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CROWN COLONIES'

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Sir William Peel, in n refer- ence to the suggestion that the Crown Colonies should be placed SYMPHONIES:

under the mandate system, has TCHAIKOWSKY-The "PATHETIQUE Boston Symphony Orch. could conceive nothing more mis- outspokenly declared that he Conducted by Serge Koussevitzky.chievous, and rightly added that DVORAK-"FROM THE NEW WORLD" Royal Albert Hall Orch, the idea would be entirely re- pugnant to the inhabitants of Conducted by Sir Landon Ronald. these territories. This proposal SCHUBERT THE "GREAT" C Major B.B.C. Symphony Orchestra is an outcome of the discussion Conducted by Adrian Boult, which has taken place, in con- nection with the Italo-Ethiopian HAYDN THE "CLOCK" SYMPHONY Philharmonic Symphony dispute, on the question of making the sources of the Orchestra of New York Conducted by Arturo Toscanini.

world's raw materials more generally available. Italy com- SZOSTAKOWICZ-No. 1 Op. 10

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world's territory is at present held by other nations, notably Great Britain. There is point in the issue raised, and Britain has

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Once this has been achieved, whether by a victory in battle or without it, our own supplies of food, raw materials, and munitions from overseas, to- gether with those of our allies, are free from interruption; our military and air forces can be sent and eun act wherever- strategy requires; and 息。 stranglehold is placed on our enemies which, in the long run, will so weaken their powers of resistance as to induce them to sue for peace."

COMMAND of the sea in war

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· have

more

is thus vital to our own Our cruiser force consists of of attack; while, till the Far Finally, the Fleet Air Arm. national and Imperial existence, 51 cruisers of all sorts plus 10. Eastern base at Singapore is should be increased by fifty per a most powerful weapon against now in course of construction. completed we have no means of cent.

or half

a dozen an enemy, and an essential ele- Of these nearly one-half are effectively defending our wide- squadrons. ment in any scheme of collective War-time ships, over 15 years spread interest in that quarter In default of some new agree- security for the enforcement of old, weakly gunhed, incomplete- of the globe.

ment at the forthcoming Naval peace by sanctions, economic or ly armoured, and slow by From this it is clear how Conference as to general limita- armed.

present-day standards.

much the Navy, our first line of tion of new building, this is No Government can, there-

defence, stands in need of re- what reconditioning of the fore, afford to neglect the

conditioning.

Navy will involve. aircraft- eight efficiency of the Navy to fulfil WE

What has to be done?

The cost can only be very this all-important role, and it carriers only--and this at

First of all the battle fleet roughly estimated. Perhaps is because doubt has now arisen, a time when the value of air needs to be strengthened, for it £100,000,000 for new construc as to whether our Navy is, in craft as the Fleet's eyes is con- is the foundation of the whole tion to replace out-of-date ships, fact, in a position to carry it atantly assuming greater im- structure of naval strategy. It and £30,000,000 to bring up tioning is so urgently necessary. Our flotilla craft consist of enemy to beat, or even to risk required say, out, that its wholesale recondi- portance.

must be too strong for any our cruiser strength to what is £150,000,000 161 flotilla leaders and des- fighting.

in all, including the cost of troyers (with 26 building) and WHAT is required for this?

work on the defended ports and A Navy comprises three 51 submarines (with nine-build- OUR cruisers are lamentably the necessary, additions to the elements; the battle fleet, the ing). Here again half

insuficient for the many Fleet Air Arm, may cover it. cruiser squadrons, und the leaders and destroyers date calls upon them, for in war time This expenditure, of course, small-craft flotilla.

from the Great War; about 40 they would have to act as the can be spread over a period of Our battle fleet consists of of them are old vessels of only eyes of the battle flect, to safe- years, in the same manner as 12 battleships and three battle between 760 and 905 tons dis- guard our manifold trade inter- the outlay of £100,000,000 for cruisers, to which, of course, placement. The majority of ests all over the world, to do the Government's new five-year will be added in the event of the submarines 'ure of post-war convoy duty, and to hunt down road reconstruction programme. war such smaller cruisers, design.

enemy raiders. flotilla elements, and aircraft-. All these various vessels re- On them, too, will fall con- carriers as may be necessary,

Of these 16 capital ships only three are of post-war design; a few, but a. fow only, of the others have been reconditioned for better protection against torpedo and air attack.

