Punches with Kicks

At Westminster Hall in London was delivered the first of a series of memorial lectures to be given in memory of the late Walter Hines Page, U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James' during the War.

The first lecture was given by Sir Auckland Geddes, ex-British Ambassador to the U. S., before 3,000 people. Lord Balfour presided, and Premier Baldwin and U. S. Ambassador Frank B. Kellogg were present on the platform.

Sir Auckland did not mince matters. He had come to tell the Nation the plain, unvarnished truth. He had come to deliver a much-needed punch and characteristically he hit with all the force of his intellect. Said he:

"Walter Page, before the War, was able to see that this great Empire, owing to its conscious diversity, was likely to yield more and more to a compact Empire. It is no use to pretend that America does not at this time profoundly influence us and the Empire. We know we have yielded the position of leadership to America in connection with the work designed for the higher service of humanity.

"The Dominions speak of us as the motherland and of our Parliament as the mother of Parliaments. I think that the insistence on the word 'mother,' which is affectionate in intention, makes that a tribute to something of old age, if not senility, in regard to our institutions.

"They look upon the Government of

Washington as of their own generation, and any one who knows of what the people of our sister dominions are thinking knows that some of them, particularly those who look out on the Pacific, feel that in Washington there is an instinctive understanding of difficulties which, when they come to London, they have laboriously to explain to Downing Street.

"In Canada, American newspapers, magazines and goods are all there; an invisible border divides the territories under the British flag and the flag of the United States. They pass and repass that border and play the same games with one another without knowing anything of the difference in nationalities.

"It often happens that when our Dominions look to us here there is no sympathetic answer, no understanding; and they look to Washington. And Washington is not devoid of eyes and will look back at them."

Such punches with such kicks both surprised and pained some of the audience. It was evident, however, that all had been deeply moved.

FRANCE

Remembered

In a little Breton village, a peasant walked aimlessly about. His eyes strayed to a spot where men were busy loading apples into a railway car; and, at the same time, he perceived a familiar face. Where had he met this man? After some ruminating, it suddenly dawned upon him. Approaching the man, the peasant inquired politely: "Excuse me, monsieur, are you not Lieutenant Knätsch?"

Mighty proud was First Lieutenant Knätsch, who had come to Brittany to buy apples for making German champagne, to have his name and rank remembered; and he replied vigorously that his name was indeed Knätsch. "Good!" exclaimed the Breton. "I have a little account to settle with you." Thereupon, he set about beating the German; and if it had not been for the intervention of workmen the latter would surely have been killed.

The peasant afterwards explained that he had received cruel treatment at the hands of Knätsch while a prisoner-of-war in Germany..

RUSSIA

Opéra Bouffe

"His Majesty" Cyril I, "Tsar of All the Russias," decided to convoke a "Crown Council of all Russian Grand

Dukes who recognized him as Emperor." At the same time, His Majesty appointed Grand Duke Dmitri Pavolovitch as his representative in Paris with Count Igor Sacken and Count Tolstoy Miloslavsky respectively as Military and Civil Counselors. These facts were published by Possledny Novosti, Rus sian newspaper printed in Paris.

The comic behind these grandiloquen phrases was that the "Tsar of All the Russias," known as "Cyrille Égalité (TIME, Nov. 17), is recognized by only a handful of Grand Dukes. Last September, he took the singularly inconsequental step of proclaiming himself Tsar, as if Tsar, crownless and throneless, had any significance.

Her Majesty the Dowager Empress Marie Féodorovna, who lives in Denmark, disputed his claim to the throne in a momentous letter addressed to Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaievitch, to whom she referred as head of the House of Romanov, thereby implying that he was the rightful successor to her son Nicholas. As she has never been able to bring herself to the point of believing that the Tsar was murdered at Ekaterinoslav, the question of the succession, out of deference to the Dowager Empress, to outward appearances has been a dead issue for the Grand Duke Nikolai. He has preferred to remain quiet and believes with his cousin (the Dowager Empress) that "our future Emperor will be designated by our fundamental laws in union with the Orthodox Church and the Russian people."

As a beau geste, Grand Duke Cyril's attitude is distinctly amusing; as a serious movement, it seems wholly devoid of sense. Meanwhile, it must be a source of laughing satisfaction to the Bolsheviki to know that the ranks of the Royalist Russians are so hopelessly split.

Flat

Having made sure of its ground, the Moscow Government reiterated its request for the return of the Russian fleet which took refuge at Tunis after the route of General Wrangel's army in November, 1920. It even went so far as to appoint a commission to visit the fleet.

