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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1929-05-09, Page 7Three Parties Virally Declare Against Pacts ,Way Conservative. Liberal Labor ' 'Supporters Canot and WII Not Corrie "to Any Arrangement with Each Other Before the Election 'During the week there has been a good deal of talk about a Conserva- tive pre-election Pact with the Lib- erals. We deprecate this talk for the sample' feasor that the thing is out side the bounds o1: possibil't, • "Let us consider the facts. Mr.' Baldwin is the man wlio took the dative in breaking this party away from the Coalition under Mr. Lloyd George; he holds his position .as Prime Minister and bead ends party ' in virtue of that action. Is it pro- posed that this elan shad• now go cap in Band to the ex -Coalition Premier and ask him for quarter? Plainly the thing Is impossible een this ground alone. "Even were he willing, Mr. Lloyd George would not be.. •• Add to this that the camps are already pitched, most of the, candidates chosen, and the battle, virtually..joined and the impos fbillty 'of th eidea is finally de- monatrated. This 'being so, the 'less said about it"the better, for it. Is likely to have a bad effect on the moral and prospects of Conservatives by creat- ing the impression that they cannot, and that "they' themselves think they cannot, win the election 'on their own- merits."—Saturday Review (London).. "The political strategists are busy In giving lavish and contradictory ad- vice to the .party at present in pow- er," says. the Times . (London). "One "school o4 thought urges them to be uncompromisingly truculent; the other beseeches them to seek al- lies almoat at any. cost. "Yet both these extreme counsels seem te1 be "based ori very question .::,able assumptions., It is really not esnecessary for them to accept as evitable either comp'letie"victory or ut- ter defeat; nor to ask the Liberal Party. because it has upset the tradi- tional two-party system, either to coin- . mit suicide or to become the dictator of national policy. "Bravado and despair alike forget that. aitbough the Liberal leaders may, with some difficulty, agree upon a distinct Liberal policy, it is by no meaixs certain that its appeal will in- duce the mass of Liberal voters to vote for Liberal candidates. It is still conceivable, at all events, that the experience of the last election, when large numbers of Lberals .re- fused t" waste their votes on for- lorn chances, will be repeated; and it Is at least premature to ask the- Con- servative Party, to settle its strategy before the publication of the full de- tails of its program. "The mistaken assumption of the advocates of truculence is that the Liberal vote is not worth considering; but at least equally mistaken as the assunmtioii of the advocates of conn pron.ise that all Liberals are more horrified at S,ecialism than at Conser- vatism. The truth is that the Liberal Part is very sharply divided into a Right and Left wing, and that, al- though the former is liable to swoop towards Conservatism, the latter, Which is probably also the stronger, is not averse to a flight towards Socialism." A Liberal Retort "Your correspondents," writes Pro- fessor Ramsay Muir in a letter to the Tunes, "waste their time and your space in discussing the possibility of an arrangement between the Conser- vatives and the Liberals for the next election. The Liberal Party would commit suicide if it contemplated any such arrangement, as certain;• as if it, were to make a similar arrange - Meet with the Labor Party. haven if with your time." the party leaders were to agree (and there is no suggestion that any �( Chick them would do so), the rank and file of .list) atrly would not follow them, "Some Conservatives seem to fear that the electoral gamble may give a Parliamentary majority to the .Social- ists, who are certainly in a inority in the country. They could have made this impossible by a reason- able rnea.sure of electoral reform, while they had the power. They threw her Maiden speech In the H.oluse of away this opportunity. Perhaps they Commons recently and. twitted Daviel to the instant elaine .of tli' " Soelellsts that' they .represent the only .united, consistent, and politically honest force in the, field?" "What temptation eouicl there be," Is the point Made by the Daily Citron• fele, "for 1.L1berals to niialeat . the country and misrepresentthemselves by joining han, ds with "either at their rivaie in the flgixt, "that is almost on ,.us? Who that commands it hearing in their ranks would yield to such en unbelievable tally?, "No leader ---of that we feel certain; and if any conceivable .chance shaped such an opinion, the wind that biotrs through the party would simply blow it away, Shakespeare's old advice in 'Hamlet' --'To thine ow'h self be true' —Is no •bad slogan for a')?arty'�vlaich knows ite own mind; and upon the Most -vital. issues 'of to -day -not least, upon that of unemployment—the Lib, oral party, thanks to years of unspar- ing uphill work, has won more of that precious knowledge ,than any• ether," Finally, the Labor Party will have nothing to 'do .with pacts, for the Daily Herald says:— "If the Laabor Party enters the com- ing •fight with the belief that it is not going to win, it will indubitably lose, And one of the best ways of. ensuring