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July 26, 1940.
by William Hickey
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ALTHO' it was "for" a film- ON the new all-power Defenco.
"
ahow that I was lunching Act Wells said: "Fine with H. G. Wells, we inevitably Socialism... England has had talked war.
its revolution. Wells, agree with him or not Only Italy: "Italy stands on (I often don't), has been an three legs, and can shift from active & influential thinker. I one to another. At present the asked his views on many things monarchy leg is in the air-but now on our minds,
It might come down into uso again."
On the prospect of Nazi in- vasion of England, he took an On Labour leaders in the unusual line. "I think they're. Government: "A much better, making too much fuss about it," more experienced, type than he said. "If I were a 5th- those who went into the Coali- columnist, I should spread exact- tion in the last war. For prac- ly these views, so as to detain in tical purposes, a man like Her- England large bodies of troops bert Morrison is far better who are more urgently needed educated than an Etonian Tory in France,
front-bencher."
On the other hand, I re- Wells is still Implacably marked, to empty Britain of against Halifax & others who troops might be an invitation to thought Goering more "gentle- an invader: they must presum- manly" than a house-painter; ably be spread out in a still thinks the Russians' could balanced way.
help us a fot "only we must stop treating them like under- servants,"
allegiance are still fighting their cause and are not hostage to their good conduct. An attempt to draw a
HE doesn't think a negotiated
parallel between, Royalty in Europe peace possible now; but holds und "pure" Britons is not altogether that detailed armistice terms a happy one, what this analogy (such as complete air disarma- steks 10 show B that onement) should be got ready at section of the community by the once in some neutral country. presence can be trenter danger, to the safety of the whole
than by WELLS is staying on in their absence.
Once we admit the London, cherishing his fine Per- practical impossibility of evacuing sinn carpets: to protect them all women and children from Hong- kong, as the practicant impossibility from incendiary bombs he has of such a step was admitted and ar- Just tquipped himself with eopled by the peoples of Poland, black glasses, shovel, asbestos cations Ordinance, 1814, Such news Norway, Belgium. Holland Hongkong on the date of publication by the United Press Associations, who re- serve all rights and forbid republication, either wholly or in part without previous arrangement,
THE prefix "Special to the Telertaph" is used by the Hongkong Telegraph" to indicate news which in surictly copyright under the provisions of the Telecommuni.
bears the indication "U" I received in
Evacuation
Government has yet to learn that recrimination which hus
been
Sub
France, we must admit discrimina gloves & apron (fluff from which tion-the sort of discrimination that ruined his best suit). condemns some to possible tion and ensures that the remainder
For a diabetic of 73, he seems cannot and will not become hostages in vigorous health; ta an enemy at our gate. We have every course of a lavish lunch. gol to realise that the threat to
strawberry
visit upon him but he
31
enjoyed
FUNNY SIDE UP
By Abner Dean
"Oh I feel grand, dear
ABNER DEAN
1.20
I just finishad tolling that
instalmont collector what I thought of him!"
How the
WORLD
NEW
was
won
There was a handful of timorous
N historian sat down, in British Empire. It might have Amis, 2010, to doite the been. Nearly, it was. most vital chapter in the his- tory of mankind.
For while, filled with a simple faith, on island people rose He inscribed at the top of from their alumbrous stupidness A sheet of virgin foolscap the and Hongkong will not be a milliary/until the last,
assembled their latent words, "The Battle of Britain," might, a few disgruntled poli- threat in a strict sense of the confection, which he tasted & and then looked back on a pile ticians still plotted for power. Our enemy may be expected to be put aside, saying "Unsuitable of finished manuscript.....
u directed against it has not been be- student of paychology and his for a president of the Diabetic
threat, if it comes, will be to the Association.** cause the evacuation was carried people whom he can make hostages. out but because of the methods The potential defender of Hongkong
IT was handed to, & consumed employed in carrying it out. The antenytast of anyone by, another guest, a chimpanzee Colony has been treated to a refresh- would not be a man were he not named George. This was the ing and consoling example of the fearful of what may be visited upon first time I had ever lunched
This "ele- fact that, although democracy does his women and children. not prevalt in this corner of Empire, mentary fact has been long re-with a chimpanzee, and H. G. the voice of the people has been the hostages to safety, as they were
Wells. cognised in military circles, heard to a degree that would not be removed in Norway and the Nether- tolerated under Totalitarian regime; lands, and the threat is extinguished. in the first instance, through the Correspondence columns of the Press
limitation and
the Imperial Government and, secondly, through the welcome security of Empire depends upon the
support afforded by the Unofficial the evacuation of a section of the Members of Legislative Council, women and childred of Hongkong. then those women and children must Recrimination and the possible feeling... that "government has got able-It-becomes-to-us-as individuats, what it deserved" must not, how ever, blind us to the fact that there ure certain aspects of Evacuation which we must support, however Intolerable the conditions they, Im- pose upon us may seem. The Wor
05
reasons
Remove
Military security can know no New
believes
that
Ships
It retailed how, because Sir folk who, fearful of their fortunes John Simon, a Foreign Minister and clinging on to their dead pri- of Britain, cynically rejected, at vileges, would again have sought to the Disarmament Conference, plucute the enemy of all mankind. the claims of a democratic Ger- There was also a gang of en- many to equality, under the the peril, went
trenched burenuerats who, despite wasting time, re- League Covenant, "in terms of writing formulas, making indents, disarmament or rearmament," altering phrases in orders still using. the delegates returned to n even in emergency, the diletory ways
which,
of Peace, country
humiliated, hurled them from office.
