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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, JULY 28, 1937.

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Ich liebe dich (Beethoven). DA1562-Wisgentied (Brahms, Op. 49, No. 4)

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Hongkong Telegraph.

Panay, July 23, 1937.

NINE-POWER

TREATY POINTS

The fivo judges on the banch of a courtroom in "a country of South-Eastern Europe,"

Something Remarkable is Happening

OMETHING very remark-

able is happening in a London theatre.

The curtain falls on a play by an American author- "Judgment Day." And as it falls there comes from the packed theatre a demonstration against dictatorship, a spontan- cous challenge to tyranny, a great and moving support for the principles of liberty and democracy which have suffered so heavy a defeat over so large n part of the world,

It begins as a tumultuous hand- clapping that grows and swells and changes Into such cherring as one hears only when the deepest emo- tions are stirred.

That is a tribute to a great play. But it is much more than that.

It is a tribute to all those wh have suffered torture and in- and death under prisonment tyranny. to all who at this moment suffer from these things under the harsh dieintorship of those coun- tries which have turned their backs on freedom.

I

HAVE seen many great demonstrations of pub-

He feeling. I have seen

few more stirring. more signif

more beartening than this, the response of an ordin-

though the theatre above the catering and even when the chert-

What are the precise im- plications of the Nine-Power Treaty, guaranteeing the terri-nry London theatre audience to torial and political integrity of the cry with which the play closes China, so far as the signatories which seems to echo on | thereto are concerned? This point was raised in the House on "Wednesday, when, a Labour member put for- to whether Britain had any commitments in the present crisis arising

Nan Maryska. of Commons

88573-The Valley where wishes come true. Walter Glynne.ward a

I'll walk beside you.

The July list also contains many interesting instrumental records and snappy dance numbers.

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from the Nine-Power Treaty, the Kellogg Pact or the League Covenant. Mr. Eden's reply was none too definite. He stated that unless the provision for consultation, contained in Article

VII of the Nine-Power Treaty,

is over Down with tyranny. Long Live the People."

Many men have died. beaten and braken, but undefeated with some such cry on their lipa during the years which have seen Bbury

and democracy perish in county after country in Europe.

One remembers them some of

them friends and comrades, som of them men of international re- pute, the great majority members only of the anonymous army of the persecuted, as one sees th play.

It's necessary to remember

them If we, who still hold fast to

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grave a responsibility is ours for Its preservation since in its de- feat lies the death of liberty and

of civilisation.

And it is because it brings to the mind so vividly and with a truth so moving and so clear just dictator what happens when rules, that this play should be seen or read by as many people as possible.

I have both seen it and read it.

It is one of the few plays that

como over" in the printed page no less vividly and with an impact no loss disturbing and exhilar. ating than on the stage.

Elmer Rice, the author, has

written other fine plays. One re- members "Street Scene" and "The Adding Machine."

But he has written nothing so

moving, no profoundly impressive, as this.

It is a social document that plerces complacency like a sword-- a social document presented-it is

his own word-in the form of a

" melodrama" shot with laughter and plty and a rising excitement.

I said at the beginning of this article that something rather re- markable has been happening in

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FRANCIS WILLIAMS

the Strand Theatre, where it is being performed, one sees an in- tense and enthusiastle concentra- tion.

A politicni subject has been brought alive. And brought alive, not only to perhaps politically conscious gallery and pit, but to the stalls and the circle.

There are many, no doubt, who have in it a painful and personal interest.

German and Italian exiles who recognice in a way whose polg- nancy

British observer can no equal the truth of the picture and think of what they have es caped and of what so many of their friends have suffered.

For the play is the story of a political trial in a country ruled by a zaton

marea prople, a woman and two

a, are on trial for their lives

with the ringed

attempted assassination

the Minister- Provident.

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The woman is the wife of the 'eader of the outlawed People's Party, himself already sentenced to death. One man is his Houten- rat. the other who actually fired he shot-p poor drugged crenture who sits half stupefled, hardly com- prehending a word of what is said.

A

ND ns the trial pro- ceeds one sees how the charge against the leaders of the People's Party has buen framed--how the poor sub- human who actually fred has been used as a dupe, not of their Party. but of the Governinent itself.

