1936-04-13 — Page 6

THE HONGKONG Telegraph, MONDAY, APRIL 13, 1936.

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TRUTH IS THE FIRST

THEN War is declared,

Truth is the first casual-

ty"

This famous pacifist plirase, unfortunately, is highly inaccurate. If Truth were not almost a permanent casualty, no

CASUALTY

war

eventually confirmed the story as a fabrication in 1925, and the man mainly responsible turned out to be a certain Brigadier-General, once head of the English Intelligence Service

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war would ever be declared. AT the beginning of the last But the reason why these in France: So far, we have only the League war, when there was plenty secrét commitments, and the of Nations with open discussion, of enthusiasm, the authorities constant denials of their exist- and the likelihood of getting at harped discreetly on Belgium, ence, were so faint is this. Bath ORIGINALLY it was pro the the truth; and Nationallem, and Germany's sole war guilt. Banar Law and Austen Cham- paganda intended_chiefly with secret diplomacy, and the Later, when people began to berlain subsequently admitted, for the benefit of Oriental dead certainty of getting one fcol, in an uneasy sort of way, in the House, that Germany nations, who have religious lie after another.

that they'd had enough, they would almost certainly have not objections to tho desecration of These lien eventually confuse branched into quite straight declared war had she known of the dead. What objections the and frighten everyone so much, forward fabrications about them.

berenved wives and mothers of 5. Improved indépendant sus-most of all those who told anything they could think of,

To reflect on this is to remem the Government preferred to this country might have had, pension.

thom, that someone declares such as atrocities, that might war. Whereupon lying, from make the appear still ber, with some disquiet. the ignore.

recent secret conferences, for As 11 6-cyl. being the nice, quiet game of necessary.

instance, the embassies, becomes the

At the end, in 1918, when instance, of ten nations, in Paris, atrocity story was more gener- constant and fervid occupation almost everyone longed to stop, aft the funeral of the late ally believed than that about of whole people.

they encouraged the public King.

the Belgium babies whose hands Lord Ponsonby, in his admir with descriptions of the post- As a specimen of the kind were chopped off. It appeared able book on war lies, gives the war Utopia that the authorities of lie that keeps wars going in every paper, and questions

they following list of persons and must be given time to arrange, once

have started, were asked in Parliament, to be having been The chief war-cry of present- fomenting, hatred and suspicion encouraged, negatively, as usual. departments as necessary to keep the home day Europe, of course, is the between nations for decades. Every war artist did cartoons of fires burning in this country Versailles Treaty.

afterwards, how many people it. The world seethed with it. during the lust war. "Enves- No better example of the kind knew, one wonders, that the A great many people still be- droppers, letter-openers,

de of dishonesty that causes wars Kaiser never issued an order "to lieve it. cipherers, telephone - tappers, is to be found than in certain' walk over Generul French's con- spies, an intercept department, statements concerning foreign temptible little army"? 11 forgery department, criminal investigation depart- ment, a propaganda department, an intelligence department, a rensorship department, a minis- try of information, and a Press bureau, ele,”

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MONDAY, APR. 13, 1936.

CABINET MINISTERS'

SALARIES

Anomalies in the salaries paid |:...

to Ministers are likely to cause

dealing with the subjectein the

near future. It has long been ¦ STATUES OF THE SHAH

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Yet Signor Nitti, Prime Minister of Italy during the war, has, recorded in his diary that a rich American who insti- tuted inquiries for mutilated Belgian children after the war, with the object of providing for. them, could not discover a single one. He added that Lloyd

policy that were made in Par- THIS order was supposed to All these organisations were liament between 1911 and 1914. have been given at Aix-la George and himself carried on engaged in suppressing or falsi- Time after time, Asquith and Chapelle, on August. 19. and was extensive Investigations of in- fying news, ad in preventing Grey categorically denied that "reprintel" in the B.E.F.ividual cases, and that each people thinking for themselves, we had military commitments Routine Orders. The German case of supposed outrage proved because one of the quickest with the French, in the event of High Command never

was at imaginary. ways, naturally, of stopping a their being attacked.

Aix, and the only order by the war is to allow the public in During all those years the Kaiser which the

As regards atrocity stories in combined Think, or read, the truth.

