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WAR-MONGERS

NOTES OF THE DAY

TRADE BAROMETER

Until a few years ago, who | bothered to read the monthly trade figures? Bankers, heads of big businesses, and a few politicians. Sometimes a leaderetto drew at tention to them in the morning papór, but usually they were buri

ed in an abscuro corner. flow different to-day! · Employed or unemployed, all watch for trade revival. The chance to save or extend business, a rise in salary or wage, an opening for boy or girl, a rift in the cloud of black daily care-all these in millions of homes, high or humble, hang "on the health or disease of com-

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BRITISH AGREEMENTS

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THE TECHNIQUE OF TYRANNY

By J. A. SPENDER

HAVE been favoured in the last few months with much literature purporting to give the Communist case against the Nazis

Communists.

and the Nazis' case against the Ploughing my way through the recitals of frightfulness which each imputes to the other, I come broadly to the conclusion that both practised the same methods and that they borrowed freely from one another.

The Dictator's will must be law, and he must be invested - with semi-divine attributes.

The Very Idea!

CANTON MORE FAR.

By Edward Kelly, Linguist, THE way some of these Chinese people in Hong- kong cannot understand His position requires that he good English is positively shall be considered as infallible in disgusting. the secular as the Pope is by the Everything must be put under his faithful in the religious sphere. foot-law, religion, freedom of the Fress, freedom of speech, even

freedom of talk.

and his position immediately be Lot any of these, forces looge,

comes precarious.

.

We give you an instance.

The other day we went in- to a Chinese compradore's shop to purchase six bottles- of cod liver oil to help us over the Christmas holiday.

Both had an elaborately thought out aystem of secret organisation and propaganda. Both hold that suppression of free-Parliaments, could not get him to understand the end justifies all means-the Nazis alleging that. Communiom is a free Press, and free organisa that we wanted to sign a chit

tion, but-what strikes even for this whisthe oil. so pestilential that the utmost deeper into the roots of a free ruthlessness is required to stamp society-a new conception of law

We argued with the Compra- This requires not merely thedore for over half an hour, but

bring the proletariat to power.

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merce. whose symptoms, the Agures record. In Britain for tunately, the symptoms indicate a very definite Improvement and it would be interesting if it could be it out, the Communists that the and justice. Government hence Wells Cantonese lessons over Anyway, we listened in to Mr. diacovered exactly, to what extont stats of society is so intolerable forth is by decree, and the idea of ZBW the other day, and since Government policy has been in that any methods are lawful to the citizen being able to appeal to thon have become proficient in the fluential. Recently the Washing-

the Courts to defend his liberties language. ・・ ton "Brain Trust" paid a high compliment to Great Britain.

or to protect himself from thờ In order to assist some of our There is no chivalry in their arbitrary acts of his rulers must less intelligent readers we have The best American brains appear

warfare. They work in darkness be banished from his mind. now to have accepted the vlow

compiled a vocabulary of the that only through bilateral agree- during their periods of propara- The first duty of the Courts is phrases they may be expected to ments, that is, agreements mada tlon and practise freely the to uphold the State. Hence the use in everyday conversation. hotween two countries working method of spying and counter-now conception of "political Besides, it given us a chance to anying upon their own supporters justice" to which the citizen must get our own back on the Editor, togother, can economic recovery

Grandiose

as well as upon their opponents. secured.

conform.

who doesn't know what we'vo sald national schemes are

The most difficult problem for to be sot

Under any Dictatorship, Mr.In the vernacular half of our aside. The world is to follow the both, as their movement spreads, Justice Macnaghten, requiring the interpretation. example of England.

Is to prevent its being betrayed by Home Secretary to produce a docu- the weaker brethren, especially ment in Court, would find himself the "idealista" who have joined in in a concentration camp before the sciences should not be asked by an impulsive moment, and whose day was out. An independent Inquisitive reaḍlora

rebels when they Judicature claiming to be superior the Chinese vocabulary that It is doubtful if our own people realise the methods which are to his will would be the ruin

follows. of realise the valus of the agreo- | being practised and the part which any Dictator, just as for free And, in conclusion, lot this be ments already made with Scan- they are expected to play.