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the-

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indicated her willingness NOTES OF THE DAY 216 ships, and our submarines needs, and a full half of the our national

DANGEROUS. COODS

quire 91,000 personnel to man tinuous and onerous duties in IT is to be hoped that the Naval them, with 60,000 reserves for the event of any armed action Conference will

bo Bo new vessels or to replace losses in the Cause ΘΕ collective successful in Its results as to in time of war.

security. Here again our make this expenditure un- A comparison with our situa- cruiser construction is at pre- necessary. tion in 1914 shows that our sent limited by naval trenties. But should it fail in this, the capital ships now number 15 But we badly need more of necessary

cost of naval us against 69 at that time, our them. At least half as many supremacy which, as we all cruisers 57 as against 108, our again as we now have would be know, and as history may serve small-craft flotilla 161 as against hardly adequate for all our to teach us, is synonymous with existence, will cuss the problem raised. But

[61 as againstTM 74.

existing vessels (certainly all have to be faced by the country. obviously the suggested solution

Our total tonnage of all types those that have not a speed of If we have to do so, we shall is not the best or the wisest

stood in 1914 at over 2,000,000 30 knots or are more than fif- again build up the British Fleet, method. It certainly cannot be seriously argued that the British

An excellent example of the tons; now it is a little over half teen years old) are due for re- that essential factor in our national security and in any Colonies are administered in

danger of private ownership of in- that figure; while personnel and placement.

reserves have shrunk from

system of collective security such a way as to shut out other dustries vital to a country's defence,

300,000 to 150.000.

SOME 110 new destroyers and that even the most internation- nations-a 'fact which is clearly and as essential to aggression, is

The state of our coast de- flotilla lenders, too, should ally-minded of us can devise, to demonstrated here in Hongkong, seen in the report from Rome of

an agreement between a subsidiary fences also at Malta and Gibral- be built in place of older craft, à condition of fitness to do its Socialist lenders at Home, in

of the Standard Oil Company of tar is not such as to give real and the oldest submarines ought work in the preservation of their campaign against so-called

New Jersey and the Italian Gov-security against modern scales, to be similarly dealt with. British peace and world peace. Imperialism, have, none the less,

ernment. In brief, the allegation, been demanding that Britain

which is denied, is that the Govern. should abandon all the Crown

ment of Italy has received a guar- Colonies and hand them over to antee that the company will supply the League of Nations, by which all the oil Italy needs for her they would in future be control- Ethiopian campaign and for home

return for led. This demand has been consumption In promptly answered by the Em- thirty-year monopoly in Italy; the

company would even lend 1,000,000, pire Industries Association,

000 to make the sale of its comUST we all die?" asked a young open mind, and with Oh! such a out. In his sermon published in the which points, out that "the

modity to the Italian Army posal- "M" subjects of His Majesty the ble. The danger, of course, in any on Tuesday, and her vivid article the perplexities which adorn the very prayer that "war may be averted," woman of 20 in the Telegraph longing to find a ray of light through Telegraph on Monday he alvocuted King are not chattels to be dis-such arrangement, is multifold. struck more tragic note than any fundamentals of living.

anil, in the event of that prayer re- First, there is the risk that such of the War-lorror documents which And what does Youth find? A maining unanswered, further prayer an arrangement would render com- have been placed before the public in Tower of Babeli The politician, that God will "Sentter the Nations pletely abortive any League em-the cause of peace.

caten up with Nationalism, has that want war" bargo against Italy. unless the Her's was the cry of Youth to-day, his League attempted a blockade. A Or somebody puzzled, bewildered and armies, navies and air forces to entirely on the efficacy of the League blockade would almost certainly disillusioned by the contradictions, eliminate war; bigger and bigger, Kennedy implored for a religious and cause a war. Thus we would ex-paradoxes, falsehoods, and smug com- tariff barriers to stimulate trade;

posed of by the Socialist Party and transferred to another flag.' Moreover, as the Association states, the inhabitants of no Crown Colony have expressed any desire to be driven out of the Empire. Accordingly, the Association strongly opposes this ""attempt to dissolve the Colonial Empire in efforts to placate the aggressive demands of foreign Powers." It is to be

and swell it profits. Would, the

MUST

A "Youth"

WE

OF

ALL

DIE?

25. Answers the Woman of · 20

xolutiona: bigger and

better

The

relics

Bishop

~of Lomion

of Nations. The late Rev. Studdart.

perience a catastrophe, precipitated placency of the world's lenders in independent monetary systems to en- social revolution.

