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NOTES OF THE DAY

HIROTA-HULL NOTES-

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1934.

LIBERTY

By A. J. CUMMINGS FEW days ago a great states.| Death is peaceful.

man said to me: "Here in So is an oppressed and terrifled England we shall soon be fighting people ruled by machine-guns and aware that one over-careless again the battle of liberty." -

word, one indiscreet act, or one unpropitiated enemy in the op- pressor class means a concentra- ilon camp or a Bring party,

of wicked men.

The Very Idea!

ARGUMENT WANTED

WHAT'S wanted in Hong-

kong's Legislative Council is some more Ilveliness

Take yesterday's meeting, for Instance. Someone asks a lot of questions about Kowloon's troos, and someone else gives a lot of amooth answers, and the thing's finished with.

PAHI Why don't they argue about it. What's wanted in this Colony is a good argu-

Second thoughts acrve minimise the immediate Importance of the Hirotn-Hull correspondence, The United States may be toying with the idea of recognition of Manchukuo in exchange for naval ronagurances, but there is a long

The warning had an unfamiliar road to travel between overture and

note of sharp reality. Ever since understanding. The

politicni I was a boy I have listened to gain would be obvious: talk of a speeches which ended in com- war in the Pacific would die amonplace perorations about liberty Black shirts, Brown shirts, natural' death. The economic

and the Importance of preserving Red-shirts-they are all on the benefits might easily be very con the sacred cause from the assaults war path against human freedom

The offer siderable.

of an

Such remarka

The most astonishing and the Arrangement conferring there bencfts was not, therefore, to boscomed ns remoto and as undis | most sinlater thing in the modern ment.

ace of an earthquake in Pimlico. 500dlemissed off-handedly and Mr turbing as inquiries into the men-

Cordell Hull will not be blamed

Now, when I hear Hitler praised for following it up. He could

as a great national leader, and hardly do less; and there is no shallow-pated talk about the need sign that he has done any more, for a strong dose of Hillerism in this country, I wonder how much $800 STIMSON DOCTRINE

persons who talk in that way real- The crucial issue has yet to be $ 750 faced, Recognition of Manchukuo by the United States involves the repudiation of the Stimson Doctrine and that is a step which no Secretary of State dare con- template with equanimity. The Stimson Doctrine runs true to American traditions in the realm

B Το international politics. throw it over in anticipation of a speculative economic profit would lestroy America's high reputation in the Orient, not to speak of other parts of the globe. To talk of realism in the matter in to talk Ronkensc. International honour and goodwill, international obligations-even guarantees and when self-imposed-are just as real as commercial contracts. To deny it would be to deny hope of a future.

emergence of Continental dictator- One of those arguments shipa is the case with which the resistance of the common people that go on like an avalanche. has been overcome. The Russian it starts easily, gathers revolution, leading to the sup lapeed quickly, planting of one tyranny by an everything in its other scarcely less terrible, but

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of

POLITICS OR FINANCE?

After all, Japan has little to offer in return or auch betrayal of a principle. The removal of the prospect of a naval ratio dispute would be something cer- tainly. But Mr. Hirota's readiness

to rost content

with the present status In

naval armaments may be dictated

ough.

embraces

downward

ly know either of the meaning of carrying the seeds of hope and swoop, bystanders, passers-by tempers, courtesy and morals; fitlerism or of the meaning of betterment, was intelligible, en- and casual loiterers, mews down their own liberty.

What has given the Britiah leaps and ricochets from one The very people who grow sentl. mental (and think they are being working man furiously to think point to another and Anishes with a grand crash which necessitates forthright and manly) on the is the collapse, almost without a

struggle, of the great well the calling of the ambulance and subject of a Hitler for the English organised German working elaas, the police. are often the people who cheer

That's a good argument. loudest when news films in the followed by the swift and ruth-

Countless puerile discussions picture palaces, after presenting less subjection, In spite of an

heroic battle against heavy take place every day in which the fow characteristic scènea of revolutionary

machine-gun and alege-gun odds, participants all keep their tempers abroad.

down and their coats on, and point the contrast at the end with of the Austrian workers,

generally behave in a manner an idyllic view of our peaceful

whleh la alur on the very name of English countrysido.

argument.

we

violence

They are afraid of they do not quite know what

They are afraid even

of the of their own provocative effect Sir Stafford Cripps, whom they have angrily warned off the for- biddon territor_7.

