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a Liar

Y the time I was four or five I felt my sins were so enormous that I was entirely black inside. This wasn't just a vague feeling but a convic- tion so vivid that when I fell down and grazed myself the pain disappeared in my Not relief at seeing the blood run red. that a gallon of red blood could have altered my belief, but it concealed the damning state of affairs from my nurse and parents.

My parents were not unusually strict; on the contrary, it often astonished ine how lightly they would treat some misdemeanour for which I expected little less than death. We had swings and a big garden and a house built by my brother and me so high among the branches of a deodar that no adult could reach it.

But there were certain things that were

Hongkong Hotel looked on severely, and of these the Lie was the

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THDAY, AUGUST 4. 1938.

SHUTTING EYES

TO DANGER

Every one must realise the

terrible potentialities of the

worst.

I expect my grandparents held it in greater horror than did my parents, for there rumours of their children being shut up in dark rooms and restricted to bread and water because

I was a liar.

were

had 1 stolen

my threats with current Russo-Japanese dispute of it. Nothing like that ever had seen a ferocious old man, whom 1 was friendly dismissed heads, and

caused, and the danger to the peace of happened to us, and my brother, I said, coming in from the woods as "story-telling." It covered gardening implements the world which is growing

bottom of the garden most of the routine events of as it was, enough alarm for the ominously large at Changkuas far as I can remember, was at the

life had 1 washed my doctor to be called in for a sort feng, a hilly few square miles never once arcused of telling a with a rusty spear in his hands. my

But of country near the junction of lie.

on myself from the Hidden in the hills around my hands, did I want to go to the of psycho-physical examination. my But the result was unsatisfac- the borders of Manchukuo, Rus- carliest years a fatal curse had preparatory school was an army lavatory, sia and Koren. But it seems to fixed itself:

of Bolsheviks with pistols firing brother's pocket knife?

tory because, I

guess, they be the policy of the European

The sounded like rain- pins which

ques- suspected me of telling lies. answer to these capitals to shut their eyes to How it began I don't know. drops against the window. in tions, if it was supplied by me, It seems to me now a pity the facts and hope for the best. Did 1 in my cot clutch y the privet hedge which shut off Was known to be untrust that I wasted all that strength That attitude has been charac-brother's rag-books so fiercely the vegetable garden from the worthy; in fact, it was usually and horror. It ment as much as any other dur- to myself that I implied, even wn I had seen in a strange looked on as the opposite of the that children are not endowed ing the last few years and may before I could pronounce the huve been in a large measure words, that they were mine?

teristic of the British Govern

BY for the successful

responsible series of coups which ambitious leaders recently accomplished at the

Still earlier did I pretend that had had nothing to drink for

There Кегоия.

TANGYE LEAN

seems a pity

with intelligence and a sense of justice instead of stupidity and u crippling load of guilt, because so that I have often more lies are told to them than expense of lesser states. hours, although the bottle had flood of yellow light an officer truth,

the desire to appear to any class of people except tax But if the Great Powers could only just been wrested from my wearing naval uniform kiss a thought

girl who had her arm around innocent can scarcely have been commissioners, and the children afford to trust to luck and the inebriate grip?

his shoulder.

among my motives, since the are not able to expose them. League of Nations in such crises

From the time I can remem- that which grew between

jury returned its verdict before

They are told that they were But the last of these I never Yugo-Slavia and lungary fol- ber clearly there were two kinds

the trial had begun.

found under gooseberry bushes, told to anyone, because I had lowing the

of of tie in which assassination

I specialised.

