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NOTES OF THE DAY

HANDS OFF CHINA!

SIR STAFFORD CRIPPS

· By A. J. CUMMINGS

The Very Ideat

LETTER TO HOME

By George Dear Aunt,

The endorsement by the Salto Cabinet of the "Handa off China!" pronouncement carries Japan's challenge nalage further. No longer is it possible to minimlso

Just a line hoping it finds the seriousness of the Japanese most dangerous revolution-fas Solicitor-General in the last you as we are at present-

T daclaration of policy on the ground

ary in. England! My hand Labour Admlülstration.

if at all. In that that the informal manner in which should tromble as I write these role he discharged his duties with We feel a little bit nervous tell- such marked if unobtrusive Ing you about our life as an' all sides as a coming inn.

the warning was delivered might words of this Deadly Human Men-efficiency that he was-spoken of on Empire. Builder but as you will..

ace.

[ba considered in reducing its

force. Even the more moderata In spite of the dull solemnity of

probably have kicked the bucket tone apparently adopted by Mr. Stafford Cripps has a well-develop

long before Stelin Benson's diary most of his public utterances, Sir Saito, the Japanese Ambassadored sense of humour; and I am sure days he expressed any firebrand East, we will be bold.

I cannot discover that in these as the plague spot of the Far causes this Colony to be regarded In Washington, fails to relieve he must laugh rather like a demon views. Soon after the collapse of anxiety. Despite his insistence in the pantomime when he reflects the Labour Government and the tradiet the suggestion that we are

First of all we would like to con that Japan has no intention of on the error he has inspired in Labour Party he began to pull out not happy here. We are desperately infringing upon the principle, of God-fearing, law-abiding fellow see that if the stricken working will have when we leave, and if so the breasts of но many of his the rough stuff. He was quick to happy thinking what a good time wer the Open Door, his explanation of countrymen. Communista despise class movement were to be roused don't over leave we can always retire what Japan does require of other him for a mealy-mouthed reaction from its state of political lethargy to the Inst health resort, hose, Happy Powers runs. into direct conflict ary. Bourgeole England has been and scepticism it must first be Valley. with the principle. All indications taught to regard him as a breaker- tickled with political tall talk. family man, the modern mles, the exacting

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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25, 1934.

EMPIRE FAIR DECISION Opinion will probably differ in regard to the decision to hold no British Empire Fair in Hongkong this year.

The announcement, coupled with an indication of the

Counsel,

It?

a Scotch

ца Д Socialist bank eager hands towards him; and ho The place could be improved!¡£ burgiar, as a political highwayman became, almost before he was there were a few Englishmon here who will hold at the pistol-point aware of the fact, the platform but if you take your Yorkshire- every citizen in the land with more exponent of a Socialist polley man with Scotch you can make n than fiver in his pass-book or a

which in this country of topid pretty strong combination. We Cabinet endorsement is a bad hundred in Consola.

compromiso la condemned as are not suggesting that the Scotch sign from another point of view.

matter of course by every decent here is of the. milk and water Falsifying any claim to wisdom

Englishman as virulent extremism. variety; far from it. It would be He is and statesmanship, the stop seems politicians, who think he will come suspected that Sir Stafford's views again. Even the Chinese speak good business for Tory Then, as soon as it began to be great to hear our native tongue neither to exemplify Japan's im- in very usefully at the next General might express Labour's real inten- their own dialect with placable, resentment at the feeling Election as a living substitute for tiens and that he was no negligible twang now. of isolation in world affairs visited the obsolete Red Letter. Respect- candidate for leadership, the at-

able

We wonder why so many Scots upon her since the Manchurian less to hope for than the Tories pleetle seizures.

