MARGINAL NOTES

Southland Times, Issue 25361, 13 August 1935, Page 8

MARGINAL NOTES

Dr. T. E. Lawrence, the eminent British Physician, has given the following “recipe” for the manufacture of “one man”: Enough water to fill a 10-gallon barrel; Enough fat for seven bars of soap; Carbon for 9,000 lead pencils; Phosphorous for 2,200 match-heads; Iron for one medium-sized nail; Lime enough to whitewash a chicken coop, and . Small quantities of magnesium and sulphur. Nothing is said about a “pinch of salt,” but Mr C. E. M. Joad agreeing with Dr. Lawrence’s prescription said when delivering the Haldane Memorial Lecture on “Science and Human Freedom” at the Birkbeck College of the University of London: Take these ingredients, combine them in the right proportions in the right way, and the result, apparently, is a man. The proportions may vary slightly. For . example. if you increase the amount of iron, you may get a Mussolini. A larger proportion of soft soap produces I will leave you to supply the answer.

Dr. Joad said this prescription applied to the body, but he had only to go to the biologists and geneticists for ipformation as to genus, species and race, and to the psychologists for a statement in terms of inherited disposition, temperament, mental structure and complexes in the unconscious mind. Character could be brought within the bounds of the formula.

The formation of a new “FarmerLabour” front in Austria under dissident Clericals is a very important development. Herr Kunschak, its real leader, was a prominent anti-Socialist Clerical Deputy before the setting up of the- Fascist regime. Recently he has gone further and further to the Left, and the Socialists hope that he will play a Dr Rintelen to their Nazis. There appear to be only two courses open to Dr Schuschnigg. One is to take the dissidents into his Government—but this the Heimwehr would not accept. The other is to resign, since he would be the Clerical head of a Fascist Government who no longer had full Clerical support. Taking a longer view, it looks as if there are two alternatives in Austria. A pure democratic Government of Clericals and Socialists, or a pure Heimwehr Fascist Government rvln by a Starhemberg-Fey-Adam Triumvirate. The first alternative could only be accomplished as the result of a “putsch,” which the strongly armed Heimwehr, with the " probable aid of the army and police, would forcibly resist. Behind all these party struggles looms the dark shadow of another Nazi “putsch.”

The Archduke Joseph Francis of Habsburg, who was the host of the Duke and Duchess of Kent recently, belongs to the “Hungarian” Habsburgs, remote cousins of the Archduke Otto, the present Pretender to Austro-Hun-garian monarchy. The Hungarian Habsburgs reaped the advantage of not being too near the throne when the old Empire broke up. As their lands were for the most part in Hungary they suffered little pecuniary loss. Indeed, the only property belonging to the Archduke Joseph Francis’s family to be confiscated was the castle and lands of what is now Castle Masaryk, President Masaryk’s residence in Hungarian Czechoslovakia. The Archduke is young—in the thirties—extremely popular, a playwright and a business man. His play, “Columbus,” was produced at a great open-air performance at Budapest last summer, and is being translated into English. His business activities consist mainly of being chairman of the committee to popularize Budapest as a wateringplace. __________