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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 dis- 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 carly 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 they schooled in stressing nationalistic distinctions where this cultural heritage is concern-
ed.
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, ns Princes of Wales, found the United States a cordial cousin- are awakened by the announce- ment of King George's and Queen Elizabeth's tour. Like. wise the recent visit of British
What they say in Germany
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BAD GODESBERG.
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 exports on the people of the country concerned.
So let me at once say that I have been in Germany only a week, and that because I have travelled a thousand miles or so 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 la his job to observe, thoso impressions are probably more valuable after a few days than after years of residence when perception is blunted and new things cease to be 'new.
The most outstanding impres- slon I have formed is that the aver- age German-the chance acquain- tance in the train, the man you alt next to in the café and invite to Join you in a beer-does not want war is 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 filed with an all-con- suming hatred for the Czecha. The whole Sudeten problem seems to be to him academic rather than real.
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Two months ago in any English train or in the "local" you could hoar 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.
Not unnaturally, I expected the Czech "horrors
which, after all, should affect the average German more than events in China do the average Englishman, to be the main tople of angry conversation. I was apparently mistaken. The
"The average German does not want war."
typical German café,
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shortage, I saw no butter-
BY BERNARD MOORE displayed for sale in any shop
reaction seemed to be not "this terrible ill-treatment of Germans is monstrous and must be stopped," but simply "the Czech situation 15 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 partiannship.
When R was bangun Godesberg that Czecho-Slove had accepted the w plan under which the greater part of the Sudetenland is to go to Germany, tha wy
Surely, I thought, this stupen- dous news will result in some sort of Mafcking celebration. After all, it is a great diplomatic triumph for Hitler and for Germany, this ex- tension of Germany's frontiers with the help of the Western democracies.
But I was mistaken again, Rellet there was certainly, for there has been war in the air in Germany, as elsewhere, for weeks.
Visible enthusiasm, no-no hats in the air, no drinks, no cheering.
That's good," was all my waiter at lunch had to say when I told him. I watched him carefully, but he did not even trouble to pass on the news.
Even German ometals, if you ask them "What next?" reply, “The Fuchrer will decide."
In Berchicsgaden there was the same air of detachment. "What do you think of it all?" I naked n sturdy Bavarian peasant in green Jacket and leather shorts as Mr. Chamberlain came down the stens
of his hotel following the first meeting with Hitler.
Slowly he removed his pipe. nodded in the direction of Hitler's mountain fastness., "The Lender has told him what we want," he said tersely, as though that settled the whole question.
Events have shown that he was right.
That is a general impression I found that the Fuchrer only had to tell Mr. Chamberlain and he would get it.
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 Naz! 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 not surprising. for the discipline 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 Stato, is disciplined.
There can be no doubt about that many disciplino. for there aro things which might lend to unrest in a democratic State.
Food for example. The window displays of the fruit shops are afg- nificantly limited. Although I looked carefully, for I had heard of
Wife Does GRIN AND BEAR IT Not Want
Divorce Absolute
A husband whose wife ob-i tained a decree nisi against him a year ago applied to Mr. Justice Henn Collins in the Divorce Court recently to have the de- cree made absolute.
The circumstances in which the court should accede to such a
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Royalty to France is brought quest, if the petitioner opposes it,
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 constitute ties that are symbolised both in the French visit and the intended visit to America.
The people of these three nations have no difficulty in supposing that King Georgo and Queen Elizabeth
may casily imagine they are listening to "God Save the King" when they hear American lips singing "weet land of liberty.
were discussed for the first time.
Mr. Graham Brooks said he was applying on behalf of Mr. Rolph Robert Chappell, of Monor-grove, Beckenham, whose wife, Mrs. Mar- garet Mary Chappell, obtained a decree nisi in October 1937.
An affidavit. by Mr. Chappell stated that he was anxious to marry the woman named In the petition. with whom he had been living since June 1936. She was expecting a child, and it was in her interests and that of the child that, the posi tion should be regularised.
WIFE OPPOSES
Mr. Roland Adams, for Mrs.
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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 with somo friends and was given rump steak with a small golden heap of fried onion on it.
To my shame and everlasting horror I learned afterwards that I had helped to eat the only onton they had been able to get for weeks.
An onlon, 1 agree, is not much to make a fuss about, but I was told that onions are only among the......... many things that are difficult or even impossible to obtain.
Prices of some commodities are prohibitive even when the com- modities are available; taxes and odd deductions are high, too. Many of the clothes one sees in the street and for sale in the shop windows In Borlin as well as in the pro- vinces are obviously made of materials that have little rent wool, cotton or silir in them.
Every German knows of the enormous zums Germany is spend- Ing on nimaments, but I could sca no outward sign of unrest, what- ever domestic grumbling thero may bo.
It is a tribute to the Iron disci- pline Hitler has imposed on thi whole nation that the "guns not butter" policy announced by Mar- shal Goering has been pursued so far without the, reaction which would have been inevitable in a. democratic country.
The Fuehrer and his advisors,. one can only prosume, aro confl- dent that this discipline could be maintained oven 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 hur Doses from the
front row of the stolis at 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,"
Mr. Ewart stid: "I honesily could not believe that any woman would be permitted publicly to strip hersulf and brazenly exhibit her completely naked boay before an audience."
Commenting on this. Miss Andree said: 'Mr. Ewart has no right to ret himself up as an arbiter in a matter of this sort
"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 he is wrong I will tell you now. I am not nude on the stage. I use A covering which Invented and designed myself. "Members of the local Watch Com mittee saw my performance and I'
Chappell, opposed the application of a real inability, not through wil-Mosquito Attack Fizzles have had no word of complaint from. Her attitude, he said, was not based ful contempt.
on vindictiveness or dislike of the Mr. Justice Henn Collins, giving
respondent.
judgment, sald: "I think Mr. Chap-
them.
"It is a curious thing that on the OAKLAND, Cal,
has very night the v.car saw my perform This city, which for years
mosquito war and ance a retired canon of the church He was, however, in very grave pell does not want to honour his conducted a contempt of court in the matter of legal obligations, but prefers those abatement organization, mobilized came to my dressing room and com-
as his moral and rushed to arms when it was plimented me on it.".
Mr. Ewart said that he had ro alimony. the whole of which was which he describes
believed the city was being invaded. ordered for the bonent of the obligations. I am quite clear that Citzens so:zed all-sprayers and ceived replies to letters which he ent children of his marriage to Mrs. this is a case in which I ought not stood by for the defence of their to the Homs Office and the Actors Choppeil, and he had not pakt the to exercise my discretion."
homes and lives. Later, it developed Church Union, costs of the divorce petition.
"They are taking the matter The application by Mr. Chappell that the supposed, mosquitoes were
dlansiased In reply, Mr. Brooks said that was accordingly
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