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ANTHONY Two Studies of a

Young Politician

By Percy Cater

TALL, exquisitely tailored,

eign Affairs. Three years later, when Lord Snowden resigned the office of Lord Privy Seal, Mr. Eden succeeded him, on the understanding that he was to

take a special interest in League

probably the handsom- of Nations affairs.

One year later he became Min- est man in the House of Commons, but weary with and so destiny had ruled that ister for the League of Nations,

the strain of the last few the League was to assume a weeks, Anthony Eden rose dominating part in his life. in the House at the end of

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For over two years it had been blems of the world, customary when one had writ- He was, of course, a familiar ten "Mr. Anthony Eden" to add figure at Geneva in the days "Foreign Secretary." When when "Sanctions" against Abys- Mr. Eden spoke on this occasion sinia were running their unfor- it was to explain why he was tunate course, and when Britain Foreign Secretary no longer, was striving, vainly, to get the why he resigned.

world to follow her disarmament i

He did not have before him lead. the despatch-box on which, like

many a Minister before him, he Studious, Intense had stressed with a drumming Phone 27778/9. fist the ardour of his convic-

tions.

Hongkong Telegraph.

FRIDAY, MAY 8, 1938,

CINEMA PROGRESS

The history of the cinema is the history of a struggle on the

BY temperament, as well

as because, no doubt, of his experience, Mr. Eden was an It was from that particular ardent League of Nations man. acat below the gangway on the When the League perished he Government side of the House, still placed his hopes in reserved by custom for these formed Lengue.

and occasions, that he said his say.

A re-

HERE

zz Daited Feators Eyešiokia, ise,

"I really can't remember whether I'm 27 or 28-just to be on the safe alde, I'll put down 21,"

Stop these out-of-date prison sentences, declared ́ ́à

Chairman of Homeside Quarter Sessions.

A Month in Gaol

With that nobody. I imagine, would quarrel,

If his methods were mistaken his loyalties and enthusiasms Even though the House rang are everywhere acknowledged. with a momentous and exciting Ardent, studious, intense, he ACCORDING to the comment debate on foreign affairs and worked strenuously, from the of the Lord Chief Justice in the Cabinet crisis, young Mr. day when Mr. Baldwin brought a recent case, "the liberty of the Eden-he is 40-was the drama- him to the front bench and gave subject is our most priceless tic figure of the hour.

him his chance of statesmanship possession." He had taken a drastic step for the world ideals he held. at a time when more of the lime- His manner and words, often part of its progressive and en-light played on him than is en- nervous and worried, were the

joyed by one politician in a mirrors of his mind." hundred, when his carcer must It is odd that he began his rise have scemer enviable to every under Sir Austen Chamberlain young man in the land.

and that his set-back takes place His rise has been swift and under the Premiership of Sir

Austen's brother. is what the intelligentsia of the almost sensational since that art-industry has often

day in 1923 when he entered the claimed, and which Mr. Will H.House us Conservative M.P. for

Warwick and Leamington. Hays, President of the Motion Picture Producers and Distribu-At Geneva tors of America, endeavours to demonstrate in his annual report

lightened administrators for an improved expression and social and educational value in film entertainment. At least, that

NO

pro-

--

HIS first

to!

By Charles Graves

ANTHONY EDEN is al-

Was

constituencies.

Yet our legislators have put a cash value to that which is without price; and our magistrates have been pro- vided with a price list.

Here it s;-

7 days

14 days

One month

108 maximum 208,

$5

Two months £20

Three months. £20 or over

Within these limits the justices may

Mollycoddling Laws

If You Don't Pay a £5 Fine

But enforce the Money Payments Act, and "humanise" the prisons as much as you like, there would still remain the fundamental question of how to remove the causes which con- spire to incarcerate men and women In prison, with all its consequential palns and penalties, when other forms of punishment should be adequate.

One of the causes, in my view, is the narrow restrictions placed upon the justices who every year, in their 1,000 courts, deal with three-quarters of a million offenders.

