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DICTATORS

DEMOCRACIES

By Paul

Reynaud

MONSIEUR PAUL REYNAUD, who belongs to the post- war generation of French statesmen, was Minister of Finance in the second Tardicu Government of 1930 and has since held the portfolios of Colonies and Justice.

For a long time M. Tardieu's chief lieutenant, M. Reynaud succeeded him as leader of the Right Centre parlia mentary group.

He resigned the leadership after the group had dis- avowed the now famous speech he had made in the Chamber of Deputies Foreign Affairs debate on December, 27.

By sheer force of personality he compelled the usually rowdy Chamber to listen to his argumente in silence.

"Choose between Italy, violator of the Covenant, and Britain, its guardian”—was his theme,

Below, in an interview with the "News Chronicle" Paris Correspondent, M. Reynaud further outlines his views on the Italo-Abyssinian conflict and the attitude thereto of Britain and the League.

TWO THINGS DO I FIRMLY BELIEVE:

(5.) THAT THE IMPERIAL-

Remains Of

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DICTATORS OF TO-DAY MORE DANGEROUS PEACE THAN THE KAISER'S PRE-WAR BRAND.

(11.) IF THE GREAT DE- MOCRACIES OF THE WEST

Million

REALISE THEIR PERILAN Years Old

TIME, AND ACT ACCORDING LY, THEY CAN AVOID WAR AND SAVE NOT ONLY THEIR OWN EXISTENCES BUT THE

OF KIND

Cambridge, Mass., Jan. 30. CIVILISATION The remains of the world's WHICH IS FOUNDED ON largest insect, a prehistoric dragen tly two and one-half feet long that LIBERTY.

MAY be wrong, but I believe this ruled the air 160,000,000 years ago, strongly. And because I believe have been found in a Kansas it I said no in the French Chamber limestone bed, it was announced of Deputies.

But the essential condition of atte. There,

Since it is my good fortune to-day to be addressing vast numbers of British readers, I am glad to seize the chance of trying to make clear

cess in that the great democracies Only a part of one wing was should understand ench ather. found by Dr. Frank 31. Carpenter tried to make my fellow countrymen of the Harvard University Museum grasp the strength and nobleness of of Comparative Zoology, but this the movement which swept the people of Britain to the defener of a weak was considered enough to estimate nation attacked by a strong nation accurately the size of the entire and to the determination to organise specimen, because smaller insects

of the same

family have been collective security,

found in well-preserved condition. The giant insect, whose wing was found near Elmo, Kansas, was to them the FORSONs for certain member of the group known as resistances in French publie opinion Protodonata of the Permian Age, the application of the League Insects of this type, with long thin Covenant in the Italo-Abyssinian con-bodies and long wings, were the most powerful that ever lived, Main Difference

They ate smaller insects, chiefly In the course of the debate in the cockroaches. There were no birds French Chamber of Deputies, or mammals then, •

More deputy of the Right interrupted R

than 8,000 prehistorie speaker with the following remark:

insects have been found "Frenchmen have universal ser

Harward expeditions in Kansas vice, Englishmen have not."

This is not a bad summing-up of limestone beds, where vast swamps the difference in the situation of our once covered the area.-United two countries.

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efficacious for revenge sanctions. Italy wure to attack

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British ships in the Mediterranean, Woman of 85 Dances

Frenchman,

think the average. Britain would content herself with throwing from afar her professionalį warriors of the land, sen and air into the conflict.

bombs of Italian air raiders.

the Hornpipe

New York, Feb. 1. Whereas France has a long frontier-

Although Mrs. Ella Hoover with severni big cities, open to the Thatcher is 85, has a liking for adjoining Italy and a long coustiine

France dancing the hornpipe, and en- would have to mabiline, that is trans-joys motoring at 90 miles an form her citizens into soldiers.

the hour, she contends that this is seize Would not Gerinany

North no proof of insanity. Uccasion of attacking our

We were Mrs. Thatcher, who says she is Eastern frontier while

£1 sixth cousin of ex-President occupied on that of the South-East?

a universal Hoover, is contesting Would that not mean

suit war? We should have been drawn into war to avoid war. A. truly brought by her children before

the Lunacy Commissionera Calbertian policy!

And all for a black race, admitted Toms River, New Jersey, asking te the League by mistake! A black that a guardian be appointed to race similar to those whom Britain control her income of £9,000 a year. and France have colonined so often! So that, for a mere colonial cam paign, all hopes for peace in Europe would have been shattered.

French Roasoning

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Captain Burt Roed, the master

of her private yacht, testifled to her dancing ability and her yearn- ing for speed. He said she also

THE

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1936,

WHERE KING IS.

BURIED

St. George's Chapel, where King George of England lion.

AGE DOES

NOT MEAN SENILITY

persona

St. Louis, Mo., Jan. 30. The popular notion that aged decline in mental ability with the advance of years was branded "an unfor- tunate libel" at the 79th annual convention of the American Association for the Advance. ment of Science.

Dr. Irving Lorge of Teachers in College, Columbia University, addressing the Psychology section of the convention, asserted that from studies he had conducted he was convinced that deterioration observed by psychologists and lay- men is more apparent than roal."

"It is due," he said, "to dimming sight, slowing movements, dulled hearing, and preoccupation with life's problems. It is not a loss of mental power as such, but rather an inability to work as fast with mental tasks."

Dr. Lorge applied tests to 143 unemployed adults, ranging in age from, 20 years to 70 years, which indicated, he said, that the ap-

with parent decline

Rge varita when different mental tests are

as the "yard stick" ased

of measurement, especially those in- volving spard, where the apparent decline is greatest.

