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NOTES OF THE DAY THE POLITICAL

TARIFFS

The foreign trade polletes of most of the great Powers have been for some months now curiously and manifestly irrational. The inter- national atmosphere is favored, dis- torted and singularly unreal. We have seon Ruch inexplicable acts na denunciations of the whole opera-

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By A. J. CUMMINGS

The Very Idea!

HAINI RAIN: RAIN!

By Eddie "Jupiter" Kelly AST Friday while

were but walking in

T is the Cabinet's considered its approach to men and women the rain-But perhaps we

view that the Administration under thirty.

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had better make ourself can, if necessary, run the full five Can any of the existing parties tions of the London Economie Con-years' course. Its present inten- hope to accomplish the feat? I clear. ference, President Roosevelt's rul- tion is to postpone a General am told that some intelligent Con To many of our younger Overhauled. Repainted.

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Into this setting, there with me either in person or in shirt and a thumbs-up saluto. | fashioned rhymes about it, such BUICK TOURER -.

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realisation of reciprocity in trade the man who thoughtfully showed in its methods, has not realised it in songs. But, if they've lived me an official document instructing the menace of a new movement in Hongkong during the past loyal Blackshirts how to conduct of this kind or its own ime six months, they can't really Daily Mail in praise of Lord possibilities for disciplined action. know anything about it.

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Unofficially, however, their praise is not unqualified. They would, not, I gathered, look askance at a handsome contribution to the par- ty fund from his lordship-in fact, discovered among my "contacts" argent individual need of funds-but they are suspicious of his motives.

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Rain is drops of water descend- ing from the sky. It is canned by people having rheumatics.

The most-favoured nation clauso

I wonder how many prominent was Invented in a predominantly

Liberals have ever given more Free Trade world, and it was a very

than a passing thought to the

The sun dries up the water in. Stubbs Road, useful device for ensuring that the

notion that it might be a good benefit arising out of any reduc-

thing to scrap all ancient chariots our reservoirs, and turns it into tions of tariffs. should be spread

for the conveyance of Radical clouds. This goes to show how without discrimination across the

ideas to untutored minds and to wonderful nature really is, bo- invent Д now 500-horse-power cause if this didn't happen, what trading world. It is, indeed, an

machine. Every party in the would our Government do about, essential part of the Free Trade

State, new or old, lacks the vitalls-

water restrictions, Ing touch of personal leadership, armoury, and if ever there were a

They fear that his real purpose with the possible exception of world-wide movement is reduce is to emasculate the Blackshirt the Fascists themselves. And the tariffs the M.F.N. einuse. would movement by transforming it into larger parties seem to have

a respectable wing of the Tory the art of mobilising and vitalis. again become a very valuable in- strument for freeing trade from Party; and they are particularly ing raw, opinion.

angry at his suggestion that Brit- its encumbrances. For this rea-ish Fascism is not anti-Semitic. son many people cling to it and

Hongkong Telegraph.

TUESDAY, FERUARY 27, 1934.

UNITED STATES AND

MANCHUKUO.

blind themselves to its defects.

But in the present world such an

attitude is no more sensible than that of those Free Traders who so help in "rationalising" the tariffs detest all tariffs that they will not that do exist

SELF-SUFFICIENCY

In a world in which idens of self- sufficiency are playing, and are

lost

The more I see of political election campaigns the more I am repelled by the utter deadneen of the party machines and "plat and by the complete absence of ingenuity or imagina- tion in applying an emotional or

forma,"

A day or two ago I was discus- sing with a well-known English Liberal the question whether there is anything to be learnt from the the Continent in the way of ser- over-akirted brigades here and on intellectual stimulus to a vast

vice, discipline, loyalty to an idea and to leadership and insistence upon "action."

Of course there is something to be learnt: ne the Prime Ministeri might say nothing exists from which nothing is to be learnt.

the Fascist conception is a purely I am confident that historically transient phase of civilised society, born of the abnormal confusion, discontent and unemployment the time. Its, view of the social State is too crude and too narrow to survive and it is too dependent upon the driving force of a single personality. It is a backward step, little removed from a medinaval tyranny, In

Hints that the United States may reconsider the question of the recognition of Manchukuo continue to filter through from various sources, though at the moment they do not appear to rest on solid grounds.. The story that rumours along these lines have led to the British Em-likely to play, a large part, and in bassy in Washington being which some degree of regulation structed to investigate the mat-of all economie activities bids fale ter is officially denied. Yet to be an enduring feature, the wise in some quarters significance course is to work for the maximum may be attached to the fact that or not that involves compromising possible amount of trade, whether White House has not seen fit to with the pure dogma of Cobden. issue any denial of the possibili. And in fact the M.F.N. clause ty of the recognition issue being nowadays helps to keen tariffs 11.

In several ways.. does this reviewed afresh. President the first place, many countries, such Roosevelt's silence, when asked as the United States, refuse to make concessions in their tariffs to by newspapermen how the anyone as they know they will reap United States would view ro the benefit of any concessions cognition of Munchakuo-by-an- which other nations make. If let other Power, has been a factor in Us say, France and Germany make 4 bargain, each reducing some encouraging the view that some duties, Amerien automatically bene- change of attitude may shortly its from both sets of reductions.

are, There is, consequently, no incentivo be demonstrated. The disin to the United Statea to lower her clination to give a direct answer own tariffs, which remath so high is somewhat puzzling, since as to be a serious impediment to hitherto the United States has

It

trude.

not been in the least degree ambiguous in its attitude. The INSISTING ON RIGHTS Stimson doctrine, that America

defensive

cléctorate.