The French Government found itself in a dilemma. Having recognized the Bolsheviki, could it refuse to surrender the fleet? Apparently not. But if it did surrender the fleet,

*The fleet consists of two battleships, one cruiser, seven destroyers, three torpedo boats, one auxiliary cruiser, four submarines. De stroyers and submarines are comparatively modern ships.

umania and other Black Sea neighors of Russia would be visibly anoyed, and Rumania is a close ally f France. What was to be done, herefore, occupied the minds of reponsible authorities at Paris.

Oslo

NORWAY

According to information received rom the Norwegian Legation at Washngton, the name of the City of Chrisiania, capital of Norway, will be hanged to Oslo, its ancient name.

For many years this change has been igorously pressed by famed Norwegians.

GERMANY

More Heroics

Sometime ago, General Erich von Ludendorff accused ex-Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria of "welching" on the "beer-hall brawl" (TIME, Nov. 19, 1923). The former Crown Prince retorted by calling the General's accusation false and the General faithless to the monarchist cause.

Both men claimed that they had been insulted. General Ludendorff was reported to have expressed a desire to fight a duel with the exCrown Prince, but etiquette does not permit a commoner the impudence of fighting with royalty, so the irate General demanded that Rupprecht should appear before a court of honor to defend himself (TIME, Nov. 10). This demand was likewise called "impossible" and "Ludy" became socially and politically ostracized.

At this point, Field Marshal von Hindenburg interceded on behalf of Ludendorff, drew up the following document for both to sign:

"General Ludendorff expresses regret to His Royal Highness for the offense General Ludendorff committed against His Highness. The Crown Prince retracts with regret that he said General Ludendorff uttered calumnies and criminal insults; also that he accused General Ludendorff of unreliability in his adherence to the monarchy."

Ludendorff signed, Prince Rupprecht did not. The former ravedmany doubted his sanity. Field Marshal von Hindenburg washed his hands of the affair, voiced his profound dissatisfaction with Ludendorff's behavior.

Bavarians, most of whom regard and treat Prince Rupprecht as King of Bavaria, supported the Prince's attitude toward the General and there were deft insinuations made to him

LUDENDORFF

Many doubted his sanity

that he had better pitch his tent in another part of Germany.

In answer to rumors concerning a plot to reestablish the Monarchy in Bavaria, Minister President (Premier) Held said:

"It is not true that the Bavarian monarchists are seeking a monarchist restoration by extra-legal means, through a Putsch or violence, although the monarchist idea is deeply imbedded in the Bavarian people. Nor is it true that serious efforts are now in progress to give concrete expression to the monarchist idea.

"To be sure, the monarchists hope that the realization of their aims will eventually permeate the entire population. One prerequisite to such a development, however, is the spread of the monarchist plan through the Reich in the same measure."

Boycott

ITALY

At Rome, assembled the Italian Parliament minus its Opposition. Some 150 Socialist Deputies, true to their promise made after the murder of Matteotti (TIME, June 23), boycotted the Legislature with the result that 250 Fascisti and a mere handful of Liberals and Communists disported themselves on the benches and tried to make the Chamber of Deputies look crowded.

The opening proceedings were entirely uncharacteristic of Italian Parliaments. Whatever the Fascisti said, only the Fascisti could applaud or

boo. And, more strange, there was a total absence of that usually irresistible temptation for the Opposition spokesman to speak at the same time the Government spokesman. At least in this respect, the boycotted Parliament was superior to its predecessors.

In his opening speech, Mussolini paid tribute to the murdered Deputies Matteotti and Casalini and to the recently deceased General Ricciotti Garibaldi, son of the great Liberator. After resuming his seat, the leader of the Communists arose to inform the Chamber that his Party would not sit in the present Parliament. He made himself objectionable-so much so that a mighty, muscular Fascist towered over him with menacing fists, shouting: "I don't hit because the mere sight of you makes me sick." A fight was avoided; and a few minutes later, the Communist concluded his speech and led his followers from the Chamber to the delighted taunts from the Fascisti of "encore."

After four days of uninspired debating, the Chamber of Deputies approved the Government's foreign policy and returned a vote of confidence in Mussolini by 315 to 6 votes; 26 Deputies, led by ex-Premier Orlando, who was elected on a Fascist ticket, abstained from voting. Ex-Premier Gioletti, heading the Liberal Opposition, and his supporters voted against the Government.

