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NOTES OF THE DAY THE CHANCES OF The Very Idea!

SIX-POWER LOCARNO"

OTTO HAPSBURG

By A. EGYEDI EDDY

DIRGE OF LAUGHTER.

MANY

By George

a much-maligned male will be present to

Rusala's suggestions for a Six- Power Locarne" of the Far East suffered the fate of the Japanes0 proposal for a non-aggression pact with the United States. They. both fell fint, America dropping both ideas like hot bricks. The Kusalan schemo had something to

ANYONE who knows the Hapsburgs, who were at that time see The Invisible Man" to- commend it; the Japanese pro-

political situation in all powerful in the neighbouring night-excuse the unavoid- posal nane. A six-Power Locarns would at least stabilise present Hungary does not believe countries, were invited to occupy able joke-in an effort to conditions in the Pacific, but it was doomed by Tokyo's immediate that the restoration of the due course they obtained the right discover the secrets of hiding and quite justified interpretation Hapsburg Dynasty is at of perpetual succession to the a guilty conscience; conceal- throne, from the soft hearted|ing a large internal consumption that was designed to ring her

of boozo; and making himself in- Hungarians.

visible as he breaks into his own ̈ house in the early hours of the morning.

round. The Soviets would be get-hand.

the throne of Hungary. And in

ting much. pirotection with little

of woman Zita, who is a responsibility. On her part Japan. refector of Russian proposals for Intelligence as well as the ex-

conclude such

thoir

RUTHLESS CAMPAIGN. The gratitude for their genero- a non-aggression pact, hoped to Empress, realized long ago that

a-ruthless with a treaty

Personally we think that in- Washington and thereby close, the the prospects of the dynasty in the laity, however, was door on any settlement of out-overwhelmingly sociallat Austria Germanization campaign threaten-

national existence. Įvisibility should become general-- standing political questions in the are negligible. She know that ing Pacific. This was frivolous treat-there was a favourable tendency After 150 years of continuously applicable to human beings ment of a serious question. towards. restoration in Hungary, warfare the Hungarians made.aaoon-It has already been extended

therefore she concentrated on aupreme effort to throw off the to many other departments.

For instance, bathing costumes are educating, her son to become the yoke of the Hapsburgs in

MULTILATERAL POLITY

were no more

1848.

The International polity in the King of Hungary, Otto still has The war of Independenco was Pacific must

bo multilateral. An ox-Hungarian Instructora and if he successful, and in 1849, when now senrcely visible to the naked Austrian ye; girls' dresses have to be tarn to be believed; church congrega Boon occur if ever does become the King of there

the spirit:.. bilateral methods were introduced. Hungary, he will be the first troops on Hungarian territory, tions are only present plosion would Stability in the Orient, was under In-written by all the principal powers, Hapsburg to talk fluently the Franz Joseph appealed to the

who abandoned tons and guns at language of the country of which Russian Czar whose troops crashed and the monthly pay cheque is in-

the independence movement of the visible under a pile of 1.0.U.S.

If we were an invisible man iva the Washington Conference in 1921 he is the king. in exclrange for political agree-

This may sound incredible, it is Hungarians executing. 13 of their

was could have a great time treading monts. And these agreements were extremely specific. They Insured the truth nevertheless. The fact most herole generals. It the status quo of Pacific relations is that the Austrians are Germans, shortly after thie that Austrian on policeman's feet, having free by a security pact. They also while the Hungarians are an alto armies occupied Lombardia and rides in buses, and sitting with the guaranteed the territorial Integrity

• •

•

This interrelation and inter-ently perfect political unity the to do the fighting.

naval

agreements

DIRGE OF GEORGE. When, vacant eyed, we pause and

stop

And cogitate upon this rot, And think of all the grind that

goes!

