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RECK-At the War Memorial Hos- pital. on December 7th, 1934, to Mr. and Mrs. Fr. Reck Jr. a daughter.

TELEGRAPH

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1934.

NOTES OF THE DAY

THAT OPEN DOOR

at

IS AN ANGLO-U.S. WAR IMPOSSIBLE

By THE MARQUIS OF LOTHIAN

OR Afteen years after the arm- United States during the war of istice the peoples of the United 1914-1918 to choose between going cates and of the British Com- to war with Great Britain for the

which

The Very Idea!

TRAFALGALOO

AN HISTORICAL, MELANGE Specially approved by the formance in elementary schools.. On.ons Marketing Board for por The scene is the quarter-deck

of

panelling and all that. Admiral n dirigible balloon. Onk MacDoodle, in full uniform, pacer Laverishly to and fro. Nothing miral takes a happens. Exasperated, the Ad-

Л resounding Enter Lord Thomas of Huffing-

pocket and blows

trumpot from his

blast.

ham..

yer blow?

Lord T. Ullo, Hadmiral. did

Admiral: "I did. äirräh.

Though I card yer.

Lord T. (conversationally):

everyone?

Admiral (stamping): Whore is What's happening? wa? Why doesn't anyone tell me raises the Are we going into action, or aren't

anything!

Specifically, the open-door policy refers only to China. The phrase is said to be Lord Charles Beres- 101 8. Bay the Curation Science Monitor. At the dawn of the twentieth century, an American NO MORE

Secretary of State saw the parti- tion of China ready to begin, and SQUEAKING !

he was able to persuade the monwealth have proco:ded on the freedom of her own trade and with foreign powers (though Russian assumption that there was no Germany for the freedom of the OUR NEW AND EFFICIENT approval looks very dublous in the serious risk of world war. They world, because it gradually be

were right. The victory of the came impossible for her to remain documents) to stay their hand. "MOBILUBRICATION" Together they agreed to keep the allies in the World War was so noutral.

.Chinosa door

and apen,

overwh: Iming, the nations were so GREASING

the exhausted and had such vivid the Washington Conference SERVICE

promise was written into a formal memories of what war moant, and

The issue arises not from any pledge, being one of the articles there were so few points of differ- direct conflict between the United MAKES EASIER

of the Nine Power pact. Now, in

onca between the victors that States and Great Britain. It a territory that was Chinese at there was, in fact no risk of war. arises from the fact that the navy the time of the Washington Con- Bat no thoughtful person can say is the principal weapon of defence ference, but is now the separate the same to-day. We may lament of each country and because the but unrecognised state of Manchu and protest against a great deal way in which a navy exercises kuo, the Open Door is in danger about war which fills so many of country fa by trying to cut off its of the nordicas propaganda of fear pressure as against an enemy Manchukuo is preparing to catab lish a state all monopoly. This the newspapers. But we cannot commerce with the rest of the will freeze out foreign distribu- Ignore the fact that both in Europe world, which involves interforenco tors. Another diplomatie conflet and in the Far East there exist with neutral trade. It is this is threatened, with Britain and

International altuntions which are interference the United States leading the menacing and which may cabilly question of the freedom of the protestants. There will continue develop into war unless they are scan. Hitherto, interference with to be a difficulty finding the right handled with a wisdom and firm-neutral trade has usually been be quarter in which to protest. ness which are not always charac- gun by Great Britain, because, come, Hadmiral, there's a lot of Lord T. (soothingly): Come. Manchukuo will, of course, remain teristic of human governments. being nearer to Europe she has questions. Where is heveryone?" bland. Recognise it will Most people of the English-speak- usually become involved in war Wot's 'appening?" "Are We To- say, "and then we can discuss your ing nattens will admit that there first. But daring the Civil War ing into haction" "Ow do I know, right to trade with us. Meantime in once more a risk of war in the the North blockaded the South, and Hadmiral? We're going hon, 1 we must reserve the right to dis- world. But they will go on to from 1917 to the end of the World know that. We're going hup

say that war between Britain and War the United Statre used just know that. But whether that pose of our trade as we please. Treaty rights? They were with the United States is "unthink the same methods against neutrals China, and we are no longer China."able," or "impossible." So it le, trying to trade with Germany as better send for someone as dore means-haction or not-wall, you'd Japan, of course, disclaime res-peychologically. The English did Great Britain. The issue, in know. ponsibility. If the diplomats pro-speaking peoples speak the same fact, arises whenever either nation duce all the promises to maintain language, their ideas of law are becomes involved in war ahead of Wellington, Pitt, Joan of Arc, Tucket. Enter Drake, Nelson, the Open Door which her states- fundamentally the same, they are the other. The qucation of the Boadicon and Lady Godive men have uttered since the Man- pledged to democracy, and, espec- freedom of the seas is the hidden churlan adventure started, then ally since the advent of the serpent which lurks in the middle Grundy objecta.

