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AERIAL WARFARE OF THE FUTURE

TELEGRAPH.

MONDAY,

SEPTEMBER 24,

1934.

NOTES OF THE DAY TREATY ACHIEVEMENTS The Very Idea!

FOLLOW THE LEADER

count the

AT GENEVA

Twenty years ago and less, the catch-cry was "Democraev." For this ne principle, nations went to A surprisingly large number of 14; Poland, 28; Portugal, 3; Roum war. To perpetuate a system of treaties have been registered with ania, 27; Sweden, 13; Switzerland. self-government, the peoples of the Secretary of the League of 7; Czecho-slovakin, 14; Turkey, 15; the world laboured painfully and Nations, since it bogan Its work in U. S. S. R.. 10; Yugoslavia, 36; apent prodigiously. The inspired 1920.

Permanent Council of the Little leaders did not ston Lo cost. The day of autocracy was A report which has just been Entente, 1: Conference of Ambas-

andora, i. passed, they said, and a new era made public indicates how active drwned in which the people would diplomatists have been in the past

Fourteen treatles have been com- rise triumphant to fulfil a splen-14 years, and how faithfully they did destiny. The road led through have followed the rule which calls municated by the United States in revolution, and to what? To-day for the submission of their agree-accordance with the arrangements one may see the consequence of ments to the international organ-made by the United States for that political unrest and the destruc-iuntion,

tion

the

It is revealed that no fewer than 3,428 trenties and international engagements have been registered, 240 Inst year, 218 in 1945, and 264

1932.

.

DEEP SEA FISHING

By George NOTHER fishy story comes to light with the report "of the largest tunny fish ever landed at Scar- borough" being caught by a naval lieutenant.

The biggest catch of tunny ever made is credited to Demp sey but that is a story that the purpose. It should be noted that modeat angler seldom relates.

We are Inclined to reminisco over recently the United States signifled of the old order in

Ilave there been "secret" necords its intention henceforward not only our own deep sea fishing of Kow zing bureaucratic érections

mong mombers of the League to communicate but also to regls- loon Dock when we hear these tales It is sometimes suggested that

ter treaties with the Secretariat and we can produce a photograph dictators. Revolution brought to Russia her Stalin, to Italy Musso- there have been, but if so they do in the same way as is done by of the biggest and most savage

not possess legal validity. Hitler. These

methbers of the Lengue-a remark-garoupa that over sailed the seven lini, to Germany

It was about seven o'clock in the are bright examples of the trend,

able forward step which brings thes. indicating a tendency of the mass

United States into line with League morning when the harbour was to shift to the shoulders of some

endeavour.

rocked by huge waves which told super-man the burden which it

Ten. International engagements of a gigantic subterranean strug- monster fears itself to carry. Nor is the

concluded under League auspicesgle between a deep sen movement localised. Russia, Ger- many and Italy are merely good Among the treaties registered in and deposited with the Secretariat and the little worm which we had examples, There are others, 19:34, there is one general political have been registered ez-officio as salted and spliced before lowering Our boat was almost upset by Turkey, Poland, Spain, periodicnl- treaty, namely, that conchided bean automatic consequence of their it into the crystal depths. ly.

rollers about thirty feet high which and some would have it that tween Roumania, Czecho-slovakia entry into force. America is playing this old game and Yugoslavia; five trenties At the present time, the treaty dashed against the shore. Had Follow the Tender." There non-aggression concluded with the series in which all registered in-they been a foot higher we should for ternational engagements are pub be hearing this story from Davy are some who insist that China, Soviet Union; 18 treaties too, will have her dictator shortly. arbitration, conciliation and pacific ished in the language in which Jones himself. It is not for an unskilled observerettlement of disputes; two treaties they are concluded, together with

About four in the afternoon the afterwards Lo criticise, but no man can take of peace and friendship; three tra English and French translations garoupa which wo offence at a question: Where ties concerning general relations, wherever necessary, new comprises found it to be blew up a spray does this new road lead? Though and seven conventions concerning 142 volumes, each of about 450 of water and chugged off towards these great world figures be consular relations and conditions of pages.

Lyemoon at a steady 15 knots.

Occasionally the ses denizen superior to the common run in the residence have also been conclude:l attributes of leadership, super in the past year.

The new pact of friendship, came up for a breath of air but men though they may be, they

cach time we slugged it through Thirty-four treaties have been arbitration and non-aggression be the tail with a harpoon, hoping Cannot live for ever. And the

Turkey and. Yugoslavia question must eventually arise as registered in 1934 under the head-tween to who will succeed them. Hasing of judicial and extradition con- which has just been ratified an- thereby to put its storrieg appara

to ventions; and in the category of animously by the Yugoslav Parlin- tus out of order. man to-day prepared

The next day found us still step into the office of Signor delimitation of frontiers, frontier ment is felt to constitute a new

little tired through sitting in the Mussolini? It remains to be seen trafle and similar questions, nine strand in the status quo net which patrolling round the harbour a and meanwhile no man can answer treaties, have been registered, all is being woven about Buigaria by boat but not so tired as the garoupa

Ita "anti-revisionist" Balkan neigh-who was pulling it. one way or another. There was between European countries. only one Napoleon.