They may place a dentendant on probation, but" if they thing the case warrants some penalty, they are con- In this country until 100 years ago fined to the alternatives-fine or gaol. there were 220 offences punishable

But in all successive reforms no new

MR. DUMMETT, the Metropollton M

magistrale, holds the view in regard to motoring offences, that "the only way in which I can see that it [the "ghastly slaughter and maiming

the purpose lately, but the Lords

In Amerien an offender sentenced, say, to 28 days, is allowed to do the "time" at week-ends, and so avold loss of wages. There are those who

favour the introduction of that system

chance came

ways working. He exercise their discretion. when Sir Austen Cham- learnt German out of a A failure to pay the amount of the of 1938. Confronting this imberlain, then Foreign Secretary, pulse has been the demand of appointed him his parliamentary grammar book while shav-fine imposed renders the defendant Imprisonment, according to that scale. private secretary in 1926. There ing, and one of the chief able to the alternative of a term of pure commercialism. Commer- began an association with the reasons for his success in life

It is true that the Money Payments with death; but, save for one or two cialism, say critics such as C. A. Foreign Office which, in the has been that when he was a Act, 1935, is, designed to prevent an crimes, that has been abolished, and Lejeune, Paul Rotha, Meyer opinion of many, went on too Parliamentary Private Secretary offender from going to prison merely so have the treadmill and the picking Levin, George G. Nathan, and long for Mr. Eden's good, in the he learnt all about his immediate because he is unable to pay the fine. of oukum.

that it became the former well known com-sense

too boss's job.

But the fact that during the first specialised.

The average P.P.S. is inclined your of its operation 11,023 persons method of punishment, apart from mentator, Cedric Belfrage, has been the

In 1931 young Mr. Eden be- to take it easy, regarding the went to gaol for making default in fining and gaoling, has been devised. successful enemy of

came Under-Secretary for For- job as more or less honorary. paying fines or other sumy ordered the more artistic and educa-

Prison at Week-ends Even as a boy of eight Mr. Eden to be paid clearly indicates that the tional elements of the cinema,

Act has not achieved Its purpose. sufficiently interested in The figures are for 1930: those for They and Mr. Will Hays and his ally speaking their efforts may politics to cover a big map of 1037 are not yet available.) collaborators have long accused claim to have helped the film Great Britain with little blue the producers of pandering to industry through a very trying lags showing the Conservative the commercial requirements of period of adolescence, and

Mr. Eden has a curious habit INDEED, there are justices who of poople" can be stopped. is by film-making at the expense of have given to it a new apprecia-of running his fingers through have openly declared their dis-passing a faw to permit magistrates

to confiscate cars," its social responsibilities, saying tion of its potentialities as a his black hair, rumpling it like of what they have described us

He would revive the old low of the more summary method at one deodands, or forfeits, which persisted LUCKY DOG ! that instend of fulfilling an medium for artistic, educational slightly, and of wriggling his "mollycoddling laws." They prefer

foot when he sits down on a time generally practised, and yet by from the days of Mases, and which educational purpose, they have and social expression.

sofa.

no means ended, of: "Forty shillings ceased in this country 1848. HEALTHY DESPITE THE TROPI-stimulated in the public a desire Particularly striking has been

He also has an odd habit of or one month-next case,"

Lord Newton introduced a Bill for CAL HEAT. ALWAYS FULL OF and a demand for cheap and the advance made by the news counting the fingers of his left The Imprisonment is not for the ENERGY AND COOD SPIRITS

emotional entertainment, THRIVES UNDER ALL CONDI.

the reel. Though often tinged with hand with his right hand-ss in lawbreaking; for that the defendant

killed it. TIONS! WHAT'S THE SECRET influence of which is often harm-propaganda it is, nevertheless, "Three Little Pigs Went to was fined-but for failing to pay the

Market."

Anc. The new offence is that fallure OF HIS FITNESS? JUST SENSIBLE ful.

the most effective means of

and the punishment is out of all He has a very good-looking proportion to that offence. And it FEEDING. A REGULAR DIET OF

This accusation longer bringing before the public in a wife and two sons, Simon and is so illogical, unjust, and out-of-date. SPRATT'S THE BISCUITS THAT holds the sting of, say, five years vivid manner the news and Nicholas. When I last saw him

To one man, a short "stretch" In this country. ngo. The cinema industry has events of the world. It has to speak to, Mr. Eden was very means nothing; indeed, I have known THAT MEAN HEALTH AND LONG taken itself to task, partly be-stimulated a greater demand for anxious that Simon should have many men ask for it. But to others Others have suggested concentra- it means--however short-a life-long tion camps, State farms, or similar it found that while in "shorts" of a real educational a straight bat,

Mr. Eden himself is a great stigma, social degradation and ostra places, to which, without the cramping clsm, loss of employment; and to his and degrading conditions of gaols, competition with the theatre value such as the "Nature's

room-pacer, and keen on gang wke and family, in addition to shar- suitable offenders may be sent for series, "Educated and wireless, it could not afford Wonders"

ster films. I sometimes see himing those consequences, hardship, short periods. the "Romance of to try and fool the public with Fish",

at our "local" cinema, the Regal, want, privation.

