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ENGLISHMEN ARE HUMBUGS

BUT PECKSNIFFS MAY BE HEADING FOR EXTINCTION

By Oliver POREIGNERS have always look

un as a nation of humbuga. It started in the days' of Cromwell, when we first launch. ed out on Imperiallat expansion, and it has lasted until the present

day.

From the days when a policy of defence caused un, strangely enough, to occupy Jamaica, until the end of the Great War, when after arming most stoutly every few months that we were not Ighting for gain, and we finish- ed up in 1919. with an additional ompire of many thousand square miles, this accusation has been made and dented, reaffirmed and re-denied. Yet, having travelled In many countries and known many peoples, I am forced to agree with the accusation.

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public that what was not in the national interest yesterday is no to-day; when nothing has altered save the political altuation, which they themselves had said would become more serious as a result of the polley they used to oppose, but new support.

Conservatives have in this situa- tion been devoid of humbug, for, apart from a democratisation of their view, they have stuck

to their main principles. Liberals, who believed in free, unfettered competition and the liberty of the individual, ure backing Socialist schemes of control and opposing the right of free expression of opinion,

Labour leaders, having been routed by the power of organised capitalism, now stump the country and shout "Boo" at the very things

when in office.

Charles Dickens did not create his Mr. Pecksniff from Imagina-they were incapable of opposing tion; he built him up from obser- vation, and produced, in him, a peculiarly symbolical type of Englishman which we all recog піде.

I believe, however, that the type is dying out, and that the general emancipation and revolt against

This autogyro Row about Paris es, cently and landed in the street but. side the Grand Palais. It bom Bel-

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different forms of authority, has, done much to bring this about. Some of us are thankful that this Is the case: the real humbuga, of course, are--despair.

There are many sides to this national humbug of ours, of which perhaps domestic humbug is the most common. We are constantly asserting that the basis of our Imperial story 1les in the honte, wherein reigns the most perfect harmony and the greatest parental and filial devotion, yet we know that it has been the poverty, in- compatibility, and narrowness of this very home life that has sent forth the younger members distant lands as ploncers of the very imperialism we pretend to worship.

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MARRIAGE TIES · Unhappy individuals who have minden mess of their married life continue their life of humbug to- Rether whereas, with little honesty, the two persons concern- ed could free themselves from cach other and be thereby better servants of the community.

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From domesticity, the humbug enters the political life, and we have to-day the tragic spectacle of representatives of the people enjoying the fruits of office and position by having denied every political principle for which they ever stood, and humbugging the

This is a direct descendant of Lin wain, the abolitionist, who works

gold mine in California.

In international relations we excel' ourselves. We give lip- service to the Lengue of Nations, and abide by ft decisions when it affects other nations, but refuse to accept any suggestións that may be made that have reference to our own possessions.

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Wo Culminate against wickedness of international arma-j ment manufacturers, and draw our dividenda from the slaughter their actions have caused. We speak with one breath of the freedom our rule brings to some, native race; with another we acknowledge we hold these races. In subjection by the power of the sword.

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, JANUARY 10, 1985.

ARTHUR MURRAY SAYS YOU MUST RHUMBA OR SIT OUT

It's tantalizing to have to sit out a rbumba—and the rhumba is simple to do. Arthur Murray, president of the National Institute of Social Dancing, tells how to do it in this fourth of aceries of six articles on “Dances for the Holidays."

(BY ARTHUR, MURRAY)

New York... Within the past year, the Cuban Son, commonly known as the Rhumba, has attained wide of Cuba, it no longer is limited to popularity. The national dance

exhibition purposes. During the holiday season, the most up-to- date couples at parties and balls undoubtedly will Rhumba when Rhumba music is played.

