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"JOHN BULL" OF POLITICS

· BY MILTON BRONNER. Swinging with easy practiced stride, Stanley Baldwin, Lord Privy Seal in the National Govern ment, has been doing his usual statesmanlike job in substituting

Stanley Baldwin........ "awings- ing with any, practiced strído"

i, plature taken the other day after he had taken the halm

of the British ship of state, for Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, whilst the lattor has been on mich- needed holiday, in Canada, ·

Ho an old hand at the game, having on various occasions been Prime Ministor himself, as head of Tory goveruments. And "Ram- say Mac" in the solitudes of Cana-

THE HONGKONG

TELE

DEMOCRATIC PRINCESS

thing for the King to call upon Baldwin to form a Tory cabinet.

BY MORRIS GILBERT. But with characteristic generosity, he agreed with the King that n Paris A princess who do National government should be fends democracy such is the formed under MacDonald as Premier and drawing its support repute of one of Paris's most from a coalition of Torles, Nation. al Labolirites and National Liber illustrious hostesses, whose In- als. Ho, who had been chler and fluence. In the realms of art, might have been so again. took second place,

literature and statescraft is strong.

CALM UNDER FIRE.

His conduct has pleased the country, but not the politicians. MacDonald's critics say he has entirely succumbed to Baldwin and given force to too many Tory policies. Baldwin's critica say that, with such an overwhelming Tory majority in the House of Commons, he should have tossed MacDonald out and formed 'strong,"red-blooded Fory-governm inent. Baldwin has boon attacked for the government's policy in the quarrel with the Irish Free-State

She is the Princeses Lucjen Murat, at whose home a guest will meet not only the "great", of Paris but the interesting too, which is not always the same, and is much more important."

Artist and author In her own- right, she has boon, the encour-. ager of more than one now emí. and President de Valera. The nent name, has "Introduced" no presumed governmental policy with regard to a degree of selfone knows how many budding Kovernment for India is under celebrities. Her philosophy is sharp re. But Baldwin goes his

Morane way, carrying a majority of that an "aristocrat" justifies him- the Tories with him overy time self to-day only by work. "I his opponents stage a party meet-should not omit to mention," she Ing.

am a thorough

republican.".

"The determination to have a big, says, "that I ndequate air. force, the stiff notes to Germany in regard to British private debts, the endeavour to got Germany to join in an Eastern Locarno pact to bulwark European peace-all these thinga

were

MANSION TO APARTMENT.

Times aren't too thriving for folk. Princess Luclen

her friends call her

threnhed out thoroughly between noble MacDonald and Baldwin before Murat the former left the country. Bald- win will do nothing sensational, Marie Murat because he is not a sonantional from the family kind of person. In his sturdy figure, rugged, smooth-shaven face with bottle-nose (dolight of the cartoonists) and his inevitable pipe. Baldwin seems to the masses of the Tory party to typify the John Bull they adore.

HONEST MAN,

Princess Lucian Murat.

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After a long sloge of art study, she discoverod that she could paint picturos well enough-but AIDED JEAN COCTEAU.

| she couldn't sell them. So Prin- Since Princess Murat is a writer, cosa Murat gave up painting for of considerable note as well as a time and turned to writing.". a painter of talent it is not sur

"DISCOVERER" OF TALENT prising to find many artists and writers present. She was respon- Princess Murat practices what, Ameri-sible in considerable degree for ale preaches. She works. In the the early success of Jean Cocteau. Paria telephone book she is listed She has long been host to Marie as "artist-painter." Her story of Laurencin, whose painting is as the life of Rasputin was highly famous as it is individual. Crities, praised. She has written lives of diplomats, and statesmen throng Cathering of Russia, of Lafayette,

of Queen Christina of Sweden, and, to her home.

her own blography.

moved recently, slater, Caroline. Eight years latter's renowned farewell

mansion to a later he ascended the throne of can tour in 1820. Paris apartment in the Avenus Naples as King Joachim.

A Murat was host to President Villars.

Wilson in the days of the Vor- sailles conference. This was a cousin of Prince Lucien, and he

Napoleonic days' are never. for For a Murat, it is a very appro- | distant in France. The great priate site because its windows period of the First Empire comes look out on the tomb of that Em-constantly to mind. For Ameri-turned over his Paris mansion to peror of imperishable fame who cans, considering the name, of the President to live in while here. made the first of the Murat line Murnt, there is added Interest in n king.

the fact that King Joachim's son, Joachim Murat, redoubtable Napoleon Achille Murat, is close-

A "DIFFERENT" SALON. Princess Lucien Murat's salon is

Ills is no highfalutin oratory, although, retired Iron founder that he is, he occasionally graces his speeches with rare and apt quotations, showing he is the book lover one might expect a kinsman of the artist, Burne-Jones, and the soldier, campaigned with Bona-ly linked with our own country, a salon with a difference. The Napoleon Achille journeyed to typical institution of the last cen- America in 1821; settled in Florida, tury was an evening gathering, or, was naturalized--and became the possibly, a tea party. Princess

In this gracious and "mondeine" atmosphere, Princess. Murat has the chance to develop her ideas of democracy and aristocracy.

"The aristocrat of to-day must work," she said.

More interesting than any par sonal success is the Influence she exerts on European art and letters. through her interest and, qupport Her home is a forment of intellec-

In her case, Princess Murat tual, political and artistle idons. said, her upbringing was very Here the special talents of some different to that of many aristo- young worker in the arta can bo crats of her own time, Her father, shrewdly appraised and coaxed.

novelist and poet, Rudyard Kip-parte in Italy and Egypt. Ho re- ling, to be. But in the main hin talks are forthright, blunt, con- turned with the Man of Destiny dian forests has had no occasion vincing, because they are the out-to Paris and played a vital role to wonder how he Was doing. pourings of an honest man with-

he married a grand-niece of style, at dejeuner. Her lunches years, believed in work. "I was note will be lunching..there. A Baldwin was not only experienced, out an ounce of the demagogus in in the coup d'etat which made mayor of Tallahassee! Presently. Murat entertains in more classic a French republican deputy for 38 Some day, perhaps, a collector of but loyal. When the Socialist his make-up, he has an un-Napoleon emperor. In 1800; heGeorge Washington; and conducted are famous. So is the witty and brought up with the idea that no word may be dropped perhaps. Government fell several years ago, expected vein of poetry, he also

on leader's youngest the venerable Lafayette the wise talk that follows them over one should be idle," she declared. the youngster is "launched.". It might have been the logleaf has a wholesome English humour. I married

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