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The Colonial Empire

witnessed Recent years have

ព marked reawakening of public in- terest at Home in the affairs of the Colonial Empire. This change of attitude has been stimulated on the one hand by the claims of the so- called "have-not" Powers, and on the

other by the sporadic disorders in various parts of the Empire which have drawn attention to unsuspected defects in its administration. It is a change shared also by the Colonial Oflee itself. In a notable passage in his annual review of the ̈ ̈ ̈Colonial Empire for 1038 the Colonial Secre- tary observes that he "inherlied from his predecessors the tradition of trust- ing the man on the spot, of leaving local legislature to make their own laws, and of encouraging each de- pendency to work out its own in- dividual development within the Empire." The non-interference of Whitehall was duc not purely and simply to deliberate · policy, but "largely to the Colonies being out of sight and even out of mind." It is n healthy sign of the times to bave Mr.

MacDonald's assurance that this ob- livion is now a thing of the past, and that the Government's trust in its

distant representatives must be "on a basis, not of lack of contact, but of co-operation."

-REAL

INSIDE STORY

by F. G. H. Salusbury

"W

HETHER Holly- wood Intends to or not, the movies are painting our pleture for posterity. It won't be too accurate a portrait. We are going to be prettified and sillified."

That sentence is from a book ("We Saw It Happen," Harmp, 85. Gd.) in which thirteen men with thirteen typewriters have set out to knock the Hollywood attitude endways.

The men are all correspondents of the "New York Times"-nh nowspaper which one of them sedately describes as the best in the world-and they all write for dear life, because, as every re- porter knows, while there's le there's hope.

And these men have hope for us. That is the thing which emerges from this collection of world-wide stories, as cheerfully as a cori: from a bottle.

The cork may hit us in the eye as it pops out-Britannia gets a lovely black eye in the chapter called "The British Way."--but the draught which follows is cer- tainly invigorating.

I HOPE that historians will not overlook this book-which shows, in- cidentally, that reporters are head- and-typewriters above novelists as writers for it reeks with the spirit of the age; disillusionment everywhere.

no faith In the present, hope only for the future. The Thirteen Disillusionists ride high and wide and low.

G. E. R. Gedye goes through Central and Eastern Europe. What a babble of devilishly idiotic noises overwhelmed him at last! And above it all he magnifies two volccs-Schuschnigg making his final broadcast to the Austrian people. his words climbing pas- slonately to "God protect. Aus-

trin!

And Benes, President of Czecho- Slovakia, saying in 1937, Let the cares of Central Europe slip quite easily off your shoulders, my poor worried fricud. Nothing will

happen.

And then came 1938. The tragedy of this goes too deep even for Jeers. I wish I had space to describe the activities of all the Thirteen- say, of Louis Stark, who believes that the Sacco-Vanzetti case was a monstrous miscarriage of justice;

assistance to dependencies in need. The Labour Adviser is on a visit to the West Indies, the Chief Medical Adviser has toured East and Central "Africa during the past year, and the Agricultural Adviser haz visited Malaya, Ceylon and St. Helena, the last-named a much neglected Colony, whose chronic distresses have too long awaited the attention of the

Mother Country.

There is abundant testimony in the annual report to the varied efforts

It is now being adequately realised for the first time that while each dependency hns its local and which are now being made to develop Individual problems, there are also the resources and improve the social many problems common to them all and economic conditions of the Co- of which the solution must be sought Ionial Empire generally. It is easy by advice and co-ordination from the to attach an exaggerated importance- centre. The labour disturbances, to the unrest manifested in soma de- for example, which have occurred in pendencies in the past two or three regions as far apart as the West years, for, as the report points out, Indies and Mauritius have resulted in the regions affected include only a the main from certain fundamental fractional proportion of the area and social and economie causea operating population of the Colonial Empire. to a greater or lesser degree through-Reforms are now taking shape which out the Colonial Empire. There are, should obviate further trouble in again, the questions of malnutrition | the future and, above all, the public and of health generally, for which conselence has been stirred. At the the same kind of remedy, subject to ¦ same time, there still remain certain | local conditions, is applicable every-occasions for uneasiness, particularly where, All, the Colonies share the with regard to the unsatisfactory same need for the organised improve political conditions in Cyprus, and ment of their agriculture. 1 is which receive.scant notice. in the [symptomatic of the altered outlook report. Now, as never before, is the that the Colonial Secretary has pubile conscious of the duties of the crosted now ponia and now sub-trusteeship which, in the last resort, departments which will enable thee the purpose and justification of Colonial Ofico to render 'systemafle" our Imperial mission.

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of John Kieran on American sport; of Arthur Krock on high polilies in Washington. But a choice must be made, and I concentrate on. Ferdinand Kuhn and F. Raymond Daniell

Kuhn

the London corrc- spondent of the "New York Times." He writes about "The British Way." He writes sympa- thetically. He understands us. And he drags skeletons out of our na- tional cupboard and makes them dance with clacking bones. The essence of Kuhn is the decline of British democracy.

DANIELL is a reporter in the United States. He writes about the Ameri- can Way under the title of "The Land of the Free." He writes as sympathetically as Kuhn, He, too, They drags out his skeletons. dance, as befits American skele- tons, to a brisker measure--what strikes me as a more lunatic one. The essence of Daniell is the de- cline of American democracy.

Thly seems important. I do not suppose either Kuhn or Dantell looked over each other's shoulders as they pounded away on their typewriters, but both see Fasciar

In some form as the common fate for us and the Americans, unless we pull ourselves together.

