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LIBERTY AND LEADERSHIP

A Manifesto for the times signed by 145 persons pro- minent in Politics, the Church, the Universitics, Art and Science

THE SIGNATORIES:

Investigation of the events as80- clated with the Battle of. Boule- vards in Paris is accumulating the clearost evidence of coup d'etat conspiracies. France, for a time, was perilously near, losing her de- mocratic form of government, ro- ceiving a sharp lesson that will Bot Roon be forgotten. No-one can be sure of the part that different interesta played." It is

Lacelles Abercrombie, Vyryan Adama, M.V., Udoubtful if the whole truth will

A. V. Alexander, Lord Allen af Hurtwood, ever be

known. In the welter of

Bir Normas Angell, W. Amold-Forter, Fro X

fessor Ernest llerker, Canon F, H. Barry. The passionate controversy, such

Ble fail Blackett, Uhop, of Birmingha conflict

A. Darratt Brown, was marked by the personal con

Miss Margaret Dondfield. Hof M. Daladier and M. Chiappe, ac-

Jaha Huchan, XP., Edward Cadbury, Prbten curate assessment is impossible. A The accusations of both sides would undoubtedly be moderated LIF

If all the facta were ascertainable. The Echo de Paris accuses Daladier Radicals of an attempt on the Tucedny night to establish a the Left Wing Fascism, while. Radicals allege the war veterans and the Jeunesse Patriotes of hav

made a

a similar attempt on the Right. Both sides justify the active part they undoubtedly play- ed in the riots by claiming that drastic steps were Recessary foil the attempt of the other.

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DEATH.

the

to

provement of Parliamentary pro- cedure.

The Very Idea!

ISLE BE SEEING YOU ́ ́

NOW then, boys and girls,

all together.

No

What is Hongkong? No! We don't mean what you are going to say,

Hongkong is an Island. What is an island? An island is a piece of land surrounded by water..

what are: Good. Now

indus-

The alternative to these freely canvassed methods of violence and dictatorship is not, as some den. Mor G. 3. Cauln, Lord Ceell of Chalso pairingly Imagine, a supino resign. Kenseth Clarks (Directer of the Nations atlon to slow and timid measures Hongkong's chief Gallery), W. F. Crozier, W. U. Curry, Hur of advance, which have hitherto tries?

Dalton, Lord Blekinaon. The Archbishop of

York, Sir Arthur Eddington, St. Johs Ervine, been associated with the function.

We believe that

M. H. A. L. Fisher, Jasad Foot, M.P., Ming of democracy, there is an in-

Forster. Dr. Joan Mary Fry, Sir Henry Zadow, Bir Intel Hall, Cari Heath (ecretary

fessor

J. A. Basma Ham M.P.. Alextrled Spender, Wickham Blees, Provost ..tion. Birecter, Dame Byril Thorndike, II. M. Tomlin won, IL. C. Trevelyan, Italph Vaughan

and other.

a vital issue.

arc

mission.

•

and

the

wore

Well, we don't blame you for not answering that one.

So we'll tell you all about islands.

We just told the people that everything would be opposite to Hongkong, aud, my, oh my, the way they flocked to our island.

Yes, and we had another island

before that. We were wrecked on it. For four years we lived on raw sharks, which

we used to strangle with our bare hands, We had a heap of fuel on the beach waiting for a flash of lightning to set fire to it.

of Friends Bervice Cornell), A. L. Hobhouse, creasing number of mon

in this country of all John A. Hobson, Lord Storder, arab women Jovaman, Lord Howard of Penrith, Professor Jullen Hudley, Dr, Hewlett Johhaon (Dean of parties or of none, who would be Canterbury George Lansbury, M.P. 3. prepared to see the Parliamentary Lawson, f.r., Bie Walter T. Lasion, Ble

As a matter of fact children, Kenneth Lee, it. I. Lees-Smith, A. D. Lindsay machine used for swift and far- Master of Balliol). The Earl of Litovel, Ble reaching measures both of Inter-we had an island ourself once. Oliver Ledry, Harold Macmillan, MP national and economic reorganisa

Did you, Uncle? Yes, my dear. Morison, Professor Glibert Murray, Lond Noel-Buxton, Bir Perry Nunn, tion, if the programme of such

Yea, we'd never have left it W. Pethick meaaures were submitted to them. Lard Fork Pick. Bir Nigel Playfair, on its merits alone, with a view only we accidently put our fut Lawrence, J. B. Priestley, Canon ilaven, Vont

scientifically meeting Guy Rogers, B. Seeboh to'

through the middle of it, and the Rhondda, Canon Hownire. Lard Rutherford, Bir Herbert demonstrable needs of tho situa-

water rushed in and it sank. Oh, say, Uncle! How awful. Yes. They are alienated by threats We had to wade ashore in a boat.

