Mexico (9 expropriate seventeen foreign oil companies stirs up a pretty kettle of fish, believes "Time and Tide." This latest move in a long controversy between the companies, the unions and a Socialist Government, besides treating the companies outrageously whatever their faults may have been, bears lamentable testimony to the world's accelerating tendency away from peaceful processes of law towards the methods of violence. Britain's interest is not merely financial, for Mexican oil is one of the important sources of supply free from the strategical dangers which beset the Mediterranean route. Nazi interference to safeguard the world against Communism. may perhaps be ruled out of an area within the field of the "Monroe doctrine; but the possibility that Japan may fish in troubled Mexican waters remains D an ever present danger influencing what Washington can or will do.
Then he perches on the open balcony door and sings to his wife. We kind of hear it in our sleep. One morning a third swallow came in the room—there was a tremendous flying about until the intruder was turned out. rok haya Srna Ramet cage; he is now seven or eight years old. Our neigihours shot at birds in their garden all one lovely June day—our dog was frightened, so were the people's own cocks and hens—l dared not go into our garden in case a shot went astray. In the evening, when it was over, we found a thrush, dead, shot through the shoulder under a tree in our garden, and three little ones only just out of the nest, hopping about calling her. Evidently she was frightened by the shooting and got the little ones out of the nest, and as they flew to our garden she was shot. I brought two of them into the house, the third got into the neighbopr's garden. I read in my bird book that the parents feed the little ones on earthworms which they divide up with their beaks, So I started dividing (cutting) up earthworms into little bits, which I put right into the little wide-opened throats with tweezers, It went all right, and whenever I came into the room I was greeted with cries and wide open beaks.
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Then one day they got out of the cage—one fell down on the floor and evidently hurt itself, for it died the next day. The other sat on the windows ill, and it is the one I still have. Then came nearly three weeks without rain, and I dug and dug in the garden and could find no worms, perhaps one or two. A gardener to whom I told my trouble said, I've got lots, I am turning over my dungheap, on my way home I pass your house I'll bring you some." Later I was in e garden and the maid came out to me ith a flowerpot of worms—"Had Frau Möller ordered earthworms?" I looked at her and said, "Yes." Whether she thought we were going to have fried worms for dinner I don't know; she was stupid enough! My idea was to feed the bird until he would pick up food, for himself, and then let him loose in: the garden; but a friend, a great lover of birds, told me if I di&he would die, as he had not been taught. by his parents how to find worms and snails, so I kept him, and he is a great pet. "He sings beautifully.
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Of course I made a protest to the neigh-hours for shooting the birds, and the manservant said he thought it was a sparrow, but I said no one could mistake this bird for a sparrow, and I said, "You might have shot me, the wall is so high you could not see me. Anyway, I ar a member of the S.P.C.A., so Im bound to protest when you shoot songbirds in the breeding season." They never did it again, and since then I've heard it is forbidden to shoot songbirds in the breeding time, also it is not allowed to shoot in private gardens.
Birds have a better time here than in Tommy Farr, Our Tommy Farr well beaten Max Baer New York, beyond the general y Amerikys Max Baer in
expectation, writes the new Pepys in "Truth." For twas commonly believed Farr had gotten him a killing punch since he was outpointed by Braddock. Nay, had himself bragged of it, But the tuzzle hath exposed it for an idle bragg. Nevertheless, for all the hammering Baer gave him and thrice floored, him, Farr was the fresher of the 2 in the last round. Whereby "15 held by many that had the fight gone to 20 rounds (as such fights did use to) instead of 15, like as not he might have worn down Baer and beat him. And is allowed by the Amerikans jw themselves (in their own jargon) to be the toughest guy for taking nock-out punches with-Out being nocked out by them that ever was seen in a prize-ring. Soe whatever else he may or raya" have done, he hath at last wiped out that slur of a too easy somnolence on the matt, of which the Amerikans had hitherto made merrie (and mot unjust) scorn in our British heavy-weights.
America's The democratic nations of Europe, Banbk intimates the "Spectator," should be grateful for the declaration of policy made by Mr. Cordell Hull, United States Secretary of State, and for the confirmation it received in the speech of the new American Ambassador) at the Pilgrims' dinner in London the next gay) It would be useless, and unreasonable, to expect from a member of the American administration at this moment any assurance that implied a willingness to intervene in the affairs of Europe; but Mr. Cordell Hull made two statements of considerable importance, Firstly, he reiterated the American people's attachment to the rule of law in international relations and hostility to the rule 6f brute force; and, secondly, he rejected uncompromisingly the doctrine of isolation which hampers America's freedom of action in World affairs. "Isolation, he said, "is not a means to security; it is fruitful source of insecurity. As important as Me. Hull's speech is its reception by the American people. According to reputable reports the State Department is satisfied that it expressed the dominating trend in public opinión at the moment, which has shifted sufficiently tudor the pressure of recent events in Europe and the Far East at least to doubt the wisdom of the Neutrality Act. Whether the Act will be repealed is a different matter; but it is reassuring that there is in America a consciousness of how much the mere existence of the Act weakens the position of the democratic States in Europe.
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