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DISARMAMENT IN
sure of disarmament by France. So far, therefore, as it involves such a method of adjustment, the British plan must be regard ed as unproductive of any tangi. ble results. Signor Mussolini strikes a logical note when he hints that there can be no rea-
• TUESDAY, MARCH 20
1934..
NOTES OF THE DAY THE SECOND WILHELM & The Very Idea!
AUSTRIA'S FUTURE
THE THIRD REICH
By J. E.
WILLIAMS
The custom of blaming overy dificulty in modern Europe to the last war has been carried too far, in many cases; but there is little
FTER months of silence of Chancellor Hitler. Or, perhaps doubt that the problem of Austria
better still, both are 'Urdentach is directly traccably to the "peaĉo"
left.
on the question of the treaties. Those treaties
original German!!! Austria in the position of a head monarchy, the National So- without a body. The old Austro-cialists have spoken clearly. Hungarian empire, whatever its
LEADERSHIP
German
other defecta and they were many The time is not opportune. and grave-nt least hung togethor economically. When it was split The decision is postponed un-
ier, Austria was left in an til the Third Reich is proper-scase," he continued, "the Kaiser
le position,
What Aus-
tria's solution eventually will boy consolidated on National is something no man can tell now. Socialist lines. But it at least has been demou atrated that Austria cannot go on
"With due respect to the value of the monarchy and all honour to
"Leadership In the concolved as the organic growth of the individual, the unfolding of a personality. The leader, in con- sequence, fe not chosen by the masses. In fact, the government
RICH MAN, POOR HAN.
By Eddie Kelly, Latter.
The other day a lady wrota and accused us of pandering to the rich.
We, who live in Kowloon, and go to the K.C.C. every Saturday night, and cat peanuts of the Alhambra and-
Once upon a time wo might have done this very thing. But that Was when Wo were a country gentleman. Hemmed. in by. butlers, surrounded by footmen, we had only to press a bell, and in the servants quarters they
indefinitely in its present shape. Some sort of change is inevitable. the great emperors and kings of of a 'masculine' state-the torm would say, "Ife's prcasing the ball.
QUESTION MARK ?
It is a pity, therefore, that Signor. Mussolini ahould have pro- judiced the reception of his Danu- bian Confederation schemes by flaming talk of expansionism at the Fasciat quinquennial assembly: There may be no connection what Boover between his ambitions in North Africa and his polley in Central Europe, but the more sus picion has proved highly disturb ing to the various chancellrics with a direct interest in the future of Austrin and Hungary. Until the Mussolini speech, the Italian agreement with Dr. Dollfuss and Dr. Gomboes seemed to offer the best chance for a solution not ac- companied by violenca. Now n big question mark has appeared.
NATIONAL EDUCATION
Let us all hide."
Leaping out of our four-poster after a suitable interval, we would then yell for the groom. "Groom! Catch
horse. We have obesity, therefore the horse muEL have exercise."
We would then got into our riding boots, go out, have a look at the horse, and say to one of the faithful retainers, "Rido it."
We would then go back to bed. We would ring the bell once more, saying to the valet, "Bring us a glass of rum with an emerald in it, and a dish of prawns,"
our German history," Chancellor which the Kalser, used to distin-
Wo would then lle in our Hitler declared in the Reichstag gulsh the Germna from the French
sumptuous bed, on our palatial on January 30, "the question of or 'feminine' form-is composed of pillow, and gnaw our moustache. the ultimate 'state form of the individuals, who are responsible German Reich is to-day not a mat-to the whole community, to the tor for discussion." In fact he whole state, not to one clans or defined his own position as that of caste. Does not such an idea, a man commissioned by the nation when fully developed, correspond to put through those reforma very largely with what is being which will some day enable the advocated in Germany to-day?"
