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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, Saturday, APRIL 15, 1939.

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* .* * cient Greek city-states had IN SOME of hla earlier experience of the rule of a aned in detail the Roman des- speeches the Duce has de-i "tyrant," which would have tiny of the Italy ho hual been their name for any one revitalised, which is no langer of the dictators of to-day.. to be merely the world's art The history of the ancient museum or a. tourists' paradise. Greeks, let me here point once more Rome's mare claus- The Mediterranean is to be out, is rich in object-lessons for the present day, yes, and for to-morrow.

Coincidence in pointing this way with its long arm-is not It is true that even the largest successor of the Balbus who in General Balbo the pre-ordained of the Hellenic city-states was 19 .c. conquered and pacified gives your automobile that sought small in comparison with the Libya,

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politics in test-tubes," said Roman Empire. one of my Tutors at Oxford, and forced on her; more often than not She only waged war when it was I hope I have profited by this she "muddled through" her eam- and other epigrams, crystals of poigns as we have done; her supre- philosophic truth, that fell from macy, was the resultant of accidents. his learned lips..

7th. (Good Friday)-Lay some my chyrurgeon counselling me that and incidents.

what late and then ordering my There can be no doubt, thoughstitutional officer appointed in a crisis being neglected these many weeks make my way upon one of the King's

With her the dictator was a con-books which Indeed they did need. by about cleven of the clock

take much rest, and being trimmed the mob-made politician will in- to avoid the

I doc dangers of dignantly deny it, that a know- dyarchy. She guarded her borders, doe walk upon the Peake by Har- day to drink a glass of the wine of consular whyle I did lie in Hospitali. Later small shippe's being bidden yester- are weary of war and the ledge of Greck history (which we guard the Indian frontier, lech road where I doc cast my eyes Xeres. And when I am come there threat of war.

We are tired does not involve a knowledge of rains the opleira gentium, which about for snakes when I am come I doe find many of yesterday's com of the days when rumour chases the Greek language) is an in- drowned civilisation In a flood of bar- but I see none in my great content. Later I fall into talk with a know- eventually burst like a dam and nigh to the olde Middlesex trenches, any and all do drink a glass of wine. rumour and one report of turmoil

valuable training, in statesman- barism. ship,

After nuncheon I walk in my garden ledgable gentleman who tells mee follows another.

and find I still doe have some flowers he believes that the Albanian ven- English statesmen of the

and especially In the pots upon my ture is taken to keep We have listened so much to tales nearer and further past who had DURING her revolutionary period leads where are daffodils, larkspur Hitler. But to my mind there is

pace with

Herr of strife and confusion in distant that training were more sagaci-Suita, came to the front, and there Later to the Club where I find people venture than Abyssinia of which wer true dictators, such as Marius and and a fine show of delphinium, desire to find some more profitable lands in Europe. Now

we would aus and safer lenders than their was a smear of the tyrant in her threat to Albania, and Mr. Povy says llome to my nuncheon and after. talking much of Signor B. Mussolini's doe hear mighty Hittle these days. like for a little to hear about our missed it, often through no fault

modern successors who have early Emperors, own Colony, to find out what the of their own. I wish it were London,

But, on the whole, ancient Rome hec is about to claim Britain on

the ald plant sweet-corn, was as political-minded

beans, cow- as modern round that Caesar did once occupy cumbers and spinatch in my garden Government is going to do about the possible to persuade all our lead-

it. Talking problem of mal-nutrition, about ing Socialists to take a course best studied in other fields.

The psychology of dictatorship is of the t with one or two Officers and after did fall to reading, and

King's shippes, wee do agree dined alone. how strange it is to find that mer- health, about primary schools for in that subject--and also in lo- The Italian cities of the Renais-

chant shippes are now to bee fitted 10th-Up very belimes once more the thousands of illiternte children gic.

sance produced many triumphant ty- for guns, which doth remind us of and to my offer, my junior partner +

the days of Elizabeth, tho' in those being on holyday. But Lord for all South America, where bullets were daya there was no other Navy. Dined the work I did, I might have been THE GREEK "tyrant" was often took the form of a revolution,

ballots and a General Election

at home and so to bed.

in my bed until eleven of the clock. nearly always a leader of furnishes scores of