But, with a power that could con- quer anything, the People cost them He read, then, what he had on one side, singing for the first time written on scores of pages for years the forgolten words of their how the Germans turned, in National Anthem:
a braggart house- painter named Hitler, who had written in a book called "Mein
For Britain despair, to
"Confound their politics, "Frustrate their knavish tricks." THE historian forgot his tears ns,
*
be evacuated and, however unpalat During the next few months, Kumpf-how-le-would-avenge on page after page, he told the story
we must whole-heartedly support the states an Admiralty announcement, Whitehall decision. This Empire is the Royal Navy will receive a fur- at war and the rights of individuals ther large Increase in strength, com- of the whole. must be subordinated to the welfare prising every category of warship from battleships to motor torpedo We quarrel, then, not with the fact boots, and a very large number of
brought
bc-
ascendancy
Nine months of war
is
the country of his adoption. of the resurrection of a Common- wealth, of a renaissance of a world- scattered people.
YOU can guess the rest of
it:
How the world read the book and laughed at it.
How, one day, when the Boss, had grabbed one country. house-painter, having become
and another was threatened, timorous statesmen, flattering his cruelty and ruthlessness, signed a pact with him.
How the house-painter then invaded another land and
over the
experience
He wrote how, when others might only have despaired, Britain became a great arsenal, how the men toiled and the women slaved-to save their land from a ruthless fac.
that evacuation has been ordered for Cabinet may be expected to know a section of the community and that auxiliary craft. what is best for our destinies. It is there
hus
necessarlly been dis-
The acceleration of work in the inconceivable that evacuation of a but at the methods by which evacua- shipyards is such that the output of erimination against another section,
BE told how far-away Britishers section of the community has been
who might have turned asido and tion has been ordered and carried new construction is progressively in- ordered at the whim of an official out.
leisured in the new countries they The Hongkong Government
had won rushed to the aid of their in Whitehall, especially in view of absolved from all responsibility in casing. Nearly 1,000,000 tons of
kinsmen in the Motherland, how Government's revelation that the Im- the ordering of evacuation but it has warships are building in British ship-
yards.
they pledged their all and did more perial Government is in possession
for its ineptitude in carrying
than they had vowed, of full knowledge of the disruption Pet upon itself the odium of the
The German Navy has suffered the
How, even when he broke Countless millions renewed ther of human life and serious diatur. out those orders. From the very e destruction of a high proportion of ginning there has been no attempt
his plighted word and en- faith. They were inspired with an bance to the economle well-being of to obtain the confidence of the pabite its effectives, the people such evacuation has "en-
slaved another country, these exaltation of which, before, they had talled. We would like to express an
by taking the public into its con-
never dreamed. The contrast between German fidence. Orders have been
same frightened folk tried to issued und
"Come life," they said, "come analogy which, although not exact, countermanded. Promises have been aval weakness and the great and placate him.
death, we will redeem Mankind."* may indicate
of the onc
broken. Frankness has growing strength of the Allied navles prompting the evacuation. In Scan-made and
been promised, secrecy has been bas apparently alarmed the German dinavia no Norwegian has cavilled the watchword. The Press, as lol-High Command. This anxiety
They built, even In the main at the fact that King Haakon and
son between pubile and Government, shown by the constant Issue of crushed it. while two proud streets of their great elties, shelters. Queen Maud evacuated the country and are now directing the war from vectives, remonstrances, pleas and that German air power has achieved has been snubbed. Allegations, in groundless claims of naval sinkings,
from the peril overhead. allies could not help.