Italy a

RADICAL OFFER

of

bours.

With the arrival of the Press As in previous years, the greatest The new treaty also strengthens and photographers off Repulse Bay, number of treaties registered have Yugoslavia's position relative to our fish made a great effort to bees economic, financial and taxa-Italy, it is contended. It is re- come up to the occasion, surging Those members of society who tan conventions, namely, 34 con- called that for some years Turkey out of the water and doing a couple exercise an influence upon the cerning special problems and 63 has worked in close diplomatie co of loops before flopping back to operation with Rome and added to receive another harpoon in the lug. When the garoups finally tugged the influence of Italy in the Balkana

us in to the shore it had got so conduct of public affairs by the more general in character. right of free speech, through the Six transit conventions, 13 aerial rather than to that of France.

thin with its exertions that it was medium of a free press, and parti-navigation conventions, 16 conven-

Italy until recently has consider-nothing like the fish we started off thecularly by the free and antions concerning postal, telephonic

trammelled use of the ballot, are

past.

DUMB BELLES LETTRES,* By Judiat Lowell,

Mr. Baldwin's famous speech on the danger from the air has received terrible corroboration from an authority on aerial war- fare. A grim picture of horrors of the next war

favourable to Rome's In fact it was so reduced that commonly said to enjoy political and telegraphic relations, and tweed Turkey, Bulgaria, Albania and with painted by Mr. Anthony Fokker,

ment have been registered.

Balkan policy. But Albanin more an Ignorant fellow coming along than a year ago detached itself shortly afterwards thought it was the famous Dutch aeroplane de quality or, ut any rate, equality conventions on tonnage measure-Greece as

of political opportunity. However signer in the course of a recent unequal may be the distribution The other conventione deal with somewhat from the Italian orbit, too amail to be out of the water interview. "The most appalling of material wealth among the social, labour and health questions, while Greece la supposed to have and chucked it in again,

That's why we can never get any- thing about the next war," he citizens of such a nation, there is waterways and inland navigation, weakened its ties with Rome by said, "is that no country will at least a widespread distribution intellectual and artistic relations, joining the Balkan pact of last hody to believe our story.

of political power an equali- property rights and interests, ad- February.. really be in a position to defend

tarian basis." It is probable that ministrative questions, liquor traf- itself sufficiently against modern

only a very insignificant few in fic, fisheries, opium and other nar- air attacks. The attacks will

any community would deliberately cotic drugs, etc.

New Turkey has concluded a take place like lightning. Large surrender their polllical rights in

special treaty with Yugoslavla, the These various treaties have been Government of which has not been squadrons of aeroplanes, prob- return for the gift of economic ably amounting to many hun-equality. Nearly everybody desires gistered by 36 states. The num-too friendly toward Italy in the dreds, will swoop down on the to see a more equitable distribu-ber of treaties to which they aro enemy country to get the first tion of goods, but what nation parties are shown as follows:

would surrender the right to elect blow in. They will fly

Atrien.-Union of South Africa, very its own rulera and dismiss them at high, out of sight above the will, the right of organisation for 5; Rhodesia, 1; Yemen, 1. clouds, or else very low, regard-political action, the right to

Amarica Argentina, 6; Bolivin, less of the risk, and they will criticise the government of the ; Brazil, 11; Canada, 1; Chile, 4: attack with high-explosive and day, the ancient right of petition, Colombia, 1 Haiti, 1; Honduras, incendiary bombs. Although and all merely for the purpose of 1; Mexico, 2; Nicaragua, 1; Pana

wetting rid of economic in- these attacks will, first of all, be equality? Nevertheless such is Salvador, 1; Venezuela, 1.

ma. 4: Paraguay, 2: Peru, 1: Jaimed at military objects

the bargain which revolutionary they will at the same time bring disaster to the civil population. Imagine London being attacked by a ruthless fleet of 200 or

Australia.--New Zealand,

The new pact is based on the 300 modern bombers dropping its advocalutionaries themselves, Commonwealth of Australia, 3.

