THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 9, 1940.
Ray Milland, Patricia Morison and Akim Tamiroff are at the centre of the romantic whirlpool in Paramount's "Untam- ed" the Technicolour production at the Queen's. Sinclair Lewis'. "Mantrap" served as original for the screen story.
GOEBBELS WORKS
OVERTIME BUT FEW BELIEVE
DOCTOR GOEBBELS is lying like the very devil. There is nothing new in that. He has been doing it for years and years. It is his particular part of the Nazi technique. All the same, it is in- teresting, and maybe significant, that just now he should be working overtime.
All across the world quite literally "from China to Peru" he is trying to spread the story that the war is finished; that Britain is down and out, ready for surrender; that Hitler has won.
Desperately, he wants to have, different people. And it is so hard that believed in Europe, in Asia, to remember thein all. in Africa, in America. I don't think even Goebbels hopes to kid the Australians.
But he has hopes of all the rest. Anyway, he is trying hard.
Old Technique
HINT ON S'PORE FROM ROME
Japan is planning to at- tack Singapore if Britain obstructs Japan's policy in the Orient or if the Unit- ed States enters the war, said Premier Mussolini's newspaper, “Il Popolo d'Italia."
The paper's commentator called Singapore the "pivot of British positions in East Asia" and declar- ed that "Japan is seeking a place for itself in the best possible posi-. tion strategically against "Singa- pore, anticipating, being forced by English hostility or Interven- tion of new allies of England, to attack and overthrow the pillar of Singapore."
Il Duce's organ also published an implied Japanese threat again- st the Philippines, asserting that any United States aerial or naval action against Japan would be equivalent to harakiri for the American fleet.". It added "the United States has the disadvan- tage of offering an immediate prey to an adversary-the Philip- pine Islands."
Il Duce's other organ, "Il Popolo di Roma," criticised the people of the United States as "the most ignorant of the white raca." ..It hinted strongly that Italy and Germany were counting upon Spain to offset Anglo-American influence in Latin America, Just now Spain might play this part and the precise role she will have in the Rome-Berlin Axis were not made plain.
The newspaper. attacked 'the United States. England and France as the great enemies of Spain and its history.
Earlier in the day the official Italian news agency Stefani said Italians have no reason to sup- pose that a spirit of aggression" exists in United States policy her to go to which would cause war. Associated Press,
DECOUX GETS AN UMBRELLA
That elaborate business of the
THE CHINA BRANCH OF THE "documents" found in a train in France was to convince the Soviet INTERNATIONAL PEACE CAM- CHINESE Government that Russia's real, PAIGN AND THE
FOREIGN RELA- implacable, enemy is Britain, that! PEOPLES' Germany's victory is the first con- TIONS ASSOCIATION HAVE dition for Russia's security.. MAILED TO ADMIRAL JEAN DECOUX, GOVERNOR GEN- ERAL OF FRENCH INDO- CHINA, AN UMBRELLA WITH WHICH TO PROTECT HIMSELF FROM-GATHERING CLOUDS. ·
Quite different is the story being redulously broadcast in the East-both near and far. The Balkans are being told this tale:-
"Your danger is from Russia. You suspect Germany because she is the ally of Russia..
Not so long ago his radio told the world (Europe and the Far East in particular) that the Lon- don correspondent of the “Chicago Daily News" had wired to his paper that Southampton is n wrecked and ruined port.
Now, in fact, what the "Daily News" correspondent had cabled that day was a bit different. He had not mentioned Southampton friends. by name at all.
He had just said that, by all the reliable evidence he could collect. the German bombers in *all their raids had not even seri- ously damaged one aerodrome or port, or shipyard or munition work of any military importance. They had put just one factory out of operation for 24 hours. And that is all
That's the truth. But Brother Josef Goebbels badly wants to tell the world that Britain is down, out, terrified, starving and on her beam ends,
"You think that because Hitler has let Stalin take Karenia, and Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania
Attached to the parcel post package containing the umbrella was this statement:
"Celebrating the appeasement policy pursued jointly by the French Indo-China government Bessarabia, he and Stalin are and the Vichy government, under which Japan was granted use of "Not a bit. Between ourselves, | Indo-Chinese military and naval we are fooling these Bolsheviks. bases and air, fields, Japanese air- Just as we fooled the British at Munich.
"We are simply kidding them along.
"It is going," say Goebbels whisperers, to take us a month or two to deal with Britain, After Brilain Russia: "
"Don't think anything in those plains can stop our armoured divisions.
draft Monday heavily bombed Kunming, China, for, the first time since the outbreak of the Sino- Japanese war.
"Commemorating the civilian casualties sustained as a result of the facilities accorded our enemy by your good self, we have the unique distinction to present to you on this eventful occasion an umbrella which we believe will be "You Balkan people, remember of immense service to you when tve are the big noise. We've threatening clouds are gathering smashed France, we shall smash from all corners of the globe."---- Britain, then we shall smash Associated Press.
it is his old technique of a tempting to win campaigns by Russia. Bluff and Intimidation.
He is trying to persuade the Americans that it is no good try ing to help these British..
"Don't you rely on Stalin and
the Comintern and the Soviets
and all that. We are going to deal | Britain, and then we will help you
against the Soviet Union.
with them next.
"We are the great big masters of everybody. Better keep in with
LIS.
He is trying to kid the Euro- pean neutrals that Germany has won the war already and that they had better come to terms with By the way, we would like her quickly.
1. some grain and some oll and some He is trying to kid the Japanese fats and a few other things. Bet- that if they want to back a win- ter give them while the going's ner they ought to back Hitler.
good. As to the Italians; he doesn't "Don't think Stalin is going to worry. Mussolini has to do what save you after we Hitler tells him anyway.
the. British."
Kidding Stalin
It is interesting to watch this Ananias-campaign of Goebbels Because he often gives things nway without, meaning to, t
His trouble is that he has to keep saying different things to
finished--with
To The Japanese To the Japanese thus "Listen: Don't worry about our agreements with Russia. They are just tactics. We Nazis are really anti-Communists to the backbone, "Just: help us in our war with
"The anti-Comintern poet still holds good. 'Mein Kampf' still holds good.
"You and we-once we get rid of these damned British- can smash Russia. "We want the Ukraine and the Caucasus. You want Mongolia and Eastern Siberia. Yes?"
All very ingenious; all very. clever. Just one thing wrong about it all. It all depends on convincing everybody that Germany, is going very quickly and very thoroughly to smash the British Empire.
And, somehow or other, every- body, from China to Peru, in be- ginning to think that this is rather more than doubtful, that it may be just the other way roundi
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