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TELEGRAPH.

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 16,

1935.

NOTES OF THE DAY

U.S. NEUTRALITY

Such, powerful and representa- live newspaper as the New York Timiza and Christian Science Moni- for, notably anti-war in policy, have commented with something of dia approval upon the recently formu inted Neutrality B which Con- gress rushed through before its recent adjournment. Others, tou, inside and outside of America, have the feeling that America 'can serve her own and world interest best, not by a continuing policy of aloofness in times of crisis but by active intervention in support of peace as the such safeguards to League of Nations. "It cannot be aid too often," says the Chrifian Science Monitor, "that isolation- neutrality is not enough. Indeed, it is not the best and most effective way to rent neutrality. It. fs delu- sive. The first and best step to wards neutrality is to assist in seeing that there is Bo`War.” It is pointed out that there are two

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Britain's naval bases and chief interests in the Mediterranean could be bombed by an enemy within six hundred miles, the distauern shown by the circles. Experta hold that modern aircraft enubd vruder such bars untenable.

BY COLIN BROOKS

But Are

I's or the folly of its leaders, they such guardians now or are

A

flagship: three

The Very Idea!

HOWLS & HOWLERS

Book Of Scraps

Eddie Edited It -

TET further selection of

stages in the preservation of Ameri- can neutrality, and that isolation is the second and more desperate first, and stage. As far as the

goes,

at peace-preserving stage least in the present Halo-Ethiopiau

ever, by the malignity of Tate against the aggressor. the United controversy, policy of non-intervention, or Britain has to wage another war, they mere collecting points for the the most, friendly advice against it will be a war of aeroplanes and shipping victims of enemy air- nygression, may not be entirely re-submarines. The perfection of fall? We have normally in the and the aerial-tor-Mediterranean the First Battle Paris has the bomber, Pret of been called to the attention of the pelo, has changed the whole face Squadron, of battleships and a nations by the State Department of both strategy and tactics. It lngship; the First Cruiser Squad-

ron, of 3 cruisers and a flagship; More Scraps From Eddie's has altered the relative value of and the pledges given under the the three fighting armis,

The the Third Cruiser Squadron, of 3 terms of the Kellogg-Briand Pact floating Navy is to-day vulnerable cruisers and have been resurrected. As !!

as it was never before vulnerable dotilins of destroyers, each com nation without territory in Africa in history. This dominant truth isprising 9 destroyers, with a depot the most technically ship and a repair ship; eight sub- obvious to and without any great commercial

ignorant civilian. It is freels marines, with a Captain's ship BRITAIN ON THE interests in Europe, Amérien in admitted by swich naval experts at and a depot ship; a mine-sweeper Yorrer atticher's

Dom-reserve of nine ships and one this instance may have done ns Vico-Admiral Sir Barry UP-GRADE

that land-locked se collection;-- Įmuch as could be expected of her. ville. Sir Barry, who in his ex- layer. In Convincing evidence of Bri-She has dour as much as Japan, for peri capacity attended all the im- with its narrow western and still

A metaphor is a thing you portant naval conferences at the arrower south-easterly outlet we tain's industrial recovery is to instance. But, If peace preserva-making of the last Peace. and live thus bottled up 4 battleships, shout through,

Polonius was a mythical sau- be found in the recent figures on efforts ultimately become in-after, said frankly In recent equisers, 27 destroyers, 8 sub-

"We cannol shift

the marines, 9 minesweepers and an sge. showing an increase during effective in this, or any other, eun-lecture:

Barbarians are things put August of a quarter of a millionflict, what does Amerien offer in the land, so we must remove our bases aircraft carrier--a total of 55, plus

further back from enenty shores." 11 auxillaries, We ate not a wel into bicycles to make them run way of an impediment to aggres- people in work and a drop of

Hle envisaged an English Channel Come or a well-loved Power in the

smoothly. Mediterranean. Other Powers sion? Neutrality.

dominated by enemy aircraft, with nearly two hundred thousand in

The great southern ports, like hose home territories front the number of unemployed.