And Youth Hatens to this and directly by the action of a private politics, diplomacy, industry, finance Aure that the gold, or silver, or eredit concern seeking to extend its trade we do not want to know anything New York, Paris or any other rich somebody taking his first flight and

religion.

of the world shall remain in Lon on, reads that and finishes feeling like Being put through all the stunts and .capital. about More

war, she says, and in so company be the lover? Not at all; doing speaks on behalf of Youth. The economist la torn between Youth resents it lo feels and

contortions known to flying science. at least, not very likely. Suppose Youth does not want to know any rationalism, technocracy, national so knows he is being chested and bam recalled that in the early days it had sold a few million barrels more about war Youth is fully cialism, the continuance of the exist boozied. He knows what the world of oil to Italy, and lent a billion alive to its implications and results. ing capitalistic system in its entirety wants but cannot find a single leader there was. a. tentative proposal | lira, and that Italy were blockaded | But what is Youth offered as an the creation of bigger armed forces capable of fixing his ideals and policy

and defeated by Longue Powers in alternative? To whom and where because it

creates more work or to these needs. - a first-class major war, with plenty can Youth turn among the nations of alternatively the abolition. of armies of of is on both sides. Very well; the com.that War is a thing of the past or other of his many economic systems told that these are due to human pany could write off the Italian debt

mature or circumstances. Ho knows Call Youth, cynical, and fatalistic, sustain armies and armant to lose who control the destinies of that in lie. He knows that daily,

of the Italo-Ethiopian dispute,

that; in an effort to secure

settlement, Britain should give up a strip of Somaliland to Italy;

but the suggestion was made without the authority of the Houac of Commons, and was promptly condemned. If there wore any indication that Britain had shown herself incapable of ruling the smaller Jolonies, or was unmindful of the interests of the peoples of these terri- tories, there might be some ground for advancing the pro- posal that these, possessions be placed under League of Nations control. Britain's colonising record stands proof against any. such charges. That fact of it self is sufficient to place the pro. posal in the category of ideas which are not deserving of serl,

ous consideration...

the other side! And how prices would rise! A gamble of a billion big concern.

....

SANE SAFEGUARD

ever likely to ba?

are adopted there will be no need to

armaments. The delegate to Geneva

He finds nations Indulging in

which

fear, nation

as a loss. But think of the proßt if you like, but who and what is that would acèrue to it through responsible for that state of mind? the League of Nations as the world's nations; "murder the truth." He sales of its very vital commodity to Is there a single system, or a single only hope, and proceeds to spend his the fellows who were fighting on Government in the

by nationalistic "Rights", and national boundaries, of tradition causewarese, and hatred born of

but to-day, un- timo quibbling about movereign rights knows it is not human nature

avarice, lira or so is only pennuts to a really hand "Patriotism" either and prestige and of a dozen'and one jealousy. He knows that the "eir- after, or making any con- other things which have been hum- cumstances which so glibly explain tribution to, the establishment of bugging the world from, time... im

world's economic distresses away the world peace, of a world economie, memorial, Anancial, social and industrial entity?

And if Youth turns to the modern of the world's own making and that they never have, nor need they Youth in searching for this. writers for encouragement and en- ever become, uncontrollable and un- Youth reads, with almost fearsome lightenment, he

discovers Shaw adjustable. We do not say these things are eagarness, the manifestos of politi- creating little states from his own. He knows, too, that the answer to likely to occur, or even that the cians, the speeches of Genova dele imagination, for removed from reall- these problems is a world revolution Standard Oil Company's subsidiary gates, the pronouncements of the ties, and Wells dealing in gigantle in

thought, Ideals, education and perorations of has actually agreed to. what would Churches, the

Indus generalition.

the systems which are trialista and financialists, the writ The churches he finds split from paraly that answer is finding no echo

many

the universe. seem a dangerous piece of business, inits of ancient and modern econom end to end in the consciousness of The story from Rome may be noista, the lives of Lehin, Stalin, Hitler their own Inability to take a decided in the hearts, actions and pronounce paganda deliberately spread by the of Herbert Hoover, the sarcasm of ing abstracts for realities. more than a rumour, a piece of pro-and Mussolini, the "revelations" stand and their policy of substitut monta of national leaders to igy, and Youth" Lairns away dismayed and Ifallan Government "to" intimidate Shaw and the theories of Wells. The Catholle Archbishop of West-pick, and carries on waiting for the

(Continued on Page 5.) "All of this is absorbed } with an minster sees prayer as the only way inevitable" Nemicals,

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