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The Moscow Talks
POLAND, Rumania, Greece and Turkey are all members of
But the most
the Peace Front. important country of all, Russia, has not yet been brought in.
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ing the British and Russian Governments apart.
Another and subsequent excuse was that neither Poland uor 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 Rumania would spurn the only direct succour they can receive in the event of aggres-
sion.
To
-REAL
INSIDE STORY
by F. G. H. Salusbury
"W
HETHER Holly- wood intends to or not, the movies
made, are painting our picture for posterity. It won't be too accurate a portrait. We are going to be prettified and sified."
That sentence is from a book ("We Saw It Happen," Harrap, Bs. 6d.) 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 dear life, because, as every re- porter knows, while there's fe there's hope.
And these men have hope for us. That is the thing which emergen from this collection of world-wide stories, as cheerfully as a cork 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 cur- lainly igorating.
де
Eastern
Corre-
of John Kieranron American sport; of Arthur Krock on high politics in Washington. But a choice must be on and I concentrate Ferdinand Kuhn and F. Raymond Danieli.
Kuhn is the London
of the *New York spondent Times." He writes about The British Way," He writes sympa- thetically. He understands us. And he drags skeletons out of our na- tlong! 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. Ile writes about the Ameri- can Way under the title of "The Land of the Free." He writes as sympathetically as Kuhn. He, too. drags out his skeletons, 'They dance. us belts American skele- tons. to a brisker measure-what strikes me as a more tunatic one. The essence of Daniell is the de- cline of American democracy.
This seems important. I do not suppose either Kuhn or Daniel looked over each other's shoulders as they pounded away on their but both see Fascism typewriters,
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.
Kuhn makes his best point book-which shows, in- cidentally, that reporters are head- when he refuses to see the British and-typewriters above novelists nation whole. He sees it as two as writers for it reeks with the classes. The upper class has re- spirit of the age: disillusionment tained its hold, its direction of
faith fra everywhere, no
the affairs, by a snake-like subtlety. present, hope only for the future. a dishonest subtleness of mind, as The Thirteen Dielllusionists-ride it strikes Kuhn-which will not high and wido and low.
work for ever. G. E. R. Gedye goes through Up to the Era of Rape, which
und Central
Europe. saw the successive disasters of What a babble of devilishly idiotic Manchuria. Abyssinia, Austria and nolaes overwhelmed him at last! Czecho-Slovakia, the British policy And above it all he mugnißes two of surrendering the non-essen- volces Schuschnigg making his tials, while keeping the essentials. Anal broadcast to the Austrian worked pretty well.
It falled in this era because people, his words climbing pus-
statesmen mistook the God protect Aus- British sionately to
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 of Central Europe slip quite any price-you remember Appease- easily off your shoulders, my poor ment?-than to co-operate in worried friend. Nothing will checking the disease of negression. happen.
tria!
enrea
ap.
"Remember peasement? ” — Mr. Chamberlain with his Munich "pact” (above).— Schuschnigg(right) and his "God protect Austria!” Sacco and Vanzetti (below) "a mon. strous miscarriage, of justice."
he
" Joseph
Chamberlain." writes, "told the propertied classes that social legialation was the ransom they must pay in exchange for the security and wealth they enjoyed."
And Disraeli, long ago, made the The haves" must same point.
the
pay for their possessions and privileges.
Thus, by knowing what to sur- Britain TC- render. Kuhn sces
after establishing herself Grent War, strengthening the bonds of Empire by apparently loosening them with the Statute of Westminster, and saving her. people from the American abysses of social disorganisation,
KUHN also sees Britain as a democracy a hun- 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 other democracy nowa- days,' he says, "1s wise enough to recruit its brain-power and leader. ship. in politics and business, from the whole nation: Great Britain is content to recruit hers from the privileged three per cent. in the so- .the odds
who have been educated In home affairs, this policy of
And then came 1938. The tragedy keeping the substance by sur- of this goes too deep even for teers 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 Luuls Stark, who believes privilege, the rule-shall one say? that the Sacco-Vanzett! case was a of the Old School Tic. monstrous miscarriage of justice;
The "Ideal Squire".
