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FRIDAY,

AUGUST 23, 1934.

NOTES OF THE DAY A NEW LEAGUE The Very Idea!

WAR RUMOURS

sible

COVENANT·

By JAMES T. SHOTWELL

WHAT WEALTH CAN DO

By the Earl of Eddie-Kelly.

MR. Kelly was instructed

World uneasiness being as acuto. as it is, cries of alarm and sansa. tional predictions are an inevitable outflow. A widespread feeling of crisis la manifest everywhere which the declarations of respon- statesmen 'do nothing to

weather. TTOW many times we have beoni goes without anying: Germany's allas. In these circumstances, reader writes complaining of the told during the last ten years return to the League depends on omphasis placed upon "morbid news," adding: "From much more that Europe was about to burst whether it can return on what it would regard na equal terms. than into flames, that there was no Soviet Russin, too, is seriously be relied upon sources those from which your sennational other possible alternative but war considering joining the Lengue, rumours are derived, I understand to settle the issues between Ger- but apparently, like Germany and that war In most unlikely as all

to

a

The most outspoken have

10

write something_about_the weather for to-day's "Very. Idem.". Ile protests, however, that there fa no humour In this kind of But Mr. Kelly is not feeling humorous this week. Last month, a rich Uncle, in whom Mr. Kelly had placed great faith, died and cut him off with the proverbial Ahlling. What Is annoying Mr. Kelly is the fact that he added a sixpence to the suilling to convert it into a dollar, and han now discovered that the dal

Now read an.

the Powers (that count) desirey and Poland, or those which the United States, it would make the enmities of the this act contingent upon Covenant Peace. In any case why scare the kept alive

Iar la 'dud. Balkan countrical revision. Even in Japan the same Hongkong pablle. Botter for Danublan or

kind of discussion la going on. publish

cheerful for So convincingly have these pro- It is time to take stock of tho somely during the phocles been advanced that it is movement as a whole.

WE were reading in the change, present inclement weather." It

only after a long stretch of yearsį

paper this morning that should only be

to be necessary stress that it is the business of a that their fallacies become appare the Italian Fascists. Their sug-the biggest alices of London's newspaper to feature the high-spotent, and by that time so many other gestions for Covenant revision most valuable property are nows that comes to hand, whether things have happened that one have been obviously directed to-divided between dukes, earls,

be depressing or otherwise; it tends to forget how much one has can hardly be expected to convey been deluded. Impressions of a false security, or manufacture brightness oven for the sake of publishing "something cheerful" during a period of incle ment weather.

PEACE MACHINERY

a

ward securing for the great

the was

as

WAB

Wo

larger place in the determination lords, and Lord knows what. Most of them received their of League policy. The reaction

heritages and At the present time the enemies against this on the part of the property. of the League of Nations are pro- smaller powers was definitely sot legacies.

Strangely enough, our name phesying its elimination from in- forth by the Government of the ternational affairs, basing their Netherlands in a memorandum to wasn't mentioned In the paper, but forecast on the withdrawal of the League seeking to forestall it's so long ago now ainco Japan and Germany and the ab- any discussion tending in this were in England that United Press sence of the United States and direction. This balancing af and Reder, have probably for- It would give us Infinitely more Russia. This leaves it, in their great and small powers is one of gotten us.

Most of our legacies have pleasure to announce that all opinion, as an empty shell which the most difficult of questions in zations had subscribed whole- must in the not distant future be international organisation. It de- brought nothing but bother to us, heartedly to the principle of col-discarded by all practical-minded inyed for many years the creation and of the large number we have lective responsibility for peace statesmen. Recent events, how of the World Court. The com- received, we think the one from which method, finally, offers the ever, show that this conclusion is promise worked out in the League our grandfather, the old Early was sole guarantee of an established based upon a superficial view of between Council and Assembly the most trying.

When the Enri great advance on anything

found peace than to publish hints of international relations In a threatened breach. Unhapplly, world to-day and that it is not so in the past, but for a dynamic hanging from a nail in the ban- the International picture to-day onsy to return to the old; danger- statesman like Mussolint it still queting hall, little did the sorrow- contning scarcely one really bright oug anarchy of the nineteenth leaves too many checks to actioning, vilingers think that the new spot. Nations that at one time century state system as the reac-in the hands of those not im master would be young Eddie, the

tive doctrine are withdrawing.

not be a reform, however, to has done so much to help the No change in world balance is

The League of Nations is in the Ignore the International demo-struggling Hongkong and Shang- more serious than Great Britain's midst of a great crisis; there can cracy represented by the smaller hai Hotels Ltd. in the past few

It has falled powers, or inv

Invite the return of any decision to place added reliance be no doubt of that.