The frame-up is so obvious as to be

concealed at scarcely

FA27. Scarcely concealed because in the eyes of the prosecuting counsel and of the majority of the Judges, the truth or untruth of the charge does not matter.

All that matters is that Lydia, the wife of Alexander Kuman. leader of the People's Party, and Khitov, his friend, are "Enemies of the State."

The forms of justice are maintained -though with a scarcely concealed threat that even they have autlived their usefulness-the spirit of justice Is already dend.

Or not quite dend. It still lives in the heart of one of the judges and remains half alive in the heart of another. What will be their verdict? Innocent or guilly? The evidence saya one thing, the State demands another. What shall it be?

Ta is the play,

A

story told

brilliantly an entertainment that grips the interest and stirs the emotion. But it is more than a piny.

It is the epitome of all the struggle between honour and #ishonour, between justice and in-

Savagery Justice, between

And civilisation, which is being fought in Europe to-day and the end of which is not yet in sight.

By what shall we hold-wo who face a world torn und rent with warring political philosophies? Shall we hold by truth. by justice. by tolerance, by the rule of reason and argument, or shall we lay all these aside and set up in their place an ideology of the State which can do no wrong, since Ha very crimes must be applauded as virtues?

Are we for liberty and demo- cracy. for civilisation against all dictatorships of whatever colour, or are we prepared to sacrifice ali that has been regarded as most honourable and most necessary to human progress simply that our side shall win?

As one reads this play the Reichstag trial inevitably comes to mind. But this play is not a play about Nazi Germany alone. It is a story of the course of justice 112

any

dictatorship country. whether of the right or of the left.

And as you read it remember that at this moment more than three hundred million European people are living under a dictator- ship of one colour other.

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The men, women and children of

the work

thais continent. which once was flower 0: civilisa- must Lo if they

tion, day. would preserve their physical freedom, accept unremitting minel

servility

to a Gaverniment. which denies 10 them the right of Individunt opinion.

The exercise of rearot and the

The "wounded"

in dictator *Judgment Day

free expression or opinion or offences punishable by exile or im- prisonment or death in some four- teen countries in Europe to-day.

One could dupllente the trial scene in Judgment Day" not once, but a hundred times in the continent of Europe during the inst few years. It is almost a page from history-all except the ending, Re- member that as you rend it.

It is a political play, but its message is not that this party or this policy is right and that othe one wrong. Its moral is that all dictatorships all forced uni- formity of opinion-all suppres- alon of Individual conscience and Individual opinions-are wrong.

'To have faith in one's opinions and in the political policies of one's party-that is a right and proper thing. But to demand from all others a servile acqulescence- that is death to all that is most valuable in human history.

IVILISATION can flower only in the soil of free- dom-let us remember that, we who still hold on to de- mocracy I believe "Judgment Day** will help us to remember. I believe that in publishing it the Daily Herald is not only bringing to its readers a remarkably good play.

I believe that it is at the same time helping forward that fight which I hold to be the most important in the world to-day-the fight against tyranny and dictatorship of what-

battle for character-the greater and Aner freedom.

ever

A MALAYAN LEPER COLONY

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ment, neither that Treaty nor the Kellogg Pact committed the Government in the present dis pute, nor had any commitment arisen under the League Coven- ant. By Article VII of the Treaty, the contracting parties; agreed that whenever a situa- tion arose which, in the opinion of any one of them, involved the application of the stipula- tions contained in the Treaty and rendered desirable discus- sion of such application, "there shall be full and frank com- munication between the con-

It! tracting parties concerned." is possible to read this article in such a manner that it may not involve any any actual commit- ment on the signatories, but, without question, it carries a moral obligation on the part of

SEA of glass, a brilliant sun, them to the Government for leper, sun, the dazzling sea. Conversation island. Not had fallen away amongst us; perhaps topecs, sun-glasses. The Uttia consumption on the those nations which are parties

steamer drew alongside the Island's hundred yards away a Chinese coolle the bandstand was uppermost in our to the Treaty to confer when

string thoughts. tiny landing-stage. Four Europeans way working amongst crises occur. China, herself, is,

disembarked. A little yellow flag beans, to all appearances a normal At the third camp we climbed a caught the eye; the quarantine sto-human being.