Is Censured
It has also been argued that We must not unduly offend
THE shadow, so far as Italy, Spain or Portugal.
the upper class is con- exclude Russia from the Peace
cerned, consists of the social benefits such as that mag- Front in the hope of winning
nificent body of insurance laws (I Kuhn), unemployment, quote over, or neutralising, Mussolini
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 "ideal squire" of Greding-worst miseries of the American member with Russia in the
ton, Whitchurch, Shropshire, League of Nations, and if they heard a coroner's jury recently cannot co-operate in resisting describe as "careless" his driv- aggression it is time to revise ing of a car which killed a 13-
years-old schoolboy. our ideas on what membership of that almost defunct organisa- tion involves.
LO
The inquest, at Hinckley, Leisen- tershire, was on Donald Arthur Woodley, of Leicester Grangecottage, Walling-street, Hinckley, who died after a collision with Lord Kenyon's car while cycling.
The jury, afler retiring three times, returned a verdict of Acci-
There can be little doubt that the Kremlin seeks an Anglo Franco-Russian military pact against aggression-a defen-dental Death, and added that in their opinion there had been carelessness sive alliance. That being so, on the part of Lord Kenyon. why does not Britain grasp the offer. It is to our advantage as much as Russia's, and no single
Lord Kenyon, who owns 10,000 step, except the whole-hearted co-operation of the United acres in Shropshire and on his estate, Peel Hall, Bolton, Lancashire, is He suc- States, could do so much to called the "ideal squire."
ensure peace.
The coroner said he did not think the negligence amounted to criminal negligence, but he thought Lord Ken- yon was driving at more than 30 m.p.i.
ceeded his father, n former Lord! Lieutenant of Derbyshire and Lord- The argument that we should In-Waiting to three Sovereigns, in
1027. He and his twin sister, the not enter into such an alliance fton, Myada Tyrell-Kenyon, came of for fear of giving point to the age last September.
Nazi propaganda about encircle-
Fire Jinx Not Thwarted
ment
water. will not hold Whatever sort of agreement is reached with Russia, and even Mr. Chamberlain wants somo PICHER, OKIL (UP),-"I guess i afire. sort of an agreement--the cry Just should have let the stuff burn,
said Earl Block. His house of encirclement will be raised. Black saved most of his furniture and This being so, wo may as well personal effects at risk of his life. ife suffered minor burnia. Then, a get, in the form of an alliance, week later, after he had transferred the maximum protection for our- his possessions to his mother-in-law's nelves and give the maximum home, a fire destroyed that dwelling. Nothing was saved from the second] deterrent to Hitler,
fire.
depression.
called public schools
of an elementary-school boy that. into is to
to say, a poor boy-getting one of the reserved scats' of in England are a thousand to one." Kuhn. And that is why. says
our serpentine suppleness will nat work for over. The challenge facing us is more desperate than the depression of 1931 or the un- Will rest of the post-war years. Great Britain meet it by breaking down vicious class-barriers so that she can get the best out of all her
trouble comes? people when the
Or will she imitate the totall- tarian States by shedding her liberty, her tolerance, her integ
GRIN AND BEAR IT
rity- lttle bit here, a little there so that her Conservative rulera 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
Danicй, an American, looking at America?
A
devoted to art of his chapter is that fantastic Agure 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 avaporated to a great extent under the sun of Roosevelt's administration, with its principle of a new deal 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 bere just as It does in Germany and Italy. while the coeds 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- lieved that Negroca 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 this
as
HOLLYWOOD, which I began review, emerges 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
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"I won't bo necdin' you till sutumn, Lem! I have to keep the place picturesque for tourists and them artist follors!"
women."
There is enough class distinction there to glyc Kuhn a seizure-
And I suppose," said Nugent, after a dose of social niceties, that the producers speak only to God?
no!" was a Press agent's Oh,
very reply, "some of them are democratic."
This is a good book, a straight book. Readers have front seats. They can even see the Thirteen Disillusionista pounding away on their typewriters with tears in their eyes.
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Wife Flies to Injured Film Studio Chief
Capt. the Hum. Richard Norton, executive director of the Denham Film Studios, was recently seriously Injured in a road crash in Somerset.
His wife flew to Yeovil with two Harley-street specialista directly she heard of the accident. Another thero Hurley-street specialist flow later.
Capt. Norton is the son of Lord. Grantley.
Four other people in the car--Miss Liane Lindon, 19-years-old 'Swedish actress, her friend, Miss Zoo Rogers,. Dr. A. Galperson, and the chauffeur, Mr. C, F. Bell-were also injured.
Mas Lindon injured her arm and foot, but was able to return to Lon- Idon later.
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