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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 Tardieu Government of 1920 and has since held the portfolios of Colonien and Justice.

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

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

By aheer force of personality he compelled the usually rowdy Chamber to listen to his arguments 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 mitlince his vietes on the Italo-Abyssinian conflict and the attitude thereto of Britain and the League..

TWO THINGS DO I FIRMLY Remains Of

BELIEVE:

(1) THAT THE IMPERIAL- ISM OF THE TOTALITARIAN DICTATORS OF TO-DAY IS

DANGEROUS MORE

TO

PEACE THAN THE KAISER'S PRE-WAR BRAND.

(1) IF THE GREAT DE- MOCRACIES OF THE WEST REALISE THEIR PERIL IN TIME, AND ACT ACCORDING- LY, THEY CAN AVOID WAR AND SAVE NOT ONLY THEIR OWN EXISTENCES BUT THE KIND OF

CIVILISATION

WHICH IS FOUNDED ON

Insect 150

Million Years Old

Cambridge, Mass., Jan. 30. The remains of the world's largest insect, a prohistoric dragon fly two and one-half feel long that MAY be wrong, but I believe this ruled the air 150,000,000 years ago,

strongly. And beenuse I believe

a Kanas said so in the French Chamber been found In

LIBERTY,

I

of Deputies.

limestone bed, It was announced

But the essential condition of suc-here. cess is that the great democracies

Only part of one wing was should understand ench other. I found by Dr. Frank M. Carpenter tried to make my fellow countrymen of the Harvard University Museum grasp the strength and nobleness of the moventen: which swept the people of Comparative Zoology, but this weak was considered enough to estimate of Britain to the defence of nation attacked by a strong nation accurately the size of the entire And to the determination to organise specimen, because smaller insects collective security.

of the same family have been Since it is my good fortune to-day found in well-preserved condition. The giant insect, whose wing to be addressing vast numbers of British renders, I am glad to seize

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

AGE DOES

NOT MEAN SENILITY

St. Louis, Mo., Jan. 30. The popular notion that aged decline in mental persons 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 College, Columbia University, addressing the Paychology section of the convention, asserted that from studies he had conducted he was convinced that deterioration observed by psychologists and lay- men "la more apparent than real." "It is due," he said, "to dimming

bearing, and preoccupation with life's problems. It is not a loss of mental power as such, but rather an ability to work as fast with mental tasks."

the chance of trying to make clear was found near Elmo, Kansas, was sight, slowing movements, dulled'

flict.

the

reasons

most

certain member of the group known as for to them resistances in French public opinion ratedonata of the Permian Age. to the application of the League Insects of this type, with long thin Covenant in the Italo-Abyssinian con- bodies and long wings, were the ever lived powerful that Main Difference

They ate smaller insects, chiefly In the course of the debate in the cockroaches. There were no birds French Chamber of Deputies, alor manimals then. deputy of the Right interrupted a

than 8,000 prehistorie speaker with the following remark: 1 Insects have beon found by

"Frenchmen have universal

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

in revenge for efficacious sunctions, Italy were to ntinck

vice, Englishmen have not.".

RUT-

More

Press,

British ships in the Mediterranean, Woman of 85 Dances

average

the

Frenchman, thinks. Britain would content herself with throwing from afar her professional warrior of the land, sea and air into the conflict.

Whereas France has a long frontier adjoining Italy and a long coastline:

the Hornpipe

New York, Feb. 1. Although Mrs. Ella Hoover with several big cities, then to the Thatcher is 85, has a liking for bombs of Italian air raiders. France dancing the hornpipe, and en- would have to mobilise, that is trans-joys motoring at 90 miles un form lier citizens into soldiers.

the hour, she contends that this is Would not Germany seize occasion of attacking our North- no proof of insanity.

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

sixth cousin · of ex-President occupied on that of the South-East? n

universal Hoover, ઈ Would that not menn

is contesting a suit war? We should have been drawn brought by her children before Into war to avoid war. truly

the Lunacy Commissioners Gilbertian policy!

And all for a black race, admitted Toms River, New Jersey, asking to the League by mistake! A black that a guardian he appointed to race similar to those whom Britain control her income of £9,000 a year, and France have colonised so oftent

A

So that, for a mere colonial cam-

v1

Captain Burt Road, the master

paign, all hopes for peace in Europe of her private yacht, testified to would have been shattereil.

French Reasoning

her dancing ability and her yearn- ing for speed. He said she also entertained him with selections while

Dr. Lorge applied tests to 143 unemployed adults, ranging in nge from 20 years to 70 years, which indicated, he said, that the ap Parent decline with

age varica

when different menial tests are Jxed as the "yard stick" of measurement, especially those in- volving speed, where the apparent decline is greatest,'

"Our study demonstrates," he said, "thut power to do mental work probably does not deteriorały with age. The reported deterioni tion is more apparent than real. Tests commonly used to measur mental ability are not a genuine measure of mental power, because they usually rest primarily on speed.”

