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THE HONGKONG TE LEGUAPH, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 26, 1938.

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HEY say that all the love tales have been told, that love, like history, repeats itself, and that the tellers of love tales, like the historians, repeat each other.

This is a lie. Perhaps it is the oldest lie in the world.

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love, and every love story is dif- ferent from all its ancestora and predecessors.

true.

wife?

by

JAMES DOUGLAS

scurch of the joys that nature more pity for him than for her It is not true to say that the can bestow in her sunniest self.

scenes She asks herself whether it is more it is different the more it climes and her fairest is the same. The contrary is the wonders of art in its multi- selfish to wish to leave him to The more it is the same form variety, the delights of bear the burden of his grief the more it is different.

love or friendship, the consola through the empty years. tions of acrvice to humanity, She is perplexed by the probe FOR example, there is a the companionship of the mas- lem: Is it kinder to him to wish sharp newness in the ters of literature and music; all to die first? Or is it kinder to love story of the man of sixty- the pleasures of the table, good him to wish to die Inst? three who shot himself three food and good wine, all the arti- weeks after the death of his in- ficial distractions of sport and valid wife, who was a few years amusement. older than her husband.

But life without love had lost "Now that she has gone," he all its savour. The things that said before he died, "life holds money can procure meant less nothing for me."

than nothing to this man with a broken heart.

human race.

He was a poor

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no

It is the heart of the un- employment nightmare which haunts the great middle class as well as the working class.

These husbands who have nothing to leave to their wives have no difficulty in solving the problem. They do not wish to die before their wives, whose sole means of support are their precarious salaries or wages.

BUT in the ease of hus- bands who are able to leave their wives a competence the problem is almost insuper- able.

some-

The selfish husband

himself against times insures the injury of his jealous pride by penalising his widow if she marries after his death.

It seems to me to be the acme of mean stinginess for n hus-

a younger woman. As Brown- ing's wife puts it:-

Is the remainder of the way so

long

DOES he think the same band to attach to his will a pro- secret thoughts? Docs vision that his widow will lose he wrestle with the unanswer- his money if she falls in love a second time. I am in favour of able question?

Undoubtedly. The problem is legislation making such wills as hard to solve for the husband illegal. Yet his life held for him what

In the ease of the wife the it is for the wife. How Yesterday readers of the

many people, if not most people, He looked at them all, and would he choose if he had the problem is complicated by the Hongkong Telegraph read that regard as everything, or nearly turned away disconsolate. power to choose?

thought that her husband, after seven of the most advanced everything, that makes life

A hypothetical question is one their lifelong love, may find hap- decisive piness in a second marriage to powers of the world-advanced, worth living. He had a beauti-

THIS love story suggests which admits of

one of the most insolu- answer. that is, in commerce, in culture ful home and wealth beyond the

Who can tell whether it is and in science-were plunging dreams of the majority of the ble problems of human life, a

problem which vexes the sessions nobler to desire to escape from headlong into a naval arma-

man and his of silent thought in the mind of grief than to accept it as a duty ments race. The accusation is wife was a rich woman. Out of every loving husband and every to the beloved? not far-fetched. And there her wealth she had made their loving wife.

Where a wife is dependent her husband's earning It may be stated crudely, bald- upon scant satisfaction to be derived beautiful home.

They had been happy in it for ly, and nakedly in the question: power, and where his death from the fact that Great Britain

sixteen years. During her last Would you prefer to die before would sentence her to the priva- years he had been her constant your wife? Would you prefer tions of poverty, the answer to and devoted riurse.

to die before your husband? the question is easy. She bequeathed her wealth to Husbands and wives arb him, the great sum of £119,618, afraid to ask each other this NO husband who loves his wife would choose but it was naught in his eyes. question, although it is hard to Without her in his life her evade it as life draws near its to die first if his choice left her

penniless. money to him was a mockery. It close. could buy him nothing he desir- They seldom debate it to- He would prefer to work on. ed.

gether, and when their fear for her rather than forsake her thrusts it upon them they shrink and let her bear the misery of LET those who imagine from the pain of choice where penury alone.

-that-wealth-is-a-pass--there-is-no-choice---

in

our

port to paradise ponder over

Here was a man with an as- secret desire to die before her sured income of five thousand a husband..

Thou need'st the little solace,

thou the strong?

Watch out thy watch, lot weak

ones doze and dreamt

women:

BUT she overcomes her jealousy of the other

Re-coin thyself and give it

them to spend-

It all comes to the same thing

at the end,

Since mine thou wast, mine

art, and mine shall be, Faithful or faithless, sealing-

up the sum

Or lavish of my treasure, thou

must come

Back to the heart's place here

I keep for thee!

was probably the last of the great nations to speed her re- armament. Rather it has be come a matter for criticism by the masses, this attempt at pacifying the peoples of times by scrapping war vessels and delaying their replacement. That policy, commendable as it may have been in theory, was

This is the supreme tragedy of destined to die a quick death in

the poor man. He cannot afford the heat engendered by friction this exposure and refutation of IN her secret heart a to die and let his wife face the

the machinery which was their delusion or illusion.

wife discovers the misery of widowhood in poverty. supposed to safeguard peace."

My postbag testifies to the But many a widower and Far better, perhaps, had the

magnitude of this dread in the many a widow are faithful and allied nations which were in a year for the remainder of his She would spare herself the mind of the ageing husbands not faithless. Their love holds fast until "the little position to make the rules, set life. He might have lived in anguish of being the last to go. who are unable to save enough them

luxury for another ten or fifteen She dreads the harvest of griev- to provide for their wives in the minute's sleep is past." themselves up to govern the or twenty years, persuading ing loneliness.

event of their death, and who After all, it is a merciful bless- world by force. Better still had time to heal his sorrow.

