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BUDGET, DEBATE

"The system set up at the end of the war has broken down."

(Plotüre taken during the 1919 Peace Conference.)

EUROPE at the

ROUND TABLE

COMMITTEE of Euro- pean States is meeting shortly in London, with Mr. W. S. Morris in the chair. Primarily its job is to see that the Spanish arms embargo is loyally and effective- y enforced. But its significance goes far beyond that,

The Colony's major problems were scarcely touched upon in the Budget speeches by Unofficial members at Wednesday's meet- Reginald Foort

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questions of high importance received no mention whatever. It is to be admitted that the Colony's big problems cannot be immediately tackled, but that is no reason why the present junc- ture should not be availed of for the purpose of looking ahead and planning on definite lines for-the future. To pass on to the issues which were raised, there can be

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question that the Colony's roads have been allowed to de- teriorate greatly-a fact upon speakers which several of the concentrated. The patching pro-

cess

has been wholly unsatis- factory, and, if continued, must prove most uneconomical. For- tunately, the Government itself now realises this point. With the amount of money for roads restricted by reason of financial stringency, wisdom undoubtedly lies in utilising it on adequate maintenance rather than on the opening

thorough- up of new fares. We were glad to observe that Mr. Hughes directed attention

to the need of more footpaths along dangerous roads, as well as to the necessity for some protection along the Praya, which should be easily devised

poor

The Committee is the outward and visible sign of M. Blum's attempt to restart European It is the Arst time since 1933 that there has been

a general meeting of European States for any com- mon purpose.

It is for a strictly limited pur- pose. But its success or failure may be decisive for bigger issues.

For the biggest of all issues to-day is whether it is going to be possible to get Europe functioning in some kind of co-operation for the keeping of peace and the settlement of differences, or whether it is going to break again into rival incessant alliances, waging diplomatic conflicts with each other, and preparing Incessantly for the day when diplomatic conflict suddenly develops into war.

The

PAST...

To avert the break up into armed camps, to rebuild some .kind of European system, is the task Blum set himself when he came to office.

It is a difficult enough task, and one certain to invite mis- understanding and misrepre-

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sentation. It is going to mean plentiful trouble for him at home.

But there it is. And the noed, to anyone coolly surveying the Europe of to-day, is plain enough. The system set up at the end of the war has broken down. It con- sisted first of the League, and secondly of a series of pacta and alliances between sets of Blates. of which the general purpose was to safeguard the territorial system of Versailles (including In "Ver- sailles," of course, the other peace treatica).

But the underlying assumption of it was the stark fact that in the immediate post-war years France was easily the most powerful mili- tary nation in Europe,

So that overy minor State which felt that it needed some guaran- teo for it frontiers, felt that so long as it could have an alliance of some kind with France it was perfectly safe.

And on top of this there wore the guarantees

'the' - afforded by League and the Covenant.

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PRESENT...

Now all that has changed. In 1919, and for years after, both Ger- many and Russia wore, if not negligible, at any rate defnitely of the second rank as European military Powers. To-day they are both of-the-frst rank un

Italy, too, though her real strength is open to a lot of doubt, has to be counted very seriously. since all her energies and resources have been concentrated on war preparation.

There are on the Continent to-

four first-class military day

With big economic behind them. And there is the possibility, non-exis-

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tent ten years ago, of those Powers forming Into rival blocs, to ovenly balanced that either might take the risk of war with the other.

That possibility is shaking the alliances and has shaken the League. The thing one sensed most clearly in Geneva this sum- mer Wa the growing fear of smaller States,

Not only had the Abyssinian fall- ure shaken their confidence in the ability of the League to function at all, but also they had become afraid that League action might be, in fact, not the mobilisation of the world against a single aggressor, but the dragging of the small Staten into a conflict between two Kroups of big Powers.

So the very marked tendency of, for example, the Scandinaviana to turn away from a full League policy back to a policy which would ut any rate try in the event of a big Power clash to remain neutral. You see the same tendency in Bel- alum, even in the Littlo Entente States.

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FUTURE.......

The small States are no longer easy in their minds about what "collective security" would mean in fact.

They think about neutrality. They begin to calculate how they can keep on good terms with ail the big Powers, especially those to them. biggest and nearest

Humorous Stories

WEALTHY widow, contemplating

Dr. John Brown, the author, went

accompanied by ladies.

A sudden squall sprang up, the ses grew rough, and the boat was pitched

They begin to wonder, if choice were thrust on them, whom, in their own interests, they should choose.

Europe is moving rapidly to- wards--if indeed it has not already reached-a point at which, unless the big Powers can acttle differences, make friends, and co-operate with each other, any genuine system of collective security will be- come impossible.

There would be the big Powers intriguing against each other, and the small ones either trying to keep out, or trying to trim between the rivals groups, or joining, under pressure, one group or another-and quite probably changing sides.

For remember that in such conditions all groupings are un- stable as water. Not only small but big Powers chop and change sides.

Russia was Germany's ally before the Franco-Russian al- liance and more than once was. near to jumping back again. Italy's fickleness is notorious. -

The DANGER...

Here, then, is the danger-of Europe lapaing again into unstable and shifting systems of alliance, cynically based on self-interest, with nobody really trusting any- body else, and with the whole con- ception of collective security as dead as the League would soon be.

How to avert it. That is the problem which at Genova in June Blum and Eden set themselves.

The London talks in July, the in- 'vitation to Germany, and the Ger- man acceptance were the first real. steps.

