1939-08-22 — Page 15

Tuesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

"Democracies Will Win,

Says Dr. Benes Let Germany Share

Our Colonies' Trade'

Dictators Condemned ADMINISTRATION

DR. EDUARD BENES, former President of Czecho-Slovakia, addressed the Liberal Summer School at Cambridge recently, The meeting. held in the Arts; and force-such leaders must reflect Theatre, had been thrown open to such characteristics. the public.

People who could not gain admis- sion queued up in the rain outside The building while Dr. Benes was spesiking.

of colonies

unded international supervision was urged by Mr. Ramsay Muir, re-i cently, at the Liberal Suminer School,

at Cambridge.

He suggested that the possessora, or colonies should resign their ab- solute

Rovereignty over those

They mirst be men who accepted files to same internationat nu-

the principle that human life was a constant battle and that the relaton of men, nations, and states, was a relation of force.

Dr. Benca prefaced lila address by

They were generally people who saying that there might be some mud decisions at once without tak- disappointment that he did not speaking into consideration the advice of of recent events, but, as a guest in others and without taking into con- Britain, he did not wish to discuss alderation the historical facts and

malchi questions which at this moment nak titerent realities.

thought controversial.

He went on to say that very severe criticism could, and should, be passed j on the practice, procedure,

SYSTEM THAT is a traVESTY

CHANGE For germaNY One condition should be an ab- solutely open trade access for the traders of all nations to all colonies under such administration.

That would give Germany a very great deal more than she would get in trade If she got back her four: little

pre-war colonies,"

RIGHTS OF NATIVES

The second condition would be that

there must be ful

full and adequate sufeguards for the right of the native:

with obligation to train

means "I do not admit that the authoritarian / populually to take a larger and

de-

larger share in the management of their own affales and train them for ultimate self-government.

"As a democrat." said Dr. Lentz,

and methods of the European

them system of government is justified, moernetes-the great old démocracles | because It is a travesty of govern- as well as the smaller newer de-ment and nothing else. mocracles.

"Decause It is a travesty it cannot endure. COURAGE TO BACK THEORIES

"I believe also that the leaders of The lack of belief and faith in authoritarian Government can ever their own principles, their lack of be the real Icaders of a human, elvle courage. their unacceptable universal and Christian murality, of utilitarian opportunism as to princi-a real human education and crudi- ple, their lack of real knowledge that | tion.

it was necessary not merely to op- The judgment of history has pose the principles of authoritarian already condemned the dictatorial

sm, to preach democracy and to

system of government, and it has also speak in highly inudntory term

condernned their lenders. about the freedom of 7021 and nation.

"One must have also a right con- ception of democracy as theory and one must have the courage to put these theories into practice rightly justly, and contrageously," said Dr. Benes.

BACKGROUND OF A DICTATOR

Dictators, adventurers, beeasional politicions, and many of those why considered

themselves

political geniuses belonged frequently. to t category of people who were intui- five, imaginative, romantic, emo- tional, personally ambitiis, and very often they finished by being brutal, cynient,

completely amornl as animals.

Dispassionately, and "always avoid- ;

and

THE NEW VICTORY OF FREEDOM "The events of the next years in Europe, and in the world, will show to the present generation judgment of history was right. My cientifle ronyletion is that this judg- ment was right.

"Next we want to make sure that the native population are safeguard- ed against being exploited for the purpose of power politics. We must not allow them to be used for the raising of armies for the conquest of other countries and other torri- tories.

A FRESH START "We have the opportunity of innk- ing a clean, fresh start of the civilis ed world for the treatment of the backward peoples. We have all the power in our own hands at present, and on the gincerity of our declara- tion would

August 22, 1939afbory. Simon Kolk

Dr. Eduard Benes, former President of Czecho-Slovakia photo- graphed recently with his wife.

Paris-On-15s. Graduate Drinks His Winnings

OXFORD.

A YOUNG man stood in the bar of the Chequers Inn here

recently and drunk a pint of old and wild.

his glass with a deep sigh.

He set down

"Ripe," he declared: "ripe and nutty. Nothing like that across the Channel."

Mr. Leonard Cheshire, 22-year-old graduate of Merton

this of such the effectiveness College, Oxford, had been to Paris and back to earn that pint.

There niver existed a society where the fight for freedom and the development of the free human per-

mality erased.

history

"In the darkest period this night continued, continues to- day, and will be continued until the new victory of freedom come fagain."