Merely to wrinkle up your nose, We wonder if it's worth tho

while

To cramp our modest natural..

style; To dissipate a natural humour In daily chat of joke and rumour; To pull the honest gentry's leg And holst the lowly up a peg; To make a laugh at your expense Earn us a monthly heap of

pence;

However, as it is, we have to and administrative independence gather different race and speak a Venice, the Autrians thus becom-girl in her office. of China. Only after these open language as different from German ing the most hated enemies of the questions had been closed were the as English is from Chinese. The Italians. The same fate befell content ourselves with making powers able

to come to a limitation outside world became to regard Bohemin in the 16th, and Poland jokes that you can't see. of armaments agreement on a basis Austria-Hungary as one nation on In the 18th Century. In all these which ensured the supremacy of

the fact that both wars of conquest and plunder the every Pacific fleet in home waters.nccount of

countries had the same king and Hapsburgs always protected thair the same ambassadors abroad, but own kin by keeping them on home NAVAL ISSUES SECOND

behind the curtain of this appar duty and sending the other fellow dependence of the political and Hungarians had to sustain a con-

The old family sock, however, signed ut

the had become too worn to engulf tinuous struggle against Washington was concisely stated Germanizing tendencies of the Serbia (now Yugoslavia), and by Mr. Stimson in his famous com- Hapsburgs threatening the nation everybody knows the debacle which munication to Senator Borah In

expand on the Balkans in 1914. February 1932. It was instantly al and cultural life of Hungary, followed the Austrian attempt to controverted by the Japancac.

HUNGARY'S HISTORY.

The position to-day is that no- But the fact was so patent that: even Japancae publicista could not How did the Hapsburgs entor body, except the Hungarian aris blot out the time schedule. It into the history of Hungary which tocrats want Otto and they want The aristocrats have was only after the political prob-has been an independent country to have him back for purely solfish

Far East had been since the ninth century and had a reasons. TRAFFIC PROBLEMS

The pond may waited, wir behavingles. Canfor constitution as far back as A.D. always been the mainstay of the

gre

the 1241 Valinghouse. They marked interest the Inaugura-chce that

ziga a naval limitation agreement. Magna Charta?

satellites of the king and they can tion of Hongkong's new automa-

This latter clinched the nexus

only shine when the sun illumin- tic traffic signalling device, in

provided by the order of the con- The Hapsburg dynasty originat-ates them. At present they are at the hope that it will contribute ference. Article 19 of the navaled in Saxony (Southern Germany, the last ditch defending the ruins to a greater measure of safety treaty, stabiilzed the status quo in between Bavaria and Thuringia) of their estates in face of the for users of those thoroughfares regard to fortifications and naval and its history is a large scale increasing number of land reforms, of the most basos. There could not have been edition of the life of a Saxon and only the return where

is congestion

ordinance peasant hoarding wealth in his authority personified in the king evident. The Colony's traffic any such self-denying problem, especially in the matter in the absence of a security agree-sack. There was nothing chival can save them from final destruc- of securing greater protectionment, What has happened since rous or romantle about the rise of tion

this obscure family which came historic conference is nothing for pedestrians, increases in short of an uprooting of this inter into the limelight in the 12th- complexity as time goes on, national polity. The Four Power century by conquering territories. It is not impossible that the This is an experience common to pact, which guaranteed the status in that part of Europe which is

Switzerland and Alsace. Interested parties will stage a most cities. Shanghai has re- quo in the islands of the Pacific, now cently been considering the is involved--because-the-Nine After-becoming the ruling house come-back and help Otto to become of Austria, then one of the many the King of Hungary The Den

which Is In. question, but the municipal Power pact is in tatters.

Germanic kingdoms, the Hapsburgs sant population authorities have been unable to

kept on filling the family sock absolute majority would not mind having a king, but the Government through lucky marriages, force make up their minds as to what more can be done to ease the

The powers were on sure ground and subterfuge. There is not one of Hungary to-day is perfectly of the situation. Two points which when they invoked the Nine Power "beau gesto", not one noble deed, capable of taking care have recently been receiving act in the Munchurian dispute. not ons heroic action which can affairs of the country and does not attention are publicity measures This pact specifically safeguarded be recorded in the seven centuries at all favour the return of the at the more prominent places as Chinese sovereignty. When Japan of oxistence of this seifsh family Hapsburgs, not to mention the to the danger of crossing streets, recognised Manchukuo, which was whose life can truly be likened to Little Entente which is "dead carved away from Chinesa sover. that of an ambitious peasant against the restoration. And, and safety zones similar to those signty, it violated what as recently avidly gobbling up all the avail-after all, the Hungarians think, adopted by most large cities, as Feb. 21, 1982, she had called able land about him and using all why not have a king of their own if they must have one? Can any On the former point, one diffi- "a great beacon standing alone in possible methods of acquisition, thtaking Hungarian, who knows a culty encountered is that the the mazes of Chinese internation

