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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

JULY TUESDAY,

13, 1937.

Men and Things Abroad.

by W. N. EWER

ALL'S CALM in the

A

FRIEND of mine has just come back from a tour of Central Europe. There is nothing very unusual in that. But this par- am ticular friend-whom I afraid I must not mention by name has unusually good-op- portunities for getting good in- formation and forming good. judgments.

He went out very anxious and depressed. He has come back not entirely but very considerably renksured.

Things, he says, do not look nearly na bad when you see them from Prague or Vienna as they did seen from London.

And generally people's nerves arc much steadier, their fears much less, their outlook much calmer than some months ago.

Wrong Perspective THAT often happens, of course, when you go and have a good look at something alarming. You And that it is by no means so bad as it seemed at a distance.

Just as with a horse who la shying at something to him quite terrifying. If you can lead him quletly up to it so that he can sec that I really only a handker chici, he gets over his fright.

One of the big troubles about International affairs is the dim- culty of seeing things as they really are: and then of getting other people to see them as they really

are.

Especially as quite a lot of folk seem to get quite a kick out being scared: and just hate to be told that it is only a handkerchief.

Panie is Fading

ANYWAY, it is quite certain that

in Central Europe itself there Is-compared with last year-a considerable calm. The panle psychology is fading. People no longer talk as though war were a certainty.

Of course, the alarm-area has varled a lot.

There was a time-not so long ago-when the Polish corridor and Upper Bilesin were the storm- centres, where, said the prophets, war was quite inevitable.

Then Memel; then Austria. More recently Czechoslovakia. The Nazis were getting ready to start a revolt of the "Sudeten- Germans" on the heels of which the Relchswehr would cross the border, and "it" would begin.

Prophet Without Honour ON February 24, I drew attention to the prophecy of one of our most confident "straight from the horse's mouth" scaremongers,

He had not only the fact, but the date.

It was all to happen on Corona- tion Day!

True, there was just a little hedging. If the war did not begin on Coronation Day it was to begin in June: such a nice month for a

wer.

Well, Coronation Day has come and gone without anything very noticeable in the way of insur- rections or invasions,

Czech Co-operator Now let us turn from them to

more worth while people.

I have just received the full text of Dr. Krofta's speech to the Foreign Affairs Committee of the

Chamber Czechoslovak

and Senate on May 21. Dr. Krofta, as I expect you know, is Minister of Foreign Affairs.

This is Krofta on Germany, First, he referred to a recently

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Storm Centre

From Prague things don't seem nearly as bad as in

London.

concluded Air Convention and to negotiations now going on on tourist traffic, on commercial pay- ments and so on.

The old experience plainly mani fested itself, namely, that the great similarity of many economic, social and transport problems in Germany Czechoslovakia neighboring Incillitates mutual understanding re- #arding them and creates very favour- able conditions for collaboration.

Various pronouncements by those responsible for Germany's polley to day permit us to express the conviction that no 'undamentally anti-Czecho- stavak policy can be attributed to Germany

Similarly, we on our part most en plmatically refute the necusation of any anti-German policy.

my certainly say that all the Czechoslovak Government parties. without exception, sincerely friendly agreement with

desire Germany

and that they see in such agreement one of the primary conditions for ap peasznient in Central Europe."

you, I do not anticipate Mind anything spectacular in the way of Oerman-Czechoslovak Entente.

But I do say with a great deal of confidence that relations between Berlin and Prague have improved. are improving, and are going to improve.

Danube Folly (NE of the main reasons for it is the growing realisation of the need for economic co-operation among the Danube States.

In the past there has been an endeavour use the economic

needs of those States as a political instrument-to try and build them up into a sort of anti-German economic bloc.

That was always folly. Austria. Hungary, and the Little Entente countries cannot get on their eco- nomic feet again except in cul- laboration with Germany and Italy; for the simple reason that these are their biggest markets.

As someone shrewdly remarked to me the other day, to build an economic confederation of the Danube without Germany would be rather like building an economic confederation of the British Com- monwealth without the UK.

Remember.. BUT the important thing in that the Danube Governments-and especially the Czechoslovak Goy-

THE

ernment-realise

well.

that perfectly

Hear Dr. Krofta ngain, He wants: "a system of economie co-operation .43 Bout ant of mutual facilities.. as possible uniformly applied omong all the Central European States, due regard being paid, of course, at the same time to the recognised interesis of the tico Great Putera chich up virtue of their geographical position occupy u spretat place in this area Germany and Flaty."

