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Royal Visits
When King George VI and Queen Elizabeth visit the United States this coming spring Americans need only be them- selves to make their royal guests feel right at home.
The differences that dia- tinguish the United States from Britain are fortunately only such as emphasise the similarity be
tween the two nations. Two
peas in a pod can show un- mistakable signs of separate identity without discrediting in the least the accuracy of the old phrase about their likeness,
American school children learn their early lesson in speech from British as well as American masters of English. "Flow Gently Sweet Afton," ""Sweet and Low" and many another folk-loved British melody are as familiar to them as are Tiny Tim or Bob Cratchett-nor are Chey schooled in stressing nationalistic distinctions where
this cultural heritage is concern-
ců.
What they say
in
Germany
T
BAD GODESBENG.
HERE are many kinds of bad travellers, but the worst and most dangerous of all are those who spend a few days in "foreign parts" and return as experts on the people of the country concerned.
Bo let me at once say that I have been in Germany only a week, and that because I have travelled a thousand miles or go through the Rhineland and the Bavarian Alps and have spent a long week-end in Berlin I am not claiming to pose as an authority on conditions in Germany.
But any intelligent traveller must form impressions, and if it is his job to observe, those impressions are probably more valuable after a few days than after years of residence when perception is blunted and new things cense to be new.
The most outstanding Impres- alon I have formed is that the aver- nge German-the chance acquain- tance in the train, the man you sit next to in the café and invite to Join you in beer-does not want war, like any normal human being frightened of war and if any- thing rather resents the idea of it being forced upon him.
I am convinced, for instance, that the German man-In-the street is not Alled with an all-con- suming hatred for the Czecha. The whole Buleten problem seems to be to him aendemic rather than real.
Two months ago in any Engilsh train or in the "local" you could hear outspoken and bitter condem- nation of Japanese atrocities in China, of the bombing of Canton and the slaughter of defenceless civilians. The indignation was real and spontaneous, although the matter was one which did not specifically affect Englishmen.
Now the German Press for the past three or four days has been full of horrifle atrocity stories and pictures from Sudetenland; there has been a constant stream of the same sort of material over the radio.
Nat unnaturally, I expected the Czech "horrors" which, after all, should affect the average German more than events in China do the averace Englishman, to be the main topic of angry conversation. I was apparently mistaken. The
"The 'average German docs not want war."
typical German cafe.
BY BERNARD MOORE
reaction seemed to be not "this terrible 11-treatment of Germans Is monstrous and must be stopped," but simply "the Czech situation is getting very grave."
It is as though the whole Czech problem is some complicated game being played out before them, but apart from them, without calling for any enthusiastic partisanship.
When it was unncent à un bad Godesberg that Czecho-Slovat, a had accepted the w plan under *which the greater part of the Sudetenland is to go to Germany, there were p
Musiasm.
Surely, I thought, this stupen- deus news will result in some sort of Mafeking celebration. After all, It is a great diplomalle triumph for Hitler and for Germany, this ex- tension of Germany's frontiers with the help of the Western democracles.
But I was mistaken again. Relief there was certainly, for there has, been war in the air in Germany, as elsewhere, for weoka,
Visible enthusiasm, no-so kats in the air, no drinks, no chearing.
"That's good," was all my waiter at lunch had to say when I told him. I watched him carefully, but ha did not even trouble to pass on the news.
Even German officials, If you osk them, "What next?" reply, "The Fuchrer will decide,"
In Berchtesgaden there was the same air of detachment." "What do you think of it all?" I asked a sturdy Bavorlan praeant in green Jacket and leather shorts.as Mr. Chamberlain came down the steps
of his hotel following the first meeting with Hitler.
Slowly he removed his pipe, nodded in the direction of Hitler's mountain fastness. "The Leader has told him what we want," he said tersely, as though that settled the whole question,
Evmits have shown that he was right,
That is a general impression I found that the Fuehrer only had to tell Mr. Chamberlain and he would get it.
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I have seen no signs of anti- British feeling and, what is per- haps more important, no tendency to crow over the British for the great climb down. Perhaps it is because the Nazi Press. with its violent anti-British outbursts of recent weeks, reflects an official rather than a popular feeling.
Frankly, I do not know. All I can say is that everywhere, not only In official but unofficial dealings, I have met with friendly helpfulness. In official dealings that was per- haps
for the not surprising. discipling which is everywhere re- markable could no doubt provide for that in view of the Chamber- lain mission.
But these considerations could hardly apply in the case of the ordinary civilian, though he, too, as becomes a citizen of a totalitarian State, is disciplined,
There can be no doubt’about that discipline, for there are MENY things which might lead to unrest In a democratic "State:**
Food for example. The window displays of the fruit shops are sig- nificantly limited. Although I looked carefully, for I had heard of
Does GRIN AND BEAR IT
Wife Not Want
Divorce Absolute
The visit to North America will be the first undertaken by a reigning British monarch. Memories of Edward VII, and of Edward VIII-both of whom, As Princes of Wales, found the United States a cordial cousin- are awakened by the announce-Henn Collins in the Divorce
ment of King George's and Queen Elizabeth's tour. Like- wise the recent visit of British
Royalty to France is brought to mind. The implications of the American trip differ from those of the French in that they are less definitely political. Yet among all three countries, liberal-mindedness, representa- tive government and the recog- nition of the dignity of the in- dividual constituto ties that are symbolised both in the French visit and the intended visit to America.
