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COLONY QUOTA

DECISION Whatever else may be said of the British Government's de- cision to deal with intensive Japanese competition in textile goods by applying the quota system to the Colonial markets, no charge of precipitate action can reasonably be Inid. It is to be noted that, for the present, the system is being applied only in respect of textile goods, and that it will affect all foreign im- porters. There is no specifie discrimination against Japanese goode there cannot be under the most-favoured-naton treat- ment provided for in treaties regulating Anglo-Japanese trade

but inasmuch as the quotas are to be based on the average imports for the period 1927-1931, the effects may be more keenly felt by Japan than by other foreign competitors. That, however, is only reasonable, sec- ing that the whole aim and object of the scheme is to keep Japanese competition within more normal limits than those which have been prevailed in recent years. Regarding other iridustries which are also feeling the effects of Japanese competi- tion, the Imperial Government is considering the question of their protection, and there is a hint that action may be taken also in this sphere, but the method to be employed is more likely to be by means of tariffs than quotas. A point which naturally suggests itself is what action, if any, Japan is likely to take in the face of the adoption of the quota system in the. British Colonies. Under exist ing conditions, she cannot dis criminate against British im ports into Japan, and it is hard- ly to be supposed that she will overhaul her whole fiscal system to the extent of applying the quota systent to foreign goods in general. There is, in fact, no call for such action on her. part, for the simple reason that the factor which has induced Britain to act-intensive com. petition from outside-does not. apply in her case. It is worth noting, however, that as from May 1st Japan has decided to enforce the Trade Safeguarding Bill, which is designed to safe- Japanesc industries against restrictions taken by other countries, Under this Bill, the Government would bo empowered, after consultation with a permanent tariff com- mission of officials and business mên, to restrict or prohibit the import of designated merchand- isc. Obviously, however, discrimination could be applied against a country enjoying most-favoured-nation treatment,

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While no official statement has been made, it seems clear that the British Cabinet is determined to resist any impulse to enter into fresh commitments on the Contin- !

(re)crete close to members of

The

MR.

RUNCIMAN

By A. J. CUMMINGS

TOBODY has succeeded yet in gains with foreign countries dia-

N clucitating satisfectory the gustost the ultra-Imperialists.

The Very Idea!

TEA, TRUTHS, AND TEARS. By George "EADING tea-cups is quito a hobby nowadays among young women.

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They realise that it's easier than reading the stars and con- tains more gossipy items than the newspapers relate.

Besides it's an easy way of getting a free tea.

ten remnants

to bo

and

His clumsy threats to France pro- the Cabinet state that a definito strange case of Mr. Runciman. decision has been reached and that All his life a strait-laced Noncom voked alike the consure of Free formist Liberal, he is now the Traders and pro-French Tories, although the Prime Minister In-.

most efficient member of a pre- It is now the fashion of those who clines to favour further guarantees dominantly Consorvative Ad- want to wind up the Protectionist

When you ask a charming per- to France, he has been overruled. ministration. All his life the machine to the last turn to sug-

French Government has ablest, the most uncompromising gest either that Mr. Runciman is son a certain question which she minde it clear a score of times that and the most religious Free stumbling-block or that his docan't like to answer right away, sho can reply "You must let me it bases its fundamental policy Trader in British politics, he has enthusiasm is on the wane.

read your tea-epp sometime.". put his signature in the last two

I doubt whether he ever had

Safely ensconced on the guarantees or lack of gunr years to more Protectionlat men-

in some cosy "enthusiasm." Ho was cafe the girl then proceeds to ent antees which the other pawers are sures than any British statesman any

has sanctioned since the repeal willing to swallow tariffs or any gargantuan meal, stuffing herself prepared to give or refuse. The

of the Corn Laws,

other heresy which did not inter- with cakes and owocts in prepara exchange of notes between London

When as n kind of semi- fere with the balancing of the tion for the strain soon and Paris disclose that Franec, detached Simonite he entered the Budget in a "national crisis." placed on her inventive faculties.

Then with a cigarette lighted. while ready to talk about "con- National Government in 1931, he He concerns himself with making trolled rearmament" for Germany, had given solemu pledges against the best possible use of the tariff and a contented stomach she ex- still clings to its "security" thenia the taxation of food; and it was Instrument In a Protectionist presses-dissatisfaction-at-the- It asks for assurances against any understood that he had merely world. He seems Impervious to young man's disturbance, by violent means, of put his stern feeni views into cold the scornful reproaches of former orders him to drink another cup.