The groom would touch his foro- definite decision as to the' final The old ideals of 1789, of nine-lock in a pathetic mannor, and constitution of the Relch to beteenth-century liberalism, have get us a horse, made.
gone, the new Idents of authority," A statement made by a local order and justice those of the honoured branch of the Hohenzollern Len- Prussian kinge-fro gue, that "the ultimate aim of our jonce more. lender, Adolf Hitler, is the res-
"Don't you see that under such toration of the monarchy," drawconditions the German Kalsor—. from Herr Grohe, regional leader not na an individual but as an in- for Cologne, the statement that stitution-la beglaning to appoar Hitler had never declared he de- to the present generation in a new The Ides of national planning, sired the restoration of the mon-light? We, monarchiste,
stand hitherto confined largely to archy, but rather that he had not for a person but for an in- economics, is now being studied stated that "the question of mon-stitution," in connection with education. The need is obvious enough. It archy or republic was not to bej scarcely can be said that there discussed." exists in any country, except per- haps Soviet Russia, a complete national plan of education; but BETRAYAL ! the annual conference of educn- tional associations in Great Bri- tain reveals the eagerness of pro- fessors and teachers to find some manifold efforts and to work in common purpose underlying their harmony toward a single end-the right equipment of the citizens whom the country requires.
ODD ASSORTMENT
Ακάδη
This butterfly existence soon undermined our constitution. So we married the lady from the adjoining manor.
An attempt to get him to elucid-
Since thon wo have fallen from ate the way in which the econ
our high estate. She couldn't omic and social ideas of the Na-hold her position, being sacked tional Socialists and of the monar-three times from various laundries. chiata could be brought into con formity, in view of the fact that Herr Walter Darre, Minister of the present-day movement depands Agriculture, also wrote in the so much, upon the lower classes article in which he declared that of the large estates, which again Landpost a very antimonarchist and peasants whose thoughts turn to possibilities of the breaking up that German peasantry had been would seriously affect the status betrayed by their emperors, first of the nobility upon which the
by the Hohenstaufona and then by monarchy depended, produced no satisfactory result."We know the Hohenzollerns,
that as long as Hindenburg la
monarchist
Despite these outspoken an
and
That is our story, gentlemen. We weren't always like this. Time was when we rode in our carriage,
us afty cents for, n. bed. Or a But stay! You fought at the front with the Lincolna! Spare dollar, so that we may have a noda. God bless you!
On Inflation
In ease we should be misunder- stood, we should like to point out. the horrible results of currency
Inflation.
Indefinite proposala in reference to the prospects of Inflation are. rapidly approaching the ludicrous.
of perspicacity - is lent to uncontrolled verbinge propagated by incomprehensibly improvident intellects that are manifestly rudimentarily insigni- Beant.
sonable grounds for objecting to solves confronted with the old op you strip away the externals, you paragraph which expressly for dividuals who seek to extract the
all the purposes of good living, and instructing a person with a view to earning his living.
Metaphorically enunciating, in- flation is the hallucination of in- cleaginous derivato of the lacteal fuld directly from the bovine tion of the necessary process re- quisite initially to obtain the fundamental substance, via the lacteal fluid.
the
THE BALANCE Week-end developments on the disarmament problem do not warrant the taking of a very rosy view of the prospects of a satisfactory agreement being reached between the nations most vitally concerned. Ger many has replied in a distinctly conciliatory frame of mind to the French Aide Memore, even to the point of offering to con- clude n non-aggression pact with French her near neighbour.
In addition, Gen. Herman Goor- President, the lasue will not be Unity might seen at first glauEG distrust of Germany is, none the
to be the last thing possible among ing. Minister President of Prussia, actual. Nor do we expect a return less, still the dominating factor
recently requested the Reichmin- of Wilhelm II. But we do look the members of the fifty-four oddly star of the Interior to close all forward to the return of the mon- in the
19 situation. There
assorted associations represented objection to any plan, British-at the conference, including master they were, in his opinion, work-
associations, since archy." he confidently concluded. inspired or otherwise, which per- and mistresses of state elementarying against the National Socialista mits of German re-armament schools, state-assisted secondary simultaneously with any mea-schools, the pubile schools (not state and, therefore, against the state. THE RICHEST GERMAN
assisted), the universities, and members of voluntary bodies con-
Verisimilitude Meanwhile, the ex-Kaiser is cerned with handicraft, teaching, actions,hany monarchists still living quietly at Doorn in Hol- nature study, physicul training, ace. hopeful of restoration in the land. Although he is reputed to drama, food education, animal wel- fare, and so forth. Yet this annualno-distant future. "How do you be far and away the richest Ger explain this?" I asked n con man to-day, his fortune not having gathering is at least an attempt to vinced monarchist lately.
