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FEBRUARY 27,

NOTES OF THE DAY THE POLITICAL The Very Idea!

TARIFFS

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RAIN RAIN! RAIN!

By Eddie Jupiter" 'Kelly

AST Friday while we

were out walking in

To many of our younger readers the word rain will convey little or nothing.

The foreign trade policies of most of the great Fowers have been for some months new curiously, and manifestly Irrational. The Inter- national atmosphere is fovered, dia-

TT In the Cabinet's considered its approach to men and women the rain- But perhaps we torted and singularly unreal. We

I'vlow that the Administration under thirty. have seen such inexplicable acts as

had better make ourself Can any of the existing parties denunciations of the whole opera cau, if necessary, run the full five

clear. tions of the London Economie Con-years' course. Its present inton-hopo to necomplish the feat? I ference, President Roosevelt's rul-tion is to postpone a General am told that some Intelligent Con- ing-out of commercial subjects at Election to the last possible mo-servatives are in fact trying to the Montevideo conference, and mont. Britain's trade war with France.. These things, and a thousand other even less rational ones, almost per- euada international commentators that all of us must be slightly in Into this netting, there comes a very strong agitation, in Britain against the perpetuation of the most-favoured nation clause, on the ground that it prevents. the $750 realisation of reciprocity in trade

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Staco 1 last wrote about the Blackshirts, some of these furtiva young fellows have got into touch with me either in person or in writing.

devise a new political formula and to work out a scheme for an Im aginative appeal to the younger generations. This scheme le not They may have met it in

scout uniform or a spectacular they may have recited old- key to take the form of a boy books or seen pictures of it, shirt and a thumbs-up salute, fashioned rhymes about it, auch But it may mean a properly reas Rain, rain, go away, 'tis my In one way or another I was ximented organisation in the mother's washing day", and impressed with all of them, but colourful mode of the day. only in a favourable senge with

Labour, painfully conservative

they may have even sung about 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 er ite own immense six months, they can't really their correspondence with the possiblities for disciplined action. know anything about it. Daily Mail in praise of Lord Rothermere.

Rain is drops of pynter descond- ing from the sky. It is caused: by people having rheumatica..........

I wonder how many prominent The most-favoured nation clauso

Liberale have ever given more was invented in a predominantly Unofficially, however, their praise than a passing thought to the Free Trade world, and it was a very is not unqualified. They would notion that it might be a good

The sun dries up the water in Stubbs Road. useful device for ensuring that the not, I gathered, look askance at

our reservoirs, and turns it Info thing to scrap all ancient chariots benefit arising out of any reduc-handsome contribution to the par for the conveyance of Radical clouds. This goes to show how. tions of tariffs. aliould be spread ty fund from his lordahlp-in fact, ideas to untutored minds and to wonderful naturo really is, be- without discrimination across the I discovered among my "contacts"

new 500-horse-power cause if this didn't happen, what an urgent individual need of invent a

the would our Government do about trading world. It is, indeed, an

funds-but they are suspicious of machine. Every party in

State, new or old, lacks the vitallswater restrictions.and essential part of the Free Trude his motives.

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 to reduce is to emasculate the Blackshirt the Fascists themselves. And the tariffs the M.F.N. clause would movement by transforming it into larger parties seem to have lost again become a very valuable in-respectable wing of the Tory the art of mobilising and vitalis atrument for freeing trade from Party; and they are particularly ing raw opinion.

angry at his suggestion that Brit- The more. I seo of political its encumbrances. For this rea-ish Fasclam is not anti-Semitic. son many people cling to it and blind themselves to its defects. But in the present world such an attitude is no more sensible than that of those Free Traders who detest all turiffs that they will not

Essic Ackland Hongkong Telegraph.

