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POLAND, Rumania, Greece and Turkey are all members of the Pence Front. But the most
important country of all, Russia, has not yet been brought in.
As long ago as April 28 we were informed that . only technical differences were keep- ing the British and Russian Governments apart. ·
Another And subsequent excuse was that neither Poland nor Rumania wished to have Russian help.
+
However true these excuses might have been two months ago they no longer hold to-day. The shadow has been steadily moving along the dial, and it is inconceivable that either Poland or Rumanía would spurn the only_direct succour they can receive in the event of aggres.
Bion.
It has also been argued that we must not unduly offend To Italy, Spain. or Portugal. exclude Russia from the Pence
REAL
INSIDE
STORY
by F. G. H. Salusbury
"W
HETHER Holly- wood intends to or not, the movies are painting our 'picture for posterity. It won't be too accurate a portrait. Wo are going to be prettified and sillified.'
That sentence is from a book ("We Saw It Happen," Harrap, 8s. d.) 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 "-a newspaper which one of them sedately describes as the best in the world-and they all write for because, as every re- dear life, bed porter known, while there's, itte 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 cork from a bottle.
The cork may hit us in the eye
it 15 pops out Britannia gets a lovely black eye in the chapter called The British Way"-but the draught which follows in cer- tainly invigorating.
of John Kieran on American sport; of Arthur Krock on high politica in Washington. But a choice must be on and I concentrate made, Ferdinand Kuhn and F.. Raymond Daniell.
Kuhn is the London corre-
tho spondent of
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 casence of Kuhn is the decline of British democracy.
DANIELL is a reporter in the United States. He writes about the Amerl- can Way under the title of "The Land of the Free." He writes as sympathetically as Kahn. He, too. drags out his skeletons. They dance, as beflis American skele tons, to a brisker measure-what strikes nie as a more lunatic one. The essence 01 Danieli Is the de- cline of Anterican democracy.
"Remember'
af
peasement?"— Mr. Chamberlain with his Munich "pact" (above).--- Schuschnigg(right) and his
"God
protect Austria!?! Sacco und Vanzetti (below) "amon-
strous miscarriage
of justice."
enjoyed."
he
Joseph Chamberlain," writes," told the propertied classes that social legislation was the This seems important. I do not
ranzom they must pay in exchange suppose either Kuhn or, Danielfor the security and wealth they looked over each other's shoulders as they pounded away on their typewriters, but both see Fascism In some form as the common fate I HOPE that historians for US and the Americans, unless will not overlook this we pull ourselves together.
his best point book-which shows, In-
Kuhn makes
the British cidentally, that reporters are head when he refuses to see
He sees as two and-typewriters above novelists nation whole,
as writers for it reeks with the classes. The upper class has re- spirit of the age; disillusionment tained its hold, its direction of everywhere, falti
no
the affairs, by a snake-like subtlety- present, hope only for the future. dishonest subtleness of mind, as The Thirteen Disillusionists ride it strikes Kuhn-which will not high and wide and low.
sal
work for ever.
E. R. Gedye goes through Up to the Era of Rape, which
and
Eastern Europe. w
the successive disasters of What a babble of devilishly idiotic Manchurin, Abyssinia, Austria and noises overwhelmed him at last! Czecho-Slovakia, the British policy And above it all he magnifies two of surrendering the non-essen- voices-Schuschnigg making his
final broadcast to the Austrian lels, while keeping the essentials.
worked pretty well. people, his words climbing pas-
era because It failed in this
mistook the slonately to "Ged protect Aus- British statesmen trial"
essentials in international affairs. And Benes, President of Czecho- They thought it was more im- Slovakia, saying in 1937, "Let the portant to have peace at almost cares of Central Europe slip quite any price you remember Appease- to co-operate in eastly off your shoulders, my poor ment?-than worried friend. Nothing
the disease of aggression. In home affairs, this policy of And then came 1938. The tragedy keeping the substance by sur- of this goes too deep even for leers, rendering the shadow, has served I wish I had space to describe the upper class excellently. The the activities of all the Thirteen- substance, of course, is power, say. of Louis Stark, who believes privilege. the rule-shall one say? that the Sacco-Vanzetti case was of the Old School Tic, monstrous miscarriage of justice:
happen.
Front in the hope of winning The "Ideal Squire"
over, or neutralising, Mussolini
Is Censured
checking
THE shadow, so far as the upper class is con- cerned, consists of the social benefits such as that mag- nificent body of insurance laws (I Kuhn), unemployment. quoto health, and old age, which have or Franco is indeed ridiculous.
kept their effectiveness to this day As for Portugal, she is a fellow-
ORD KENYON, 21-years-old and preserved Britain from the member with Russia in the "ideal squire" of Greding- worst miseries of the American
depression. League of Nations, and if they heard a coroner's jury recently
ton, Whitchurch, Shropshire, ་》 cannot co-operate in resisting describe as "careless" his driv aggression it is time to revise ing of a car which killed a 13- our.ideas on what membership years-old schoolboy.
of that almost defunct organisa- tion involves.
