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THIS article is not written by the "Telograph". It is by a resident in America, and appears in a leading American magazine-proof that even in the U.S.A. there is a self-ques- tioning about America's attitudo to the war.. which danger grent
LIKE most observers of
American opinion, I was wrong in my predic- tions made before the war as to what the reactions of the American public would be when the war actually broke out.
I thought that the pent-up animosity against Hitler which expressed itself with such violence during the last few years would reich {L climax.
As everyone knows, nothing of the sort happened, and the rene- tion nt the outbreak of the war was infinitely more complex and more Interesting than anything the could have been foreseen.
The most striking trait about the American reaction during the At weeks of the war was of course the "Keep the United States out of war" panle.
I call it a panic because it did indead take the aspect of a slightly hysterical stampede away from n
CHARITY GAMBLING
Yesterday's public meeting
at St. Andrew's Church .hail
The most important consi- deration in this question of a
produced several useful_sug-_lottery for the B.W.O.F., is gestions for increasing Hong- kong's effort on behalf of the British War Organisation Fund. Nevertheless, we feel constrained to express sur- prise that the proposal to organise a lottery on behalf of this fund was turned down in such an arbitrary fashion.
The desire of the B.W.O.F. in Hongkong not to alienate a great body of sympathy by supporting or even winking its eye at gambling, expressed by His Honour the Chief Justice, is understandable. But
question many will whether the morality issue should be raised when this method can achieve, perhaps, the saving of hundreds of lives.
Sir Atholl MacGregor's dis- missal of the proposal in about “ 50 words was apparently accepted without question by the meeting; yet we suggest that this particular gathering Was not representative of public opinion in the Colony. at least on this question, and the officials of the B.W.O.F... should pay closer attention to the proposal of a lottery.
To split hairs over ethics an issue which cannot be settled by dogmatic contentions by either side-when the British Empire is to-day fighting as it has never had to fight before for its very existence, -appears to us to strike that particular narrow-minded note which the Chiof Justice said. the B.W.O.F. officials in Hongkong were striving so hard to avoid.
WER
My
JE'RE being married on Friday very early in the morning at nine o'clock.
From Friday to Monday is oura-three days, seventy-two hours, four thousand three hundred and twenty minutes, to be anntched from Time and made into a small eternity, of
our own..
Because, on Monday, very early In the morning at nine o'clock, I shall klas Richard goodbye and send him off-with a smile, I hope -to "somewhere in France,"
We hadn't planned to be morried until next Mny, It was going to be a real picture-book wedding, with four brideanaide, a reception. and a real honeymoon. But all that has been changed slice the day a strangely uniformed Rehard took me in his arms, and said:
MdMary, it's different new, lan'é 117 Need we wait, "my darling?”
„Vomatrangad...auszything shara. and then, A. quiet, wedding, no
nover was very
I is true that before the war begati al polls of public opinion said that, in spite of the fact that nine out of ten Americans rejected the idea of going to war, three out of four were quite sure that Ameri- en would be dragged in sooner or later.
In spite of the desire to see Her defeated, and in splie also of the general conviction that the Allies had to go to war to achieve is end, the very fact that war existed in Europe reawakened the traditional tendency Bl the Americans to condemn Europe en bloc because it wan af war,
The animosity against Hitlerism or any other form of dictatorship did not subside. Her WDS branded as the one man responsi- ble for this calamity.
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Bur at the same time many
honest people, in an effort
to justify America's attempt at neutrality, marshalled all
EMPIRE
IN ARMS:
MALAYA
MALAYA, with its great naval M and air base at Singapore. Is vital to the security and defence of the Empire in the Far East.-
The Straits Settlements, which comprise the greater part of the Malay Peninsula, became British Ita various WRYA. Xalacen wa captured from the Dutch In 1795, was restored to them in 1818, and Rinally reded to the East India Com- pany in 1824.
Penang, first British settlement In Malaya, was ceded to the East India Company by the Sultan of Kedali In 1780. Singapore was almost uninhabited until 1819, when Sir Stamford Rames founded the settlement. The Cocos Islands, Christmas Island and other fer- Jater added to the
colony.