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1934,

UNITED STATES AND

help in "rationalising" the tariffs that do exist

SELF-SUFFICIENCY

(Film "Aunt Sally") Ray Noble's Orchestra may be attached to the fact that possible amount of trade, whether

Chater Road,

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election campaigns, the more I am repelled by the utter deadness of

vast

Anyway, these clouds go sailing along until they bump into the Peak and burat, the contents fall- Ing down on our bowling green, best frocks, picnics and week-onda in the form of moisture.

In the good old days, we often

but the people on the Peak pro: used to have rain in Hongkong, tested about it, so it was removed.

A day or two ago I was discus-the party machines and "plat- absence of Ingenuity or imagina- sing, with a well-known English forme," and by the complete Liberal the question whether there is anything to be learnt from the tion in applying an emotional of

electorate.

They are sorry now, because over-shirted brigades here and on intellectual stimulus to a

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

the Continent in the way of sor- vice, discipline, loyalty to an idea and to leadership and insistence upon "action."

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defensive

Dr. Freeth, the chief research

We don't intend to say more on this subject. We never did care. for water, and besides, there's auch Д thing a professional

What would Mr, Jeffrica any?

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

A MONSTER DISCOVERY I am informed by those who mix with the titled aristocracy of Britain that the identity of the

Whispor and. I shall hoar (Piccolomini) I'll be Faithful (Washington & Wrubel)

Derickson and Brown By a Waterfall (FilmFootlight Parado")

Darickson and Brown B-8090 Turn back the Clock (Parish_& Porkins)"

Ramona & Her Grand Piano

MANCHUKUO Ah, the Moon is hero (FilmFootlight Parado")'

Ramona & Her Grand Piano

Hints that the United States Excuse me (Day & Gibbons)

Frances Day may reconsider the question of Did you ever see a dream walking?

the recognition of Manchukuo (Film "Sitting Pretty" Frances Day continue to filter through from B-8097 The First thing I know--Plano

Rale Da Costa various sources, though at the

Of course there is something to Did you over sco a dream walking ?

moment they do not appear to

be learnt: as the Prime Minister (Film--"Sitting Protty") Raie Da Costa rest on solid grounds. The

might say, nothing exists from In a world in which ideas of self-which nothing is to be learnt. 8-6442 Hoavon only knows-Foxtrot, Don Bestor & His Orchestra story that rumours along these

sufficiency are playing, and ure I am confident that historically That's me without you-Foxtrot

lines have led to the British Em-likely to play, a large part, and in the Fascist conception is a purely Don Bestor & His Orchestra bassy in Washington being in which some degree of regulation transient phase of civilised society. On a Steamer coming over-Foxtrot

structed to investigate the rat of all economic activities bids fair born of the abnormal confusion, discontent and unemployment of Ray Noble's Orchestra|ter is officially denied. Yet to be an enduring feature, the wise the time. Its view of the social You ought to soo Sally on Sunday---F. T.

in some quarters significance course is to work for the maximum State is too crude and too narrow. to survive and it is too dependent

There is nothing in human ex- For not that involves compromising Ray Noble's Orchestra White House has not seen fit to with the pure dogma of Cobden. upon the driving force of a single perience or in present knowledge Close your eyes-Foxtrot Did you ever see a dream walking ?--F. T.

issue any denial of the possibili-And in fact the M.F.N. clause personality. It is

backward step, little removed from to justify ignorant predictions that Loch Ness monster has now been the next war will be won "in the catablished, and that those who nowadays helps to keep tariffs up. (Film "Sitting Pretty") Ray Noble's Orchestra ty of the recognition issue being it does this in several ways.

n mediaeval tyranny. in

But I am equally confident that air" or that the populations of are waiting anxiously round the reviewed afresh. President the first place, many countries, anch the State of the future will call great cities can be blotted out in cheres of the loch for a four-toed Ask for a complete list-All prices reduced.

Roosevelt's silence, when asked as the United States, refuse to

make concessiors in their tariffs to for more disciplined action and day by hostile aeroplanes lader serpent to appear may now come by.

