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A PLEA FOR TENTS A letter which appeared in Saturday's issue of the South China Morning Post induces us Lo revert to the question of the proposed banning of tents and similar erections on the Repulse Bay beach, a prohibition which is likely to cause a distinct hardship to people who are financially unable either to own their sheds or to pay for accommodation at this, the most popular and most easily accessible bathing-place on the island. The writer of the letter under notice, who has a

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AMERICA is

Waking Up!

HAROLD LASKI

MERICA remains after Soviet Russia, the most

hilarating country in the world. It is a whirlpool of ideas. It has copeptivity to experi- ment; a passion for discussion, the intensity of which 13 ilterally bewildering, No one, I think, can say in what direc- tion it is moving with any certitude. But that its pattern

of life is changing at a speed greater than at any previous period is, I think, equally un- deniable.

The criats bas loft changes of profound significance. The tradi- Ilonnt belief in the leadership of business men has been rudely shinken. The conservatism of the universities has been greatly - modified; even at places Nike Harvard and Yale intellectual leadership is in the hands of The radical" undergraduates. emphatic note of all significant American literature 13 one of protest; there is not to-day in American letters a single' Agure of any real importance on the con- servative side.

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HERE is an awaken- ing of Labour to political

deed, but in a new way pro- found.

3 There is even good. deal of heart-searching among the religious denominations: tho emergence of radical theologians like Professor Niebuhr and Profes- sor Harry Ward is as important as the wide respect in which they are held.

There is a new zest among the younger generation for public ser- vice: government work as an omelal has a new prestige value.

There is a new sense of the State. a recognition that the old way of laissez-faire is decisively over.

One constantly has the impres- sion in the United States that its temper is like nothing so much as that of France in the generation before 1789. Doubt of all accepted of values, enger exploration novelty; general atmosphere of insecurity, the widespread sense ate in the that great events making these are universal.

Something new is being made. The one thing we do not know is the nature of the new thing

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TE do not know because, above. all. those In America

have who learned least from the crisis are its business men and the corporation Inwyers who are their dependents. They are the Bourbons of contem- porary America,

Frightened out of their wits in 1933, now that profits are being

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chused a tent and fittings for $30, and as he cannot afford to own or hire a car he makes use of the bus service, which enables him and his family to reach. Repulse Bay every week-end at a monthly cost of $16. To the argument that for the non-owner of a matshed there is ample other accommodation available, the writer states that he cannot afford the Lido charges for him-over the threatened eviction, and [self · and family. A further he can hardly believe that His point on which he lays stress is Excellency the Governor and his. that the present number of tents advisers will force him and those and umbrellas in no way inter-similarly placed out of their only fere with the amenities of the possible bathing beach. It is tol beach. The case quoted must be be hoped that his appeal will not typical of many, others which fall on deaf ears. could be cited. Under the pro-other beaches are concerned, posed new regulations, Repulse there has been such a tremendous Buy will in future be exclusively increase in, the numbers of reserved for matshed-owners matsheds at the more popular. and the Lido a state of affairs spots in recent years that it is! which is obviously, all in favour difficult to see how adéquate pro- of everybody but the man of vision can be made for tents if small means. There was a time they are to be banned in front of when there was a big public shed sheds. The whole of the pro on this beach, provided by the posed regulations regarding tents: Government, but this has been would appear to need reconsider- done away with a circumstanceation, with variations made which explains the appearance of which, at spots where there is tents and umbrellas. The irony space. available, would permit of the situation is that two-thirds tents in front of sheds, provided of the seafrontage owned by the they are kept within certain Lido has not been developed and limits, so as to prevent obstruc remains idle whilst many resi-tion to other users of the benches. dents will, when the now regula-We are greatly concerned, ip this! tions come into force, be unable matter, for the family man of to find any accommodation what-small means. The proposals as ever

The writer of the letter to at present drawn up are all in which we have alluded says he favour of those who do not need and his family are really worried to consider the question of cost.

earned again, their one anxiety is the repression of disturbing ideas. They are terrified even by the muid liberalism of the President. They are angry at any hint of radicalism from University teacher. They even believe that, the "New Deni" is, as one eminent professor put it, ten out of the twelve points of the Communist Manifesto,

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They have no programme to meet the problems of the new time. They hate the trade unions. The militancy of the farmer disturbs them.greatly;

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NE sound thing in America seems to them the immovable Con- servatism of the Supreme Court. They are beginning to find democ- racy a very dubious inheritance now that democracy la beginning to think in economic terms.