or arbi- Willams. Ble Henry Wood, Virginia Woolt. of revolutionary action

It was a model island. Wo shows

trary repression; but they are The sequence of events

E modern world is confront-ready to respond to a bold lead in modelled it ourself. There was Show Room

that the Rightist faction was re-

are asked for Intelli- no population there when we Ted by a new wave of violence which they ration, and not brow-bought it, and we didn't have time Phone 27778-9 Stubbs Road sponsible for the bloodshed of the Tuesday night when but for the

in political thought and action.beaten into unintelligent sub-to populate it ourself, so we had Gardes Mobiles semi-military

to iniport a number of people. organisation-they would have Democracy is again at stake. The

struggle for liberty is once more It would be a dianster if so un- carried the Palais Bourbon, mas

opportunity rivalled an sacred the deputies and brought

Political movements are rapidly ruined for lack of such lendership. an end. On the Republie to Wednesday and Thursday, the spreading, whose members

prepared to use violent methods

The task of reconstructing the both for the pursuit and the re-world since the war has become SAGER-At the Kowloon Hospital Communists held the field. M.

tention of this morning, Mrs. Julia Sager, Chiappe declares that he warned

power.

intensely intricate, and will de- of the proprietress

Juliette M. Baladier that one of his own

Organisations of a semi-mili mand a degree of conscious design Beauty Saloon, ankow Road, Cabinot Ministers was behind a after a brief illness. The cortege plot for seizure of the government tary character, exacting a strict in the economic life of the State passes the Monument at 5 p.m. by a Radical-Communist combina discipline from their adherents, and in the dealings of nation with Lo-lay.

tion and he is clearly of the be-displaying a uniform of coloured nation, to which we are only slowly lief that the Rightist activities shirts, employing common symbols becoming accustomed.

and a new form of salute, have But we now have the advantage were inspired purely by their de

grown in some countrica into vast of a public which is exceedingly termination to prevent a success-

private armies which have usurped by the of the

the functions of both the police attentive, and for the most part passionately anxious that the and military forces of the State.

should be well done and When once in possession of the done courageously and swiftly. machinery of government they

The abandonment of reason and the un- ruthlessly suppress any manifes persuasion would mean tation of criticism or opposition. loosing of the passions of fear applying the methods of the In- and hatred, of wild hope quisition to political opinion. To wilder despair, with the result this end they employ not only that the welfare of the nation physical courcion, but all the would be at the mercy of tempes

reinforced devices of propaganda,

tuous changes of feeling and by their monopoly control of the

oplulon. wireless, and every Unless our new and vast elec. Press, the other organ of opinion.

torate is treated seriously, it may in desperation take refuge from Hitherto in Britain we have re-its problems in the false security M.tained our traditional regard for of dictatorship.

public order, persona! liberty and

We, for our part, belleve that But there have recently been power of action can be given to freedom of thought and discussion. signs in some quarters even here a democratic state, whilst at the of a readiness of appeal to passion same time liberty is preserved to and violence in place reason

democracy In to survive, the Blackshirts are "not~~- ·In and persuasion. Para of the individual citizen. If modern electors must not be threatened or cist frequent; their intimidating be-played down to; they must be in- haviour and mobilisation at meat-formed, convinced, and led. ings are already on the way, to For this purpose we need a poli- could if unchecked prove a menace becoming a public nuisance and tical method which combines:

frev

(1) A profound conviction of the supreme importance of liberty,

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Hongkong Telegraph.alled "Prot plot." Some justi.

MONDAY, MARCH 12, 1934.

ROAD ACCIDENT PREVENTION

for this claim seems to lie In the fact that the net result of the revolution-for such it really was-was the destruction of the power of the Left. The regime of the Left is no more.

FRENCH REACTION.

The reaction has been sharp. France as a whole is more firmly wedded to the principle of good. order to-day than could have been assumed with safety at any time in

In view of Hongkong's recent "Safety First” campaign, it is of interest to note that the Automobile Association in Lon- don has recently put forward

years. the last five far-reaching recommendations for increased road safety, in a Doumorgue hus a wonderful oppor- memorandum submitted to the tunity of consolidating the posi- tion he has created and of work- Ministry

of Transport. The ing on public confidence to achieve memorandum is based on the national unity. His approval of fact that the existing law, if the new £27,000,000 defence re- properly enforced, is adequate organisation scheme reveals that to deal with the dangerous he is accurately gauging the feel motor-driver, and is insistent on ings of the people of France, the need for an intensive camp whose rage against the Staylsky aign of educative propaganda, scandals only slightly exceeds in financially supported by the importance their disquiet in the Government and carried but matter of Security. through the medium of the National Safety First Associa-GENEVA'S HINTS tion. The view of the A.A. is that whilst the motorist cannot

