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SEPTEMBER HONGKONG ́ TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY,
1936.
IS EDEN BRITAIN'S
"STRONG MAN?"
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OK
NOTES OF THE DAY
POWERFUL ALLY
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By GERALD BARRY
too many disillusioning (just that welding together of the years we have suffered from anxious but desperate forces of within the country which an utter Inck of leadership, of any-peace
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"Hongkong Loan Works," says a of the world and the doctrine of one to say out plainly and holdly, would give thein that cohesion and world revolution n' constant ir either here at home or in the coun-driving force for lack of which they [newspaper heading. It usually EVERY repair job that ritant. We are inclined to agree ells of the nations, what the com- now disappoint their supporters does; it's the repayment that plten that, considered from one stand-mon people of this land think and and leave the field open to the doesn't. point, Russia is less a friend of the feel, but have not the means to make reactionaries, old-established order of things than known.
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SATURDAY, SEPT. 7, 1985.
THE FUTURE OF
THE EMPIRE
f
But,
What
•
had British upholders of freedom and justice conducted themselves in past history.
I am afraid this French-woman
ៗ
She's really most attractive; Of poise and mien fine. She's perfect-yet inactive,
As bright as sparkling wine. Although a woman hater, She's the only girl I've seen Who causes me to rate her As my model and my queen. I've even her oft ln undies, k In fure and raincoats too: Whether week-days or on Sun-
‚ days,
Sho's just the same and true. In bridal dress she's stunning, (She's the world's most frequent
bride,)
we need desperately is Somewhere I read the other day tern secke to disrupt such economic and social systems as that which someone to interpret the national a letter from a French-woman ex- mind with indubitable authority; pressing her astonishment and dis- Britain owns, and loves. equally apparent is it that Russia some one who will hold our respect gust at British acquiescence in is determined to anfeguard the in-und the respect of other nations too. Italy's smash and grab at the Abya- so, she remarked, tegrity and independence of the Is Mr. Anthony Eden, the Secre- sinians. Not smaller nations... at least from tary of State for League Affairs, Fascist domination. Hów far that to be that man7 policy is dictated by idealism and Last week, at Geneva, it was he, faith in the League of Nations we and at the end-he almost alone, do not need to question at thin who upheld the authority of the was right. We have lost the noble juncture. Suffice it that at this League to handle the Italo-Abys-indignation of men of character. moment the League has found u powerful ally in Moscow, and if, inian dispute and ensured that next But it is character alone that will as many predict, the strength of month the Powers shall still have an make British' prestige again pre-1. the League, is to be tested by Italian opportunity to save themselves and eminent in the world's counsels-
as it did in the nineteenth century, militarists the statesmen at Geneva the collective system. must have taken heart from M.
This country is waiting for Indeed, in his broadcast talk after Litvinoff's outspuken statement of policy. M. Litvinoff, we think, has the conference he recommitted this leadership to rehabilitate it, within done much to harden the League country in emphatic terms to its and without, and when this leader- of Nations' attitude by declaring that there is no longer any excuse obligations under the Covenant.ship comes it will have to appeal for military action on the part of This was an instance of his courage.to the moral force of the nation- Italy in Ethiopia. He has pointed Whether these obligations are met and I believe the response will be out that the Unlual incident, which when the time comes depends on Italy made the excuse for 'warlike
the attitude of his fellow-Ministers I put this to a leading Labour preparations, has been settled, with no blame attached to either side in the Cabinet. Will they share Parliamentary lender the other
D 口 involved. He has stated that Italy' his courage? And, if not-what day and he smiled at the iden "We've, tried the sob-stuft often
that it's only We read
the invitation to the League to declare then?
enough," he said. He didn't con- female mosquito that bites. Let's its disinterestedness in the Italo- Ethiopian quarrel was tantamount
vince me of my errur;-on-the-con-j-hope-the male-nover strives for His enemies in the Cabinet are trary, he convificed me of his own. I equality. to asking the nations to repudiate their own snered obligations. He powerful. They will not surrender was not asking for, "sob-stuff" — has given the Russian view that incasily to his view. Most prominent far from it--and his complete mis- ternal conditions, no matter how un-
overwhelming. -
The suggestion put forward
understanding of my meaning settled, cannot deprive a state of its if not most powerful among them by Mr. George Lansbury that right to integrity and independence, all is James Ramsay MacDonald, struck me as most significant.