HIB the storage for the time being in face political associates. the status quo. It puts in

un-His third cup still being an ab- forefront of its demands the old of a national danger which to a rusted demeanour, his capacity solutely blank he has to drinic an- requirement of security by collec shipping magante and to a man of for keeping his temper and getting other, straining the last drops tive pledges of action against a great wealth must have seemed in on with the job, is a useful per- through his front teeth to save a hypothetical aggressor in clreun-those moments of organised panic sonal asset but a great exaspora- few ten leaves.

Should the diflculty of drinking stances which cannot be defined in like the approach of the end of all tlon to his opponeta. advance. And as it has always

things.

His mind is tinged with poli- the tea without the tea leaves be

insuperable tical scepticism. He said only acomo

by normat been quite obviously, improbable that the great powers will make Some of his friends on the year or two ago; "As years go on methods, the ten should be drunk Huch promises it follows that Liberal Council-that queer little I am getting lower opinion of through a strainor.or sucked up Franco is forced back to an at body, whose chief function In by the Purliamentary solution of through a straw. titude of vigilance, of prepared. gone days was to mark down way- great problems." It was, in fact, ness and indeed of distrust,

ward

or heterodox Liberals no great wrench for him to turn available and there is no straw, asured me that Mr. Runciman's sharply to the Right and go all you had better cat your loft boot. presence in the Cabinet would be the way with a Government of and hop through a top window

valuable anfeguard against the Right charged

'cause there's nothing else we can with Protectionist extremism. When "national" duty. He was not do for you, tariffs were put on, they assured Radical but a Whig. In a finan- me that but for the resolution and cial crisis a rich Whig goca Right ingenuity of Mr. Runciman they by instinct. would have been much higher..

"AFRAID"

That is, expressed bluntly, the salient fact in European life to day. After 1870, when Prussia défented France, and there was created the German Empire, It is recorded that Bismarck, the Blood-

nd-Iron Chancellor, was " He was afraid of France. he had crushed and humiliated France. I was precisely because "afraid." And since 1918, France of the German victory that he was has been "afraid" of Germany That fear has dominated ita foreign outlook. Everything France has done has been in- tuenced by the uneasy conscious- ness that in victory there is menace.

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CLASH ON HORIZON

No sound observer car uppose, that. Germany to-day intends to precipitate war. But it is certain that unless there is a change in diplomatic methods of dealing with an untenable situation, there will some day be a clash. That is why France is still elamouring. und in the nature, of the case must

continue to clamour, for help from Great Britain, and presumably from the United States, in the event of fresh strife in Europe, Yet such help cannot be offered unknown and unforeseeable circumstances. Even though it to inscribed in documents, those do- cuments are little stronger than the support which the force of public opinion gives them. Eng- land and America made a pact

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If an ordinary strainer is not

Having arrived at the bottom of the cup (or the street) we. And a nent array of tea leaves sprend- engled in various gymnastic at- titudos round the Inside of the cup. or if your aim is not a good one, somewhere round the saucer.

the

As the tariffs become steeper and After looking at his speeches more extensive and the system and writings from the beginning became mare firmly established, I of his public career I cannot and heard less and less from these any evidence that Mr. Runciman's These latter are out of the

apologists for an erring sheep of philosophy went very much he game and it is not within the innermost fold. Now I do rot yond a demand for rigid economy ethics of the sport to pick them hear from them at all.

and for leaving Big Business to and drop them inside the field of At first the Government and its conduct its affairs unhampered by play. Nor should any of the little Conservative supporters were in the State, He was a Free Truder fellows be tickled Into positions so transports of delights at the show because he Was u shipowner. that they indicate good luck where ing of this distinguished recruit Though kindly and humane, he formerly they gave a true fore who expounded Tarif Bill withị paid lip-service and little more to cast. more skill, clarity and force than the cause of those large social re- All being now set the girl starts all the professed Tariffists com- forms which affect deeply the off. bined, and who confounded, lives of the poor and involve Jarge through his air of deadly accuracy spendings of public money. and his superior knowledge of He distrusted on that account business affairs and of the the fierce ardours of men ice Mr. technical intricacies of his sub- Lloyd George who framed People's "You are going to have an un- feet, a broken Opposition deflelent Budgets and thought politically expected alice of luck-In your alike in debating talent and in in terms of human beings. He profession. But a woman will help

the believed honestly that the best you a lot later on." trained familiarity with economica of trade,

way and the proper way of serving the poor was to encourage Big Business and to eschew "risky" State experimente.

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minds

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"I think this is going to be a very lucky year for you," she says Bafely.

"What sort of woman"? you ask, looking hopefully at your brunette captor.

"I can't quite gee what sort of a woman but she is young, Yes, and pretty."

"Will I marry her?""

"Anyway you will be going away for-a-long-trip

"But they can't suck me! I'm on contract !"

"And you will come back with something extra."

