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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, JANUARY 5, 1937.

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OTERS in the United States have told President Roosevelt to lead four years more, and lead he will. Never has a more peremp tory mandate been given for personal leadership in a: democrátic country. To-morrow, President Roosevelt will be inaugurated for his second term of office, which will last until January 6, 1941. Roosevelt himself refrained laws. So if n during the campaign from being new N.R.A. explicit about his plans if re

is coming it elected.

He contented himself like the old will not be by saying he would carry on as one. he had begun.

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Indeed, the His first task will be political, taught old one as all who know him intimately Roosevelt teatify. He will put the De- lesson. It mocratic Party's house in order, quickly turn- cut down redundant office ed into ก holders and name a stronger business Cabinet. His ambition is to

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TUESDAY, JANUARY 5, 1937.

ruling party of the United thing

with any- but States for many terms to come. New Deal He wants it associated in the philosophy. public mind with prosperity,

Another unfinished job left

ANOTHER ASPIRANT and to leave the Republicans over from the first administra

associated with. depression.

For his political programme one must look to what Roose- velt was unable to finish, in his first term.

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programme.

and business is ed by paralysing seriously affect-

even

the

from private builders. fear of taking away business vise the new

Roosevelt's second

term may be the greatest cra of strikes in U. S. history,

Agriculture.. He raised farm Wallace will be Secretary for

incomes

by fifteen hundred million pounds and talked more sense about economics than anybody else in the administra-

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FOR COLONIES

strikes, Roosevelt's in- Poland has now joined those

ventiveness will hations who are seeking more

be strained. Roosevelt HE had been impressed

ig elbow-room. Organised by EL

by foreign criticisms expected to political organisation, a "Colonial First of all is the constitu- the United States tackled the whold

of the dilatory way in which overhaul

Federal Day" was recently held for the tional issue. He will meet it in, housing

machinery Slum' tax purpose of impressing upon the the largest sense by the ap- clearance had gone forward at during

his pointment of Justices to the a snail's pace, Washington had second term. He people the idea that the Colonial Supreme Court who are sym- been caught between the desire has already problem has become one of prim-pathetic to the New Deal out to do a thorough task and the promised to re- ary importance to the State. It look. In four years enough

tax on cor- is claimed that as Poland, like members of the court will have retired voluntarily or by death

The biggest trouble around that no now taxation will be porate surpluses, and promised the corner for Roosevelt is

necessary to balance the bud Labour. dustrialised, she must have ac-amending the constitution by

get to raw materials, whilst Interpretation without having that he was elected because John Lewis tells him bluntly cess

to carry the question to markets must be found for her

the organised Labour people.

and un-

LEGISLATION putting tion. The President has organised Labour voted for him.

an end to the issue strong personal affection for industrial products in order ta

During his first term Roosevelt of bonds interest on which him. provide work for the

did open the door for Labour to is exempt from taxation is to employed. A further demand is THERE may bẹ help itself, but on many occa be expected-More "soak the sions he whittled away the rich" taxation is unlooked for, for "free territories overscas"-

specific amendment rights of Labour as defined by but certainly laws will

THE Secretary to the Treasury will be Mor- permitting States to whatever that may mean-in Minimum

enact New Deal laws and regulations. passed stopping up the trap genthau. He is Roosevelt'a Wage

legislation. Now he is going to have to be doors by which the rich now personal representative. By order to relieve over-population Even Landon spoke for that in the leader. for Labour if he evade taxation,

profession a gentleman farmer, in the Polish cities. These accepting nomination,

hopes to keep the Democratic The Cabinet will be recon- he is without financial experi- Party permanently, in power. structed. Mr. Hull, Secretary ence. But he is utterly depend- demands are put forward in ૉ But the more fundamental

That means that the weight of State, is aure of his post. able as a spokesman for the which is said to brook questions of what to do about and sympathy of the Federal His trade treaties actually be- White House, whereas anyone of no delay, it being declared the clauses of the constitution Government must be behind came issues in the campaign. taken from the business world that for the sake of the peace of which limit Federal power to Labour's fight to unionise mass So the Roosevelt victory en- might not be.

inter-State

production industries. Roose- dorses a policy favouring two- All other Cabinet posts are in and Europe satisfaction on the points

which prohibit the confiscation to posterity as the greatest era

velt's second term may go down way international trade,

doubt. Secretary Ickes prob- raised must be secured in the of property "without due pro- of strikes in our history. If the Cabinet as a stately nineteenth- is a trouble-maker because of Hull, who came into the ably will continue in office. He near future. Nothing is said, cess of law," under which most Supreme Court throws out the century idealist. is now the his lack of tact. But he is a however, as to how the demands New Dent legislation was nulli- Wagner Law under which most popular personality in New Dealer in every pore-and are to be met; neither la there fied, can more readily be dealt Labour's rights are guaranteed Roosevelt's circle. any hint as to where these with by naming a more liberal| colonies are to be obtained. The court than by constitutional | economic aspect of the question, amendment.

manner

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THERE WILL BE

be

devoted to the President.

