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NOTES OF THE DAY
NEW MAN--NEW HOPE
AUSTRIAN REPUBLIC
DEMOLISHED?
BY FRANCIS GUNTHER
Vienna.
The Very Idea!
STABILISATION
the Government has only itself to Kelly Tries His Hand At
High Finance ...!
THE Austrian Government has blame, THE
issued
text new history
It must be clearly kept in mind books for its grado.schoolchildren, that the Social-Democratle Party In the last chapter the World War always pinced the emphasis on the la dismissed in a few lines. The "Democratic," not on the "Social" abdication of Kaiser Karl is in- or "Socialist."" mented for half a page. The ac-democracy, in free speech, in free count then dwells on the patriotic assembly It lived for that be services of Chancellors Seipel and lief, it died for that belief. Dollfuss and closes on the glories
It believed
in
The change in the British Cabinet is more than a tweedledum- tweedledee-affair:~~There is a new occupant of the Foreign Office, Sir Samuel Hoare. Of his mensure in foreign affairs none can speak with certainty. But a new broom always sweeps clean, and there can be no doubt that on this account alone the shift is of considerable signi- ficance in. Aglo-American relations, says an American commentator, Under the old reginie several mis understandings had arisen. They
In 1918, for a brief period, the all revolved around the head of Sir of the now Corporative State.
Not a single word is mentioned of Social-Democratic Party had con- John Simon for his handling of the the Austrian Republic. This Re-trol of the country. It could have Manchurian affair. Several times the American State Department public, which from 1918 to 1934, a declared a dictatorship of the pro- a letariat It could have dissolved found itself mistaken when a com- period of sixteen years, WAS mon line of action had seemingly model of democratic government, the Christian-Social Party. It been laid down. Whatever the as close to the Ideal Platonic Ro- merits or demerits of the mis-public as the world has ever acen, understanding, it cut deep, and is thus obliterated.
Under the Republic Austria sur- none knows better than the observer on the American side of the Atlantic mounted the hard, lean after-war years. Under tho Republic, which how wise Mr. Baldwin has been in
was not Socialists but was..de the munner of his clțice sweeping.
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(By Eddie Kelly, Silver Bloc-head) Mr. Edward Kelly, the well- known financial wizard, has decided to issuo'a clarion call or two to the Hongkong public to rally round and help him solve. the allver problem.
The fact that Hongkong's cur- rency is in a deplorable state has been brought to his attention Istély by two incidents. The first concerns forged $100 he has been trying to dispose of. The second incident but perhaps you'd better hear what Mr. Kelly could have dissolved all other
na 1933, has to say himself, parties. Even as late when free elections gave it 60 per
PEAKING from the cont. of the country, it could, by n
depths of experience we snap of the fingers, have wiped out the Heimwher and put Prince think that the more we think von Starhemberg in a concentra of Hongkong's silver prob-
tlon camp,
mocratic, ita capital, Vienna, which was both Socialist and But it did none of these things-lem the less we should think democratie, became the world's because they were not democratle about it. first city in the bousing and care ..... Well, those days are over. of its citizens, in the health and Nowadays, even Otto Bauer, for We refer, of course, to our education. of its youth, in that free years the conservative leader of chopped dollar.. expression of the human spirit the Social-Democratic Party and which is the only basis of culture: Ita bulwark against, the Inroads of
What this Colony needs is) The upkeep of that culture and Communism: nowadays even old an 'expert to guard its cur- friendly. reference tu the that Republic scon became unbear- Dr. Bauer thunders in his article renty. Like us, for instance, United States W49 promptly able to the former privileged In the illegal Arbeiter Zeitung;
In this connection Sir Samuel takes up his portfolio' at a time when Mr. Baldwin hus rearmed Angle-Americanism.
his
reciprocated in Washington.classes, accustomed for centuries "The days of February, 1934, have
First thing we'd do would be Stubbs Rd. For the mument collaboration to think of organised society in taught us an impressive lesson. At to visit all the shops that chop is in the realm of gesture. terms of private profit, not of that time we buried not only our dollara. We'd close up their America awaits a settlement of municipal gardens. When this dead, but also our errors and
Hongkong Telegraph.
European troubles in the hope that feinss again manoeuvred itself into illusions. A whole epoch in the chops. This would teach them the nations will once again be able power and gained control of the history of the Austrian working- not to metal with our silver to sit around a disarmament table. Government, the Republic was class movement came to an end. colns. Amerien will hardly, be much in- | doomed.
