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NOTES OF THE DAY SHAKING OFF SHACKLES The Very Idea!

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In the argument as to the best means of preserving peace in the

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world there are, roughly, too "We have sald good-bye to In-sing on the country and not a few schools. One side favours heavy creased taxation and further pay are reaping the benefit in re-em- armaments as a means of war pre-cuta, and are now beginning to reap playment. Sir Henry Botterton; sticking who relinquished Cabinet rank as vention;

the other favours complete the reward of obstinacy

of to sound finance. To our story of Minister of Labour to become

I see that some of disarmament. This division opinion exists in every sphere. Bleak House we write finis, and chairman of the new. Unemploy De Henaley Hennon, an Anglican opened before us is the first chap-ment Assistance Board, saya that our readers are perturbed at 10.187,000 persons are estimated to the costumes which the Bishop, for instance, does not beter of Great Expectations."

can speak With these words Mr. Noville be employed at the present time, lieve that Britain effectively of self-respectingly In Chamberlain, Chancellor of the Ex- for 47,000 more than a month ago, actors in one of Shake- the councils of the nations and upon chequer, sized up a few months ago, 570,000 more than a year ago, and speare's delightful little effu- the economic situation In Great 849,000 more than the total im- sions are going to wear in the issue of world peace if she

Britain. He was reviewing the medintely following the crisis. follows the "mirage of pacifism” and disarms in the face of an arm- past, envisioning the future, sevor-1931. Nevertheless, there are con- the forthcoming production

than 2,000,000 in this Colony. ed world. He implica that the best ing financial shackles which had siderably more

held a nation in leash and letting people still rated as unemployed in

For myself I say with Shake- method of stopping trouble is to be prepared before it starts, that through to its citizens the Arnt the United Kingdom.

Out upon it! Too Great Britain is unquestionably speare: Britain can only be an effectual real ray of sunshine vouchsafed to

horse! Too hoarsel What making a wonderful recovery, for factor in promoting peace by her them for a derade.

r lied-up with self standing

Perhaps ho did not realize then out of the depths of a stagnation boots it anyway-or close the Bleever, fists clenched, in an the repercussions his observations worse by far than that any other wall up with our English dead. were to have on national pay-country has known, she has climbed

I think expresses, Bill's attitude of frowning defence.

chology. Their effect apon-to the top of the world in trade. views on the subject of putting the taneous. He loosed 11 wave of The upward movement started with Shakespearean actress in cumi- optimism that has grown steadily the crisis of 1981, which shook the knickers and false teeth but what in volume, And so to-day we see financial structure of the country he would say if the actors came on The Archbishop of Canterbury,rent Britain riding the crest of to its foundations. What happen-sucking, Dairy Farm ice creams or

refors tu the other hand.

that wave, enjoying to the full the ed then was the culminating wearing an Anzue hat is best con- armaments on their present scale,

exhilaration that comes from uneplaade of six years' endeavour ontained in Apoliuseses speech at the saying: "Such armaments

fettered indulgence in nocial events the part of worshippers at the death of the viper which was give to an individual nation n sense I of security, but they only do so at over which hard times have for so shrine of the gold standard to per-potaoned by Queen Cleopatra's petuate economic theories blown lover, Falstaff or near relation. the coat of increasing the fear of long cast a mantle.

Then lend the eye a terrible. Dinsecurity among other nations."

Not since the war has England sky-high, by the war.

aspirin; Let it ery through the Iix Grace believes that the dan experienced such a glorious social They failed. One government corkage of the head (space), hold peace lies not in the season na that in the meat of collapsed in the endeavour. Its hard the breath! (you will not ger to world

now rovela. Brilliant "mirage of pacifcism" but in "the which she

successor, after raising a £60,000,- smile if Pyorrhea gets yout), And mirage of preparedness," It is court functions provided the first 000 loan in America and another stretch the nostril wide (say Ahhhh hardly possible that both Bishop indication of the reawakening, and Ilengon and the Archbishop of Can-initiated a round, of sucial events loan in France of a similar amount, three times and rinse the mouths

to prop up the golden god, wan (out). terbury can be right, yet there is that have kept London gay, alled forced against conviction to face

the hotels, and stirred up business the inevitable. The step which height (11 you only have low spirits, Bend up every spirit to its full truth in the argument of each.

to a degree that has surprised several leading bankers had long bend them if they'll stand it). The everybody.