a partial, instead of a com- plete, victory spirit is to blether about Pacts with the Liberals,' or with any other opposing party. The right waY to go' to work is to stand. Lour -square, without fuss or doubt, against all- comers, and to go all out for a major- ity over all. "Harping nu hypothetical.' contin, gencies, which may not, and, given the :right will, need nt arise, is i11 - preparation for the -greatest political -struggle in. this 'country's history." "Suggestions are made," said Sir Herbert Samuel, "in .the press from time',to time that we should arrive at some accommotlationr., with one or other of the opposing parties, and that some mutual arrangement should be; States is equally friendly, but the two Peshawar, India—A Moslem bandit made to' withdraw candidates some I;'ng, who raised himself to the throne governments are so far apart in their times. The suggestion is made for conclusions that arbitration is the of.Af hanistan last winter 'cried for an arrangement With Labor and some- g only possible way out of the impasse. times with Conservatives. • The Lib- eral party has not for a moment con- templated any such understanding. As chairman of the Liberal party or- 'gen-Nation I say categorically that the party has not made and will not make any each compact with either Of its opponents." A Conservaitve Rejoinder Mr. Neville Chamberlain, on the same day, was equally emphatic. He stated:— "There are some who suggest ,that the Conservative party would do well to eater oiie of these new 'combine - time, combing -tions, To nnyinind that would be a policy " of . cowarice and : futility— eowardice because, it suggests that we should try to save our skins by sacrificing our principles. "I speak for myself, but I have no hacl migrated to "the infidel land of hesitation in saying that not even the France." pleasure of sitting alongside Mr, Lloyd "I," he continued,; "being Amir, George in ' the Cabinet would induce took mercy and allowed them to re - me to .support him in putting into turn but because, while in Europe, operation ideas which I am convinced they partook of ham and bacon, which are utterly impracticable, and, if enr- permeates their blood vessels, they barked upon. would involve the coun- try in inevitable disaster." PLAYS STRENUOUS GAME s-4 1 Eating Pork Did the Trick Afghan Bandit Monarch Cries For Blood of "Infidel" Enemies The I'm Alone/Case Canada's -national dignity Is wo}•th- ily upheld in -the correspondence with the United States over the shaking of the I'm Alone. The terms of the Canadiau protest are courteous but firm. . The attitude. of the. United the blood of his "infidel" enemies re- cently as the spring war `beyond the Khyber Pass approached a critical stage. Bacha Sakao, former water .carrier and erstwhile bi'igancl, issued a, pro- clainatiari at Kabul Afghan capital Italy's Dihtator Shows Differe Mussolini On British Malian Conditions !'Why should yon apply your British standards and ideas to Italian condi- tions?" says :Signor Mussolini In . an interview with Professor .Charles Sar- olea, recorded in the English Review, "After all, we in Italy must be allowed to have .our own standards and meth- ods,' because we have our own tra- ditions and our own difficulties. You have a Parliamentary system which Is the outcoine of your own experience, and which is the growth of many cell. tulles. • "Oar Parliamentary system was ` a foreign importation; it Was the growth of one generation and it had struck, no roots 'in our soil. You are one of the oldest of European States; we are the youngest. You have achieved your national unity' in a distant past. Italy within the memory of men still living wasa conglomerate of heterogeneous communities, where city was pitted against city, province against prov- ince, and the foreigner was master of the situation. - "You have . built up a world-wide' 1 empire and a world -embracing trade' and industry. Our industries are of yesterday, and our raw materials coal and iron—have all to be imported' from abroad. ."Yours is a tradition, of law and' order. Ours has been a tradition of revolution and aranchy, of secret societies and conspiracies. We are inveterate ,individualist's. Until the advent of Fascism we felt no loyalty to the State. The maul task of Fas- cism was therefore to inculcate that sense of discipline and loyalty which are the conditions of a peaceful and prosperous corporate life. "From the school upwards we are teaching every little boy or girl who is donning the 'black shirt', who is giving the symbolical Roman salute, the value of obedience and public serv- ice. We make them forget sect and class and party, and we make them realize that they only exist in and through the State." rice and There are two main points at issue the speed capacity of the sunken schooner and the right of the Anmeri- can coastguard to pursue the ship two bunched miles out to sea and then sink her. offering 40,000. rupees and one gun The Canadian Minister has stated for the head of Nadir Khan, his out- the matter very fairly and clearly. standing military foe. The same He makes a special point of the fact price was offered for the capture of that the deliberate sinking of the Nadhir Khan. Stirred to high indigna- schooner afforded proof of Note ipunitive Bi - tion by ' the "westernization" of itis tent. The American