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English translation of a above quotations. But one can only formerly held to a great extent, in to a knock-out blow in the initial marvel at the Nazi propaganda foreign countries, notably the United stages of a war Count Pucekler doen Performance. Maximum speed 60- rather surprising book about bureau permitting the German publie Staten, they are now held predomin- not commit himself. But his general $5 m.p.h. Acteleration 0-50 m.ph.this country which recently to read so devastating an exposure antly in the Empire, especially the conclusion is that although Great appeared in Germany. The au- of its "encirclement" propaganda by Dominions. But since the Dominions Britain la faced with more difficult greatest extent of was in 1914, yet she Is militarily Hafety, Independent springing for thor, Count Pucekler, a former one of its own leading publicists, and would probably help the Matlier strategie problems to-day than she

to learn that the country which to Country to the stability. Hydraulle brakes. Safety London correspondent of the supposed to be the architect of the their power in any case, investments better prepared to cope with them." countries cannot be and will become much more irl "encirclement" is the very one from held in those glass oil round,

"Deutsche Allemeine Zeitung,' Control, Scientific, shack-free steer and an intimate of Herr von which "no other country in the world regarded as an addition to the total the near future.

the Empire for

As to the Empire, Count Pucekler ing. Synchromesh.

Ribbentrop, addresses himself to his anything to feur" provided its economic strength

eillent lines.

On the other alde of the picture the scouts the idea that it has suffered nny weakening from the constitution- the task of estimating the real n foreign polley follows strictly war purposes.

In his analysis of the material Count polute out that Britain's do- al changes since the war. strength of Great Britain and

in British Empire the

all factors affecting Britain's warliko mestle productive capacity has sub-

institution whose inner its aspects, moral, military strength, Count Pucckler notices on stuntinily increased, that it in in- contrary, it "has developed into a

the economic side ecrtain well-known comparably better organised for war unique strategic and economic.

He directions in which the has suffered purposes than ever before, and that cohesion is greater than would ap accomplishes it with a modera- some recent decline, Her mercantile the post-war industrialisation of the pear on the surface, and it faces the

represents 11 great world as a united whole." tion, detachment and zeal for marine, her income from banking Dominions truth which stand out in shining services abroad, her favourable bal- potential access of strength, In par

ance of payments has disappeared licular he mentions

Count warns his readers contrast from the

familiar and she is beginning to live on her Canada as an Impregnable base for THE

construction. Moreover,

against the facile assumption methoils of Dr. Goebbels's capital. These developments he at- aeroplane

the that because on many occasions tributes, rightly, of course, to the given command of the seas, system of "enlightenment."

efforts of other nations, especially Colonial Empire affords an immense recent years Great Britain has been What is chiefly surprising Germany, to "build up their pros and readily accessible reservoir for content to accept changes detrimental about the book is that it should perity" by means of a policy of self- raw materiala. Altogether he re- to her interests with nothing more gards the total economie resources of than vain protests, therefore her star be allowed to circuinte in Ger- suficiency.

In view of these last tendencles, the Empire for war purposes as still is on the wane. Ile points out that In view of her varied and tardung many at all. For it ruthlessly

which the Count foresees as perman- extremely formidable. demolishes some of the major ent, he thinks that Great Britain is From the military standpoint he responsibilities she cannot possibly falsehoods which the Nazi pro- tlestined gradually to become poorer. recognises that the British navy has exert her full power every time one paganda machine has been so Iler vast accumulated wealth is the much greater preponderance in of her minor interests is threatened.

product not of any intrinsic superi- European waters than at the out. Therefore, he says: assiduously cultivating during

ority, but of her long monopoly of break of the inst war, and that the the past few months.

industrialisation in the early and relative strength of the ailled French middle 19th century, which enabled navy, is also greater. On the other her to create her immense overseas and, Great Britain has, of course, EVER since the November investments. The most she can la to reckon with the partial loss of her island immunity through the develop- pogroms and especially since now is. If possible, to maintain her ment of air power and also with the

She cannot hope Inheritance.

donger to merchant shipping as it the Czech coup in March, the increase it, nor to replace it if lost; approaches the bottleneck of the controlled Press has been trying since the conditions which permitted to persuade the German people her to acquire it in the first instance Chun. "Today" he says, "the danger has arisen that the first battle, are gone for ever.

the battle of the air, will be the lasi, that the British Empire is a

To this extent her position and battle, and that by a direct attack on

have THE SUDDEN press clamour grisly tyranny created and main- prospects

deteriorated, for what was formerly unassailable that the Soviet is deliberately tained by a "bloody terror" from "Great Britain habitually wins her hase Great Britain will be deprived which its alleged victims are wars thanks to her sounder econ- of the ability to prepare herself for Thokling up conclusion of an

always struggling to liberate mic wind." Count Pucckler avoids the anal battle."