The Intellectuals, the mass of the workers outside the old craft trade unions, the bulk of youth, a

growing section of the professional classes, not least of them the teachers, are aware that liberal America, the fabled land of oppor- tunity, is in grave danger if big business regains its power.

The great farming Interest ins revived its claim to a place in the sun: if its outlook is, largely, that of the Russian Kulak, at least it is no longer prepared for subser- vience to the manufacturer.

There is not, I think, any great increase in a steadfast adherence to Left opinion. But there is a deeper interest in Left opinion, a more constant sense of the import- ange of its thinking, than at any time in the history of the United Stateă.

That is not to say that the Left is going to win. Blg business in America is very conscious of its power. It is more willing than any similar class in Europe to exhaust all its energy and its ingenuity to maintain it.

Its latent Fascist temper is intense; and the vast army of unemployed is a fertile soll for Fascist ideas. Big business will propagandise without limit. It will use hatred of the foreigner, the pervasive anti-Semitism, the un- explored, and largely ignorant. fears of Russia, Its power to cor-

THE STATUE OF LIBERTY

"A new America is in the making, even though its contours are undetermined."

SIDE GLANCES

By George Clark

You just don't understand mental labour mother. While I appear to be idle, I might actually to accomplishing more

than you.

JOHN LEWIS of the Miners, soos that the "futuro lios. in organising the semi-skilled, and in founding a Labour Party."

rupt State and municipal govern- ment and the lower courts of law to have its way.

The Left will have to learn some- thing of the relentless ability never to relax that the Right displays it it is to make (to due impres- sion on bewildered America,

For though dissatisfaction 13 widespread, it has not yet found its appropriate idcology; the fight to utilise this dlasatisfaction is the grent struggle of the immediato. years.

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ND in the America of a half hundred nationall- tics, a Press in which tire influence of Hearst is vital, 'in

which the cultural tag is Immense, in which, also, the dia- respect for all political institutions save the Supreme Court grows, IDT progressive ideas to conquer means an immenso effort. The appeal of what Mr. Wells calls the raucous votces," Dr. Townsend; Father Coughlin, and a score of lesser the dis- men, to the angry, appointed, the half-educated is an important onc.

Their link with big business is no more apparent to the multitude in America than was Hitler's to big business in Germany, or Musso- lini's in Italy. The inability of the craft unions to see, as John Lewis of the Miners has come to see, that the future lies in organising the semi-skilled, and in founding a Labour Party, gives the forces of uncrican reaction 1 vital advantage. The Luft could win if they could organise the forces ut their disposal. It is not yet clear that they realise how important is their unification while there la yet timo.

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TOTABLE, too, is the growing isolationism of America, tho notable since the President is more sympathetic in understanding of Europe than any of his pre- "decessors-in-a-generation.

But we are paying a heavy price for our weakness in Manchuria, our failure to use the Leagus as it might have been used to protect Abyssinia. Americans increasingly believe that Europe's interest in them is purely selfish, They are appalled at its inability to put its house in order,

More, almost, than anything clae, they want ways and means to avoid

being involved in our vital quarrels as in 1917. And a factor in that attitude has been the policy of the "National" Gor- eriment.

And that at a period when, naturally enough, her own pre- Occupation with herself is. by reason of the magnitude of her problems, profound. It is realised that the old equilibrium has gone; the price of searching for the new is, on any showing, heavy.

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T is not really a matter for wonder if an America -gravely stricken is hurt and angry at Europe's inability to understand her. I take оде Instance only; the handling of the debt problem by Mr. Neville. Chamberlain,

The cold- contempt for America his utterances on that issue con- tained will take long to repair. America is sensitive and proud. To win her friendship needs a symi- pathy and an understanding of which men dovold, like Mr. Cham→ berlain, of Imagination are in-- capable.

There is a new America in the making, even though its contours. are undetermined. If Liberal America triumphs, it will make a new and fundamental contribution to our common civilisation; for the elements are there of great renaissance of the human spirit. But its victory has still to be won,” while its defeat might open a grim. and ugly chapter in the history of mankind.

Today's Thought- THE mind is its own place, and, in itself can make a of Hell, a hell of

Heaven

Heaven.

“MILTON.