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NOTES OF THE DAY

AN ODD SUGGESTION

The London Morning Post sug gests that it would not be remarka-- bla if China's statesmen chose to

for

FRANCE'S NEW MAN OF THE HOUR

The Very Idea!

Ho

THIS FAMILY UNIT

By Prof. H. Borg, Binologue follow a policy of friendlier relations is being said of M. Plerro it from the outside-that is to say,

Elienne Flandin, France's by bringing with him to Parliament Professor and a Publicist in Hongkong, in taking opposite with Japan, even going so far as to Primo Minister, that is the force of public opinion and recognise the Independence of Man "that last hope of French demo- using this power to obtain a resides on the evergreen question of chukuo. It might be better

cracy" Such a view is very provision of the Constitution. China, the Morning Post adds, and bably exaggerated. Yet it cannot failed because he neglected to strike Ancient v. Modern Chinese cus- might. In the long run, mean the be denied that on M. Pierre-Eilenne while the iron was hot-while the toms, recently favoured us with return of prosperity to the Far Flandin depends, to a disturbingly deputies still remembered the cries their opiniona. Ourselves, who East. This commentator belleves that if China recognised Manchukua great degree, the future of the of the mob outside the Chamber on have never given the matter any French Republic, writes Mallory the Place de la Concordo last deep thought and consequently European nations would follow sult, and that they might work in colla-Brown in the Christian Science February Monitor, boration with Japan in capitalising In the crowded corridors of the China's rehabilitation. We do not French Chamber, during those like to contradict such an authority.

are in no wise greatly exorcised, were not approached for ours, M. Flandin is endeavouring to which was just as well. on affairs as the Morning Post, but dramatic hours immediately preced-solve this parliamentary crisis from It would seem that China, as a ing the downfall of M. Gaston the inside, from the basis of a-Abhorring publicity as we always d

Chamber major-or-bo accused by the other side nation, would be more disposed to Doumergue's Cabinet and the for-"concentration" or centro coalition do, we would hate to be fussed over

mation of the present Government, Cabinet based on attempt to ro-capture the North-thie fact was fully realised. Many ity excluding only the two ex- of having carefully preserved our east provinces to-morrow than she would be to surrender them to deputies made no effort to conceal tremes--the Communists and So humour in pickle in order to in their apprehension of n renewal of clalists on the Loft and the ultra-

7 suffering public already Japan for ever. If Nanking oven the rioting of last February as a conservatives on the Right. As the flet it at the slightest provocation suggests recognition it will prob- ably so far spilt Chinese political result of M. Doumergue's depar President of the Alliance Demo-on

ture. Others, more sanguine, re-cratique, the leader of the moderate stricken by Depression. factions that any hope of reconcilia- cognised the seriousness of the contro groups in Parliament, he is

But it is curious, the fact that to eminently suited to the task. The

of al. Edouard Herriot's Radicals to say that as a humorist after our without losing the votes of the more own inexplicable fashion, we have conservative deputies toward the

tion must be virtually abandoned. Isituation, but clung confidenting essence of it is to keep the support nobody has so far come forward

It might, in the opinion of come persons well-informed on Chinese a recurrence of Taira, lead to hostilities between the North and South.

As

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their conviction that I. Flandin would be all right once had constituted his Cabinet,

For

How crucial conditions were then and atili remain, essentially was Right. It is a formula which ap-shown a rare insight into this or fully grasped by the new Prime pears fragile, but which should the other thing. But if, unmind- Minister himself. "These are succeed, for it may safely be said ful of our natural aversion to flat- QUESTIONABLE TACTICS

abnormal circumstances." he told to come nearer than any other tery, they should do so, we could for the suggestion that the deputies in his ministerial de- possible parliamentary combination only say that only the surface has European powers might recognise claration. "We are responsible for to representing the political ideas been skimmed that the fount of

We of the vast majority of Frenchmen, Manchukuo and join with Japan in the future of the regime..

government in fore its fullest deptha could be ex- supplying the necessary capital to must show, by our example, that If it fails, then the adversaries of our intellect must be plumbed bee revive China's prosperity, the thing free institutions are superior to all representative

France will indeed have some basie plored-and we would leave it at is too unlikely to deserve comment.¦ forms of dictatorship,"

for their assertions that the present that.