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The people of these three nations have no difficulty in supposing that King George and Queen Elizabeth may casily Imagine they are listening to "God Save the King"! when they hear American lips singing "Sweet land of liberty."
A husband whose wife ob- tained a decree nisi against him | a year ago applied to Mr. Justice
Court recently to have the de- cree made absolute.
The circumstances in which the court should accede to such a re- quest, if the petitioner opposes it, were discussed for the first time.
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Mr. Graham Brooks sald he was upplying on behalf of Mr. Ralph Robert Chappell, of Manor-grove, Beckenham, whose wife, Mrs. Mar
Chappell, obtained garet Mary decree nisl in October 1937,
An amdavit by Mr. Chappell stated that he was anxious to marry the woman named in the petition, with whom 110 had been living since June 1930. She was expecting a child; and it was in her interests and that of the child that the post- tion should be regularised.
WIFE OPPOSES
Mr. Rolund Adams, for Mra.
By Lichty
"I had to hire some extra help for Culpepper-he's entered 137 prize contests simultaneously!"
Scene in c
butler shortage, I saw no butter" displayed for sale in any shop window.
There is no apparent shortage either in the hotels at which foreigners stay or on the dining cars of the trains.
In Berlin, however. I dined wills some friends and was given rumy- steak with a small golden hear of fried onion on it.
To my shame and everlasting horror I leamed afterwards that I had helped to eat the only onton they had been able to get for weeks.
An onion, I agree, is not much to make a fuss about, but I was tok! that onions are only among the many things that are difeult or oven impossible to obtain.
Prices of some commodities åre prohibitivo even when the com- modities are available; taxes and odd deductions are high, too. Many of the clothes ons zees in the street and for sale in the shop windows In Berlin as well as in the pro- vinces
of Are obviously made materials that have little real wool, cotton or silk in them.
Every German knows of the enormous cums Germany is spend- ing on armamenis, but I could see no outward sign of unrest, what-- ever domestic grumbling there may · bc.
It is a tribute to the iron disci- pline Hitler has imposed on the whole nation that the "guna not butter" policy announced by Mar- shal Goering has been pursued so far without the reaction which would have been inevitablo in a democratic country.
The Fuehrer and his · advisers,-- one can only presume, are conft- dent that this discipline could be maintained even under the threat of War.
"Venus Wants Apology
Miss Rosemary Andree, the "pocket Venus" of the stage and a Royal Command performer, says she is de- manding an apology from the Rev. Louis Ewart, vicar of Earls Barton,
Northamptonshire. and chaplain of
the Actors' Church Union..
After seeing her poses from the front row of the stalls as the North- ampton New Theatre recently Mr. Ewart protested and contested and complained that her performance was "the most shameful thing he had ever seen in his life.""
wif. ewart a "I honestly could not believe that any woman would be permitted publicly to strip herself and brazenly exhibit her completely nukea boay before an audience,"
Commenting on this, Miss Andree : said: 'Mr. Ewart has no right to set himself up as an arbiter in o matter of this sort.
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"I am not nUDE" "He does not know whether. I am. naked or not on the stage. I have never said that I am or that I'am not..
"It has always been my secret, but to show the vicar that be i wrong I will tell you now, I am not nude on the siege. I tie a oovering which invented and' designed myself.
"Members of the local Walch Com.. mitos saw my performance. and I.:
Uiem.
Chappell, opposed the application of a feal inability, not through wil Mosquito Attack Fizzles have had no word of complaint team.
Her allitudo, he said, was not bakedful contempt.
on vindictiveness or dislike of the Mr. Justice Henn Collins, giving, respondent.
judgment, bald: "I think Mr. Chape
"It is a curious thing that on the OAKLAND, Cal, ́This city, which for years has very might the vicar saw my perform- war and ance a retired canon of the church Ha was, however, in very grave pell does not want to hanaur his conducted a mosquito contempt of court in the matter of legal obligations, but prefers, those abatement organization, mobilized came to my dressing room and com- allmeny, the whole of which was which he describes as kis, moral and rushed to arms when it was plimented me on it." ordered for the benent of the obligations. I am quite clear that believed the city was being invaded. Mr. Ewart sald that he had, ra- Citizens aczed flit-sprayers and reived replies to lettera which he sent children of his marriage to Mts, this is a case in which I ought not too by for the defence of their for the Home Office and the Actore" Chappell, and he had not paid the to exerciso my discretion costs of the divorce pelllion.
homes and lives. Later it developed Church Union,
more now."
he
The application by Mr. Chappell that the supposed mosquitoes were They are taking the malter up, but
dismissed. In reply, Mr. Brooks old that was accordingly Mr. Chappell had not paid because" costs,
with not only mere gate but gnals that I cannot say any
didn't blto.