Government is by a Governor and Executivo Council Total Area is 1,350 square miles, including depen- deneles, and there are about 15,000 Europeans out of a tolal population of 1,345,000.
whether it will provide means of raising a substantial sum of money. With the history of the Hongkong Jockey Club sweepstakes before us, not lo mention the remarkable re- sults of the Irish Hospitals sweepstakes, we are convinced that a lottery is the way to obtain the best results for the B.W.O.F. The idea may be distasteful to many, and one. respects their honest convic- tions in
ritories were this respect, but surely the needs of the mo- ment' are too great for minority opinion to stand in the way of achievement? The attraction which lotteries have for the hundreds of thousands of Chinese in the Colony is well known, and it
Rubber and tin are the chief can be claimed with the utmost
products. Rubber exports 'bring in confidence that these Chinese
ព £50,000,000
lin And year, citizens will respond more £22,000,000. Of Malaya's £79.- readily-to-an-appeal-for-the-030,000 importa, the United King- B.W.O.F. in this way, than to an appeal for support on patriotic "and gentimental grounds. This, in itself may be deplorable, but there is good reason to believe it is true. Therefore we say, with- out hesitation, that if a lottery is likely to achieve the best results for the B.W.O.F., Government should immediate- ly give permission for one to be organised. The B.W.O.F. want money, and there is no valid reason to suggest that funda from 21 Government- controlled lottery would be more tainted (if at all) than the proceeds given by the Hongkong. Jockey Club. to the. same fund from the huge sweepstakes the Club has run since the start of the war.
dom supplies over £12,000,000 and the rest the Empire nearly £14,000,000.
of
in- The Malay Peninsula also cludes the Federated and Unfeder- nied Malay States, covering 22,280 square miles, with a population of 1,740,000.
Wartime
fuss-because it was obvious that picture-book weddings and week- end leave just don't go together. But what was not quite so obvious was this question of a honey-
moon.
Three days.
" leave it to you," Richard sold. "Anywhere you like-what- ever you like. Just you think up something terrific, will you?"
I THOUGHT so much that I got to lying awake at nights, trying to puzzle it out. It seemed to me that nil the usual kinds of honeymoon didn't fit in with our preclous three days.
We could, of course, go to a quiet inn somewhere in the coun- try. Somewhere where we could be quite alone together all of the 'day."
„Somewhata whore sizecould zo. for long walks, nit by crackling
Saturday. JUNE 8, 1940,
America?
the arguments they 'could think of to demonstrate that Britain and France must be guilty, “loo, and that once more the responsibility for the war should be equitably divided between both sides.
The hostly to Nazi doctrines and methods and the desire to see. them erudicated from the world was suddenly tempered, or ruther repressed when Americans found themselves facing the logical con- sequence of the determination to resist Hitler.
The Press and many prominent Jeaters of opinion praised tht American public for its coolness and self-restraint.
Many articles were written to show that this time Americans were not being carried away by their emotiunx and their partisanship; that for once they were using their heads.
May I say that I cannot join in these praises, nor feel great ad- miration for this restraint and ren- sonableness.
If American opinion had shown itself as cool-headed and as lu- parikat before the outbreak of the War as it did after September -first there would be nothing to
say.
But it didn't, and for three or four years before the actual out break of the war no voice was Jouder in its 'condemnation of Hit- ler and Hitlerlem than the voice of America.
While certain groups in Deltain and France were foolishly but honestly trying to deal with the Nazis as if they were not as bad as nil that. Adhericans were prac-
STRATEGY TEST No. 5
а
1. Are *Flic Dodecanese"
series of (a) forts, (b) coral reefs, (c) islands, (d) towns. (c) mounialns.
2. Where are the Dodecanese? 3. (a) Who owns the Dodecanese?
(b) since when?
4. Which countries are disturbed
by his owneralilp?
5. How far are the Dodecanese from (a) Alexandria, (b) Haly. (c) Athens.
(See answers below)
"MEISTE,
tically unanimous In denouncing the - French and British Governments as cowards and traitors to the enure of civilisation.
Events proved that the Ameri- cans were right in the end.
Britain and France finally had to go to war, precisely for the reasons that the Americans had predicted they would have to, and precisely for the purpose of stopping Hitler, somehow, somewhere.
This decision having been taken, one might have supposed that the Amerleans would have applauded loudly,...
