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How he Cements the
Democratic Front
By "An Old Stager"
the inimitable Dr. Goebbels. If material she derived from them sraum."
was negligible. The Old Blood and Iron
"Next Time"
Things will not be that way this time, if they insist on try- ing one more reckless gamble with destiny. And that typical Nazi dream of a quick knock- out by air frightfulness is no longer anything but a criminal dream..
Howover cynically or brutally Nordic philosophy may sneer at Perhaps our devoted Minis-
It, Europe is still overwhelming- ters think their propaganda eluding ourselves, and, what is a Chinese gangster when he y religious in instinct. There chiefs could easily and quickly more, are doing so. In point of pumps lead from his auto- is an imponderable weight of
conscious pick up all they need to know fact, Germany's pre-war colonies gun into some inoffensive citizen fervent
opinion about their job from studying never paid her. The total raw up town, is pining for "Leben against despotism, ruthless In both instances the Mankind has not achieved its force, and reckless ambition. that truly is their iden, it is any-
controlling impulse is just erli- freedom through bloodshot con- thing but a bright one. It is
minal greed and utterly egoistic luries lightly to throw it away said that in any encounter in
exhibitionism.
again without fighting to the which the French Army is en- And that ushers in point num- The only thing on earth that death for liberty. The con- gaged, the presence of a bat her two. Before. Germany restrains the Chicago gangster science of humanity will arraign tallon of the Foreign Legion is started tearing up all the scraps is the possibility of police action Germany, if Germany precipi- worth two brigades. My estim- of paper that helped to avert the and "the chair." The only thing tates yet another Armageddon, ate of Dr. Goebbels' propaganda dread of war from Europe be that will restrain Hitler-Goering- and next time there will be no work is that he is worth at least fore 1914, she had vast oversea Goebbels and Company is the more criminally-misguided con- an army corps to his opponents, possessions. There was no lack possibility, amounting to a cer- niving at the tearing up of Peace
If anyone is thinking of hand of "Lebensraum" then. Yet tainty, that any further grand Trenties. ing out a prize for thoroughly
Germany. and nobody else, bluff will be promptly called, at high-class recruiting work for plunged the world into military whatever expense and incon- deed, it is a fairly safe prophecy In fact, if trouble comes in- our national defence services, it chaos and militant earthquake in venience, and the
certainty, that the next Peace Treaty would be sheer prejudice to 1914.
which their Army chief's could will be signed in what is overlook the signal claims of How would handing her back readily assure them of, that in left Hitler's Minister of Propagan her former colonies on a plate another, rea
of Unter den Linden. European show- I should not care to be a in and Public Information.
"Doc" Goebbels, if one may bor. now afford us any more faith in down they would be much worse Nazi in Germany, once the row the bright imagery of select Germany's peaceful intentions off from the start
than they suppressed undertow of Gor- It is not "Le proved to be in 1914. They man opinion got loose behind a American poker circles, fairly now than then?
bensraum" that the Nazi gang caught us napping as usual then, retreating German front. There scoops the pool every time. Lord sters of Berlin are after, but the and began their bid for hege- must be a good many people in old blood and iron ambition of mony with overwhelming advan Germany who have a little ne- But I am inclined to rank Dr. Deutschland Uber Alles. You lages of numbers and equip count to settle with Dr. Goob-
n few marks Goebbels just
might as well try to tell me that ment. higher in 1939.
bels and his friends, Every time the "Doc" lets himself go, and pumps up some more of his native super-hented venom, I reckon it is worth quids
Hongkong Telegraph. Kitchener was good in 1914-
Wyndham St., Hongkong 'Phone 26615 August 18, 1939
Britain's Coal
THE BENEFITS OF BIFURCATION
NO, the mis-en-scene is not
dreary city of the plains, of the
Tientsin. that unattractive. By N. B. Whitestone
i suburban streets, of dusty
appearances
once
女
equality, if not of superiority; of that indefinable "top-of-the worldness". And this quite ir- respective of age, temperament,
to the Democratic Front. How well: Cleopatra's invocation to Since last summer,
when
the worm fits this mountebauk: Parliament passed the Coal "Poor venomous fool! Be angry. Mines Act, the British coal in-and despatch !"
