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The League of Nations le appre- hensive of trouble in Abyssinia; and with some causo. Italy. Is mobilising a part of her army,

FEBRUARY

1935.

LOOKING AHEAD IN 1935

By SIR OSW ALD. MOSLEY

'

"penal." The Indian politician

The Very Idea!

WE ARE IN THE PIG YEAR

It follows that this year of the Pig must be somebody's else, and we can see quite a large number of claims

For a moment we had thought

year dawned on us with a rattle

¡By Horatió (Lainae) Bogg three classes of mechanised forcos CHALL wo maintain the Em- Iclusion of this policy and that can CCORDING TO THE CHINESE for service on the Somaliland frontier where "Incidents" have piro? Shall we maintain the only be socured by the transfer of A CALENDAR, we have just en- recently occurred between Italian Peace? These two questions meet full fiscal powers to Indian politic-tored on an interesting phase.of. native troops and Abyssinian Great Britain at the threshold of fans. Thus the procceà which has the Cycle the Year of the Pig.

raised the Indian tariff against

Last year being one of the Goat, tribesmen, resulting in fatalities 1086.

The old year has closed in a Lancashire from 6 per cent. to 20 we could claim it to be our very on both sides. Without attempt- ing to argue the merits of the case dark perplexity. With one hand we per cent, since 1913 and has reduced own by virtue of the many in- by 80 per cent, the Lancashiro mar cidents it brought into our life- which either Italy or Abyssinia surrender the heritage of centuricket in India may be carried to its incidents of a regretful character can present to the League, wo with the other we interfere in vetri.

which need not be detailed here. think it likely that the fears of business except our own. To the final triumph. the League are excusable, and that Blackshirt every polley appears the there is about to occur another of reverse of what British policy should Faithfully the White Paper those unpleasant episodes such as. be. Our task is to preserve intact

serves the requirements of the has burdened the world with an- the structure of the British Empire. financler In ordaining. that no give othcoming, for its oxdu-

But British Statesmanship is xiety in the not far distant past. Italy le a powerful nation. Abys more concerned to preserve inviolate power of fecal intervention shall sinin is a nation of scattered tribes the frontiers of Soviet Russia. Our rest with this country unless n tariil this year was also to be our own THE FINEST SALOON MODELS and few resources.' Italy's army, / Politicians are not prepared to risk has merely to assure us that he when the first day of this fateful is equipped with all the modern ton charge to maintain at the acting in the interests of Indian horrors made available by science.

was won by Cilve. But they are trade in order to inflict any injury Abyssinia's army is composed of Wa

to risk a world war in Mr. he likes on British trade.

and look for work? Don't forget A number of fierce, asmadic Litvinoff's little quarrel with Japan. Who gains by this surrender of you are under a legal obligation to fellows who can ride like devils To the twentieth century realist

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your wife." support driven from his and shoot moderately well and to

peasant who whom, desert war is an old story sents an impression of Bedlam let to sweat out his life in the foulest fast year, who had taken her on the last phase of Democracy pre-agricultural occupation of centuries get, we, the Goat of the whole of But they would not stand against

Industrial slums in the world? Is our hands for weal, but more par- an offensive brought on by the

it the Lancashire worker who lines ticularly for woe. mechanised forces Italy has ut her disposal. It would not be n Therefore let us examine an alter- the unemployment queue because war, but a burlesque, a wholly native policy for 1936--"the main-Indians are being sweated and the tragic affair, with only one possi tenance of Empire and the main City of London has fent money to ble outcome: the subjugation of tenance of Fence.". Can these two Japan to equip herself with Lan- came to us in a strange fashion. The clatter by which the Old Year Abyssinia and the extension of objectives be simultaneously and cashire machinery? Italian domination in that corner successfully pursued? The main-betrayal except the politiciana and New Year browbeaten in

Who beneflls from this immense was being frightened out and the had of the

tenance of Empire clearly involves their financial musters? Is it not hardly subaided, when there came the capacity, and the determination true that Britain offirmed the a peremptory knock at our door to govern-nothing but these quall-Mantenance of Empire" as the and a peremptory volca declaring: WHO IS BORAH?