Noten reply foes, the bandit King charged Nadir merely said the sea was running se and his brothers with. the murder of high at the time that boarding was the late Amir, •father `of former Tung impossible. It failed to make any Amanullalr. Amanullah was forced comment in regard to the putting of to abdicate by the advance of Bache the lives of the entire crew in deadly Sakao's army. Nadir Ishan once was jeopardy in such a case. the chief lieutenant of Amanullah. The matter wil lnow go to arbitra- Bache Sakao 'said the "murderers„ tion. A board of three, one represent-' ing Canada, another the United States and the third, neutral, chosen by these two, will discuss the matter and issue their decision in clue course. In the meantime the pcblic will sus- pend judgment in so far ab the merits et the case are concerned. .If out of this arbitration there emerges a clear and incontrovertible interpreta- tion of the present confusing rules and regulations .in regard to pursuit at sea, then the case may well turn out to have been a beneficial event to the world.—Montreal Star (Cons.). "You must see f love you. Don't I spend all m; time with'you?" "Yes, you're a regular spendthrift— for Next House Miss Jennie Lee at Home Mak, ing Her Maiden Speech London—Miss Jenny Lee, 24 -year-old Labor member of Parliament made will be wiser next time, But they need not fear. "The revived strength of the Lib - Oral Party ensuree the country against a Socialist majority in Parliament based Mimi a minority in the country; just as it ensures the couutey against a continuance of minority govern- -meet by the Conservatives, 'tvho were in a minority of votes even in 1924. In short, the Liberal Party is the maul safeguard a gainst minority severe - in ea t." "No one in his souses imagines the Conservative Party could . or alloilci •make any advances," says the Sunday Times. "Tile 'ntajotity of the ciuuli- elates on both . skies. 'arra already (11105011; few of then would be willing to retire., They are already busy vilifying one another's policies hi the constituencies; are they at a. given signal to desist,. withdraw their ac- cusation.% and shake halide as thotigb they had always been in agreement? The electorate would bo very quick Grenfell, Labor member from Gla- morga e, who is 59, for his "umitigated praise of the budget." She had no praise for it herself. Miss .Lee said the women of the North consider the remission of the tea tax, announced by 'Winston Churcbiil- In hie budget speech, as overdue and m-.rly "apenny thrown to the voters." Miss Lee modestly, referred to, herself as "the chick of the next Par'lianment, precipitately hatched." The Socialist Party London Times (Ind.): The Inde- pendent Labor Party serves et least one motel and honest purpose. So- cialist to the: core, it has no tolerance of itieo erste ncy or excuses for the recusant who shrinks from avowing the, full purpose of Socialism and ac- centing the consegl,etices: It refuses to turn aside Into'tlxe byways of Lib- eraliser with certaic more easygoing members of the Tabor Party. Iii - 'we may be sure,- tb see through so palpable a fraud" tensed by every n.peear'a,nce of tint- "What possible political morality idity hi those who avow the Soci:'list could attach to a; Conservative—Liberal creed It has tndetraken the fuuotions eoalitiou ".,, also asks the Yorkshire of a conscience as well es of a brain Posta "What answer could be Made to the Labor Party. rose against me and instigated the people to rebel. "Therefore I consider it lawful to take their blood." As an afterthought, the Bing added a reward of 30,000 rupees and a gun for capture of each of Nadir Khan's brothers. Hon. David Tennant To Operate Ranch. Ottawa, Ont.—Hon. David Tennant, nephew of the late Earl of Oxford and Asquith, arrived unheralded in the capital recently and confided to news- papermen that the chief object of his mission was to establish business affiliations .in Canada. He stated, however, that he had not yet decided upon the exact nature or scope of these affiliations. Questioned further, Mr. Tennant ad- mitted that during his stay in the Dominion he would look over some of the ,ranches in Western Canada with the ultimate prospect of probably be- coming a Canadian landowner. He. did not desire to operate a ranch for profit, but rather as he put it, "to own it just for the pleasure of being a rancher." Britain, the World's Air Centre London Daily' Express (Ind. Cons.) : Only a decade or two hence and air- planes and airships may be leaving British ports for all quarters of the Empire and of the world as regularly as steamers do now. From coach to railway, from sailing ship to the steam and oil -driven leviathans of to -day, from the horse to the car, from the balloon to the airplane, the great job of annihilatiug time and space goes on. Ancl at each new step, in each successive phase, British inventive- ness, British engineering, and British pluck are to the fore. In the air as on the waters Nature has narked us down as the centre of the world. "Osie cannot but regard this state- ment as referring to the threatened tariff -raising policy across the border." Money the Peacemaker Manchester Guardian (Lib.) : (Ant- erican foreign investments, which now exceed $15,000,000,000, are increasing at the rate of $1,000,000,000 to $3,500,- 000,000 3,500;000,000 a