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DUMD-BELLES LETTRES. By Juliet Lowell, "Man of War" Awaits You.

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government by conditions entirely quality of mercy is not trained (it The automobile industry reflects outside its control. The gold droppeth as the gentle rain upon Perhaps Senator Nye, who is

erickot practice the inter-port up standard was abandoned. chairman of the Senate Committee the trend. Its curve is ever

beneath) Disastrous consequences were which is disclosing the activities wards. The highest grades of

back оп the predicted. The Enipire was crum- It is twice blessed (once when it of, American arms manufacturers, American cars are at Washington, uttered a word of streets of London, and crossing bling going to the dogs. Paria starts and then when it doesn't truth when he said, in effect: Piccadilly at any point outside the was to become the financial centre stop).

Dear Shakespeare: How it all The danger of war will not be re-safety zones resolves itself into a jof the world. Such were the pre-

me, especially the moved until Governments controi finesse of evasion amid a mass of dictions minde. The world waited comes back to the manufacture of armaments and the most magnificent limousines and watched. Nothing happened. scene where he burnt the cakes and munitions. The Senate Inquiry the world can produce. London That is to say, these dire things did the tide refused to come up the

not happen. On the contrary, it shore. has shed light upon the activities has seen no parallel to it.

Derby Day at Epsom was clad in was discovered that Great Britain That little bit always reminds me of munitions maleamen who have

off the gold standard of Repulse Bay where they have no gone about the world encouraging its old-time brilliance; Royal Ascot could go

their own was never more regal; Runnymede with impunity. nations to arm, while

Ilda just as it was a hundred years An emergency budget raised tax-ngo. nationals have taken alarm at the Pageant, the Military Tattoo at

peak undreamed of, However I must grumble so warlike preparations they are en- Aldershot, the Royal Air Force ntion to a couraging. By creating war Pageant at Hendon each has com- while simultaneously heavy pay goodbye,

link in the brilliant chain cuts were inflicted or all employees scare in one capital, these arma-prised ment manufacturers might easily of social events attended by roya coming directly or indirectly under Teachers, policemen, at the state. develop a race for preparedness ty. The totaliantor betting

a postmen, soldiers, sailors, elvil which would lead to dangerous Ascot-and this merely covers

fraction of the transactions servants, judges and members of tension and conceivably to war.

eclipsed all records, doing business | Parliament all were affected. to the amount of £500,000.

Everybody grumbled. But the A remarkable flip has been nation dag Its heels in, took an given to pleasure cruising-an in other hitch in its belt, and started novation of the Inst year or two. to pay up. Tax-dodging in the Travel organizations disclose book-circumstances became profitable. ings aggregating 200,000 which But it was indulged in to a very Hongkong Jockey Club, means, assessed on the most modest limited extent. Inherent honesty Deare Sixs: **

I want to be a hot jockey and basis, an expenditure of at least and the law-abiding instinct of the

people was the nation's backbone. ride the fastest horees. My love During June and July no fewer Employers helped workers to meet of animals is because I followed than forty vessels sailed on these their taxes by making weekly or Father down the streets as he pleasure cruises from the "Port of monthly deductions from their pay cleaned up after them Have" London alone. Their itineraries and the Exchequer helped every-never ridden a horse but I sure. averaged eleven days and their body by indulgence tempered with want to be a jockey.

Mediterranean, clemency proportionate to the needs Make me an offer and I will con-. fjords, Iceland, the Baltic and all tax money came in. Every worker, trips took in the North Africa, the Norwegian of hard-pressed citizens. So the sider coming to Happy Valley, the prominent coastal resorts

Harold Darc. of old and young, pulled his weight in Holland, Belgium, France, Spain, the comeback. Portugal and Italy. It is primarily the middle classes who are taking At the end of the financial year these trips, including a consider in April, 1932, Great Britain faced able number of office workers and heavy deficit. In 1933 the end was stenogaphers.

again the same-a deficit of £32,- All Inland travel statistics are up.,000,000. People's nerves were Travel on the railways is booming, frayed. They were Bufforing in Vacation resorts are rapidly filling health under the strain, for their up, and by the edge of the ocean sacrifices led to serious privation. millions of just ordinary folk are Then came the reaction signalized trying to forget the privations of three months ago in the budget sur- the past in the dawn of the plus the whole of which was alle brighter future.

