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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1935.

NOTES OF THE DAY

DANGEROUS PLAN

There is only one merit in the suggestion of the American diplo- mat, Mr. Nicholas Roosevelt, that

·Great Britain and the United States should come to an agree- ment in naval matters and jointly defend the peace of the Pacific. Such a union might go far towards allowing a general reducilon of naval tonnage throughout world and make the possibility of a dangerous naval race that much morg remote. However, us we Have seen before, it is not until American Interests or American security is touched that the public

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men of the country encourage affiliations abroad. Mr. Roosevelt Newsaid, in part, that Japan had ex- pansionist aims in the Pacific; that before another generation had the Philippines would be Japanese. grown, up; that the Dutch East Indies would be taken by Japan because of the oil there. No doubt he sees a threat to the peace of the Pacific, and entanglements In

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which America, with all her pre-

cautions to safeguard 'her neutral- participating, ity. cunnot very well nvold In view of that danger Mr. Roosevelt thinks that miundèrstanding with Great Brit- ain would be of the greatest value in preserving the peace of the Pacific. We doubt ft.

ANTACONISING JAPAN

In the first place, if, Mr. Roose- velt is right and Japan does con- template seizing other; nations" possessions in the Far East, an

WHEAT versus RICE

Rire Planting in New Territories, Hongkony.

---Pres a watercolour.

Anglo-American naval accord. in With the West Demanding "Bread for All!” and the

only precipitate

trouble. Faced with the possi- bility of a nával alliance, what little disposition for compromise. there is in Japan at present would be immediately killed. A naval conference would be abortive. Japan would build to resist a two- fold menace where now she is con- cerned merely with protecting hor self against a single unit of

East Calling for "More Rice!" There Is. Revealed a Difference in the Way of Life Which Has Basic Significance

national strength. If, the THE Great War was won on

on

wheat.

Wheat has ruled mankind for 4.600 years. It is mentioned eight times in the Bible; rice not even once, The encyclo- pædia gives a column and quarter to rice; 12 full pages to

wheat.

Yet the "staff of life" is as

by

Sydney

GREENBIE.

joicing at the drought, clated with the rust in Argentina, and enthusiastic.over the grasshop- pers in Australia. For there is no vacation for wheat; the calendar knows no rest; winter and summer, somewhere wheat is growing.

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other land. the naval understand- ing between Great Britain and THURSDAY,, Ocr. 24, 1935.

America were to follow a decision on the parts of both those coun- tries to reduce their fleets materi- BRITAIN'S POLICY.

ally and to join in protecting the pence of the seas not only in the In his outline of the British Paciffe but in other parts of the world as well, we might expect Government's policy in the pre-gome reciprocal move from Japan. sent crisis, Sir Samuel Hoare It would not then appear that the nothing to more than a thousand

JOW is it among the rice rightly claimed that the people alliance was aimed primarily at the million persons, for, against the

caters? China and India liv of Great Britain, irrespective of Japanese, a thing which Britain 4,502,000,000 bushels of wheat threat of dearth the next.

ing on rice, apathetic toward party, stand united in support very much wishes to avoid, but consumed annually, there are entire western world, from Rus sunk in despair, go from famine The progress, steeped in antiquity, of the League Covenant. There that it was purely defensive nad 6,033,000,000 bushels of is no conflict of viewpoint on

rice sia to Canada, Australia to the. to famine, from flood to drought, related to any portion of the globe consumed. More than half of United States, dependent this issue. But it has been

where aggression occurred. Here the 2,000,000,000 human beings wheat. suffers at one moment like the wheat caters, with in- on plodding, invincible. But Japan, made apparent that there is a

is a chance for real collaboration. on earth depend on rice for their from too much, at another from tensive drive, has doubled her It is the whole basis of the large volume of opinion which Japanese naval scheme that mavies main source of food. holds that the Government has should be built for the defence of

famine. This is not a mere "Believe

population and her rice. No unduly temporised in making the nations, and that they should It or Not" item. It is a great lends itself"

