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RUSSIA'S OPPORTUNITY
It is likely that the present Anglo-Russian, conversations may prove of immense benefit to tho cause of peace in Europe, and all
1935,
MUSSOLINI CAN STOP
A WAR
By A. J. CUMMINGS
The Very Idea!
DUMB-BELLS LETTRES By Juliet Lowell
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the world, for that matter, ForUERE is now a rapidly growinititude in the Sino-Japanese als Mr. Milton Simon
it.
By all means, send on your ing recognition of the ser-pute, are of course arguing once Dear Mr. Simon:
a remote scenario entitled, "The Sexton". lousness, open and implied, of the more that it would be foolish to
country,
ovenAnything will go that's got sex in present conflict between Italy and apply the Covenant to. Abyssinia. It is serious not only and barbarous
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By Geo, F. because a threat of war is always though it happens to be a member serious but because there has of the League. After all, they never been a dispute between two aay, something must be done to Powers in which the fundamental uphold law and order among the which only nominally acknowledge principles of the League Covenant warlike and undisciplined tribes were more clearly at stake.
(signed)
Modesty Personified
"Your salesman-left some books on farming at my house to- day, saying as they would make a better farmer of me. I don't need them books. I ain't doing as well as I know now.
Ralph L
(Algned).....
one thing the very apparent good. will of the people of Moscow to wards the Britlah Minister who is conducting negotiations on behalf is an of His Majesty's Government, Indication of the desire of Russians to make friends with a nation. which is the very antithesis of all that the Soviet represents. Per haps the personality of Mr. An- thony Eden has something to do
Many politicians in this country Abyssinia's suzeraluty; to thwart Satyr Book Shop with this: but it is not entirely
na wall as abroad who could not be lialy would mean the ruin ofiollywood, California responsible. Perhaps the Russian philosophy, by its very practicality, described as "fanatical" League European negolintions and pro- Dear Sir: will overcome any antipathy to pacifists are genuinely alarmed be-bably Italy's withdrawal from the wards the British imperialistic cause they regard this issue no a League; and on the whole it would be best to turn a blind eye to what faith which may still remain root-decisive test case.
of the Italy may choose to do, The vlow certainly
the ed where the fathers of the revolu-
aro reallats Actually, Hon planted it. Let us hope that smaller Powers is that, if in this we shall see co-ordinated effort on instance the great Powers betray jungle-men.
Italy cannot allege the sem- the Covenant na cynically as they the part of two great nations in the cause of peace; and that British did in the Far East, it will be imblance of a grievance against
Heads Or Tails? common sense is equal to the Rus possible to retain faith any longer Abyssinia. The only issue la the
In the security of the weak against Wal-Wat incident itself, the blame Central Park Riding Academy alan pragmatiam, that there may be no hindrance of the work Mr. Eden has undertaken, because of prejudices on either side. There was much about the Russian revalu- tion which was horrible and cruel and apparently unreasonable. But out of the blood and ashes of an anclent dynasty, the Soviet may produce that which will have a last- ing and immense effect upon world politics: not, as the radicul hopes, to be used to tear down the civilisa tions of other lands and spread world revolution; but to knit more firmly together in a prosperous democracy and peaceful enterprise the peoples of all entours, erceds and convictions,
the strong under the League.
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Why has Italy mobilised an army and transported troops and war material to the italian colon ies adjacent to Abyssinia? The main facts of the situation have beca fully reported in the Press. Some of the most important among these facts, however, are not well known to the general public.
How many people are aware that the Italian forces which took part in the armed conflict of were at Wal-Wal, December 5
the British which is marked on general staff sections! map (No. 2871) us being 60 miles within Abyssinian territory?
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for which has been ascribed by impartial British agents to Italy. New York City.
Gentlemen:
I suppose you wonder why Italy is bound by an all-in my horse comes back to the stable arbitration treaty of 1928 which alone. It was like this. When we expressly covers the present in- comes to the first fence, I thought cident. As lately, as at the last my horse would jump; but he didn't meeting of the Connell Italy under- jump, so I went over his head. took to act in the spirit of this When we comes to the second fence, treaty. Yet she has, virtually I thought he wouldn't jump; and presented more than one ultima- he did, so I went over his tail.
Andrew S tum, which she has supported by
(signed) the dispatch of large bodles of troops,
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Thought my horac would jump; but he didn't jump, no } went over his head.
The Italian view, I know, is that The British Commissioner in his there is no iniquity in these pro- CONFIDENCE IN BANKS
reports from Wal-Wal speaks ofceedings; that Wal-Wal was just that The confidence of depositors in the "provointive attitude adopted a "regrettable Incident"; REDISTRIBUTION OF British banks was never stronger, by the tallan authorities." He direct negotiations will settle the Those depositors have seen their further declares that two Italian issue comfortably; that the dis WEALTH
money protected in a period of de aeroplanes trained a machinegun patch of troops must be considered pression of a character unknown for and otherwise demonstrated over as an "expedition" and not as a It is symptothe heads of British and Abyssin-movement of war; that, in order At a time when the contrast some generations.
to ensure peace and order In the matic of the banke realisation finn Commissioners (engaged in do- between the poor and the affluent, their duties that in annual reports limiting the frontier between frontier zone, the Abyssiniaus is being thrown into sharp stress should be laid on the fact Abyssinin and British Somaliland) must be made to realise that the
that the first responsibility is to flie
instrument from the Army of 40 prominence, it is only to be ex-dapositors, and it is because this in spite of the fact that the British Italian Army to-day is a different
were flying the Union Jack.
ago; and, Anally, that In its efforts to arrive at an years pected that the question of a la recognised and made the cardinal possible redistribution of wealth principle, of banking that the de-equitable solution the BritishAbyssinine is a barbar land which
positors have such strong confidence should once again be widely dis-in those who safeguard their lisalon was "constantly thwarted ought not to be inside the League
by the unconcillatory and dis at all..
