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'THE ' ‚HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER

1938.

By Paul E

Europe Could Become HOW IT BEGAN Bordamer

a Commonwealth

Undaunted by present wars and rumours of war and by the fact that he had to flow from Hitler's troops, as they entered Austria, Count R. N. Couden- hove-Katorgi, chief exponent of a Federal Europe, believes that the moment is now ripe for the first moves to establish a Euro- poan Commonwealth.

THE strong intervention of Great

Britain in the conflict between Germany and Czecho-Slovakia can be considered as a test case for the stabili- sation of European peace.

The success of this action saved the world from world war and paved the way to a fair solution of the minority problem in Czecho-Slovakia.

Ir prove that British authority can best assure European peace not by non-intervention but by open Inter- vention. In other words that peace depends on the moral leadership of Great Britain in Europe.

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By

SPAIN

Bertin

OLAN'D

RUMANIA

Bucharest

WAR

ANCIENT GERMAN “WERRA” (CONFUSION) TRANSMITTED THROUGH THE ROMAN LEGIONS BECAME SPANISH “GUERRA", AND FRENCH "GUERRE, BOTH MEANING "WAR." ANGLO-SAXONS, HOW- EVER, BORROWED THE SURVIV- ING "WERRE” FROM FRANCE AND HANDED IT DOWN TO US AS "WAR.”

DOLIARIA

COUNT R. N. COUDENHOVE-KALERGI

court and

into a peaceful commonwealth of creating CL political and economie free and equal nations.

federation of European Stales with The need for this leadership is

This leadership of Great Britain the gradual establishment of a vitally urgent in face of the breaks in Europe would be similar to the European customs union, a system down of the League of Nations and leadership of the United States in of mutual guarantees, a federal law

of collective security the Pan-American Union. the system

general military alliance which threatens Kurope with a

The majority of Europeans desire with a federal air force. The idea werlost

of International anarchy Great Britain to take such a lead. Is that Pan-Europe would then co- Twenty-six nations are preparing Twenty minor States are willing to operate with Pan-America,

Patt- murderous war. follow British initiative towards Russia and other groups of nations destroying in the process the founda- European federation. Backing would in world-wide League of Nutions. --tions of progress and civilisation..

come from France, where all parties There is alrendy material to hand So if Europe--this little peninsula consider a federal Europe one of the for the building of Pan-Europe. of the Asiatic continent no larger or highest nits of their national polley, the north is the Baltic Union com

prising Estonia, Luivia more populated than British Indla- -does not want to become a battlefield and a ruin it must find some form of federation.

themselves for

The diminution of space through forcing speedy communications is

Wireless und Pan-Europe upon us. acroplanes cannot be confined by frontiers.

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All these States are looking for some federal solution to their politi- cal and economic problems and they would willingly accept Great Britain as their natural urbiter because they are convinced that British leadership would never take the character of hegemony or domination:

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But I am not sure that British public spirion is willing yet tu accept such responsibilities on the Continent. Many people in England still believe that Great Britain must avold Continental entanglements, ai-Reserve Liablity of Proprietors $20.000.000 though this view no longer corres- ponds with the realities of our times. The invention of the aeroplanie marked the end of British Isolation.

FOR A period of European anarchy fol- mest possible. If the Little Entente

or

war.

HEAD OFFICE:-HONGKONG. DOARD OF DIRECTORS:-

T. E. Pearce, Esq... Chairman. Hon. Mr. J. J. Paterson, Deputy Chairman.

W. H. Lock, Esq. G. Miskin, Esq.

J. K. Bouseki, Esq. A. I. Compton. Esq, Hon. Mr. S. II. Dodwell K. S. Morrison, Esq. M. T. Johnson Esq. lon. Mr. A. L. Shields Sir Vandeleur. M. Grayburn, CHIEF MANAGER,

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BRANCHES

and Lithuania. To the south

the Bal- kan Union-Turkey, Greece, Yugo- Slavin and Rumanla. Since Poland THE idea of European union s

has resumed diplomatic' reintions dates from the time of the with Lithuania union between Roman Empire, when for centuries Poland and the Daltic States be- Europe was united under the Caesars.

FOR Great Britain the risks of a prolongation of is considered as

isolation are greater than lowed. Then come another form of the

then Balkan Union

Poland's the ricks of co-operation. Only auch federation under the moral leader alliance with Rumania forms 31

co-operation will prevent a Germani ship of the Popes. This religious bridge between the Baltic and Bal-

and Russian hegemony

AMOY. union of Europe ended in the six kan Unions.

Only backed by peaceful and or- BANGKOK THE vital question is in what teenth century when the present

BATAVIA ganised Europe can England con- BOMBAY and under reign of anarchy began.

tinue her great imperial mission and CALCUTTA whose leadership will this federation In the last 40 years four serious

be free to send her ficets to any part CANTON be accomplished. There seem to be attempts have been made to re-unite three possibilities. They are' that: Europe. The

the

legitimate of the world where their presence is COLOMUQ Im- Was The first

So providing the

DAIREN claims of Hungary and Bul- necessary.

FOOCHTOW Great Britain will assume lender perialiste plan of Napoleon; the

British

should pubile opinion

HAIPHONG social revelations and to a Euro- second, the conservative scheme of garla were settled so that they, too,

Pan- HAMBURG pos- examine between dominution;

volutionary scheme of Massini in sible to link all the States

the Mediterranean Military threats culminating in 1848, and the inst the federal scheme the Baltic and another war will lead to German proposed by M. Briand to the League and Germany and Russia into one vast Eastern federation as the flest domination first in Central Europe of Nations in 1930.