In her guarded thoughts she are struggling to keep jobs for ing that no husband and no wife they sunk their fleets, blown up He might have tried all the plans her departure and prepares which they are growing less fit can foretell and foresee which

of the twain will die first. their guns, burned their planes anodynes of riches-travel in for it, although her heart holds every year. and degenerated into non-com- petitive inactivity of mind and minds admitted, that that na- body than to have arrived at tion is safest which puts its this state on non-co-operative faith in its leaders. No blind you, but a trust progress, and one in which faith, mark

born of calculated judgment, they think in terms of bombing based on the accomplishments ranges, anti-gas defence and of the elected chiefs. The IT is distinctly exasperating, to those 60,000-ton warships. But the trained mind is sanest in a who endured the privations and

terrible

IF

GERMANY HAD WON

а

There is a theory, widely put about by those who hold it, that the Peace

world had not, the courage to be crisis. The mob mind makes meties of the Great War, to brava Forgotten Aspects of motoing to content that t wise-or the wisdom to be cour-mistakes, ageous. And so it has pro-shouting: "We want war." gressed.

of

the Great War

the

In fact the German Revolution was

slightly post-War generation

statesmen who framed it at Versailes blunders, asking whether it was worth while.

The

were in oil respects well inspired. Answer IN quite simple.

But how much substance is there in Thanks to the steadfast and devoted

the argument that, had France treat- The world is faced with an self-sacrißes of some millions of good By "AN. OLD STAGER"

ed the carly German Socialist Re- public more sympathetically, we Nor is there any senge in the arms race, and knows it is fellows, amateur soldiers most

wrong. But even this know them, who hated the job,the roots of

democratic freedom have not yet Because the pretty notion that this should have had no Hitler and no public's condemnation of this ledge is not strong enough to been completely destroyed in Europe. island could exist as another Switzer-Nazi symptoms in Germany?

The German War Lords had them-- situation. It is the mass mind stop the hammers in the ship- One usually finds that those who land, keeping remote from all Con- which is to blame, more than yards. Parliament, all partics, are most insistent in asking whether Linenal quarrels, le just village idiocy. cives let loose in Eastern Europe the any event, the statesmen and the cabinets. has decided that rearmament the 1914 adventure was worth while, With a dismembered Empire our virus of Red Communism, Is it not

or most emphatic in declaring it to home population, which is more quite certain that, in is necessary. The people must have been a colossal piece of lunacy, densely distributed than any other in Bolshevism would have invaded Ger- After all, in democratic coun- accept the decision and pay the are those who most diallice dictator- the world, would simply have to many, however kindly France had. behaved towards her Inte despoilers, tries at least, the people have a bill, even though they suspect ship and totalitarian government. lighten its belt and starve.

and that the Teutonte revulsion from voice. And it will be remem-that the next step will bring If Great Britain had not thrown Two premises therefore emerge. bored that voice was raised in disaster,

That is the risk wo her weight into the conflict on the First, we could not have kept out of that menace would have taken some

Germany? 1914 while Sir Edward Groy run. But we dare not be alone side of the Allies, there is not much the Great War, with any intelligent such form as the present regime in

dispute that Germany and the Central regard for our own immediate ma- (later Lord Grey of Fallodon) in defencelessness; dare not be Powers would have won the War. terial and intellectual future. Second merely a change of German director- was pleading with the Govern- pacifists. Our Fesponsibility is in that event the critics of those who ly. If we had not won the struggle,

remained just the same as it was in ment's of Europe to use their too great. The solution is in fought for freedom twenty years and we should have been reduced to the fate. The spirit of the German people 1914 and the years preceding that reason and keep the peace. strength.

would now be performing unpleasant level of taxpaying helots. genuflexions and giving the Nazi A victorious Germany, as the ominous date. Outalde the gatos of Bucking-

salute by numbers.

cordia of 1870 prove, would not have

That is proved conclusively by the ham Palace, we are told, a vast It is our belief that His

tolerated any of the shuffing and enthusiasm with which Hitler's re- crowd chanted: "We want warl" Majesty's Government will not

dodging that we have done in thegime has been hailed by the over- case of our vanquished enemies. We whelming majority of all classes in And His Majesty King George, misuse this power which the

Does anyone believe that, having should have been saddled with a pro- Germany to-day, Hitler did

not troubled, appalled by the great, poeple put into its hands. It is over-run France conquered digious Indemnity, and Germany create that frame of mind. He mere. hoarse shout, put a hand to his our faith that the weapons Russia, Germany would have been would have exacted the utermost ly helped it to express itself.

It is the old firm with head and retreated from the which we forge will be for the content to stop alors at

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So, when we survey existing con-board of directors in charge, but Im- balcony where he had gone greet his people. It was pire but of the little countries The United Kingdom would have ditions with critical disenchantment, bued with just the same polley and Britain's leaders, not the people, of the world whose only rampart been reduced to the condition of a let us reflect also how much worse ambitions as the old rulers of der

[Systematic Evasion who fought for peace at that against invasion is the League small vassel State, and made a dump they might have beers had the 1914 many. time. And so it was in some, of Nations, in which Britain in ing ground for German merchandise. Issue gone the other way.

The British Empire, moreover, Change of Directorate From the very first there was no at least, of the other European a pillar. It is, it must be, our would have been broken up, and the

responsibility

But there is a further question.sincerity in Germany's observance of #CO that Anglo-Saxon tradition would have [capitals.

become a relie history. In theso How comes it that the "war to end the peace tetris, Bho had to sure the co-operation which has circumstances what would have be- war" has so signally falled of its render her feet, but her disarmament Again and again it has been built this Empiro will not be come of all our elaborate and costly avowed objective? That is another gesture was a pretence. She set her.

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