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1

in Borah 7′′

ENTITLED TO OPINIONS

British Crown the continent that

loose.

of

l'ost-war policy in that country keystone of our policy? has failed and must be scrapped. Let the strong hand, be not segu-

•

Let us cease to argus with law-

of cracker-firing. "Pigi" the wife

had anid, "why don't you get up

As If we could be allowed to for

These queer Chinese customs

"I am the joss god and I bring you joss fuck.”

Being in sore need for what he had brought, we opened the door* · wide so as to let all of it in.

For why he should pick on us

we had not the foggiest idea, but if luck was in it, it, singularly on- ough, went the other way. He left with one of our carofully hoarded

Let us kill discontent with econ-

Виссев and enllat the coppersi national spirit of Indians in o

A man named Smuts, whom some people will remember as a former commander of the British It reated on an assumption which in live but positive, forces in East Africa during the practice has proved an illusion. It War, said the other day that only was assumed that Indian politicians vere and enlist the services of

economic technicians to rebuild Name of a Pig! It was only a by means of a close understand of all types and parties would co-Indian rural life.

beggar and one of the surllest. ing between the United States of operate with Grent Britain in a

Let us break the grip of the fellows to be found anywhere- America and Britain could there gradual transition to Indian self-

money-lender on the peasant with who handed us a bit of red paper be any real assurance that peace government.

In place of co-operation, we have agricultural banks, and with ex- the size of a visiting card on on the Paciffe, or in the Far East, could be antisfactorily maintained, encountered non-co-ovoration, and tended Irrigation and compulsory which the blessing of the joss god He gave it as his opinion that organised sedition has driven the methods of modern farming in- was inscribed through the handi-

remnants of loyalty from Indian crease the fertility of the Indian work of his ragged emissary. there were many nations likely become embroiled in any clash political life. The whole premise plain, and the purchasing power In the Pacific: Russia, China, on which that palley was.based has of the masses, which will provide The Labour Party's complaint. Japan, Britain, America, and all ceased to exist. We are thus con- an increased markot for British

fronted with the initial problem of goods. that the National Government the British Colonies, to name a

σπίς religious differences to a degree has been guilty of "bungling few. ile sald he thought Britain continent divided by racial and and Amerten should consider an ineptitude" in its measures for alliance. Ilia, utterance brought which reduces any conception of

real constructive task.

In the next half-hour we were relieving distress amongst the forth expressions of approvaltionhood to the fantastic.

Above all, let us declare the de-honoured with similar manifesta- Anite principle that the economytions by no fewer than a dozen jose unemployed, is to be followed by from the British Press, for the

former South African premier, We are further fared with the of Empire shall not be dislocated gods. What terriße luck we should Ja demand that a special com- onco an enemy of England, has fact that all effective, political in- and the stream of sweated goods have had that early morning to be mittee of the Cabinet be estab-won much respect from the world fluence in India is violently anti-shall not polson the blood-stream sure, if it were not one of these lished to deal with the problem ambition, in the cause of pence. the severance of all Imperial conserve the quick profits of elements the celebration of a lunar New for his far-sightedness and his British and is concerned only with of Imperial commerce in order to "olo customs" designed to make of national reconstruction. But General Jan Smuts' suggestion nection and the fual destruction of in our national life that thrive Year frightfully expensivo. Whilst some of the criticism awakened no sympathetic response British trade. At last Indian and batten on national decadence. Then there was the amah of ̧à

William Edgar Imust be discounted as indicative from

Borah. political agitation emerges in naked The Empire lives or we all perish, friend who presented us with her Somo-one mentioned his name, the reality as the instrument of corrupt merely of Labour's anxiety to

Let the resolution of 1935 be card as she handed the melon seeds (discredit the Government, at

name of Borah. In connection with Bnance for the exploitation of cheap that determination. Such a policy tray around. We looked from the the reports of his disapproval of Oriental labour in order that fat to maintain the Empire coincides card-artistically .ornato with the same time there is a con- an Anglo-American understand-profits may be reaped by the and in no way conflicts with the flowers and cranes-to the almper- siderable section of public opin-ing. reported yesterday. And destruction of the white standard maintenance of peace. If we ex-ing owner, stupefaction in our gaze, ion at Home which holds the some-one else remarked: "Who of life, view that far too little attention is-being-paid-to-the-nation's internal economic position. Mr. Robert Boothby, the Conserva-

