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DEAR Mr. Pickwick, I am writing you this letter Stubbs Rd from Eatanswill.
The room
Hongkong Telegraph.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8, 1936.
THE FRUITS OF TEMPORISING
in which I write has all the cold dignity of a <linused undertaker's parlour. The door says it is a "Lounge," and I am sitting alone, other guests in this celebrated inn having to their lacds,
gone
On the writing
the
Letter
to
Mr. Pickwick
were
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I suppose world is
desk 1 have a copy of your "Papers" open at the page With a realism characteristic which describes the arrival of
"Candles of many previous utterances, your chaise. Mr. R. Attlee, the Labour brought in, the fire was stirred up, and a fresh log of wood leader, declared in the House of was thrown on.", you record. Commons on Monday, when re- "in ten minutes time a waiter the
was laying the cloth for dinner, ferring to the Italo-Ethiopian the curtains were drawn, the fire war, that it was not a question was blazing brightly, and every- whether Mussolini would beat thing looked (as everything the Negus, but whether analways does in all decent English could bent the inns) as if the travellers had aggressor
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"The fire was blazing brightly. and everything looked (as every. shing always does in all desent English inns) as if the travel- lers had bren expected and their comferts prepared for days beforehand "that was in YOUR day, Mr. Pickwick.
KNOCKED af a room marked YOUNG women
"Private."
better in many a novel.
League of Nations. This is the been expected and their comforts ways
position in a
nutshell.
All prepared for days beforehand."
no longer Then entered, swoon at the rate of one a It was a pleasant room; cretonne- chapter, but play football and all covered armchairs, a blazing manner of games calculated to fire, and bowls of narcissi on make them unsuitable to fulli the table. 'The manageress maternal functions. aredicine was sitting by the fire reading has so vastly improved that
hundreds of new diseases have. "What is it you want?" she been invented in the last century. and as the world progresses more asked.
are being invented every month I cast chivalry to the winds
to keep pace with the wear-and- Ten minutes
tear of modern life. Inter I sat down to an excellent omelette. She had not really Open cars are going out
I arrived in Eatonswill two and told her. hours ago.
of
other aspects of the matter fade into insignificance beside the fact that the League long ago NOTES OF THE DAY When the decrepit and mil- borne me a grudge. It had all fashion, so that families cu declared Italy the aggressor
dewed taxi had deposited me on just been part of the still spend open-air week-ends boxed and, up to the present, has been
the inn's doorstep (charging for prevalent English system of up in the back of a saloon body SHIPS OFFICERS' PAY unable to halt hostilities, In
the fare from the station rather making the guest feel as un- almost as protected from sight has the interim, the world
Another sign of returning pros-
of God's blue sky as the most witnessed a gallant but seeming-perity is afforded by the fact that more than its own value as a comfortable as possible.
the National Maritime Board has car), I carried my bag in and
Very strange. is it not, Mr. cavernous interior of any coach ly unavailing fight by
been able to fix new and better asked for a room. The under- Pickwick?
that ever bowled along behind equipped Ethiopians to preserve rates of pay for British navigating!
six horses on the Rochester I have, indeed, seen so many their sovereignty against the and engineer officers. The econ- taker's wife seemed to be soured
strange-things following-y134 WHY might and main of a modernisedomlo-blizzard of 1931 severely about something.
affected British shipping and al- invading army. Little wonder though progress has been slow,
--that I cannot make up my mind whether it's a better or
ill-
is it that the Emperor complains shipowners now
"Good evening." I said. “I around the country this week They have even taken the
feel hopeful re- want a room.” garding future prospects. The
open buses, off the London
At the delay of the League in new rates have been fixed not only She made no reply, but, after worse world that I am living in. streets, so that those who like imposing effective sanctions. It in view of the rising prosperity, staring at me hurd for a few
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to see what is going on, are fond of fresh air, and don't object to was so long ago as November but, as the agreement states, "in that the League Committee of recognition of the loyalty of the seconds, rang a bell, and when THE penultimate blast had a drop of rain are discouraged.
hardly been blown on
the from
old- practising those officers to the industry in its anxi-jan elderly porter arrived said, Eighteen, whose duty it is to ous times." The depression caused "Twelve."
horn of the Dingley Dell coach fashioned vices. co-ordinate sanctions, voted in many seamen to lose their jobs,
before England was plunged into "It's in the new wing," said the Commercial Age, whose Music is laid on with the gas principle for the application of while others maintained their
employment at considerably reduced the porter as we went upstairs, grime and greed survive no and water, so that even a small an oil embargo, whilst early in pay. The new agreement will en- No. 12 room was small and clean, passing of a century, so that child can halt the progress of a March the British Government |able 250,000 officers and men. to;
the lovely lanes and combes are Beethoven symphony, and as definitely declared that it would enjoy better rates of pay than ut But it was also cold.