Perhaps no modern industry dust storms in Japan. No na- use of the League. machinery, in no respect be of a strength factor in world polities. These and confusion and mutual nega- Japan in rice growing, cultivat- more to anarchy tion has been more efficient than with the result that inaction at which might make them a threat

two basic elements of diet are tion than this. Geneva has permitted Italy not to their neighbours' peace of mind, behind two great forces of civi-

Because no ing it from time out of mind; only to pour troops-into-East-Japan-wants-to-abolish-capital lisation. Dependence on wheat nation is secure without a though neither in climate-nor Africa, but actually to start warships aircraft carriers and sub-alone might set East and West hinterland assuring her adequate in physiography is her land against Ethiopia. The charge is marines. The time that, the Government was

when that will be possible; but it struggling for survival; but with supply, the drive to obtain it is particularly suited to its produc- will never be as long as there is half the world living on wheat incessant. But every time any tion, Only through careful firm enough in face of the long- one nation standing threat of hostilities. In the Pacifle.

field, its operations are doomed suited to her climate and the may be maintained. The Labour Party, incidentally,

Fundamentally, the two grains to frustration and international development of terraced moun- takes this view, and to that ex-

represent two distinctly different discord. The central European tain drainage with much toil has tent it is likely to figure in strong

types of civilisation. The whole powers haven't enough; Russia, Japan been able to keep up her criticism of the Baldwin Ad-

life processes involved in rais. Argentina, Australia, Canada rice supply. There is beauty ministration in the coming elec-hope of becoming the Westerning these two crops are vastly and the United States have too written into these terraced hills. tion campaign. Sir Samuel terminus

much. Just before the war. Even in the most inaccessible Hoare is at pains to point out airways, trans-Pacifle service is tropics; wheat in the temperate quantities of wheat to herself born fields, like little shelves

different. Rice grows in the

Germany was drawing vast valleys, one may see these stub- that the Government had made very remote indeed. It appears zone. Rice paddy fields are incessant representations to that Macao is favoured by the flooded; wheat grows on dry, through the neighbouring coun- bracketed to the walls, clinging Italy, beginning as far back as the end of last year, and there the fact that the Government there by hand, men and beast of endurance, with wheat the of water which slowly trickle

operating company, and in view of rolling plains. Rice is planted tries. This was soon exhausted, to the

slopes and holding in and the war settled into a test their shallow cups thin layers is much to be said for his arg mission for the use of the port by wheat permits use of machines arbiter.

has already decided to grant per to their

groins in water; ment that hasty action might the American company, it is alto- that spread their reproductive Were her enemies, and when field, making acres where before. The wheat growers down, down, down, from field to America was drawn in, the, were only perpendicular ican- balance was against her,

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have jeopardised the hopes of gether likely that there the first forces over peace which were entertained trans-Pacific

miles of acres. mal! up to as recently as August. alight. To say that we are dis-Rice keeps a family secure on the Argentine was prevented

planes will The fact that those hopes have appointed would be not quite the two to seven acres, wheat needs not, been realised is admittedly truth. We cannot be disappointed, minimum of some 30 neres. from shipping wheat to Ger- no fault of Britain's. But there because we did not really expect Rice is milled in village mills, many. is cause, for. complaint at the that those responsible in London individualistic in all operations

BEGINNING with Japan, down Before 1900, Europe ate near- dilatoriness of League action would move with sufficient alacrity from planting through to eat ly 2,000,000,000 bushels of wheat Saigon, the rice roads are

through Hongkong, Manila, when we bear in mind that Italy Americnu

to keep pace with the plans of the ing; wheat is threshed by giant and only 34,000,000 bushels of parchment record of the con- was belatedly declared the ag-

mall operators: We gressor nearly three weeks ago,

merely hoped that they might. It machines, with gangs of men, rice, while Asia consumed 1,265,- turies. Under parching sun, and that even at this stage, with that she would be the Far Eastern And yet, contradictorily, the 000 bushels of rice.

was Hongkong's right to expect and is stored in vast, granaries. 000,000 of wheat to 5,879,000,- tepid rains, against volcanic hills.