You can be sure that that sort of language is being not a little np- precluted in Berlin, where it is being more understood that good

with relations

the economic Danube States may provide the so- lution to a lot of Germany's troubles..

Spanish Lesson GROWING realisation of

the

need for economic co-opera- tion right through Central Europe -and of the necesalty for political appeasement as a condition of such co-operation-1s one factor which is having good effect.

Another is the lesson of the Spanish War.

Every General Staff in Europe has learned that the chances of a swift smashing and successful in- vasion of a neighbouring State are not so good.

There was a school which held that Aeroplanes, tanks. and mechanised units had given the offence a new superiority over the defence, and that a war could be short, sharp and decisive.

I was a tempting thought for

"We want friendly agree Czechoslovakian Foreign Minister Krefta,

ment. says

politicians nursing idens of MEETOS- Blon,

second

Spain has compelled thoughts: has suggested that the defence has still the upper hand, that any war is likely to be a long

war.

And long wars are dangerously unpredictable of result.

Rising Barometer So, what with one thing and

another, the whole situation

in Central Europe has sensibly cased. Nerves are steadier, dread of war has diminished. Statesmen are thinking more of settling dit- ferences and improving relations than of preparing for

Inevitable."

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DOWNLAND ENGLAND By 11. J. Massingham (Batsford, 7s. dd.)

ROM the Chilterns to the coast, Fingland shines with increasing beauty when you have read Mr. Massingham's journey over the legend-studded hilla..

He leads us through millions of years that have etched their days on the face of his beloved Download; he guides tis through the lives of the pagans whose burial places, occupying the dramatic points of vantage, imitate the curvilinear fashion of the Downs country.

more

To him "the aspirations of man- kind, defeated age by are, séen figured in those shapely humps and circles, at once a little Downland in them- selves, and half-way to the sky-world the thought that ruined them desired."

The Downs can give us all that "sense of freedom, triumph, and ela- tion that the mind is capable of," and Mr. Musaingham can give us all the beauty of their unbroken ridges and Auted hollows, of their dipping and searing runges, and of their haunted solitudes.

But do we really fear these ghost- ridden stretches of sky-line, with their pixy-breeding grounds and their ancient lanimarka the

of pre-Christian

It may not last so. New and disturbing factors may come into play, The present phase may pass. But for the moment it is quite sure that the barometer, which was failing, is steady and even

** 1⁄2 rising.

And that is good to record.

peoples, as much as Mr. Massingham Suggests in his sly attack on the butter. fingered cowardice of the Machine Age people traipsing around in herds?

Anyway, in "Downland England" he takes us by the hand, and with gruff, fatherly interpretations of the beattles he reveals, we go with do- light. Dhrough Wiltshire, Dorset, Bussex, Hampshire and Berkshire, trending the solitudea that only rare flowers know,

A. L. H.

ORANGEMEN'S FESTIVAL TO-DAY

" and the Influence of New Economic Relationships

By HUGH A. LAW,

Traditions of the "Twalfth”

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children for

edge show honourable ant and several times High Sherift Orangemen celebrate to-day in drum's

of his county-who, when advancing Northern Ireland the anniversary of wounds.

In hundreds of cottage gardens the years forbade him to head the annual William 11's victory at the Boyne.

for him a orange fly rears its head, proudly procession, had made THE twolfth," as we know it in conscious of its destiny and watch- waistcoat of blue and orange velvet, "Tort of Ireinnd, is by no tulluarded by its owner Walch- attired in which he would stand at means to be confused with that later fulness indeed is necessary; for pious a window to take the salute of the

marching ranks. and less important festival "the theft is to be feared.

The waistcoat is still in excellent twelfth."

remember to have heard of an Grouse-shooting is very well in its ciderly cottager who, espying at condition, in spite of having served way; but only the youngest und midnight two maidens engaged upon two generations of keenest of shots home for the holl- an unauthorised survey of his flower "dressing-up"; but is unlikely ever things move, even in For days cun perhaps get quite such a beds, leapt from his bed and, attired again to be used as its creator in- on the as he was (which, to put it delicate tended. thrill from the first day

than half attired!), Ulster; less

and the plous, glorious and William of of memory. heather as yearly fills the breast of ly, was

grows a little dim. middle-aged Ulstermen at the dawn- pursued them for miles barefooted

and blasphemous.

though shorn ing of the Orange Festival.

In noise-and noise, as we cousins in County Antrim, one of the to be celebrated still for many a year Even

human most familiar of summer sounds, Lo

the come. To

hard-working all know, is dear to the animal-1 would back the drum, blending not disagreeably with the

sents itself against hum of insects and song of wakeful farmer, labourer or artisan it pre- 11s a providentially de- birds, was that of the nightly drums, signed break in a monotonous exist-

and the My cousin's coachman

were all keen Orange- ence, a true Saturnalia, when once in each twelve months Jack is as useful insiruction in

beaten as our people beal it,

the gun.

