers.
"What the devil am I going to do with this?” he shouted, holding out his appendix.,
"Lotus stitch you up befora something else falls out," we said. "Bo, damned to you." bellowed our. grandfather. "Gimmo safety pin."
Well, we won't weary you with all the details, but the old gentle man recovered and now goe8 every. day on his tricycle to meet the Star Forry. How awfully Jolly! You, and what's more, he wears his appendix as a watch fob You don't tell usiYes.
Excuse us, wo, amell something burning.
TIPPED
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