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WHITHER JAPAN?
INWSION OF ENGLAND
CONQUEST OF FRANCE
THE TOP BOARD
It's Nice Think only of
to be
in
England
By Edward Beattie UNITED PREBI STAFF
CORRESPONDENT
(UP),———
LONDON, Oct. 1 Promised death and destruction not withstanding, it's nice to he
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offers the second most dominant problem in the to-day. She has invelgled her self into Indo-China; la It to reach Chungking via Yunnan? Or Burma and Malaya via Hanoi and Haiphong ? The Chinese ridicule the former suggestion, pointing out that apart from handicaps offered an invading army by the difficult terrain on the Indo-China-Yunnan border,
cup
You may not get much sugar in your morning cup of coffee and two- drinkers may be out of luck entirely on their refills. The price of cigarettes and beer may leap up- ward each time the Chancellor at the for more Exchequer looks around taxes to carry the mounting cost of
war
You can't have sole meuniere and You beefaleak on the Bame menu. may stub your toe in the black-out, And that surf-bathing facilities have been sadly rurtalled by military
105
necessities.
But any American who has spent most of the last ten months travelling |
it would require half a million on the conunen! Ands it almost men to overcome Chinese opposi- relief that he's probably here for the duration, because except for a few tion. It is highly questionable neutral strips there's no transporta- Under whether Japan, without making taun he's permitted to use. substantial troop withdrawals present conditions, he can't even from China
could proper. attempt a southwestern invasion on this scale.
home
Am the basis of nine war months on the continent, about half of which seemed to be spent waiting in queues at consulates, fling out visu forms or
oficial com satisfying berwise sciences, this correspondent is happy to state that the longest trip he is likely to take for some time to come
la Pree shilling sixpence laxi ride.
VICTORY
By
F. G. H. Salusbury, War Correspondent
qualities of independence, bred in a democracy, which are stifled under a tyranny.
They are
glorious in emergencies.
You doddeters
may
hear they
old probably
Churchill's
Son-in-Law
Keeps U.K. Laughing
By Ned Russell
United Press Staff Correanondent LONDON, Oct. 1 (UP)-Vic Oliver, naturalised American comedian who makes more money amusing Britone than his father-in-law, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, makes steer- ing the British Empire through
the war, tops a band of American theatrical figures who are deter- mined to stay here despite the
war.
The 42-year-old Vienna-born Oliver, who married Churchill's beautiful, blond actress- daughter, Sarah, is starring in the London season's biggest musical comedy hit, "Black Velvet," and does a regular Sun- day night comedy stunt on the B.B.C. with Ben Lyon and his wife, Bebe Daniels, former Hollywood movie stars 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- ducer, George Black, but now 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 hia American citizenship.
Oliver's compatroits vowing to stay here through the
war in- cludo besides Lyon and his wife, Teddy Brown, Leigh Stafford, Charles Warren and a score
of other lesser-known performers
defeatist
have working in some of the numerous memories of some pre-Great Warmusical comedies and legitimate EFEATIST talk must be German who was "a very decent plays in the West End.
ripped out or our feller "-mouthing over the possi-
bilities of an "honourable ' with Hitler.
national vocabulary.
Some of it is inspired merely by the success-60 far- of Hitler's time-table. If he has done this or that, the weaklings Bay, then it is not absurd to imagine that he will bo in London by the middle of August.
Certainly it is not absurd Imagine that. It is fatal.
By precisely this assistance, work ing in advance of hla columna
Holland,
and through
Belgium
France.
Hitler won his grandiose
bet.
Enemy Origin
to
If those nations had been firmly united in themselves strong enough to resist the poison of tear- 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
ur thie derman tide. turn
Empty of Ideals
peace
*
*
Much of Oliver's popularity in due to the way in which
he We cannot have an honourable changes his jokes to keep pace While his father- peace with Hitler. We can have with the war. nothing at his hands but an intoler-in-law ponders ways of winning able slavery There are no "decent the war, Oliver jokes,and laughs fellers" left in Nazi Germany even
about the whole thing. And to respect the dodderer's private
Londoners like to laugh with property.
him.
There are young dodderers, too. They exist in all walks of life- smug tools who pride themselves on facing facta, as they call the temporary results of the blitzkrieg. but will never tace the real mean- ing of German domination.
Arc
with rotten Such people selfishness, rotten with boredom and funk, empty of ideals, worthy only to be glaves.
Their right place is at the bottom of the mental muck-heap which passes for Nazi philosophy.
Silence them now. Convert them. if possible, to a a healthy out- look. But allence them.
Some of the polson now sprayed
There must be no more slimy talk over us is however, directly of enemy origin and sympathies. And of negotiations or terms without The Government must one of the few refreshing aspects of victory
on by the this war is provided by the arrests always be spurred
of such poisoners.
tremendous vitality of the Britisti
Readers have written to me on people. this subject and I have passed tho letters on to the authorities.
The direction of Japan may be largely guided by the support, moral only though it be at the moment, afforded her by her European partners, and thereby to hangs a report traceable
Aerans in London to-day may Chinese
which sources,
may be unable to move, but at least they It is contend- don't have to spend anything up to serve as a guide.
thirty furs a week in consulates, ed that the Vichy Government's trying to establish that they have no turnabout a few days ago, when bombanbul their persons, and are
only not agents of the Comintern or the allowed the Japanese virtually Braunes Haus. to take over the country with- out a blow, was connected in no small degree with the three- Power Axis pact signed in country. Europe shortly afterwards. is suggested that clause gave Japan authority to go ahead in her Indo-China ad- venture, the French having been told by Berlin to make no fuss in the matter.
French consula es in many ways were the worst. More refugees, ex- Cermatis, Poles and otherwise, were trying to enter Frauice than any other Every application had to be made in quintuplicate, with Ave it pictures. And the French were very secret interested in the antecedents of all prospective visitors. I spent a half hour once at the border trying to explain away an assortment of Ger- man visas and residence permits in my pusspor!,
Balkan.
to
No one in authority shall be entitled to draw the Blightest evidence of discouragement from those he exists to direct
Spirit of Great War
When the aliena" curfew regulations went into effect, Oliver pleaded with his audience to laugh quickly at hi jokes.
"I have to be indoors by midnight," he explained
favourite goga cm- phasizes his "complete neutrality" about the wor.
One of his
"I don't care who kills Hitter," be anys.
Dilver
poked Indirect
at- fun Churchill and the Royal Navy when the German pocketbattleship Grat was scuttled at Montevideo.
"War teaches people geography,"
this Oliver
ther Enid. "Before thought Uruguay was a sort of tooth- puste."
into the
Oliver got
theatrical business from playing the piano. Previously he had worked in banks
cloth
ananufacturer. He and for went to the United States in 1020, when he found out that he could Inake more money being funny than playing the piano.
He made la frat vaudeville per- formance
Theatre at the Lyric Indianapolis, in July, 1920, and later Не ар- toured the United States. peared first in New York at the Palace Theater in June, 1029.
His first appearance in London was the Palladium, where every vaudeville performer hopes to top his His first try at musical career. comedy was in
In "Follow the Sun" produced at the Adelphi Theatre Feb. 4. 1936, by Charles B. Cochran, the English Florenz Ziegfeld.
I am one of millions of ordinary people who believe that we shall win the war. Moreover, having Been what I have as a war corre- spondent, what else could I believe?
For I have
seen nothing
Our leaders, m their turn, must and obviate the persuade me that the Germans are encourage invincible or superhuman. I know defeatists by evidence of imagina- that they are extremely tion in attack. Nothing will upset efficient,
Hitler's plana ilke attack.
Let us recapture the are of the Better Than Germans victory over the Graf Spee, of the
of enterprise magnificent
in Norway,
of Now we, too, are being efficient. destroyers particularly in the
where gallant infantry patrols in our air,
us sector in front of the Maginot Line, Hitler's attempt to conquer will be frustrated
whence of those recent landings in enemy- and eventually he will be forced to occupied France.
Let us rely on the spirit of the retreat.
Our airmen, man for man, are Great War, which still dames in the popular of England's entertainers In better than the Germans. That is heart of our Empire.
men Shall the ghosts of those the bald truth. not political soft-
whom some of us still think of as soap.
comrades rise to mock the British of 19407
They are more daring, more self- rellant. They have those very
the the
n clean bill of health from all and near-sighted customs man to pick to
Incidentally, the last nine months cost the United Press, in my case, &6 passport photographis, the best of Italy and Germany have little which cost 200 Rumanlon Le per to gain by merely forwarding dozen and made an individual usually Japanese hostilities
taken for a Swede, look vaguely sundry. against China; therefore the only In order to get a Danish visa, you inducement to the original Axis
had to be able to prove, that you to take in their new partner is would be able to leave the country that Japan should act in Indo- for Bordo other capital when your China in such a manner as to possible, because to get any European stay was over thing usually im-- threaten Britain on the other visa you were always required to side of the world.
specify when you intended to enter, and it was difficult to know that very long in advance.
Then there was the matter of cur- rencies. Outside the fact that most nations forbade the export of more thu than a small sum, there was
Since then, he has become the most
cabaret and variety theaters and has made several motion pictures.
Mayfair Man Who
Owes £6,668
•
Escort of Warderi
eces, or losing because you left it somewhere for safe keeping 'a fow days before the Nazi drive turned in even during that direction.
Victor Frederick Cochrane Hervey, Finland was caбy,
for but war, the Russo-Finnish
There was the accordion-pleated 24, a nephew of the Marquess of week. Luxembourg it took at least
16sport. My passport is now nearly Bristol, was accompanied by prison in which time the average ablebodied three years old, and in addition to its warders when he applied at London the Grand Duchy. man could have walked twice around original 38 pages for visas, now has Bankruptcy Court for his discharge. nino extensions, each with six folding He had been sentenced a year ago shots. Y
to three years' penal servitude for. his part in a Mayfair lewei theft conspiracy. How this could be done is
It was stated that he falled in 1987 All are full of everything from becoming clear with the flooding Some people had to wait three to business of counting and registering
vice consuls of 8s. He had endeavoured to supply of Indo-China by Japanese six weeks for a Swiss visa, which every cent on your person, both en- Turkish police stamps to the thumb-with liabilities of 20,068 and assets:
required special letters to Berne and tering and leaving; plus the difficulty prints of American agents, their work watched un-
that at almost any moment you were Everyone pa the continent last win- armaments to a foreign Government, officially, but sympathetically by
opt 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 packet and an ink pad in the mission, but the venture was abor leaving the doubtful safety of wrung from Admiral Decoux, away an sata neutral money were other. Now there is nobody left to tive In the 12 months before the
Finally, from a strictly professional whose income was Chungking and Kunming for and then follows the threat to worth next to nothing because Hitler stamped date of the receiving order Hervey new hunting grounds; their Burma and the Malayan archi- Then there was the business of point of view, there is the business £5,827 on travelling, entertaining work appears to be the under-pelago. It may become no more trains. With black-out and other of expense accounts. On arrival in and so on, although he had a
-restrictions, the average continental England in early November, after actency of £3,300 mining of the present Indo-than a threat, but ita nuisance Teal was apt to smell like an Ameri-ghly three months on the con- Mr. W. A. L. Raeburn, for Hervey an account in said that a third party was prepared China regime.
value alone to Germany would can cattle car, except that the cattle tinent, I submitted
fourteen currencies, including the to put up £1,400, which would pro Once accomplished, it will be be considerable, and for this car has ventilation. a simple matter for Japan to reason... Britain. must pay
There was the added complication precious dollars which almost every vide a composition of Ss. lay the Induce a compliant and some the closest attention to Japan's of baggage, which you were con-American boards as "scram money pound the sale candid
tinually either lugging into, some For a man who once funked algebro, Mr. Registrar Kean adjourned the
fearing for a week. what helpless Thalland to give meneouvres in Indo-China.
blacked-out station platform for alit was a great stralo
had just marched Jn.
£3,350, spent
dew
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