Add an impressive ritual, sashes

to please the

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Ye

In my youth, when I stayed with nce, the of some of its

men. from

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of violent colour, banners of strange stableboys whom, in addition to po good as his master-or even better. device, processions and oratory sibly more lamboyant enough

I learned something since on this day it is he who calls authorities may reason- most primitive taste; add to all these horsemanship the comfortable knowledge that dure of the mind of the northern working the tune-and when, as in a college ably be expected to turn a bene- man, a mind in which, then as now, "rag," the ing twelve precious hours one may pride af ascendancy consorted oddly volent eye upon anything short of with impunity indulge in such "party enough with a democratie egalitarion- cries" and other agreeable recrea tions as would at other times draw m upon one the unfavourable attention of the police; and it is not difficult to

ol charm understand twaltth."

the

DAYS OF WILD RIOT

Nearer

violent riot.

To party leaders

the occasion is

not less welcome; for without It they might not find it so casy to drown the those discontents to be expected in with acquaintance Orange Order I had none; for my an industrialised community in times cousin himself, though after 1886 he of slack trade, especially in a com- DRUM-EDGE WOUNDS had somewhat reluctantly sided munity which le temperamentally submisalve to constituted Liberals of far less Moreover, the day itself is the with the "dissentient"

of ever that day, was still, save in the diff- authority than the Roman Cathelle culmination of a perlod

After all, they

hardly forgot, con growing excitement. For weeks the cult business of Home Rule, faithful peasantry of the other Provinces.

though their followers may, that the bands have been practising along to the old-fashioned Radicalism of the roads, and wrists caught on the his Presbyterian forefathers.

It was otherwise with some of my feast itself commemorates successful friends; as,

for example, with "AE rebellion, or that the words "No sur- [Mr. George W. Russell, the Irish render" on flags and banners were wriler], who, as he has told me, originally the expression of a defer- would in the little town of Lurgan, mination to shut the gates of Derry a few miles away, be peeping out in the face of an anointed king. This between closed shutters at the wild is not to deny that Ulster to-day is rlot of the contending factions. loyal.

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1 After taking their cues, one

may see them kissing quite openly in public houses (two words, 8, 31.

? Daturine (anag.),

8 Hard cash.

11 Made to do penance for similar

that

give one

the

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nar excellence for 10 The

negotiating a water-splash. 17 Might be made by a grumpy

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nirman.

or less torn to pleces.

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ap strong in name it long ago gained in Porta- had to the fact that Nationalists of down.

Careful mothers are said all shades are a minority in the six still to warn their offspring that the countles), has undoubtedly been a 23 Here you can have your ding. tempting pond or quarryhole is "full godsend to Lord Craigavon and his 24 Save it although it's rather

thin. friends. I doubt if the most tona- of wee Popes."

But I notice that the orators of tical of Orangemen regards Partition 25 A solitary effuri.

28 Unloader. "the Twaifih", are each year drawn otherwise than as an evil in itself,

But the determination to resist any 29 Just the dance for Sally with a more largely from the ranks of those

band. over among the 30 Queer stations (aring.). politicians whose attendance may be reversal of the old order of things

as strong as as a professional hlmost regarded obligation: and the oratory itself, masses; while, with economie self-

seems to lack sufficiency In the accendant, though full-blooded,

The shipbuilders and linen merchants something of the old passion. county families, once so prominent Belfast are quite naturally

is as

DOWN

the

of

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sible.

averso

on these occasions, now rarely put in from risking the trade of the forty an appearance.

A MEMORABLE WAISTCOAT

I doubt if any of them would now

inhabitants of Great Britain

Common- markets-for anything the

to speak of other

rest of Ireland can offer.

If I were maker of drums or old banners, I should not shut up shop! kinsman of mine-Deputy-Lieuten- yet awhile.

display quite the zeal of on

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4 Astonish.

5 Clasps at one end only.

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Though threatened, starts in, and finishes with its time clear- ly indiented.

Look here for the Welsh Harp, 10 Swallow up, or, alternatively,

stop down.

14 No description of the Sahara. 15 Only little things, it's true, but

they alter the times.

18 The great bulk of the meusuro means murder on a large scale. 20 Hidden in Clüc 11.

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stops at nothing.

26. China's antithesis.

27 Not instructed in the past, but

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