Dialog

In Rome, simultaneously on the eve of the reopening of Parliament, were held plenary meetings of Fascist and Socialist Opposition Deputies. The first assembled to hear a speech from Premier Mussolini; the second to approve a proclamation to the Italian people. Reports of both meetings were published in Italian newspapers at the same time and they showed the yawning chasm which divides political Italy. This is particularly brought out by The New York Times, which presented the chief points made in the form of a dialog:

MUSSOLINI: "The reopening of Parliament is a proof of my Constitutional intentions."

OPPOSITION: "Parliament is a bluff with which you hope to cheat public opinion."

MUSSOLINI: "The Fascist Militia is Constitutional because it has sworn faithfulness to the King."

OPPOSITION: "The oath of faithfulness has no value because you have stated that the militia must remain devoted to Fascismo and act as the bulwark of the Fascist revolution."

MUSSOLINI: "Justice is impartial and

strikes the Fascisti as heavily as any other citizens."

OPPOSITION: "We have no faith in the Justice of a Government whose actions should be investigated by Magistrates."

MUSSOLINI:

"The present Parliament can and must function."

OPPOSITION: "The only solution of the present situation is to hold general elections."

MUSSOLINI: "We have increased the prosperity of the country."

OPPOSITION: "You are responsible for the higher living costs and lower wages."

Caetani's Farewell

In a farewell address in Manhattan to the Italy-America Society, Prince Gelasio Caetani, Italian Ambassador to the U. S., who is returning home next month, stoutly defended the Fascist régime in Italy. He spoke of what had been accomplished: balanced budgets, reduction of internal indebtedness, prosperous industries, etc., and said that the Government was arranging to redeem $15,000,000 worth of bonds falling due in the U. S. in 1925. Said he:

"We-that is, Mussolini and his faithful followers, including the most patriotic elements of Italy-are going to see that this work is carried out to a finish. After all, Fascismo has caused a revolution, a spiritual revolution, and it intends to defend it as every revolution has had to defend itself. Bolshevism, or any of its attenuated forms, is not going to set foot again in Italy and I hope the world may soon be free of that nightmare. There is no reason to be duly alarmed by radicalism."

Bolshevik Insulted

As Bolshevik Ambassador Dr. Constantine Yourenev was driving through Rome to interview Premier Benito Mussolini, a Fascist dashed forward, snatched the Red Flag from the automobile, wiped his feet on it. The Ambassador was visibly annoyed; the Fascist was arrested; Premier Benito expressed "deep regret."

Bloodless

Where shirts are black and blood runs hot, challenges to mortal combat are by no means out of fashion. But enlightened Italian society does not impugn a man of high station if, in the rush of affairs, he finds it more convenient to surrender his duelling privileges to some staunch friend.

In one General Balbo, Premier Benito has such a friend. Oft and again some hothead will call Benito out for one

thing or another. Last week it was General Peppino Garibaldi, fiery little grandson of the Liberator. Rebuked for criticizing the conduct of the National Militia on Austrian Armistice Day (Oct. 31), Peppino demanded satisfaction of the Militia's chief. But all

PEPPINO GARIBALDI

He challenged Benito

Peppino got for his pains was the prompt acceptance of Balbo.

Which polite and eminently excusable evasion, of course, leit Peppino free to decline in turn. The last that was heard of Garibaldi - to - Mussolini - to Balbo was that the Permanent Court of Honor at Florence would consider the matter of redress for alleged contusion of Peppino's feelings.

HUNGARY Karolyi's Law Suit

Count Michael Karolyi, living in London while his wife tours the U. S. to "make a little money," scion of one of Hungary's most ancient and famous families, the man who early in 1918 took the oath of allegiance to Emperor Karl and later, in the same year, proclaimed Hungary a republic with himself as first President, who, allegedly, "sold" the country to the Bolsheviki in 1919 and who is probably the most hated man in Hungary, once more entered the legal lists to recover his confiscated property.

At Budapest, Hungarian capital, the Supreme Court began to hear the suit over Count Karolyi's property, confiscated by order of two lower courts on the grounds of high treason and lese-majesté.

The State Attorney moved that the defendant's free and entailed property be confiscated because "the materia and moral damage perpetrated by Karolyi against his country is inmeasurable." He is officially ac

cused of:

1) Inciting workmen to strike during the War in an endeavor to for peace on Hungary.

To Carry On

The Nation-wide railway which

strike,

started a fortnight ago (TIME, Nov. 17) and had as two of its principal effects the resignation of Chancellor Ignaz Seipel and a threat to the League of Nations' reconstruction scheme, was ended. Due to the strike's tremendous unpopularity, it was believed that the strikers were utterly defeated.