States it is the chief bulwark of a lesson tó you. dinavia, Germany and the Argen-

iberty. tine. Few appreciate yet the For these the "black list" is cs- measure of their SUCCCAA a sential, and their names and photo- Having captured justice, it be- graphs are circulated to all branch comes supremely important for organisations with special instruc- the Dictator to control schools, tions to watch and track them. A universities and all forms of ving? Mei tui Nazi publication dwella apccially education, and, so far as they Come again at the end of the on the ingenuity of Communists in suggest Ideas which run counter dealing with these wavering to his scheme of life, art, science, month. Shau ngan yan chun people:

and even that disturbing, emotion- hai tan yim 收怨人真討厭 The method adopted fa to al thing, music. His suspicion of vilify the politically unrellable all these movements of the free Buzz off. Cho jung sing GUE member personally, to reproach spirit may help us to realise that Don't mind if I do. Ngoh cho ho him with some kind of swindle tho

phrase, "liberal or corruption and thus to education," has a deep, practical yce mok 我可以赚 create the impression among his

Maskee. Pai kur chuk E unsuspecting comrades that it in really a question of low

Dear Sir, Your account is now. creatures. detrimental to the Ideal Communist

we were

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to

The United States has had little

conscience

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common

meaning.

In the world of the Dictator a "liberal education" must go the way of other liberal institutions, Religion, too, is a moyement.

posalble

This refined method of employ. ing semi-official disparagement and denunciation is Indubitably

reproach, can hardly fall to aug gest that they, too, have practised this "refined" technique.

When finally the victory is won and a Dictatorship of one colour or another is established, there can be bo negotiated peace.

CANTONESE MADE EASY.

Who do you think you're sho-

M

Wei, nei yru pei chin KEME enemy, and that also must be Shroff. Kung tik tai yat -AR brought under control.

To the Dictator everything is

Having established himself, so

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schemes without any of the dis- turbing criticisms and reactions Not half; I don't think. Shiu which pursue even the most bone- kwok yat poon nguh mo ahe volent in a free society...

ahcung 小過一半我有思想 She was only a farmer's daughter.

economic policy. From the first days of the National Government It was recognised that recovery depended upon the reopening of overseas markets. Great Britain trades normally with all the world, It would be a sorry thing for but clearly we could not negotiate the Church if ail clergymen were

at once with everyone. A begin- of the same way of thinking as

ning was made with those coun- trics which in matters of currency the Rev. J. R. C. Forrest, Vicar and trading interests were most of Swanbourne, who recently closely allied to us. The Scandia- denounced pacifist utterances in sterling offered the best possi

avian countries working an address which might. well bilities. But if have come

from some retired,bargain we required a bargaining sabre-rattling .General.

weapon. If we wero to ask for Ger-concessions we must be prepared many, Russia and Japan were to give something in return. castigated by this reverend Whatever the value of Free Trade, gentleman, all being accused as the Fresident of the Board of and no-one rated it higher than

one of the most dangerous politics, and there is no neutral Cause of death is unknown. Kui nations with no scruples what-Trade, It prevented us from over

weapons used by Bolshevism in ground on which the citizen is the fight for power.

chung chau tuk ahi JEPUNJE ever,

free to pursue Ideas in common Strike me pink. Tak ngoh hau so long as they could offering a quid pro quo. Facing

The large number of accusations with other citizens. further their militaristic aims. and the results of the trade nego they came to power against op- realities we adopted a tariff policy of this kind made by Nazis since "Your children," remarked this tiations justify the course pursued. ponents or doubtfuls, whose char to speak, in a vacuum, the Dictator Whisky. Po shuí k militant parson, "will curse your articles have been lowered in acter was supposed to be beyond is now free to pursue his plans and Brandy. To chan Ki

Already duties upon dozens of memories and your blindness Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Argon when they are up against a tina, Finland, and icelander powerful country like Germany,” ther negotiations are being under- Fortunately, the Church doesTM

taken with a-similar-objective- not find much room within its · folds for people who indulge in GOLD BONDS such foolish and ill-considered talk. Apart altogether from to say concerning the House of this Vicar's incompetency to dis- Lord's decision that a British course on the policies of other entitled to be paid in gold. The holder of a foreign gold bond is nations, which are better left to most far-reaching innovation in those qualified to deal with the United States' monetary policy was matter, it is a sorry spectacle to undoubtedly the repudiation of the gold clause in its bonds-.e., pay- see a professing minister of the ing in a depreciated dollar, even is grim necessity.