English and French general efforts of an English and

general, the testimony of five staffs, working as one, knew German general could succeed of the most eminent journalists that we had. It was this secret in unearthing in 1920 was of the German Army through Bel- in Amerlen, who accompanied pact, of course, that brought us August 20, It said: "Disem- The introduction of legion NOTES OF THE DAY the war, one of the cartinat barkation

gium, may be of interest. Their of English nt

be points of English foreign policy Boulogne must

protest, brought forth by the reckoned being to keep the Channel ports with.'

irst flood of those lies which

in French, or weak, handls,

were so needlessly to prolong the Yet this invention of an felt that the matter should re- The Shah of Persia has ordered The invasion of Belgium had English staff officer which it war, began with these words: ceive attention, but every Gov-three statues of himself, one of nothing to do with it-this was was-constituted possibly the "To let the truth be known, - ernment in recent years has which will be erected in Teheran. simply a heaven-sent political best recruiting slogan of

the the unanimously declare hesitated to take action on its Oriental monarchs prefer to be im blunder used for whipping up war. The best recruiting stories of German cruelties,

martalised in sculptore rather an enthusiasm which Within the past thin in painting, since they are un-Government were at their wits. They have to be.

the slogans always are inventions, from what we have been able to

observe, were untrue.” fifteen years, the question has able to see the difference between end as to how to produce. It Another story was that of the To conclude, all national been reported on by two Select a portrait and an enlarged photo was an enthusiasm.. however, German Corpse Factory. The propaganda must reckon, In Committees, both of which graph and cannot understand why that might have been consider- Jimes publicised it, and when future, with the B.B.C. In the

existence

should cast if recognised

Hence

will find Europeanably modified had the public questions were asked in Parlia- event of another war, nothing anomalies.

In 1920, it was sustatues in the East in the most re-known that the French H.Q. ment, Lord Robert Cecil deliber will compare with it in in gested that there should be five mete and improbable places. One had planned the invasion of ately evaded the issue, although Дuence. classes uf Ministers, with of the most unexpected is Nepal, Belgium themselves if the there was no shred of authentic How, one asks oneself, will salaries of £5,000, £3,000, £2,000, the independent kingdom in the Germans did not get there first. evidence. The Government that influence be used? £1,500 and £1,000, with the Himalayas, where there are a Prime Minister receiving £8,000. | number of equestrian statues of Ten years later, the second com- previous Maharajas in Katmandu. mittee recommended £7,000 for the capital. Their transport over the Premier. There is general the Himalayan was a remarkable agreement that the Prime Minis-feat of strength, since no wheeled truffle can enter the country. It ter should not be on the same takes 160 men, in two shifts, to TN common with thousands of particular ability, and temperament, knowledge, dentistry, art, company level as other Cabinet Ministers carry a motorcar up to Katmandu. Apart from the Lord Chancellor, and a cast-iron equestrian statue: the highest Cabinet salary is weighs considerably more. £5,000. That is the sum paid,

own accord.

among others,

the

of

to the Premier:

you

NO much

more.

Abolish Snobbery in Sportent

way we wish. A person possessed of » outstanding talent in sport should bo allowed to market it without loss of personal prestige or status, equal ly with those markoting their legal

other sportsmen I have always for a living. Both are aportamen or promoting or a titled-name for t protested against the snobbish sportswomen, yet even in these en sleeping directorship.

lightened democratic days there are Sport, like politics, law, medicine, treatment meted out to those still those who deliberately slate and and the Services, now offers youth

alur the professional and place the careers. who play games for money.

The watching of sporting amateur on n higher pedostal of events to-day has become one of the and the Chancellor of the Ex-ORDER OF PRECEDENCE

What is the difference between a

sportsmanship.

nation's big businesses, employing chequer. Both, however, have

person gaining a livelihood from Let us face the facts of the case, hundreds of thousands, The usant custom is for pre- being an expert at games, and the in everyday life. official residences which arecedence at international gatherings amateur who commercialises his gifts domestically inconvenient and to be alphabetic. Since the langu-in some other career but also plays our energies to secure our existence, garding the amateur and professional Money must be the objective of It is high thue that all this stupi talk, and rather despicable actions re- costly to maintain. The First age used is French, this usually games for the love of sport?

The coin of the realm is our only sportsmen ended. We should have no

Lord of the Admiralty also has puts Germany first, as, for instance, fessional is so talented that his or food, clothes, xlucation, pleasure, snobbery.

