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Pensions

JONGKONG IS

HON

becoming

Colony of pensioners.

years ago.

Where is it going to end? Obviously, if pensions are to go on increasing at this abnormal rate, the time is rapidly approaching when Lie Colony's finances will no longer be able to stand the strain.

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FRANCE

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NORTH SEA

DENMARK

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Hitler's Empire to-day.

"HOLY ROMAN

EMPIRE"-of

-OW, as the shape of

IN

Europe threatens to change once more

by-

you may consider whether A Diplomatic Correspondent

Hitler is dreaming of a new

Holy Roman Empire.

continued:

1939

south-eastern Europe and keep it holy in foreign States."

Looking back on Austria and Czecho-Slovakia, that proclama- tion sounds like serving notice on the world of what was come.

Concentrated Power

to

be doubted is that Hitler

"When Legislative Council meets For the first time he has in- in 962, lasted in various forms to-morrow it will be asked to agree cluded within the frontiers of right up to 1806.

The excuse for publishing it You note that it states that to a supplementary appropriation [the Relch a race other than Ger-

was the 200th anniversary of the the old Empire created a feeling which will boost the total pensions man. Until Hitler's

Ita frontiers changed from death of Prince Eugene of Savoy, of close relationship with Ger- paid to former civil servants and marched into Prague most peo- thing to remember is that it did of Poland, repulsed the Turks Hitler knows; but does that troops time to time, yet the important who, with the help of the King man civilisation. Perhaps only their dependanta this year to $3,- 170,000, which is exactly double the Ple thought that his ambitions provide a political and social from the walls of Vienna in mean the States that made up amount paid by taxpayers four were limited to bringing within organisation that served the 1683.

the Reich people of German race,' purpose of rule for nearly 1,000

the old Empire are to be regard- Eugene, according to the pro- ed as a legitimate field for Ger- To-morrow it may be Hun- years. Judge its success by the clamation, "despised and perae- man expansion? garians, Croatians, or Poles. fact that it worked.

cuted," left the French Court to. If so, then Holland and By the middle of the sixteenth become a "soldier of the Reich." Switzerland are in the line of Perhaps we all missed the significance of an incident that century the Empire stretched Then, says the proclamation, danger, and the notion gives happened in 1934, when Hitler's from Hungary in the cast to Hol after Prince Eugene, with the point to the repeated rumour of In ten years we have paid out followers sent a crown and land in the west. As well as help of the Duke of Marlborough, an attack some day on those two $20,252,768 to support former civil sceptre of the Holy Roman Em- Czecho-Slovakia, It included a had overcome the French in the countries. servants on retirement. Half of pire to Nuremburg from Achen part of Northern Italy, Switzer- war of the Spanish succession, this total has been paid out in the for the Nazi Party Congress. last three and a half years, so

land, Savoy, and a part of Bur- "the German Reich was free, tremendously has the cost expanded that the removal was due to the

Then it was given out publicly gundy in France.

and owed its freedom to the since 1935-36. In twelve years

soldier-general and statesman, civil service penalons have in fact that the original crown and pire was a loose confederation of Marshal, whose name had long the old Germanised Holy Roman From 1556 to 1806 this Em- Eugene of Savoy, the Reich Field regards himself as the heir to

WHAT need not creased by three hundred per cent. sceptre were confided to Nurem- the different Princes of Germany been in everybody's mouth." Since the Great War they have in- burg in 1424. creased more than tenfold.

under the presidency of the The crown and sceptre were House of Habsburg. The dif-

Now for the pointer to Ger- Empire, and as the shadow of When the Budget was before authentic copies of the symbols ferent States within the Empire a policy. The proclamation eastern Europe it looks as if he Nazi Germany lengthens over Council last September, the estimat-which were taken to Vienna for often quarrelled, ----sometimes---"Under the renowned general ed deficit this-vear-was $2,405,435,safe keeping during the Napo fought. Now, unless revenue has increased leonic wars.

-is-coming into his kingdom;" proportionately to expenditure, the possible in 1934, but since then Italy, and Switzerland, gained idea and guaranteed our common did not take the title. He called

Only copies were

Do not forget that the first Some of them such as Holland, stock fought for this Imperial Empire, with its centre in Rome, of those days, all of German Emperor of that older Roman deficit is nearer $6,000,000, more Vienna has fallen into Hitler's their independence, but in the German civilisation for the fu- himself father or leader. Hitler than half the Colony's surplus of Assets over Liabilities.

hands-and the ancient crown mass the Empire hung together. ture.... Hongkong is now supporting over and sceptre. 1,100 people on pensions. Between Then, two years later, the at-

"The common defensive effort what matters is not the title but calls himself the Fuhrer, and them, they are drawing over $3,-tention of German soldiers was

of a Reich sundered in countless the power that goes with it. 000,000 per annum.