NO WAR

IN EUROPE.

cause the preservation of their homes. will only be a matter of chance.

Unaggressive Nations

There is a third reason against Avar-that the countries which are supposed to be the most aggressive are the poorest.

to enter; an important colonial wor

heard

so far as the running of the Landon charged Roosevelt colonies is concerned, also ap- with intending to re-establish pears to have been overlooked, another N.R.A., .and challenged. After all, colonies

him to deny it. Roosevelt's are an ex-

nationalities, and I find them pensive luxury, especially in the reply was evasive. He listed I meet men and women of many the objectives of the N.R.Ability of an outbreak of war in the very opprehensive about the possi- early days, when the foundations better wages, shorter hours, the near future. have to be laid for future abolition of child labour and the Continent of Europe the moro

The farther eastward one goes into By LORD STRABOLGI development. There is more the reduction of "chiseling": people seem obsessed by the fear of than a suspicion in some quar-but he also stated that he was war; and, indeed, many of them do

important than the murder tems that this new Polish organ-going to fight monopoly. Now great war, but when will it break of the unfortunate Austrian

not ask whether there will be amore

Arch-

A short campaign can be fought on isation is largely actuated by a the essence of the 'N.R.A, was out,

duke, which could have been causes credit, so to speak, without money, I believed that these apprehensions of war had the nations of Europe and and wealth in the form of a store of feeling that as other nations are that business in granting con- are ill-founded; that there need not their rulers accepted war as being goods. But now the general staffs clamouring for more territory, cessions to tabour was given future, and that there will not be a treaties broken; armies have march-

have learnt the lesson that no war be a war in Europe in the near

either desirable or inevitable.

Rulers have been assassinated and is likely to be a short war. Poland should also come into the the suspension of the anti-trust war. I have a number of reasons ed into territory they were forbidden example is expected to last for an- This terrible business in Spain, for. picture. A further suggestion is

for this belief.

One, which is psychological, is that the issue is being raised but it has yet to be proved that that the Great War came like a bolt has been waged by Italy against the other year at least, and I have oven

Two from the blue, The mainly for the purpose of divert it is impossible to secure these people in all countries were

influence of the League of Nations duration, years stated as its possible majority of

and yet peace has been preserved.

Somebody has to start a war and ing the people's minds from raw materials in any other way their pleasures, their sport--and the peoples and through them

re thinking about other things-their businesses, This shows, therefore, that the remember that all means of concilia-

theirtion will be mobilised at the first. other. and more immediate dis than by actual acquisition of terrible event was unexpected. rulers, however much the latter may threat. We can leave out the small- contents, whilst one commenta-colonies, The

To-day people are talking about bluff and bluster and shout, wish to er nations. Nono of them would wiser course war, and therefore thinking about it avoid the dread ordeal of battle. dare to be aggressive on its own ne- tor sees in the move the prelude would appear to be by the come it will not come as a surprise, break of war partly explains the first

and what it means. It

count. But consider the

Great The second reason against the out- to an effort to get rid of some of method of

Powers, trade agreements and it will not be possible for states reason: The weapons of destruction

We can rule out ourselves, and I the millions of Jews who live in which result in the removal or, men to drift into war,

havo increased in power, and this think it in fair to say that every other To reinforce this opinion, let us fact is understood everywhere. Poland.

country rules us, cut too. All par- ́ Whatever the actual modification of existing barriers examine the immediato cause of the

ties in this country are united in Great War. It was the assassination

Even before the last great war wishing to avold war, truth may be, it is difficult to to trade. There have been of the heir to one of the great broke out the public in all countries

thrones of Europe

France la in much the same situa- seo that any very strong case many examples latterly of re-town

in a provincini thought it would be won by the tion. The French have no aggres- In Bosnia,

The forces armies, conscript or professional It can be made out for Polish ex-ciprocal treaties along these lines, gathered, tensions begon, and the was not understood then, as it is now, sive designs: they want to be left in LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD. of freer access to raw materials becomes, the greater will be the Storms That Have Passed

owful result occurred The question and the more general this policy 1914.

in August how the civil population would suffer peace their days of expansion and conqueat are over, and this fact is To-day the people know that the also recognised by everyone, most powerful weapon will be the In Italy, Mussolint makes

bold bombing aeroplano, using explosives speeches and talks of his millions of or polson gas, and that soldiers will bayonets, but the fact is that Italy: In the last few years there have no longer be Oghting to preserve still has her hands full in Abyssinia, been several serious events, much their homes from destrueflon, be (Continued on Page 3.

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