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MONDAY, JULY 23, 1934.

"INTELLECTUALS” AND WAR

MONDAY, JULY 23,

NOTES OF THE DAY

A NEW PREMIER IN TOKYO

1934.

DIFFERENT TASTES

The Very Idea!

BARE THOUGHTS

Пly George THE heat wave is reported

TH

to be passing. It is

Accidents due to the excessive long past time.

Admiral Okada's outline of the programme of the new Japanesó Cabinet was both instructive and encouraging. In fundamentals,

By ROBERT LYND continuity of the policy of his

It is the same everywhore. If predecessors in office since 1931 in

ORD REDESDALE, preelding evidently not to be disturbed; but over a Select Committee of you are a quiet man, with a tasto the Admiral brought a now tone to the House of Lords, which was for sitting in silence in your the recitation, promising, or seem-considering a Bill for the preserva-suburban garden, you can do so heat have been reported to us ing te, a better sense of proportion, tion of the amenities of the South for hours without evoking a single from far and wide and the The new Premiler is not running Downs, observed with some justice harsh thought from your neigh- | hospitals are full of people who away from Japan's problems, but that "there were all sorts of people bours. If you are a noisy man, on lost their tempers at a tempera-

the other hand, with a taste for ture of 101.. la bringing to them a spirit of in the world." responsibility rather than of Jin- Kolam. Comment is based upon a rather cryptic summary, but the very brevity signifies that Admiral Okada had nothing to say that was likely to outrage feelings abroad.

DR. SZE'S ARTICLE

•

The police cells had a fair com-

He was referring in particular letting your loud-speaker blare at to the people who want to have alfall blast through an open window, plement too, of people who lost Public Enemy Number 1 and wish their clothes at the same tempera- motor-racing track on the Downs all your neighbours regard you as and to the other equally worthy

that your wireless not were struckture, preferring to liyo in shame as nudists rather than boll to An not to have a people who want

by lightning.

honourable death,, motor-racing track on the Downs.

£1

creation.

The greatly increased subscrip tions which the International of Outdoor Livera Association

more (nudists), created a pretty prob- who had llvors lem. People thought they might as well have them outside as inside during the they accordingly

IS THIS FAIR? The great difficulty is to satisfy

Ilmsel Is this quite fair? After all, both parties. Solomon would have been hard put to. It there are probably even It can hardly be claimed for Dr. to devise a scheme for both having people who like noise and crowds Alfred Sze that he was equally

motor-racing track and not than who like quietude. Is it adreit in his diplomacy when, as having a motor-racing track on the reasonable that the hills and woods and shores of the country should

heat wave and China's Minister in Washington, Downs at the same time.

joined up. he permitted an article to be

One side says, "Preserve the be more and more handed over to

Now the Association wants to published under his name, alash- ingly attacking Japan, and insist. amenities," meaning "Leave the the peace-lovers, and that wo

The other side should grudge the noise-lovers provide a distinctive uniform for Downs alone." ing that Tokyo la only awaiting a

providing pink hair ribbons or favourable moment to embark upon says, “Let us add to the amenities," even a single down for their re-its members and is torn between The subject is to be discussed at Much na 1 sympathise with the yellow and binck striped sandals. further territorial aggrandisement, meaning "Give us a motor-racing Everything he had to say was al-track." An both kinds of amenities

cannot exist together, it is obvious noise-lovers and the crowd-lovers, gathering of the clans at the most beyond dispute, but truth in that one side must be compelled 1 confess I think that it is. The New Territories soon, Mr. Bare- not the test of timeliness in

to give way to the other. Which noise-lovers and crowd-lovers, it part to take the chair.

Gatecrashers will be dealt with publicity. The freedom of the should it be?

seama to me, have had a pretty

and Miss good time during the past half-by Mr. Armstrong

Longbottom, but Intending mem- Japanese army and navy from

century. They have taken a great hors will be given a place if they elvil control e undoubtedly an important factor in assessing I am always rather sorry for the part of the scá-const by storm. bring their own seats.

who prefer the noisy They have invaded the remotest

One of the strongest pieces of possibilities for the future. There people have been several Indications that amenities to the quiet amenities. country lanes with their triumph-propoganda for, the movement has just been issued by the Association. It is a bare sheet with the bald an- certain leaders in Japan are not They come in for all the crilicism.

