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Concerto Grasso Conclusion
DB-3551
L'Ultima Canzone (Tosti)
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W
THEN Hitler makes one
of his periodical threats. to invade Holland we in this country think of the little- wedge of territory that separates Germany from our eastern shores.
But the Dutch think not only of their "tle wedge of territory," but of their rich little Empire, nearly 10,000 miles away-tho Dutch East Indies.
For rich though itle Holland is h gold and securities one of the richest countries in Europe-her greatest wealth is in the wealth of the Indies
the Seas In- the Caribbean,
What this rich little, tight
Is little Empire, tucked away in a corner of the Paciüc?
Holland Beyond eludes Curacao, in Surinam (formerly Dutch Culona), In South America, and, most im- portant of all, the archipelago officially called the Netherlands Indles, known to the native in- habitants as Indonesia, and called by old mariners simply the Intlles.
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THESE Islands, home of orang- utans, komodo dragons, horn- hills and head-hunters, producers of pearls, spices, race woods, are inhabited by 00,000,000 brown
counting bodied souls, not
some
of one
1,500,000. Asiatics and Europeans.
Queen Wilhelmina
of Holland has never visited her Empire (al- though
New Guinea's highest peaks is named after her), but she can hardly fall to appre- clale what a windfall came to her little country that day in 1602
the
when daring adventurers, of Dutch East India Company set out islands. on a five-year voyage to claim the
Like India, the Netherlands Indies is divided into territory governed by native rulers in treaty relations with the Dutch, and
territory governed directly.
The Dutch authorities strictly limit these rulers' allowances and make sure that a purt of every little State's income finds its way into education, hygiene. public works.
T
EN Batavia sito the Volksraad, n legislative assembly composed half of natives and subjects of foreign origin, and half of Hollan- But the Volksraad has dilera' limited powers. The palace at resia in n
tropical Buitenzorg, outside Batavia, where lives his Excellency Jonkheer A. W. L. Tinrda van Starkenborgh Stachouwer, the Governor - Generel.
Apart from being able to tell such high-sounding potentates as the Sultan of Solo or the Sultan of Jokyakarta how to rule their States, he can also veto any meu- sure that a rebellious Volkaraad might pass.
Moreover, he himself can make his own laws.
Unlike the British, carly Dutch colonisers were not discouraged from marrying native women, and no social ostracism come to them or their half-caste children,
Moreover, the Dutch have scru- the pulously refused to allow
tempering with the slightest
natives' moral code, even going so for as to bar missionaries in some islands,
The Dutch have experienced little trouble in the Indies, larg ly because the natives would rather enjoy a quiet life than bother with, politics. Besides, they are split than 150 different among moro
races
and languages, and this tends to make widespread rebell- ion next to impossible.
Meanwhile, the 220,000 Dutch- men In the East Indies enjoy great comfort. No white man is so poor tial he cannot afford at least two servants at salaries of about £2 a month, and the usual stoff of a well-to-do household numbers six or seven. They enjoy the latest films from Hollywood in Java, Sumatra and Borneo, and most of Tinned foods from home are al- them own cars. ways available, but the most famous East Indian dish la Ryst- Tafel, which is both a ceremony
and a dinner,
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IT has a base of rice, and consists of hundred or more side dishes, including fried chicken, irled fried pork, beef, spices, bananas, fried shrimps, cucumbers, pickles, ginger, eggs in every con- celvable form. Experienced East Indian Dutchmen go to bed for a couple of hours after eating Ryst- Tafell
But there is also work to be done-rubber to be topped in Sumatra, oll to be drilled for fa Borneo and Java, tin to be dug Bangka. Colce, tea, tobacco, sugar, rice are the more ordinary
products; bui copra as a basis for facial crearns, izard skins for Bumaira shoes and handbags, wrappers for cigars, cinchona bark for quinine, sandalwood and teak- wood, ebony and macassar oli pre others. The barebreasted women of Ball, that tourist paradiso, do their full share in making this Netherlands overecas a going con- cern.
gather in these riches colonial Dutchmen are rewarded hand- somely. In 1935 of 85,000 Euro- peans carning a living in the East Indles come 64,000 were taxed on incomes of more than 1,000 a year: 22,500 between £4,000 and £12,000 a year.
were
But more algnificant was what this trade did to the Netherlands. Dutch investments in, the East Indica
valued at about £234,000,000. And to-day one- sixth of the Netherlands popula- tion of eight and a half million people is dependent on the colonial trade and but for it the Nether- lands would probably have a lot more than 400,000 unemployed.