public gardens; that country of ever, saved the situation, the figure (if any), constitution and dustry has ceased to be the topic that if Germany had not got it seems incredible that green
Dr. Goebbels is so useful to the iron-clad earth from which polished, spotless suppleness of bank balance (also if any). A which delighted the eye; dare-devil arrogance asserts it- fof embittered debate.
him it would be our patriotic things can more spring; the well shaped form, the expert self, however demure and girly- Quietly and inconspicuously duty to suggest improvising him, where little Annie will one day fit bespoke the master mind. girly the lady may have been, steps are now being taken for In fact, accepting Dr. Goebbels in May rush excitedly home She seemed, bless her! as happy courage and optimism wrap her as part of the Nazi regime, if from school with the marvellous as the lark is popularly sup in a roseate clime where all is [applying the law. None too Germany has the Government it tidings that she has actually posed to be; as unconcerned as well. Even those who long ago soon. There is no great in- deserves its national deserta seen a green shoot proceeding Vere-de-Vere, and she was, as have topped the rise and now dustry in Britain which has must be pretty nearly, minus from the carth-and earth it is, well she knew, the cynosure of descend more
or less sedately something astronomical. And caused so much trouble during yet there seems to be a little Then the scene changes, with recked she as she clattered on cognise these weighty facts. notwithstanding our blase population, but little towards the Western valley, re- the last thirty years as the coal clique of palpable mental refec-withering. blasting, nerve-towards the Ferry.
And, once recognised, they ac- industry. Vital as it is to the lives in these islands to whom wracking sandstorms; again
the invaluable doctor's outbursts with sizzling heat.
☆ ☆
count for the otherwise un- But this far national prosperity, there has
represent
the Sermon on the from fair city has now a further, my dear! just look at accountable. multiplication of so Mount. They actually believe claim to attention and will in-
riding schools, equestrienne that girl! The legs! What academies, hacking clubs, and so been none which has been slow to accommodate itself to almost every word he says.
evitably go down to history in a get-up! D'ye suppose shot Un. Why endure the aching dis- modern conditions, and none in midable Brown Bomber, who has the irresponsible ns inextricably withers and fetlocks?"
If Joe Louis, America's for the minds of the flippant and knows the difference between! comforts of the China pony's which there has been so much just necessitated the insertion of entangled with those prosaic
The acid remark and the bumpety-bump of the tyro pain- jolting gait, the agonies of the- unrest among the workers or 28 stitches in honest Tony Ga- but still necessary garments the quickly averted eye of my com- fully endeavouring to accommo- lento's face, complained that he mention of which once strictly panion of the sere and yellow date herself to what the local such disastrous strikes.
was being physically intimidated taboo in polite society-even to-leaf drew from me a smirk of lights are pleased to term "post- In part, the trouble has been by elderly spinsters, nobody day usually evokes a snigger of understanding and fellow feel-trotting"? Why with martyr's
But our derision.
ing for them both, well knowing sickly smile do the lassies make due to conditions not easily con-would believe him.
prize sentimentalists and out- trollable; in part, to the fact that size emotional nitwits find not roflections was
No! the raison d'etre of these that, dared she brave conven- light of skinned and blazing bopanted, tion, Forty-five would dive into thigh, knee and calf, due to the the old-fashioned individualism the least difficulty in the world buxom young Іаняіе uncon-similar attire at the double.