M.P.. that great inter- Britain should offer to pool the and has declared that the League P.C..
should stand firm on the principle nationalist and one-time pacifist resources of the British Empire that no fighting should occur ex and conscientious objector, This The Labour Party is missing the
cept in actual self-defence. In
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ANOTHER MATTER
report
Mr. Edda will need all his re-
for
And she doesn't seem to mind it; No blushes she to hide. I've never seen her walking, Might be dainty—or a waddle, Perhaps you'll think I'm baulk-
ing- She's Mayfair's waxen moleil
ៗ Q Hongkong gnols are still over- crowded, nccording to the annual report of the Superintendent of Prisone. So there are no vacaneles even there.
H
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the dosire
comman effort to
of working plans reconstruc-moist tears are the worst. tion and international security
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serves of courage and persuasion if that have already been propounded his view is to triumph on September in abundance. Then, and then only, However, while we applaud the 4. If, as may easily happen, he fails, shall, we begin to get a move on, Russian stand in the matter of there will be no necusion for hit out of the slime in which we now
machinery and to despair. He has already im- collective peace welcome her support of the League
flounder.
The "Hongkong Magistracy, with
an axpenditure of $78,000, collected
one business which is doing well, $100,000 in fines last year. That's
Anyhow.
According to an economist, money is the controlling force. With many of us, it's a spent force, →
O Fifty thousand Boy Scouts re- The French claimed him, spent a life-time in not know where this revitallsing cently went into camp at Home. an international commission to stand side by side.
inter force will come from, but I know The excitement was in tents.. cause of Pickard's Chinese Syncopators. ahare the markets and raw polley has alrendy been made plain, supporting the
0 ច materials avaliable, comes at a The Scandinavian countries, the nationalism, is now--if trustworthy that it will come. When it comes it
Little Entente, Spain and Turkey
is correct-most active will have to harness präctlesl
Extract from provincial paper: moment when crises arise by all have agreed that an Italian in- | reason of countries without large vasion of Ethiopia is unwarranted among Cabinet Ministers in opposi idealium-ay appeal to sacrifice
honouring her and
servicó "Not an eye but was filled with und inexcusable. Surely this ion to Britain's
the moist tears," We understand that colonial possessions seeking an weight of world opinion should be obligations under the Covenant in and
for expansion. In that sufficient to dissunde Signor Mus- the Italo-Abyssinian-dispute. outlet sense, it is an apposite iden, but solini from a perilous courts whether it is capable of being put into operation remains open | to. doubt. Many important is- sues cconomic, social and racial are involved in the suggestion, not the least of which is the huge of Nations Covenant, which we bense backing in the country. The amount of money Britain bas lieve is the only thing standing eleven-and-a-half millions who voted
they can get out of it. The old- spent in developing the backward between us and chaos, we cannot for the Peace Ballot will not forget are only ready to serve for what
but feel that her policy is somewhat or desert him.
