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WHERE WILL GERMANY POUNCE NEXT?
Herr Hitler, leader of the German peoples, from time to time has expostulated when persons beyond his influence have expressed the opinion that his desire for peace is not al- together sincere. Few would be so rash us to suggest that Herr Hitler, or for that matter any large majority of the German people, want war for war's
sake; or that they even desire means of achieving But there
War as a their national aims. is no longer any sense in deny- ing that Germany, her leaders and her people, are prepared to
Which are YOU This Morning T. PAUL GREGORY on
or
Dr. Jekyll
Mr. Hyde?
NIFTY-THREE years
the story of ago Jekyll and Hyde was written as a fable. Unlike most fables, it has refused to remain simply a story.
-Asks-
MARGARET
LANE
of
The FESTIVAL PURE BRIGHTNESS
ONE of the most colourful they
are not wanted,
willow
as
and
most significant branches are placed to act festivals of the Chinese mute but exceptionally potent
exorcising influences. people is that of "Pure
During this three day period Brightness" or Ts'ing Ming. of ghostly emancipation, and
No other fete enjoys such until the moon-t'ing, or "close" a wide appeal, or is more of the festival, when all the whole-heartedly celebrated; to their infernal homes, it is spirits are confined once more for its observance is typic decreed that all filial des- ally. Chinese and attests the cendants must not employ nation's profound venera- needles for knitting, or shampoo tion for the spirits of its their hair, otherwise the de- parted might feel the pricking departed ancestors.
of the needles, or be compelled. Although the occasion has to assuage their thirst with scarcely a counterpart in draughts of dirty water
over from the shampooing. western popular custom, save with the sole exception tion with the Ts'ing Ming An age-old custom in connec-
as
left
of the United States, where, solemnities is to make offerings a similar observance known of roast pork and wing to the Decoration Day is held spirits of the departed at the annually on May 30, the grave-side. Banners of red and event arouses a chord of yellow paper are stuck in the sympathy and understanding in soil, and strips of other paper, in gay crimson shades which are occidental hearts; for respect to
so popular amongst the Chinese, the memory of the dead is an are pasted at the head of the inherent characteristic of the majority of mankind.
un
tomb.
These Intter bear the names Ts'ing Ming Was observed
of the present generation, and the April 5, and
day
are considered as appropriate was the occasion for
cere testimony that the dead, though monial visits to the various gone, are still in the hearts and JEKYLL," cemeteries on the island and ou thoughts of the living.
The names of its hero and villain have passed into the language and remain there, for the simple reason that the fable ally, two persons, and the one is true. For at least the shadow disclaims responsibility for the of both extremes exists in all of other. us; nobody's character is quite No Conscience the same all the way through,
Everybody has to some de gree a certain duality of charac- ter. It generally makes for a pleasant variety in life, a widen- ing of experience; but the danger lics (as Dr. Jekyll discovered) in letting the two sides of one na Lure separate.
While Jekyll and Hyde exist in the same man Jekyll has a chance of controlling his un- principled companion, but when Hyde becomes sufficiently deve- loped and independent to free
himself from Jekyll's conscience terrible things can happen. Dual Identity
"HENRY
the feeling?
wrote
MMM
The form of worship carried
the Sino-Japanese conflict, many patriotic Chinese in the South have voluntarily curtailed a portion of the ceremonials, and have dedicated the funds saved there- by to the national cause,
Stevenson the mainland. more than half a century ago, On account of the festival's on at the tomb is very impres- "stood at times aghast before occurrence at about the time of sive, and consists of an elabor- the acts of Edward Hyde; but the Easter holidays, it has al- ate ritual of ceremonial bowings
been regarded by the the situation was apart from ways
or "kowtows", coupled with the ordinary laws, and insidiously utilitarian Chinese as a golden offering of incense and the burn. relaxed the grasp of conscience. opportunity for a brief spring ing of quen-po, or "imitation vacation. It is therefore con-
paper money", for the benefit "It was Hyde, after all, and sidered as the day eminently of the dead. Hyde alone, that was guilty. suitable for undertaking excur Jekyll was no worse; he woke sions in the vicinity of the again to his good qualities seem- Colony, or else a visit back to ingly unimpaired; he would even the natal village in the hinter WING to make haste, where it was possi- land. ble, to undo the evil done by Hyde. And thus his conscience slumbered...." You recognise TS'ING MING is one of the three great annual festivals in honour of the dead, and ONLY this week an out-
One of the items which have The indulgence of Hyde is a whilst it is not a fixed feast, yet wardly respectable
been temporarily abandoned is business man, solid and looked way of making up for the re it can be readily calculated, the employment of roast pork up 16 in his suburb, was con- pressions and disappointments since it is assumed to take place in the sacrifices; and the verna victed of crimes committed in a of Jekyll. The man who is a some 105 days after the Winter
cular press is full of accounts secret life, and sentenced to despot in the office, reducing Solstice,
of the number of soldiers' rain- typists to tears and making
In northern China, it is some- coats, etc. which have been two years' imprisonment.