Dr Lorge divided the 143 xub-- jeets of his tests into three groups of different ages, 20, to 25. 27 to 37. and over 40. The tests applied were the "Army alpha tests," in which speed counts more heavily than any other factor,

Scores for the various groups

were:

20 to 25-149 27 to 37-142,

40 and over-128.

As a check against those results, Dr. Lorge said he applied the Otis, Br 20 minute self-administering

39 and 33 respectively.

A proper cancellation of the handicap which older persons

It was, let us recall, ftuly which from grand opera sung 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 Locarno gone to pot Here is years ago, and again a few months suffer in speed, the speaker said, 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 indiente that the reported facts of an alliance with Germany or Japan, during which Italy other overpopulated and discontented without intervention, to accumulate mental decline among those over

and "inaccurate were been troops and munitions in Afrien, lend 40 nations, Would it not have more intelligent not to have taken the Italians to believe that the aggerated." this colonial war as an occasion to machinery of the League of Nations

A definite, accurate measure of enforce the League Covenant?

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

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would not be brought into play for mental power, Dr. Lorge emphasiz the benefit of some African natives ?

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 time shortly after were only certain that in the event hirth through senescense."————- of a conflagration in any part of United Press. Europe Austrin, for example Britain 'would at once intervene to help to extinguish it...

Judging By Merit

But in his Note of Sept. 20, Sir Samuel Hoare declared that Britain must rot

Call liberty of ap preciating each cale-on 'ita - merits.

Wire then 7

Moreover, has not Britain autho

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

of a war as in 1014, while Italy could above throw millions into the battlefield.

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

tish possession, in West. Africa and

These are some of the arguments the oldest and smallest British de- used against me by the average pendency in Africa, has 15,000 in Frenchman in connection with my spooch, and I assure you that, in habitants, and Bathurst has always order to retain a firm seat in the been considered unhealthy for both saddle, I have to bear well fixed in whites and blacks. my mind the twe propositions with The low level of the island makes which I began this interview.

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THE SHADOW OVER THE TSAR

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

That description of the Inte Taar of Russia, in a book publiali- ed' in London, "Memoirs of a Royal Detective," was written by a man whose duties brought him into contact with most of the rulers of pre-War Europa..

The author, the late ex-detective Inspector H. T. Fitch, unfor- tunately dled before completing this volume of memoirs, which have been concluded from his notes by Mr. F. S. Stuart.

"Quiet, reserved, friendly." con tinues

Tsar, Mr. Fitch of the "with

a 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 over. at his loft side. 1 always believed that he foresaw the vague outlines of his colossal failure and his eventual doom from the day he anconded the Russian Throne."

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

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

well on its Journey when the detective thought he saw someone step very swiftly past the door of his coach. "There was curious gifter about the man's hat-I assumed it was n man because he was very tall and powerfully built, though I got no glimpse of the face and only the most fleeting idea of the figure. 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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A close search of the train re- vealed nothing, and at Parkeston Legs Quay all seemed "well,

"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 tremendous figure in red and silver 16 it vanished-melted would be a more descriptive word into the ship from the gang- way's head."

Unavailing Search

Once more-an-intensive search revealed nothing, and the detec- tives were inclined to put it down to an optical illusion. It was not until many years later that Mr. Fitch was told of the Red Axeman of Norway, an old warrior who, killed in defence of a royal prince centuries ago in the reign of Hankon II. In said still to accom- pany all the heirs to the Nor- wegian throne when they cross the

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The author tells an interesting story of King Ferdinand of Bulgaria when he visited Eng- land for King Edward's funeral.

Paying endless visits to the Zoo, King Ferdinand "perhaps because his was n wild little country of no great pretensions, seemed illat onso in the glamorous and stately aurroundings of Buckingham Palace. At times he was quite at a loss concerning some point of Palace otiquette and was ashamed to seek advice..."

Ferdinand Impressed

not

At the conclusion, of King Edward's funeral King Fer dinand remarked, writes Mr. Fitch, "I never realised what a mighty and consolidated race you are until I saw you to-day, united by a single emotion. I would not have believed that any man in the world could have been grieved for like this.. What a terrible people to arouse against one."

A prophetle remark in the cir- cumstances.

This is an interesting book, brightly written, by a man who knew his subject, Of the many difficulties and dangers. confront- ing him in his work, Mr. Fitch wrote little, but he revealed the many Royal people with whom he came in contact as human balogs. The volume is illustrated, by many photographs.

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