Remember that the manner in which you hold your partner and your own body is all important

Pheba Wallace and Luis Arnold show how the third stop of the zhumba is accented by a pause. Diagram at luft shows the complete rhumbs routine pattern.

when he decides to pause, Almost the Cuban Son, the basic steps of any woman who dances at all can which I have diagramed hero to- In religion, we pretend to follow

follow a man who really knows day. The man steps forward to the the precepts of a Prince of Peace,

where he is going himself. Porfect left with his left foot, bringing the the doctrine of forgiveness and

dancing is, then, largely the man's right one up to it on the next beat. mercy, and n bellef in the prin-

responsibility,

Then, lending with the left again, ciples of turning the other cheek;

When you've made up your mind he steps directly forward. Tho at the same time as we hang the

Start to learn to dance the rhumba, do a right foot swings in circular effect battle-scarred standards of war in

few healtation steps without music, from position number two to nam- our cathedrals, condemn trans when it comes to doing dance steps Take three quick atopa and pause ber four, and the left is drawn up gressora of our man-made moral that depend largely on a pause or on the fourth. Repeat until you to it. He hesitates. Then code to imprisonment or death, and hesitation to give them charm and never lose your balance while steps forward with his right and burden our Budget with increased interest. The man who leads to a hesitating. Find some Spanish hesitates again, allowing the body measures of defence at the ex-half-hearted fashion, allowing his type music on the radio or victrala to pause in time to the music. The pense of the health and happiness backbone to become quite limp, will and try again.

first three steps, are done quickly, of our vast multitude of poor and discover that practically none of his

As Bonn N you can hesitate pausing on the third and on the Buffering.

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In education, we divide its ac- quisition into classes based on the money that euch individual can afford to pay for it, and talk in loud voice of the equality of education and opportunity that is available for all; merely because there are a few scholarships here and there which enable a handfu) of people to fit themselves for a job which does not exist..

In sex, we punish the breeder of children with the force of economic pressure, and refuse to would make for greater happiness and a wider freedom. We force

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Five Sisters Windows-have re- vealed. an alarming decay. Many

miting a legal crime before we Centenary celebrations. Apart be extinct-the old English black of the great oaken beans, some of

legally bless their separation.

We keep knowledge

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been

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from the loneliness of the trip and rat. In the seventeenth century which are thought to date back to

tracks for the grey rat from Sumatra, brought the twelfth century, have children for fear they be con- the retracing of his taminated, and blame them for 100 miles at one stage becaure he over in trading ships, drove the almost eaten away.

One or their lack of knowledge when was on the wrong road, he had native black rata out of Britain. tragedy follows that ignorance.

have crumbled to auch an extent no exciting experiences to relate. We become indignant because a

Lately rat-proof warehouses have that they are in danger of collaps. man puts five shillings.on a horse, ale poteva ven and admire the man who, by the man of free and definite opinion

been built. But they were onlying and crashing to the floor. manipulation of stocks and shares, enriches himself and beggars the equivocation and humbug will be

will emerge the man

Behind for whom proof against grey 'rata."

"The full extent of the damage snull investor.

alien things that hamper and their wails the black rat revived, is not yet known," the Dean of We prepare for war, and war harness the soul in its endeavour follows, and we continue to pre- pare for war, calling it the assur-ception of his destiny and a deler difference between the two varieties where between £10,000 and £12,000 to break through to an honest con- safe from its enemy. A curious York said. "I am afraid, however, that it is going to cost us some ing of peace.

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is that the grey rat avoids human to rectify."

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We continue to procaise employed a return to prosperity when we have not the slightest idea how that prosperity can pos- sibly return.

WHAT NEIGHBOURS THINK In our conventions we pride ourselves on our independence, yet live in daily terre, of the opinions of our neighbours. We consider it more shameful to have An illegitimate child than to let women die in childbirth for want of proper care and nourishment. We bring children into the world with squalor and bury the dead with pagan pomp.

Worst of all, wo humbug our- selves. We have lived so long as the heirs of # falso set of values, 113 the upholders of out-of-date fancies, that our conception of good things, is but a narrow eltcle, und our conception of evil is over widening. It is as if and it has been said before-God were static and the devil progressive,

Humbugs, aren't wo all? Even in that title there is danger. We are humbuga borauko we fear the truth, because we are

are frightened jof the unknown, because we do not

and will not think things out.

Our aim and object. in mite of our claims for individuality, is to make other people like us. Wo are afraid of being left behind..

The likeness we wish all people to nsume is narrow, hesitant, frightened sameness, agalast. which true liberty, constructive Individuality, and real freedom Boom to fight in vain.

No; wo are not all humbugs, and the ensuing years will forcibly shrive us, A timo is shortly coming when the wobbler will dis- appear from our midst, and the

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