This is no more arbitrariness, it Gospel of Peace and Goodwill where tho contract contains $ Next, the ordinary methods by urging his Hearers to prepare dollar, the standard of payment. ments being cut off, submission to clause making gold, and not the which men form political judg for war. Surely it is the duty When Britain "went off gold," we authority is the logical of the Church and its leaders to never did anything like that. sequence. espouse the cause of concord be- Holders of sterling obligations, of tween nations, not to endeavour course, suffered from the fall of sterling; but gold obligations wo to inflame publie feelings and to continued faithfully to pay in the encourage a spirit of distrust gold equivalent. And such has and suspicion. There are already all countries of repute. It has hitherto been the practice among enough agencies in the world been loft to the United States to working in this latter direction. deal by administrative act, and to If the horrors of war should ever confirm by a Bill before Congress, break out afresh, much of the a blow at the root of the whole system of international lending. responsibility will rest on those While American bank cellars are who talk of its inevitability and still bulging with gold, there is no who lose no opportunity of uncal necessity;" and it deprives the excuse whatevor for it but "politi- blushingly preaching militar- Middle West of the last shred of ism. Preparedness for reason-moral right to lecture Europeans

about debt defaulting. able expectations is one thing, but this business of scaring people with the bogey of some A COMFORTER imagined foo waiting to pounce

in use

on docile neighbours is quite an- Health for Belfast, who has been The Medical Superintendent of other. The surest guarantee | campaigning against "the article against future war is the crea known as a baby's comforter or tion of a healthy and well-in-dummy," will have all medical formed public opinion in all officers on his alde but most work- countries, in which the ChurchIng mothers against him. About should play its part. Scare "dummy nobody who has seen it tha soothing eTects of the utterances, whether in speech or in written word, are a disservico Unfortunately its deadly character can have two opiniona. to humanity. Past memories as a carrier of disenso germs and should induce in the minds of source of infant mortality, though men an attitudo opposed to war not less certain, is far less obvi- and all that it means. But there ously visible. At Belfast, as aro stůl those who seem to tako | probably elsewhere, it is found a delight in working on man's that 80 por cent, of the bables at elemental passions, arousing

Welfare Contres aro givon "dummies,"

persuasion dormant. These are the world's since all the recalcitrant mothers worst enemies, and it will be a have votes, that a Bill can bad day for humanity should carried to coerce them? Shades their Influence come to dominato of Mrs. Pankhurst and the Suffrage | world affairs...

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If he falls nothing must be said about it, and his opponents and critics may be put on trial for sabotage, and be lucky if they defeated; it must be kept down of us can never say whether the The opposition must not only be escape, with their lives. The rest and, having been driven under Dictators are failing or succeed- terranean methods, black-listing, know that they claim (as they ground, it has to be met by sub-ing with their plans. We only espionage, delation, etc. which must) to be succeeding. keep ordinary citizens in a state of apprehension.

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But since they have all their opponents and critics at their mercy and never let us know their casualties we are reduced to guessing.

I can imagine that the other con-Dictators are watching President;

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nover lot the children low you're not

collego man."

Kor-koh nuichi-t.... kus-ke young

Your charges are too high. Chak

chung 偃個女子于知柜暾洋息

haven't touched a drop. Kong to! KERIT

taai wah / 陽大陆 ·

Is my face red? Ngoh-ke min ho chi yam chau loi ma? Recre

·似做衝來樂

The wife. Ngohike too fung

我裏症、

The girl friend. Nioh-ke kwaan

FRAROS

My husband, Koh-koh laan yan

個個商人

Diary of a Worm

7.30 p.m.-After keeping gufity secret as long as possible worm boldly informs wife that he has been asked to spend New Year holiday with witty worm friend.

7.81 p.m.-Oh, so worm has do- cided to desert wife at last, has ho? Wife might have known that treacherous worm, after taking best years of her life, would leave wife in lurch. That is all wife. could expect from cunning, heart.. less worm. Perhaps worm would like to sell up home and kick wife out into streets before he gook. Wife quite willing to go bogging

selfish worm, enjoys. so long as exotic holidays. Wifo now so used to sacrificing herself, for worm's sake that sho' will be glad to pack worm's bag and give him back housekeeping money so that he can buy diamond necklace for hideous blonde who, by pure ac- cldont, of course, will no doubt bo at same place at samo time as sex- mad worth.NU

But if worm thinks he is devas- tating Clark Gable in ridiculous. plus-fourd and coloured shirt, he Is greatly mistaken. Shameless blondo morely wants diamond necklace, which rightly belongs to wife, and will probably blackmail worm, who will loan · job, go to prison, and end in guttor

7.40 pm-Worm rings up witty worm friend to put of planned holiday visit.