Kuhn makes his best point when he refuses to see the British nation whole. He sees it as two classes. The upper class has re- tained its hold, its direction of affairs, by a snake-like subtlety-- a dishonest subtleness of mind, as it strikes Kuhn-which will not work for ever.

Up to the Era of Rape, which saw the successive disasters of Manchuria, Abyssinia, Austria and Czecho-Slovakia, the British policy of surrendering, the non-essen- tials, while keeping the essentials, worked pretty well.

It failed in this era because British statesmen mistook the essentials in international affairs. They thought it was more im- portant to have peace at almost any price--you remember Appeas ment? than to co-operate in checking the discase of aggression. In home affairs, this polley of keeping the substance by Bur- rendering the shadow, has served The the upper class excellently. substance, of course, in power, privilege, the rule-shall one say? -of, the Old School Tie.

THE shadow, so far as the upper class is con- cerned, consists of the social benefits such as that mag- nincent body of insurance laws (I Kuhn), unemployment, quote health, and old age, which have kept their effectiveness to this day and preserved Britain from the worst miseries of the American depression,

Remember. peasement?”, Mr. Chamberlain' with his Munich. "puct" (above).— Schuschnigg(right) and his "God.

- protect Austria !”.

Sacco and Vanzetti (below) "a 'mon- strous miscarriage of justice."

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Chamberlain," Lo writes, "told the propertied classes that social legislation, was the ransom they must pay in exchange for the security and wealth they enjoyed."

And Disraeli, long ago, made the same point.. The "haves" must pay for their possessions and privileges.

Thus, by knowing what to sur- render, Kuhn sees 'Britain re- establishing herself after the Great War. strengthening the bonds of Empire by apparently 100sening them with the Statute of Westminster, and saving her people from the American abyssez of social disorganisation.

KUHN also sees Britain as a democracy a hun- dred years behind the times. He sees an "appalling guli of class distinctions which, after hundreds of years, still separates one section of the people from another."""

"Every other democracy nowa.. dayn," he says, "is wise enough to recruit its brain-power and leader- ship, in politics and business. from the wholo-nation: -Great- Britain 1s' content to recruit hers- from the privileged three per cent,! who have been educated in the so- called public schools'... the odds of an elementary-school boy—that ▾ is to say, a poor boy-getting into one of the reserved seats of life in England are a thousand to one." And that is why, says Kuhn. our serpentine suppleness will not work for over. The challenge facing us is more desperate than the depression of 1931 or the un- rest of the post-war years. Will Great Britain meet it by breaking down vicious class-barriers so that sho can get the best out of all her people when the trouble comes?

"Or will she imitate the totall- tarian States by shedding hor liberty._her_tolerance, her Integ

GRIN AND BEAR IT

By Lichty

«Eeps, 1928 by Anilek Tastore tyaumle, zub

Stop brooding, Gilhooley.Them fonders gotta got

danted some timö I?? ̈

rity—a little bit here, a little there -so that her Conservative-rulers: can stay in power? I wish I felt. sure that she would choose the democratic way."

So much for Kuhn, an American looking at Britain. What of Daniell, an American, looking at America?

A large part of his chapter is devoted to that fantastic #gure of tyranny, Huey Long, Governor of Louisiana, who was assassinated by Dr. Weiss.

Daniell thinks that "the tide of Fasclat philosophy embodied in the organisations founded by Hucy Long, Townsend and Coughlin " may have evaporated to a great extent under the sun of Roosevelt's administration, with its principle of a new deni in social reforms,

But I do know from my travels to all parts of these United States that the mental attitude on which Fascism feeds exists here just as it does in Germany and Italy. while the seeds of Marxism fall upon barren soll."

Kuhn may say that Britain's working people compare unfav- ourably in physical or intellectual resources with the masses of many - poorer--and-- weaker-lands,—but Daniell comforts us for that with his description of the bewhiskered Kentucky farmer who firmly be- Haved that Negroes were only half human.

His authority, he said, was the Biblo. There were no women in the land of Nod, whither Gain fled, but Cain had issue. Therefore Cain must have married a baboon, and Negroes wero the result of this unnatural unton.

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HOLLYWOOD, with which I began this review, emerges frankly.mad.." By its marvellousty sustained detachment from con- temporary life," writes Frank Nugent, "It has become the eighth -and-ninth_wonders of the world. It is all things to all men, and all things and Robert Taylor to most women."

There is enough class distinction there to give Kuhn a scizure- "And I suppose," said Nugent. after a dose of social niceties, "that the producers speak only to. God?"

"Oh, no!" was a Press agent's reply, "some of them are very democratic."

This is a good book, a straight book,

Readers have front scats.

They can oven see the Thirteen Disillusionista pounding away on their typewriters with tears in their eyes-

Bomb Thrown Into

Barracks

Lieutenant-General Sir Henry. | Jackson, General Officer Command- | Ing-in-Chief, Western Command, re- cently made the following citation in command orders:

On May 22, 1930, at Seaforth Bar racks, Liverpool, Lance-sergeant W. Rawcliffe and Private E. Lynchi, De- pot,"

The

King's Regiment, were successful in preventing the explo sion of a high-explosive bomb, which had been thrown over the barrack Walk

into and - gymnasium - This prompt action undoubtedly prevented consequences which might have been serious. The

The General "OMeer : Com-' manding-in-Chief desires

to express his appreciation of this act of gul-

lantry, which showed great presence

of mind on the part of the two in- dividuals concerned, a disregard for their personal safely and great de votion to duty, and he directs that an entry be made in documents of Lance-sergeant Naweline and "Pri- vato E, Lynch, in accordance with the provisions of the King's Regulations.