quiet people Arc extra-ant houtings. satsfied with the aftermath of the ordinarily censorious. They resent Apart from this, It is impossible nouncement that: Your wife can't Mukden Incident and are awaiting noise as though it were something to divide the human race sharply wear the trousers-If the family

The

SORRY FOR NOISY PEOPLE.

the purpose

opportunity for further advances. contrary to

Now, you panting husbands, for But it is not wise for a Chinese Nature--Nature which has filled into noise-lovers and peace-lovers.joins the nudist association

the world with children and sea-Nearly everybody is a noise-lover Alatesman to make prophecies.

gulls and all manner of delightful at one moment and a peace-lover the fresh hair and the cooling

at another, and can enjoy thestreams!. Japan's empire-builders might well

noisy creatures.

jostle and clamour of Hampstead feel that if aggression is expected.

You will see the contrast be-Heath on a Bank Holiday without expectations should not he dis-tween the intolerant spirit of the wishing to ace coconut-shies and

ASIATIC DOCTRINE

it happened in London→→→ quiet man and the tolerant spirit merry-go-rounds set up at Friday- when shall we see it here? of the noisy man any Saturday street. afternoon on the river. The angler stands by his rod on the bank, atill

Marigold Grusome (old Shell-

"No," said T. "Seen what?" "The new. detachable eyelashes.

It's the brat night I've given them

More and more, as man becomes back's daughter) at Lady Titter- as a waiting heren, silent as the more urbanised, he longs to escape ing's dinner. She was dressed in fish that will not come to his hook, at times, if only for a Saturday apricot marocain. After dinner "Seen these?" she asked, point- Jow far the so-called AsiaticNobody criticises him. Nobody afternoon, from the noisy Im-she came up to me in the lounge.

ing to her face. Monroe Doctrine remains in the writes to the papers to say that prisonment of the streets into the forefront of Japanese policy to- he is a blot on the landscape and open freedom of the country.

that he ought to be suppressed, He may be a demon with the day. It is impossible to

Even the boatful of

who youths

when he prefera the accurately. Mr. Hirota whittled row past singing "Close your eyes" jazz-records at home, but there are it down formally but the threat abominably out of tune, bear him times behind the original announcement no ill-will for his saturnine soli-spectacle of a bare low hill steoped a show." has stuck and has already had im-tariness. If they address any re-in the quiet of the sunset, or a portant influence in the League's marks to him in passing, they do green lane silent but for the song no, not in tones of dislike, but of of a lark: overhead, or wooded waters invaded by no noise louder dealings with China. As Dr. Sze | genial ribaldry.

than the leaping of a trout. says, however, it is impossible to

Compare with this the attitude There relate Japanese hegemony claims of the quiet people to the noisy England both for noise in the right to the policy of the fource Doc trine. If the Japanese

A recent conference in Edin- burgh emphasised the gulf which separates

"intellectuals" the from those who have to face the stern realities of life. The disappointed. cussion was on the position of the world's intellectual leaders in the event of another war break- ing out. Herr Emil Ludwig, an eminent writer who has delved much into history and written the lives of some of Europe's most famous men, came forward with a proposal that if war ap- pear imminent, intellectual lead- ers should get together, decide which nation was the aggressor, and then call upon all the world to suppress its threat to the -peace. Alas!.the.case is never so simple as that. Each combatant is always convinced that not it but the other began the trouble. So it has always been, and so it

There will always be

are no self-confessed aggressors, and to call together an assembly of

intellectuals international

to

decide the question of aggression would only reveal them to be as hopelessly at sixes and sevens as

if they were merely exponents

a

a

of state-craft. H. G. Wells also is

an intellectual, likewise dreamer of great dreams of a better world, but he contrives at the same time to keep in touch with realities, and it was at his instance that the Edinburgh Congress was brought back to earth. He declared that he did not think Herr Ludwig's pro- posal in the slightest degree practical. That is the blunt truth of the matter. The pro- jeet is not only unpractical; it is farcical. There are intellectuals who are such good international- ists that they succeed in forget- ting that they ever had country. There are also intellec- tunts who, despite all their in- tellectuality, remain perfervid patriots all the time. These are the two types that would come together in irreconcilable clash in Herr Ludwig's Court of War Gullt. It would be simply Bed- lam. So it seema that the possession of "Intellect" does not carry any guarantee of super- Iative ability to read guch riddles, Nor, in time of international 'crisis, is it to the intellectual lenders of the world that Govern- ments and peoples look for salva- tion. Those lofty-browed giants simply are not in the running, Individually they may command much respect. Collectively they are no better than any other. body of men. Their mass psycho- logy is often futile, They live largely in a world of their own, a world that is poles apart from the world of practical affairs.