Both literally love sport the pro- means of exchange for procuring place to-day for such meanness and

a residence, but because of this in signing the Locarno Treaty.

We hear a lot of loond talk about

his salary is fixed at £4,500. At one of the first internationale plays games with an equal affee and sports. To gain this money we The lowest salary paid to mem-gatherings to which Germany was tion but follows another profession, market, or commercialise, our natural amate the bers of the present Cabinet is admitted after the war, a Transti (probably more consistent with their gifts, or our desires to work, in any players. When

£2,000.

Communications Conference Yet the Postmaster and General, for example, who is not

held at Barcelona, Germany's

in the Cabinet, gels £2,500. hic prominence was resent- SIDE GLANCES By

all

fed by the delegation. The

extend anomalies

The delegates were to file into through the runka. There are the luaugural session in alphabetic Government Whips receiving order. To prevent Germany being £1,000 as Lords of the Treasury frat the French delegates were pre- who are junior to other Whips pared then and there to forgo the holding Royal Household, ap-claims of French to be the diploma- pointments and getting only tie language in favour of English, £700. Incidentally, there are no which, by altering "Allemagne" to pensions for ex-Cabinet Minis- "Germany" would have put her tors unless they apply and well down on the list,

satisfy a "needs tost." That the

scale of salaries for men with|BALLIOL MAKES AMENDS high responsibilities is by no

means high will be evident when

The situation was saved when an

of its previons

it is pointed out that most of the hitherto unnoticed Albanian delę- Cabinet Ministers' salaries are gate pushed forward and announced decidedly lower than that of his presence.

Balliol, the ugliest college in Governors of the Crown Oxford, is redeeming the disastrous Colonies, such as Hongkong errors in taste with the added advantage to the generations. latter that they all get pensions In the Inst two years Mr. G-! on retirement. One of thebert Spencer, locked in day by day Labour M.P.'s, we observe, has so that he should be undisturbed, suggested optional pensions for has been painting murals in Holy- Members of Parliament who well Manor (now an annexe of the have served for fifteen or twenty college), illustrating the history of years and have reached the age its foundation by John of Balliol. of 60 or 65. It is argued that The Master has just celebrated their the MP's salary of £400 per completion with a luncheon, annum is so small that little or

no provision can be made for the TWO KINDS OF. MASTERS time when he ceases to be a

member, and that as there are Balilol is one of the three colleges

civil pensions for

which has a Master, as opposed to servants, Aeachers, police and municipala Warden. Principal, President, officers, why not for M.P.87 Rector or Provost,

The title has bren known to cause Nobody has, however, yet sug- gested that Legislative Council-sanfusion with that adopted by the sons of Scottish peers.. A visitor lors of the Crown Colonies to the collego once naked the should be ponaioned on retire-Identity of a white-hended old ment!'.

(Continued on Page 4.)

and

George Clark and money temptations.

"How can you say that, officer? Dorothy is a much better.

driver than most girls her age."

Bro 1

professional tonnir a tennis champion thinks of commercialising his or her gift, there is a chor of pitying squeaks about the game suffering,

Illogical

comuments pretty low estimate of true sports- manship, and especially the after math when the amateur turns pro- fessional and the so-called sporting devotees of the game show up in their true worth by socially ostracis ing the player who has decided to make a career of 'hla genius at the даже.

Professional Idols

Tennis, especially, has become one of the most popular and best-played games in the country since the War, and it is the professional coach and player who has been responsible for the present high standard of play, not the sneering amateur.

The way some amateur cricketers behave is ludicrous. The idea of he men playing In the samo team not taking the field by the same door. Is contemptible. Why, county ericket should not exist without the profes sionals.

Is Jack Hobbs, one of the finest players of the game and a great artist with the bat, any less a gentle man because he is a professional? Dr Bradman, Mead, first; and a host of other grand cricketera mado cricket famous and who are who have now coaches, teaching our sons how to play the game at schools↑

Let

thosp

and

the snobbish amateur, who behave towards profes- sionals as if they were le gentle men and gentlewomen because they accept payment for their talented playing of games. reconsider their position. In the enlightened do mra tle days in which we live. Politics is now professional, and the Minis tors who govern us are paid for their. Bervices. Roliglon povs it narsons, pretty poorly, I will admit, but nevertheless they are profesionala.

Who are the public aporta idols of the crowi to-day? Not the amateurs!