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NOTES OF THE DAY TWO CONSTITUTIONS OF The Very Idea!

AMERICA'S NEUTRALITY

GREAT NATIONS

By WINSTON CHURCHILL

To many Americans who want really to do something about peace, current efforts to take the war out of neutrality have appeared to offer a most practical and promising

[WO remarkable incidents 'in' admits all has worked out well, beginning, anys an American con

TWO temporary. A more resolute and the prosent fortnight throw the The good sonse of the British ponceful neutrality policy seemed to strong light of current events upon public, the experience and training

which afford common ground on

the political Institutions of the of our political classes, the respect active pacifista could unite with

United States and of Great Britain. of our unwritten Constitution and genuine isolationista, to reduce the dangers of war. And it looked at In America the Supreme Court tradition have carried us through. first glance like a simple thing to has given a unanimous judgment But the imprudence of trying to provide in advance for an embargo which stultifies and largely para-conduct the whole affairs of a on loans or goods that might fn- volve America in a "foreign" fight.lyses the whole vast policy of social mighty State and Empire without But all sorts of difficulties have and economic change embodied in any fundamental laws, without any cropped up. To-day the movement. President Roosevelt's National RC-effective second Chamber, with a constitutional Sovereign acting up needs patient but persistent sup-

covery Act. In England A new port. It is threatened from two sides. The first and least serious Government with n new Prime on the advice of Ministers, and danger in that it will be caught in Minister is in process of formation, without the aid of any supreme

court, leaves him aghast. These transactions illustrate in a revealing manner the profound we speak of his present plight he differences between the Constitu- tions under which the two English-

When

our ever-present

a legislative log jam at the end of this Congressional session. Recent ly a most significant development passed almost unnoticed. Senators Nye, Clark and Pittman paid a visit to the White House to discuss speaking democracies have come to dom lies. mensures for restricting arms ex-dwell. porta Mr. Nye and Mn Clark, with the impetus and experience of the munitions Inquiry behind them, has been reached in the United island are the passive spectators of have been pressing for an embargo Stater. Imagine, for instance, this

Mr.

to It is very difficult for uA realise the kind of deadlock which

IN LIGHTER VEIN The sweet young thing was proudly, if not proficiently, driving her now streamlined sporta model. Coming to a busy trafic.point she found the red "stop" light against her.

To her annoyance, when the green "go" light appeared, she dis- covered that her engine had stalled. Several minutes of frantic fumb- which she could

ling followed in not get the car to budge an inch. The traffic policeman then came over to her, and, touching his hel-

met, politely inquired, "Haven't wo

got any colours you like, mies?"

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DIZZY DEFINITIONS

eminds us of insecarity.

A door knob is a thing a revolv Only time can show where wining door goes around without--a

straw is something which you drink. through two of them-cobblo- stones are a pavement that people would rather were asphalt than- a fera is a plant that you are sup-

At the same time

we in this

on supplies to belligerenta Pittman, chairman of the Foreign Higantic India Bill, passed through an Immense change in the porson- Relations Committee, has not die-Parliament and for two or three nel, and possibly in the character, Posed to water once a day, but if years in petive operation through of the whole of our executive You don't it wilts, and if you do it played any noticeable enthusiasm on

out the whole of India, suddenly he-Government. New Ministers will wilts anyway, only not so soon- the subject. After the White

ing declared illegal by the Law ill the greatest offices. The head summer is a senson that in winter House visit. it transpired that a Lords sitting as a tribunal. Ima of the Government is to be changyou wish you could keep your house new-and possibly an alternative Stubbs Rd, measure-would be considered by gine--to take an instance nearer ed. A different Cabinet will meet warm 08-cream is something home-some gigantie mensure of aftor Whitsuntide. Yet in all these which dry coreal doesn't taste ns Mr. Pittman's committee. This is insurance as big as the widows' changes neither Parliament nor the

State Department plan for licensing "munitions exports. It is

Hongkong Telegraph.

THURSDAY, JULY 4, 1936.

ANGLO-AMERICAN FRIENDSHIP

on

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What is the explanation?