The Austrian workers believed Silver is obtained in veins and terested until that hope, returns. A year ago the Austrian Govern- that Socialism could be realised by seams, by miners who labour_in_ As for an American place in any ment, to the amazed horror of the democracy, in peace. The Fas-vein. How vein it seams. collective security system, that at whole civilised world, trained clets have shot democracy lo A lot of theso financial experts present is not practical politics, but machine guns and artillery on pieces. They have taught the the United States may soon. bo their own citizens, barricaded in Austrian workers that there is no who come to Hongkong reckon we should the the dollar to sterling, ready with a negative. If not a model fints auddenly turned to other choice: either the dictator- JAPAN AND CHINA positive, contribution. Six months fortresses, and when they refused ship of Fascism, or the dictator Tieing it, however, would be a
knulty problem. ago Mr. Baldwin said that he would to surrendor, fired.
ship of the proletariat." : The Government patched up the Whether or not one agrees that. If we were appointed financial never consent to the use of the Sir Samuel Hoare's declaration | British Navy as a League police-hundreds of artillery holes that there actually is no other cholec. exportwo would stabilise the-
MONDAY, JULY 16, 1985.
in the House of Commons a few days ago that Far Eastern stability largely depends on the establishment of good relations between China and Japan serves to bring to mind one of the out- standing factors preventing the attainment of accord. We refer to the Japanese demands. re- pentedly made of late, that the anti-Japanese tendencies prevail-
THE PROOF OF GUILT.
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our room at the
would do. The risk was too great. cipal tenements. But the artillery one dictatorship as oulous as the weren't big enough we'd put the What he meant was that he did holes in the minds of the popula- other, the fact remains that it is remainder in not wish to see any entanglement tion the Government have not sue the Austrian Government that has Y.M.C.A. with an Amerien engaged in assert-ceeded in patching up. These are driven the Social-Democratic Other lands have tried different ing its neutral rights to trade in stili gaping.
Party to this revolutionary alogan.methods. For instance the United * * wartime. America, however,
It has become the watchword of States tried to tross silver with showing every disposition to with- Under cover of their, artillery the 60 per cent. of Vienna and the the double-cagle. When the eagle egg the yolk was bad. draw such insistence.
Are the Government dissolved the 40 per cont. of the country that laid ite
finance. Social-Democratic Party, creator were once absolutely conaltutional Hence the term "high"
When the U.S. Treasury officials of the Repubile. But much more and democratic.
saw the yolk was on them they than that, the Government suc- coëded in doing what years of Under the eyes of the secret ser- started a silver campaign which Moscow propaganda failed to device. men, spies, stool-pigeons, has been a paign to every one ing in China must be eliminated,sible to maintain that there were dissolved. Of that there is not Oatmark Storm Troops, priests,
Until a few days ago it was pos- The Social-Democratic Party is police, gendarmeric, Heimwehr, since.
In order to overcome this Ameri- The extent to which these ten-three classes of exceptions to the the Mightest doubt. The Aur- and the Army, the underground can plan what we've got to bavour dencies have developed may be a fundamental of English justice that trian Government may pride itself work of the now revolutionary a Five Year Silver Plan of our matter of opinion, but, however man is to be presumed innocent on the thoroughness of its dis-organisations goes
until he is proved guilty. Now solution.
on. Every own. deeply seated they may be, there there are only two such exceptions.