In defence he pleaded dual office boys tremble, may bow times termed the Laang-tsit, or bought with the funds ordinari- identity and a completo ignor- meekly to a very different au- "Cool Festival", on account of ly expended in the ritual of ance on the part of his respect- thority at home.
the traditional partaking of cold Ts'ing Ming. able Jekyll of the fraud and rob-
The woman who makes a food on the three days prior to
M12 M : beries perpetrated by the dis- point of being the life and soul the event. honest Hyde.
of the party in other people's
Observances vary widely, and, IT may be of Interest to men- The Recorder, who tried the houses may be a vixen of illas in most festive events of the
tion here that the festival case at the Old Bailey, told the temper in her own family. finál
Chinese people, there is present of Tw'ing Ming is one of the prisoner with as much wit as
an extensive amount of super- oldest on record, dating back to justice: "All I can say is that A Magic Drug
stitious practice,
as far as 265 B.C. both of you will have to go to
THE child who is a little
An example is the curious prison."
Chinese tradition affirms that demon at school may custom of putting up weeping its origin was due to a well The charm of dual personality, be an angel at home-a common willow branches at the doors of authenticated circumstance con- once you have convinced your form of youthful Jekyll-and-every house.
nected with the tragic history self that you have it, is that it Hydishness that makes it diffi-
The reason for this, is that of a certain Kaai Tsi-tui, & allows you to have your cake and cult for parents and teachers to during the three days preced faithful but unfortunate fol- eat it in short, to do as you see eye to eye.
ing Ts'ing Ming, the ghosts lower of Prince Tsung-yi can be gratified by the respect- A friend of mine once dis of the dead have been liberated Tain Kingdom, ability and worth of one life, covered that the best butler of from the Underworld, and are It is related that Prince and the baser instincts gratified, his life was also a burglar, and permitted to visit their old Tsung-yi, having been banished earth. Lest they by his father owing to the fact too, on the quiet.
had got the pantry cupboards haunts on
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should intrude into homes where that one of the latter's fickle concubines had falsely accused him of attempting to commit parricide, was accompanied on his travels through the various states by the loyal Kaai.
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any proof were required it was pro- vided by the march into Austria. France, for one, had frequently declared that any such action would be met with resistance. However, since Austrin herself did not have a chance to resist, France had a way of retreat from a dangerous commitment. Moreover she was in the throes of a cabinet crisis. But France's sanity does not erase the fact that Germany provided her with plenty of excuse for armed in tervention.
Therefore, when Dr. Goebbels made a speech Thursday at Nuremberg and declared the German belief that the "rare moment has come when the world is to be distributed anew,' German people will forgive those who feel apprehensive lest the Teutonic policy should again lead to action which en- tails the risk of war.
once
For ap-
parently the ambitions of Berlin are by no means satisfied. This redistribution of the world which Dr. Goubbels talks about will mean the sacrificing of someone's liberty or some other power's possessions. As the greatest Empire of this or any other day owes allegiance to the British Crown, the nations which constitute it are bound to feel themselves' to some extent objects of envy and possibly of acquisitiveness of the German Government. When Dr. Goebbels says that the British Cabinet cannot spend its week-ends quietly as formerly he obviously alludes to the recognition of the possibility of collision between British Interests on the one hand and German ambitions on the other.
It is of very little use trying to predlet the course of the con- templated expansion of the German Reich. A year ago most commentators on European affairs foresaw a coup, bloodless
like. The love of approbation
It is a kind of hypocrisy, with this advantage that the dual person escapes the twinges of conscience. He becomes, liter-
or
or otherwise, in Czecho-Slovakia, The possibility of feints actual action in this direction are not removed by the seizure of Austria. Hungary, too, hus reason to suspect 26 German menace. Rumunia, with her wealth of oil, may yet feel pres- sure from Berlin. If, as Dr. Goebbels intimates, Germany is simply awaiting an opportunity when possible opposition would be frustrated by the preoccupa- tion of other major powers, the time may be at hand for another phase of the German expansion achonie. For France is in dif- ficult waters, the Blum Cabinet tottering, riots in the Paria streets, and it seems that an Insurgent victory is very near in Spain. German expansion depends, as Dr. Goebbels frankly indicates, on lack of cohesion on the part of those who might be expected to oppose it if it be- comes too grasping. And that
is cohesion being weakened by internal disagreements in other countries besides Franco. People who clamour for a gen- eral election in Britain at this time may not realise that they are probably shouting for some- thing which might very well put
CORA
SNAKE
CHARMER
-Phipps in the "Daily Mail"
of
At length, it was fated by Heaven that Tsung-yi should occupy his father's throne, and in the distribution of emolu- ments to his followers, the un- grateful prince neglected to re- faithful friend. member his Kani Tai-tui then partook him- self to the mountains where he lived as a hermit. Eventually, however, the Prince recalled the services of his erstwhile friend, and commanded his followers to search for him and bring him to the Court, so that he might be at last suitably rewarded, but all their efforts were in vain.
The Prince, as a final resort, ordored the mountains to be set on fire, and Chinese history suc- cinctly records that Knai Tai-tul perished in the flames.
The Prince was overcome | with remorse, and in retribu-
tion for his shameless conduct, decreed that a festival In memory of this loyal friend should be instituted.
In the course of the ages, the original significance of the event became obscured, and the pur- pose of Ts'ing Ming became ex- tended until now it is a verita-
Europe completely off balance so"BUT YOU PROMISED TO GIVE IT UP. WHEN ble "All Souls, Day" in com
that they, with the reat, topplo into turmoil.
WE 'GOT MARRIED."
momoration of the departed lancestors of a great nation..