Russia sent over withered Ethiopians being slaughtered terminus of this service, for this is rice eaters are for the most part to England 4,128,000 bushels of veldt, it is an unending road of jungle-girded almost daily, the economic sanc- the obvious distributing point for docile, living under absolutisms whent, and elsewhere 10,000,000 rice. At Saigon, one of the tions agreed upon are not to be put into force until early next tinctly less "in touch" with the aur-dualistic in the extreme.

Macao is dis that have survived the indivi- tons yearly. The United States principal rice ports of the world, sent England.2,000,000 bushels. rice comes in from the upper month. In short, the League rounding country than is this has thus far failed to achieve its

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The wheat eaters have spread Canada sent none. By 1900, reaches of the Mekong River on primary object of preventing

over the earth and conquered it. the scene shifted, Russin sending thousands of junks over 10,000 war. Here, again, however, the

The rice caters have stayed put. England only 1,031,000, the miles of canals and waterways: fault cannot be laid at the door tions as a last

West first

met the United States 13,561,000, and this "Paris of the East" parades resort. Even East, it was of Britain, which has striven under the best

predicted that Canada 4,322,000 bushels. The its boulevards, loiters on the of conditions, Japan and China might and main to get the economic pressure is slow in beturn to bread, but the ex- Canada was producing 39

would war changed this. By 1922, verandah-shaded sidewalks with League machinery brought into coming effective; as it is pro-pectation has not been realised. cent of the wheat exports of lace in the hinterland works its per European airs, while the popu- use, but has encountered, if not posed in the present crisis, the Japan

the world, the United States water buffalos in the sludgy. actual obstruction, at least an delay becomes even

had known nothing unwillingness on the part of nounced. The tragedy of the word pain (bread) into her per cent, Australia 11 per cent. Penh, the Cambodian king more pro- of bread; adopted the French 23 per cent, the Argentine 10 paddy fields. Back at. Pnom- other nations to expédite mat- position at the moment is that language; tried to make it, and. ters. Sir Samuel Hoare, in Italy still wages war against a dropped it.

In 1912-14, the world wheat watches his dancing girls crop was 3,800,000,000 bushels, the silver floor of his pavillon answering the charge that eco- fellow-member of the League, nomic sanctions might lead to and it is difficult to see that the

not counting China; ten years while his subjects grind their inter it Was the use of force, was obviously measures thus far agreed upon LET us consider for a moment bushels; in 1932, it was 4,600,- by the junks on the Mekong at 3,500,000,000 rice in the enormous mill fed anxious to show that Britain is are likely to stop her. It is this the casentials in the growing 000,000 bushels. The wheat the dobr. réluctant to apply military sanc circumstance which causes a be of rice and the growing of wheat eaters had increased in popula- tions; yet, at the same time, he lief in certain. quarters that in the East and the West.

Where Hongkong's New Ter- tion only 12 per cent. The ritories skirt the Kwangtung. did indicate that Britain is pre- Britain, so far from being too We of the West ran rough- World War had whipped up pro- frontier, tourists see miles and pared to go to the full limit,. if active, has not takeh a sufficient shod over our wheat areas, leav- duction, turning every available miles of waterlogged land, where, the necessity arises, and-whatly strong stand. And it is clear ing them exhausted and pro- dust patch capable of producing in swing, the planting scason is of the most vital importance that the nation and the Empire strate, fields for the winds to when the Canada and Ameri- for China's staple food begins. -If other nations are prepared would favour an even more play with or carry, the dusty can prairies, the backblocks of The steaming hot rivers, the to take part in collective action, vigorous policy in order that the soil hither and yon, And up Australia, the Argentine pampas sour amell of jungle, the densely Actually, the League Covenant aggressor may be brought to and down go the prices of wheat, to such an extent that now crowded streets and rivers. does contemplate military anne-book.

with gluc at one moment and the "wheat diplomats" are re- (Continued on Page 6.)

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