Liberal politicians, with far tacks on him developed into apo- leave home and get maudlin about Adventure. The trial balloon from a new Socialist bugbear, are should have convinced Japan that much more genuinely shocked than

Perhaps it is because competition her tentatively-announced progrim Torics at Sir Stafford's alleged

among themselves cannot be made I am inclined to doubt, however, to pay. We can. me is to be anything but easy disrespect for democratic liberties, whether Sir Stafford's teeth have Yorkshireman going some pince understand a asiling. The sharp response of Even a great many exceedingly those of other less indiscreet Yorkshire pudding.

a much deeper bite in them than where ho can decently refuse to ent the world in disapproval has proper members of the Labour Labour leader. He is much too merely strengthened the deter-Party are horrified at some of his reasonable with his critics. He is bid mination of Japan's leaders to go members of the Labour Party, away. He gives

specches; and all sophisticated far too roady to explain himself on with it. There is only one end whether they agree or disagree that he

the impression to decisions guided by motives with his theories of action, are public. is thinking clumsily in such ав these-resistance and thoroughly alarmed at their

We really do not know what the clash. Unless we believe in the possible effect upon an impression-

world is coming to. To use the dear able electorate. In fact on at least possibility of wretched defeatism two

occasions Sir Stafford has steps, there appears to be a set do. Novelists are left hopelessly Yet, with all his mental side-sensational novel," simply will not old phrase, that "It reads like a

States and Great Britain.

United been taken gravely to task in purpose at the back of his mind. behind. In future the highest

private by the Labour hierarchy Neither his speeches nor his writ- and warned that if he does not stop ings are models of lucid and logical should be, "It reads almost like a emulating the Fat Boy of "Pick-expression. But his central argu-few bits from the news selected a sensational novel praise for wick" ho will ruin Labour's ment seems to be that if the Labour from any week." chances at the polls and his own Party returns to office-and it must

In the attitudes of the

improbability of such an event FILM REVOLUTION ?

being held in 1935 or 1936 either,

of

The Impetus gained in the Un-prospect of political advancement.[not be office without power the

"This is all for now, so we will you God's speed truth,

GEORGE

·

THESE HECTIC DAYS.

1

AT REPULSE BAY.-

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when contrasted with the time,ittle purpose in

United States, there will

trouble and expense involved. ting

of

does occasion some surprise, ited States in the drive againet British business houses cannot the system of block-booking in the

only way in which it can Itself from a recurrent failure la protect

It was early in the morning complain, since, strangely cinema world is of general in-

Sir Stafford promised to be a through swift dictatorial measures, (last week) at Repulse Bay. good boy. But while ho possesses paralysing Conservative opposi enough, it is from this quarter the stage where legislation has been has a little in common with those Sociallet order defended by the eye could

terest. The campaign has reached many admirable qualities he still tion and establishing at once

A thin film of lee appeared to that the decision has emanated. prepared and placed before Con- unfortunate persons who do not strength of the police and military that were a few ice bergs.

afcover the water as far as the The main ground for deciding not this trade practies. Strong ing to say when they get up to of such an objective are the final waste, naked into the beauty of the

Rress providing for the abolition know precisely what they are gu- forces.

seo and just beyond to repeat the experiment at

The logical implications. pressure is being exerted and if speak, or preelsely what they are breaking-up of the Crown and dawn and wishing to goodness we We were alone on that vast sandy penditure would be too heavy a large readjustment in the making and have no precise recollection of levy and similar drastic measures. charge in these times of depres- and exhibiting of films, which what they have said when they sit sion. Doubt is also raised as to parts of the world. Obviously, if

The rocks which had been should react favourably in ali doyen.

It is highly improbable that any sharpened and pointed by the the compensating advantages, block-booking is banned in the

Labour Government, with or with-brightest for us; the sand had Why la there all this fuss and,

winter months, gleamed their be bother about Sir Stafford Cripps out Sir Stafford Cripps, will in a begun to sprout-in-patches-bat-not- perpetua What has he actually said or done measurable distance of time go so where we were; and over the shrill On the former point, the financial The the system

elsewhere. to bring it about? Whatever hear. To most present-day Labour sirens of the ships at sea came the change has said or done, is his standing leaders the more thought le no wistful love call of the flat fish burden surely cannot, in view of may furnish many difficulties as us A politcian of sufficient im doubt a nightmarish horror. the Government subsidy, be block-bocking is a sort of insur-portance to cause alarm or to make

doing marine somersaults in the abnormally heavy, while in re-ance for the producers enabling it necessary that he should be

ecstasy of the spring. gard to the latter it is hardly them to proceed with film-making taken seriously?