year.) American capital, is a power in, every "contingent, and in almost every country throughoutthe world. So much the better. There is much talk about ourselves, indeed al Europe, becoming an "American colony." But if everybody became everybody else's colony (after all, the United States are not the only export- ers of capital and, in South America, for example, they are still far behind Great Britain) the peace of the world would be secure. • The Women's Vote London Daily News and Westmins- ter (Lib.) : Women are talking poli- tic sin the factory, the workshop and the office; and they are not talking politics on stereotyped lines. They are eager, direct and resolute. They know precisely what things they want done, and why they want them done. They present, in fact, an unfamiliar and formidable pheonmeniln to the average candidate in all political part- ies. And woe betide the candidate who, through ignorance or levity or stupidity, falls foul of the phenome- non! The Investlment of Capital Abroad London Times Trade Supplement: This country has probably less to fear from the investment of American capi- tal abroad than from the attraction of gold to the United States. So long as the speculative fever rages in Am- erica, and money commands higher rates than here, so long will it be necessary to take steps to prevent the export of gold by financial measures which check commercial enterprise, and the chief cause of anxiety in this country in regard to America is her failure to control wild speculation, Where Canada Had to be Satisfied in Second Place AMERICAN STARS DE1=EA1' THE CANADIANS FOR TENNIS DOUBLES CROWN. Wilmer Allison slut John Aran Rya (right side of net), aspirants for places on the united States Deals 'Cep , Wrightis aciiatx )avis Cup team, and eaeatered Men's doable learn, tloreatocl Marcel Painvilio and Sack 'i'SxiluMembers of G u crown at Pinehurst, N,C, Canadians Mark Long Peace With 'United :States .British ,Empire Club. Honors Good Relations 'Between ' Neighbor Nations Provldenoe, RI. --=-That the time will' never" come when disputes between the United Staten and Canada will be settled other than peaceably, was the sentiment pervading the recent meeting of the British Einpir•.e Club here. Dane 1. Logan, ICO., of Amherst, Nova Scotia, said that, regardless of what differences .of opinion Canada and the United States might :Have re' garding such affairs as the "I'm. Alone" and the recent discussion on tariff schedules, both nations are, above everything else, desirous of peace. "Between the two couutries," Mr. Logan said, "have arisen many acute differences of . opinion. These have been connected with boundary die- putes, with fishing rights and inter- pretation of treaties. Angry words have been spoken on both sides of the line, partiularly in election cam- paigns, but when the smoke of elec- tion battle blows away, judicial arbi- tration' takes the place of the arbi- trament of war. We settle our dif- ferences as Christian neighbors oc- cupying adjoining farms." Londoners Mark • Founding of Press First Successful Daily, Started in 1702, Honored in Fleet Street London—The London press has just been marking the 227th anniversary. of the city's first successful daily newspaper. It was named the Daily Courant, and described itself as pub- lished by 17. Mallet "against the Ditch at Fleet Bridge." Seven years ear- lier, in 1695, the Postboy had been started as a daily paper, but only four numbers appeared. The Daily Courant c1ic1 not mark the foundations of the newspaper in- dustry in Britain—that honor goes to tbe Weekly News, produced by Na- thaniel Butler in 1665. The Daily Courant consisted of a single page of two columns and pro- fessed to give only foreign news. It assured its readers that it would not give any comments of its own "sup- posing other people to have sense enough to make reflections for them- selves." London's first daily newspaper came to an end in 1735 when it was ab- sorbed in the Daily Gazeteer. Accused of wearing too thin skits, Sis stands against the sun; Now, any dub can see through There's really only one. First India Air Mail Arrives at Croydon this London—The first India -England air mail plane arrived at Croydon on April 14, two mintes ahead of scare. dule The air liner carried five pas- sengers and 500 pounds of mail, and negotiated the 5000 miles from Kara-, chi an seven days. One of the passengers was Vice - Marshal Sir Vie,l 'Vivian, who left Croydon on March 30 onnthe inaugural air mail trip to India, arriving at Karachi on April 6. He departed on the return flight within 24 hours, haw- ing thus covered 10,000 miles in 141/4 days. - es— To India in a Week London Observer (Ind.): The Alt Mail Service to India has begun. Be first cargo of letters left Croydon yes- terday, March 30, an dis clue at Kara- chi next Saturday, April 6. - .. It is in the air that we enlist seek the new sinews of Empire. Beyond those of every other Power, our resources are diffused, and we can hold our place only by employing all the aid that sci- ence offers to knit them closer: The Air Mail habit must be fostered by all that authority can do to make the world familiar with its opportunities, and by readiness for instant expan- sion to accommodate its growth. Happy marriages usually result when love is iritl od teak a Barre tont- Mon cow,1.an0n sense.