Following the settlement, the Central Committee of Parliament-a body with wide powers-requested Chancellor Seipel to carry on. The Chancellor accepted on condition that the opposition parties would pledge themselves to support the League's reconstruction plan. The necessary assurances were anticipated.

*Federation of all states along the banks of the Danube (Czecho-Slovakia, Austria. Hungary, Yugo-Slavia, Bulgaria, Rumania)an old idea opposed strongly by Foreign Min ister Eduard Benes as a tendency towards restoring the Austro. Hu

EGYPT

Out and In

Several weeks had rolled by since 'remier Zaghlul Pasha of Egypt quit London after his memorable interview with Premier MacDonald of Britain ver the Sudan (TIME, Oct. 6, 13, CoмIONWEALTH). It had been freely umored that if the aged and infirm Premier returned to his homeland mpty-handed, which he did, he would e obliged to resign.

The day following the opening of Parliament by King Fuad I, the whiteaired, worn Premier arose to announce is resignation and that of his Cabinet. He said that the state of his health nade obligatory this step. He also said: 'I cannot work amid intrigues!"

But the people of Cairo had yet to be reckoned with; and they were more deermined than were the Senators and Deputies. Crowds walked about shouting: "Zaghlul or revolution"; school strikes and student parades became common. The upshot of all this commotion was that the Premier had an audience with King Fuad, announced afterward that he would remain in office.

Japanese history. He believed in violence and had determined to kill the Prince Regent. He committed a great crime in attempting to injure the imperial family, which has never oppressed the poor."

Then, donning the black hat, he solemnly condemned Namba to be hung by the neck until dead.

"Long live the Communist Party of Japan," yelled back the defiant Namba.

Way back in the village of Yamaguchi, Namba Sr., hid his shame. Ever since the crime, ten months ago, no member of the family has been seen outside the house. It was feared that the father contemplated committing hara-kiri as an apology to the throne; if so, then many people are in favor of it, for not long ago one sent a dagger to him by mail and he has received several threatening letters. So incensed have been the villagers at the shame thus brought upon the village that police have had to protect the Namba home.

The Unknown Patriot

The body of the unknown Japanese patriot who committed hara-kiri several months ago close to the compound of the former U. S. Embassy (TIME, June 9) as a protest against the enactment of the U. S. Immigration Bill (TIME, April 28, June 2, et seq.) is to be disinterred from Aoyama Cemetery and reinterred in the military cemetery where lie some of Japan's greatest heroes.

It was due to Mitsuru Toyama, head of the Black Dragon Society-an organization active in agitation against the U. S. after the passage of the recent U. S. exclusion bill—that permission was accorded to exhume the unknown patriot and give him what is virtually a national burial. In the mili tary cemetery, a great tomb will be erected over the grave, and its position will be near the last resting place of General Nogi who distinguished himself in the Russo-Japanese War and who committed hara-kiri on the night of the funeral of the Emperor Meiji. LATIN AMERICA To Die

Three months ago, Mrs. Rosalie Evans, U. S.-born widow of a British subject, was murdered by Mexicans (TIME, Aug. 11, 18).

Last week, one Alejo Garcia and one Francisco Ruiz were sentenced to death for the murder, after a trial lasting several days.

A foreign observer said: "After the executions, relations between Britain and Mexico will be less strained."

CINEMA

The New Pictures

The Siren of Seville. Priscilla Dean has only one fault that bulges out. That is her disposition to play before the camera too infrequently. It is the opinion of many that she is a figure, that she should be fixed in the fronk rank. The Siren is one strong proof. The story tells the familiar bull-ring yarn-the matador who becomes famed and forgets his childhood sweetheart. The sweetheart saves his life in the final bullfight scene, wholly preposterously. All this Miss Dean whips into fresh and agile entertainment. There are not many actresses equipped for such a task.

Forbidden Paradise. Pola Negri and Ernst Lubitsch, playing again on the same team that made Passion, are inevitably excellent. They chose a play called The Czarina in which Doris Keane starred not so long ago. The story is an amiable satire on the delights and drawbacks of Royalty. Rod La Rocque plays the captain of the Guard whom the star promotes in rank as he rises in her affections. The picture is one of the best Miss Negri has ever made and final proof that the famous duet of NegriLubitsch is a dominant addition to the camera industry of California.

The Fast Set was what they called Spring Cleaning. The latter will be recalled as Frederick Lonsdale's exceedingly sophisticated idyl of London society. The husband, to eliminate certain of his wife's domestically distasteful tendencies, invites a street walker to a formal dinner party. Certain specially flavored bits of sex discussion have been eliminated in the picture, taming the result down to the censor's level. It is seldom that what is known as a "society drama" makes a deep dent when caught by the camera. Outdoors is more tractable to the director then the shifting suavities of the drawing room. The Fast Set makes no exception. Adolph I. Meniou gives his

usual complete and competent performance.

The Greatest Love of All. The talking cinemas do not work very well just yet. George Beban had an idea that he could create a substitute. He collected the cast for this play and interwove scenes with the actual players on the stage and the scenes from the studio on the film. Though the experiment is obviously too cumbersome to attain a widespread representation, it makes a magnetic novelty for picture stages and screens in the cities. It is understood that Mr. Beban has already tried it outside of Manhattan and will take his reels and his troupe on tour. The story is moderately entertaining with Mr. Beban playing an Italian immigrant who loves his mother and becomes an iceman.

The Beloved Brute would probably have been beloved eight years ago. At present he is decidedly out of fashion. Played by a new star, Victor McLaglen, he is long on chest expansion and ill-equipped with soul. It was the love of a good woman that finally brought him around. Meanwhile, there is much talk about breaking men with bare hands, several fights, crimson ladies, one-eyed comedians and the good old, surefire Western wallop.

East of Broadway. Cops and crooks in disagreement, with the genial Owen Moore heading the police detachment, make one more motion picture. The deadly seriousness of most pictures of the type is happily discarded; and the piece is played as comedy. Both the picture's punch and the star's are delivered with a smile. Accordingly, the proceeding becomes eminently bearable and at times refreshing. Marguerite de la Motte and Mary Carr contribute liberally to the entertainment quota.

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Wagner*

Ernest Newman (TIME, Oct. 13), long critic of the London Sunday Times, is for this year guest critic of The New York Evening Post. There is probably no critic writing in Eng

RICHARD WAGNER

"Boorish, tactless, amorous..."

lish whose estimates of contemporary music are of more interest.

Newman can outwrite the cleverest of the sophisticates. His literary manner is a nimble and adaptable instrument, bubble-light, steel-keen. His taste is of the highest degree of nicety, his appreciations broadly tolerant. He is courageously frank, never self-consciously clever. Above all, he has what is usually lacking among our native critics in Music as in the other Arts-a profound background of intelligent scholarship.

Mr. Newman's work on Wagner has for some time been known to the musical intelligenzia through the English edition. It is perhaps the first authoritative work to face frankly the facts of Wagner's life without malice and with a genuine admiration for both the man and his work, but with no effort to gloss the occasionally distasteful phases of the man's character.

Very few people of prominence have left as much information about themselves as Richard Wagner. Far from any display of reticence, he positively hurls his private life into the teeth of posterity, notably in the

voluminous autobiography Mein Leber So Mr. Newman feels at liberty t peer without shame into dubious corners of the Master's life. It migh be supposed that, with an autobography whose avowed intent w "unadorned veracity," the private hir of the composer would not be a hare matter to probe. Unhappily, Mr. Newman finds that, far from being a frank revelation, Mein Leben tal just short of actual falsehood.

Wagner was totally incapable u seeing the other side of anything With superb, domineering egotism he was wont to summon his own witnesses, marshall his own facts, present them himself give a verdict in his own favor.

Notably, his biographer finds, Wag ner was unjust to Conductor Lachner, to Robert von Hornstein, his friend to his first wife Minna, to all hostile critics. His disposition was tem pestuous, overbearing; he never pai! his bills; not merely asked, but de manded loans of his friends as a condition of continued friendship; was enraged at Minna for her imbecilic protests at his open amours; indig nantly resented any interferenceeven the most pacific-from the husband or family of any lady whe chanced to be the object of his rather various affections. A boorish, choleric, tactless, amorous gentlemen was this Wagner, improvident and insolent, luxurious and sensual, incorrigibly sure of himself and of hi mission, totally oblivious to the unhappiness he brought on his associates, utterly bigoted.

Mr. Newman is unmerciful to the man Wagner. His object is not, however to condemn him, but to make him the more real by the contrast of his pe tiness and infirmities of character with his essential greatness of achieve ment. There is an enormous gap. we find, between the man and the artist-"the most many-sided of me sicians."

Mr. Newman's work is well and entertainingly written, with a wealt of scholarship and a shrewd insight He is never carried away by his theme, always preserves a just ser of proportion. And his inspection o the great musician's personal idi syncrasies is far from devoid of: sly humor.

K. K. K.

"It is unthinkable and impossible t imagine that the real Americans of th type who made this country, such as Washington, Franklin, Jefferson or Monroe, or the devout and God-fearing Pilgrims who preceded them, should