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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1936.

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O man in Europe has given closer study than Mr. 'Noel-Baker to the unsavoury subject of the private manufacture of armaments.

In this book he frames the most damning indictment of the armament interests that has ever been printed. It is all the more telling because it is so temper- ately stated. But it bristles with pointed facts as deadly as the weapons on which the industry of war su profitably thrives.

It appears at a moment when these interests are sitting pretty, bursting

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with prosperity and pride and when Mr. Neville Chamberlain's paeans of joy on the recovery of Stubbs Rd. British trade-sound like an ironk

prelude to the thunder of the guns,

I defy any honest persan to read Mr. Noel-Baker's defailed account of the part played by the CASTELLO,----On 2016 November, armament interests in the causes

1936, at 2.05 am, Gertrudé

which led to the last war without Anacleta Chatilo, agrd 19 years, beloved daughter of Mr. admitting its sinister relevance to and Mrs, A. B. Castilho of 21 the situation to-day. Kwong Ming Street, Funeral

The publishers would do a use- will pass the Monument at, 5.30 pm, fo-day. Mantle and Shang-ful service if they were to present had papers plense copy).

a copy of the book to every mem- ber of the British Commission which has been pursuing A leisurely inquiry, as if it had all

The

Royal Commission of inquiry into the private manufacture of arms held its

Hongkong Telegraph. eternity in which to complete its arst public meeting May 1, 1935.

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1936.

POOR BUT LOYAL

"This

Town is Poor But Laya!!" No-one can have read of the displaying of this notice by the inhabitants of one of the blackest spots in the depressed South Wales area, on the occasion of the visit of the King, without

task; and, in particular, a free copy. with marketi j32སt!*4¥ might be addressed to Sir Maurier Hanley, the Government's own lyrically enthusiastic advocate of the superior claims of the mer- chants of death.

After 18 racnths and 23 public and many private meetings it has completed its report, which may be published at the end of the month.

Picture shows first session. Left to right: Professor Guttridge, Sir Thomas Allen, Sir Philip Gibbs, Sir John Eldon Bankes (chairman), Dame Rachel Crowdy, Sir Kenneth Lec, Mr. J. A. Spender. building our Dreadnought pro-crease was proposed,

But Mr. Mulliner won. Mr. Noel-Baker gives example ramme.

The nation was in a after example, documented with Mr. Mulliner, whose porti- fastidious care and expressed in nacity and skill were worthy of The very existence of the Liberal language of cold simplicity, of the a purer cause, at last got the | Government was at stake.

Rather than split and founder way in which, in the ten years Admiralty on to his side.

Mr. Churchill and Mr. Lloyd in disunion the Cabinet gave preceding the last war, armament interests, all the world over start. George were convinced that Mr. way; and Mr. Mulliner's firms.

ed scares in order to increase their trade and brought to the task of sowing apprehension" large funds and a great machinery of Propaganda.

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being moved to A sence of admiration of the spirit which it reflects. Here we have a dis- trict which has been haunted by the spectre of unemployment for

He shows by chapter and years, in which the people have suffered untold hardships through verse how they lost no chance to no fault of their own. Yet they create misunderstanding and to can, for a moment, forget their embitter feeling; how to this end plight and, with a bright cour- they solicited orders, bribed Min- age, doubtless tinged with hope istera, legislators and officials andTM that their monarch will use his built up a powerful influence Mulliner's information and the together with the winde arma influence on their behalf, join so within the civil services, the war Admiralty's compulation of Ger- ment industry, reaped a cloquently in the wonderful wel-departments and the armed forces many's Dreadnought programme reward.

were false. rome which King Edward has re- of the various States.

The Foreign Secretary accept- ceived during his tour of the dis- To this end the armamenteers ed Germany's officia asurances ¦ The assertions and predictions tressed regions. It is clear, from sold arms to potential enemies, on the point.

of Mr. Mulliner and his friends a reading of the messages to hereby compelling their hand, that His Majesty's tour was Governments to increase their in no sense a perfunctory one. orders in reply; they controlled He mixed freely with his subjects, and debased the Press; they sub- went into their homes, and dis-sidised "patriotic" societies to de- cussed at first-hand the hardshipsmand greater expenditure on the which they are suffering. Even defence forces; they played one his scheduled. time-table was Government off against another. ignored, so determined was he to Thus they not only helped to

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to be completely "falso. As Mr. Churchill afterwards said: "There were no secrot German Drend- noughts." And there had been no acceleration of any kind,

But the fear aroused both in Britain and in Germany by this high-pressure propaganda in Parliament and in the Preas was a potent factor in convincing each of the two peoples that the other' was determined to make aggres- sive war.

The resentment (in Mr. Noel- Baker's words) which Mr. Mul- liner's unfounded propaganda aroused in Germany "did much to help Von Tirpitz, in his struggle with Chancellor Bethmann, to

Kaiser's marginal notes] and thus win the Kaiser to his aide (see the

defeat the last hopeful efforts to ' avert the war."

Every word of this story is

as entertaining and as repulsive as a shilling shocker. Read it and mark it well,

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Read all the other stories of the barefaced manoeuvres of the death-profiteers.

Read their plous views on war as an upholder or necessity of an lenlightened civilisation.

Read their evidence before

Commissioners.

