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Minorities

ᎪᎢ BOTTOM the question

threatening the peace of Europe is not, as Mr. Garvin Huggested in the London "Ob- server" this Sunday, the prob- lem of Italy's claims on France.

It is a question of hegemony. A single minority has become the issue of the day-a super- ficial issue. Loud as are the demands from Rome on behalf of its minority in Tunisia and Corsica, they do not drown out the cries and echoes which the existence of minorities in nearly every State in Europe produces.

A truly totalitarian approach to Europe's minority grievances would recognise that Europe it- self is one big minority problem. A readjustment of national bor- ders to bring the greatest num- ber of minority members back into the folds of their own national states would involve cessions of territory by Italy, France, Russia, Germany, Aus- tria, Poland, Rumania, and by other states.

Such a solution naturally is not proposed, because only those adjustments of minority ques- tions which will result in the greatest embarrassment to de- mocracies are at this moment useful in Rome-Berlin diplomacy. Broadly, religion, race, lan- minority base guage, problems-the problem being

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A. I. Pygmalion: "Dear Statue, Please Come to Life!" Pygmalion made a statue of Venus, fell in love with it, and prayed that it should come to life. George Whitelaw casts Sir John Anderson-whose A.R.P. scheme will be considered by the

-as Pygmalion,

Commons

Reporting Progress: by Ritchie Calder

Y long white beard got tangled in the works and stopped the clock this week-end while I gave my small son his seventh birthday lecture on "When Father Was a Boy."

I told him how on my seventh birthday I was taken to Montroso Aerodrome, in Angus, to see Cap- tain Longcroft, who had made a record fight of 930 miles to Farn- borough. And how the Schneider Cup was won that year with a speed of 467 m.p.h.

"The look he gave me made me feel as venerable as Banta Claus. For he has, the modern boy's He knows passion for aviation.

that the intest non-stop flight was more than ten times as far, and the record flying-speed nearly ten times as great.

Yet I was talking about 1913- only 25 years ago.

It made me realise how the speed of modern oventa in changing the time-scale. that, in terms of rapid progress, we are as far removed from our grandfathers as they were from the Romans.

SO I spent yesterday try- ing to devise a new clock. My first attempt was to borrow the rudium-clock with which modern geologists measure the age of the earth. The radio- of activity of

mass A given thorium is reduced to half-value in 1,800,000,000 years. It turns even- tually into lend. And from that we know that the earth must be at least 3,000,000,000 years old.

But I found my desk littered with noughts and I abandoned it for a more manageable clock in which an hour became 100 years.

That makes my son only 4 min- utca 12 seconds old and myself 10 minutes 13 seconds old.

Seven months

ago. by this reckoning, the first man-like apes of whom we find traces, were fash- ioning roughly shaped stonca which they used as hand-axes. They were still animal, but they walked upright. These "pseudo-

One hour

100 years

inen" inhabited a Europe in which there were

mammoths, hairy rhinoceroses, hippopotami, sabre- toothed tiger and glant beavers.

The Dawn Man, stili an ape, was living beside a river near Pilt- down, in Sussex, barely six weeks ago.

Three weeks ago most of Europe was covered with fee. like the ice- cap which covers Greenland to- day. The North Sea and the Irish Sen were river beds. The Mediter- rancan was a deep valley, across which travelled the rhinoceroses. hippopotami, and elephants, on their way to the warmer Bouth, The cold killed off the sabre- toothed tiger altogether.

Hunting these animals were en- lightened apea, the Neanderthal Men. They had discovered the use of fire, by, it is believed, striking iron pyrites against flint, probably In making their tools.

They wore skins from the ani- mais they killed; they lived in caves, huddled round their fres against the creeping cold of the Fourth Ice Age, which was eventu- ally to destroy them. They lived on putrid flesh and the marrow of mashed up bones.

THE Fourth Ice Age lasted less than a fort- night by this reckoning, and as the ice-cap began to shrink northwards and the climate of Europe began to get warmer, the first real men-not Ape Men, but men very like us-appeared.

They came, it is believed, from

the common cradle of Mankind, the part of Asia we now call Iran. and, until recently, Persia.

Ten days ago, these Cro-Magnons began to draw on the walls of their caves, use pigments to shroud their dead at ritual burials. They fol lowed the herds of wild horses and reindeer as they sought new pan- tures in the wake of the retreating Ico.

Four days ago. Man began to take a pride in his crafts, to paint pebbles 15

his jewellery for Woman, make pottery and tame animals for domestic uses.

Round the lake dwellings of two days ago, our ancestors began to grow wheat, barley and millet. And agriculture began.

