THE CHINA 'MAIL, "JULY '3, 1941
CHINA MAIL
WINDSOR HOUSE
GENERAL WAVELL'S MOVE
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HIMMEL !
THIS IS ILLEGAL !
جو
bemir.
Yates
General Sir Archibald Wavell's exchange of posts with General Sir Claude
Auchinleck needs to be linked closely with the fact that the Rt. Hon. Oliver Lyttelton is also going to Cairo, as the direct representative of the War Cabinet, to take over from the new Com- mander-in-Chief a great mass of political, econo- mic and administrative work which has hitherto been handled by General Wavell. The shock and the surprise need not, therefore, give rise to speculation on any sup- posed reasons for the replacement of General Wavell. Now that the facts are known, it would have been more sur- prising if the immen- sity of the tasks thrust upon General Wavell, the fighting of five campaigns on five dif- ferent fronts, in addi- tion to attending to the details of economic war- fare, political work and propaganda, had not had
Passionate Nazi-hater Jay Allen,
Grandiose are Allen's ideas, not gueurs, its bathetic insinceritics, their effect in heavy by illegally entering Occupied the least of which was to attempt the better.
of a vast Europe- But you must see it, if only tos France, has fallen into the hands the creation strain after twelve of the Gestapo. His arrest is due, wide democratic news service to have a good laugh at the Ger
with long-established,, mans. Towards the end of the months of continuous as are all his misfortunes, to im- compete
a belief that if fabulously rich, semi-official picture are shown extracts from effort. In those twelve petuosity and
you are an American you can do agencies that already supply the the much-vaunted German film
its daily news. in world with
He of the Polish campaign, called months, General Wavell pretty well what you like
might have saved his always short "Baptism of Fire." Europe. has more than justified]
breath for other purposes. Allen is one Jay
of the few his brilliant reputation as men I know who
Jay Allen, fearing that could never
influence was becoming a strategist and a military hope to disguise himself and get
mount in Europe, wanted to commander of the high-i deeper set than the other, so away with it. One of his eyes
wake up his countrymen to what he then regarded as inevitable est skill by any and every that you think he squints and
war, felt that usual news channels standard. Half the work then find that he doesn't.
this
The I hope were not doing enough in
first is Hitler doing disconcerting sometimes,
direction. Such men in 1937 or is to be taken off the the Gestapo will find it so.
Sarah Bernhardt act in-an arm-} thereabouts were dubbed mis-chair. He has just given the word shoulders of his successor}
· Among tyrants the name of chief-makers, and their schemes "Go" to his Air Force: they are
Allen's
on their way to blow "Polish in Cairo, and plainly no Jay Allen stinks, particularly does usually came to naught.
it do so in the nostrils of Francisco scheme was among the majority women and children to pieces, And harm will be done in the Franco y Bahamonde, whom he in-
Unlike many of his slicker col- there he sits, sprawled out in-his Middle East by the arrival terviewed at Tetuan, in Morocco, leagues who are content to cash railway carriage, for all the world when the Spanish "revolt first in on superficialities; Allen -likes
as though the Adgetty Goering of a keen, energetic, broke out in 1936. It put Franco's digging down to facts, likes also beside him was a doctor who had to go political slumming before just told him the worst. Galloping] master tactician, free to name on the map. concentrate upon the mil-
More injudicious than usual, committing himself to paper. He consumption, at least. He's a re-
is a great blower-in and blower-gular old Dame aux Camelias. then calmly told Allen. itary task. Incidentally, that, if it were necessary, he out of rooms, meetings, parties, there is more than a hint would murder half the popula- He never seems to be in the same
tion of Spain to gain his ends. place for more than four min that General Waveli's This is dynamite, thought Allen! utes at a time. But in that time he knowledge of Russia was He didn't even stop to pack his manages to pick up more facts not out of the minds of bags before driving full tilt into than most of us can do at a full- obviously taken 'a' degree in mak-
French Mofocco to cable the
Tough Nut For Himmler
Franco
the War Cabinet when story. 'the exchange of posts was under consideration.
he "was
It is
dress interview.
The film, you will remember, that was to terrify everyone out Nazi
of their wits. It has two high- para- lights,
Keystone of Nazi 'propagarida
whom, The whole country,
The second is the commentator: German, speaking English. He has the sort of voice Pop-eye the would have if--his Sailor Man voice had never broken. And he's ing people's flesh creep-but-at-a pretty poor university.,
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But "Baptism of Fire" itself isn't half as terrifying as the news-reels of the last war. They do show what war means. Which is more than Dr. Goebbels hasj been able to do in this film. Y
Incidentally, isn't it time we stopped singingLand of Hope and Glory." That line about the
wider shall thy bounds be set"
sounds slightly, comic in the ears
of those pledged to a war that, we are told, has no imperial ambitions in its make-t
These are days when new Thereafter Franco's thugs put to the United States has been no emergencies require for- a price on Allen's head, the more German territorial, economic de- ward-looking minds. It is eagerly as they discovered that mands on that country.
then closely connected-Strangely then, but not un- a matter for congratula- with the Republican Government, naturally perhaps, came this song tion to discover the clear-was a friend of men who after (here translated) the other day wards became famous "or in- from a German radio station; sung est evidence that the War famous, whichever way you look by a choir: Cabinet has its
at things: among others, Del Vayo, "Now are we bound for Ertgland. focussed not only upes Caballero,
years earlier, he'd concealed for
· ́ ́troyed by stre, the urgent demands of days in his Madrid house when Then we act out for the New
Primo de Rivera's police were World, 1. the immediate moment, hunting them.
Whence we shall fetch Rosenfold but upon the potential-
- (Roosevelt), tles of the future. It gives believable degree, Allen talks in
quick, sudden jerks, as though. •pine, confidence too to note the every five words or so he sudden- cheerful acquiescence of lycees something that makes him
Here is the ultimate: horror in General Wavell in a Only those who know him well
"officialese." I found it in a docu- change of command, he's driving at: others, Im-
ment at the Ministry of Informa- can effortlessly understand what
Much may be forgiven the tion. It is passed on without com much as he would doubt-pressed by his bulk, his air of March of Time film unit for its ment. less have liked the oppor-knowing what's what, gladly splendid work in the past. In its "The subject," saya the docu- make an effort to understand, are orst full-length film, "The Ram- ment apropos the awakening of tunity of finishing the job often well rewarded for their parts We Watch there is much Yugoslavia, "can be admirably he has so brilliantly be- pains. Ahead of the Gestapo men to be forgiven from the points of treated propagandistically."
detalled to interrogate him, is no view of a British muüience. The "Only gun.
Nervous to -an, almost un-
forget what he was going to say,
enviuble job.”
"
Switzerland, the insolent porcu We shall seize on the way home.
less, said about its dizzy-lon-
PHILIP JORDAN
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