They sent their children to safety How then, in ten short weeks, in the distant countryside their aged London. There
no censure supplications have been ignored with Queen Wilhelmine,
Princess
house and their sick. self enthroned a lofly disregard for the feelings of a spectacular Beatrice and the two Hille Dutch the people. Even yesterday's meet-British naval power.
painter, doing nearly all that "We shall defend our Island what- Princesses for deserting the Nether-ing of the Legislative Council has
he had prophesied, grabbed yet ever the cost may be," they sald, lands, the first to remain in London, not made wiser the men who allege the latter three to seek sanctuary in that their wives were the victims of enables the balance to be struck another country and conquered speaking through their Premier, the
first Commoner; Canada.
Every Briton would ex-discrimination in Manila, or mude Concentrated air power, in close four others, reducing them to "We shall fight on the beaches. press relief, in the knowledge that known to the remainder certain sa- proximity to is own aerodromes, slavery.
We shall fight on the landing- Nuzl blitzkrieg may bring death and leat information regarding the future can infllet losses on the less strongly
grounds. We shall fight in the fields destruction to his motherland, at of their wives and children which armoured naval units. It has sign-
aily the thought
Princesses is Government's duty to disclose. decisive advantages conferred by sea
"THOSE chapters crowd into and in the streets. We shall fight in. falled, however, to annul the a few months," said the his- the hills. We will never surrender," Elizabeth and Margaret-Rose were The Hon. Mr. A. L. Shields has safe in one of the Dominions, These trenchantly put his finger on the power. A recent and striking exam torinn, "more ragedy, more
No, it did not happen quite like people are no more blood-related to
to crux of Hongkong's grievances: We Die was the successful withdrawal despair, more horror, than were unt. But there were other perils... us than are our wives and children quote what he said yesterday in the lied armies from the Bel-experienced by all the nations and they were all bravely faced. to Whitehall officials. But
in Legislative Council,I would like to gian coust.
of the world in the previous ten This was their finest hour," wrote: Hongkong we accept the evacuation express my astonishment that fur- The balance of naval strength in centuries.
the historian as his anal phrase. from their own countries of Norther reference has not been made wegian and Netherlands Royalty, and to the question of expense, which favour of the Allies is now far
man "Never was
so blind. In 1040, in the hour of test, it had. greater than at the outbreak of wit Never was would accept under- almilar circum- 1ooms very largely with people whose
been A Premier's proud boast. In stupid. 80 The pre-war strength of the British stances the evacuation from our own wives and families have been sent Empire Navies, and the losses auf- Never did statesmen blander down by the historian as words that.
was a 2040 Motherland of British Royalty, be-away. There are a great many fered, are: cause we realise that their presence people with very little between them.
deeds had just ON Is of greater danger to our Cause Whatever
decision
"I have written down the Cal- For the unknown people of a small government's than their absence. Had the Royal about matters of evacuation may be,
vary of half Europe and how island had, for an Ideal, risked all familles of Norway and the Nether-I think government should make u
darkness descended upon the and Brown and Jones and Thomson
and their common names of Smith. lands remained af the helm, deler- | clear statement of what they pro go-
earth.. mined as captains; go down with
108 minesweepers, aloops, patrol
had been inscribed on History's rolls: the ship (we quote our emitenting to do with the people who have
been evacuated," That is the only -vessels and gunboats-6 lost.
with those of the Immortals. ;. › morning contemporary) then surely real question that can arise in Hong-
THEN; his eyes bedewed by so it was that the Old World was the ships of Norway and the Nether-kong. Rightly or wrongly, the Im- Since the beginning of the war, the thought of all the suffering saved. lands would have foundered. One périal Government has decided that in addition to reinforcements of that millions had endured, the has but to recail the strenuous efforts there must be partial evacuation from warships of all classes except battle historian took up
So it was that, fully enfranchised made, by: the
Nazis to capture the Hongkong. We cannot question that ships, the Navy has been strength-
his pen by their own achievement, men and Royal familles of our two Allies to decision. Hongkong in a tiny centre ened by more than fifty armed again...
women won what can only be won become aware of the danger their of the Empire but in Imperial defence merchant cruisers, of which one has Ho read, once more, the title, by suffering, by endurance and by:
"The Battle of Britain," and be self-dedication they became citiz countries would have meant. True, much larger than its alze or popula-war vessels and auxillary craft, of
gan to write
So it was that write.
citizens their people are in bondage but they on warrants. What we can and do which fifty-eight have been lost. The
of the New World in which they (the people) are sustained by the question are, the methods that have Allied Fleet has been reinforced by knowledge that, unlike the Belgians; been employed in carrying out its the active co-operation of Polen, the decline and fall of the peace and arity.
NO, it was not the story of
shared, ns equals, the earth's bbun- dance, comrades and partners in rulers ** to whom they owe decision
Norwegian and Dutch naval forces.
the
think the
· 15 capital ships-1 -lost,
7 aircraft carriers-1. lost. 3.62 cruisers-2 lost.
185 submarines-8 lost.
80,
man
a phrase that was written
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