*Unless, of course, Mother Japan will still disclaim responsi-women's vote, they are deeply and of the Atlantic waiting suddenly bility. The correspondence will on moral grounds opposed to to poison the relations between all this? Empire Day7. Or is this Admiral: Heavens above what'es thus prove more than a little em- human slaughter. Except for a the two countries and even to barrassing. But it will be em- few non-vital matters such as war bring them to the verge of conflict Downing Street?

Committee to select Miss barrassing for another reason. debts, no serious pol'tical or unless its existence is recognised There are no onen doorn any more economie Issues divide them. and its power to harm is steril'zed, in the world. Each country seema

Unfortunately feeling and opin- And if an Anglo-American crisin to have harricaded itself against fon are not the whole story. The arises, it will do so suddenly, not outside trade

Civil War in the United States out of any primary quarrol be- with tariffs. change restrictions, quotas, i-looked like an impossibility and tween the two countries, but eences, nationalistic currencies

was treated as an impossibility imly because if the country be- and the like. Of course, these are almost until it happened. It was comes involved in war or sanctions different. They are rarely achieved certainly not produced by any it against another nation, either by an outright breach of treation. paychological antagonism between in Europe or the Far East, while Yet the chancelleries will be lack- North and South, for till the out-the other is at peace. there is ing in a sense of humour if they break they were good friends. It bound to be an interference with cannot apare a smile for their happened because there was an neutral trade. And it is quite cer perfectly proper protests about a

lesue which, the founders of the tain that to-day with equal navies shut door in Manchukuo while Union had been unable to solve, and the economic integration of they are engaged in balting and

and which finally broke out in the modern world; neither country barring their own.

Names of war, just because it had will, to quote Pra dont Wilson, not been resolutely tackled in the famous words, "think neutrally"! intervening 70 years of friend- for very long while the navy of liness and peace.

the other is busily interfering with. its trade. What is the remedy 7

By Juliet Lowell There is a fear, voiced in many

Before we can see this it is nucía-

Communists v. Capitalists It is just the same with Britain sary to consider, the lessons of Victor Young quarters, that Japan's denuncia-

and the United States. General the great war. The central con- Radio Station tion of the Washington Naval people are among those displaying the ancient grudge has been dis- lobe so contracted in torms of

lations between the two peoples clusion drawn by the best thinkers New York City have never been better. Much of after that conflict was that, on Comrade Victor Young: Treaty may involve the throwing significant interest in works on

I hear you have written a into the melting pot of the whole current and veturat, itary understanding on each side of the both erfdent and increasingly which sounds to me like a lot of

world movements, history,

pelled. There is a far better time and space, war would be tune called "Pearls on Velvet series of International agrec- A large metropolitan public problems and difficulties of the world-wide in character unless capitalistic propaganda against ments affecting Pacific problems.brary reports that 40 per cent. of

other. Social and economic con- international anarchy could be the downtrodden masses. Anybody Lord Lothian obviously had this Ita circulation is non-fiction. It

d.tions are tending toward com-rurbed and a beginning made with that has pearls, is on velvet but in mind when he referred to the published lists of "best sellers"

is noteworthy that the regularly Atlantic. War seems quite im- law among nations. The first at-

mon standard on each alde of the the establishment of a reign of, that is a situation we Communists

are going to change, necessity of Britain continuing show that maximum sales per in- possible. Why then ask the un- tempt to do this, mainly the re- to stand by the principles on which feed something in the

dividual title are enjoyed by books pleasant. question, with all the cult-of-Anglo-American collabora

fears and hates which it may t'on, was the Covenant of the which the Washington under- reader above the desire to escape

arouse I raise it b:cause unless. League of Nations, embodied in standing is based. He feels from himself at minimum effort.

we face a problem in Anglo- the Treaties of Peace. that if any nation is permitted character and setting in un-

Accurate pictures

American relations, not en difficulti of custom, but nearly as dangerous, na that Under the Covenant nat'on to play ducks and drakes with familiar places create deep in-

presented to the United States by undertook to do four principal the agreements reached. interest. The desire to know how the existence of slavery in the things: to meet in an Assembly at Washington in 1922, there may lems common

other people are meeting the prob to find ourselves faced by an aouta ment of man and to discuss world

I bog pardon. It is my wish South we may wake up one day Geneva once a year an a parlla to say to you that I am to be the to humanity easily be undesirable reactions counts la part for the

crisis and even an imminent risk problems; to submit any dispute States, the youngest ene ever be next President of the United

DEATH.