8th-Up very betimes and did At noon, having locked my papers It is our desire to dwell in, tran-discontented

examples eg, break my fast upon a dish of course

away in

In my Safe, to the Races where masses, who was the megalomaniae Lopez of Para- oatmeal porridge, which I doe

once more I ding with Mr. Caldbeck quillity and to eat the bread of hap- able to seize the supreme power Euay, whose insane adventures des-Then to my office, for it must needs sober minded table as did beft my

approve as a beginning to the

and his pretty lady, but at a more piness. To be of good comfort, to and hold it by means of

the country and reduced its women where I read In

ореп armed force.

though the be of one mind and to live in peace. He would ask his followers to

day

Inclinations. be holyday, years rather than my the newes-sheetes Made a water or two and at least. We do not wish to be disturbed give him a bodyguard, to pro-

that the Italians seem to have entered But there I cannot hope to win

lost not save upon the loiterles. Albania, which seemeth to mee to with the thought of it at breakfast tect him against his and their THE DICTATORS of to-day took ing closed, by motor hackney tot die nurse mee when I was sick. again threaten trouble. My accounts he- these many months. After three of in-the-morning---We- want to sit enemies,-and-this-force formed truction of democracy.

the democratic path-to-the-des-Happy Valley where I doe join the But I am minded they, or one of the clock to meet two pretty Ladies, the nucleus of a small army. down to our midday meal in con-

This, at least, can be said for them it doth appear beck's box, and them. Is more skilled at smoothing

Company in Mr. Quite a large crop of templation of plenty. And when tyrants appeared

these they are antidotes to Socialism desirous of discussing the next race ing her way about the Town. How-

that all are more in Greece which, except in our slow-thinking than the coup-de-main in Albania. night comes we desire to sleep well about the same time, though homeland, is a faith confuted by the So I doc fall into their humour and ever they did come safe after having and soundly with untroubled heart they were never lacking in sub-

stern logic of circumstance. and without the dream of evil.

sequent periods.

Some of them have had their mill-wee are all very merry and so to first sought for the races at Shauki- lary adventures. The

nuncheon where I sit next a late

wan, and indeed had they come We admit that, in the scale of Many of them were beneficent Pilsudski, of Poland, saved a large there is much laughter. And I be to the races and ten in the box, but pretty Lady at a small table where direct they had been too carly! So excitement, the threat of war quic-despots, who were able to eata- part of Europe from Bolshevism by lleve I have not been so merry these though I did seek to, I could win us blish an ephemeral dynasty. But which has been rightly called one of wager or two but with if fortune were to dine at the House, and so

winning kens our pulses. No

the Battle of the Vistula, many months. After did make a they did drive mee home as wee no moneys in the Lotteries. After pursue the even tenor of his way, pressive acts, and all were in

cathe majority were guilty of op- the decisive battles of the world. So home to my dinner where I and oblivious to the news broadcast by the end deposed or assassinated, "Father of the Greeks")

Kemal Ataturk (his surname means my children are gone out, and so wee doe, but to my greatest possible newspapers and radio,

because it was repugnant to the Greeks

had his fall to reading in front of a good fire grief my she-child is sick of a great day when he hurled the and so to bed. That thrill of excitement that Greek love of freedom to consent issuing an order of the day

grievous rheum in the head, which I out of Anatolia, after Oth. (Easter Sunday)-Lay late did depart earlier than I had hoped, doe fear may be the Bu. So they grips people in the streets and in for long to the arbitrary control began: their homes as they hear news of of an, unconstitutional ruler the Mediterranean."

Soldiers, your goal Jig The schemes of

and I dee make a note I must ask momentous happenings is one of the whose overweening

In Italy, I believe, with Mussolini, Mr. Tickle to widen the read at my self-suf-westernisation he carried out, some a great constitutional reformer, that corner if my friends are to buy most insidious dangers of sabre-ficiency became a commonplacerely look-see which cannot hide the "system" will be his heir.

with ludicrous effects, were

coaches with so long a wheel base. rattling and having the sabre rattled of Greek drama.

Hinemments of an Oriental autocracy. afty years hence, the political philo- and no damage dona,

But it would not be surprising If, However at the end the turn is made *

sopher would be able to say that the

11th-This day to the Hospitall whole brood, like the vintage crop for red-lamp rays and massage, my

vanished almost shoulder being apt to Dictators will be able to pass on simultaneously,

ache at a change of the weather and it belog somewhat-warmer. Thence to... the Office but Lord! when I doe realize the fare I have incurred upon the motor hackney I did hire, I having retained it to walt, I did nigh 'fall a swoon. Very busy in the offfee and dined at home.

man

at you. This danger is the excite-

ment attending on all momentous

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their power to successors.

