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THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH FRIDAY,

AUGUST

31, 1934.

NOT A JEW

SIR JOHN SIMON DENIES RUMOUR

Simon should have found it neces- DRINK AND DEATH BUS BODY A SUMMER need for Mr. Butters to submit sary to give public contradiction

to the story that he is of Jewish

{descent writes a London, corres- pondent). Even if he were, the,

British public would think hons Fomalo Alcoholism “A

the

HOUSE?

plans or to get the Council's con- sent.

Mr. D. Grudgings, Clerk of the Benfleet Council, said he had been

worse of him; his immediate Peculiarity Of England" Knotty Problem Before able to find any legal definition

predecessor, Lord Reading, was n member of that race, and it was

Widowers, divorced people, and

"ORDINARY BRITON"vor suggested that he was under bachelors are more prominent in

be distorted into some sympathy

Into their

to

Magistrates

“

Can the body of a bus be termed a summer-houen?

of a summer-house, which, how- ever was described in a dictionary as "a building in a garden.” The field in which Mr. Butters and pinoed his bus body could not be Bald to be a gardon.

Mr. Bostley såld his cllent desir-

handicap in consequence. tho figures of mortality · duo Statements that Sir John Simon alcoholism than married mon, and A rumour that he is a Jow in

of Jowish origin have been the formor groups are more sus denied by Sir John Simon in a current for many years. I remem-ceptible to the injurious influence lotter to Sir Archibald Hurd. Sir bor hearing them when he first of alcohol

This question was raised at John at the same time expresses took office; and like most others, I the hope that life denial will not never thought it worth while to Dr. Bandol, of Nuremberg, speak adjourned until October 3 a sum- as a summer-house. I find in the This was a statement rande by Southend, when the County Benched to use the bus simply and solely with anti-Semitism, an altitudo personal appearance fall, ighting on alcoholism and mortality at mons against Frunk Butters. Oxford Dictionary," he said, "that which he regards as un-English, brown-haired, and blue-eyed-Is the International Congress on builder, Westcliff, alleging that a summer-house la defined on a and which he utterly condemns.

Alcoholism at the Imperial In he had erected a temporary build- alone a suficient refutation.

atructure in a garden or park, The Foreign Secretary's

very aimple and often usually y's letter In

But if the suggestions in ques-stitute, Kensington,

ing at South Benfleet without the artistic in character, designed to a reply to one from Sir Archibald, tion are being used to create pre- bringing to his notice statements judice it is as well that they should mortality of the Jows, whose

He also said that the specific consent of the Local Authority. provide a cool and shady place in

the heat of the summer," which have been current in this be silenced once and for all. Sir nobriety

Mr. Butters placed the body of a country as well as abroad for John's reference to the fact that diminished at all as a result of double-decker omnibus in a field

la proverbial, hardly

The Chairman said the question some time, that Sir John is of his father came from Pembroke reduced alcohol consumption dur with the intention of using it as Local Authorities, and, in the was a most important ano for Jowish origin and that his an-shire does not necessarily prove ing the war. This was in con- cestry has powerfully influenced

a summer-house, and the question absenco of any legal definition, the that he was Welsh. A friend who

the Christian the

was whether a bus body could be Bench had decided to adjourn the policy of the National Govern knows that county well tells me toast with that of ment since he became Secretary of that, in some of the villages the population of the same region in

termed a summer-house within the case so that they might have Prussia and Budapest. State for Foreign Affairs.

inhabitants are of pure Flemish The letter in as follows:---

meaning of the Council's by-laws. further opportunity of pursuing descent, and have been settled "England occupies a situation "Dear Sir Archibald-Thank

which should have some per- you very much for your letter. I there for centuries. Though they apart. During and after the war "If it is," said Mr. W. Bestley, the question and giving a decision know there are a number of people are surrounded by a Welsh-speak her alcohol consumption was, In-who defended, "then there was no manency.

Ing population, they know not a deed, diminished, and yet the spread the word of that language, and politi-specific male mortality did not fall." rumour that 1 am a Jow, and even clans touring the constituency The cause most be sought in the that my Jewish associations have have to make careful Inquiries comparatively large proportion of an influenco on the foreign policy beforehand lest, under the impres-female alcohollem-a peculiarity of of the country.

"In fact I am just an ordinary hearers a compilment, they address

sion that they are paying their this country," Briton of Aryan stock, without any them in a tongue as unintelligible Dr. Bandel added that to-day the Jawiah admixture whatever-my to them as Greek

figures of alcoholic mortality are mother comes from an old English

lower, but they would approach family and my father was Welsh -you will find lots of Simons in

again the pre-war figures in pro- Pembrokeshire--and nobody who

portion as the alcohol consumption begins to reassume the Importance knew my relations and forebears

it kad before 1914.

who Industriously

So well marked Is the line of cleavage that one road over a hill to the Welah." is locally referred to as "the road

DIRECTED TO BERLIN."

It is to Berlin that Sir John Simon's letter explaining that he is

4

STRINGENCY RELAXED,

would imagine that they were Jewish. Biblical surnames like Matthew and John and Mathias aro a commonplace in those parts. not of Jewish stock is really direct a comparison of alcohol legislation Dr. R. Hercod (Lausanne) made "The only reason for which ed (says Peterboro in the Daily in Europe in 1922 and the present, have never hitherto attempted Telegraph). The now diplomatic and pointed out that several coun- publlely to deny this rumour, is circles there find it Impossible to tries have relaxed the stringency that I think the same allliness or believe that a man bearing such of their laws or are about to do so. malice

might attempt to distort the a name can be of Aryan blood. danial into some sympathy with Many other English and es He gave among the causes that the anti-Semitism an attitude witch pecially American-names must be mated a great part of the popula

spirit of self-sacrifice which ani. 1 regard as un-English and which similarly deceptive to the foreign-tion during and immediately after I utterly condemn. I count among er. Even Biblical Christian the war has disappeared. Alarm- my friends some English Jews name such as that of Mr. Isnated by American Prohibition, the whose British outlook and patrio- Foct, M.P.. is sometimes sufficient liquor trade tle services should put their crities to mislead. Isaac, either

organised Itself to shame, and I would not for the Christian or surname, is very com- nationally and ita propaganda has strongly nationally and inter- world hurt their feelings or write mon in Cornwall.

exercised an appreciable influeneo sa though their ancient and These namea, of course, are

upon public opinion, on the Parlia honourable lineage could be a mat-jofton a heritage from Puritan ments, and the Governments, tor for

days, and sometimes came to be "Butproach,

I in the circumstances. adopted as surnames as woll ne you mention, you think it would be Christian names. right and in the public interest to do so you are welcome to publish this letter."

"HUMILIATING.""

ลส

This Puritan origin doubtless accounts for the prevalence in the United States auch names as Amos, borne by members of old It la humiliating that Sir John New England familios.

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