exaggerating the present degree of aillance with Britain in order to themselves. Any section of the the deterioration, but he does insist

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Chamberlain

to

"It is not true that a country injures Grent Britain's which Interests must necessarlly reckon with the full force of Britain's might. It is quite possible to pull a hair or two out of the British

toll Llan's

very without any serious consequences reguiting, and the problem of how many haira must be pulled out in a bunch, or how often individual hairs can be pulled out, before the Lion turns is almost a problem for a sophist. something like the problems of how many stones make a heap." The British Lion's Indulgent tolerance of the process of "strip- teasing" his tall game abruptly to un end last March, slace when the

Chamberlain' untenable is pro- been disposed to swallow this

has created new difficult- superfluous. If Herr Hiller and Herr les in the Mediterranean-a dis- von Ribbentrop are in any danger paganda as clever as it is dan-nonsense will be astonished at

the picture drawn by Count. THIS is that not only has the advantage, however, against which of despising the strength of the Lion's gerous.

friendship teeth and claws now that he has capital value of her overseas he partially offsets the lavestments fallen, but they are less with Turkey, since consolidated by turned they will do well to consult It is clever, for it immediately Pueckler.

After remarking that the total favourably situated from the point the mutual guarantee port.

Count Pucckler or his book before strengthens Mr. Chamberlain's

strength of British troop, units in the of view of mobilisation for wár pur- On the question whether Great worse befalls them. position with the Englishman, overseas Empire

the (excluding whose sympathies are always Dominions) is only 30 squadrons of 'planes and about 02,000 men, the with the under-dog. It is dan-Count goes on: gerous because it mny well

make the position of Mr. Neville German people which may have on one factor of importance. MOREOVER, the changed attitude services of the sophist have become

wreck whatever possibility there

is, after all these exasperating delays for which the Premier appears primarily to blame, of

an alliance being concluded.

of

"The fact that an empire with a coloured population of over 400,- 000,000 souls can be held with such weak forces is a brilliant testimony to British administrative talent.. Such a thing is possible because the British Empire is not like the old Roman Empire, and has.net to be constantly defended against the insurrections of oppressed peo- ples. The existence of the British Empire is not daily being called in question from within. With the exception of chronic skirmishing on the North-West Frontier, the ocen sional religious-and-racial troubles

WHAT A PUBLIC

INQUIRY

MEANS

THE pubile inquiry into the the Titanic sunk with the loss of carried even in ships of more than.

toss of the submarine Thetis (more than 1,500 lives after striking 40,000 tons.

in India, and the present disturb the Titanic in 1912. ances in Palestine, pence reigns throughout the whole vast British Empire."

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Soviet Russia, undoubtedly, has cause to be suspicious of the present British Cabinet, among whose members are persons, in

is proving the most important inquiry an iceberg in mid-Atlantic, Two in- It was the same. Lord Mersey who addition to the Premier,

into a disaster at sen since the loss of quiries were held, one in Washington, two years afterwards was called on to notorious for their Russophobia.

the other in Leridon."

go to Quebec to act as British repre- | Neither the Premier, Sir John

The tribunal now sliting has the The London tribunal was known as sentative on the tribunal of three power to take evidence on oath, to the Titanic Wreck Commission and lawyers who inquired into the loss of Simon or Sir Samuel Houre have

order the attendance of witnesses, and met in publle under the presidency of the Empress of Ireland.

the late Lord Mersey, the most entertained in the past any

This famous ship came into collision the production of documents.

It has at its disposal two registrars eminent marline lawyer of his day, with the merchant ship Storstad In feelings but hostility towardsTROM the point of view of official the Russians, as the history of Nazi propaganda Count Pucckier and a number of skilled draftsmen it was held in the spacious drill hall the St. Lawrence Alver and 1,014

sengers, were lost. the past two decades bears wit is disconcertingly candid on another drawn from the Civil Service. They of the London Scottish in Bucking lives, including two Hongkong pas-

After weeks of dellberations 'it history

Many serious allegations ware made- tople. Great Britain, he says, dare prepare notes and take down evidence ham-gate, London. ness. The

the

for the report which will be compiled not, under existing conditions, pur- by the commissioners and subsequent found that the disaster was caused in the evidence. It was suggested chequered relations between the sue an aggressive policy even if she y sold through the Stationery Office. through excessive speed in the lee that the bigger ship would not have two countries, indeed, has been a wished.