London definition of aggression, their incendiary bombs in

however unwilling they may be to hundreds of places simultane dwell upon this fact or to

contains a clause against any third ously." Mr. Fokker is ли courage others to discuss it, make 12; Belgium, 19; United Kingdom, power that might attack either Mr. Louis Schlesinger, expert who knows exactly no attempt

to deny that under 30; Bulgaria, 4: Denmark, 18 Yogoslavia or Turkey, and estab-Real Estate, what he is talking about. the proposed planned economy the Dantzig. 1: Spain, 9; Estonia, 11;lishes arbitration as the only means Our dear Mr. Schlesinger:

Finland, 8; France. 21; Greece, 4 for settling disputes between the It was his machines during the individual will be required by the Hungary, 13: Iceland, 5; Italy, two contracting parties. Its work- our apartment we have been end- War which constituted a great bureaucrata of the new era to do 24; Latvia, 9: Lithuania. 5; Luxeming is very similar to that of the legaly fooled, cajoled, and harried part of Germany's air strength his day's work in this factory burg, 4; Norway, 14; Netherlands, Kellogg Pact

rather than that, to serve the and he is still engaged in design State in whatever field of effort ing and building aeroplanes. He

is chosen for him, to sacrifice his says there is no effective defence

own prejudices and predilections against air attack. He further and bring them into line with the tells us that a first-class civil opinions of those who have con- aeroplane is basically very little trived to obtain political control of different from the high-powered the economic activities of himself war aeroplane and points out and his fellowe. that his own latest model can f

radicals offer in all seriousness to Asia-Afghanistan, 1; China, their fellow gitizons. The planned 1; India, 6: Irak, 5 Palestine, 1: economy of the revolutionaries in Persia, 2. its very nature, as conceived by. slave.economy,

en-

of

carry six tons which might in- | KIND BUREAUCRACY clude two tons of bombs and can fly at a speed of nearly 200 miles The revolutionaries Bay, per hour. That is to say, any

course, that all of this regimenta- country in which civil aviation tlon will be enderly, and benevo is highly developed will be able lently managed by the kind- hearted and humane bureaucrats, to produce at short notice a

that it will be done with the Idea strong military air force without of putting square pegs into square having technically transgressed holes, and round pogs Into round any armament limitation agree-holes, and thus making everybody ment. The moral is obvious, contented and useful; but they

mako

that no effort to deny Since no air force, however

whether the bureaucrata in offer efficient, can prevent the man-in-

at the moment are kind-hearted or the-street from being bombed or

the reverse the process of regi- his elty from being destroyed, mantation must inevitably go on. every Government must turn its that there is no escape from it. attention at once from plans for under the planned aconomy re-armament to

for socialism. They admit, though plans strengthening the collective with reluctance, that they desire system. In the inter- to inaugurate and carry out a nationaliantion of civil aviation, directed economy, that is to say an planned, and therefore a centrally- the abolition of private arma economy in which the citizens are ment manufacture and the crea-deprived of their political rights tion of an international polico a slave economy. It is clear that force, lies the only hope of safety if an alternative were placed him, that of political

peaco

of

for the soldier and the civilian stars cómpanied by economic

alike. Mr. Fokker's picture of Inequality as contrasted with aerial warfare is a final answer economic equality accompanied by to those experts who claim that political slavery, the ordinary increased armaments are neces- | British citizen will certainly not sary for antiqual defence.

WAHANA MOTONEISSW Shogie the latter

1;

Europe. Gormany, 18; Austria,

Turkey's chief reason. for Its pact. with Yugoslavia, it is believed here, la n fear of Italian, expansion in the Mediterranean. Another ren son is the close co-oporation of Turkey with Russin, now a part of France's security system. The pact. it is said, is also part of a general plan of the anti-revisionist" Balkan state to form such a sys- tem of interlocking treaties about Bulgaria that Sofia will be forced into a general Balkan bloc from which it has hitherto held aloof.

"Well, I'll tell you what I'd do if my wife talked to me like that.!!

We grew to love that sofa.

SOFA LOVE.

Since we moved into

by your agents. This perfect dream of a place was rented to us. fully furnished and containing one of the sweetest little Davenports you ever set eyes upon that le, if you go in for things of that kind, as we do. Just the darlingeat comfy cushioned-corner-warmer that ever yielded its smooth, soft bosom to a pair of tiredout hips. We grew to love that sofa, Mr. Schlesinger, and bellove us, when people begin to have soft feelings about a piece of furniture, you have the makings of a wice problem when it comes to taking it away from them.

Mr. Stolner is a right well. spirited person, excellently smooth of tongue and pleasing to the eye, but withal, it seems he is a trifle too greatly given to subterfuge, doubtless because the time hangs heavy on his hands. He said that the lounge did not match our other furniture, and that we were not entitled to the bed fenture which It contained.

When he threatened to take it away from do we threatened to break our loase. We are now on the point of leaving with our snouts In the wind. Don't you think it's just too moan for a great big company like yours to take people's lounges, davenports, sofas, hip-receivers and the like away turn from them ruthlessly and them out in the cold just so that you can use the furniture to fool othors with? Have we actually been fooled, or do we just think we have?

Hoping to hear from you before · they come for the kitchen sink, wo remain, 'yours 'very 'truly, :

Charles G.