The Archive · 1933

Misinformation

Sir John Simon seems agai be the. victim of information perfectly collected for him. On May 11 he was reported to have told a questioner in the House of Commons that he had no reason to suppose that Wwere not being made on the due "He added that the payment lit be interpreted as joint of fact the Railway in question has defaulted mani at the failure of the League reserve peace in the Far East, no. reason why th the Foreign Office require bringing uptodate but a telephone. inguiry would have enabled Sir John's armament Conference. becomes folders of this andthe Shang Nanking' Rallwape mish bose fully given bythe Foreign Office India's Home Secretary The interest, aroused by M. K, Gandhi's latest consequence of th city which that has been' able Government of "India Necessary, for two decades, to treat Mr." Gandhi one of its problems. The ment chiefly concerned is the Homo Department, the portfolio of which is now held by Sir The Secretary to. thi has a link with 'China in Mr. M. G. Hallett, an able Civilian from Bihar and Orissa andthe brother of Lady Dreyer, the wite of the British Common of the China Squadron, was promoted I year to be Home Secretary inst gestion to Mr. (no Sir) Herbert Emerson' who Just taken over the Governorship Of the Punjab. mist, Mo Hallett, graduated at New College, Oxford, before entering the Indian 'Civil Service -in' 1906." He Served in Bengal until the creation the Province of Bihar and the result of the the "Coranttion ries to the Government have @ special constitution for their Members who By SAPAJOU Viceroy" the Nanking authorities, The appeal rom one portfolio to another at the will of the Vi In other words a appointed generally to more cordial responses than similar Rot likely to receive Council and receives, his portia in the pi It fs to at the Viceroy's discretion, where:

that the con: tation with' be f Santary. I Eppeited Muang Fu willie productive of the iis exceutte heey in charge the bop which may link Peki and|the event of a Secretary to Gov-of the. situation. "Canton must recognition of the reali- ernment differing:

to its own peculiar devices for. the time being. The Peking Vicere directly submit his Political Reorganisation Committes viceroy, ager Mr Huang, Tue presidency, opportunity of which President Roosevelt's Speech delay to avail itself. The Emphasis faction at Nant there is little names shows that -ballyhooing" to lose. perity was laid by President Roose:

Silver and Stability velt in his broadcast speech to. the nation. "Ile was, liv stern wsatl development of a steady ex.|!0 Fomove the from advantage of the the price "of the metal the" rite fo some extent, infuenchig m Gott "Chi "he condemned

America is being watched with some anxious to educate his Efforts to boost silver tothe need for facing some in artificial increase in price out. realities of the world position. ep with the price of commodities the danger of inflation received [generally cannot be conducive to the ity which is. from him insufficient attention. Tee desired than high more to be|sort toa managed currency in con. 'Soong's comment ver. Mr, T, V.|ditions which appear to prevail in America' onthe United States of Amirica need. for stability seems|not be viewed Pertinent and is certainly more in|Inflation which is with "equanimity, accord with: his known views than [popular the order dicta atributed to him By an American newspaper. country adopting it to the peril of jthe slippery slope.

Possessed of an the|enormous proportion of the world's gold, the United States is Congress. The advocates ake' ful advantage of "its are taking their cue trade and their expressions of solitude mast from the silver-producing interests [aeitgscade, which is one of the for the market in' China are not of the aig pariteeria, rise in distrust of its own people, ote is, because it cannot alla tie metal woald be" regarded hose ble anxiety. To begin ihe drain of gold by foreign draw-it- Reosevel: expressed fear for ings, he seems to overlook the relations of the two pri 64] Lord Cecil had his way ative achievement might pos-ably be annulled.

Tt may be assumed that onl the deepest res-facil's high charac. ter and past service prevented Lord Hailsham from more empha condemning so belli There seems, therefore, to be every Chi ainsaing the. mort carat information one Subject. of bondholders themselves as Promises to engage the attention

Me, David Gubbay's letter in. sup: port of Int. Reynel's Form a Bondholgers' leery soggents isewhere to-d87, Severe Fighting in the North Reversed Procedure

elders who urged you as made of their tea, eas are soperted Heavy casualties are reported in

in the Great War while they them-punitive incursion of the Japanese Unaiate teilling more than selves stayed behind to serve on the Home Front with propaganda and forees to. pot an end to the medic activity "of various Chinese mingled "perhaps with ambulance work, and other non-nits in the neighbourhood of Po: log but ie would be diffealt at this combatant jobs. it was not entirely stage to seta Justified for there were mit to the opera: "view "of the apparent Front Tine who had for the strength of the Japanese troops being assumed the woman in recording their 'The statement. made ages. At all events Canton seems Sie" Wang Ching-wei at Nanking determined in its present state of certainly "shows "that the "Chine nar ever" fo avoid thie reproach Goverment ere nen sich itis placed' The temeay of fading. the desperate situation young. men who hay {ifcation. advocated by: Me Wang the 19th Route Army, are, ae: Ching-wel is essentially a counsel of cording to a Reuter telegram, the ight of the ever posing to occupy themselves in proincreasing hostility of Centon to may be seriously that! no such drain affect the vas' holdings at his cour fry's disposal were i not that ins ternal influences would be likely to accentuate it' Much. depends course, on the extent to whic Goubted Whether it. Scon's report R0PO%, to. tue the power afin endorsement of American silver carries him into the silver: to him is far teaching but will reducers' camp.

Kable succeatully fo wea ets n. The dictatorship entrusted Political pressure which will inevit:

More than a Joke ably be brought to bear upon him Sir Peter Grain took with the RIS policy ip ut into eect? initiation of large schemes ous effort of Mumour the outrage: hia works meat nto Rec ton sheet Pertar' his friends with an elsborhedged round by reservations re!

fensively worded. acnant far ro) the absence garding the rates of payment his alleged death. Re. ust imply an essay in inflation in att 39° Generally the speech canes cee Which "could give cause for suxlacking it isin material he President i farm to'soothe popular anxiety than to ing that Phere was any desis lay down firmly lay down firmly the principles of ie report. It would seem az sound economic reconstruction. the was concocted and has had a good the object only of markets and emitting venom. Presumably nothing heavily: qualified' by various' re-be done to deal with this une Pleasant example ofa. type oF servations but, even it its pina object of supplying matter for in—Journalism which finds: scope ternal consumption be taken into unsavoury activities places, where & senflict of jurisdic- as reassuring to world opinion out-full account, it cannot be regarded tions is to be found. Perhaps the ide:

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