London, rendered useless. "Simi-put upon its waters have had to These figures show a progres | NOT ENOUGH

lar remarks," he said, "apply to tolerate the many generations of sive rise, a striking fact being

any other part of the Empire supremacy there as a naval that since the beginning of the is all very well to -avokl

We think that is not enough. It within reach of land-based foreign Power. They have not liked it.

taking aircraft," your there has been a drop of sides at this stage of a crisis, when no fewer tip 377,000 in the it has not developed beyond 31 Twelve years ago, before air bave come to regard as a perfectly total of the unemployed, Con threatening stage, when there has craft had reached its present natural thing our ownership of fidence is obviously returning, not yet been rouflict and when the Patrick, late Commander of the it. We have come to take

deadly perfection Major-General Gibraltar. Spain cannot so regard

The chief occupation of the the figures making it clear that League has not been faced with U.S. Army Air Corps, stated after granted our ownership and use of inhabitants of Perth is dying. the revival is proceeding the real necessity of deciding for trials that:

under proper Malta.

The Minister of War Is the France and Italy cannol steadily all the time. In issu- or against sanctions, But suppose conditions, we can put out of com- so take it for granted. Even clergyman who preaches to the ing these returus, the Ministry some nation, were to send troops mission, or sink, any naval eraft Cyprus-that "latest little baby" soldiers when they are in the tren-

that floats." In the same report which Disraeli ndded to the Em- jchen. another's frontiers to- of Labour accompanies them across

"Charles II. told the people they the Join Board of the United pire--was an addition to British morrow. The world's peace ma- with analyses which link them

chinery would be moving then at trials, reported that in its mem-Europe. Our African possessing they liked.

States which had carried out the territory grudged by the rest ofcould drink and gamble and do as..

This was called the with the social services and

Restoration.

Bacebus is the god of the book- with the country's general con-top speed and desperately striving bers' opinion it was difficult, if not have long filled jealots eyes. If In this connection, the overtake a situation fast grow impossible, to build any type of new war were to open with the

naval craft of sufficient strength to annihilation, or virtual annihila- makers. percentages are now tolerably the League Covenant concerning the largest bombs that aeroplanes tack, of our land and ses forces in in our stocking up is called a

withstand the destructive force of tion, by air and under-water als

A piece of elastic' used for keep- constant and they are worth

sunctions would almost certainly be can carry from shore bases or the Mediterranean the effect of

guitar. noting because they outline the invoked. From, what we know of sheltered harbours. In his recent such a catastrophe on both mate for a bunch of feathers. problems with which the Gov-

their policies, Britain, Frauer, book, "Our Future in the Air," rial and moral would be stagger- crnment is called upon to deal. Russia and the majority

of the Brigadier-General Groves reining. As Vice Admiral Domville. when he is dead. It was shown in the June minor powers in Europe, all mem collection of striking facts. He waters, has said-We cannot shift is called in evangelist.

forces these expert opinions by a once himself Chief of Staff in these figures, for instance, that almost bers of the League, woukl support tells of how the "uusinkable ship the land. But while our forces

providing the half of the registered unemploy these sanctions,

the German Ostfriesland--was depend on those land bases they tivated by irritation. ed are drawing insurance bene- aggression on the part of a war-sunk by four bombs. He recalls jere nt hazard. The narrow neck!

dition.

ing en of hand. The Article of

ring state were obvious. These

nations, members of the League. would expend their blood and money

or

In these fortunate islands we

for

that during the war a submaring, at Gibraltar rendered impassable

A ghost is an invisible object which can only be seen at night.

Africa is called the Dark Con-

tinent because the negroes in it

are black,

Bodda is worshipped chiefly, in Buda Pest.

Queen Mary had all the Protest- ants put to the steak

The Monal Straits are crossed by tubercular bridge.

Nom de plume is another name

A dirge is a song a man sings

A person who walks in his strep

Certain areas of Egypt are enl

Queen Victoria was the longest

60 feet below the surface, was sunk by the hornets in the air and the queen on the throne. by a bomb weighing no more than steel death-dealing ships below The poll tax was a tax on par- for a principle. They would 800lb. that detonated 275 feetwater, Malta incessantly bombed, rots, in defence of a theory for which

way from ber hull. He em- the area round Port Said and the The Romans breathlessly watch- we have to thank America's late phasises the deadly menace to the entrance to the Suez cluttered with ed the light of the gladiolas in the President Woodrow Wilson very navy's utility of the aerial smoke- submarines-that is the picture areno, largely. And while these powers curtain. The conclusion to which which would be in the minds of would be barricading herself behind were making this sacrifice America

one is forced is that what were the war lords of any enemy.

are once safe harlourages If America death neutrality legislation.

traps for shipping. If We think to-day of 600 miles happened?