It is really a double problem. For the two big things, neither of thom easy, are to get a settlement between France and Germany, to get a settlement-or at any rate an easing of tension-between Germany and Russia. And both are necessary,

Hence the double aim of the pro- posed" Locarno " Conference.

And hence at once a difficulty.. For the Germans think that if they could get a Western settlement without an Eastern, they could, isolate Russia. And some at any rate of the Russians think that if they could prevent a Western settlement they could isolate Ger- MANY.

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COMPROMISE..

Each policy, is obvious enough, each is completely abort-sighted. If the danger is to be avoided wo have got to get both.

pointed out, the authorities were in a position to know the level at which the dollar. would be pegged, and it surely would not therefore have been difficult to Aholiday abroad, advertised fox out for sail during his holiday, safeguard the Colony's finances

a caretaker during her absence. lower from the effects of a

After interviewing the applicants dollar. Having ourselves "let the she chose one who she thought would cat out of the bag" in regard to give satisfaction. the Widows' and Orphans' Pen- "Thanks for givin me the job, sions Fund, we hail with satis- ma'am," said the successful one. "And faction Mr. Paterson's pointed may ask a question? You said in on that subject. That the paper that you required a remarks

married man. Does that mean there fear!! Civil Servants are getting ΣΕ

that Europe might split at once is work for my wife, too?"

The worthy doctor, unable to stand into two camps, one backing each wanted to make sure

**Oh no," replied the ludy. "I it any longer, said to the old far side in Spain. If so, good-bye to

of getting | "My good man, don't keep on saying someone who is used to taking orders that. There may be danger, but I all hopes. from a woman; that's all.

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about to the alarm of its occupants. This is the real Idea underlying With a view to putting them at Blum's much criticised Spanish The Spanish rebellion their case, the owner of the hired policy, boat kept on saying-

camo just as the preparations for were ** Locarno "

beginning. "There's nuc fear! There's, nae plum. naw at once the danger

can assure you there is a very con- siderable amount of fear."

So, with his eye.all the time on his main objective, he set to work. to find some basis, some common policy on which the European Powers, instead of dividing, could unite.

In difficulties in a great storm, the captain of a certain ship decided to send up signals of distress:.

Sky-soaring rockets burst over the ship, and an answering fare was

He has found it. It is a policy seen on the const. A solerin-faced which, as it affects Spain, nobody passenger looked up at the bridge. likes, about which everybody must

."'I say, captain," he shouted, "I'm have qualms of conscience. the last man on the boat to cast a But it has at least succeeded in but getting all the European Powers damper on your bit o sport,

round a table for a common pur- on fireworks!"

posc. An American was airing his views And that, as things stand in on our country as he saw it, and Europe to-day, is a fact of no small remarked.

importance.

shabby deal in this matter is beyond question. Mr. Lo raised without undue interference with

a big question when he brought harbour craft coming alongside. forward the educational policy of The plea for more vigorous war-the Government, and much of his

Two tired holidaymakers, strangers thereon was unto each other, were sitting on a seat fare on malarin is also well argument

answerable. The same observa- in the park. Sald one to the other:- based the risks are too great to tion applies to his remarks on "It has come as I expected. I have dreaded it, and now it's happened. justify any half-hearted measures the Military Contribution which have gone deaf! You have been in regard to this, scourge. Mr.is yearly proving a heavier talking to me for ten minutes, and Braga dealt with a real need burden for the Colony to bear. I haven't heard a word."

Talking? I'm not talking," replied when he spoke of the relatively There is also something to be

said for his contentions regard- the other, "I'm chewing gum!" provision for bathing.

The excursion steamer was crow- Ing Excess water charges, facilities for those of ordinary although the public generally died with hoildaymakers, and Jones, surely this is no time to be letting

the prominent politician, prayed means on the peninsula. Many would not be likely to approve of that he would not be recognised. seaside centres have met this his proposal for an extra three But, alos!

cent. оп assessment in A little man sprang in front of him. need by erecting bathing pools per

"You're Mr. Jones, aren't you, sir?" within easy reach of the popula-substitution thereof. Not much

"That happens to be my name," that was concrete emerged from tion; and there seems no reason

the Official replies, if we except said the M.P., frigidly, "but I am not why something along that line. His Excellency's suggestion for aware that I have ever had the plea-

sure of your acquaintance.' with dressing facilities, could not reform of the Budget procedure, "What?" exclained his admirer. be provided in Kowloon. On the which is most welcome. By the "Don't you remember me? Don't question of the Colony's financial method suggested, points of de- you recollect that big public meeting position, there will be many tail should be disposed of before you had at Blethercombe a year or

we gave you?" son that the Government could and this open the way for both have avoided a dent of loss had. the Official and Unofficial it taken the precaution to fix speeches to be devoted, to major exchange. As Mr. Paterson matters of policy.

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"Yes, I remember that. But "Well, then," was the triumphant rejoinder, "I was the fellow in the grey Homberg.":

"There's nothinit much the matter

with this little island. All you need

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is a little more hustle."

At that moment there came clattering noise, and the latest type of fire engine flashed into view and vanished round the corner,

"Whatever's that?" gasped the visitor

"Oh," said his friend, with a smile, "that's only the district window- cleaning company working overume."

Experienced travellers say that it i is not only tourists from foreign lands

(Continued on Page 4).

To-day's Thought- WAR, to sane men at the pre- sent day, begins to look like an epidemic Insanity, breaking out here and there like the cholera or influenza, infecting men's drains instead of their bowels.

--EMERSON."