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Petrol Over 40 mpg. May we THERE is published to-day an of which the pith is contained in the poses: For

were Britain would be likely to succumb 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 Unlied stages of a wor Count Pucckler does Performance. Maximum speed co- rather aurprising book about bureau permitting the German public States, they are now held predomin- not commit himself. But his general 03 m.p.h. Acceleration 0-50 m.p.h.this country which recently to read so devastating on 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 is faced with more difficult Safety. Independent springing for thor, Count Pucckler, a former one of its own leading publicists, and would probably help the Mother strategic problems. to-day than she to learn that the country which is Country to the greatest extent of was in 1914, yet shola militarily clability, Hydraulic 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," "Deutsche Allemeine Zeitung,","encirclement" is the very one from held in those countries cannot be and will become much more so :. În and an intimate of Herr von which "no other country in the world regarded as an addition to the total the near future.

As to the Empire, Count Pucckler Ribbentrop, addresses himself to has anything to fear provided its economic strength of the Empire for

ethical lines. Comfort. Independent springing in the task of estimating the real own foreign polley follows strictly war purposes.

On the other side of the picture the scouts the idea that it has suffered. any weakening from the constitution- In his analysis of the material Count points out that Britain's dos al changes since the war. On the proves ali ronds. Body conformity strength of Great Britain and

in British Empire seating. No-draught ventilation (de the

all factors affecting Britain's warlike mestic productive capacity has sub contrary, it has developed into

that it is in- unique Institution whose inner luxe saloon and Coupe.)

its aspects, moral, military strength, Count Pucckler notices on stantially Increased,

the economic side certain well-known comparably better organised for war strategic and

economic. He directions in which she has swiered 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

great 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 ticular he mentions the value of

hia readers contrast from the familiar and she is beginning to live on her Canada as an Impregnable base for THE Count warns methods

facile assumption of Dr.

Moreover, against the Goobbels's capital. These developments he at- neroplane. construction

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

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 perlly" by means of a policy of self- raw materials. Altogether he re- to her interests with nothing more gards the total economic resources of than vain protests, therefore her star be allowed to circulate in Ger- sumelency.

In view of these last tendencies, the Empire for war purposes as atlil is on the wane. He points out that In view of her varied and farung many at all. For it ruthlessly which the Count foresees us perman- extremely formidable.

cannot From the military standpoint. he responsibilities she

pasauly demolishes some of the major ent, he thinks that Great Britain 18 falsehoods which the Nazi pro- destined gradually to become pourer. recognises that the British navy has exert her full power every time one much greater preponderance in of her minor interests is threatened. paganda machine has been so Her vast accumulated wealth is the

the oui Therefore, he says:

"EL is not true that a product not of any intrinsle superi- European waters than at

country aasiduously cultivating during erity, but of her long monopoly of break of the lust war, and that the

which Injures Great Britain's Industrialisation in the early and relative strength of the allled French

Interests must necessarily reckon middie 10th century, which enabled navy is also greater. On the other

with the full force of Britain's her to create her Immense oversens hand, Great Britain has, of course,

might. It is quite possible to pull EVER since the November Investments. The most she can do to reckon with the partial loss of her

island immunity through the develop- hair or two out of the British ment of air power and also with the

without Lion's tail

any very pogroms and especially since now is, if possible, to maintain her

She Inheritance. cannot hope to danger to merchant shipping as it the Czech coup in March, the increase it, nor to replace it if lost, approaches the bottleneck of the

serious consequences resulting, and the problem of how many haira controlled Press has been trying since the conditions which permitted Channel. To-day" he says, "the must be pulled out in a bunch, or to persuade the German people her to nequire it in the first instance danger has arisen that the first battle, how often individual hairs can be

are gone for ever. that the British Empire is a

the battle of the air, will be the last pulled out, before the Lion turns To this extent her position and, battle, and that by a direct attack on is almost a problem for a sophist THE SUDDEN press clamour grisly tyranny created and main- prospects have

deteribrated, for what was formerly an unassaliable something like the problem of how tained by a "bloody terror" from "Great Britain habitually wine her base Great Britain will be deprived many stones make a heap." that the Soviet is deliberately which its alleged victims are wars thanks to her sounder econ- of the ability to prepare herself for The British Lion's indulgent holding up conclusion of an always struggling to liberate exaggerating the present degree of

omic wind. Count Pucekler avoids the final batile,"

tolerance of the process of "strip- alliance with Britain in order to themselves. Any section of the the deterioration, but he does insist

teasing his tall came abruptly to an end last March, since when the 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 Chamber in untenable is pro-been disposed to swallow this

AVR of Italy has created new difficult- superfueus, It Herr Hitler and Herr ies in the Mediterranean-a dis- von Ribbentrop are in any danger paganda as clever us it is dan nonsense will be astonished at

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

capital value of her overseas he partially offsets the friendship teeth and claws now that he how Pueckler. It is clever, for it immediately

investments fallen, but they are less with Turkey, gince consolidated by turned they will do well to consult After remarking that the total favourably situated from the point the mutual guarantee pact.

Count Pucckler or his boolt before strengthens Mr. Chamberlain's strength of British troop units in the of view of mobilisation for war pur- On the question whether Great worse befalls them.

{excluding. The position with the Englishman, overseas Empire

Dominions) is only 30 squadrons of whose sympathies are always planes and about 92,000 men, the with the under-dog. It is dam-Count goes on: gerous because it may well wreck whatever possibility there

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Chamberlain

is, after all these exasperating delays for which the Premier appears primarily to blame, of an alliance being concluded.