been confiscated on his abdication, bring their efforts into line.
he is apparently not a German and again, in the course of lectures
"The explanation is simple," he citizen. In the former Defence of and debates, speakers found them-
was a replied. "We believe that when the Republle Act, there German re-armament so long as position between education for cul-
will find that the fundamental bade his re-entering Germany, the more heavily-armed States
ture and training for work that ideas of government held by the This was eliminated by the Strese- are not complying with the pro- Is, between moulding the mind for National Socialists are identical mann Government, and so he was quadruped without the Interven- visions of the Versailles Treaty,
with our own....The Kaiser's ex-free to come here. But another The point to be borne in mind
perience with the Reichstag both Reich law made it essential that here is that under the Peace
before and during the last war any Gorman citizen, rosident Treaty the disarmament terms'
convinced him of its futility, and, abroad for ten successivo years, CULTURE AND UTILITY imposed on Germany carried
as you know, he was a strong sup had to apply to the authorities for If adequate circumvention' is not with them a definite obligation
porter of Stein's idea of a Stacu- permission to retain his citizen- expeditiously promulgated, But the two ends are not com destaat, corporate state. An art ship. Inquiries lead to the con- machination of these Mephisto- on the part of the Allies them-pletely opposed. The president, Dr.icle which the Kaiser contributed clusion that the ex-Kaiser has phellan devastators must inevit selves to disarm. That obliga- | George Dyson, went so far as to tion has, unfortunately, not assert that the great English public to an American magazine, in 1928, never made such an application. ably culminate in a cataclysmic
shows that his ideas of leadership The richest German is therefore cataclysm. been discharged, and, in the schools, founded in the Middle are not very different from those outlawed from his own country! People, awake! circumstances, it is easy to un- Ages schools which have
often derstand the German disinclina-iltarian-were from
been considered quixotically nonuti- the first tion to be held to the Treaty strictly vocational. William provisions whilst others are not Wykchum, in the fourteenth cen- fullling their promise. Comtury, wanted clerks in holy orders ing down to realities, it is clear to serve the Church and adminis- that the possibility of an agree. ment being reached lies more with France than with any other country. Whilst she has re- jected the British proposals, it is possible to read between the lines of her latest Note a dis- position to consider any scheme which will allay her fears on the security issue. Here it is not without Interest to keep in mind the Italian plan, which, whilst conceding rights or re-armament to Germany, would preserve the
In nil cducation it is necessary statia qua so far as the other
to keep a twofold end in view, re- Powers are concerned. Whether membering that every child aught this would satisfy France, see to be brought up to be, if possible, ing that it involves no disarman citizen of the world, and even a ment on her part, is a point citizen of all the ages, and at the which has thus far not been in-world, hore and
same time
adapted to this dicated. To sum up, thus far motor care, the aeroplane and the a world of Britain has exerted the utmost wireless receiver, in which he will effort to secure an agreement, have to work and earn his living. but without definite result; Clearly it is not desirable that there Germany whilst insistent on her should be uniformity in education, that all schools and rights, appears to be in n con- or
should follow the ciliatory frame of mind; Italy, colleges
But same methods. almost convinced that there can in the highest degree desirable that be no settlement, is guided by educationists should form clear con- the realities of the position: coptions of the kind of society Franco still wants something which ft is. desirable
to
in ovoke,
thoir more tangible than German pro-cular mises. The satisfaction to be
sphere of Interest, dorived from the situation thus ought to compose it, and with that and the kinds of citizona which expressed cannot be regarded and in view plan the teaching and very great,
curricula in the schools:
of
ter the State," and his college was Ford's workshops. But to train a As strictly vocational as Henry youth exclusively to become an ad- ministrator of Church and Stato is not analogous to training him ex- clusively to be a mechanic. It would be absurd to bring up the potential mechanic mainly on Latin grammar and Aristotelian logle, yet wholly inadequate to nothing but physics and mechanics.
TWOFOLD END
person
teach him
It
1,and
2
"Mamma, what was papa like before you made him
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