argu-

ments have any plausibility at all, they have no validity in the parti. cular situation to which they have

boatful of youths. The angler

is plenty of room in casts a look of hatred at them as place and for pence in the right disturbers of his peace, As the piace; but who will seriously main- boat progresses ever the lovely tain that noise is in the right place green reflections of the trees and on hills or on rivers? the reeds in the water, and as the

"Ah," said I. "Now you mention Marigold was quite offended. it, I have seen them somewhere. "And where, pray?" she asked. . "To-night," I said, grimly. "In my soup."

I don't think she'll speak to me

-To-day's Problem." Dear George, Will you please tell me what to do with my girl

again.

To build a noisy motor-racing when it la raining hard, it's too been applied. Chinese disintegr. raucous repertory of song con- track on the South Downs acems/hot to dance, there are no fresh tion may have gone far. It is tinues, making more noise than to me almost as gross an outrage / pletures, and my landlady la nor- and a clean living old, blonde, site of a Britisher. probably worse than the condition twenty Wordsworthian Highland as it would be to take over West row-minded? I am eighteen years that overcame China in the '90's, reapers, there is not a single lover minster Abbey as the

Yours devotedly, the neighbourhood who circus. in of, pence

Cyril. | But the Japancae suggestion that, does not regard them as an outrage

If a motor-racing track on one in consequence, China proper is in on the summer sunshine. The

not. A Dear Cyril, Why waste our part of the Downs, why danger of being parcelled out into young man, lying on his back in spheres of foreign influence, such punt reading Shelley, feels that the cinema and dance-hall at Chanc-time if you are clean ilving? We the most enthusiastle the dictates of your conscience,. as occurred in the '90's. Is false, day has been desecrated. Bird-tonbury Ring? Because nobody can't help you. You must abide by

lovers, who have come out in not even For in 1921 the powers bound nearch of reed-warblers and king-noise-lover or crowd-lover-would poor lad, or change your lodgings.

stand it. themselves in a self-denying ordin- fishers; mutter maledictions. ance to respect China's territorial! and administrative Integrity.

NEW METHOD?

•

When Japan entered into treaty relations with Manchukuo, it Japan's violated that compact, recent actions have assumed that other nations would join her In scrapping the Nine Power Pact. The so-called Asiatic Monroe Doc- trine is rightly feared in China na in reversion to the 1916 policy of of the Twenty-One Demands.

will never course the powers agree to any such line of conduct. Docs Admiral Okada's moderation offer hope of a now method of securing a composition of Far Eastern differences?

CHACO HUMANITY

The Bolivian Government has provided a new role for wireless in the bitter Gran Chaco war.

Asun- clon complained that Paraguayan soldiers taken prisoner by the Bolivian troops were being mis- troated. The accusation WAS warmiy denied. To prove Ste fair: treatment Bolivia has now set up a broadcasting station at the prison camp and each night prison- ort allowed to speak wards of In to their homes Paraguay. This

the one humane thing that has occurred in the Chaco's savage vale of exter mination,

Are

Assuranco

"Now, are you going to be'n good girl ́and at your catrols or shall, grandma leave you out of her will?"

We are not interested in the colour of your hair but would suggest that you might take the girl singing in the rain. This would probably afford a permanent solution to your problem.

Yra fly,

George.

P. S. Anyway what's wrong with having a hair cut?-G..

LESSONS IN JOURNALISM.

Truth About Women Cynical knowalls among newe- paper readers who do not belleve that anybody writes under his own name. (many people think I am really a. Peak talpan or a rice coolla) will be delighted to hear that there are no women writers for the Press.

The spinsters who write on how to keep a husband's love, the bachelor girls who live in hotels and write household hinte, the women who have never boiled egy who write cookery notes, and. the policewomen who spend thoir spare time writing about Parle fashions are all'a myth.

an

"Butterfly," "Gadabout," "Fly by-Night," "Fly. Blow" and the. reat are all ono and the samo per- Ron, an elderly, taciturn, and heavily moustached crlme porter

named Snooper, who smokes shag.

Mr. Snooper, who fa a Rotarian and a Buffalo (though he looks more like a walrus), breede white mico, wears a dickey, and is a popular figure in the Bow and Batyr, where he la the undefeated. shove ha'penny champión.

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