THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 19, 1988
SENSATIONAL
ON NAZIS
ATTACK
NAZIS BY
BY MR.
MR. ICKES "Unlettered, Benighted And Bestial"
Comparisons
With Pre-Historic
Primitives
New York, To-day,
One of the most outspoken attacks on Fascism ever made by a United States Minister, was uttered yesterday by Mr. Harold L. Ickes, Secretary of Interior, addressing the Cleveland Zionist Society.
Mr. Ickes declared it was an insult to the Middle Ages to compare modern totalitarianism with conditions in those days.
MEI LAN-FANG
TO RETIRE?
Dr. Mei Lan-fang, the noted Chin- ese actor and female impersonator, who is now in the Colony, is retiring altogether from stage life, it is re- ported.
For over twenty years, Mei Lan-
sional entertainer and his master-
TATARESCU IN PARIS
Paris, Yesterday.
The new Rumanian: Ambassador to Paris, M. Tatarescu, arrived here this afternoon by the Rome
express. :
:
On arrival he expressed satisfac- tion with his appointment in
peace. He added that he was un- further statements
fang has been the foremost profes-Paris, and said he would work for ing of the art of impersonation has able to make had no peer in the history of Chin- before handing over his letters of ese theatricals of the old school. credence.—Trans-Ocean.
Mei's last appearances were made
“To seek a true comparison we must return to the
period when man was unlettered, benighted he attracted capacity houses. ~~ and bestial.
"Certain sections of Europe to- day have made it possible for an- thropologists to study primitive man without reconstruction of the social order on the basis of human jaw bones or a few of the imple- ments used long ago.
"The intelligence and culture of a humane-people have been sunk and are traceless in the thick darkness of primitive times.
"Witchcraft has been enthroned and
them- modern dictators set selves up as high priests of a more cruel, if more refined, voodooism.
FORM FAMILIAR
"As the man-god ruler of the form tribe, the dictator follows a familiar to every student of pri- mitive cultures.”
Mr. Ickes attacked Henry Ford aud Colonel Lindbergh for accept- ing decorations from Hitler, and continued:
early this year in Hong Kong, when
Central News.
ENORMOUS CROWDS ATTEND FUNERAL OF
SOVIET'S CRACK AIRMAN
Moscow, To-day. Hundreds of thousands assembled in the Red Square yesterday for the funeral of Chkalov, the Soviet Polar airman who was killed in a crash last week. For two days many thousands filed past the coffin.
Soviet leaders.
Yesterday the urm containing the cremated remains was carried from “How can any American calling the Trade Union House to Red himself a Christian accept decora- Square by Stalin, Molotov and other tions from the hands of a brutal dictator, who with the same hands, robs and tortures thousands of his fellow humans?”
"Perhaps Mr. Ford and Colonel Lindbergh will be willing
answer.
یم
to
CONTEMPTUOUS DISTINCTION **These are not the only ones who have accepted a token of con- .temptuous distinction at a time when the bestower himself counts he can only the day lost when commit no new crime against humanity."
Mr. Ickes declared that Fascism was an ever present threat to the United States, "as it is to France and ever more to the mother of democracies, England."-Reuter.
Orations were delivered and then, the amid a salute and strains of funeral march, the urn was carried to the Kremlin wall, where it was placed in a niche.
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SLOVAK ELECTION RESULT
Pressburg, To-day.
the The provisional result of
an over- A last salute was given by bom-Slovak elections shows
the Slovak bers and light fighting planes which whelming victory for flew over the Square.
Government which obtained 98 per cent. of total votes.
Chkalov was one of the Soviet's most famous airmen, and last year across States flew to the United the North Pole-Reuter.
ISSUE POSTPONED FOR FIVE YEARS
were
Fifty-two Slovak Deputies thus elected, including two German the representatives, the leader of German Party in Slovakia, Franz Karmasin, and the Rev. Steinhuebl, and the leader of the United Hun- garian Parties, Count Esternazy.
The results from 7 election dis- tricts are not yet available. "No" The Pan-American Conference votes come mainly from districts has postponed for five years de- cision on a resolution urging thickly populated by Hungarians. P.W.D. MAN JAILED adoption of the principle that Trans-Ocean.
Lima, To-day.
[foreign investors in Latin-Ameri-
Berlin, To-day.
The Reichs Económic Minister,
Before Mr. H. J. Houston at the ca should not be entitled to di- Central Magistracy this morning, plomatic protection except in cases where justice is denied Lau Choi-nam, 32, was charged them by the local courts, accord- with stealing electric wire, brass window bolts and window hinges ing to the Lima correspondent Dr. Funk, left Berlin last night for Sicily where he will spend his holi- from the Central Fire Brigade of the "New York Times." Building, last week and
days. On his return · journey, he
with
It is stated the Conference
re-
-
illegal pawding of a hack saw, the ferred the question to a committee ill stay for some days in Rome
property of the P.W.D...
of experts on codification of interna-
Defendant, who was employed by tional law for a further study, or- and call on the Italian Corporation the P.W.D., pleaded guilty to all dering the committee to report at Minister, Signor Lantini, who has
years just arrived back from Germany. the charges and was sentenced to the next Conference five
Trans-Ocean. one month's hard labour.
Bence Reuter,
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