Well,

I there it was: told that the old man dressed in red King Alexander; or that which The first didn't feel like a lie at learnt by then that it was dan deliberate lies, the fact was ac- sacks and a false beard is Father followed the original German all, because there was none of

was 21 slight

knowledged throughout the Christmas, that it will rain if threat to invade Austria, which

family, for by now my brother, they don't behave themselves, brought the Italians swiftly to that fearful strain as the words stiffening in the atmosphere as the Brenner Pass; or that which approached my tongue, as, my you talked; then, if you paused, whose thoughts had once been that they don't grow up at all if more merciful, had been infect- they don't do this and that; and developed with intervention in eyes stiff with horror, 1 seemed a strangely intent look and two or three icy questions. which Spain; or that which arose out to watch it flow out involuntarily

ed by the doctrine of sin, and although they are half aware of the Italian invasion of

the impossibility of into the air in front of me.

exposed

to safeguard himself when it that these things are lies, they Ethiopia, or any of those other

what you said. After that the was a question of apportioning don't know enough to be able to lesser episodes in modern his-

denunciation that you were ly blame would invoke my reputa- refute them, they feel only a tory, they dare to do so now.

ing was unnecessary, because it

tion.

dim sense of outrage at being Every effort should be strained

came easily had come to be acknowledged

crime from Often I used to feel so furious accused of the to keep the Manchukuo frontier

to me: I even by myself. "incident" in precisely that

that I could, like the enfeebled which they themselves continual-

ly suffer. category-something isolateci

But my reputation extended Samson, have lifted giant pillars and unimportant. And there is good hope of accomplishing it anxious to preserve the peace to beyond what a charwoman with to bring destruction on

treat this Manchukuo episode) when obviously both Japan and Russia are reluctant to come to with the seriousness it deserves.

This first kind and unsuspectingly

the

arc

the

to

the

serious grips. If it is allowed it would already appear that GRIN AND BEAR IT

the situation is largely out of to develop into real warfare and the long-threatening test of the hands of the Governments Russian and Japanese strength concerned. Perhaps they in the Far East actually comes content to rely upon the judg to pass, it may be too late to ment of the "officer on prevent a world-wide conflict. spot." But it would be a wise Such is the state of Europe's thing, surely, and requiring no international politics, such the costly effort or risk of complica- unfortunate alignment of lions, if friendly powers both powers at this time, that it is of Russia and Japan were inevitable that sympathisers | exert every bit of their influence with one or other of the con- to prevent the oflicers on tending nations would take afrontier doing anything to fur- part in their quarrel. The exis- ther endanger

general tence of the Anti-Comintern peace. If it is too late to stop pact points to the probable direc- the growth of this trouble, be tion from which that interven- every opportunity should tion firat would come. More taken to keep it isolated in the over, it was reported from Far East. Reassurances from |authoritative quarters only re- the

Governments of Europe cently that if Japan ever needed which might become involved assistance in her "holy war", in would be welcome. Even those China there would be European who feel that a Russo-Japanese, troops prepared to embark im- war might mean the sure salva-- mediately. It would be the tion of China will hardly argue height of folly to trust that the that such a conflict should be Franco-Russian defensive alli- encouraged with the fearful ance would deter those whose risks it must involve. Finally, whole policy is based on the des- if diplomacy can hold out little this truction of the Soviet's system. hope of settlement in With Russia attacked France crisis perhaps a bold, frank would find herself dragged into statement of joint policy by the horrible business of slaugh. Britain, France and the United ter. From that point it would States might deter any one who be impossible to prevent the contemplated using a Russo- spread of the fire. It is there- Japanese conflict to further his fore the duty of every power own political achomes.

Licht

their

The lie, I know, is a necessary part of civilisation; all kind and good-hearted people use it as well as nurses on the lookout for

By Lichty expedient threats; but don't let

"Don't you remember? I had that shirt laundered while wo were in one of them European countrica?”

them vent their own sense of guilt like aerial torpedoes on the children they are supposed to be educating.

The other day when I was in the country I was walking past. a hedge which borders a cottage garden. There was a woman bending over one of the flower- beds and a small boy ran up to her making a noise like a one cylinder petrol engine. "Mum- my," he roured, "Mummy! I'm a wasp!"

And then as I stopped dead to listen for it seemed to me a terrifle situation, and I thought his voico had faltered a bit on the last word as if he were not quite certain of its truth-there was a pause in which everything seemed to hold its breath. '

But the mother stirred slight ly over her plants and said, "Well, don't sting me, will you?" and I was already walking on up the road with joy in my heart, and I could hear tho small boy threatening her, "I might, Mummy, I might, bow. causo I'm such a big one.”