LEBS than a week ago. the valley which separ- ated what we now call Europe from Africa was flooded, the gates At Gibraltar were "broken down and the Atlantic flowed in. Maybe that was the

Bible Deluge.

By Greenwich Mean Time, it is midnight. At 437 this morning began the Christian Era. Thirty- three minutes before Cæsar had Invaded Britain Rome was sacked by the Vandals from Germany at 8.43 a.m. The sun was temporarily eclipsed. Mohammed was born at 10.55.

At 3.24 this afternoon, Wiliam the Conqueror invaded England. By 4.30 men were using gun- powder.

At 7.10 this evening Constanti-

grievous usually in proportion The

The Coogans GRIN AND BEAR IT

to the restrictions placed by governments on the exercise of minority rights and privileges

in these three fields.

Incidentally, it is difficult to find a section of Europe in which minoritics have been more severely treated than in the south Tyrol, which was ceded to Italy after the Great War and where the minority- in which Berlin appears to take no interest is Germanic.

Poland, which has joined the clamour for the return of ita minorities. is itself ruler over minorities which constitute about thirty por cont. of its population. Hungary governs minorities constituting about 15 per cent. of its population. About thirty per cent. of Rumania's population comprises minorities. In Yugo-Slavia, among the 21 per cent of the population composed of minori Pos, are more than 600,000 Germans.

Separate

New York.

Vowing their love for each other, Jackie. ("The Kid") Coogan and his blonde wife, Betty Grable-have been forced to separate, their furniture sold by financial necessity, and their home closed.

Miss Grable has returned to her mother, Mrs. Lillian Grable, and Jackle is living with an undic, Mr. George Coogan.

There is no question of divorce. It is purely, a matter of the pounds, chillings and pence not being enough to keep the home going.

"VERY MUCH IN LOVE" Mrs. Lillian Grable, explaining the situation, said: "Both love each other very much, but everything is in o Anancial tangle, Jackie's lawsuit and mother against his stepfather

who

(Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Hovery of

he is suing for the £600.000 he claims to have earned

a child) still being delayed." Sald Jacide:

is very

ery tough. I love Betty

Very -much. But everything will come out all right. We hope to be to ether again as soon as our finances allow us to do so."

Betty declared: "I am still crazy about Jackle. The separation Isn't permanent/Chce be gets back on bir feet we'll be together again,

By Lichty

"Of course it's a silly superstition, but whenever the have a bill.

for $13, like yours, we skip it and go to 14.".

nople was taken by the Turks.. The learned men, heirs to the cul- ture of the East, of Greece, and of Rome, began to fee westwards like the Jewish refugees of 1038, taking with them the culture which gave us the Renaissance.

Columbus discovered America at 7.31 this evening. At 7.47. began the Reformation.

TWENTY-ONE minutes before printing had been. Introduced, Drake sailed round the world at 8.25. and defeated the Spanish Armada at 0.30, having discovered Greenland in the interval.

At 838 Scotland and England were united under James VI and 1st.

Within 25 minutes Britain was in the throes of Civil War.

James Watt's steam engine bo- gan the Industrial Revolution at 10.10. Five minutes later America had declared its Independence. Within another 9 minutes the Bas- tille had fallen and the French Revolution had begun.

Napoleon had 12 minutes in the limelight.

Faraday's electrical discoveries which made the generation of electric power as we know it to- day possible, occurred at 5 minutes to 11.

By 11 o'clock we had the electric telegraph. Within another minute wa had photography. Four min-- utes

women Inter

had the mechanical sewing machine. Chloroform came within another half-minute.

At 11.16 the first explosion motor which was to lead to motor-cars and power-driven aeroplanes had bçon evolved.

Bix minutes later Graham Bell- had invented the telephone, fol- lowed within 30 seconds by the gramophone, and within a minute by the electric lamp.

CINEMATOGRAPHY

* arrived" 20 minutes aga. Marconi sent his irst message across the Atlantie by wireless at 23 minutes 12 seconds ago,

The Wright Brothers made their first flight 21 minutes ago.

The Great War lasted two min- utca 33 seconda in this time scale. Broadcasting began 10 minutes ago and talkies of minutes ago. Television broadcants began one minute 13 seconds ago.

Hitler has been in power three minutes, long enough for him to turn the clock back six hours to the Dark Ages of Barbariam and the ghetto.

Now I am going to set the slazu for 800 year herice, in the hops that I can sleep off the headache this timekeeping has given me.

-To-day's Thought-

*TIME 'JOSE, YOU say? An Roi

Alas, Time stays, WE pa.

AUSTIN DOBSON,