The inquest, at Hinckley, Leices
on Donald Arthur tershirt, was Woodley, of Lelcester Grangecottage, Watling-street, Hinckley, who died There can be little doubt that after a collision with Lord Kenyon's the Kremlin seeks an Anglo-car while cycling,
The jury, after retiring three Franco-Russian military pact
times, returned a verdict of Acci- against aggression-a defen-dental Death, and added that in their wwsive alliance. That being so, opinion there had been carelessness why does not Britain grasp then the part of Lord Kenyon.
The coroner said he did not think the negligence amounted to criminal offer. It is to our advantage as negligence, but he thought Lord Ken- much as Russia's, and no single yon was driving at more than 30 step, except the whole-hearted
Lord Kenyon, who owns 10,000 co-operation of the
United acres in Shropshire and on his estate, Feel Hall, Bolton, Lancashire, is
m.p.h.
States, could do so much to called the "Ideal squire." He puc
ensure peace.
ceeded his father, a former Lord Lieutenant of Derbyshire and Lord- The argument that we should in-Waiting to three Sovereigns, In 1927. He and his twin sister, the not enter into such an alliancetion, Myfida Tyrell-Kenyon, came of for fear of giving point to the age lust September. Nazi propaganda about encircle- ment will not hold water. Whatever sort of agreement is reached with Russia, and even Mr. Chamberlain wants some
Fire Jinx Not Thwarted
PICHER, Okia, (UP)—"I gues sort of an agreement-the cry just should have let the stuff burn," of encirclement will be raised.said Earl Binck. His house are. Black saved most of his furniture and This being so, we may as well personal effects at risk of his life. get, in the form of an alliance, He suffered minor burns. Then, a week later, after he had transferred the maximum protection for our-his possessions to his mother-in-law's selves and give the maximum home, a dre destroyed that dwelling. Nothing was saved from the second deterrent to Hitler.
fire.
And Disraeli, tong ago, made the must The "haves' same point. pay for their possessions and privileges.
what Thus, by knowing
10 sur- TC- render, Kuhn sces Britain
after the establishing herself
Orent War, strengthening the bonds of Empire by apparently loosening them with the Statute of Westminster, and saving her people from the American abysses 'cf social disorganisation.
KUHN also sees Britain 23 a democracy n huri- dred years behind the times. He sees an "appalling gulf of class distinctions which, after hundreds of years, still separates one section of the people from another."
Every
very other democracy nowa- days," he says, "is wise enough to recruit its brain-power and leader- In politics and business, ship, from the whole nation: Great Britain is content to recruit hers from the privileged three per cent. who have been educated in the sa
called public schools'
i
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
Bays Kuhn, our serpentine suppleness will not work for ever, 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 she enn get the best out of all her people when the trouble comes?
"Or will she imitate the totall- tarian States by shedding her liberty. her tolerance, her integ
GRIN AND BEAR IT
By Lichty
I have to koop the
"I won't bo`ncodin' you till autumn, Lom!
place picturesque for tourists and them artist Follers!"
J
rity lttle bit here, a little there- so that her Conservative rulers can stay in power? I wish I felt Auro that she would choose the democratic way."
Bo much for Kuhn, an American
Britain. looking at
What of Dantell, an American. looking at America?
A large part of his chapter is dovated to that fantastic figure of tyranny, Huey Long, Governor of Louisiana, who was assassinated by Dr. Weiss.
Daniell thinks that "the tide of Fascist philosophy embodied in the organisations founded by Huey Long, Townsend and Coughlin may have evaporated to a great extent under the sun of Roosevelt's
administration, with its principle of a new daai in social reforms.
to
"But I do know from my travels
pil 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 Marxiam fall upon barren 2011."
Kuhn mey say that Britain's working people compare unfav ourably in physical or intellectual- resources with the masses of many poorer and wonker lands, but Daniell comforts us for that with his description of the bewhiskered Kentucky farmer who firmly be lieved that Negrees were only half human
His authority, he said, was the
~ Bible. There were no women in the land of Nod, whither Cain fled, but Cain had issue. Therefore Cain must have married a baboon, and Negroes were the result of this unnatural union.
with HOLLYWOOD, which
this I began review, emerges as frankly mad. "By its marvellously 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 There is enough class distinction there to giro Kuhn a seizure-
And
I suppose," said Nugent. after a dose of social niceties, "that the producers speak only to God?
"Oh, no!
reply,
" WOR
was a Press agent's very
dem some of them are
This is a good book, a straight book. Readers have front seats. They can oven see the Thirteen Disillusionists pounding away on
tears 111 their typewriters with their eyes,
Wife Flies to Injured Film Studio Chief
Copt. the Hon. Richard Norton, executive director of the Denham Film Studios, was recently seriously Injured in a road crash in Somerset
Ills wite flew to Yeovil with two Harley-strect specialists directly she heard
Another of the accident. Harley-street specialist flow there later.
Capt. Norton is the son of Lord. Grantley.
Four other people in the car---Miss Liane Lindon, 10-years-old Swedish actress, her friend, Misa Zoe Rogers, Dr. A. Galperson, and the chauffeur, Mr. C. F. Bell-were also injured.
Mian Lindor injured her arm and foot, but was able to return to Lon- don Inter.
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