Geneva's newfound

optimium ACCMB

be entirely absolved from blame, regarding dlaarmament every road user bears a pro- strange in the circumstances. No portionate responsibility, and adequate reason for a more hope situation therefore calls for ful atmosphere is to be discovered united effort. One point stress-in M. Barthou's letter. France does not budge an inch from what ed is this connexion is that the

she considers to be the minimum way to a reduction in accidents requirements for an agreement. lies in the development of a pro-She refuses to be fettered in any per spirit of give and take--with way until Herr Hitler has been more give than take-between Judged by ucts instead of by all classes of road users, and words. The last thing that a the acquirement of a road sense Ministry composed of Marshai by every user of the highway-Petain and M. Tardieu (to men- others) would accept, carriage-way and footway alike. tion no The suggested media for pro without adequate guarantees, is paganda are the Press, radio the re-armament of Germany ne-

companied by a reduction (regular weekly broadcasts), France's military strength. schools, cinemas and even chur- ches, together with a widespread poster campaign. Various pro- | AN ALLIANCE?. posals are put forward in con-

in

nexion with rond development, Geneva's restored confidence can of which notice may be taken only come from another source, tho of two in particular the con- stated one, Britain. It is hinted struction and maintenance of that the meaning of the explosions non-skid surfaces, and the pro- In Paris has not been lost on the vision of road surfaces which British Government. lsing pro- are light in colour and, there- tests in Britain, marked by such. manifestoes as that featured else. fore, a definito aid to drivers at where in this page, suggest a grow night, particularly when wet ing realisation that the fates of the The necessity of a much higher two democracies on either side of standard of street lighting is the Channel are so closely linked, another need to which attention that cach must leave nothing to Is directed. There are points chance in guarantees of mutual in these suggestions which support. Mr. J. L. Garvin declares in In a powerful article in The 'note nro worthy of Hongkong. Suggested lighter- Observer that parilamentary gov- rond prompts grament in France and Britain are closely interdependent, that they the thought that it might be will stand or fall together. Nothing better to leave new concrete but a definite mutual insurance wit road largely as they are when be a sufficient guarantee for their finally laid down. rather than liberties and their lives. For peaco to give them a coating of dark and stability in the future a strong macadam. In that state, they France is no less necessary than a would be helpful also in pre strong Britain. How widely theno is difficult at present to estimate, venting skidding. Assuming tenets are endorsed in England it there are no technical objec but there may be same truth in tions, such as the likelihood of the report that Britain is prepared quicker breaking up of the surto strengthen her mutual defensivo Incos, the idea might at any contact with France in return for rato be given a trial., 70ka disarmament agreement.

coloured

to

speech.

The Communists also, though leas military in their organisation and demeanour, are no less mill- tant in language, and speak and write in terms of revolutionary violence.

Moreover, Fascists and Com- pour scorn · upon munists alike democratic institutions and advo- cate their displacement by dicta- torial methods.

Even among the orthodox poli- tical parties there is a disposition to evade Parliamentary control instead of insisting upon the im-

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of

and

the

(2) An appreciation

urgency of securing peace and justice by reorganisa- tion without delay in both international and national affairs.

work (3) A determination to

through democracy, as the anfeguard of primary liberty.

(4) A conception of leadership that involves treating demo- (Continued on Next Column.j

"He will just have to walt, I can't find my eyelashes."

Our only clothing was a bowling hat, which wo made out of cocoa- nut leaves, a frying pan which we were as a sporrans and a sledge- hammer that we found floating In the lagoon. This we wore an a

charm.

We got very adept at bowling seagulls over with stones. We be- came so elever at it that nye soon had enough feathers to make a we will show bedspread, which you one of these days.

We have often thought of thic- ing up, island life again, but it is a matter that requires deep con- sideration, especially as Hong- kong has been such a disappoint- ment to us. Ie we could get a nice girl to keep house for us, or perhaps two or three nice girls, we might consider the matter. Would you care to, come with one gets so tired of islands. Uncle to a nice pretty faland? marvellous! All right, my dear. Oh, Uncle, I think it would be And don't call us Uncle, call us Eddie.

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SAFETY FIRST. Nuts and bolts On flivvers,

Flying through the night, Result in spills,

When bolts are loose,

And gaol when knuts are tight.

WE

Chance of a Wifetime

For years

suffered from self-consciousness, Our feet were too large, our legs too long, and whenever, our crowd went any- where, it was us who rode in front with the driver. We had prac tically 'no friends. We Were tongue-tied even with our brother. We were completely frightened by giris, and consequently never got aut into life.

Then one day we sar your advertisement, and enrolled for your course. Three months later we got married.

First we had one child, then two, then three, then four..

"Gosh," we thought,

never going to stop?"

"is this

We had ten more after that.

of

We are never alone now. There is always an

eager crowd young people around us, and we seldom got lonely.

cracy with a new respect,: offering selontiflo schemes of a far-sighted and far- reaching order, commend- ing them by the methods of reason, and asking that. they should be judged on their marits alone.

the

We bellove that at this moment we have in Britain a public that Is anxious beyond all precedent for calm, efficient and active leadership of this type. The public is ready to respond to the methods of reason by supporting tourageous, constructive and democratic load.

A.

By this way, and not by the way of violence, can so oppor

to tunity be afforded for applying our economic life the principles of order and design without the sac rifice of spontaneity and freedom;