Prison authorities deplore short productions which had no ap-Radium", the "Popular Science sitting in the front row of the According to law, magistrates sentences. They say, in effect: "IT

the "Happy pual beyond those of an immedi-Series",

Hour dress circle. He also is a fan of should ascertain the means of the you send offenders to prison, send

defendant, and relate the fine to them,] them for such a length of time thai . ate emotional reaction, but more Series" and other such films. Annabella, the French actress.

we can do them some good." so because the Government of Insistently prodded by Mr. Hays

He might have got his Boats in how many courts is this done? at Eton, but joined up at the age the United States, as head of a and his organisation (as well as of 17 with the King's Royal Rifle New Punishmeht

Should Never Be There country producing by far the by an increasing public demand) Corps, and became Brigade major proportion of films for producers have shown a willing-Major at the absurd age of 21. A HOME OFFICE memorandum re- cords the fact that some of those world consumption, realised that ness to feature subject-matter He went to Oxford, but pass-who have gone to prison would not of this large army there were thou- the industry had to be purified of definite social value. What is cd quite unnoticed there except have suffered the fate "If the llability sands who should never have gone if it was not to spread moral doubly important, in almost by his tutors, Professor Mar-had been better adjusted to their there at

It is not the perpetrators of serious degeneracy throughout the

case these pictures have goliouth and Professor Dew-resources.""

hurst. Thanks to them and real

crimes, or those who have to undergo civilised world. The producers become "box office hits". The application, he got a First in the example that Cezanne gave stitute the problem now under con- discipline and treatment, that con- kicked, as one expected them to increasing artistry of the cine-Oriental languages.

Una hatred of worldly things sideration. It is those who aro do. They accused Mr. Will and his cartoons and Silly Turning Point

ma is revealed by Walter Disney

whether practical or scheming ordered absurdly disproportionate Hays and his organisation of Symphonies, now given its high-

a hatred of prejudice, a hatred of gnol sentences because they fail to being an expression of Fascism.est expression through "Snow

HE and I were exact con-honours and flattery; a hatred of pay their fines, or who are given short sentences by way of punish- temporaries, but I nover commerce and hypocrisy

ment. These are the people who are They protested that interfering White and the Seven Dwarfs" knew he was "up" until he had Cezanne embodies all that," said being forced to endure an imprison- "amateurs" would bring ruin to

ment that does neither them nor the M Will Hays claims in his "gone down." He never joined Mr. Eden. the cinema. Of course they latest report that the cinema is the Union, never joined a club, The turning-point in his car- community anything but harm have been proved wrong. Mr. realising its finest qualities and played tenuis only, but acquired eer was one summer's day in Is it beyond the wit of man to. Hays and his colleagues are pro- potentialities, and it is no empty a great admiration for Cezanne, 1981. He was dabbling with a devise means of dealing with those way, which, while bably not the most popular claim. The industry has a long In fact, he read a paper about water colour on the Yorkshire thousands in

forming a penalty for deliberate con- traventions of the law, or wilful de- people in America, just as the way to go before it attains its the French painter to some un-moors.

He received a letter from Mr. fault in paying a fine, would not full status as an artistic and dergraduate society or other. British Board of. Censors would educational medium, but in the Not long ago ho lent it to me, Baldwin telling him to come hot Involve the evil results of a prison scarcely win a popularity con- meantime one can find satisfac and it throws an Interesting foot to London. He did so, and sentence? ་་ test in England. But each has tion in the knowledge that it is light on Mr. Eden hintself. found the post of Under-Secre- In any case, magistrates aliould, I accomplished a great deal of progressing along the right "To live entirely for his art; tary of State for Foreign Affairs good for the cinema, and gener- linea.-9.A.G.

to renounce all else that was awaiting him.

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