This last attempt originated from pruetlen! step towards Pan-Europe. and later in Pan-Europe; or that

Groat Britain

assume the Pan-European Movement which The federation would be indepen-

KOWLOON will leadership and transform Europe started in 1922 with the object. of dent of both Russia and Germany.

circumstance

this

CHEFOU

pean Soviet Union under Russian the Holy Alliance; the third the re- could be included it might be European problem and choose whe- RANKOW

more closely ther the failure of the League of Nations shall be followed by the law. of the jungle on the European con- tinent or by the creation of a peace- ful and prosperous Europeun com- monwealth of nations.

What Is Your Signature Worth?

E other day a well-known book- shop in Bond Street sent me a

THE

catalogue of "Autograph Letters of Notable Personages,” and since have always found the money value

is

question and that all your friends Other letters

seem moderately cumstances, she would have to act

hostess. The as

three will share in your pride.

price God priced, particularly, for some reason, bless you, my dear old friend," those written by the kings and guineas. 7s. 6d.

queens of France,

But since I was in fact unable to But the value of the Kipling ex-

of a celebrity's handwriting a thing afford any of these literary relics, hibits mystifled me. In the summer

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of mysterious and absorbing interest I began to look for something more ten whole years before he was able

I went along to look.

They were very polite in this

shop, they move about quietly and

spoke in soft voices as if in awe of

spectacular.

or

to glorify the war he seems to have

in been stricken by a passionate terest in submarines. "I've had one Rather Ironically the most expen with the beauties of the new craft

two enthusiasts indoctrinate me the treasures around them. I re- sive llem was an old promissory note he writes to an admiral, and: "I rc- membered one of the most di- made out at the beginning of last tinguished Georgian poets telling me century. It was signed Percy Bys- turn herewith the dynamite (meta- he used to pay for his lunch by buy- she Shelley and provided thatr un- phorical, I assume) you so kindly

it book of his, inscribing

lucky poot with the £50 (at an in- his name and selling it in a place

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with

ient

me."

This letter had already been sold of £1 5s. 2d. for six months) like this. He said it was an unplea- took him out of the country for three guineas, but there was an-

other sant business because you knew the for the last time. And the price,

arranging with the excitement atmosphere would change complete you want to buy this to-day with of a schoolboy to escape to Parts- ly when you admitted who you were its endorsement, "Received Horatio mouth where he had the chance of and what you wanted.

Smith," and its officious little bank seeing over one of the "craft". marks, is £25, or precisely half the is sorry he can't bring his wife, but sum which Shelley needed.

they had arranged to give a gardien

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Ho

So I said at once; "it's more out There was a letter from the no- party that day at which, in the cir

to buy velist Proust which seemed worth of interest than meaning

30%. Marcel Proust was something." and was relieved to find its

decrease in their friendliness, fashionable French Jew who spent They mi

might, of course, have behaved most of his life in bitter regrets nt If they had taken me for his inability to write until one day differently

when the Bow started he sat down a Georgian poet.

had gathered from the catalogue and produced one of the great no- that it was not necessary for cele- vels of the world. brated

to write statements of people grent public interest for a value and

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He was neurotic even for a genlus, lived in a flat whose dense surround- 38, for instance, gave me this iden: Ing curtains blurred the murmur of

the street outside.

37 Cronin (A.J.), 1 p. 5q Bvo.. "Should I have read the "Pil- grim's Progress"?-for I haven't. If you say I should then I will,"

Hiness was to him a refuge and 7s, od.

salvation. He, was a, sort of high From the originais Į could not see priest of disease who knew more why Mr. Cronin's information was about Its doctors, its victims and worth more than Mr. Stacpoole's. consolations than any other novelist. He had been away, he said, but that And here is a thoroughly character- scarcely offset an additional sentence istic piece of his writing. by Mr. Stacpoole which was omitted He should have replied to his cor-

The entry, I respondent before, and he opens from the catalogue, found, might have run:

saying "For long months

have been "but where other people. have never read Aurora Leigh II! and I'm not going to. Nor Shirley, would have apologised and left it at that, he analyses the situation,

by

If it had been a question of spend- points out that delay is cumulative, ing 7a. Od. I think on the whole I that the lapse of time decreases the should have passed over these items possibility of overtaking it.

in favour of No. 37, a letter from His delicate, rather sprawling Mr. Charles Whibley to Sir James hand traces the ident pattern of an Marris, described by the catalogue inve of a master chairman; and it is Invalid's excuse, putting into it the

congratulating him on recolving only very, very faintly that the the O.M., assuring him “an honour sound of the world seems to pene-- the propriety of which none will trate those curtains,

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I say that the price puzzled me, I thought I would put a test case, the writing of someone I admired, so I asked the assistant if she read Mr. Timothy Shy. Yes, she always rend Mr. Shy, and he made laugh a whole lot.

her

But if Mr. Stocpoole's amusing statement that he hadn't read Auro- ra Leigh and didn't propose to was worth 55., I asked, how much would a similar declaration by Mr. Timothy Shy be worth?

The assistant thought perhaps 35. Gd.

Even so, I think Mr. Shy should cash in on it,

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