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WHAT A

INQUIRY

PUBLIC MEANS

"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 not to be constantly defended against Soviet Russia, undoubtedly,

the insurrections of oppressed peo- ples. The existence of the British has cause to be suspicious of the

Empire is not daily being called in present British Cabinet, among

question from within. With the exception of chronic skirmishing on whose members are persons, in

the. North-West Frontier, the occa- is proving the most important inquiry an leeberg in mid-Atlantic. Two in- It was the same Lord Mersey, who addition to the Premier, sional religious and racial troubles into a disaster at sea since the loss of quiries were held, one in Washington, two years afterwards was called on to

in India, and the present disturb-| the Titanic in 1912.

the other in London.

go to Quebec to act as British repre- notorious for their Russophobia.

ances in Palestine, pente reigns. The tribunal now sitting has the The London tribunni was known as] sentative on the tribunal of three Neither the Premier, Sir John throughout the whole vast British power to take evidence on oath, to the Titanic Wreck Commission and lawyers who inquired into the loss of Simon or Sir Samuel Hoare have

Empire,"

order the attendance of witnesses, and met in public under the presidency of the Empress of Ireland, M

the production of documents. entertained in the past any

the late Lord Marsay, *

the most

This famous ship came into collision It has at its disposal two registrars eminent marline lawyer of his day, with the merchant ship Storstad in feelings but hostility towards FROM the point of view of official

Nazi propaganda Count Purciler and a number of skilled draftsmen It was held in the spacious drill hall the St. Lawrente River and 1,014 the Russians, as the history of is disconcertingly candid on another drawn from the Civil Service. They of the London Scottish In Bucking lives, including two Hongkong par

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THE public inquiry into the the Titanie sank with the loss of carried even in ships of more than ------loss of the submarine Thetis more-than-1,500-lives-after-striking 40,000 tons

Kengers, were lost,

the past two decades bears wit-topic. Great Britain, he says, dare prepare notes and take down evidence ham-gate. London.

After weeks of deliberations it Many serious allegations were made

wished,

ness. The history of the not under existing conditions, pur- for the report which will be compiled chequered relations between the sue an aggressive policy even if she by the cornmissioners and subsequent- found that the disaster was caused in the evidence, it was suggested ly sold through the Stationery Office. through excessive speed in the ice that the bigger ship would not have

The Tribunals of this kind investigating falds. two countries, indeed, has been a

general public were foundered had not the cargo boai... Being an object of envy an 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 have been in progress, have

her power." In any case he con- from their recommendations. diminished but little. If. Mr.

siders it highly doubtful whether Chamberlain had applied a tithe of the persuasive powers he used at Godesberg und Munich in the the cause of appeasement to

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 be, providing its own foreign polley have been infinitely strengthens as strictly ethical as Great Britain's

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 withi

There was the most bitter indigna- the times and insisting that sufficient the British people would be prepared tion both in America and Britain when lifeboats for everyone on board be

ed.

to take up ùrms for any purely ego-- tistical national interest, at the ex- pense of other peoples."

her, no matter how strong she may

is compelled by circumstances to be." It was this, the Count tells us, that

of the Rhineland the Austrian and

As it is, the impasse reached made it impossible for Great Britain in the Anglo-Russian negotia- to resist by force the emancipation tlons must be as gratifying to Sudeten Anschluss, since in all these Herr Hitler as was the position actions the moral case was Indisput- In which the German dictator ably on the side of Germany. found himself after the Munich book was written before 1lerr Hitler There is internal evidence that the

Agreement.

committed the indisputably immoral net of annexing Bohemia and Mora- As regards that famous Inel-via. Whether the Count himacit was dent, we have yet to seċ publish- scandallsed by that step wo have no ed any small, still voice of means of knowing. Certainly. It opposition to the adulation with aggressive aims," which are "aims comes, within his own definition of which the Premier's act in flying neieved at the expense of other: willy-nilly to meet the German nations," and such aims, he asserts, a statesman of to-day can pursue dictator was greeted. It was only if his own nation and its allies momentous occasion in history, 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 TT may be that the Count, as a de- man whose actions branded him

vout Nazh, bitterly repents "bis |

as a potential aggressor and imprudence ini 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 Williami the Premier who beseeched peace. Fourth's days tearing to the It was the might of the British Continent to plead with the Empiro that kept the peace. nggressors. We cannot imagine The might of the British Em-

Sir Edward Grey dashing to pire remains-a potentiai chul-į Berlin in 1914 to intercede with "lenge to aggressors. But It Is the Kalser. Rather, we would being mismanaged.

GRIN AND 'BEAR IT

By Lichty

"We cortainly 'savo money'on a budget-it takes so long

to get the accounts, straight wo never have

time to go anywhare!“

leaving a great hole below

The captain of the Ilner was ex- onerated, although the court held that the Storstad should have been given a wider berth. It held the officer in charge of the Storstad responsible for the disaster because he had changed course in the fog.

MIL RAMSAY MACDONALD, Athen Premier, appointed Sir John Simon to be chairman, of the Committee of Inquiry into the loss of the airship R 101 near Beauvais ort 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 hall of the Institution of Civil Engineers, in Great George-street. Westminster. It was found that in crossing the Channel there had been a substantial low of gas; that the trials of the reconstructed ship had been, cut down owing to exigencias of time; and that the airship in the cir cumstances ought never to have left Cardington for India.

*

THE inquiry into the Gres-

THE

ford Colliery disaster of September 22, 1934, when 280, miners were killed, lasted, more than two years, and the`report of the Com- missioner," Sir Henry Walker, was not Issued until February 1937.

Sir Henry had two assessora--Mr. John Bross, a `mining, engineer, and Mr. Joseph Jones, president of the Mineworkers' Federation. The actual hearing occupied 38 days

and the report, which was by no means-un- animous, filled 38 volumes, 3,070 Pages in all

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

Norman Hillson