I was deeply interested to learn

Taking our courago in one hand reasonable to count on im-

on the basis of hundreds of signed

He is the prosperous son of a ablest and most practical-minded our ankles to the toes and revelling the other day from one of the and a towel in the other we plunged contracts, but when the necessary mediately apparent results: the adjustments are made, it will respected Engilah lawyer, who Labour politicians in the country in the freshness of the water. furiously into the brine immersing psychological effects of such an probably be found, to be more joined the first Labour Government that Sir Stafford Cripps, notwith- This was LIFE-life with a capital exhibition, from the advertising profitable for all concerned,

and became Lord Parmoor. Like standing his Indiscretions, is now point of view, should not be over-

his father, he is a devout Church- definitely in the running for the looked.

man. He is married to a rich wife leadership of the Labour Party. has shown that when times are ENGLISH SYSTEM

and makes a great deal of money at bad it is unwise to curtail

the Bar. The Labour Party being There is no cause for an ex- enterprise. The words put into

still short of high-class legal plosion of public hysteria at this We have a new stock of the mouth of George Arliss in a distribute motion pictures on a political leg-up by his appointment

That it is possible to make and talent, he was given

Information. BB early

National disaster recent. film shown in Hongkong considerable scale without the

(Continued on Page 5.) Sports Shirts in this

may be quoted here: "You can't block-booking system has been run a business by lying down on proved in England, where

the excellent material.

the job; when a business is system was abolished several years running down, that's when ago. It is freely stated that this you've got to spend money about a betterment in the quality change in England has brought you've got to advertise." So is of British-made films. On the Colours. White, Yellow,it in times of depression-those other hand, the American- pro-

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We also make to mea-need, it seems to us, is not for

The subject has many ramificn- restriction of endeavour along gressional hearing is bound to de

tions which tho prosent con these lines, but for bigger and something to clarify. Meanwhile, better trade exhibitions. Even various organisations have enter if the benefits cannot be im-ed upon a determined campaign mediately assessed, the cumula against the block-booking system, tive effect must be good. There charging it with responsibility for is even room for something in a great deal that is undesirable in the nature of a permanent ex- Belmont, president of the Motion current film fare. Mrs. August hibition, which to wholeanle Picture Research Council, has de firms would serve the purpose of Anitely named block booking na a shop-window. Admittedly, it is the point of attack. The council too late now to organise an Em-is now publishing its findings in pire Day Fair for this year, but serica of books after four years there is no reason why, if a little of research. Mr. Calvin Coolidge energy and enthusiasm is dis- and Mrs. James Roosevelt, mother played, an exhibition should not of President Roosevelt, have recently become honorary vice.

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"You gave him a dollar for it? Why, it's the same book

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hell.

It was too cold for fellyfish and after all we weren't jellylish. We cropt bacit to our matshed, back to the comfortable proximity of the cockroach and the spidor and there restored our circulation with fodine and judicious patting on the back. Hours later when we had tramp- ed the intervening milce back to the City we felt that conscientious glow that comes to the man who has dono hla stuff.

We took a hot bath and creeping- back to bed fell asleep dreaming that we really had gone bathing at. Repulse Bay and wishing to good. ness someone would wake us up to that we could start.

Nobody has yet asked the ques- - tion: "Would British allms be brighter if our stars had more divorces? (It would set well to music),

THE ISINGLASSES: Determined from a tender age

To show her talent on the

Stage,

Their daughter, lovely Lady

Toota,

At last walka on in "Pusa in

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The daughter of a belted Earl

Rightly displaced a chorus girl. - To make quite sure this would

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Papa put money in the show.

Daughters of Dukos did even

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To raise the tone of the

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Even the call-boy read Dobrett...