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In a second volume Mr. Noel-

gain a close personal knowledge stimulate the competition in MANY a child gets a first dose of The problem presents itself differ of the conditions under which the, armaments, to which, as

But above all, read Senator Latin from wondering what that ently when the end, though clearly seems hardly worth the unemployed are subsisting. This Grey once said, lay the true and queer word via means on the luggage In view

label. It can hardly be the name trouble of a careful choice of means. Nye's letter from an American is typical of the man whom the final account of the origin of the of a place. The label already dis- That problems calls for solution in commercial traveller in arras who nation is proud to have as their war," but they helped also no less plays enough recognizable place each individual life. There begin in a conscience-stricken moment King. It is not too much to hope cunningly to create the defeatist names to account for departure and ning and end are the same for all thus described his trade: "We are

Each one of us must make that what His Majesty has seen, curtainty that war was coming.

destination. A knowledgeable cider of us. and the knowledge he has gained,

is appealed to, and a lingual acquain- the journey from the cradle to the certainly in one hell of a business, ime grave. But, to an embarrassing de- where a fellow has to wish for tance, is begun which may in time will be conveyed to his Ministers, and that some special effort may In all these stories of the ex-

fade out in boredom and dialaste, or gree of responsibility, what shall le trouble so as to make a living."

Then decid, if you can, that may more rarely and more happily between Is left in our own hands. be made to lighten the lot of these ploits of the armamenteers nonc lend to chduring appreciation and The lines may seen to be laid down there is no sufficient reason, on courageous people. It is an un-fascinates ine more than the case

Occups- affection. The convenient word is for us with auine rigidity.

elementary moral grounds, for happy circumstance that South of the famous Mr. Mulliner. The found useful in more thun isplation may be predetermined by birth abolishing forthwith the private

"Back to school #cographical sense.

or by the decision of others. There Wales has not shared in the gen-long recital of the speeches, letters bla..." is no railway direction, but

native to becoming an artisan, eral revival of industry in the Old and statistics of Mr. Mulliner's the invitation of one of those versatile may have been no practicable alter-/manufacture of arms.

all teacher, a lawyer, un engineer. Country. The causes of the de- intervention is an epitome of the emporla which aim at supplying But it still rests with the mon him- Balter will deal with the argument the necessaries and all the consola- pression in this area are complex, whole beastly business.

tions calculated to smooth the path self whether within the course ald but, whatever they are, it is im-

Mr. Mulliner was the manag-of holiday-expired child and anxious down he is an eager and worthy that there is a technical advan perative that something be done ing director of the Coventry parent. Via la indeed a shorthand worker of his kind. He has more tage in keeping the manufacture to alleviate the miseries and Ordnance Works; and from 1900 when borinning and end are clearly rely in the family, and of arms for national defence in

responsibly. the

I believe the an- sufferings of a people who have to 1909 his company and others defard, there is still importance in social relations of private life. There private hunds. endured their hardships with with which his own was linked the choice of passage from one to too, though the genera combination by the experiences of the last awer to be complete, and fortified be already Axed by amazing patience and restraint.were in difficulties because they the other. It is not enough, for in- In the best of times, their calling had not received from the Admir home and an attractive holiday resort.

stance, that there should be a happy of choice and circumstance, he is war.

still answerable for means and is arduous and attended by daily ally the orders for which they had These terminals, excellent as they method. It is temptation, since the am prepared to take my stand by But, like millions of others, I dangers, with rewards which hoped.

may be in themselves, must be linked ; visible end of the Individual He have never been wholly commen-

by a journey which may be pleasant seems to be mere eersation, to assume the declaration of a recont Con- In 1906 Mr. Mulliner trans- or detestable, according to the route that the way chosen to the surate with the risks they run.

parties: In the depression, their life has mitted to the Admiralty certain taken and the pains expended on end can be of no great moment, ands of Frenchmen of all political

"information" which he had preparing for it."

that a man may as well follow his been drab and dreary; 'ye! they

The private profits_realised This brief Latinism summarizes the desire without being hompered have always hoped for better gathered in Germany about the.

intangible moralities. The truth Is by some citizens, form an life immoral contrast with the times. They still hope and that increase in plant for armament spatial facet of the world-old rein-

tionship between ends and means, rather that the way of human is the spirit in which they have manufacture by Krupps. This Adam and Eve sought an obvious is paradoxically both means and end, sacrifices exacted from others, offered a kindly and touching "information" was extremely end, but disastrously by forbidden it is the journey itself that matters. ver The real nim of the mortal pilgrimage

and thus strike indirectly at the welcome to one who has ever flimsy, supported only by a few mcans. Their offspring are

free from the hazard of the ancestral is not that final

whole conception of national plunge into shown the keenest interest in those isolated items of fact.

defence. pitfall. We are all conscious of the doubitul darkness, but the rond who want work but cannot obtain But it was seized upon by the problem. An end is ardently de- chosen, the means used, and the per- Try to induce any unemployed it. Brilons everywhere will pray Tory Party and by a screaming sired. To compass it seems to pro-sonality evolved in struggling along ex-soldier in any country to say that there are brighter days Tory Press; and, a tremendous mise the fullest satisfaction. To miss the path of life. If a sense of

it threatens to rob everything ahoad, in the sure knowledge that agitation was worked up which desirability and value. Surely any

u proportion forbids us to accent even No to that.

"The Private Manufacture that as end sufficient in itself, falth the King will, as far as humanly (to use one of Mr. Duff Cooper's means Hitely to secure that end may is ready to desery the greater end of Armaments." By Philio Noel- be invoked. The moralist counters to which the product of man's highest Baker, M.P. Prefatory Noto by such practical action as lies open the country out of its wits by suge tit that good may come, and, contribution.The Times, London, Lord Cecil. Vol. I.. Gollancz.

with the question whether we should effort may become a not unworthy gesting that Germany was out a whole world of casulstry opens up. Sopt. 11.

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