But the immediate charge a moneys. In Great Britain at an- cussed. None the lesa,
nual meetings of the various banks obliging attitude of the Italian
"officer." The Abyssinian Mission against Italy is that the way in
which she is now conducting the Dear Dr. Rager: the improvement who desire a reshuffling of this acknowledging world's goods, allow their idens that has taken place in trade dar. such a procedure on the part of negotiations with Abysstain, a als- a flagrant contravention of the let- to outrun their sense of what is ing 1934. They note inercases in the agents of a Government with ter member of the League, is a
ter and spirit of the Covenant. railway traffic, the expansion of cur- which Abyssinia bad concluded really practical.. Yet there real-rency circulation, the development treaty of friendship was not in It may well be that Italy has no
The British Government should ly is an immense gap between of the heavy lulustries and re-keeping with International usage.
to the real intention of annexing large use all the influence it undoubted- the abstract bellef that wealthCovery in shipping and in ship-
building. They testify should be more equitably dis- soundness of the revival; they slices of Abyssinian territory and ly commands to persuade Signor tributed and the theory that the peak with confidence of 1936. that her main preoccupation is to Mussolini, who on many occasions hns proved himself "a good Euro- My own fairly precise infor- pean," to return to the path of only way to do it is to take Those bankers are unanimous in protect the Italian colonies.
their desire for an ultimate-return- money directly out of the rich to the gold standard, a course that mation is that the last thing Signor wisdom and to take the initiative
great many enthusiastic people. the chairmen have been 1 unit in also pointed out indignantly that
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I got good news for you. the poor. Demagogues who like however, that the time is not yet tangled in an awkward war from
rine. Industry is of the same opin- which no national credit can be sion, with an impartial personnel, You remember you promised me to define a permanent frontier. $60 bucks if I passed my college to present an easy formula to, ion, and at present in Great Britain won.
None knows better than he that
The Abyssinian Government, entrance exams? Well, you're not cure all social ills do not appear there is a closer and more sym-
a war, however efficiently planned
which wants a peaceful settle- to see this. An American politi. Pathetic Louch between industry
and banking than perhaps ever in the mountainous and heavy ment, will make no difculties going to have that experise.
wooded territory of Abvsainin. about this solution. The British clan, whose reputation stands before.
with its fierce tribes Arhting for Government knows from its own high in his country, has now
their freedom. would become angent where the responsibility lies. come forward with a proposal for
sineularly bloody and long-drawn It cannot disregard the unpleasant wealth redistribution by the
At a time when banking is held colonial strugle in which Italy's fact that Italian munitions of war simple process of a progressive in such high repute, that is bank real difficulties would begin after are being conveyed through the Suez Canal. The British Govern- federal inheritance tax. This; ing in private hands, it is almost she had won the campaign.
ment therefore has a special res-i fatal to its political advancement he points out, does not
that Socialism should have chos
For an analogy we have only to ponsibility, taking property from one man the moment to launch a campaign look at what happened to the and giving it to another. It for nationalisation. The bankers means taking money from the have met this challenge by explain-French in Syria; or to the Span-
ing to the public the real functiona lards in Morocco,
The so-called realists, untaught consequences of their estates of the very wealthy of the banks and the services they where it performs very little real perform to the community. It is by the
Mr. Beaumont Pease, of
mean
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ing it in the interests of those Bank, in answering the at the bottom of the scale. It is argument quotes it first, ns follows contended, that such a scheme "How long are the people of this country to be divorced from the would check steady, progressive two thousand million pounds de- concentration of wealth in the posits in the hands of the banks?" hands of a small class, and would Mr. Pease says: "It is precisely in also help materially to relieve the order to be sure that the rightful owners shall not be divorced from country of pauperism Arguing their two thousand millions that that this would put redistribu- bankers in this country have kept their resources in A sufficiently tion forward in a fair way, the quid state to ensure their ability author of this plan points out to pay their obligations when de- that a man's right to profit by manded. If the control over the his industry or brilliance would deposits were put into the hands of some of those who wish to use it in not be infringed. Only his right order to enable them to finance their to pile up an untouchable fortune for future generations would be reduced. It is of, interest to (keep in mind the fact, when con- sidering this question, that America is one of the wealthicat backs should bear the heaviest countries in the world, if not the burden. Moreover, the estates most wealthy, and yet one-third of the wealthy are taxed for of its people are in beggary and more heavily in Britain than want. Taxes already are ab they are in the United States. normally heavy, and it is con- There can be little question that tended that the further taxation a more just distribution of of those feeling the pinch is out wealth is called for: the question arises whether this can be ac of the question. Crities of the complished within the frame-
particular projects, depositors night legitimately come to the con usion that then, indeed, they had been divorced from their two thou-
and million pounds.""
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It should have discovered by
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about to be deceived by one who pretenda to
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Annette Hanshaw
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Dear Madam,
I received your reference with utmost pleasure. Permit me to express my thanks to you of your magnanimity. Your refer once sent to me is useful beyond του comparison concerning of what qualified me for: I'm sorry that my writing capability does not comply me the full extent to ex- press my obligation and gratifica- tion to you. I I always found you the most courteous lady that I worked for. 'I presume that you will remember the day when I had a few interchangeable words with you, I am extremely sorry for my disposition of that minute; Yours very truly,
Makino (signed)
Inform the Italian Government in all friendliness that while we are anxious to help it to settle its dificulties with Abyssinia upon honourable terms the upholding of the Covenant is a question of honour which touches us quite as closely as any colonial tasuo coul affect Italy.
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