"Our study demonstrates," ht said, "that power to do mental work probably does not deteriorate with age.

The reported deteriora tion is more apparent than real. Tests commonly used to measure mental ability are not a genuine measure of mental power, beray. they usually rest primarily on speed."

Dr. Lorge divided the 113 sub- jects of his tests into three groups of different ages, 20, to 25, 27 to 37, and over 10. The tests applied were the "Army alpha teste," In which speed .counts more heavily than any

other factor.

Scores for the various groups

were:

20 to 25-119 .27 to 37-142

40 and over-128.

As a chock against those results,

entertained him with selections Dr. Lorge raid he applied the Otis, while or 20 minute self-administering

It was, let us recall, Italy which from grand opera sung

39 and 33 respectively,

A proper cancellation handicap which older

of the persona

were

ex-

prevented Germany from Invading having a snack in her kitchen.test, and the result then was 14. Austria by mobilising on the Brenner United Press. frontier. But (so reasons the aver age Frenchman), here's the Treaty of

Here is years age and again a few months suffer in speed, the speaker said, Locarno. gone to pot.. overpopulated Italy forced into the ago, in China?.

showed that the correction requir Did not the hesitations of France ed was of such, magnitude as to camp of the discontented nations,

Already the Italian papers talk of and Britain, which lasted for months

indicate that the reported facts of allowed, an alliance with Germany or Japan, during which Italy WALS. other overpopulated and discontented without Intervention, to accumulate mental decline among those over.

#nl "Inaccurate nations, Would it not have been troops and munitions in Africa, lead 40

that the aggerated." more Intelligent.net to have taken the Italians to Believe this colonial war as an occasion to machinery of the League of Nations

A definite, accurate measure of would not 'he 'brought" Into play for enforce the League Covenant?

the benoit of some African natives? mental power, Dr. Lorge emphasiz-. Again, if France, which would be ed should be attained by a "follow- called upon for the main effort, up of mental power scores of in- which would run the greatest risks, dividuals from w time shortly after were only certain that in the event birth through senescense."- of a conflagration in any part, of United Press,

for example Britain would at once intervene to. help to extinguish it, .

Of course, Italy is in the wrong But was not Japan in the wrong, four

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14. Judging By Merit An Island

To Be Made

But in his Note of Bept. 20, Sir Samuel Hoare declared that Britain must retain her fall fiberty of ap- preciating each case on its merits. What then?

Moreover, has not Britain autho- rised Germany to violate the Treaty of Versailles by signing-and apart from

Higher

France-the Anglo-German HE, island of St. Marys, on Naval agreement

which is built the town of

On top of all this we are told

that Britain could not even send as Bathurst, capital of Gambia, in many men abroad at the beginning West Africa, is to be raised to above sea level at a cost of

of a war so in 1914, while Italy could

throw millions Into the battlefield.

So it would be us poor blighters £250,000. with universal, military service who Gambla, the most northerly Bri

tlah posacusion in West Africa and

.1

would hok tho baby

These are some of the arguments the oldest and smallest British de- used against me by, the average Frenchman in connection with my pendency in Africa, has 15,000′ in- speech, and I assure you, that, inhabitants, and Bathurst has always order to retain a firm seat in the bean considered unhealthy for both saddle, I have to bear well fixed in whites and blacks.

my mind the two proposition with The low-level of the island makes which I began this interview.

adequate drainage Impossible, and However, that-1-many-not-leave-my-i British readers with too possintsue in the family season when as much an Impression, I must indeed admit as nino inches falls in a day, the that my spooch in the Chamber met island becomes a swamp, breeding with some applause all the same, malaria and yellow fever germs.

ELUSIVE GUARD OF ROYALTY

DETECTIVE'S STRANGE

EXPERIENCE

THE SHADOW OVER THE TSAR

"To me he seemed like a man walking quietly towards a wait- ing horror."

of the late That description Tsar of Russla, in a book publish- of a ed in London, "Memoire Royal Detective," was written by a man whose duties brought him of the into contact with most rulers of pre-War Europe.

The author, the late ex-detectivo Inspector II T. Fitch, unfor- tunately died before completing this volume of memoirs, which havo been concluded from hla notes by Mr. F. S. Stuart.

"Quiet, reserved, friendly." con-.

Taar Mr. Fitch of the tinues "with n friendly word for the least of us who served him on his English visit, he yet looked like a man with fear standing coldly for have at his loft side. I always believed that he foresaw the vague outlines of his colossal failuro and his eventual doom from the day he ascended the Russian Throne."

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Mr. Fitch was the last man lo let his imagination run away with him, which makes the story he tells concerning Prince Olay of Norway all the more curious.

One day, shortly after the War, Queen Maud and the Prince were returning to Norway and Mr. Fitch was detalled to accompany them as far as the coast. The

on was well Royal train

its journey when the detective thought he saw someone step vory swiftly past the door of his coach. "There was a curious. glitter about the man's hat-1 assumed it was a man because he was very tall and powerfully built, though I got no glimpse of the face and only the most flecting idea of the Agure. What puzzled me most of all was that his clothes swished in a most curious manner, quite | Ribs unlike the effect produced by an ordinary suit."

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"The ship was all ready to de- part, when my police inspector friend suddenly exclaimed sharp- ly: Who's that?' I swung round and caught the vaguest glimpse of a tremendons figure" in" red 'and' silver B it vanished-melted would be a more descriptive word into the ship from the gang- way's head,"

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A prophetic remark in the cir- cumstances.

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