On the account, at any rate, I say "Hats off to the hunger marchers and the boys of the Empire Crusade.

Dr. Freeth, the chief research

service by stating in public that chemist of Imperial Chemical In- dustries, has done an important "more nonsense has been talked. about polson gas than about any other subject."

Anyway, these clouds go- safling along until they bump into the Peak and burst, the contents fall- ing down on our bowling green, best frocks, plenics and week-onds in the form of moisture. :

In the good old days, we often used to have rain in Hongkong, but the people on the Peak pro- tested about it, so it was removed. They are sorry now, becAUSE they are all wet anyway,

We don't intend to say more on this subject. We never did caro for water, and besides, there's such a thing as professional etiquette.

What would Mr. Jeffrica say?

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A MONSTER DISCOVERY I am informed by those who mix. with the titled aristocracy of There is nothing in human ex- perience or in present knowledge Britain that the Identity of the the next war will be won in the established, and that those who to justify ignorant predictions that Loch Ness monster has now been air" or that the populations of are waiting anxiously round the great cities can be blotted out in shores of the lock for a four-toed for more disciplined action and a day by hostile aeroplanes laden serpent to appear may now come greator corporate service from. Its it now a good deal at citizens because successful State

But I am equally confident that the State of the future will call

I know a good deal at first hand home and enjoy the winter by of the limitations as well as the their own firesides, says Nathaniel

leading chemist told me

planning will be impossible with-horrors of mustard gue. Not long Gubbins...... out either.

The Loch Ness monster is none

He came back to London, and wrote a few whimsical paragraphs about the monster, pretending, of course, that the monster and film- self were two different reptiles.

Of the so-called "loyaltica" of ago a the Fascist and Nazi organies that the hints of a new mysteri- then I am deeply sceptical. They ous and still more horrible mill- other than my old friend, and col lego chum, Lord ("Fine Old I think, for many reasons tary gas are a aheer invention. brittle in the extreme.

All weapons of warfare are Fruity") Castlerosse, sometimes. horrible and all war is horrible. called the "Captive Balloon" and The aeroplane-cum-poison Kas sometimes called "Peter Pan, the But their propaganda methods propaganda is just a devilish de Boy Who Wouldn't Blow Up." are deserving of careful study. vice to frighten nations into bulld-

It appears that he was in Scot- At a time when Mass Ideas about j ing vast aerial armies."

land last February, and made politics and economics are in the The fear is based on a sinister several appearances in the vicinity melting pot, the party or group and dangerous flusion. In time of Loch Ness, frightening the which is able first to canalise & of war we should discover this gillies and giving the children could not recognise any change Moreover, since any concessions į particular set' of ideas in a clear with 2. vengeance if we had nightmares. in the sovereignty of any terri-n the form of lower duties have to and attractive form will start scrapped our Nayy in the puerile be extended by the giver of the con- with the enormous advantage belief that the war would be won tory seized by force, was concession to, and shared by the re-over other groups and parties' In in the air. sidered to have special reference ceiver of the concession with, every to the case of Manchukuo, and other nation, they are harder to give and less worth receiving. it has been endorsed by Mr. Consequently there are fever con- Cordell Hull. No. circumstance ccasions. Thirdly some nations are prepared to enter into agree- has since arisen that would apments to lower all their tariffs on pear to warrant any departure each other's goods. Belgium and from this principle. Undoubted-willingness to do this in the so- Holland have announced their ly there are forces at work sim called Convention of Ouchy. But ing at an improvement in rela-neither count tarif on the goods tions between America and the whole of fis Japan. These are to be heartily since Great Britale and other coun- countries. Consequently, welcomed. Japan would 'doubt tries refuse to abandon their rights less very much like the Manchu, under the M.F.N. clause, the Ouchy kuo issue to be included in any Convention cannot come into force movement towards a rapproche-and the tariff wall between Belgium ment, in which connexion the and Holland' must remain.

rather najve plea put forward

of all

can afford to lower

by Prince Tokugawa in New CROP OF WARS York on behalf of Mr. Pu' Yi, together with his assurance that

In there ways the M.F.N. clause

there will be no question of the is preventing tariff reductions. In new dynasty attempting to ab-the circumstances, to cling to it sorb China, is to be noted. Rend- because if there were any reduc ing between the lines, it is clear tlons they would apply to the trade that Japan is seeking to persuade of the whole world, is merely America to a leas obdurate frame stupid. On the other

hand, the of mind than she has hitherto clause har in the past served as a displayed on the recognition valuable safeguard against trade discrimination. It la true that Issue. It will, however, be aur nations are more and more prising if the United States de-

gotting round It by means of quota-the parts from a policy which finds current dispute with France arose auch general acceptance amongst out of just such discrimination.in other countries. The affront to the form ofquotas as would be pre- Chinese susceptibilities would be vented in the form of tarifs by to strong, but, of even greater the M.F.N. clause. Eut merely aignificance would be the basic abolish the clause without putting anything in its place would only change implied in America's open the door to unlimited din regard for the rights of smaller crimination and a crop of tariff nations.

Wars,

"What do they want with such a big car, anyway

Unfortunately for him, the toe marks found on the shores of the lake are identical with those found in an exclusive London club fre- quented by "Fine Old Fruity."

They were traced to the bar and back no fewer than fifty-three times, and a big game hunter, who is a member of the club, esti- mates that the monster must have had a pretty good time.

More, about The Monster next week.

LENT

Why didn't someone remind us. that last Tuesday was shroff 'Tues-' day?

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