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I know a good deal at first hand home and enjoy the winter by anyone as they know they will reap greater corporate service from its With poison gas bombs. United States would view ro the benefit of any concessions citizens because successful State

i horrors of mustard gas.. Not long Gubbins. cognition of Manchukuo by an-which other nations make. If, let planning will be impossible with- of the limitations as well as the their own firealder, saya Nathaniel Of the so-called "loyaltles" of ago a leading chemist told me The Loch Ness monster is done. other Power, has been a factor in us say, France and Germeny make out either,

a bargain, each reducing some tho. Fascist and Nazi organisa- that the hints of new mysterf- encouraging the view that some dutles, America automatically bene-tions I am deeply sceptical. They ous and still more horrible mill other than my old friend and col lege chum, Lord (Fine Old change of attitude may shortly fita from both sets of reductions.

There is, consequently, no incentive are, I think, for many reasons tary gas are a sheer invention.

All weapons of warfare are Fruity") Castleroase, sometimos be demonstrated. The disinto the United States to lower her brittle in the extreme..

horrible and all war is horrible. called the "Captive Balloon" and The elination to give a direct answer own tariffs, which remain so high

neroplane-cum-poison gas sometimes called "Peter Pan, the But their propaganda methods propaganda la just a devilish, de- Boy Who Wouldn't Blow Up."

vice to frighten nations into build-It appears that he was in Scot- are deserving of careful study,

At a time when Mass ideas-about 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 illusion. In time of Loch Ness, frightening the. which la able firat to canalise a of war we should discover this gillies and giving the children

vengeance If we had nightmares, Moreover, since any concessions particular set of ideas in a clear with in the sovereignty of any terri-in the form of lower duties have to and attractive form will start scrapped our Navy in the puerlic be extended by the giver of the con with the enormous advantago belief that the war would be won tory scized by force, was concession to, and shared by the reover other groups nad parties in in the air. sidered to have special reference celver of the cozcasalon with, every to the case of Manchukuo, and other nation, they are harder to give and leas worth receiving. it has been endorsed by Mr. Consequently there are, fower con- nations Cordell Hull. No circumstanco cessions. Thirdly some

are prepared to enter into ugree- has since arisen that would apments to lower all their tariffs on pear to warrant any departure each other's goods. Belgium and have announced their from this principle. Undoubted-Holland

willingness to do this in the so- ly there are forces at work alm-called Convention of Ouchy. But ing at an improvement in rela- neither country can afford to lower. tions between America and the whole of its tariff on the goods of all countrics. Consequently, Japan. These are to be heartily since Great Britain and other coun 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 naive plea put forward

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trade. hitherto the United States has

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

by Prince Tokugawa in New CROP OF WARS York on behalf of Mr. Pu' Yi,

together with his assurance that In these ways the M.F.N. clauso there will be no question of the is proventing tariff reductions. In now dynasty attempting to ab the circumstances, to cling to it sorb China, is to be noted. Read- because if there were any reduc- ing between the lines, it is clear tions they would apply to the trade that Japan is seeking to persuade of the whole world, is morely. America to a less obdurate frame stupid. On the other hand, the of mind than she has hitherto clause has in the phot sarved ne

valuable safeguard against trade displayed on the recognition

discrimination. It is true that issue. It will, however, be sure nations are more and more getting, prising if the United States de- round it by means of

quote the parta from a policy which finds current dispute with France arose In Buch general acceptance amongst out of just such discrimination other countries. The effront to the form of quotas as would be pre Chinese susceptibilities would be vented In the form of tariffs by strong, but, of even greater the M.F.N. clause. But merely to abolish the clause without putting. significance would be the basic anything in its place would only change implied in America's open the door to unlimited dis regard for the rights of smaller crimination and a crop of tariff nations.

wars.

What do they want with such

big.

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

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, eşti- mates that the monster must have had a pretty good time.

More about The Monster next weck.

LENT

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

day?

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