thing that a dictatorship can do can be little question that they | This is the immense constitutional
But out of its ashes have arisen: to stop it, from hanging to con- 1. The Revolutionary Socialists of centration camps, is done. But are an effect of a cause which significance of the recent decision Austria
tho underground work goes on.. of the House of Lords, which, must be removed before any real sitting as the supreme court of the
Every week, 300.000 copies of the Arbeiter Zeitung, brillant and rapprochement can be expected. | realm, has quashed a verdict of On this point, the latest issue of wilful murder. In an English law The People's Tribune, a journal court it is not any, part of the, ac-
cused's task to prove himself inno- | which ably, champions China's cent of the accusation brought viewpoint on major questions of against him; his innocence is as- sumed until the prosecution proves the day, has some pertinent re-his guilt. To this role there are marks to make. "We would two kinds of exception. One is in heartily welcome the disappear statutory offences and the other is
7. The Socialistic Workers Aid.own party organ, printed, mimeo-are a cog in a great world-wide respect of certain classes of 8. The Rote Hilfe (Red Aid). graphed, typed, set between paper financial machine, and by pulling The Austrian Government was covers marked Cook-book or Krimi- together we will turn the corner ance of anti-Japanese sentiment where the defence sets up a plea of not 100 per cent. guilty of the al-Raman. When the police un-f which leads to a brighter to-mor- in this country," it remarks, } onus of proof lies with the defence, crime of Feb. 12, 1934. Nor were earth one printing-press the work row, always keeping in mind that
tend to
"and would rejoice to see Japan The third exception, upheld early in 1995, can be upheld no longer. recognised by the Chinese
It is established that, in cases of people as a friendly neighbour, homicide as in most others, Inno- with sympathetic understanding cence is presumed, until gullt is of our difficulties and a genuino proved. This is typical of the British in matters of law. British desire to alleviate our sufferings justice is lenient toward the prison-| and assist our progress-but weer. It would rather that nine see no hope of such a happy state guilty people escaped than that one innocent man were punished. To- of affairs coming about until day, in the United States there is there is a great change not only feeling that this attitude may in China's outlook, but in that of And on the American Continent, encourage wrong-doing. Japan, as so plainly expressed by where the vastness of the area in her policy since 1931. The which criminals may operate and spectacle of armed men of an a mixed population and antiquated hide, and where frontier traditions, alien race watching vigilantly laws make problems which British for what they consider to be law enforcers do not have, such hostile tendencies' is not cálcu-Great Britain, however, the exact doubts may have some brats. In lated to promote the friendship opposite is the case. Since every they profess to be anxious to prisoner te assured of a fair trial in a British court, there is at any establish, nor do memories of rate none of that false romance 1931-32 provide quite the right about lawbreakers which is one kind of atmosphere for tenden-cbstacle to administration of justice cles otherwise than hostile to in the United States. develop." This brings the main
source of trouble between the China's leaders are not by any two countries down to realities. means indisposed to come to In view of past encroachments a belter understanding with on her territorial integrity, Japan. But no settlement is China's resentment against | possible with one side making all Japan's penetration is quite the 'concessions. Japan has a understandable, and the situn-first-class opportunity of show- tion is certainly not helped bying to the world that she really constant threats of force, aims at that peaceful and lasting. Friendship cannot be built up on adjustment of Far Eastern fric- such a basia. If Japan
an considers tion which her statesmen have that she has a grievance against repeatedly professed in recent, China, It is the essence of states-times. The whole world will
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2. The New Communist Party of
Austria,
Let us all lie down and put our shoulder to the wheel and pull.
We all know that the only people making a dollar or two in these hard days are the counterfeiters, Let us, then, make our own
3. The New Schutzlund (Re- bitterly composed in exilo by money, Prosperity Is just around
publican Guard).
Bader, one of the grent.pamphle- the colner. 4. The Revolutionary' Sociálisticteers of our time, alip like fog over
youth.
Mass production! If you have a the border. They pass from hand reserve fund of $2.50 now to offect
5. The Communistic Youth Or to hand like n handshake, and your chits amounting to. $125,.
ganisation of Austria,
6. The new workers' sport and
culture organisations.
make your reserve fund $10. Your reach half a million readers.
Each of the eight revolutionary chita can then amount to $500.
Do something. Remember you organisations listed above has its
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the Social-Democrats 100 per cent; is done on another. Innocent. But for the resultant
Social-Democratic fact that the Social-Democratic Party machine hae been Party has turned revolutionary, (Continued on Page 4.)
“It seems you can't depend on anything. I was counting on
that chain letter money to help out on my vacation.
re-
there is no cloud without a silver fining, and It is always, darkost before the dawn. *
We could go on like this for hours and hours (hours is a Tiger beer), but the Editor wants us to getting going with our stabilisa- tion scheme.
The whole question of stabilisa- tion hinges on the incidence of gold-silver exchange risks between Hongkong on the one hand and other ailver currency contros. Actually, the only things necessary to take into consideration are the gold standard, price of silver, moratoriums, pegging the ex- change, international
currency stabilisation, supply, and demand, exports and Imports, government and private debts, interest on pri... vate investments, the demonetian- tion of allver and a few other odds and enda.
It will be plainly seen that with material like that, any man who couldn't evolve. à system which would defy all human comprehension except his own must be a bit dull... Now, you ask us, what is this system of stabilisation wo recom- mend?
Well, you know, that the most important matter to be considered In determining the desirability or otherwise of changing Hongkong currency to a fixed standard, peg- ged to either sterling or gold, is the effect which such a change would have on tho trade and finan- cial business of the Colony.
("Yes."")
First of all, then, we must con- sider certain fundamental defecte in our currency system. The chief one is that while there is an auto- matic contraction of the volume of the currency an “soon në Its vex~~ change value drops to the lower buillon point, there is no satisfac- tory automatic method of expandi (Continued, on Page, 4.)
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