things. A fire-engine rushing downHE MODERN dictator has TT MAY be that sume of the ruling of Greek tyrants,

improved on the technique the street it exciting. That the of the tyrant. building on fire may contain every --He-avoids-being born an arle thing you possess does not make the|tocrat, so that the people regard clang of the bell less exciting. him as "one of ourselves," and The moral? Logic, being its own he is also a master of propagan- moral, does not need one. But in da, a form of high-falutin' fudge this case logic is in a generous mood which was first seen in Baron and presents us with a moral. The Munchausen's famous cargo.

moral is: If the crowds who shout

Democracies are not more "On to Paris" outside the Palace of pacifle than monarchies, but Venice, or who demand Hitler's or

one-man rule, especially if new- Mussolini's blood outside 10, Down-ly established, is far less fa-

vourable to peace. ing Street, or who say in their clubs

The split-second in which a motor driver realises that he cannot avoid

in order.

It is bound to rely on a fight- in Hongkong that it's time weing force, which longs for mili- hopted in to those blighters, would tary adventure, and it must also remember what sacrifices war en- be remembered that it is difficult talls, there would be no need for to maintain an authority depen- this excitement.

dent on weapons unless the people can be persuaded that the weapons are wanted for some a head-on collision contains more other reason than to keep them exeftement than all the seconds his life has known put together. It is a thrilling noment when the axecu- tioner arrives to chop off your head.

vious of history's object- But by the time the thrill has died

lessons, The latest iliustration away, you have, died away also,

Is Hitler's and Mussolini's de- War-excitement is a mantle of sire to further their "missions". pearl-sown velvet cloaking a rotten in Europe. They appeal to the corpse. Or, if you prefer it, imagination of their people by acleton. At that price velvet, eloquent speeches, Inslating that sown with all the diamonds of all they are the heirs of Imperial the world's crowns, ja too the Rome, Or Aryan Germany

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Fighting Strength of Powers

Army and Navy ofeials in Washington give the following statis- tical estimates of the fighting strengths of modern big powers:

Armies

Germany: Active forces, including nir force, 200,000 men. Regular army reserve 300,000. Forces such as National Socialist Party units, 2,400,000. Total 3,000,000.

Italy: Regular Army 725,000. Air force, 100,000. Organised re- serve, 6,300,000. Total 7,125,000.

Russia: Regular Army, 1,000,000, Organised reserves, 18,000,- 000, Total, 19,600,000.

France: Regular Army 108,000, including air force of 50,000. Trained reserve, 8,500,000. Total 5,208,000

British Empire: Regular Army 367,000, Including air force of 75,000, Organised reserve, 550,000. Total, D17,000.

United States: Regular Army 177,000, Național Guard: 190,000, organised reserve 100,000. Total, 472,000..

Air Forces

Germany: Around 8,500 Army and Navy planes actively ser- viceable.'

France: 4,400..

Great Bellain: 0,000. Italy: 8,000.

Ella: 7,000.

Japanı 3,000. United States: 4,050.

Navics

Including building and appropriated for:

United States; 1,407,945 tons, including 17 battleships. British Empire: 1,750,478 tons, including 20 battleships. Japan: 800,091 tons, including 10 battleships. Italy: 068,000 tons, including 8 battleships. Germany: 438,364 tons, including 10 battleships. .France: G00,342 tons, including D battleships.

very

the pillow of the sick than in find-

and.

12th-This day but betimes and plucking of flowers in the garden for my house, where I find the Iceland poppies last well enough though, they. bee so fragile I cannot send them to my friends. Reading in the nowes- shcoles I do stil And much tension in Europe though things seem soine- what canter. But I doubt not publiek opinion in Britain and Franco hardening, for these constant crises cannot continue. But one feature of the matter I like not in

that my Antimoks fall somewhat Iow, indeed I am minded: to. purchase |more, so much below their true value they are. To Kowloon for my den- tist to examine my teeth, and but small adjustinent is required and Lord it is pleasant to bee able to bite again. Mr. Caldbeck to nun- cheon of the Clubbe and this oven- ing to the pictures with Mistress M, but Lord it was such a sorry per- formance I had much ado to roothe her

with pleasant vlands at the Hostelry, but a mighty pleasant dish of chicken done with some hot sea- soning doth restore her somewhat.

13th. This day dawns pretty warm with a fogge over the sea and so into white short clothes for the first time. Nothing fresh in Europe, and I trust all shall go well. Very busy, this day and home betimes and so to bed,

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