After the liberation of Budapest little history, wish to see again on al rela

Such a altuation, majority of pedestrians injured relations

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WHY NOT A HUNGARIAN7

To pass the serious space of time Facetiously in doggerel rhyme; For ever out to ridicule :

The wise man as the simple fool; To hold th' ingenuous, up to fun And pawn a friend to make a

pun:

Passing as the courtly jester The grave to irritate and

pester;

Constant heard with raucous

voice

Urging the saddest to rejoice" To throw off sobor meditation And feign perhaps a false ola-

tion

To seck always the silver lining Where none is there worth while

the, finding;

•

To chatter frivolously of things From skewers, elephants, and ·

kinga;

Turning old chestnuts o'er again To seek a kernel in the grain;

· A chuckle is our great reward

And it a laugh you can afford,

in street accidents are of the under the Nine Power pact, calls from the Turks, not quite 250 years the throne of Hungary a deacond-We feel that day has not been type who are unable to read, for "full and frank communica-ngo, the Hungarians found them-ent of the Hapsburgs, the deadliest 4 king. The enemies of the liberty of peoples?

and for this reason the display-

ing of danger notices is con- sidered to be of doubtful value. Regarding types of accident most common, it is shown that mishaps do not very frequently occur at actual strect crossings; they are usually caused by pedestrians dashing across the roads in front of fast moving traffic. Most of the important creasings have pedestrian lane ways marked in yellow paint, but these are rarely used. In fact, fully ninety per cont. of Shanghai's accidents in which pedestrians are involved occur jat points which

Bro

not

; bas

tion." No parley has been held selves without under that Instrument. It been subordinated to the League Covenant and the

Kellogg pact. And now that the opportunity has arrived with the necessity for negotiating a successor to the Washingtonnával agreement which expires next year, the Japanese have endeavoured to erect a tattoo against general poll- tical discussions. All that they will consent to is bilateral conver sations for the purpose of negotint- ing non-aggression pacts that are meaningless in the circumstances of the times.

MUTUAL INSURANCE

Diplomacy has gone back to the authorised crossing places. time-worn paths of negotiation on London has · been 1 latterly the basis of facts. This is shown experimenting with safety in Europe in the activity of Russia zonca; apparently with some and France in promoting mutual. measure of success. In these inaurahce treaties,Neither the areas, the pedestrian is given League Covenant nor the Kellogg right of way over all other pact has proved to be the rock forms of traffic, but the point to tions could lean. Therefore they

upon which security-seeking na- be kept in mind is, that he is have begun to fend for themselves compulsorily required to cross in building minor but more

Hong-stantial of them kong once tried this plan, some to exclusive. Other nations","are years ago, but through lack of at liberty to join them if adequate authority in making they are so disposed. Bo there

must be no.

of tho development rule compulsory, the

the bilateral:and:

exclusive methods. In idea had to be abandoned, the

which were thrown Tho: jay-walker is still a' con- overboard

with the Anglo-Japan- stant source of trouble locally, ese alliance. On this

his issue, and as also are people who dash out this alone, depends the size of the from verandahs on to the busy navles of the principal maritime streets. If they will not co without limitation will be the price More tona and moro guna operate, the time may come that the world will pay for the whon.compulsion will have to be

absence of

any now political sys Japplied.

tom In the Pacife.

ldn't give her so many aducational toys. You know, no

body likes an awfully intelligent kiris

spent

In fruitless work. A laugh's

birt lent

And think, to-morrow, we ate.

...duo®

To try redeem your 1.0.U.; And if one day the well-spring

drica

"And the twinkle fades out from

our eyes

Witnessing barrenness Instead of

mirth,

Forecasting youthful Joy's-un-

timely dearth,

We shall yet have the right to tty quafi eng

Our sorrows in another laughi And if no clown provides the

, spirit

Ourself shall cheer us with good"

merit.

The fact which has recently

como to light that Adam died of gout must be a source of great delight to the numerous colonels, taipans, and journalists whose dia- torted old-age has been taken ar further evidence in support of Darwin's theory of the missing link

From the faded pages of the sixteenth century Saxon pe chart from which the culled, we may now be able learn in Black and White, who the kick in White Horso,

"It was mo," said Adam speaking

to our representative through the

medium of the Conven Chinoso, shorthand.