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Let Us Have Some
DIPLOMATIC BOMBING
AM not a military expert,
I am a diplomatic cor-
INDIAN TROOPS IN ACTION respondent My job is to know all that is going on in
ONE of the most interesting Europe.
By A Diplomatic
HAILE SELASSIE, Emperor of Ethiopia, who was forced into exile by Italian aggression, is haele In Africa. This picture, from a news- reel, shows him to Sudan, receiving Abyarinton chiefs who are helping the British forces.
Millions Spent On Television
Washington, Jan. 24' (UP).– The Federal Communications Commission reports that private ac-interests are spending $8,000,000 for research and experimenta- tion to develop television on a
it-and they are kept at it only. by Mussolini's "successes," cording to his own, war com- múniques,
When the R.A.F. visited | commercial basis. Naples, 100 miles away the citizens of Rome spent the What would happen if the very much bombs fell on Rome itself can
only be imagined.
features of the war in the It is because I understand Correspondent night in shelters.
Western Desert is the presence of troops from several nations fighting aide by side under the British flag. Their joint attacks which have been carried out under extremely difficult condi- tions have shown an unified front and an equality of courage
are
The Italians have not our
the present political feeling Monarchists on the Continent that I SAY alive. BRITAIN MUST AT ONCE Discontent is rife, too, among we can take it" courage. They ADOPT
DIPLOMATIC the local. Nazis the "Old IL-
legals" who in the days when would not "take it" for long.
There is a good deal of un- BOMBING IN EUROPE.
they worked for Hitler against The Germans tried it their own country were dazzled derground opposition to Musso- by the prospect of being big lini and Fascism, both within -which-has-inspired-the-whole-of-when-they-set-out-to-smash-bosses-in-a-Nazified-Austria, and without the Fascist Party which would soon find means of
the watching world..
our civilian morale by but
who when the Anschluss came, found themselves only expression when British bombs It is perhaps invidious in a bombs.
little bosses, with all the big began to fall on Rome itself,
I would also suggest bombing campaign in which dangers, dis-
They have failed miser- jobs in the hands of the Reich-
raids on the Rumanian oil fields comforts and successes
German Nazis. united
-from our bases in Cyprus and shared equally by all. to disably because we are a
The disappointment and de- Crete, sociate one group from another, people.
sire for a different kind of re- but the part played by the Indian troops merits record. Always
are
renowned for their bravery and loyalty, the Indian troops now in the African campaign seem to have reached greater heights of courage, zeal and endurance
The Commission broadened the experimental field by licens ing ten new stations, six of which will be located in Los Angeles. Previous authorisa tlons have provided a geographic thwart any tendency toward distribution of facilities
monopoly.
to
Howard Hughes, multi-millionaire
aviator and movie producer, is only to spend $2,000,000 atone, the Con
mission said, for the development of elevision-stations-in-Los-Angeles and San Francisco.
ed
The ten new stations were expect- by the Commission to spend $3,000,000 for experimentation and research. Others previously licensed have invested $5,000,000 in the in- dustry.
Public Interest
gime, at present without means For The Squeamish . But Greater Germany, of expression, would soon find a DIPLOMATIC bombing is not of research and experimentation are
sprawling awkwardly across way of self-assertion once the into Europe, is the very reverso R.A.F. carried the war of a united people.
part they are playing in the source of sabotage of the
Western Desert operations. He
said: "I am proud of your enemy's war effort. achievement; India is proud of And by "right propagan-
Austria itself.
R.A.F. Visits
Nazis and
Czechs.
the
the
a matter of reprisals. This is total war-but so far it has only been total in regard to British civilians.
country, and knowing their means of diplomatic bombing.
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"These contemplated programmes
pursuant to Commission require- ments looking to development of television to a point that will enable the industry to agree en a uniform transmission system of an accepinble technical quality," the F.C.C. sald.
The FC.C. has insisted upon uni- form
transmission standarde incilitate public participation in the Industry, Chairman James Law-
MOSLEY GROWS A BEARD
to
SIR OSWALD MOSLEY, the Fascist lender, is growing a beard. It is now about an inch and a half long, is almost jet black, and covers the whole of his chin.