Holy Alliance. upon an enlarged air force. Yet in a major test of its ability to thing resembling Britain's self-defence activities preserve international peace in As for American policy, while fully cannot fairly be criticised. They Manchuria--and in some lesser appreciating the need for efficiency, mean that events have compelled tests as well-in South America. it would be a singular denial of the abandonment of hope for dis-If it is to be thought of only as whole trend of our history to align

We were changing the water in of nations, it is ourselves with the great powers the mont one morning when one armament and stability in Europe, the policeman

there against the small, or to contribute of the villagers approached and, mildly, world's

mechanism clear that, to put peace seems to have run down. Hence are definite limits to its capacity. to a return of the old balance of pulling a plece out of his fetlock, Britain's determination to fashion Moreover, the universal growth in power.

anid,

be beggin' pardon, zur, but an independent machine. The armaments is a further sign of its

The way out is not to take sides lads of village do be sayin' that fact has significance far more than inability to function as an organ the re-armament of any other that maintains peace by the threat in the issue which Mussolini raises, chapel be on fire. Have you got

but to come at the problem of empty bucket to lend, zur nation. Britain has for years of power internationally organ

"No, varlet," we Bald sadly, the outstanding faithfulised and internationally directed. world organisation by a recasting

If this kind of police action were of the machinery of the League so we have no empty bucket. The have is full of operator of the established peace all that the League was organised jus to make more effective still the only bucket wo niechanism. Inst. The last before what?

It has hung on to the perform, it most likely would be great contribution which it has dirty water."

Hongkong Telegraph.netia interested, it would well-ionown philanthropist,

The

been

PUBLIC OPINION

to

discarded in the way in which its made to diplomney through the erities have expected. Fortunate-systematic practice of the confer- ly, however, the League of Nations ence method.

J

years.

People who live in Kowloon and other commoners cannot understand the dimeultles of managing a big estate.

That do be too bad," he

replied.

Just then the under-gardener's secretary come rushing up to us. The answer to the question. is is much more than this much International conference is n

"Sire!" ho panted, "about two In the lap of the gods, but it would mare, indeed, that sober judgment device which has been much ridicul hundred of your polo ponies have be foolish to blind ourselves to the calls for reform to strengthen it ed in certain quarters in the broken out of the stables and facts and optimistically carry on instead of discarding it as an out- American press. Will Rogers does have already smashed about three as though all were right with the Worn instrument.

not believe in it But then he acres of greenhouse." world. The strong pressure of

writes as though he did not be We Just give you these two public opinion towards peace may,

lieve in representative government instances to show you what of course, prove of primary im- Just how this can be done will either. Thoughtless people, dls- worries wealth can bring. portance and stay the hands of

Under the conditions of the old be a subject of growing Interest couraged by folly in high places, those who are prepared for the in the coming months. Already sometimes talk as though the prin- Earl's will, we were compelled, to the question of Covenant revision ciple of representation in govern- marry Lady Diane Montgomery "next confilet." There is a very influential school of thought which has become a live subject of ment should be discarded from bath Pomery Cholmondeley (pro- conscientiously believes that war political debate in Europe. In national state and international nounced Mi). is a curse to humanity. Were it France there is a widespread organisations. But history ghows

We didn't mind this. The Lady well organised we could breathe movement to recast the obligations that the alternative, which is Diana wan the toast of the metro- more freely; but there is no of peace enforcement so that irresponsible leadership, is only polls, probably because she was JustiGention for confidence yet: nations like the United States may good for crises. Most of the busi-better bred. But one day while and, what is more, the toning Join the Longue without becoming ness of nations, both in domestic we were olling the drawbridge, down of alarming news would involved in strictly European and foreign affairs, is the quiet, she came bowling up to the castle certainly not help to master public opinion towards direct resistanco

Hurling the bag at our feet, she to war. On the contrary, only by Great Britain can take on duties conditions, which do not or need said: "Take back your diamonds!"* keeping a war thrent-when it under the Covenant which the not create crises at all. Most of We were so surprised that our exists constantly before the pub Dominions might be unwilling to these things take care of them-coronet fell off and rolled down He eye can the enemies of milli- practically unanimous in thinking government, and this should con

share; but Britlah opinion is selves, without the action of the drive, tariam marshal their full strength. that the Covenant should be cut tinue to be the case, both nation-with old-fashioned courtesy.

"What's biting you?" we said,

SELF-ASSERTIVE FACTS

loose from the peace treaties in ally and internationally. Never- Waving the puncton passionate- order to make sure of Germany'stheless, the chief business, of ly at us, she replied: "I will not return to the League. That Ger- government, apart from the main-be a bird in a gilded cage, All many shares this point of viewi (Continued on Page 10.)

FRIDAY, AUG. 3, 1934.

