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THURSDAY, JULY 25, 1936,

WHAT THE LEAGUE

CAN DO

NOTES OF THE DAY

| AN IRISH GESTURE'

THESE NAMES WILL LIVE FOR YEARS

Fow in this country will turn a dent ear to the appeal for more friendly relations with the Irish Free State so frankly made by the Lord Mayor of Dublin, says the Edinburgh Evening Dispatch. HeHIS is one of those questions ground that he had been invaluable That nobody can be one round that he had been invalinton

By HUCH WALPOLE

was surprised to find

по

says that the 'differences existing

last, alngle book. Ikely to between the two have been brought over. After I had been asked to no about by politicians on both sides answer it in this newspaper, I dis- Virginin Woolf also was defeated: was decided that Joyce's and not by the common peoplo. cussed it with a number of friends It The Lord Mayor says his right to in order that I might have some "Ulysses" would be always rend speak for Ireland may be challengiden of a common opinion on this with curiosity by literary students, but his name would not be general- ed by colleagues, but nevertheless matter. he claims to understand his own At Brat, of course, none of unly remembered people. The samo might to sald could be sure of what was meant by any man of affairs in this coun- by general memory that is, if dramatist, save Shaw, considered try. The people here have no you should aak. Who alive today for a single moment. Popular a hundred novelists were dismissed on the quarrel with their fellow-subjects will be remembered neross the Irish Sea. When self-years from now? you have got to ground that every generation pro- As to pocis: it was government was arranged there consider the kind of memory you viden its own. was a universal desire to let by-are questioning. Do you mean who decided that thin was an age of gones be bygones, and to settle will be remembered by everybody? Anthologists rather than poeta.

When we came to the saints we down to peace and mutual helpful- What "world figures," a hundred

were at a great loss. There seem the years old, will there be? neas. It certainly was not

this we threw oured to be

of none. To answer

And then. fault of the British people that that

awful discovery WAA happy promise was not fulfilled, minds back a hundred years. Who course, an and if the Lord Mayor explains alive in 1835 is generally remem- made that, us yet, no woman had the reason why then no one on this bored to-day? And we could think been definitely included in our list, only two-Wellington and This was appalling. It was then side is likely to contradict his ding- of

Dickens. Napoleon was dead, on that I reminded them of Selma nosis. If the Irish people, as a

were Seatt, Keats and Shelley. Lagerlof and Sigrid Undset; I also recent writer has said, are for ever

lying under full sail for newhere. There were other candidates, but demanded Madame Curie, who died it is largely because they have been for general memory only these two only the other day, and she was too ready to give ear to men who are obsessed by polities and have never learned that the true nim of all political activity should be just to unke people happy.

A FIERY EARTH

ture of the central core

of the

One of the most interesting revelations made by the Peace Ballott deputation which called on the British Prime Minister on Tuesday was that many pacifists who took part in the vote reach ed the conclusion that the full doctrine of the League of Na- Lions Covenant is vital to the That eir preservation of peace, cumstance, together with the fact that nearly seven million British people volet in favour of the use of military sanctions jagainst an aggressor a three-flaming heat benenth their feet.

Selentists must say this or that. toone majority of those taking and the layman takes his choice, or

afflicted with too much warmth,

|

The Very Idea!

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More Pages Torn From Kelly's Scrapbook

EDITED BY EDDIE VOU probably notloed yesterday

that the drought has broken. It was a great drought while it Insted. Almost as great ne our own drought that starts about the Vinjar and us, we felt this twentieth of each month. drought keenly. Vinjar's carna tions were in a fearful state. His snap-dragons were scarcely able to

snap.

We tried to bring on the rain by going out without an umbrella. We would hold out our hand and look up at the sky, and a bird would pass. That would be all.

Athwart, the blasted, blistered, drought-stricken Repulse Bay dis- trict, the cattle on a nearby farm died in long orderly rows. The Httle cablinge plants so tenderely grown at the Hotel garden popped up, looked round, and popped back. Ruin stared the Hongkong agrar-

Tommy Mildren, the Manager. eases of water. The people raved about it. It tasted funny with a dash of whisky.

It seemed, when we inoked a admitted.