Tribunals of this kind investigating fields. The generul pubile were foundered had not the cargo boat.... Being an object of envy on account history of insults and abuse of her vast possessions, she is com-national calamities have very wide greatly disappointed at the mildness which reached port safely-separated which, even whilst negotiationspelled willy nilly to conciliate world powers, and in the past criminal pro of the censures expressed against from her, leaving a great hole below have been in progress, have opinion "by a strictly ethical use of ceedings have on occasion resulted certain individuals and against the the water-line."

Board of Trade for not moving with The captain of the liner was ex- diminished but little. If Mr. her power. In any case he con- from their recommendations,

There was the most bitter indigna- the times and Insisting that sufficient onerated, although the court held that siders it "highly doubtful whether Chamberlain had applied a tithe the British people would be prepared tion both in America and Britain when lifeboats for everyone on board be the Storstad should have been given of the persuasive powers he used to take up nems for any purely ego- at Godesberg and Munich in the tistical national interest at the ex- cause of appeasement to the pense of other peoples."

From this moral check on her cause of the Peace Alliance the polley "it follows that no country in position in which the democracies the world has anything to fear from And themselves to-day would her, no matter how strong she may be, providing its own foreign policy have been infinitely strengthens as strictly ethical as Great Britain's is compelled by circumstances to be." It was this, the Count tells us, that As it is, the impasse reuched made it impossible for Great Britain in the Anglo-Russian negotia-to resist by force the emancipation tious must be as gratifying to of the Rhineland or the Austrian and Herr Hitler as was the position Sudeten Anschluss, since in all these actions the moral case was indisput- in which the German dictator ably on the side of Germany. found himself after the Munich | Agreement.

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There is internal evidence that the book was written before Herr Hitler commited the indisputably immoral As regards that famous inci- act of annexing Bohemia and Mora

viu. Whether the Count himself was dent, we have yet to see publish scandalised by that step we have no ed any small, still voice of means of knowing. Certainly IL opposition to the adulation with comes within his own definition of which the Premier's act in flying achieved at the expense of other "aggressive aims," which are "aims willy-nilly to meet the German nations," and such nims, he asserts, dictator was greeted. It was a a statesman of to-day can pursue momentous occasion in history, only "if his own nation and its allies are so powerful that he can defy as has repeatedly been pointed whatever circles may be involved, out, for never before has a perhaps the whole world." British Prime Minister volun- tarily dashed to the side of the

man whose actions branded him

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may be that the Count, as a de-

vout Nazi, bitterly repants his as a potential aggressor and imprudence in penning the chapter enemy to plead for peace.

No, we could not Imagine the turn back the pages of history to English Prime Ministers of see that it was not the British Victoria's or William the Premier who beseeched peace. Fourth's days tearing to the It was the might of the British Continent to plead with the Empire that kept the peace. aggressors. We carmot imagine The might of the British Em- Sir Edward Grey dashing topire remains-a potential chal- Berlin in 1914 to intercede with lenge to aggressors. But it is the Kaiser. Rather, we would being mismanaged.

GRIN AND BEAR IT

By Lichty

"Wo cortainly save money on a budget-it takes so long to get the accounts straight wo nover have

time to go anywhoro!"

a wider berth. It held the officer in charge of the Storstad responsible for the disaster because he had changed course in the fog.

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MR. RAMSAY MACDONALD,

then Premier, appointed Sir John Simon to be chairman of the Committee of Inquiry into the loss of the airship R 101 near Benuvals on the night of October 5, 1930. Forty- eight people were killed, including Lord Thomson, then Air Minister,

Sir John had two assessors, Colonel T.`C. Moore-Brabazon and Professor E, Inglis. The court sat in the halt of the Institution of Civil Engineers, In Great George-street. Westminster. It was found that in crossing the Channel there had been a subufantiul loss of gas; that the trials of the reconstructed ship had been cut down

to owing

exigencies of lime; and that the aleship in the cir cumstances ought never to have left Cardington for India,

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E inquiry into the 'Gres- THE

ford Colliery disaster of September 22, 1034, when 200 miners were killed, lasted more than two yea, and the report of the Com- missioner, Sir Henry Walker, was not Issued until February 1937.

Sir Henry had two asacapors→→→→→Mr. John Brass, a mining engineer, anď Mr. Joseph Jones, president of the Mineworkers' Federation. The actual hearing occupied 30 days and the report, which was by no means un animous, Alled 38 volumes, 3,070- pages in all,

There were criminal proceedings against certain men held to be guilty. of negligenco.

Norman Hillson

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