For such a system the point was that it would not be so much a ques- tion of agreement between Germany and Britain, but between the demo- eracies,

Robbed Of £800

TRS. MARY HODKINSON,

а

"LIBERTY OF MY COUNTRY M Blackpool housewife, of Breck-

-

In conclusion, Dr. Benes sak: road, went to the market to buy a ing personalities," Dr. Benes analysed Democracy will be victorious be- 2d, cabbage for her Sunday dinner. the background of " Duct and u

of in the bar

social cost her £800. cause it is Fuchrer,"

evolution and of the philosophy of

ORIGINAL IN REVOLUTION

An assistant at a stall picked thei best cobimge he had so large that? and Mrs. Hedkinson needed both hands

She put down her bag.

history.

of democracy "The victory He said "they have a mystical con- ception of the prople and of the freedom in Europe means the berly to hold

<st countryCzecho-Slovakia." antion.

"They delfy the nation, they deify Replying to questions about the State, they identify the Stat. and i propaganda of totalitarian

Dr. Benes sald, the antion, and a Dare or Fuehrer mocratie States,

the and de-

are the natural leaders us expres-Truth prevails; finally truth always sions of the nation and of the all- prevails." mighty state as opposed to purtis.

classes, and Individuals,

"The only origin of these leaders

is through revolution. As to sucers.

sion in leadership they have not yet formulated their polley."

Why Hitler Hates

Dr. Benes

Speaking after

Dr.

A moment later she screamed and half collapsed over the stall,

"My bag!" she cried,

It had vanished. Inside werg two 100 notes, 23 of £10, £5 note,

and 365 of £1.

|

A week before in the Chequers he said to Mr. Joseph Allen, an Oxford lorry driver, "I wish I was in Paris." In his pocket he had 15s.

Stowaway Rang For Steward-

"My Bath Is Cold!"

Two

WO hours after the liner Aquitania had sailed from Southampton for New York, a bell rang in the stewards' quarters.

The call came from a third-class

when A bathroom, and

bedroom steward answered it he found a man The £100 notes were the life sav-stantiing undressed beside the bath. ings of her mother, Mrs. J. Dicken complaining bitterly that there was sen, boarding-house keeper.

no hot water.

"thal Dr. Benes saved my country. There could be no greater contrast Str than Herr Hitler and Benen.

Benes. Dr. "HEY TAKE LIFE AS CONSTANT Walter Layton said that there had Why does Herr

litter hate Dr. BATTLE"

been people mean enough to say that Bones? Beenuse Dr. Benes is right." Leaders in authoritarian states-the Czechs should love fought

What Dr. Benes had said he had because they were based on the idea Dr. Benes was faced with adrid very gently, but his word spelled that life was a battles that the feta-mand from England and France that the doom for the totalitarian regime.

and states he should save the world from world tions between nations

"This man," added Sir Walter, were a battle, because they accepted war.

"stood in the streets of Prague a year

in daily politics ancthods of violence ""I am thankful,” said Sir Walter. ago without a guard."

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The bedroom steward apologised, fetched the bathroom steward, who listened to the same complaint.

But the bathroom steward noticed a hat and coat harging on a hook be- hind the door, and that made sim suspicious.

WRONG ANSWER

"What is the number of your cabin, sir? he asked the indignant man. "Ninety-eight," was the reply. That confirmed the steward's Bus

picions there was no cabin of that number in the third class,

This story was told at Southampton Police Court recently when Edward Azevih, 30-year-old Russian, des- cribed as an engineer of Whitefield- street, London, W., was charged with endeavouring to obtain a passage in the Aquitania without the consent of the owners.

He was sent to prison for a month.

"Bet you a pint you can't make it," said Mr. Allen.

So the wager was made and later Mr. Cheshire claimed his reward. He had travelled to Paris and buck on his 19s, and what he had been able to earn.

"I thought that was the safest pint - I'd ever wagered," said the Juser. "I was a fool. Why didn't I o as Well?"

Mr. Cheshire bad one adventure. "I was stopped 15 miles outside Dieppe by a very tough customer, who

he said. Wanted money,

"I told him I had none. lle didn't believe me,

THE INVISIBLE MAN

"It was a very dark and lonely road with thick woods on both sides.

What's that man doing beside you?" ; I said. The man turned his head. I hit him as hard as I could on the jaw

and run.

"The next few miles were quite the

worst of the journey. I kept turning

round to see if he was following.”

Baronet, 70, Weds

Seventy-year-old Sir Richard Surtees Paget. barrister.

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Ascroll,

She has acted as his secretary for

several years.

The best man was Mr. John Paget, Sir Richard's son.

Lady Muriel Paget, Sir Richard's Dest wife, famous for her post-war relief work in Russia and the Bal- kans, died Inst your.

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