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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, MARCH 9, 1939.

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That's how America went to war·

with Mexico in 1846.

Wilson led America into the last war, against all opposition. Now consider legislation. In measures are

brought into T'arliament by the

To see the President clothed in hisfull power, America must beat war or in a state of emer- gency due to internal disturb Great Britain ance. As Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy he is King's Ministers, and theoreti- then expected to assume all the cally under his instruction. powers the emergency warrants, "charged with the faithful exe cution of all laws."

The American President can't do that. Not directly or through his Ministers can he introduce

Army

Cabinet

CONSTITUTION

Navy

Senate

House of

CONGRESS

Reps.

From the White House to the Capitol in Washington, where Con-

So you see there is scarcely a Bills.. All the Constitution al- ss meets, the powerful President sends messages reporting on the state to the lows him is to report to Con of the nation; ho derives his powers such as control of the Army and European equivalent American President. In some gress on the state of the nation, Navy-from the Constitution. Yet he has Cabinet Ministers who can't

Hongkong Telegraph. way he is frening, in others and to recommend measures he

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Ironical

like a dictator, and yet in other considers necessary,

The President informs Con- senses he has less power than gress by means of written mea-

the British Prime Minister.

It's a big job and a killing job. aures, but those messages do not There are often four or five necessarily result in legislation. So how does he manage to widowa of former Presidents alive at the game time-rarely get things done?

He gets a member of Con- more than one ex-President to gress to submit a Bill for him, watch his successor ruling and, of course, it is known whether the. President is behind America's millions.

The American President backs any measure submitted. up his words by reminding the If the President is tied by Senate Military Affairs Com- Congress, well, he can get his mittee that he is Commander- own back by exercising his veto in-Chief of the United States power.

It works this way: If, for Army and Navy. Vested with powers approached only by example, President Roosevelt those given to the President of does not like a certain Bill he the French Republic, the Ameri- can return it to Congress within can President uses them.

ten days of its passing.

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Bobby Bingo

- AND HE WAS THE REASON FOR THAT APPEARANCE AT THE KOWLOON

CONTRADISTINC-| TION to other courts which I have attended

COURT

1. began to wonder hopefully whe- ther I might exchange "papers" with the perpetrator of some comparative- ty decent little crime, gel acquitted, and away on my lawful occasions.

Too risky, I decided!

BRITAIN gave £10,000,000 to Czecho-Slovakia as a sop for the Munich Agreement.

Yesterday, according to the Prague Correspondent of the London "Times" (quoted in our Stop Press column), Germany has demanded an amount in gold from Czecho-Slovakia pro-

In times of peril he straddles Then, unless the Bill repasses Houses by a two-thirds portionate to the number of in- the scene, loaded with powers so both habitants in the territory ecded great that they frighten. Then vote, it does not become law.

The veto power is a dangerous the great democracy bends to to the Reich. Czecho-Slovakia, the will of a dictator.

instrument in a democratic because she cannot resist, has Remember Wilson in the war? State, and most Presidents fight

His word was law, his prestige shy of it. Two Presidents,--not that it is a fixed habit acceded to the demand, and has immense, his power unlimited. though, Jackson and Cleveland,this was bright and airy Mr. X, apparently untiringly, con- the slinking ordered the Czech National He crossed the Atlantic at the used it vigorously and survived.

Except in times of depression and-lacking the melancholy Unued to Interrogate

prisoner, the dapper interpreter, the Bank to pay the first instalment, end of the war like a god, un-

disputed ruler of the United such ns Roosevelt has experi- reason

for attendance-

confident police; make an occasional £2,500,000, to the Reichsbank. States.

enced, the domestic powers

note, and utter sentence or acquittal. —This is what-it-boils-down-to: What then? Well, democracy the President are not so great. might have been cheerful.

At all events, everyone-I-en-Those condemned to gaol were cons- Britain has financed Czecho- revenges itself, turns on the man Most of the law and administra

pirited-in variance with the fre- it has raised to too great power. tion in America belongs to the countered, with the exception of ducted out of court, bowed and dis Slovakia to finance Germany. It happened to Wilson, and there State and local governments. prisoners, defendants and magis-quently repeated remark that Chu- The gold Germany is grabbing you had the unhappy spectacle- Unemployment, trade difficul- j is British gold, and it's not go days in ridicule and discredit.

of the once great man ending his ing to be used to give butter to German women and children. It's going to be used to make German bombs, which one day may be killing the British men who paid that gold into the Treasury. Flare Up

£15,000-a-Year Job

of

ties, and so on, have, however, trate, was alert and debonuir.

