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NOTES OF THE DAY THE PERILS OF FASCISM- The Very Idea!

BUDGET HINTS

Without giving away any secrets, Mr. Noville Chamberlain, has plain- ly indicated the trend of his new Budget. There are to be no drama- ties and no bids for popularity. The Imperialiat section of the Tory Party, kept in check so long by financial stringency, are to be pro- vided with a fow plums in the form of increased votes for the fighting services. If there is any thing left over after they have had their pick, there may be a chanco for the taxpayer.

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IF YOUTH BUT KNEW.

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By ROBERT BERNAYS, M.P.

there were ten million young men less in the world to be disciplined,

UNHAPPY VALLEY.

By Eddie "Horsefeathers, Kelly

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[UST about this time of the year everyone's thoughts turn to the races.

In fact, every day this week will be race daze.

in a new cry for a die- tatorship in Great Britain, wish that those who sponsor it had] seon what I have seen in countries

A FOLICY FOR BRITAIN, which already possoas a dictator- "Work, not the dolo," is the cry ship the extinction of freedom of of the British Fascists. So it do speech, the deprivation of the in every party. But what steps You might think that we right of public meeting, imprison would the Fascists take to provide know very little about horse- ment without trial, and the mal- employment? I knew some of the

Nevertheless treatment of opponents with com- methods elsewhere or has racing. plete Impunity.

obtained half a million jobs to are one of the very few At least in Germany and Italy distribute among his followers by people in Hongkong who i had some excuse. Italy had wholesale dismissal of Jewe and suffered from a succession of weak the sons and grandsons of Jews, have had a really successful Governments. In Germany the He has conscripted a civilian army career on the turf. Parliamentary system had been and paid them a conscript wage, brought into ridicule by the fact and then boasted of the decline in for fifty cents each way with In 1932 we backed a horse. that, in spite of repeated elections, the unemployment figures.

no party could obtain a working majority.

would

we

"The end of flabbiness"! "The three runners, and it won at Where is the justification for strong hand, in India" ahrfck the three to one on. We im- the overthrow of Parliament here? headlines of the Fascist Press. I There may Le room for amendment any conception of what an attempt nings and retired.

wonder if the average Fascist has mediately invested our win- in the methods of Parliamentary procedure, but there is nothing to hold India' against her will

menn. Between Bombay Happy Valley, just across from Races in Hongkong are held at wrong with the system. Under it and the perilous North-West

the cemetery. This is the place with greater speed and greater Frontier, where the bulk of our where all the "dead 'ung" conte success than any other country the worst economic blizzard 'the world menace of invasion, there are three from. has ever had to face.

thousand miles of communication The first race was held in to be protected. It is safe to leave Hongkong in 1846, and a lot of The Fascists afirm that the

Great Britain has come through

army are stationed to meet the

The prospect is not inspiring. It conforms to the atodgy un- Imaginative methods typical of the present Government since their Drst grand abandonment of the gold standard. Financial stability has been achieved, the trade cycle has nasumed an upward trend, now it is the turn of the "starved" Ser vices. And that is all there is to it. The opportunity to stimulate trade recovery by a reduction in the income tax is to be sacrificed to Militarism. Starved workers must wait upon "starved" defences, trade recovery upon Security. Grumbles would be fewer were there any algn of imagination in this particular sphere, but Mr. Chamberlain's scorn of the aeroplane compared Parliamentary system has delayed those lines now almost unguarded money was placed on the with a cruiser sinks hopes in that action. Where is the ovidence? Because the great majority of the favourite, which

came in in direction. Shipping is to be pre-Opponents of the National Govern-Indian population nequicate in the 1847 and was promptly dis tected in the Seven Sens even if it ment might argue that it has acted real self-government is in their qualified for being over age.

present system. They believe that is sunk by aerial bombardment on wrongly, but they cannot contend arrival in the Channel. There is

Happy Valley is about 11⁄2 miles grasp. that it has not acted. In the short going to be a strenuous fight

Destroy that belief; bankrupt from the city going out and about around the Chancellor's next Bud-space of two years there has been

a fiscal revolution, complete that good-will; rely on the naked 6 miles coming back, if you have to

Com-walk after the last race. get before it passes through the change-over from Free Trade to power of force and the Commons

Soldiers and sailors take a lot of, Protection. The national finances mander-in-Chief could no longer have been rescued from in be responsible for the defence of interest in racing in Hongkong and OMINOUS REPORTS

solvency, a slum clearance scheme Ingin without heavy reinforce many naval officers own horzen. There is something rather omin- has been launched, the balance of ments and crushing new taxation. When they win it is, of course, a

we should have to agriculture and industry in the In addition ous about the reports of graft and national life in being radically employ those methods of barbar- Other people who take interest in double-dealing in the operations altered. Not once has the execu-am that are inevitably under a racing in Hongkong are His Ex- In the United States of the Civilive asked for emergency powers military dictatorship.

