THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 9, 1941.
CHINA MAIL
WINDSOR HOUSE
ARITHMETIC OF CONQUEST
Nobody reads statistics.
Every cub
knows that rule.
reporter
"Tell the story in terms
of John Smith
Smith's family
John
John
Main
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A sufficient quanny
of MILK daily
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DAIRY FARM
MILK
is milk in its meest
beneficial form
Smith's dog.
But to-day is an excep- There are some
tion.
statistics dictated by a man named Hitler.
And to the John Smiths of five countries, and to the families of John Smiths, the total forms
the most tragic burden in the world.
You can say it quickly.
It is four billion dollars.
It is Hitler's bill to Nor way, to Denmark, to Bel- gium, to the Netherlands, and to France. It is pure- ly a business proposition. These countries lost their wars. They must pay the expenses of the armies of occupation- £840,000,000 a year.
Metax
CYPRUS
WHO IS THE MORE WATCHFUL?
MATSUOKA
Publicity Chief
Sir Gerald Campbell, the com-
Germany didn't make paratively new British Minister
the figure public.
Per- haps the Nazis knew that nobody reads statistics and thought that the
to the United States, who has just vigorously replied to Col. Charles remarks about A. Lindbergh's Britain's military record, and hus now been appointed to handle British publicity in the United States, was only recently discover-
world wouldn't be inter-ed by his countrymen. It was on ested.
the completion of fourteen years
By
Returning to Engi nd on leave
in 1911, Sir Gerald persuaded Miss Margaret Juler, who was studying music at the Royal Academy in
Corolyn Cox London, to murry him and go out
of continuous expanding success well-turned phrases. He acquired But Britain was inter-in the British Consular Service in in a privileged fashion his intim- the United States that his name ate knowledge of the Book with turned up in the New
Year's which he now enriches his public Honours List, awarded a knight- speaking, hood by his king.
ested. A parliamentary secretary recently put the figures together and ex- plained them
the to House of Commons.
to set up housekeeping in the Congo, at Elizabethville in the Katanga District. When the bride and groom arrived, the brick bun-
for them
by galow being built local workmen had suffered. from their neglecting to put a roof on till they had done the rest of the.. house and the rains had come and gone.
At an early age
Sir Gerald
There being no one else to play Sir Gerald was born St. moved with his family to Weston-
in
his wife's Mary's. Hertfordshire, in 1877, Super-Mare, and there attended a the piano parts for one of a family of four sons and small private school. But "boys violin sonatas, Sir Gerald picked two daughters of Mary Head and are made the kind of men they them out himself. He couldn't get the the Rev. Colin Campbell, Clergy- become in their homes," says Miss amounts for Poland, for man Campbell put together most Florence Campbell, his sister, who
excellent sermons, and small lives with her brother. Rumania, or for Bulgaria. Gerald's ears were early accus- But even without them tomed to beautiful English the total compares quite favourably with all that Germany paid in repara- tions for the War of 1914-18.
And even a world which is not interested in figures, and has forgotten them, will remember the
and
Sir Gerald went on to Repton and Trinity College, Cambridge. but he did not want to be a clergy- man. Not knowing what he did want to be, he followed the usual
In Ethiopia
actual cost of maintain-line of least resistance - taught In the middle of the 4rst World ing the Reich's legions on school for a year
transferred at Haywards War Sir Gerald was French soil, and the Ger- many an uncertain mind and
Heath. School teaching settles from Venice to Ethiopia, and off ithe trekked, with his wife and two mans are using the differ-settled Gerald Campbell. He tutor-small daughters, to take up resid
("New in Addis Ababa ence to "purchase" an the British Consular Service.
ed and took the examinations for ence
Flower") among the.. eucalyptus.h Selassie's; interest in French indus-
trees planted by Haile predecessor, Menelik. The Camp- try.
bell's third daughter, Jean, born in the Ethiopian capital,
African Saga,
was
protest that Germany If John Smith is a Nor- made over the "iniquities wegian, it will cost him of Versailles." It will re- £20 a year. If he is a
it member the conviction Netherlander,
will with which German amount - to about statesmen assailed the annually. Nor does “astronomical" demands burden stop there. For From 1908 to 1913 he was Vice of the Dawes and Young hunger and want, also plans. It will remember imposed, have followed in how convincingly the the footsteps of the Nazis, Reich's economists proyed
There has been much that Germany could not
argument over the cause pay
of this privation. But the grim statistics to day dis- close the cause and the intent.
When, Sir. Gerald was..sent out.
in from Ceylon to Philadelphia 1920, he had no idea of the im- to his Vice-Consul at Rio was Camp-portance to himself and bell's first post, and then came the country, of the chapter he was The American £5 African saga:: Throughout his about to begin, the continually in independent post heard in many moons. Sir Gerald consular, service, he has landed businessman discovered one of the best after-dinnen speakers he had Consul in the Belgian Congo with was in demand.
But Denmark, Norway, Belgium, the Nether lands, and France must pay. Their economy has
headquarters at Boma. But the San Francisco, had the Camp- district was so vast that young bells for nine years. A trophy of Campbell, sent out on long tours, this chase, hapas on Sir Gerald's was on his own for months at a wall to-day-a vast scarlet British time, hardly ever saw the Consul on having its tall tweaked, with under whom he worked.
signatures all over it of San Francisco's businessmen who pre- There was on one occasion a sented it to Sir Gerald at a fare sporting bicycle trip he took from well luncheon. Mwanza to Elizabethville, riding on the bicycle on such parts of From coast-to-coast went the
the trip as had any roads to ride, Campbell family, winding up in a upon, carrying the thing and his New York skyscraper apartment. rifle, books, thermos bottle and so Sir Gerald was Consul General forth on other long portions where. Gotham from 31 to 88, Later be whole the bigyole was a handicap, bu
| What has happened to tra You can't be out on your own di aridah red tapes.
an Jungle and develop General in the space of
five:
been disrupted by war, They show the uses of a roads were not, He thought on the went to Ottawa. their markets shut off conquered peop
Their raw materials are A conquered people
restricted, and their sup- provide the means by wars you have proved plies requisitioned by a which a conqueror may success, and Sir Gerald conqueror. Yet France,
for instance, is charged carry on his co
more than twice the It is as simple as that.
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