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Fashion He"Good gracious! What's

Why have you got that plaster over your left eye?"

She-Plaster? That is my

Wrong Groom

fit, a figure which, as a Ilume paper points out, reveals the limits of the insurance system as a bulwark against the economic blizzard. Unemployment al lowances, the term which has now replaced transitional bene- fit, cover more than a third of the total number of cases, and has any faith in the League prin- foreign aircraft can render unten- as effective bombing range.

It about 14 per cent. lie outside the ciple, in the scheme of collectiveable the bases of our fleet, if tar may not long remain so.

security, she should actively sup row waters rund sea basins within new social services and depend port it. The League can never bombing distance of hostile shores spirit of Eastern self-sacrifice,|

Even now to pilots who, in a on Public Assistance. So much operate with assurance of success

are now to be death traps for the are prepared to fly to their own new hat!" for the nature of the aid given. until its membership is universal vessels that use them, what is deaths that they may compass the Looking at the other side of the any more than the United States of Britain's position in the Mediter-destruction of their enemy's pos-

America could operate successfully | ramean? case, the period for which the if Washington had to deal with a names have been borne on the number of states which refused to books, it is satisfactory to find recognise the federal laws and to olicy them. The League's ultimate that the great majority of cases purpose, unless we are much astray only need temporary support. is to act as a world police force. Two-thirds of the unemployed making the complete disarmament of nations possible. In this fashion have been registered for less wars can best be avoided, for with than six months. Nearly a half out weapons no nation can be dan- for less than six weeks. To all gerous. But the League needs the support, and not just the sympathy, of these the extension of re of every major power. In this covery gives good grounds of light, those who refuse to accept hope. But 23 per cent.

are or responsibilities at Geneva roughly 450,000, have been un-shirking their duty or lacking in perception. The United States employed for over a year, and Neutrality Bill may

be a safe- these are the men and women guard in that second "desperate" it is also de- whose lot is a challenge to the stage of crisis, but social reformer. It is here, incidedly selfish in the eyes of Leagite fact, that we find the problem

to be most deep-seated, and one

advoentes.

Nobody without

seasions, places Bke the Mliter- rancan exit of the Suez Canal are able Melbourne church some- A bride arrived at a fashion- The Mediterranean has long been ¦ vulnerable. of supreme importance to us be

the closest what late for her wedding, states cause we have been as much anwehnteal knowledge and experience Reuter, Asiatic as European Power, Since dure dogmatise on such a prob She made her way to the altar the Suez Canal became our high-lem, but any one with the Interests with unhurrying grace, and took way to the Near and Far East, of his country at heart must ask the band of the waiting bride- the possession of Malla, of Cyprus Is our standing in the Mediter

Has the old groom

as the service began and of Gibraltar-which long made ranean tenable? our Portuguese alliance of value, certitude that we dare not with- Then she stole a shy glance at because Lisbon in the old days was draw

Mediterranean him, stured, dropped his hand,

screamed. necessary port of call-have been given place to reasonable doubt and

He Was the vital to us. These have been our whether we can afford as a naval wrong bridegroom! Mediterranean bases. They have Power-to-remain there, in the face-

The bride had arrived so late East of the new arms? guarded the gates of the

that the clergyman had started another wedding.

BREMEN INCIDENT

CORDELL HULL AND JUDGE BRODSKY'S SPEECH

froni the

Chivalry

ponsibility in maintaining relations between the United States and other countries and that he should indulge in expressions offensive to A recent article is a remin- another Government."

der of that modern youth, who He said that Judge Brodsky's resat with closed eye and an ag of ils worst features is that men presents itself. Generally speak-

Washington, Sept. 14. marks weru not relevant to the grieved expression in a crowded who have been so long out of ing, courage may be taken from

Mr. Cordell Hull apoligised legitimate part of the judicial de tram.

cision. However it was pointed employment are losing their the latest figures, which certain- |

orally to tho German Charge morale and will consequently ly do show that Britain is D'Alaires, Herr Rudolf Leitner, part of the Federal Government and

"Are you not well?" he was out that municipal officials are not asked.

find it extremely difficult to get gradually making up lost ground for Judge Brodsky,'a remarks. He he also drew attention to freedom "I'm all right, thanks," he re- back into stride ngain, even and appears to have definitely said that, "it is regretted that an of speech as being a fundamental plied, "but I can't bear to see

Badies standing." official had so little sense of res-American right.-United Press. when the opportunity of work turned the corner: