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WHITHER JAPAN?
It's Nice to be
in
England
By Edward Beattie UNITED PRESS BTAFT CORRESPONDENT
1
(ETP)- LONDON, Oct. Promised death and destruction notwithstanding, it's nice to he In England with no place to go.
You may not get rouch sugar in you morning cup of coffee and two- drinkers may be out of luck <up
The price enurely on their rela of cigarettes atul beer may leap up- ward each time the Chancellor of the Exchequer Jooks around for more taxes to carry the mounting cost of war
INUSION OF ENGLAND
CONQUEST OF FRANCE
THE TOP BOARD
of
Churchill's Son-in-Law Keeps U.K. Laughing
By Ned Russell
United Fresa Staff. Correspondent LONDON, Oct. 1 (UP)-Vie Oliver, naturalised American comedian who makes more money amusing Britons than his father-in-law, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, makes steer- ing the British Empire through the war, tops a band of American theatrical Agures who are deter- mined to stay here despite the
war.
The 42-year-old Vienna-born Oliver, who married Churchill's actress- beautiful, blond daughter, Sarah, is starring in the London season's biggest musical comedy hit, "Black Velvet," and does n regular Sun- day night comedy stunt on the B.B.C. with Ben Lyon and his wife, Bebo Daniels, former Hollywood movie stare now starring in another musical hit. "Haw Haw."
Oliver recently was reported to be preparing to go to America because of a row with his pro- now ducer, George Black, but everything apparently is settled and the vows to stay here In- definitely-except for a four- week visit to New York, pro- bably next year, in order to keep his American citizenship,
Oliver's compatroita vowing to stay here through the qualities of independence, bred include besides Lyon and his wife,
Think only VICTORY
By
under
F. G. H. Salusbury, glorious in emergencies.
War Correspondent
D
You dodderers
war in-
Charles Warren and a score of other lesser-known performers working in some of the numerous musical comedies and legitimate plays in the West End..
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a democracy, which are stifled Teddy Brown, Leigh Stafford,
a tyranny They are
defeatist may hear old
have they probably memories of some pre-Great War EFEATIST talk must be German who was "a very decent
of out
อน ripped
[elier"-mouthing over the possi- billies of an · honourable" peaco national vocabulary.
Some of it is inspired with Hitler. merely by the success so far- of Hitler's time-table If he has done this or that, the weaklings say, then it is not absurd lo
Will bu imagine that he
in London by the middle of August,
Certainly it to not absurd Imagine that. It is falu?.
Empty of Ideals We cannot have an honourable We can have
peace with Hitler. nothing at his hands but an intoler- able slavery There are no decent
10 felters" left in Nazi Germany even to respect the dodderer's private properly,
By precisely this assistance, work ing in advance of his columns
Holland, through
Belgium and France. Hitler wos his grandiose
Whither Japan? The ques tion offers the second most dominant problem in the world today. She has inveigled her- self into Indo-China; is it to reach Chungking via Yunnan? Or Burn and Malaya via Hanoi and Haiphong? The Chinese indicule the former suggestion, panting out that nart from handicaps offered an invading army by the difficult terrain on the Indo-hina-Yunnan border, But any American who has spent most of the last ten months travelling would require half a million on the continent Bods it almost a bien ta overrome Chinese opposi-rebet that he's probably here for the ctura, because except for a few It is highly questionable neutral ships there's no uansporta- tion
Under whether Japan, without making
bar's permitted to use, present conditions, he ract even Ro substantial troop withdrawals
Lome front Chinn
coul proper. attempt a southwestern invasion on this sale.
You can't have note meuntere and You beefsteak on the sune menu. may stub your toe in the black-out,
Det. o find that surf-bathing tellities have been sadly curtalled by military
The direction of Japan may be largely gunded by the support, moral only though it be at the afforded her by her European partners, and thereby hangs
report traceable to Chinese sources, which may It is contend- serve as a guide. ed that the Vichy Government's turnabout a few days ago, when
H
freesitles
Enemy Origin
If those nations had been Ormly united
themselves strong In enough to resist the polson of fear- ful surrender and negotiation that was injected into them by their own citizens the Allies. despite material disadvantages, could have held out long enough in Europe to turn the German tide.
There are young dodderers, 100. They exist in all walks of life- smug tools who pride themselves an facing
the fanta, as they call temporary results of the biltzkrieg. but will never face the real mean- ing of German domination.
Buch people are rotten with selfishness, rotten with boredom and funk, empty of ideals, worthy only to be slaves.
Their right place is at the bottom of the mental muck-heap which passes fur Nazi philosophy.
Silence them
Convert now. them, if possible, to a healthy out- look. But silence them.
Some of the polson now sprayed over us is, however, directly of There must be no more slimy talk enemy origin and sympathies. And of negotiations or terms without The Government must one of the few refreshing aspects of victory con-
this war is provided by the arrests always be sparred on by the
of such polsoners.
tremendous vitality of the British
The basis of nine war months on the continent, about half of which sretned to be spent walling in queues at consulates, filling out visa forins or
official sciences, Uils correspondeat is happy state that the tungest trip he is hkely to take for some time to come ka three deitling sispruce taxi ride
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sulisfying
M
Antras in Londisi to-day may be unable to move, but at least they don't have to spend anything up to week in cousulates, thirty hours a tryin to estabash that they have nu bombs about their persons, and are not agents of the Cumintern or the
it allowed the Japanese virtually | Braunes Haus.
te take over the country with-
13
Preach consulates in any
waye
Readers have written to me un people. this subject and I have passed the letters on to the authorities,
Spirit of Great War
No one in authority shall be
draw entitled to
the slightest I am one of millions of ordinary evidence of discouragement from people who believe that we shall those he exists to direct. win the war. Moreover, having seen what I have as a war corre- spondent, what else could I belleve?
For I have
Our leaders, in their turn, must seen nothing to
us and obviate the persuade me that the Germans are encourage
I know defeatists by evidence of imagina- Invincible or superhuman, only that they are extremely tion in attack. Nothing will upset
Hitler's plans like attack.
emcient.
Better Than Germans
Let us recapture the fire of the victory over the Graf Spee, of the magnificent enterprise of the destroyers in Norway. of the Now we, too, are being efficient,
gallant the air,
infantry patrols in our where particularly in
Rector Hitler's attempt to conquer Us tor in front of the Maginot Line,
and will be frustrated
whence of those recent landings in enemy- forced to occupied France.
eventually he will be spent a half
out a blow, was connected in no were the worst. Mure refugera, ex- Germans, Poles and otherwise, wers small degree with the three trying to enter France than any other Power
Every application had to Axis poet signed in country
be made in quintuplicate, with thee Europe shortly afterwards. It pictures. And the French were very
suggested that
interested in the antecedents of all secret 1
prospective visitors cinuse gave Japan authority to
hour once at the border trying to go ahead in her Indo-China ad- explam away an assortment of Ger- man visus und residence permits in venture, the French having been
my passport, told by Berlla to make no fuss in the matter.
Incidentally, the last nine months cost the United Press, in my case, 80 passport photographis, the best of which cust 200 Rumenian Lel per dozen und made on individual usually taken for a Swede, look vaguely
Halkon.
Italy and Germany have little to gain by merely forwarding
hostilities Japanese
against China; therefore the only inducement to the original Axis had to be able to prove that you to take in their new partner is that Japan should act in Indo- China in such a manner as to threaten Britain on the other side of the world.
How this could be done is becoming clear with the flooding
In order to get a Danish vian, you would be able to leave the country for some other capital when your stay was over a thing usually Im- possible, because to get any European visa you were always required to specify when you intended to enter, and it was difficult to know that very long in advance.
Some people had to wait three to of Indo-China by Japanese six weeks for a Swlas vist, which agents, their work watched un-required special letters to Berne and officially, but sympathetically by
retreat.
Let us rely on the spirit of the Our airmen, mun for man, are Great War, which still dames in the better than the Germans. That a heart of our Empire. the bald truth, not political soft- soap.
They are more daring, more self- rellant. They have those
very
Shall the ghosts of those men whom some of us still think of as comrades rise to mock the British of 1940?
a clean bill of health from all and near-sighted customs man to pick to
undry.
the
war.
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even Finland was easy,
during Εστ Russo-Finnish
but Luxembourg it took at least a week, in which time the average ablebodied inan could have walked twice around
the Grand Duchy.