I put in a strong plea for Maricians in the face. little further, that the human

on the ground that # beings who make the most lasting | Stopes, records on general memory belong bundred years hence the question ordered a dozen to four classes-artists: politicians of eugenics and sexual relations and soldiers: scientists and dis would have advanced so enormously coverers; saints that is if you that men would look back to Marie look back through the whole work's Stopes as a courageous and enter- history.

prising pioneer. Well, if we had Marie Stopes, we must also have avelock Ellis. They were both

On these lines I tried to compose my modern list and offer it to my hearers. Taking the whole world to-day into account, I felt that Yould be sure of some half a dosen: Mussolini, Hitler, Einstein, Edison, Ford and Bernard Shaw,

When I offered my list the cam-

ments were that it was revolting, but sound except for one member. Opinion was completely divided as to whether Shaw would be remem bered & hundred years hence.

When it came to the arts, we all Gosta

part in the ballot-shows that else dismisses the whole daring Swedish writer, because

admitted Selma Lagerlof, the

Lavransdatter."

admitted.

Then one day---yesterday, if we remember aright the clouds gathered. The wind whined. The thermometer thermed. The humid- ity hummed. And the rain came

down.

It was great.

Four of Mr. Stevenson's best cows were struck by lightning, and have been giving curdled milk evor Of since.

workers. Here

WAIH one

ime,

726

Local riding enthusiast who knows that if there's not a de- pression in Hongkong, there's going to be one when he hits it.

P. D.

*

Now that "P. D." has been abolished on all cars in Hongkong what about substituting some new

For generations scientists have assured us that the earth is slowly cooling, and that in the end it will berome so cold that lie will not longer be able to exist upon it. A

Painters and sculptors, what of Ic

will new and greatest Age

But

them? One or two names auggest- stretch from Pole to Pale.

themselves very readily physicists, ke physicians, are wont

ed

Epstein: Matisse, Maillet, to differ, and it is not surprising

English painters, only two living George was drowned in a raging to find Dr. Bailey Willis telling n Kathering of American scientists

were admitted without question-nullah. Auntie's cats learnt to that the refrigerator theory is all

Wilson Steer and Sickert. Augus-swim. Our feet got wet. Mfr. tux John and Sir William Orpen Evans, at. the Royal Observatory, bunk or baloney, or words to that

were heatedly debated, and Orpenteered. The fish in the harbour effect. For refrigerator, according

was finally included because of his got soaking wel. A gond time was to Dr. Willis, we must substitute

We minde our judgment then work during the war.

had by everybody. | inferno, Atomic energy, he says, little less general and allowed ench

Then we came to the work of All we want now is another is gradually raising the tempera country to put up a candidate or scientists anel discoverers and drought to dry things up. earth, and in course of time the two. Of politicians besides Musso-medical research crust may not be able to stand itini and Hitler. in England only everyone seemed very uncertain any longer; it may collapse into Lloyd George received general ac and myself most of all. The dis- the flaming mass, and wonderful ceptance, and that because of the coveries that are going to help the man and his multitudinous works part that he played in the war, world are so often hidden at the will be no more. Some cynies mayanel because of his coloured person-time of their making. Mr. Gye, of

fame. cancer comment that it would serve himality.

Of other politicians in the world, Eddington another.

Then we came the world of right, for having made such per- verse use of his opportunities on only Franklin Roosevelt, and he earth. Other critics, dwelling it was much debated. But we decided sport, and when we looked back a that America Is now passing hundred years we could discover may be in some land not usually through one of the great crises of Len boxers alone--Sayers and will find it difficult to believe that her history, and with that crisis he Heenan-who have to-day a kind of immortality. A hundred years there is all this vast reserve of will be always connected,

from now will men and women know the uumes of Jack Hobbs, Fred Perry, Helen Moody, Sir Malcolm Campbell, Amy Johnson, Garnera? It is, I am afraid, very, there is a growing conviction theory - structure በዛ nonsense.

Fundamentalists,

Berling" is an unquestioned classic very doubtful. however, will that members nations of the

have little difficulty in finding in for all time; possibly Sigrid Undset League should unite, by military Dr. Willia's announcement a con- the Norwegian because of "Kristin

And in the theatre wits there action if necessary, in punish-firmation of their argument in

In Germany only Thomas Mann nobody? It was decided at once favour of fiery nether regions. ment of countries guilty of a

But apparently the final holeenust was considered.. In. America only and here I, who had seen her in breach of the Covenant. The is to spare neither just nor unjust. Sinclair Lewis. When we came to some dozen roles, spoke boldly that of course, the greatest actress alive to-day in plain fact, of course, is that the The only consolation is that it is England there were,

is Elisabeth Bergner. League Covenant contains all the still distant by an unspecified but very heated discussions. Besides the world

presumably astronomical number of Shaw, I demanded Kipling, Wells, Will she be remembered as Mrs. machinery that is necessary to years.