ever shortening of the shorts? of owners has been confronted in believing that intelligent and cernedly taking the sultry morn- Man, owing to the fact that educated Germans think we are ing nir of Pedder Street. Hat-sartorial freedom (save from with the doggedness of a singu-encircling them with intention less she was, her polo jumper of the neck upwards) has been his larly class-conscious body of em-to wipe the Reich off the map. canary yellow might well have as a right from the beginning MAN seems unaware of his. peril. If and when the ployees. But, in the main in-
emerged from the same dye-vat of time, ie doubtless unaware skirt is definitely superseded, his Our Prize Sentimentalists as her shoulder-length and shin- of the fact, though undoubted assumption of, and the lady's jadequate organization has been
This sort of thing makes me ing locks; south of the equator fact it is, that the immediate apparently tacit, though in real- at the bottom of it; neglect of
I get a disconcerting festooned and wrinkled habili- and invariable effect of the in- ty deeply rebellious, acceptance the known remedies gave sub- feeling that perhaps Hacken-ments
which would have filtration of the lower female of his superior calibre, will be stance to the miners' grievance. schmidt, or whoever is the cham-scorched the souls of the sahibs limbs into the bifurcated gar-doomed. She has unearthed the The authors of the Coal Mines pion strong man of the moment of Jodhpore; have caused the ment is an instantaneous feeling source of his courage, his pro- Act took the courageous course in the circus arena, goes in hour-sudden demise of Walter Gilbey. of exhiliration, of jaunty self-wess, his strength, his menta! of providing for the State pur-ly terror that I may assault him. "Point-to-Point's" boots, how-confidence, of emancipation; of activity. Pop the plump and chase of all the coal-mining lowers of these islands-I doubt royalties in the country. Three whether any exist in Germany GRIN AND BEAR IT years hence all the coal in Great-are actually doing, besides Britain will belong to the State possibly lending some slight as- represented by a Coal Com-sistance to Dr. Goebbels, is to mission, and this body was em-imagine the Germans are powered to take immediate stupid as themselves.
That is a gross exaggeration. measures to promote smalgama-
Germans are really quite cute tion of collieries, if possible by people. The way they are now ngreement, if not, by compulsion winning the war they lost is -in or before 1940.
proof enough of that.
uneasy.
What these encirclement-swal-
as
In view of the inevitable, the Then there is another favour- colliery-owners have already ite and impassioned theme of Dr. Goebbels to been getting together and have the learned
which even more people here been bringing groups of mines
seem to give credulous ear. We under common management. are constantly being told that To hasten the procedure the the Germans need "Lebensra- Coal Commission has now issued um"-which means, in plain Jan "outline plan" dividing all the English, elbow-room for develop. coal fields of Britain into arcasment. That feeble Gott-mit-uns each of which should become a in certain home circles in the bleat appears to go quite well single unit. It invites discussion United Kingdom. Dear old Mr. and friendly co-operation as the Lansbury almost weeps when he best means of securing sound is told how terribly Germany results.
suffers from the lack of big open spaces.
Thus the last stago in the re-
There are two simple answers construction of this basic into this tomfoolery. In the first dustry is now in sight. The place, in what way is Germany, industry is to be equipped to so far ns all commercial and develop its own resources to the trading facilities are concerned, utmost, face sovere foreign com- any worse off than anybody else? petition, and provide better Certainly, so far as our Imperial
possessions are concerned, Ger wages and bettor conditions of mans are as free to trade and life for its workers,
industrialise as anybody' elec, in-
a
By Lichty
"Turn off those police calls, Sis-they're makin' me nervous.'
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exuberant denizen of Brokers' Alley into crepe-de-chine, and will his spirits and his profits flag? Will they? Picture to yourself a Legislative Council in Dnirji frocks or a Residents' Association in peau-de-soic and do you suppose there would be sufficient vigour even for the censorship of disrespectful and other journalism? Enough energy even for the Bug- gested suppression of hawkers' squawks? No! all this enervat- ing masculine vim lies wholely and soly in the trews. The third generation of a bopanted femin- ine race would dispose beyond any doubt of any last remaining conceptions of male preponder-
ance,
Consider the baby boy, who will remain an adorable, docile and insipid infant while in frocks, and no one who has wit- nessed his instant transforma- tion when in his first knicker- suit, can cast a doubt upon matter which has passed beyond the realms of theory.
Consider the coolie woman, in every respect the equal-if not worse of her lord. Ponder upon the Grecian ballet-skirted Guards, fit only for palace cere- monial sentry-go, useless for the feld; and who, released from their grotesque caparisons, re- PLEASE Turn To Pago:5..
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