It is that British Governmenta

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NASTY!

some-

pensions, health and employment electorate require to be consulted Kod without it, unless you use insurance rolled together which in any way. Nevertheless everyone milk but haven't any. a much less ambitious proposal than

had deeply interwoven itself in nccepts this as a matter of course. the bolstering of neutrality by

the whole life of the people, upon embargoes. It fits with the scheme

which every kind of contract and for international supervision of the

business arrangement had been munitions trade put forward by the

based, being declared to have no live from day to day only upon the

Teacher: "Now, Robert, what United States at Geneva. It is similar to the plan by which for simply cannot conceive it. Yet There is no divorce between the thing?"

validity by a court of Inw. We approval of the House of Commons, are you doing learning NOMU years Great Britain has licensed munition-making with very occurred on the other side of the Ministers, new or old, must be something Very like that has Executive and Legislature. The little

result in the stopping of

Atlantic. supplies to anybody who wanted to

chosen from men and purties which to you." fight. The question now is whether In our country an Act of Parlia- in the aggregate will command a an attempt is being made to subment which, upon the advice of the majority in the House of Commons stitute this mild form of restraint Ministers responsible for it. has when it reassembles after the holi- for the outright embargo method. received the Royal Assent Is the days. SERIOUS QUESTIONING

Isolation,

law of the land. Its authority can.

Robert: "No, air; I'ni listening

TURN ABOUT Man (to neighbour): "I wishi you would sell that dog. Yester- day, my daughter had to stop her

ing all the time." singing because your dog was whin-

Neighbour: "I'm sorry, but your daughter started it."

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ITS APPEARANCE

bought this car accondhand?"

"Honestly, would you think I

"No, I thought you made it your-

Belf."

It is appropriate that we should today, when extending felicitations to our American

If the new Prime Minister form- friends on the observance of In-

not be questioned by any courted a Government which offended dependence Day, recall the large

There is no limit to the powers of the House of Commons, he and his measure of interest which has this kind of sidetracking, they will gravest changes in our Constitu-afternoon, and someone else would Should embargo proposals escape Crown and Parliament. Even the colleagues could be dismissed in an been evoked both in Great still face serious questioning: How tion can be carried out by simple have to try again to meet the Britain and the United States by can America retain freedom of majority votes in both Iloines and wishes of the Assembly. If the the recent references made by netion? Would shutting off supplies the consequential assent of the House of Commons gave its support leading British statesmen to the

to all belligerents preclude' helping | Crown.

to a Government which the elector. desirability of cementing still victim of aggression? Should

ate did not like, this Government further the ties which bind the the same system be used for Europe

could be swept away after the next people of these two nations to other questions should have fuller Constitution is enforced by

as for the Pacific area? These and In the United States a written general election. Therefore public gother. Both Mr. Baldwin and consideration than muy be possible Supreme Court according to the hydra-heads, is master, and all the aopinion, expressed through its Mr. Anthony Eden have been in this session of Congress, But letter of the law. Anyone may plans of the King's new Prime pleading for increased Anglo- the movement to strengthen and bring a test case challenging not Minister must be attuned to this American co-operation, based not modernise neutrality will go un, merely the Interpretation of a law, omnipresent, dominant influence, only on a common language and The second and more serious danger but the law itself; and if the court Here is our guarantee, here is our a common culture, but also

is that efforts to Insulate the United | derides for the appellant, be he safeguard: it is all we have; but so the fact that Great Britain and States will be twisted into a new only an owner of a few chickens, far it has not failed.

A FOREIGN TONGUE the United States to-day share, the attempt to lessen frictions and the Executive becomes to that

Unless vigilantly guided, the whole netion of the Legislature Parliament can, if it chooses, Sir Esme Howard, former as never before, responsibility which might produce war will de extent null and void. To modify even prolong its own life beyond British Ambassador to the United for the continuance of the demo-generate into a hateful and fearful the Constitution even in the mall- the statutory limit. Ministers may States, quite enjoys telling how he.. cratic ideal in government. It is nationalism that is anything but est particular requires a two-thirds at any time ad se the King to a walked briskly into the foyer of American journal peaceful. But refusal to be an ae majority of the sovereign States and all parties have a deep, under the Mayflower Hotel at Washing-

sudden dissolution. Yet all classes has expressed it, that Anglo- complice in war making need not forming the American Union. American efforts to

mean refusal to be an associate in This has only been achieved after Rexible powers will not be abused, speak with one of the bright-but- lying conviction that these vast ton and stopped for a moment to world pence would, if ayn-peacemaking. Determination to prodigious struggles, on less than that the spirit of our unwritten toned servitors in the lobby. After chronised, forge an impenetrable avoid becoming an arsenal in war-

a score of occasions during the Constitution will be respected at bulwark against war.

time-a determination based

whole history of the United States. every stage and that public chas Mr. Eden only on a desire to escape injury

he walked on, an assistant mana- expressed British opinion gen- but on a desire to have no part in The American citizens or jurists tisement would speedily overtake ser, who had noted the incident, erally when he declared that inflicting injury-does not imply a gaze with wonder al our great tay Minister. however powerful, went over to the boy and said— "Friendship with the United necessity for becoming a hermit democracy expressing itself with who fell below the accepted stand-"What did the Ambassador want?" States is of the first importance; nation in peacetime. Indeed, non- plenary powers through a Governards of fair play or who descended it exists today and it will grow; co-operation for war is entirely.ent and a Parliament controlled to trick-work or dodgery.

