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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, MARCH 9, 1936.

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I paid a visit not long ago to the city of Nablus in Palestine, In Nablus live the Samaritans, the purest of all races under the

sun. The Samaritans aro purer than anyone the snow-white Herr Goebbels could possibly present to his imagination, even in a snow-storm on the top of the Drachenfels.

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PUREST

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lie were suspended over mo, and clusters of red shoes hung from cross-beams like fargo pods of pepper.

There was such an air of age nbout the dusky courtyards that they seemed older thân Nablus (which is f mere parvonu name) and to be the relics of the very Shechem of the Bible, which stood in this place, and perhaps still stands in a lintel hero, a threshold there, though catastrophes frequent and vio- lent have sought to expunge it from human record.

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The Samaritans are an interesting people to study

It was in so late a day as Ves- a time when a whole

pasion's that, in the place of Shechem, the city of Neapolis. country has gone mad about

Individual brings in a mate sheep at Passover on the sum (by the Arabs muted into the shibboleth called race-

from another people, a fresh mit of Gerizim.

Nablus) was to be set up. The. purity. For they have, in vitality, a fresh fermentation, If the Gentile desire to pre- part of the town where the deed, achieved the impos- is introduced, without which sent his mind with the Ideal Samaritans still live acomed

the veins harden, the sible; they are racially pure, numbs.

brain Jew, it is precisely a Samaritan older than Troy itself.

he builds up, for he gives up But the Bands are nearly, so far as the words have any

all patience with the task of very nearly, run out. There meaning at all. That is to say, Race is primarily a psycholo- striking an average among the are not many grains left to run at a certain recognisable epoch gical matter, not a biological Jews he has met with curved hour-glass.

The Samaritans have in- and snub. noses, golden and They are shells, as I have their history, after certain one. disparate elementa had been terbred with each other since black hair, lank and frizzy hair, said, like peaches and apples the ninth century, but in their lips thin as razors and thick as that are all eaten up below an welded together, they achieved physical aspect they rout every thumbs.

impeccable skin. a sort of coherence, a sort of axiom of racial hygiene and

which is called eugenics,

The Samaritans are precisely The High Priest pointed out group-loyalty,

They should have been the people the Jews would have his grandson to me, or surely it wizened and etiolated, cretinous, been had history passed them was his great-grandson, and in From this moment the race squint-eyed, rachitic. But they by. The Jews, too, by this time the voice of that small child I would not have numbered two heard. the death-knell of the idea is kept alive not by rigid are not.

Their children bellow lustily hundreds souls And all the wit of race that has keen kept itself inbreeding, which, so far from

Heine, the glamour of Disraeli, too pure, keeping the race-idea alive, as bullfrogs.

The women hold themselves the vision of Einstein, would The child was rending aloud merely petrifies it: is kept alive like trees, and some of them have been bats nesting in the from the Pentateuch. He read by this loyalty I have spoken of, are distressingly handsome. beard of another Isane, petty with the precise automatism of and fertilised from generation I remember one of them in rival to Isaac, High Priest of a doll.

I was reminded of the gramo- to generation by the infusion of particular, a niece of Isaac, the Nablus, as magnificent and as

High Priest, who had defiantly empty as he, squatting over a phone I had been listening to fresh blood.

blue eyes, overshadowed by long narghile in some dungeon-like half an hour ago in an Arab That is what is wrong with pitch-black lashes, set in a face courtyard under the ramparts cafe, for there was just such a the

Samaritana, and has been of healthy peach-bloom. She of Jerusalem, as the Samaritan suggestion of husky mechanism the Monument at 6.16 p.m. to for two thousand years. They might have been the daughter Isaac squats over his narghile in the child's voice. At last the

in the cooped ghetto of Nablus. mechanism is worn out. are dead, or only just not dead. of a hunting squire.