cellency the Governor, members of Works Administration. They have which the Legislature haa not I can well understand the at- the Legislative Council and the been widespread enough to cause granted. How could a.dictator-tractions of Fascism to a certain pari-mutuel. MOR.Hannosuke Mori, manager Department of Justice officials to

type of youth-the appeal of the

Judging by of the Yokohama Specie Bank, investigate, and the story they tell ship have helped in any way?

smart uniform, the semi-military dividends, the parl-mutuel

Bome of the takes Hongkong, from pneumonfa, at is not exactly a pretty one. Public

discipline, the thrill of adventure, the largest interest of all-about the Majima Hospital, on Satur-officials th some localities have put

the sense of comradeship, the 50 per cent, we would any, What dictatorship has in fact

We day, February 24.

themselves on the CWA payrolls; in

done as much, as our own much devotion to a cause outside mero have never discovered why it in other they have connived at a squeeze whereby men employed abused Parliamentary system? On self-interest. Many of these are called a mutuel, unless it's because

wholesome instincts, Outlet can under the CWA schemes had to the parade grounds of Germany be found for them in a thousand we give and it takes..

they celebrate every Sunday the ways in the various organisations during race week in Hongkong. Strange things have happened surrender part of their others they have given jobs precise- re-birth of a nation. What they of political, social, and indeed, Firo years ago Robert MacWhirter

not yet produced is a plant the re-start its industries. They have defence of the State.

Ness Monster would win. Το In work of that kind they can everybody's surpries it didn't, there suppressed the Reichstag, but they have not achieved recovery.

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THE COST OF HITLER.

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It is by

case of the race to the fleet.

It is also a strange coincidence that in Hongkong, no horse has yet the Derby, the Cup, the

won

| Griffen's Plate, the Attaboy Shield, the Travessa Trophy and the Cricket Interport in the same year.

porters at ludicrously high rates of pay. Part of the scandal is due to lacal political conditions, and

The only wheels of industry that part may be due to the federal ad- ministration's fallure to proceed Chancellor Hitler has set going sharply enough against the spoils are the armament factories. Could system. There still are too many anything be worse than the situa

WHAT DO THEY MEAN? · men who see in government jobs tion that the bullying and bluster- Very definite dislike of the only a new opportunity to rewarding of Berlin has created? Denmark,

What do the Fascista mean few years ago gave a practi efforts being made to raise the

deserving party workers.

cal lesson in disarmament by dis- when they talk of discipline? price of silver was expressed in

banding half her army, Is fitting out They do, not stop short at dis-

Probably this is because Hong- the Chairman's speech at the an-

her citizens with gas masks.ciplining themselves; they are kong horses are usually so badly Belgium is rebuilding her dis-out to discipline their neighbours. educated, It will probably surprise nua meeting of the Hongkong

But, whatever the cause, the net mantled forts; Switzerland, the The whole community is to and Shanghai Banking Corpora- effect is to raise grave doubts about least

be most of our readers to hear that pugnacious country in placed in a strait-waistcoat of Trentbridge, last year's Derby tion. It is, indeed, clear that the working-out of the vast pro Europe, ia incurring heavy in-their own construction. the Bank looks with disfavour on grammes now being put into effect creased iabilities in her armament They affirm the need of what they winner, can neither read nor write. What with admission charges of currency experiments of any at Washington. No-one yet knows expenditure; Austria has been call the Corporate State. kind, a circumstance which pos- how far some of these programmes brought to the verge of civil war the methods of the class war that $4.40, the Race Club is faced with sibly explains the rather sur are going to go or how long they are by the activities of the Nazis. they pursue it. They divide the the serious problem of stopping prising-disposition-adversely-to going to last. Many people are Great Britain herself may be asked country into those who believe in Kate crashers this year. The favourite-trickia-for-the-gute convinced that some, at least, of in the estimates this spring to their policy and those who do not crasher to announce himself as the pre-judge the Roosevelt mone-the loosevelt projects are pro- undertake fresh burdens in her air and woe botide those who are Aga Khan, His Ex, the Governor, tury policy before it has had a foundly unwise and ought to and expenditure. Everywhere there on the wrong side of the gulf.

or Slr Edward Kelly

Thomas fuir chance of justifying itself. will eventually be abandoned. But are new fears and suspicions and I saw the other day in the King's

Southorn. The view was expressed that however opinion may run in those hatreds.