Having witnessed eyen a por- given Roosevelt a bigger part to

tion of the latter's morning play in the domestic scene.

ese of that class do not fear prison.

☆ ☆ A uniformed policeman,

The President chooses his own work, I marvelled that he was Y beaming as though regarding THE powere, given freely to Cabinet Ministers, but most of able to maintain human resem-Paradite, sympathising

the President by the Ameri- the other appointments can people, are vast, approach made by the senators, and the those Hitler and Mussolini have jobs they can hand out is often the price the President has to taken for themselves.

system."

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no doubt with my constantly chifling, aching foot, approaches, naks to see my "ticket of admission."

What's this? Dog? Wrong court,

Sorry!"

wrong court.

self-importance received a OF COURSE, I was directed to the Madum: Dogs over the way, No. 12.

I began to have suspicions after

My I discovered that Mr. Z. was appar- half-an-hour's interested and fellow-much needed flip when in No. 12 feelingish attention to the procession ently expecting my adveat. But this call "the spoils of delinquenta hawkers, snatchers, feeling of clation

obstructors, and what not..

But there is one great dif- pay for their support. How ference: the American Presi- ever, there are a lot of jobs that dent, no matter how far his the President himself can hand "dictatorship" goes, is always out; and so you have what TURN TO Falestine. Terrorism on the end of strings laid down Americans

flares up again in this un-in the Constitution. ruly member of the British family, Palestine is no blood relation. She is a kind of step child once removed. Who will relieve our Commonwealth of this troublesoine mandate? No- body--because nobody wants it.

His £15,000-a-year job is three: foreign divided into affairs, making laws, and ad- ministering them,

First, it is the President alone who appoints Ambassadors and Ministers to foreign countries, else and he receives those sent to the United States, as the King does in Britain.

Britain was "awarded" the mandate at San-Remo in 1920. She is in Palestine for better or worse and she must carry on with her task of restoring order from chaos.

That's the easiest part of his work on foreign affairs. Through his Secretary of State-the American Foreign Secretary- he has the direction of all negotiations, and he can take the initiative in foreign affairs.

He can persuade his country into taking a certain line in foreign policy; his influence is naturally tremendous-like ai king in a democratic State.

For some this land is a haven. Thousands of Danzig Jews are the latest who want to go there. They can see the writing on the wall. But since the immigra-

But his is not the last word tion quota is only 5,000 in deciding foreign policy, for if semester, it is impossible for all he wants to do a deal with on- other country, to sign à treaty to be accommodated.

The quota cannot be altered with it, then he must get the until the whole Palestino prob. approval of two-thirds of the lem has been thrashed out at Senate, which consists of two the current conference in Lon- members from each State.

יי

So that's why you hear so don. And that conference has much about the Foreign Affairs become a bear garden, with Committee of the Senate; they Jewish delegates refusing to must be kept informed by the meet Arab, delegates, and with President of any negotiations Arab delegates refusing to meet he is conducting with a foreign

Power. the Jows. Not only won't the conferees meet, but they've Power in Foreign Affairs... started quarrelling amongst | TECHNICALLY, the President

cannot doclare war. themselves.

GRIN AND BEAR IT

By Lichty

“There really in't a thing wrong with me just looked, et my tongue and said all, it needed was a rest!":

was somewhat dashed by the realization that I was half-an-hour fate!

He courteously enquired the num- in turn, ber of

of my summons. 1, informed him that I was merely an interloper, a proxy, and he proceeded to probe into the true facts of Bobby Bingo'a alleged bite..

I put myself in worse case than necessary by stating that we were "pleading not gulltq".

Of course it should "ploading not guilty".

have been

Why do these brilliant ideas coma too late? I began to, think that yet might end the day at Stanley:

"Oh.well, I'm sorry, but, I can't

then. Proxka take the case, only be heard when a case is un- disputed".

Lan

Did I read his thoughts aright, ur wns it an unjust aspernion? "th- other of those confounded

women

oing to tell me that ber yapping lle brule never bites, can't bite, won't bite, and so on

I enquired it further details of the anine crime could be dilated upon at some future date, when the legal owner could appear to answer well and truly.

"yes, the 14th. Samo time"; I thanked His Worship, His Honour. Tis: Grace-how does one address a kindly, weary but "no-notisense" hero" sort of official?

1 departed, snuffing the air as n free-born Briton should.

BOBBY 15 exonerated,

and no

longer alinks beneath the sofa at the mention of Kennedy Town.

We won our case, or to be exact, the charge was wihdrawn. Why? To Be Continued In Our Next!.

N.B.Whitestone.