It was a singular spectacle. As I watched Mr. Runciman pouring cold derision upon the feeble efforts of the Labour Front Bench to meet his challenge I could not Even in such a Government as he cannot conceal his help thinking how well he would this.

"Oh, I can't say that. You sec have answered his own argu- Intense dislike of State subsidies. ments; and

I wondered what He is for ever preaching against you gargled with this little patch emotions were being aroused in the economic evil of shipping sub-of ten leaves and upset the fates." the breasts of Liberni Free Tra- sidica; and it is known that he did ders who sat beside him or-behind-not-see-eye-to-eye-with other him with the Government and members of the Cabinet in the whose mouths and

were long-drawn-out negotiations with closed to the issue.

the Cunard Company over the building of the now liner. He is In those early days the Consor- a capable and experienced busi- vative Press, almost hysterical ness mau, a first-clasa administra- in its joy, over the discovery of a tor and shrewd in counsel. Ho in new master of tariff exposition, knows his own job more thorough- singled him out as the statesman ly than any of his Ministerial as France, served its historic pur-most fitted to succeed Mr. Ramsay colleagues know theirs; and pro- pose, but is not sufficient to satisfy whim. Mr. Runciman is a dis-efficiently than they do it them- MacDonald. It was but a passing bably he could do their work more the French, who perceive that in the upshot Great Britain reserves

carded favourile Protection is selves. A valuable man in any the full right to decide for itself no longer in need of an artifical) Government. when a problem presents itself and stimulus from a notorious Free Runelman has not tied its hands. Europe Trade convert. Mr.

His "black pacte" by which ho cannot be stereotyped; and Britain, himself is now a little suspect. as well as the United States, is reluctant to say anything which has attempted to make Tariff bar- will irretrievably rango it on one skle or the other.

with France in 1919, but it was never ratified. The Locarno pact. which guaranteed Germany as well

NOT TO BE DRAWN

Indeed, a feeling la growing in some quarters that the best way of keeping peace In Europe is to de- eline, flatly, to bo drawn into a now war. There could not be a long war, unless Great Britain and the United States financed it, as they financed the War of 1914 to 1918: Honce the proposal of an embargo en exports and credits to belligerent countries by the Eng- lish-speaking peoples. The move.. ment of thought which at one time might conceivably have led to the giving of pledges to France or any other

country to assist it in a war has alowed down, if in fact it

not turned in the opposite direction. The withholding, not only, of military aid, but of com- modities and of loane, is held by many to be a simpler, more prac tical method. Yet it also is a guarantee, a negative guarantee, which might be hard to full. And it secks merely to stop war, not to establisk justice and good will. One trusts that France will realise that its hope of peace lles

rather in coming to terms with its formor enemy, French policy, In relying on guarantees, sanctions, alliance for security, la relying on a chimera. Becurity can be found only in the good relations of the people, and in this particular con- nection in the good relations of the French and German peoples.

as Britain is, until the treaty Fin neither of those paths, but making provision for such treatment had been abrogated. That course is admittedly open to Japan as a counter-move against Britain's quota decision, but it is hardly to be expected that the Tokyo Government will take auch a drastic step at this juncture,

I do not agree with the caustic eriticism I heard the other day from a well-known politician that Mr. Runciman's speeches are far (Continued on-Pago 4.)

"Dear sir: In response to your recent order, our firm je putting forth every effort

"It must be a honeymoon, then." "There is nothing dishonourable

your life until the end."

"I suppose that's when they find out all about the beginning.

"But again a woman will help A very old and ugly woman." you. This time

"Probably still my wife," (vin- dictively).

acquaintance,

"No, Just

п

dear," says she.

At this point the manager aconta trouble and taking the cup away puts a chit on the table.

**

The end of the drought at last,

will make

We gardenera smile again, For I've notice that my bulba

have grown,

More hyacinth the rain.

THE BURNING QUESTION Who is to captain England? Yo

priests and pundits, speaki We must make some decision-the

Committee meets next week; Shall it be Neville Chamb'lain-or

is his "drive" too "slow"? Who is to captain England? We

plain men want to know,

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Who is to captain England? The

question doth perplex.

Why not select some member of the

more persistent sex? -Miss Crool, the crochet cham-

pion? Or is her "hook" "fine"?

too

Who is to captain England? Who

fights, for me and mine?

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Who is to captain England? Old

fogles, hold you back? Why not appoint some "driver" with experience of the track? We might try Malcolm Campbell- or his "glido" too "fast"?

Who la to captain England? ""Tis

time the die wero cost!

Who is to captain England?: Some

atalwart soul and keen- Who understands "projection" and

the uses of the screen? What about Greta Garboor is her

"gianco" too "bright" wri Who is to captain England in this,

--her grontést Dght?

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