timers make the error of judging Times make the matter by their own standards. nothing of the security and have heard M. Litvinoff speak of the
of principle-which it most are changing, and human nature assured sanctity of treaties and the rights one protection which
is a growing "Personal" advertisement, a cer- is
of the small nations, and the certainly is-nud, if he is over-sense of obligation to the com-tain person is all in favour of subject races under the British League's responsibility in their ruled in the Cabinet, to resign, itmunity-surely Socialists, at least. Travel Association! lng. The plan will need to be protection, while on the other the is possible he might stir the coun- can appreciate that? presented in far greater detail voices of those radical gentlemen try to one of those rare demonstra-
Anthony Eden is' a man who before judgment can be passed who attended the recent sessions tions of its loyalty and convictions, of the Comintern still ring in our
speaks with the authority of moral on its merits. There is the ears. They preach the doctrine of, if, at the sporst, he were forced conviction: that is why he may be
into the wilderness, he could be further point, of course, that world revolution. They would
rendy enough to respond to the and a bus Britain could not alone embark destroy the institutions which other sure of coming back within a couple great. The people of Britain are mannequin at Lane, Crawford's peoples have taken years to build of years an immensely more poster-authentle call, but they must be They're both quick-change artista! and which they value as they do ful man. More powerful, because given the lend. their freedom of thought and ac-political power proceeds from poli-
"Wanted, a Lender" is the notice tion. Such was the nature of thetical backing, and an open show-
on the League issue over that hangs unanswered in the front: Comintern's recent discussion that down
the Abyssinia might be the signal for window of every home in Britain. aroused protests from
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of many great nations, said without boasting that it is capitals the most remarkable the world and Japan. How can we reconcile.
notably the United States, Britain, has ever seen, for it has renewed the Russian aim at-over-throwing our democracies with the stout- itself in new nations which have
hearted expression of loyalty to only just begun to run their Geneva which M. Litvinoff has ut course. A former Lord Salis-tered? If the "internal conditions" bury spoke of the British Em-of one state are no excuse for inter- ference on the part of another, the pire as a vast experiment, the rule holds for all. If Italy has no future of which no man could | right to try to impose Its will upon foresee. But, as has well been Ethiopia, and Moscow has declared it, how can the Soviet statesmen pointed out, this obscurity is no excuse their agents tampering with good reason why those who the affairs of other people, striving follow the builders of the Empire to achieve a revolution, to hamper and now sustain it should, not the efforts at recovery from econo- mic allments which others are 'put their best work into it, in attempting everywhere. M. Lit- the faith that that work will yinoff, that shrewd diplomat, has endure in some shape or form, left himself open to the suspicions of the bourgeols" that in backing even though the future struc- the Lengue he in blocking Fascism, Iture of the Empire may undergo and that that is his main purpose. Jehunges dictated by new factors
as they arise. This much is striking example history has certain, namely that the Em-furnished of a free association- pire is closer knit together of nations, linked together in to-day than at any time in its bonds of sympathy and com- history. Those who have built munity of
thought and outlook. on the foundations laid in times The concepts of Empire have |gone by have been wise in their changed greatly, but ever in the day and generation. They have direction of emphasising the worked on the principle of freedom of association and en- making the Empire a real com- larging the opportunities for monwealth of nations, all mutually beneficial contact bo animated by the same ideals,tween the different units. The each a complementary part of adaptability of the system is its the whole, working in unison and strength, and it surely assures Lowing allegiance to one common a future even greater than "the
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Were he to
No bigger mistake is made in
our day than the belief that people
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"Oh, don't worry about them. They know better than to
repost any gossip they hear."
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Judging from a recent
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What's the difference between
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ច The Lido Lady is certainly in the swim these days!
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Jelly-bags have ence again
appeared at our bathing benches,
as many a poor fish has discover- ed.
An advertiser recently offered "a lady dog" for sale. Presumab- ly he or she would call a common
or garden hen- a lady-bird!--
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We met 'n man` last week-end. who was stung twice in one day! once by a jellyfish, and the other time by a paf who wanted the loan
of fifty dollars.
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A summer love affair is like a
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These sporting itemna get us all, dizzy. A New York writer says Minnesota has the best eleven In the Big Ten.
According top scientist, the moon throws back radio wavel from the earth. Woll who can blame it?
The world's fastest runner has just been married. So you mon, it's no use.
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