Almost all the well-to-do faml- lies in the Netherlands have their. East Indian securities,
Wilhelmina, an astute business woman herself; a large owner of tin mines, just as she has an in- terest in nearly every enterprise of magnitude in Holland. Her in- come was once estimated at £1,- 000,000 a year, making her by for the richest monarch of Europe.
Wilhelmina and the
Dutch ⚫ generally therefore have every possible stake in getting their country safely through this war.
DB-3535 Danse Espagnole (Falla)
Rondo des Lutins (Bazzini)
Bóniamino Gigli.
Jarcha Holfotz.
DB-3439 Fidelio-Leonora's Recitative and Aria..Kirsten Flagstad DB-3198 Introduction and Allegro for Strings (Elgar)
DB-3199
Introduction and Allegro.....B.B.C. Symphony Orch. Sospiri Op. 70 (Elgor) DB-3146 Harmonious Blacksmith (Handel), Sorgo Rachmaninoff.
Midsummer Night's Dream-Scherzo (Mendelssohn) DB-3036 On the Road to Mandalay (Kipling-Speaks)
Lawrence Tibbott.
Coin' Home (Fischer) Prelude in C. Sharp (Rachmaninoff), Arthur Rubinstein. Menuetto and Trio (Schubert) William Tell-Overture (Rossini).
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DA-1695 William Tell-Conclusion DA-1676 Deep River
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Labour's War Aims
It is unlikely.a general election will be held in Britain during the war, but it is almost certain that one would be held before the meeting of a Peace Conference.
sailles.
A general election followed the Armistice of 1918 and preceded the Peace Conference at Ver-
Replacement of the present British Government by a Labour Government may be unlikely, but it is at least a possibility. Thus it is a matter of more than academic interest to ask what would happen to the peace if the making of it were entrusted to
leaders of the Labour Party.
To the Allies and friends of Great Britain it is reassuring to know that the broad policy of the Labour Party on the ques- tion of resettlement is in easen-
tials the same as that of the present Government.
In its manifesto on "The War and the Peace," there is not a word which contradicts the pence declarations of Mr. Neville Chamberlain and Lord Halifax.
It even goes further than Mr. Chamberlain when it says that an association of States should be formed around the nucleus
A challenge to Americans-and
the
answer
It's your
war,
too
By RICHARD GREVILLE
-but
What's it about?
By FILL CALHOUN
An American Journalist in London
What do you want the Ualted States
"COME off it, Uncle Sam!" permanently safe against the assaults That is what millions of of Nazism? Does he seriously be- Englishmen are saying to-day, lleve that a triumphant Fuchrer To all Englishmen--and the there is a great body of America though they may be too polite would keep his eyes permanently word All is used advisedly public opinion that is yet to be con- vinced that England in without a share to say it more publicly than in averted from the wealth of the United-the present war may be a of guilt for the outcome of the last their local public-house.
Slates 130,000,000 people, and the great crusade. Britain may be twenty years of European
diplomacy. We. Uncle Sam's cousins, are vast untapped resources of South sacrificing her men, her wealth to do? Rush-over-great shiploads of locked to-day in the mightiest Or mustn't he, if he's honest with and the immediate welfare of troops and have them sent off to India struggle in our history. With himself, realise that America is in her people so that Europe can there is no room for them
to combat passive resistance because our allies, we are fighting for this struggle with us up to the neck-return to sanity and men may Maginot Line?
en on the those principles of liberty and only she isn't paying her share? justice which breath of the American political tradition.
are the
-America?
Or again, Britain may be caught in debacle as the result of her own y her own greed and her com- placency.