They do not spend the money in Austria once formed part of the

drawn boldly to the fact that WITH that as the back- States created a feeling of close

ground, let us relationship with German civili Sovereign, exercising dominion

In the real sense he lu Hongkong, so that every cent paid Holy Roman Empire of the Ger- examine again the proclamation sation. out for pensions represents a dead loss to the Colony.

posted up years ago in the Ger- "The military achievements of was the Holy Roman Empire at over an area nearly as great as Excluding

man barracks, see if, perhaps, Prince Eugene freed the way for the beginning of the eighteenth. On the parade grounds a pro- there are more clues in it to the a new stream of settlers of Ger- century. pensions, the Hongkong Blue Book clamation was posted stating direction of German foreign man shows that there are 52 people no that the ancient Holy Roman

blood who still preserve longor residing in the Colony who Empire "was once

policy.

German culture in eastern and itself-with a difference, and an He is making history repeat oro drawing pensions of over £1 Fatherland.”

our great day. Seventeen are drawing

important one at that. penalons in excess of £2 per day,

The world perhaps missed the while eight are drawing pensions of meaning and the potentialities over £1,000 per annum.

of that proclamation. So con sider what that Empire was, and from that we may get a clue to what is in Hitler's mind, what are the limits of his ambitions.

Do you remember that in The position is admittedly a "Mein Kampf" Hitler years ago difficult one. Obviously we must wrote that he was not interested pay pensions. But it is just as obvious that we cannot afford to in colonies beyond the seas but

the enormous amountain those near at hand? representlig nearly one-tonth of He meant Austria, Czecho- our, total revenue that are now Slovakia, Croatia, and the other being mulet from the Treasury,

Pensions and Military Contributhat once went to make up the countries bordering on the Reich tions combined are taking over Holy Roman Empire. one-quarter of the Hongkong's revenue. The result is thint our local social services suffer.

those on dollar

Ono former Government em- ployee has steadily drawn a pension since 1877. Another re rod in 1892-for health reasons His pension still goes on.

pay

man nation.

Now that Empire, which be- gan with the crowning of Otto

comfort and well-being enjoyed by the civil servant, all the more reason why, after retirement, his

It is manifestly unfair to the Hongkong taxpayer that he should be asked to so extensively support people whose une ambition is to leave the Colony as soon as they are assured that the Colonial pension should circulate in the Government will pay them a Colony instead of in other parts salary for the rest of their lives. of the world.

During his residence in the Colony, the civil servant enjoys amenities that are far beyond the reach of the ordinary commercial worker.

The Colony is supporting him. in retirement: he should support the Colony,

Government is casting around for new means of raising taxation Thore can be no objection to in order to meet, among other this. Rather, it should be the aim increasing charges on the public of commercial houses to attain service; this frankenstein monster the same degree of well-being for of pensions. We would suggest their workers, to make their fot in that penalon that has to ba Hongkong as happy, as la the lot remitted overseas should be one. of the civil servant.

of the Brat, victims of Its own But there is, in this degree of growth.

A Sundered Reich

GRIN AND BEAR IT

Can, 2000 by tablet Prakan teradiata, Lan

The difference is that the old

By Lichty Holy Roman Empire was a col-

"Leater Trifle, defendant--aged 41-arrested for alimony, 1830-

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lection of loose States recog- nising the overlordship of the Emperor, and that was its weak-

ness.

The new Empire of Hitler, on the other hand, is a highly cen- tralised State revolving on the axis of Berlin. "One people, one State, one leader" is more than a catchy slogan; it spells concentrated power.

Then Came Napoleon

THERE is another dif

ference. The Hibe. burg emperors thought first of the dynasty, the family. With. an unmarried emperor in Ber- lin, that weakness, too, is eliminated from the new Em- pire.

Yet the Holy Roman Empire. perished in the plans of another conqueror who stalked through. Europe as Hitler marches now. Napoleon planned to, annox the title, to make the Empire part of the "Napoleonic idea."

To

defeat his ambitions Francia II. proud Habsburg, resigned the Imperial dignity in 1806 and so ended the Empire. that lasted a thousand years.

Hitler says his empire, wille last a thousand years too.