W. B. Yents, Virginia Woolf and Siddons, or Bernhardt are? James Joyce. Only two of these With all these uncertainties at curb disturbers of the world's

were generally agreed upon-Kip- the last I made a list of a round peace. Many people who are FIGHT NOT YET WON

ling and Yeats. Galsworthy and dozen, which was finally accepted- extremely critical of the League If the statement made recently Bennett, who have so recently died, It was Mussolini, Hitler, Einstein, overlook the point that the by a medical authority, that 86 per were finally admitted with one book Lloyd George, Epstein, Matisse; each: Galsworthy, the earlier Sickert, Shaw, Selma Lagerlof, League is not something in-cent, of the town-dwelling popula-

tion in Britain are infected with "Forsyte Saga," and Bennett, of Yeats, Edison and Madame Curie.

But now on reflection I am aware dependent of the nations which tuberculosis is alarming, that is be-course, "The Old Wives' Talc."

that posterity has an odd way of comprise it. Actually, the cause the speaker intended to

making its OWN decisions. In League can have no

The notion is widespread, more and appears to be supported by

I was surprised to find strong literature, for example, we look strength or authority than the statistical evidence, that tubercu-opposition to H. G. Wells, on the (Continued on Page 4.) (nations of which it is composed, Josis is slowly but surely being und if the League has in the past we should not be too aure. Taking overcome. Dr. Burrell replies that not been able to prevent certain part as he does in the work of a glaring examples of aggression.great London institution for the this is because the nation mem-combating of consumption, he is bers have failed to live up to its We have as a race acquired con- well able to estimate its ravages.

principles when the time for ac-siderable power of resistance to tion came. The ideal system is this and other diseases, otherwise one actually envisaged in the culosis, since the infection Covenant, by which member around us nil the time; but we States would unite in contribut- | should not pride ourselves that this ing to a composite force to be resistant faculty alone will serve to used against a nation judged to overcome the menace. Nor is it be an aggressor. It is unfortun. only child life that is exposed to ate that, by reason of internu and the athletic, says Dr. Burrell the danger of infection. The old tional jealousies, past instances are equally susceptible with the of obvious aggression have not young and the weakly. This seems been met by action along these to be borne out by the fact that lines. But experience does sug- while the young women of to-day gest that until the nations com- are considered in general to be the prising the League make it clear ful that the country has seen, it is most robust, energetic, and health- that they are prepared so to act, among them more than any other the danger of war will remain. section of the people that tubercu- A further point to be borne in losis maintains its ground. The mind is that the Covenant also war against "T.B." is meeting with includes provision for the taking an encouraging degree of success. of sanctions of a non-military Apparently those who are in a posi character against aggressors, the situation do not wish anyone tion to understand all the facts of but here, again, these have to assume from this that the battle never been invoked. The world is as good as won. now. awaits the outcome of the

League Council meeting next

alarm.

•

few would encape death from tuber-

is

week on the Italo-Abyssinian which must come before the elec- dispute, and the rights of small forate in ordinary political dis- nutions in the days to come may cussions, its feelings on the well depend on the result of its future of the League.. And it is deliberations. Meanwhile, it is doubly satisfactory that the something to the good that the opinions expressed British public has been given an strong backing for the Govern opportunity to state explicitly, ment in making the League the and in detachment from the sheet-anchor of Britain's foreign multitude of other interests policy.

represent

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Reinforcements

I've read in rhymes Of feudal times

That noblemen were Mighty;

And I can register delight Imagining an armoured Knight,

But not an

Armoured

Nightic.

Danco

She ran lightly down the staire, a rudiant vision from the top of her gleaming hair to the tips of her dainty silver shoes. Her half- open coat revealed the shimmering corsage of her evening, gown. At the bottom of the stairs her hue- band was waiting his mouth set in a grim straight fine..

"You're not going, Marian," he said. "This dam' dancing business has gone far enough. It's making you soulless and it has to stop. The doctor's in there now. The boy mightn't live the night." At the last words the half-formed pro test died on the woman's lips-the colour drained slowly from her face. Without a word she turned swiftly and entered the sick- room. The child was tossing reat- lessly-muttering incoherently but she caught the word, "Mother!" She wondered dully how often he'd murmured that while she was out dancing-dancing-always danc- ing! In a whisper the doctor told them that the crisis was near- she said nothing, but moved closer to her husband and grasped his arm

-mutely craving his pardon. The man's face softened-dance-mad ahe may have been, but, after all a mother. At that moment they

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