There was a gibe about us in the live in peace and security. very
United States in 1038, when hardly a paper in the land wasn't laying into Mr. Chamberlain for his failure to stand up to aggression before Munich. It taunted Britain, this gibe, with her perpetual hopefulness of American
Not a politician, not a news paper in the United States dare whisper a doubt that our cause is good, or that the world might well be lost if it were defeated.
In her troubles
The United States would like to know which is the true situation.
Arc those the wings of Nazi
Are we to become embroiled by sending men and arms to Finland when there are still signs and hopes. in England of calling off the war with Germany and turning all the vario wor machines on Russia
Who's fighting whom in this war? That is one question the United States would like to know.
YA
us on in a battle they admit to be bombers overhead, or the wings of
To-day, with Americans cheering theirs too, I think that crack might "Pigeons coming home to roost"? be turned round. For are not the
America does not like Herr Hiller States really suying to-day: President Roosevelt can hardly America Expects Every Briten To As a nation we sympathise with the Empire-minded people. But isoin
English. But we abhor war, and
open his mouth on international affairs without pronouncing con- demnation of Nazi methods which in forthrightness rivals those of our own statesmen.
So what? So America's pubila men, having assented with one accord on the necessity of our winning, go on with equal fervour to declare: "No getting Into this nasty mess for us!"
Within the last few days we have seen at work this strange shying from responsiblilies. For weeks Amerlenn speakers
had editors and
been eloquent on the wrongs of the Finns, and their desperate need for aid in their aght for independence.
to
and Representatives: "No, this will never do. It would imperil our pre- cious neutrality!"
Пeally, come off it, Uucle Sam!
President Roosevelt put before Congress a timid proposal for a loan not to be used for buying arms And Finland, which was specifically provided by war-time co-opera-started among the 500 odd Senators immediately a tearing hullaballoo
tion of Britain and France, that It should have Д collective authority transcending the sovereign rights of separate States, and must control military and economic power to enforce peaceful behaviour, as between its members and secure arma- ment reduction.
It is clear that in all major questions relating to the war and Its aims there are not, two Britains with whom friends and enemies have to deal, but one only. A change of Government would produce no change of British front.
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We do not doubt of our winning our war for you, in the end. But we do not doubt elther that United States Intervention on our side would halve the sacrifices, and the length of the ordeal before us. For that mat- ter, effective United States Interven- tion back to August might have
stopped the war from ever starting.
Now, of course, George "Vashingion down the doctrine of American isola- who was a good and great man, fald
tion from Europe's intrigues and good, dezi quarrels. But the world has grown a smaller since George buggy days. Washington's sailing-ship, horse-and-
But Germany were to win this struggle does any intelligent American really imagine that he could remain
Do His Duty"?
GRIN AND BEAR IT
PHILOSOTIV V
12.
PROT
TAFT
By Lichty
Flom Di
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19/21
“Why ain't you on the field?. - Tryin' to take unfair advantage of the scholarship wo gave you, eh?”
We admit that some American ideas of isointionism may sound peculiar to
tionism has deep roots in America.. It has grown from out of history books and the disillusionment of the Inst war.
It is bound up with intangibles such as the love of one's own posses sions.
The British know about this, le that really the reason England is of war?
A threat to England's cherished possessions and institutions reached across the Channel became suddenly real and frightening. It still takes a long arm to carry such a terror:acros the Atlantic. That is one obviou reason the United States to not at
war.
If Britain feels her causo is just and that the United States should. come in and help her smash Germany --and possibly tussia--then shouting at us to "Come off 1" is not the pro- per approach!
As a nation we like to think at leas that we know what we are doing and where we are heading. Vague talk of our plans for re-building a pleasant world is not enough a surance for its that old and tragio mistakes are not going to be re- peated.
It may not be good war strategy to announce what the Allies intend to do in reshaping Europe when hostilities cease. But It definitely would be good propaganda to let America know Britain's hopes and plans for her own future in a period when world politics and economy are likely to undergo great and as yet: unfathomable changes..
Americans have a healthy sceptic
Jam of
of anything that can be labelled European diplomacy. It is possible: that America L. hoping for the was to toss up a few definite clues to: what Europe is fighting for, instead of against.