THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 25, 1940
Hitler's Great Anti-Climax
DASH TO
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BRENNER FIASCO
GERMANY PREPARED FOR SENSATION: NOTHING HAPPENS
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Paris, To-day. GERMANY HAS WORKED out a plan for the com- plete transformation of south-eastern Europe so as to transform the Balkanic countries into tri- butaries to the German economy, according to reports reaching Paris.
Hitler's economic experts have already worked out a plan according to which the Balkan and South- East Europe States will be invited to proceed with partial disarmament and reduce industrial output and intensify agricultural production.
Great uneasiness prevails in the to control their activities and natural Balkan capitals as to the possible resources. Havas.
consequences of this German ambition
I.L.P. ON DANGER OF WAR WITH THE SOVIET
LONDON, TO-DAY.
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Teleki's Anxieties (SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL") Rome, To-day. Political quarters here understand that the main object of the visit of Count Teleki to Rome is to discover how the Brenner talks concerned Hungary and how far Rome is dis posed to allow the spread of Soviet economic and political influence in South-East Europe.
Budapest is obviously worried over the recent meeting of Herr Hitler and Mussolini, when the two Dictators, it THE INDEPENDENT LABOUR is persistently reported, drafted an PARTY, A SMALL GROUP OF THE agreement on their common policy in EXTREME LEFT WING, HAS PASS-South-East Europe, ostensibly with ED A RESOLUTION WARNING the Soviet's approval. BRITISH WORKERS OF THE DAN- Through this policy, the Balkans GERS OF A WAR WITH RUSSIA.. and Danubian Europe would be At the same time, the IL.P. feels "jointly protected" by Germany, Italy it is its duty to Socialism to disasso- and the Soviet. clate itself from the Stalinist regime in Russia. It condemns "the crimes of Stalinism, for it was a great crime to attack a small nation."
It is a tragedy, says the I.L.P., that Russia thus lost the good-will of the working classes of the world. Reu-
ter.
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Observers here contrast this state- ment of the position with that with existed during the conference between the Hungarian Foreign Minister, Count Cliano two months
ago when Count Ciano promised unconditional Italian help to Hungary in the case of a Soviet attack.-Havas.
The Great Flasco Meanwhile, according to Reuter, the suspicion is entertained in Amsterdam that Hitler's diplomatic plans have gone astray.
Political circles in Berlin point out that when Der Fuehrer returned from
Brenner, the whole German propa- ganda machine was started up to ac- claim the triumph and official circles hinted that a sensational development might be expected at any minute.
Since then nothing has happened
and expectation has melted into speculation and forecast. $
Neutral observers point out that a meeting like the Brenner conversation would normally only have been staged to crown a fait accompli, not a pre- liminary stage of negotiation and by | the present anti-climax the dramatic effect of Hitler's dash to the frontier
Jean Leggat, 19, has written a marching song for the W.A.A.F. It has already been broadcast and the Director of Musle of the R.A.F. has personally arranged for its orchestration. Photo shows 19-year-old Jean showing the musla of the marching song to Group Captain Gaskell-Black-
burn. (Copyright, Fox)."
DIPLOMATS ORDERED OUT OF WARSAW
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Brussels, To-day.. Germany has requested all foreign diplomats still present in Warsaw to leave the Polish ca. pital as the time necessary for li quidating pending affairs is con- sidered to have expired.
A special train has been pre- pared for the diplomats to go to Berlin, from which all affairs connected with the former Polish capital must be handled.--Havas.
DR. LANG'S EASTER MESSAGE
London, To-day.
Speaking from Canterbury yesterday, the Archbishop of Canterbury said that it was probably no exaggeration to say that at no time in the last 1,700 years had the Powers of Evil been more active or more insolent.
It was truly a spectacle of human- ity suffering on a bitter cross,"
Surely one, could not believe that that this cruelty
THUS A STAR should go unchecked and this reign WAS BORN
of brute force and evil continue. Could one doubt that it was in ac- cordance with God's will that Bri tain and France should do their ut- Marie Lloyd heard a commercial | most to bring all this evil to an end? traveller give, a turn at a smoking
concert.
"You've a hell of a voice, boy," she said, "It made my spine rattis. 'You're not a bad mimlo."
He warned his listeners, how- ever, that they could not be con- tent with destroying the powers of evil In the shape of Hitler and his gang. They might merely be creat- Ing a desert and calling it peace.. That was the start of a stage star
They must replace it with a new Harry ("Motoring") Tate, the come-order based on the sanctity of human dian, who died in a Surrey nursing life in their own and other nations. home. He was sixty-seven.
Reuter.
One night Harry Tate took а woman motorist, whose car had his delight he found she was. Gladys broken down, into his home. TO CROSS OF THE HOLY Cooper. "Maud," Harry shouted SEPULCHRE RESTORED upstairs to his wife. "I've got Gladys Cooper in the kitchen."
"No doubt," his wife replied sar- castically, "but when you're sober,
come to bed."
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Jerusalem, To-day. For the first time since 1937, the Cross of the Holy Sepulchre wBS opened to the public for a service.
Harry, born in Scotland; was called has been under repair for some time Ronald MacDonald Hutchison.
and is now deemed to be safe.
But when, with Mario's Introduc~ | Reuter. tion; he started on the stage, ... ho
:: took-hia:professional name from. the firm of - sugar. refiners he' had. worked for.
was almost as 'well. known. number was T 8.
Isle of Wight magistrates told Harry has been completely spoiled-Reuter.him at Ealing. A dog was found. were illegal during a Sunday show.
Once a man wanted a dog to bite Tate once that his famous whiskers
CLODIUS BEGINNING TALKS
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Bucharest, To-day.
The Nazi economic mission, under Dr. Clodlus, will probably have its first meeting with the new Rumualan Minister of Commerce to-morrow." Havas.
It bit the man-Harry Tate, work-|^ "O.K." Harry cracked, "I'll ̈ ̈ grow ing in a film and he was taken to real ones to make them legal": hospital:
Watching one of the first airy
His sporting sketches, combined tacks in Scotland caused the tivo. with his unsteady handle-bar mouse months' illness from which ” Hatry tache, made Hairy Tate famous. He died. played: "Motoring with the Cole brated car which fell to bits, 18,000 times in Britain and America-
ha motor dan he used in London
He was hit by flying particles, His aight was affected. Then he had – a heart attack
That was the end of a great" star""