flight of broad stone steps to a lofty of course, a signatory, and inas-

tion this, on the for side of the island Ilere, for the first time, I saw pea-stotie hall of classic appearance, open much as the present military

nuts growing. The Indian doctor ac-back and front, the length of veran operations by Japan threaten

Through this clean, emclent companying the party pulled a small dah supported on massive columns. her territorial integrity, she

quarantine camp pass hundreds of plant out of the ground, as if it were Here Boy Scouts with hats, poles, would obviously welcome a "full

coolles. They are medically examina potato plant, and there, at the end belts, badges, but leper Boy Scouts. All these boys were disügured; one and frank" discussion of the

ed by Government doctors and the of strings, hung the peanuts, Iepers amongst them removed for Back into the launch, grateful for little fellow's face was hard to look situation by the other eight

treatment. Six lepers were found the shade. of the red umbrella, and ot

On each side of this high hall were Powers and herself. The moat

amongst the Immigrants that morn- then the second camp.

oflees, laboratories. to the eye of the laymen-

the class-rooms, ing, but

We cilmbed the path from that appears to have been done up to the present is some com-

these six coalies were no different shore; on the flat ground in front of Here we saw the fruit and seeds of from their fellows.

stood a 118

tlay bandstand. Suddenly, the plant from which the oll is ex- munication between Britain, the

A small, open motor launch took

a tracted for the treatment of leprosy. unexpectedly, broke on the air United States and France. The

us round the island the first of the joyous marching tune. Perhaps be-Some lepers have been cured.

We passed through a classroom; on Treaty carries a presumption

three leper camps we were to visit cause it was the first of a series of that day. A large, red umbrella was emotional shocks, this was the most the walls hung drawings and paint- that the whole of the signatories

provided for the use the two ladies poignant moment of the whole ex-ings done by the leper pupils. The will consult together when cir Covenant, even though there in the party, and the seats in the pedition for me, although later I was subjects were English, but the execu- cumstances arise which threaten

may be a widespread belief launch were covered with white drill to see the cruel ravages of the disease tion was Oriental. One little paint- The island is densely wooded, and and witness efforts of magnificent ing was especially appealing. In- China's independence. There is that Japan's actions are conny hat in the tropical sun, but round courage. We listened till the credible that those poor, disease- no necessity for common agree-trary to both these instruments, the buildings the land had been clear- died in the tree tops. The

Filippino

thickened fingers could fashion such ment, before the calling of any But the Nine-Power Treaty ed and gardens lold out, where flowers leader of this orchestra of lepers delicate work.

The lay superintendent and his such conference, to the view carries a definite implication of and shrubs grew with tropical luxu- smilingly acknowledged our applause. that China's territorial integrity foreign consultation in crises riance, the beautiful hibiscus not the The march was his own composition, wife-Scots both-five on the island, lenst conspicuous. The lepers them- and he had dedicated it to a much- where the nature of their work cuts is in danger; if only one nation Buch as that which has now selves make and core for these loved Malayan doctor who has spent them off almost entirely from their holds that view-which China arisen in North China. And the gardens, and a prize is the reward of most of his life in anti-malarial re-kind, where yesterday's paper is rend obviously does then that na- Chinese Government would be the preillest. tion has

a right to demand well within its rights to invoke The Band Strikes Up Boy Scouts consultation. The position may the provisions of the Treaty not be quite so clear under the which are germane to the pre Kellogg Pact or the League gent developments,

a London theatre.

Not only tomarkable, but enor- mously enlightening, I think. For this is essentially a political play. Yet looking round the audience at

-To-day's Thought NOTHING is to 'casy but it becomes digicult when done with reluctance.

TERENCE.

the leper camp.

search work.

to-day, and malls arrive two or three times a week.

Here is one spot where brave men are striving to mitigate the misery

F. H. T.

There are vegetable gardens 100.

Back to the launch, the red um-of the leper's life. The lepers grow vegetables, und sell brella, the white drill, the burning