But it was Isaac himself the The Samaritans are, I say. The child scemed in some There are only a couple of High Priest, who incarnated the the purest race in the world and curious hundred of them left in their tugenistic paradox. He was as have been so for nearly three more ancient than his grand- uncles and his great-grand- Palestinian fastness and they magnificent as any patriarch out millenia..

father. of Michelangelo. I could not... will all be gone in a generation conceive Moses himself having a of people they were who had beard, he was a waxen replica I was anxious to see what sort Excepting that he had no more awful presence.

a shell, the once been the chief rivals of the of them, with his long skirts Yet he is only merest hollow skin of majesty. Jews and what had become and thick lips and the black

of them, having So are they all.

remained snake-like plaits, tied up against They are descendants, on the in Cangan all these years, in the crown of his head. So is one hand, of the colonists sent stead of making pilgrimages, the image of the beardless 'older than any German military re-occupa-1

It is clear that in the majority down from Assyria in the ninth forced and voluntary, between Buddha

forest. tion of the Rhineland has creat- of cases, the individuals who century B.C. to take the place Vladivostok and Cadiz, Arch- patriarch bearded like a pine ed an entirely new situation in constitute a given people will of the Israelites carried away angel and Otaheite.

thither; and, on the other, of So I made my way into the Europe, the full implications of fall in love with each other and the defaulting Jews who from venerable

of Nablus, So the tiny voice droned on, which it is not at the moment marry each other. The mere time to time, in subsequent where all that is left of them as the tiny dead Samaritan race I passed under low drones on. But the Samaritan possible to predict. Public re-accidents of physical contiguity Samaritan history, crime down live on.

and through sleepy Doom hung heavily in the air action outside Germany will will see to that. But when an from Jerusalem to

their remitted the sacrifice of

lot with those persistent bazaars, where festoons of gar- that day at Nablus. probably be that the circum-tans stances hardly called for such a demonstration--that the ends

SMITH-At the French Hospital, Hongkong to-iny, Annic, Bertha Sanderson Smith, beloved wife of John S. Smith. Funeral will pans

morrow, 10th March.

Obe

~Hongkong Telegraph.

MONDAY, MAren 9, 1936,

RESURGENT GERMANY

or two.

No people can preserve itself, as the Samaritans prove, merely by hermetically sealing up its blood.

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throw in arches

malcontents.

From that time they have been isolated, in a quite chemi-, cal seclusion; for neither Jews nor

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A LOOK AT THE FUTURE

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sought might have been attain-they would be worthy of the most serious consideration. AB ed by other and less contentious

Moslems have permitted THE Wagering Club of Edin-in those days, and the bowfr or tavern methods. There is, of course, such, they could be regarded as

a definite contribution towards themselves or been permitted, to annual meeting in view of

burgh, which cancelled its Groups of frequenters of those placer nothing new in the German at the reaching of a lasting under-mix their blood with theirs, death of the King, has

the banded themselves together and met formed clubs, and found enjoyment by titude that she no longer regards

other's company. since 1828 on the last Monday meeting in onch herself as being subject to the standing between the nations of much less any non-Semitic in-

Their regular gatherings permitted Europe one which,_to_use_the] habitants of the country. provisions of the Versailles

They have clung to the barren in January, with the exception rolaxation and junketing on more or words of Hitler, would set the

of 1901, when the meeting was less unconventional lines. Treaty, which she considers.

summit of Mount Gerizlm, were forced upon her against passions of pettiness and jeal-salem

European problem above the where the rival temple to Jeru- abandoned, Queen Victoria hav- The regulations of the club limited her will. It is true, as Herr

was once. set up, with ing died on January 22. Founded

chairman was changed at each root- Had the German gesture more tenacity than the Jews to in January 1775, it was one of its membership to 30. The preses o Hitler said in his Reichstag been taken no further than that Zion.

the notable social clubs that ing. Each member made a bet for the speech, that Britain, with a full at this stage, no nation anxious The

utmost privilege of the flourished in Edinburgh, and ensuing year, and there woro.acaled sense of realities, has herself

for the preservation of peace centuries to wail over the cran-no sign of old age.