THE EUROPEAN OUTLOOK However sober an outlook is taken of the position in Europe, the conclusion is difficult to resist that, unless serious efforts are made to resist present ten-. dencies, developments may easily occur lending to a major catas- trophe. It is not so much a case of nations desiring war for war's suke as of the lack of sound leadership in the creation of the will to peace. Suspicion, dis- trust and fear are widely preval- ent, and the danger is that, with so many circumstances capable of flaring up into real trouble. affairs may be permitted to drift towards n situation from which there can be no alternative but war. At no time within the past twenty years has there been greater need for real states- manship to save mankind from the folly of another Armageddon. Efforts are being made in some quarters to lay the major blame for the present conditions on Britain. It is declared that by permitting the impression to gain currency on the Continent that she intends taking refuge in a policy of isolation, rather than enter into any fresh guar- antecs, Britain has encouraged Germany to believe that she can go to the limit in re-armament, without any likelihood of inter- ference, and that, for the same reasons, France, more and more convinced that she may be left The facts of the world political to face an aggressive neighbour situation self-assertive. A alone, is bent on strengthening peacefully-minded world Burely her own forces and reinforcing

cannot be associated with a United States, claiming to be the most a ring of alliances about Ger-

realistic peace-loving nation in the many. Those who argue thus dlate Britain's isolationist policy

world, building scores of warshipa, hundreds of war planes, calling from the time of the Manchurian for thousands of now troops and crisis, and assert that if a firm sailors, and crying "Wolf" every stand had then been taken, the

week or so in the Panama Canal. eventual outcome would have Again, no living publicist is of been to head off another Euro-

higher repute thinn Mr. Wickham Steed. On the strength of docu- penn war. The charge is not too

ments obtained from Germany. convincing and is somewhat

which he belleves as genuine as lacking in logical basis. Sir terrible, he has just published an John Simon bas been especially article astounding in its content singled out by the critics for concerning secret German plans luck of wise direction of Brit- for aerial warfare. Conditions in ain's foreign policy, but, as Mr.

London and Paris are specifically Wickham Steed, former editor

examined “with a view to chemical of the Times, has pointed out,

or bacteriological infection" In the blame, if any,

reports to the German War Office, cannot be The genuineness of the documenta wholly laid at the door of the

will, of course, be denied. But Foreign Secretary; the whole Mr. Wickham Steed forces civilina- Cabinet is responsible for the tion to look horror in the face. conduct

of foreign affairs.

Without a doubt, the Govern-

ment rightly assesses the state

are

thing which will prevent another

of public feeling in sitting its upheaval is a world peace organ- face against fresh commitments Įisation so strong that the would- on the Continent, but it is pre- be aggressor will be held in check cisely on this point that its for the simple reason that he will critles abroad accuse it of follow- know that he cannot win. But ing a policy of drift, or a 'dis- no such organisation is possible position to take the line of lenst whilst there are leading nations resistance. As against this standing aloof. Tho tragedy of charge, must be placed the the situation is that whilst the untiring efforts of the Govern- means to preserve pence aro ment to bring about a practical apparent, the differences of scheme of disarmament, failure opinion as between the nations to achieve which certainly can- are so acuto ns to frustrate the not be laid at Britain's door. aims of those who wish to see When the facts are

faced, it harmony and concord the estab

must be conceded that the only 'lished rule.

vision of opinion as to how far interests under normal, peace-time issues, In Englund there is more or less obscure, pursuit of in her phaeton with a flour bag.

"Cortainly, I'm dressed botter than any woman here, but this.

crowd is, so stupid they don't even know it.'

that I want is LOVE! Do you get that? Love, and big slabs of it."

We nummoned a handful of lackeys who happened to be loafing around and said: "Tose this woman off the promison.”

That was the last we saw of her. We were pretty good at riding at hounds, too, and seldom was there a hunt when we didn't bag at least three hounds.

Well, anyhow after this our solicitors, Promly, Jackson, Meed. Promly, Jackson, Meed, Meed and Mead, wrote to us aaying that the forms of the will were not being fulfilled, and what about it?

We

nt trout fishing

the time,

using a dry fly, one of those files you drink with when there's no one around. We said to the servant who was holding the rod for us. Tell the man who is winding the line in to tell the man who is taking the trout off the hook that we have finished fishing." The word was passed down the line, and we wended our way back to the caatio.

We had one last look at the portraits of those long-forgotten Kellys, cast a wistful glance over the castle, to the great astonish- mont of the butler, who туда unaware that wo wan the inter Varsity glanco-caating champion- ship with a cast of 285 foot 11 Inches, and left the scene, never (to roturm

That, Jadies and gentlemen, is our story, and we're sticking to

it

We still retain our title as the

thirteenth Earl, but we'd prefor

that you just call us Eddio.

Or, if you're waking, calt us: Early.