In a fever of apprehension the British Socialista and trade unt What is this thing which is onists have now constituted them

of selves the passionate defenders of vaguely called liberty and which after long usage we are al- democratic liberty. mest as unconscious ns of the alri

breathe? In 1793 Thomas Paine phrased it very simply in his declaration of rights when he said: "Liberty consists in the right to do whatever is not con- trary to the rights of others." Thees are elementary sanctions, Under their protection we in England can go about our busi- ness without let or hindrance.

We can freely make known our thoughts and opinions either at the street corner or in print.

We can worship what God we

like or none.

If we are legally wronged we may invoke the law against the highest in the land,

They fear, perhaps most of all, though vaguely, some dramatic consolidation of the Right (as a panicky retort to possible acts of mob-violence arising out of the present discontents), which in control of the armed forces will cheat them of everything they have won since the days of the Chartists.

Of what earthly use is an argu- ment if you don't lose your temper?

What is more convincing than a on the nose? Nothing. punch 'Unless it's a rabbit-killer on the

back of the neck.

The right and ability to argue is one of Nature's greatest gifts. to man, and should not be toyed Wath.

Not only do our Legislative Councillors set a bad example to the rest of the community, but even our taipans are totally un- able to expound a difference of opinion at Board meetings in the. proper manner.

Could you think of anything more inspiring than a member of the Legislative Council calling his honourable opponent a lying,

ng much by the limits of Japan's financial resources as by polllieni | law can oppress us with impunity. Fascist campaign and by the mild banana-spined polecat, and offer

considerations. If by offering this as a concession, she can induce re-

tion of the manufacture of Man-

consideration of world condemna chukuo, two delightful birds will have been killed with one ingeal- ously directed diplomatic stone.

NOT COMMITTED

These fears are stimulated by such mischievous and misbegotten No person and no minion of the interventions as the tothermore DEATH INQUIRIES

We may not be sued, necused indifference of large elements of a Every now and again, surprise

or detained save in cases deter- great middle class which in the is expressed locally at the fact

rained by the law and in accord-long run would be trodden down that deaths from other than

ce with the forms prescribed equally with the so-called "pro- by it.

letariat under the heel of any natural causes are not always

The law itself is enacted by a claan dictatorship..

I do not believe there is any Parliament which we elect; and the subject of official investiga- tion in the Coroner's Court,

if at any time Parliament does near danger of a Fascist or of things of which we dlaapprove a Socialist dictatorship in this Case after case is reported in

We are free to elect another country. I believe there is some Further doubts are cast upon which death has been due to

Parliament if we can persuade a danger of a serious clash of ax suggestions that reat forward pro-sufficient number of other free tremist views, and some danger violence, accident, or some other gress has been made by the very citizens to accept our freely that our liberties may be whittled unusual circumstance, but, so

confidential nature of the corres expressed point of view.

away under the camouflage of a pondence. It is impossible to be- far as the public is aware, no

A brief list of very homely "national emergency. hieve that Mr. Cordell Hull has rights. Yet they comprehend al-

We shall never solve our prob. inquiry whatever appears to ba

gohe behind the back of the

most all that is worth while, tema in that way. held. It would, however, be League of Nationa with the pur- apart from food and drink, to all

We shall not be able to sustain pose of stealing a. murch on its civilised beings. For my part I perpetually the grave moral bur- scarcely right to state that the

memvers in a Manchurian trade would rather lose life itself than den of between two and three mil- circumstances surrounding the

It would be suicidal for the lose these liberties; and millions lion unemployed persons and mil- death are not looked into-they United States to ignore China. of other Englishmen, confronted lions more in daily anxiety about From that, it is an easy step to the with the naked cholce. would the livelihood without something are, but only privately, and upon

never hesitate.

explosive happening some day. the material with which he is conclusion that the United States

is not committed in any way. An As individuals we should be We shall not preserve peaco supplied the Magistrate, in the

endeavour may be made to produce deprived of them if we lived in and order or recreate the sontal decides something out of Tokyo's over capacity of Coroner,

Germany, in Russia, in Italy, in fabric by deceiving ourselves with whether or not a regular inquestures, but it will be a discreet and

Austria, in Turkey, or in any one a spuriously named Government intelligent arrangement. not a

of half a dozen other countries drifting into the unknown on a shall be held. Prior to 1888, the blundering volle face.

now enjoying those material bles-sea of empty platitudes.

Representative party

govern sings so clearly visible from hotel Government establishment in-

windows by hospitably received ment is not only a popular safety cluded official who was

visitors happy in the security of valve: It is a stimulus to positive specifically a Coroner, but in

The excitement aroused by the their British passporta.

action; and, as Burke once said. that year the office was abolished revelations concerning the Hirota Robbed by force of the common party divisions, whether operate and the duties were transferred Hull correspondence has clearly forms of liberty, Great Britaining for good or evil, are insepar- to Magistrates. Why the change been fanned by interests keen to might for a time remain peaceful, able from free government.