"Uπ- General recognition of Manchukuo

Parliament-at Icast-s would be entirely incompatible with

the previous In justice to our position ne the League of Nations' principles. Why, in such a critical moment, governable." Lengue members could scarcely did President Albert Lebrun call on majority based on the collaboration little short of a sinologue, wo feel make such a volte face, even if a man who had never been Prime of Socialists and Radicals proved we cannot be entirely ignored on China were to submit to a master Minister before who is, at 45, the disastrously unstable.

of his own But the political aspect of the these Chinese customs. Permit us, in Tokyo. There may be a section youngest member of opinion which would be willing Cabinet and thus a mere babe in the French crisis la superficial in com- therefore, to speak on the "family to cooperate with Japan in Asla hlerarchy of French political tradi-parison with the economic problem. unit" extolled in terms of warm In a commercial way, but until it tlona? Who, in short, is Pierre-Just as the American people swept approval by one of the controver

Franklin D. Roosevelt Into power stal parties. is proved that the "Open Door Etienne Flandin?

Like most French deputies, he is In 1932 on the economie question, so WORLD COURT Policy" in Manchukuo is not the

Joke It bas sometimes appeared, a lawyer, an "avocat" at the Paris the French people na a whole ap-

It actually happened some four Hopes that President Roo- there will be few willing to risk Court of Appeals. Like most de proved the choice of M. Flandin for

theputies also, he is a member of the Prime Minister, not out of any weeks back. Our "family unit” on sevelt would receive a sufficient investments with Japan ns

general council of the department political consideration, but because guarantor.

which he has rep.csented at the they saw in this man whom they this occasion were two mendicants backing from the Senate to per

Palais-Bourbon since 1914-Yonne, know to be a financial and econo-a young fellow who looked por- mit of the United States joining

In central France.

mic expert Romeone who, they feetly miserable in rags, and a the World Court of International

Unlike most deputies, he is an hoped, would do something about bundle of teeth and claws he had Ever so often the All-Union

experienced Nier. As early as 1912 the business dopression, about high Jeanette MacDonald, Justice have been dashed to the

Congress of Soviet Russia has a

he obtained his pilot's licence, and prices and low salaries, about un-strapped to his back and which, on closer inspection, proved to be an ground by the inadequate num-session in Moscow. It is a sort of when the war came he saw active employment and overproduction.

M. Flandia believes that the old hag. To-night will teach me to forget (Film "Merry Widow")

Jeanette MacDonald.ber of votes cast in favour of glorified Chamber of Commerce and service in the Air Force. In 1917

It serves one very useful purpose, he was attached to the inter-allied economic security of the individual The tragedy was all there: a adherence. The outcome is to

if not many. It is a means of air service and at the Peace Con- must be guaranteed. "Republican be regretted, since it perpetuates broadcasting to the world the re ference alded in drawing up, the order," he says, "implied the or- dutiful offspring doing his best to American aloofness in the matter ports of Soviet achievement. M. International Air Trame Conven-ganisation not only of material but support an aged mother, as is be- of international co-operation for Viacheslav Molotov, Chairman oftion. Ha la to-day president of the of moral security, for the in- ing done to-day, and as it was done he affirms, this when Confucius waiked this earth.

as business re- speaks proudly of his country's held without interruption since security, as

A shower of coppers dropped able for adjustment by the pro-progress since the last Congress In 1921.

But it was neither to the lawyer found for France in a return to an from the verandaha, and amongst cess of arbitration. It is, in- 1931. He points out that the level

of production in Russia has risennor the flier that President Lebrun economic liberalism.

Horatio Bogg, deed, a sorry circumstance that 139 per cent, since 1920, while the entrusted the grave responsibilities "the abandonment of liberty as the the benefactors was your noted Ask for a descriptive catalogue with particulars of other interesting philanthropist,

was largely brought into being world has declined by 24 per cent. was to M. Pierre-Etienne Flandin, 'mic disorder," he vigorously asserts visibly affected, who threw in his through the efforts of President Now, that, on the face of it, is leader of the Alliance Democratique, the Imperative necessity of "a pro- offering with the rest.

Impressive. But the achievement France's centre party; and perhaps gressive return to economic liberal-

When the field was fully exploit- Woodrow Wilson, and the Inter-may seem less remarkable with even more M. Pierre-Etienne ism."

to

Thus it is the economic side of ed, the dutiful offspring and the. national Court of Justice was analysis. In the first place, a com- Flandin,-economist-and-financial first conceived by another Ameri-parison of percentages means little expert, with a national and inter M. Pierro-Etienne Flandin that

nothing; for in this period national reputation. or

must dominate any study of the aged mother withdrew to a dis- This is tance, on to the main road whare For, as M. Flandin declared in an French Prime Minister. enn. Mr. Elihu Root, the United Russia has had time to climb out States should still follow this of the post-revolutionary morass, address delivered only a few days perhaps as it should be, for M. the tramlines were. There they policy of isolation. Membership while the rest of the world had just before he became Prime Minister, Flandin in even in appearance the were joined by another member of the family. The bundle of teeth entered upon the worst time of "political problems have arisen be- "typical business man."