Mr. Borah is a member of the tive M.P. for Aberdeen, recently United States Senate. from Idaho, reflected this feeling when he and he was a staunch supporter declared in Parliament that the of the late Mr. Herbert Hoover, Government's domestic policy is Republican President of haphazard, palliative in charac- United States, whom Mr. Coolidge ter and unrelated to any central succeeded. He has been

years & member of the Senate theme of general constructive Foreign Relations Committee in economic policy. He added that the United States, and in that there were still two million un-capacity is entitled to an opinion employed people, on whom the on American foreign policy and Government is spending one must be pardoned if he expresses hundred millions sterling a year. Mr. Borah is always among to keep in idleness, and pertin- the first to express opinions on ently asked whether the Govern- foreign policy. He believes that

the American people as ment were prepared to leave

a whole matters in that condition, wind- commitments with or to a foreign are. unwaveringly opposed to any ing up with the remark that "1 power, even Britain. He does not am afraid the people of this believe in defensive pacta, be-: country are not." That these cause he is afraid they might in- observations are not an isolated volve the United States in some- instance of criticism from Con-one else's quarrel. In the days of servative circles is shown by the Ball, when Mr. Borah was a boy, fact that much of the time taken and before people went flying up during the debate on the through space in rearing machines at 800 miles an hour, that polley King's Speech recently WAB of isolation was all very well. occupied by Conservative mem-America had oceans between her bers complaining of the Govern- and her enemies. She was safe ment's failure to produce a con- from attack. Indeed, these occans structive policy for dealing with still offer her a splendid first line unemployment. This criticism of defence, for they are obstacles But America to any aggressor. was renewed during the dis-

has responsibilities abroad, as cussions on the Depressed Areas well as at home. Amorica, ilke Bill. The Times has been no every other progressive nation, less insistent on the same point.must recognise the necessity of It recently declared that the co-ordinated action on the part of Government's claim that re- world powers in the interests of!

The time will come when covery had been registered dur-peace. ing the past year "does not dis America may be very glad of an sipate the army of more than alliance of the sort which General

Smuts suggested. two million persons who are,

clude Japanese goods from India until a nudge from our friend The solemn pretence that the fund the Crown Colonies at the brought us to a cold recollection of Illterate Indian masses are pray-same-timo-that-we-lower Indian | the fact_that_wo_were_already in ing for a White Paper which they tariffs against Lancashire; we can the Year of the Pig. Another of could not read and of which they provide immediate employment our treasured coppers was squan- have never heart dissolves before for some 65,000 workers in the dered on the brute! the reality that a few professional cotton industry. But we can only politicians, in the pay of the rich do this without risk of conflict if mill owners, are bluffing a decad we do not oppose other outlets ent British Government out of the for Japan.

the

some

nevertheless, unemployed." [Again; at a later date, the same quarters to answer these critic- journal remarked that the do-isms. It seems clear, therefore, minant economic fact to-day is that Mr. Ramsay MacDonald that while the level of produc and his colleagues will need to tion has risen practically to the get down to this issue if the volume of 1929, "this has not Government is to be kept in prevented a rise of about a office. Merely for Mr. Baldwin million in the number of un-to tell the electors, as he has employed since that year." been recently, that at the next |That fact, the Times added, is clection they will have to one among many which is induc- choose between the constructivo ing far-sighted people to ask to policy of the National Govern- what general and planned policy ment and the destructive policy the Government's activities are of the Socialist Party, is not, [related... to-day. So far, there enough. The public will ask for has been no definitely convincing some proof that the Government statement from Government has a constructive policy.

land our fathers won with their blood and built with the creative genius of the British race,

The natural outlet of the Japa- Beneath the cant of "Treedom and nese is in Manchuria and Mongo self-government" emerges the ugly lin, where they can found an fact that this policy hands over the Empire comparable with

India, Indian masses to a financial ex- but our busy-body Government ploitation which seeks to derive à employs in opposition to Japanese higher rate of interest from the Empire the energy which it should development of sweated labour in employ in the maintenance of our India than it can draw from the re-own Empire. The reason is, of equipment of British Industry. course, that the interests of the British goods is the logical con

The total exclusion from India of Soviet are Involved and the Soviet

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-wish I had some of those smart, dark circles under my eyes.

whole days and nights. Whilst And so it went on, for three atrings of crackers spluttered and New Year kowo-lows went around, more and more sacrifices were offered up to the Pig, and we delved deeper and deeper into our pockets, Assuredly the Pig had it well on the Goat!

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