Jews has been during many now, 160 years later, it shows sp, until the following year. The fifth rule provided that the bots laid coneeded the need of revision of could afford to ignore it. But in nics in any exterior wall, while

shall not exceed the value of one Sir Walter Scott, in "Guy Man- bottle of wine or half a mutchkin of the Treaty, witness the conclu- view of the fact, remarked by no man can say whether there nering," describes the good-fellowship punch for each person wagering," the sion of the recent naval agree Mr. Neville Chamberlain

and high Jinks which characterised great object "being to keep up ment with Germany.. It can, in- | Friday, that the international was a time when the Samari-in some of its uspecta was strenuou een fixed at one shilling. At the un no man can say whether there the social club of the period. Life acquaintanco and promote mirit and

her

ousy.

situation has latterly been

deed, be said that all the signa- tories of the Peace Treaty have steadily deteriorating, doubts long since been conscious of must inevitably arise regarding the desirability of a fresh under the wisdom of further com- standing being reached to cover plicating the position by an those parts of the treaty to overt act such as re-occupation which Germany has taken ex- of the Rhineland, an act which ception. There need, therefore, is scarcely likely to improve be no surprise at the de-

Franco-German relations. There nunciation of the Peace Pact. will be a natural disposition to The same conditions, however, ask why such a step should be scarcely apply to the Locarno

taken at this juncture. The agreement, to which Germany of possibility cannot be overlooked own free will became that there may be more behind party. The Hitler argument is this move than a further de-1 that the Franco-Soviet Pact is a monstration of the feelings of a violation of the Locarno under-resurgent Germany-that it may! standing; that is a matter upon move for peace between Italy be linked in some way with the which opinions may be sharply and Ethiopia. Until the posi divided, in which connection, it tion in this regard is more clear- is difficult to escape the thought|ly clarified, it would be unwise that the Nazi Government, hat- to jump to hasty conclusions. ing Communism in all its forms, But whatever the facts may be, may well have read into the Europe has been brought down to realities by the startling Franco-Soviet Treaty implica- dovelopments ΠΟΤ recorded. tions not warranted by the There may be ground for critic- facts. An impartial analysis of ism of the methods which Ger- the seven points put forward by many has chosen, but it would the Hitler leaves the impression that be foolish, to overlook

possible value of the positive there is much in them, especially side of the points which she has In their positive aspects, suitable advanced. For the sake of for submission to a conference European concord, It Is to be having as its nim the composing hoped that the other Powers of the troubled European situa- concerned will face up to thej tion. Advanced as conditions new developments in a spirit of under which Germany would be willingness to extract the maxi- mum benefits from the situation, prepared to re-enter the League and that nothing may occur to of Nations, and thus take her cause any aggravation of an: rightful place in world affairs, I already tense position.

SIDE GLANCES By George Clark

PARKVIEW ARMS

"The worst of it is, he has a six-month's lense on that flat.

fellowship." The bot has

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annual meeting the bets of the pro- ceding year are read out and "in- stantly paid."

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A list of bets is submitted to the annual mealing, members 'record an affirmative or negative answer to each proposition, and those, who find that their forecast is wrong at the following meeting are called upon to

The questions on which the bots are made ara varied. At the meeting on 27th January 1781 nine propositions were listed. These included the | following That the Island of Ceylon shall be taken from the Dulch by the British Forces, and that accounts to that effect shall be received before the next meeting: That Lord George Gordon shall not be acquitted upon his trial at London: That Mias Marion or Menis Selkrig shall ba mareled, before the 1st of January 1782.

In 1780 we have That Mr. Pitt shall be Prime Minister of Great Britain before next meeting. In 1800 That Buonaparte shall be alive at next meeting. In 1811 That Great Britain and America shall be at de- clared war before next mooting. In 1818 That the Scottish Crown shall not be found in the investigation about to be proceeded with respecting the ancient Regalia of Scotland. In 1830That the Duke of Wellington shall be Premier of the Administration at next meeting. In 1840 Shall Queen Victoria be married before the next meeting of the Club? In 1842 Will Her Majesty have son betwixt now and next meeting of the Club? An analysis of the correct answers to the questions of which the forego- ing are specimens shows that the negative predominated. As'n'best of- conjectural proficiency readers might

write out a list of nine PNG"

and add their answer, “Yes” or They will find on examining it - la January 1937 that they are no more: successful as prophets than are the members of the Wagering Clubfint

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