"I don't know," answered the and everything that we can do to consistent with co-operation for only by the Auctuating currents of

Certainly no one could live undor

bell-hop. "He couldn't speak Eng- pubille opinion. promote that friendship will be

Not only consistent, peace.

but

the British Constitution except its eagerly done."

wise. For the more the neutrality On the other problem is studied, the clearer is ience of his system, the American they nor their descendants have When we point to the inconven-inventors and patentees and neither side, there have not been want-the fact that it affords no guarantee retorts by warning us of the pre- ever been able to explain the secret ing signs that a similar feeling of peace, even of an exclusive and carious fluidity of ours. prevails in the United States. selfish peace.

So for he to others,

true, as an

preserve

It would, however, be foolish to ignore the practicalities of the situation. There are those in

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MATTER OF THINKING

matter

not

America who believe that the Neutrality is, above everything, a best way for the United States to Wilson

President of thinking. saw that clearly in 1914 keep out of a possible European when he asked Americans to remain conflict would be to help to pre-neutral in thought as well action. vent such a conflict. On the The result proved how nearly im- other hand, there is a large sec-possible that is for the human mind. tion of opinion which holds that Looking back now, it is apparent. in no circumstances should the that the United States took sides United States become involved in from the start. A review of the European entanglements. These to War" shows how language, period such as Walter Mills's "Road latter may find some consolation culture and tradition, to say nothing in the statement made by Mr.of clever foreign propaganda, tipped Baldwin that United States' the balance even before the nation participation in EL collective became a silent but very active and security agreement is not at the prosperous partner operating an in- moment within the sphere of dispensable service of supply. To- practical politics. But this is day the world is even more closely knit. Short-wave radio throws our not to say that Britain and America should not come closer to our very homes. The task of neighbours' voices--and viewpoints together in their respective Insulating any nation is far more polícies. In the economic sphere, difeult. It must be undertaken.. for example, they have a great Everything possible must be done opportunity of offering an to set up are walls against another example of the benefits to be world conflagration. And some of obtained by a reversal of the this work lies in the improvement trend towards restrictive self- of neutrality. But Its value sufficiency. In monetary mut-pends largely on the apirit in which ters, also, it would be to

It is done. It must be carried out the more in friendliness than fear. manifest advantage of both na- self-sufficient selfishness will suffice. tions if a common policy were to be embarked upon, one aim

de-

No

ing at eventual currency menta both in Britain and the stabilisation. There are, other United States. A closer draw. spheres also in which unity of ing together now, might, indeed, approach would be beneficial. It go far beyond the limits con- is therefore up to the statesmen aldered at the moment possible. of both countries to endeavour to For we can conceive of no major. capitalise the urge for closer co Issue of worldwide moment in operation which is the obvious which the outlook of both - na- desire of the responsible ele. tions would not coincide.

if you asked me who is grublle enemy No. 1 right now." "Oh, I funt can't keep up with the times. I'd even be abumped

dish."

SCHOOL

A Reading man has a son who has just entered school. He was supposed to be enjoying it, but one | morning he walked into the dining room, where his father was having breakfast, and remarked:

"I'm tired of going to school, Pop."

"Why?"

asked the father. 'What is your objection to going to school?"

"Oh," answered the boy, "It breaks up the day so."

ON THE UNLIMITED

EXPRESS

"Did you see about the man who- Avas riding on the sleeper? The weather was very warm, and, the window being open, he put one foot out of the window to got cooled off, und fell naloép. When he awoke in the morning he noticed his foot secmed heavy, and no wondor: there were three mail bags and a.” red lantern hanging onto it."

OH!

Sammy was not prone to over- exertion in the classroom. There- Lore, his mother was both surpris- ed and pleased when he came home with the announcement, "I got a hundred this morning."

"That's lovely, dear," she said ng she kissed the boy tenderly.

What was it in?" she asked.

in roading and fifty In.