any time since 1932. In the case
even now being bestraddled by Cowper once remarked--inor- enforce such an embargo, pro- of about 50,000 officers, the now
"Hasn't it got a fireplace?" monstrous pylons, and arc-dinate indulgence in music is viding all other oil-producing rates are, in general, equal to the I asked.
tects plan even bigger buildings more soul-destroying than in- and transporting States in the best that shipping has ever paid.
with false facades and dummy ordinate indulgence in drink. Morcover, it is expected that! "None of the rooms in the pillars made of cement. League diil the same. Since
further negotiations will enable new wing have got fireplaces,”
People have even discovered then, there have been inter-the seamen to enjoy better hours said the porter. "But they have
Oh, Mr. Pickwick-how dis- that popular education does not minable meetings of this com- and manning conditions than the running hot water."
tressed you must feel sometimes necessarily mean a well-informed known. The mittee and of that, but for industry has ever
as you look down on us from and clear-thinking mass of public agreement has been described as
not definite action we still have to one of the greatest achievements
your own particular Olympus! opinion; that travel is Progress? Yes! but in which synonymous with broadening of look in vain. Italy has profited ever made by the National Mari-
the mind; and that ability to and Ethiopia suffered terribly time Board. It will be the means
dnsh through space at an in- as the consequence of this tragic between shipowners, officers and soured lady in black behind
of establishing complete harmony eat?" I presently asked the temporising. According to Mr.scamen throughout the industry, office counter. Winston Churchill, the lesson of which in itself is a factor of great
"Too late for dinner," this melancholy chapter is that importance in determining the future prosperity of shipping, as Britain should not interfere in China Coust, shipping men, she said. "You can only get such matters unless she is in and afloat, will probably
meat after 8.30." agree. earnest and is prepared to the activities of the National Mari-
somebody time Board and the sympathy of "Perhaps carry intervention to all neces the British shipping owners gen-make me an omelette? It's vo sary lengths. There is point inerally provide a lesson for the in-very cold for cold meat." the contention, but, on the dustry throughout the world, and
prove the value of close.co-opera-
And then he left me. "Can I have something to direction?
"No, it's too late."
the doubt of the direction in which world very much happier.
A century ago there was no credible speed does not make the
England must be led. The 1ooo
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she owners realised that they had a cold country rich in all the potentials ONE thing has not changed, which machinery had suddenly Mr. Pickwic... Disguised in mude 80 valuable, and before bowler. hals and drab clothes, could you could say "Jack Robinson" harnessed to the shafts of the we had become the world's Juggernaut standardisation -- factory.
battered and bullied by every modern inconvenience, England Some people today see that remains full of Sam Wellers, we have an Empire a much Tupmans, Winkles, Warmes,
other hand, it has to be stated tien and the retention of mutual "But could I make it myself? cleaner affair than a factory-Perkers, Joes, and the rest of that the upholding of the system good-will.
Surely somebody can do a couple rich in all the potentials which the great company, of eggs for me."
modern ufe demands; there
"I'll ask the manageress."
for which the League stands is not solely a matter for Britain; others have their obligations as can be done, short of active) well. As matters are, Britain intervention, to bring hostilities has all along taken the initiative to an end. But whatever the in pressing for sterrier collective | Geneva deliberations of the next action, but sho has met with few days may produce, nothing "Manageress says no, cold temerity, if not virtual opposi-will bring back the lives of meat only." tion, at every whip and turn. combatants and innocent "Can I see her?" I asked.
seems, however, a certain lack England changes-the lugu- of spontaneity in the way in brious porter has just come into She disappeared, presently which the 1986 owners are de the lounge and given me a dis- returned.
veloping their Imperial assets. approving look-but, thank God,
· Mr. Pickwick, the English nature Oh, yes, Mr. Pickwick, I sup- does not, pose the world is better in many · ways; there may be less poverty, F remain, air (and please give crime, drinking and cruelty; my love to Jingle, he'd make a. It is this fact which has civillans slain in this unjustified paralysed the League and caused war of aggression. And only a
"She doesn't like being dis about the same amount of hypo- fortune in modern journalism crisy, and a great deal more con- with that clipped style of his); turbed." it so much loss of prestige, miracle, it would seem, will res-
fused thinking, ugliness, ir your obedient servant, Matters have now gone so far tore to Ethiopia her ravaged "That's all right," I assured reverence, moral anaemia, and that it is difficult to see what territories.
her cheerfully. "I don't mind." individuality,
Gordon Beckles
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