With Russia in the League of Nations, her weight, added to the influence of the powers at Geneva, should go far in preventing armed conflict. It appears Lo

DISARMAMENT

good

The Rt. Hon. Mr. Arthur Hen-

REFORM Russia's endorsement of the idea of preserving pence by a system of guarantees, mat plain by M. Litvinoff's speech at Geneva, is timely. It is also. welcome because it becomes in- creasingly clear as time goes on that the European situation in far more likely to be composed by this method than by resort to n system of military alliances, which in themselves contain the germs of future war. M. Lit- vinoff is anxious that the long overdue task of revising the Covenant of the League should be undertaken. The existing many interested observers that provisions of the Covenant, those nations least sincere in their whilst excellent in many res-desire.for peace avoid League mem- pects, certainly need "overhaul-bership, and while non-membership ing; they are far too cumber- cannot necessarily prove a lack of sincerity, it Can suggest it. It some and involved to be of since scem that disarmament and much practical value. The need for simplification is urgent. In standing can only be achieved when an end of suspicion and misunder particular, M. Litvinoff desires all the world sits around the that Article XII and Article XV League Council table and private, should undergo revision. The competitive munitions manufacture first of these Articles deals with and trade are abolished completely. disputes submitted to arbitra- tion. It lays down that in the event of a dispute arising which is likely to lead to a rupture, the members of the League agree to submit the matter either to arbitration or to judicial settle ment, or to enquiry by the League Council. They further undertake not to resort to war until three months after the award for the report of the Council, which report must be made within six months after the submission of the dispute to enquiry. By Article XV, which the argument in so many words, he deals with disputes not sub-appreciates that as long as these mitted to arbitration, League armamenta exist they constitute a members agree to submit the threat of war. But they can never issues to the League Council, be scrapped until the people of the which will endeavour to effect a world can feel security without them. Here, then, is a task for settlement. In the event of a

the League, the church and every settlement not being reached, thinking man, to counteract the the Council is required to issue whispered propaganda of the scare- a report containing a statement monger. of the facts of the dispute and. such recommendations as are deemed just and proper. Should outstanding example of failure the report of the Council be un- to enforce machinery laid down animous, not counting the specifically for such cases. M. votes of parties to the dispute, Benes, speaking at the opening League members agree that they of the Leagic Assembly last will not go to war with any party week, threw out a hint that in to the dispute which complies the event of any European Power with the recommendations of the regarding the Manchurian in- Council. It is of interest to cident as a precedent, and acting note that the "Sanctions" pro-imposed. With what measure accordingly, sanctions would be visions of the League are only of authority he spoke, it would applicable to members who re-

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derson, President of the Disarma ment Conference, still hopes that the efforts of the delegates there may be crowned with success, even without full world membership in the Lengte. The reasons for their apparent failure he sees in the

cated to the reduction of debt-and lessening of the spirit of hope for

an all-round cut' in taxation. The and confidence in continued pence,

Workers are conscious of the en-rest of the story is too new to be and the growing belief that the surest security is to be found beergizing affect the reaction is hav- history. Nor is it finished yet, hind big guns, an air force and a fleet. While he does not condemn

sort to war in disregard of their be interesting to know. In view, obligations under the two Arti- however, of the League's abject cles mentioned. The case for failure to act against Japan, the simplification of the Covenant is, warning is robbed of some of its as we have indicated, well pointedness. It is, moreover, grounded. But whilst this is so small comfort to China to feel the point cannot be overlooked that she has been made the that there is no lack of victim of the Longue's tem- machinery in its provisions for porising. On the general issue, dealing with nations guilty of peace must be reinforced by aggressivo conduct. The chlaf guarantees, with adequate pro. trouble is that these powers are vision for sanctione where neces Inot utilised In this connection.sary. This much granted, the

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