JOHN PAI CHUNG-TAI, aged 69 yours. Dled on 5th December, 1934, at 24, Canal Rond West. Cortege will pass the monument at 4 p.ra., 7th December, 1034.

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

FRIDAY, DEC. 7, 1934,

JAPAN AND THE

TREATIES

READING TASTES

cx-

From puhlie brarles and book- appetite of readers for non-fiction shops come indications that the and for, stories of depth and dis- crimination la increasing.

Young

Intense

while older renders receive

in.

*

he

Drake: Peace, windbag Deeds. not words. We go west to-night.

Nelson: Hardy, we have them Put me at the top of the column. now. This is front-page news. Wellington: I have made kings Cross in my time. Now for Water-

Pitt: Roll up that Mac, My

lon.

country, how I leave my country?

I think I could do with one of Walter Elliot's pork pics, notice. Lord Thomas, unruffled.

Dies. No one takes the slightest begins to tell his story about two Americans in a bar.

.

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·

DUMB BELLES LETTRES

Norman B→→

The Next President

May 10, 1931. Vose and Sons Plano Co., Massachusetts. Watertown, My dear Sira:

elsewhere, leading to a major absorption of so many younger of war. What is this issue? It ilkely to lead to a rupture either, fore in the U. S. "White House". I world crisia. Whilst it is possi. Persons in the Russian draman can, perhaps, be'most convenient-to judicini settlement, to arbitration will want one of your plans to ly indicated under the familiar or to investigation and report by the use in the U. S. "White House" spiration in their difficulties from This issue produced the Anglo- period of not more than six months plane a little in advance so I could title, "The freedom of the seas." Council of the League during a Could you conveniently send this Interest in religion la continually American War of 1812, It caused after the notification of the dispute, enjoy it now while I am not so worthy biography and. History. pressing upward, and this is recan Civil War. And It forced the

the Trent affair during the Ameri- to the Secretariat of the League: busy flected in a deepening of the read-

"Continued on next column) Generalisations as to taste trends ing tone in many a community. in popular reading are not lightly not lacking that a welcome and to be entered Into, but signs are powerful impetus has intely been given to the perusal of worthwhile books,.

ble, to take too alarmist a view of Japan's intended action and the reactions arising therefrom, no-one who has the cause of Far Eastern pence at heart can but regret that the situation in the Orient should be further com plicated at this juncture by a step of which it is difficult at the moment to foresce the eventual upshot. There is, of course, no questioning Japan's right, if she Washington Treaties, and there aces fit, to denounce the Wash- seems no ground for thinking ington naval agreement. By do. that she has such a possibility ing so, she will be merely exor in mind. Yet it is true that, clsing an option for which although not actually inter-lock- COSTUMES sanction is given in the Treaty, ing each treaty being a separate

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But withdrawal from the terms instrument all the Washington of this specific understanding in agreements bear a general rela- no sense implies denunciation of tion one to the other. In other the agreements reached in Wash-words, each treaty was regarded ington on other questions affect as a part of the general machin- ing the Far East, notably the ery devised for the preservation Nine-Power

of world peace, with especial and Four-Power reference to the Far Erst. It is Pacts. It must, however, be inconceivable that Japan contem- borne in mind that the naval plates the complete wrecking of issue is inter-related with the that machinery. The latest general question of security in utterance by her statesmen is the Pacific and once Japan is treaty-leas era, but is quite pre- that she in no sense desires a free of her obligations in respect pared to negotiate a new inter- of the former she may well national naval agreement. In pursue a policy involving mat- this way Japan puts the onus of ters of wider significance. It is stabilising the situation on the this possibility which is at the there is no indication that e other Powers. Unfortunately, moment causing a measure of Tokyo Government is prepared concern in some quarters. Noth- to continue adherence to the ex- ing has so far been disclosed -Isting treaty until such time as

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to refrain from war for a period of three months after the receipt of the award of report; and to sever economic relations with any nation which resorted to war during this period, in order that the rest of the world might have time to bring about a just attlement by pacific means or at least to prevent a local war from becoming a world war. This seemed a reasonable and sons). ble advance toward world or gaalsed for peace.

The League of Nations, however, failed to gain the United States, for two main rea sons. The first was that the Les- gue seemed to involvo the perman- ent entanglment of the rest of the world in the domestic affairs of Europe. The second was that it seemed, under Articles 10 and 16, to involve automatic commitment to war. In 1928, however, the United States made its own move toward world peace in the Kellogg Part, How signed by practically all the na tlons of the world except one or two South American atatas. By Maid OfContinued: on Page 6,