But this did not happen; or, to be exnet, only a small section of the audience upplauded. The rest →→the great majority-although still as hostile to the villain, still as desirous of seeing him licked, were plunged in the most 11- expected and surprising abyss f confusion,
Britain and France were now called the "Allies," and
grim memories were brought to the sur- face by that word.
All the arguments that the post- war American historians had inar- shalled to prove that the United States had been dragged into the frst World War against its will and Its better judgment were dug dul of the archives.
It was suddenly discovered that Britain and France had finally gone to war purely for selfish motives and only when they had their backs to the wall,
Strenuous efforts were made to demonstrate, now that the Aght was on, that not one side alone should be blamed, and to remindi the Americans that the French and the British were greatly responsi- ble, through their past errors, for having produced Hitler and there- fore. the war,
This violent outbreak of Ameri- can impartiality reached its peak precisely at the moment when the British and French finally made up their minds to accept the conse quences of doing what sine Ameri- cans out of ten had urged them to do and wisely so-for the last tiree or four years.
America, who fought in the fast war but deserted the peace, seems now inclined to consider. the re- verse experiment: to keep out the fighting but plunge into the репес
RAOUL do SALES.
STRATEGY TEST: Answers
1. A series of heavily fortifled islands. 12 la number, hence their name (dodeka is Greek for 12).
2. The Dodecanese are situated in the Eastern Mediterranean to the soul of Greece and off the west coast of Turkey,
3. The Dodecanese- have been
under Italian rule since the Tripolitan War of 1911-12, but disputed by Greece. Finally ceded to Italy in 1920.
4. Greece, Turkey, Egypt, Crete
"(Greek)," Cyprus (British).
5, (a) 370 miles. (b) 650 miles
(B) 270 miles.
From the Dodecanese Islands (enclosed by the dotted outline in the map), where she has con- centrated strong air and neval forces, Italy can threaten the whole of the Eastern Mediter- ranean, particularly the Greek * and Turkish mainlands. From here, too, Italian bombers are within striking distance of Ale zandria and Suez. But at the same time if Italy comes into the war againat the Allies Turkey will join the "Allies" and "there" islands might soon become Allied prize.
Honeymoon
log fires in the evening, holding hands and talking and sharing all the secrets we'd never been able to share before.
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It sounded all right, Nearly all right, that is. For aime reason the phrase "one eye on the clock" kept coming into my mind. I had the feeling that they'd be three very lovely days but not, somehow, wholly ours.
Then one morning, when I was Ipoking, through
the focal paper. in advertisement caught my eye and the brainwave came.
"Furnished fat," said the ad- vertisement. "One bed,, que rec., bath. Kichen.
At first I told myself I was crazy lo think of such a thing. We'd planned to leave the question of n home until-well, unill Richard came back and the world stopped spinning so bewilderingly,
I was going to stay on 'in my _dig_cntry on with my job and
ftrt wall. It seemed the only sen- Bible thing to do.
I read the advertisement through again. "Pleasant view," It spld. And I thought: "A home of our own. Something that's really ours.
THERE was only a fortnight left then. I fixed overy- thing up that very day and wrote to Richard when it was all finished!
Ho was, I'd expected, ecsta- tle about the iden, and financially speaking the fat was a bargain, so that was all rigist..
Since
been hard at then I've work arranging the fat and buy- ing odds and ends to make up for the furniture not really belonging to us.
I've put flowers in all the rooms, worked out the meals I'm going to. cook, ordered a tremendous amount......... of food, and discovered half a dozen-
"my" "Buzy over the week-en
It's wonderful. Somehow every- thing seems different now. I keep getting dear, crazy telegrams from Richard saying. "Don't forget to order the mlik stop I love you,” and "Mind you buy à canary comma sweelheart."
It's going to be grand and glorious fun every single minute, Instead of Heaven one minute and remembering about to-morrow Les next.
Remembering about to-morrow. won't matter hai so
much. now anyway, because to-morrow - won", be the rather harrowing, not-to- be-spoken-of thing we'd imagined'
To-morrow will Just enean Richard leaving me. In our home, and me waving to him from our window.
And that very evening I shalt be able to write and tell him-how the flat's looking, how the canary's Binging-(1, went out and bought: that right away!)—and how much I'm loving him, sitting by our very Town from