It is high, time that Britain In this loose-linked Ger- Appreciated should adopt the totalitarian
ND what applies to Austria principle in war. than ever before. It is true that man Europe there are now
AND
For the sentimentally sque. the Indian people as a whole, exceptional opportunities also applies to Bohemia- realise very fully the fact that for carrying out raids on Moravia, where the German amish, let me point out that rence Fly has contended that over- Sudetenland there are plenty of military ob- night changes which would outmode Britain's victory is as vital to them as it is to the Londoner, or psychological-political ob- Nazis are lording it over the jectives in the countries I have existing receivers must be avoided.
named, any other British subject, and jectives. the whole British Commonwealth
And by military objectives I But they would not be lord mean not only military estab is at one in this total war,
The right kind of propa- ing it for long if R.A.F. bombs lishments and factories, but also Broadcasting to the Indian ganda can turn the weak came raining down on Prague, Government officers and offices. troops, the Commander-in-Chief
Hitler is a war objective. Marienbad, and on Karlsbad! offered his personal congratula: nesses that I know exist in on Reichenberg, on Eger, on
And so is Mussolini. tions to them for the gallant Germany's Europe into a Knowing the people, knowing Britain now has the technical hatred of the Nazis, I sincerely We have the pilots. We have. bellove that the Czechs would our new bombers. We have at understand and put up with it. the head of the R.A.F, a man her brave soldier sons." An'
When, after the appointment with the right aggressive spirit. eye-witness account of the Sidi da" I mean bombs. Leaflets
of Sir Charles Portal to the What Is Holding Us? Barrani battle, referred to the and broadcasts can follow. leadership of the R.A.F., our What then is holding way in which the Indian troopa kopt their heads, when. Italian
bombers raided the Skoda ar- mament works, Czecho-Slova- Whitehall's Inability to visua- planes roared overhead, bombs
NOT only are there under kid tpreciated the scored-lise what kind of war this is? bursting perilously near and
ground opposition move- and action. machineguns adding their rat-
A lack of understanding in It was an encouragement to high places of the nature and tat to the fury of the onsinught.ments in Germany and in
It was reported some days ago Austria, but there are discords them-whatever casualties they methods of the enemy?
may have suffered.
Ignorance on the part of our that Sir Sikander Hyat Khan, within the very Nazi Party it A few R.A.F, visits to Bratis- rulers of the political and pay Indian Premier, who visited the
lava, capital of the so-called chological conditions prevailing Indian troops In the Desert, said
Sir Oswald Mosley looked healthy "independent" Slovakia, would in enemy.countries? on his return home that these
enough, and was dressed in a black soldiers had told him they would
lounge coat arid flarinel trousers-the time-honouredbut outworn "uniform" he used to wear at his not return before victory. He
Fascist moetings before he added that the entire Muslim
Whatever it may be, it must arrested on May 23 at his London world, including, Turkey, was
Int. is Dolphin Square, S.W, We need imaginative war Prison under section 1883 of the He has been detained in Briston fact--and it la undeniably a fact link in the actual Germanic much more true is it of Italy, direction in keeping with the Defence. Regulations ever since,
must be giving. Hitler much chain.
the weakest link of all in the technical means we now possess, Mosley apparently intends for the food for thought. It is an
Given that we can win the present to cultivate, the short "im- answer to any threat he might The Austrians have not yet Axis chain l
The great majority of the war, and, what is even more imperial"
Lype wish to make to Turkey, Syria or had the war brought home to Italian people have not their portant, do what we failed to noticed that the ends were being of board, as it was any other part of the Eastern them. Below the surface the hearts in this wan--they cor do after our victory in the last change the style when the growth trimmed to a point. But he may Socialists; Communists and tainly had but little desire for war-win the peace as well. becomes stronger,
.self.
The Weakest Link
There ate also regional also have excellent political cf Westminster's hugging of rivalries and divergences, mora fects. especially as between Germany and what was once Austria.
Let Rome Have It!
traditions?
solidly behind the Allies. This Austria is in fact the weakest AND if all this is true of be swept away.
Greater Germany, how
Meditorrancar.
1.
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He is in Brixton. Prison; and when seen recently he had a thick growth of black hair cover- ing the lower part of his face.
People who knew the interned Fascist leader well hardly recognised him in his beard.
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