Much of Oliver's popularity in due to the way in which he changes his jokes to keep pace with the war. While his father- in-law ponders ways of winning the war, Oliver jokes and laughs about the whole thing. And Londoners like to laugh with him.
When the aliens' curfew regulations went into effect, Oliver pleaded with bis audience to tough quickly at his joker.
"I have to be indoors by midnight," be explained.
One of his Favourite KALA CI- neutrality" phunlzes his "complele
about the war.
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Mays
st
"I don't care who kills Hitler," he
Oliver
Indirect fua paked Churchill and the toyal Nuvy when pocketbattleship Graf the German was scuttled at Montevideo,
"War tenches people geography," Oliver said "Before this they thought Uruguay was a sort of tooth- paste"
theatrical Oliver
Into the Rot business
from playing the plane. banks Previously he had worked in and for a cloth manufacturer. He went to the United States In 1920, when he found out that he could make more money being funny than playing the plane,
per- He made his firat vaudeville
Theatre, the ut
Lyric formance Indianapolis, in July, 1928, and later toured the United States. He up- New York n1 the peared first in Palace Theater in June, 1929.
His first appearance in London was
the
where Pallndlum.
every vaudeville performer hopes to top his 111 first try at musical cureer
"Follow the Sun," comedy was in produced at the Adelphi Theatre Feb.. 4, 1938, by Charles B. Cochran, the English Florenz Ziegfeld.
al
Since then, he has become the most popular of England's entertainers in cabaret and variety theaters and has made several motion pictures.
Mayfair Man Who
Owes £6,668
Escort of Warders
cer, or losing because you left it) somewhere for safe keeping a few days before the Nazi drive turned in that direction.
Victor Frederick Cochrane Ilervey, There was the accordion-pleated 24, a nephew of the Marquess of nssport. My passport is now nearly Bristol, was accompanied by prison: three years old, and in addition to its warders when he applied at London original 32 pages for visus,, now has Bankruptcy Court for his discharge. nine extensions, each with six folding He had been sentenced a year ago
*
to three years penal servitude for his part in a Mayfair jewel theft. conspiracy.
It was stated that he failed in 1037
Then there was the matter of cure sheets. rencies. Outside the fact that most nations forbade the export of more than a small sun, there WOB the
All are full of everything from business of counting and registering every cent on your person, both en- Turkish police stamps to the thumb-with liabilities of £6,000 and assets tering and leaving, plus the dimculty prints of American vice consuls. of is. He had endeavoured to cupply that at almost any moment you were Everyone pn the continent tast win-armaments to a foreign Government, apt to find that the Danish crowns ter seemed to carry a rubber stamp and expected to make a large com Germans who are now hastily her facilities similar to those or Dutch guilders you had tucked in one pocket and an ink pad in the mission, but the venture was abor date of the receiving order Hervey, leaving the doubtful safety of wrung from Admiral Decoux, away as safe neutral money were other. Now there is nobody left to tive. In the 12 months before the
worth next to nothing because Hitler stamp. Chungking and Kunming for and then follows the threat to had just marched in.
Finally, from a strictly professional whose income was £3,350, spent new hunting grounds; their Burma and the Malayan archi- Then there was, the business of point of view, there is the business £6,827 on travelling, entertaining,
With black-out und other of expense accounts. On arrival in and so on, although he had a de
Mr. W. A. L. Raeburn, for Harvey, restrictions, the average continental England in early November, after nelenty of £3,880. train was apt to smell like an Ameri- ughly three months on the con can eattle car, except that the cattle finent, I submitted an account in said that a third party was prepared fourteen currencies including the to put up 21,400, which would pro- car has ventilation.
There was the added complication precious dollars which almost every vide a composition of 5s in the con American hoards as "scram money." pound of baggage, which you were inually either lugging into some for a man who once flunked algebra, Mr. Registrar Kean adjourned the
hearing for a week. blacked-out station platform for it was a great strain..
work appears to be the under-pelago. It may become no more! mining of the present Indo- than a threat, but its nuisance China regime.
value alone to Germany would be considerable, and for this
Britain reason
pay the closest attention to Japan's mancouvres in Indo-China.
Once accomplished, it will be a simple matter for Japan to induce a compliant and some what helpless Thailand to give
must
trains.