The men and women who signed see Great Britain abandon League though I doubt it. was made we cannot say off-solidarity on the Manchukuo ques- A tyranny in the full exercise the manifesto m Liberty and expressed in Leadership have

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an

face.

•

NAVY HAS A SAY

tion and recognise the puppet of its power may produce a tran- State. Much of the "Interpretasient illusion of utter peace. tion" has followed lines seeking to stampede Britain into precipitate action, Success is most unlikely, and the chances have been fur ther diminished by the Tokyo Navy Office atatement this morning that a change in the existing naval rating will be demanded by Japan whatever happens. Has Mir. Hirota been acting on his ÓWN without consultation initiative with the Navy? If so, the whole Atructure carefully built up by the advocates of recognition the naval ratio concesalon baals comes tumbling to the ground:

en

hand, possibly because in those days there were not sufficient cases to warrant the employment of a full-time official. Be that as it may, the fact remains that in cases of sudden death, or where death has been due to ac- cident

violence, or has or occurred under suspicious cir- cumstances, the Magistrate has an absolute right to determine whether or not an inquest is necessary. This is in direct contrast with the practice in |England, where in every such case a Coroner's inquiry is pub-secured by a departmental in- vestigation, whilst in cases of Hely held. The only discretion auspected murder it is conceiv left to the Coroner at Home is able that most valuable clues whether he shall sit with or might be revealed in the Cor- without a jury, and we believe oner's Court. A further point is that in the absence of public in- we are right in saying that even that discretion is limited in quests, rumours often gain cur- rency which are quite unwar- scope. So far as Hongkong is ranted on the actual facts. A concerned, a strong feeling pre-change in the local law. Is vails that the Magistrate, in his obviously called for, and besides role of Coroner, is permitted far covering the question of the Coroner's discretion it should al- too much latitude in deciding so make provision for the res when there shall or shall not be toration of the separate office a public inquiry. Certainly in of Coroner, Hongkong la cer- all fatal accidents, deaths undertainly a blg enough Colony to |suspicious circumstances or by warrant the taking of such a violence, an inquent should step, for if the Home practice automatically be held. A full wore followed, there would be a sufficiency of cases to keep such public inquiry in such instances an official fully occupied. We would almost certainly produce urge these changes in the public. far more evidence than could be Intercati

"Now you kids just tell me if you object to my alwaya tagging

along."

ing to, bash his honourable face in when he got the honourable blank outside.

It is sickening to hear the despicable tactics of low-grade

arguers,

They will offer to bet you ten bucks that

you aro wrong. toner up, or shut up," is their

chant.

If ten bucks can win an argu- ment, why are we not all stricken to dumb, awed, submissive silence. when passing the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank.

They drog in irrelevant details with the proud air of a tom-cat dropping a dead rat on the break- fant-table.

The Jockey's brother aald, atti he ought to know

And the backing and filling. "Didn't you say soandso and soandso a while ago!" you point out triumphantly.

"Oo! I never said anything of the kind!" "I said- Arghi Enough of these Incompetents. We have a pleasant memory of two the retired from elderly men, strenuous activities of life, who homo-town regularly met in the botanical gardens to argue on the advantages and disadvantages of

kept it up for years. parliamentary government. They

Each day would find them there. Perhaps one, having thought of a particularly telling point in the night watches, would arrive early and wait, fuming with impatience, for the other. And so they the years, wrangled on, through until one day, in the middle of a very heated passage, one of them was stricken with apoplexy and Buccumbed.

The last words he said wore: "Absolute rot! You're a lar!" The other old gentleman, after vainly trying to carry on the argu- ment by talking to himself, simply pined away.

The night he died there was terrific thunderstorm, and the light- ning and hailstones that flow about have convinced us that there is an. after-life.

But the fact stands out.

It la personality that counts in an argument.

Facts, logic, reuson, olequenco, all` have their place, but personality is the thing. Be eloquent if you can. Be logical If your side of the argu ment will stand it. You may oven be reasonable to a certain extent.

But, best of all, exert your per sonality.

Face your man. Look him in the eye. Take off your coat. Roll up your sleeves. Ask him, firmly, if ho still thinks he is right.

If he puts his face close up to youra, glares at you, and says he's SURE he's right-let him have

lila way,

Freedom of speech is a wonderful thing: overy man is entitled to his own opinions; some people are not worth arguing with, and, anyhow, the loss of one argument is neither hero nor there.

Go to a gymnasium and learn the principles of debate. Then try -again.