In a recent atalement M. Flandin and claws was then unstrapped and of the Court does not carry with industrial depression in its history.cause economic order has not been it any obligation to join the In 1929, then, Russia had found its

preserved."

Parliamentarianism explains his economic programme:

the "family unit" resolved into two separate entities. League of Nations, neither is feet, more or leas, and, under the is on trial in France to-day because there any provision in the impetus of a five-year plan and it has not yet proved itself possess-

"The principal aim of the Govern-

The trio then put their money the lash of inspired patriots, was ed of the will, the wisdom or the Covenant that compela member's driving towards a new era of in- authority to deal effectively with ment I have formed in to combat

an economie crisia that has come the economic crisis, which after into a pool, which was then divided. of the League to submit disputes dustrial expansion. She

All this could be observed be abled to borrow experts and money to the Freach nation later, but attacking so many ether countries to the Court. Yet during the from the rest of the world, and her hardly less acutely, than it came to has now hit France," he declares.

"I told the Chamber of Deputies fore the happy trio briskly boarded course of its existence the Court credit, though shaky, was sufficient the rest of the world,

was determined to fud a tram and disappeared in the This political crisis, though in that has dealt with nearly fifty to obtain for her new industries

energetic matters referred to it, some of the necessary machinery for their many respects an outcome of the way out of the present situation direction of Shaukiwan

(Continued on Pays 10.) which might, in the absence of expansion. Since 1929, which was economie unrest, had to be solved through prompt and

M. Dogmergue tried to solve the turning point of prosperity for first. such machinery as the Court capitallet Industry, Russin has supplies, have led to actual maintained a fairly steady pace in hostilities, Matters with which enterprise and her Great Experl- the Court are empowered to deal comprise the interpretation of

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the settlement of disputes suit. the Council of People's Commissars, Aaro Club de France, a post he has dividual."eral, can only

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ment has mot with a measure of success. To that extent we ready to admit that M. Stalin and his colleagues have dono a job of a treaty, any question of inter-work. But if they would put their national law, the existence of production figures into pounds. any fact which would constitute shillings and pence it would be seen a breach of any international that Russian industry is still con-

siderably below the level which

will understanding, and the extent give prosperity and the little and nature of the reparation to luxuries we, in the outside world, be made for any such breach. have come to expect as our right.

Let us remember that the condi Several attempts have been made tions of living, the comforts and to induce the United States to privileges of the Russian working man and woman are still very join the Court, but all have 80 different from those which British far falled. President Harding

We will not be so people enjoy. and President Coolidge both ready, then, to accept M. Molotov's Bought the concurrence of the little loseon. He is not the first to juggle with figures on a political Senate, on certain conditions and platform and he cannot teach understanding. In all, five re-wise people of a capitalistic nation, servations were made by the when he speaks of growing in- Senate during the Coolidge dustry, that half multiplied by a

half makea more than a quarter. regime, and of these the which eventually proved the real stumbling block was that which matter and the League would be laid down that the Court should automatically robbed of the guld- not, "without the consent of the fance of the Court. It would now United States, entertain any re-appear that American adherence quest for an advisory opinion to the Court is definitely out of touching any dispute or question the question, thanks to the short- in which the United States has sightedness and Insularity of or claims an intereat." Obvious-Senators who have been stamped- Ily, such a limitation of the led into a decision which doprives powers of the Court could not be President Roosevelt of an op- Six Lines accepted, since all that it would portunity of aligning his country be necessary for the United with other nations in a co- States to do would be to declare operative effort to establlah the that it was Interested in a principle of universal arbitration.

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An actress who was said to have "pounced on" a bailiff at her Nat and scratched his face was finel the other day. “

A business man, a keen theatre- goer, who is constantly boing scratched by actresses at supper, once told me that by careful obser vation and tabulation he has be come able to address. the actress afterwards in some such judicious words as theso:

"You have just screamed twice and attacked me in this grill-room. Your first, scream was Pamela Goucher in det 1. of 'Sleeping Dogs." Your second scream was. Popey is Act III. of "The Mauva Parrot Your 'shuddering gesture and re- coil after scratching my face

was. Mrs. Middlehampton in the Anal scane of Painted Lillas. The sal and gasp wero wait a minute- you, Lady Opal in Sunset Gun,' Act II, and the clutch at your bocom was, I'm almost certain, Iris Satterthwaite in the ronunciation scene from 'False Dawn,”

On hearing this cool and reason ed analysis (he added) many little actresses have hysterice, from "the bystorica score of whatever they happen to be playing-in, A