Road, Chelsea, a forry load of

Owing to the present financial › governmental action aimed at respecta, one thing is obvious: "Discipline," prate the Fascists, Fascists. They were in uniform bringing about an artificial rise Since the country is more or less that is what the youth of the and the lorry was equipped as if situation, we have regretfully de-

world needs.". I am in silver prices is likely to do tensión of activity by the govern | enough to remember the days and all the paraphernalia of first- Valley racecourse this year. If,

committed to a trial, of a vast ex-

just old by the Red Cross with stretchers cided that we will not visit Happy more harm than good to China. ment, that trial ought to be na before the catastrophe of 1914. aid appliances. They were setting however, the pari-mutuel is pre- That, however, is a point on business-like and straightforward That is what the same kind of men off for a meeting in the East End.pared to lay the odds to empty beer. which there is room for consideras is humanly possible. If it fails, were saying then. "National sur- Why the uniforms and why the bottles, our shirt, trousers, buttons able divergence of viewpoint, it ought to fail because of its own vice-uniforms -- obedience” —–—

and sew on, we might reconsider ambulance? The answer is simple,

our decision. True, China's export trade would inherent contradictions and not be those were the remedies that were They conceive themselves

being advocated than as a solution army and the platform as their be adversely affected by, any cause of political ineptitudo, marked rise in the price of the

of our national ills. By the time battle ground, and where there is white metal, but there are other

they had finished being applied (Continued on Next Columna.) factors which suggest that what is lost in one direction might be What the Americans are getting made up in

another. First now is a discomforting hint that and foremost, rise in

their political machinery is not the value of silver would tremend robust enough to carry the loud. If ugly graft, favouritism, self- ously lighten the burden of seeking and plain, everyday in- China's loan obligations. It efficiency cannot be kept out of the would also enhance her pur- operation of these projects, they chasing power in respect of com-have small chance of succeeding. modities which she has to No chain is any stronger than its import. Finally, if the view is weakest link. It is beginning to correct that a rise in silver prices politics is the weak link in the look as if the ordinary variety of would represent a contribution chain upon which the administra towards eventual world trade tion's experiments are pulling. If improvement, China, like all that link gives way, the export- other countries, would share in merta are vory apt to collapse. the beneficial effects. There will Unkas, indeed, the United States. be general agreement that, from can root political selfishness, atu the standpoint of sound enon-pidity, and chicanery out of such activities as the Civil Works Ad- omics, all artificial measures ministration, President Roosevelt's thether tariffs, quotas or other plans will never be tested upon regulatory methods are bad. their merits. The ideal still is, and must be, unfettered operation of the laws

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of supply and demand. But we banker. But this uncertainty is are living under conditions in a temporary phase; it. will dis- which it is deemed necessary to appear when the nature of apply artificial measures for the America's action is disclosed. purpose of securing a rise in Thenceforth the position, so far commodity prices." - There would as speculative activity is con thus seem no more reason why corned, will be no worse than it silver should be excluded from now is. The whole issue bolls such measures than, say, rubber, down to the question of the tin, or tea. We can, well believe desirability or otherwise of seek- that the present uncertainty, due ing to bring about higher com- to the possibility of sudden ac-modity prices. If this is wise tion in regard to silver, may policy in prevailing conditions, make the position of the trader there seems no real reason why dmcult and may add materially silver should be specifically ex- to the burden of the exchange (cluded from the experiments.

"Is it because I'm not wealthy, Harriett?"

da an

Admittedly, there would be diff- culties if this form of barter was universally adopted. Mr. Thomson, the Secretary of the Dairy Farm, for instance, would have to calculate what a 10 per cent, dividend on two bottles of milk, one meat plo and a ham sandwich would come to.

fighting there will be wounds, The Fascists leave on their speak- ing campaigns a trail of smashed furniture and broken heads, They have introduced 'nto politics a ferocity that is un-British and in horribly dangerous,

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A DELIBERATE PLAN.

It

I believe it to be deliberate. was the tactics employed in Ger- many. The Nazis stung the Com munlats into retaliation. They created: the atmosphere of the class war, and then were able to come in as the saviours of Society from the civil strife that they themselves had stirred up.

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If a young Britisher responds to the meretricious appeals of Fas cism let him at least realise what ho la doing. He is enlisting in Вп attack on freedom in this country and every institution. which has made it morally great and economically powerful, and ho will be compelled to conduct it by methods that aro allen to every tradition of tolerance and fair play.

He thinks now that he has dis covered something that has all the excitement of war without any of its dangers. He will find that he has achieved both, and that the conflict will be made more horrible than any upon which he could possibly engage, for it will begin: among his own people,

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