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JAPANESE MANOEUVRES
THE Japanese operation in Honan and Hupch; the manocu- vre in southeastern Kwangtung, and the reported despatch of] further troops to Saigon suggest an urgent desire on the part of the military leaders to take the sting out of Mr Matsuoka's re- cent admission of difficulties in the China campaign, rather than being an integral part of a carefully planned objective. The three movements may contain significant pointers, but these are not obvious.
PRIVATE LIFE
OF A PRIVATE
Spit
And
Polish
Further extracts from the diary of a journalist who is now a soldier.
THE
THE man they call Meanie
looks up from a brown belt which he has just taken to pieces, and says: "Can some- body fend me a dab of polish?".
The Man from Yorkshire says "No." The Kid from Widnes sticks out his lower lip and says his tin and says nothing. "Hal" Old Silence throws over
"Come
Christmas," says Ginger, "we'll whip round and buy you a tin."
"Spit an' polish!" says the Lad from the Elephant. "What I mean to say, we come 'ere to fight, not do blinkin' 'ousework, See?"
"My boots is that greasy," Bays the Man from Leicester.
"Greasy!" says the Lad from the Elephant. "I've used up three tins of polish on this pair already, and stone me blind, if I ad a brace an' bit. I could bore a 'ole and run out a pailful o' ruddy grease."
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"Ah," says the Man from Leicester. "Look at what you've got to do. Just look. Get both pair o' boots like patent leather. And the boots is full o' grense,
February 6, 1941.
HAMM AND
EGGS
(Our dombers successfully attacked marsholline yards at Hamm-official communiqué almost ant day.)
Shake
Up Our Diplomats!
like yow says. Cap-badge hasHIS is a total war. It is a SEEM TO MATTER VERY
Yow.
T
got to sparkle till it nigh blinda military war and a naval MUCH. THEY JUST GO ON,
war and an air war and an GOOD OR BAD. economic war-and a diploma- [tic war.
"So's you're belt-buckles and all them twiddly bits o' brass on them leggings, that pack, an that bloomin' great sackful o' straps in webbing.
a
"Everything's got to be like jewellery shop winder. And that roiße! Blimey, that roiflel
They never get thoroughly shaken up. They very rarely Hitler uses diplomacy as one get removed, however inefficient of his chief weapons. Ribben- they are. trop is with him as much as Kietel. His diplomatic offen- How often does an Ambassa-. sives are more frequent than his good wigging from the Secretary dor or Minister get a thorough military offensives.
We have to fight his diplo-
of State?
By W. N. EWER
A British Minister may (this
is no exaggeration) have a staff
||
"Sergeant says, Yow're roifle's macy with our diplomacy. Our It is all too easy-going, all of a dozen, while his German
rival has nearly a hundred. too slipshod. reckon it's you're worst enemy, much a vital war service as the you're best friend. Well, I diplomatic service is just as the way it gets yow into trou-Army or the Navy or
If we had run the fighting And the 'German, too, will ble.".
the services in the same happy-go have the services of perhaps a lucky way. Hitler would be score of "newspaper correspon- dining in Buckingham Palace dents" who send curiously little this evening.
news to their papers but who call regularly. every morning at the Embassy.
The Lad from the Elephant says, "You want a whole day to do your shining in, if you get the next day. It'd be okay by what I mean, to get ready for me if you didn't "ave to sleep at night."
L
R.A.F.
And the plain but unpleasant fact is that our diplomatic ser- as it should be. vice is nowhere near as efficient
The root of the whole trouble is that the service is still hag-
traditions..
He may have at his call also
a score of business representa- tives who seem to-do curiously little business.
It needs, and should have, a ridden by nineteenth century swift and thorough reorganisa- tion, for, as it is, it simply is not up to its job.
I don't mean the "old school tie" tradition. There is quite a
The upshot of it all is that lot of about: although it is mere burlesque-to-allege that the men from almost all countries the
DRAWBACKS
In
a
secures.
The Good Soldier Phillips says: "Nark it. You don't It is difficult to appreciate know what spit-and-polish precisely what the Japanese ex-mearis, you don't. Once you've pect-to-accomplish in the latest"|"got"a"good groundwork on your Honan venture,
in the Foreign Office and the German Foreign Office is get- Certainly that job has been except that boots, you can shine 'em in ten carefully phrased official com- brasses, too.
one. minutes. That goes for your difficult
continental Embassies and the Legations ting far fuller and far better Europe-above all, in Eastern are all a lot of monocled snobs, information about things that muniques on the action may go
-matter than our Foreign Office "What're you grousing about? Europe-Germany has the great a long way towards justifying, What've you got to clean? Your advantage of her. geographical
MODERNISE IT!'
The Nazis see to it that their in the eyes of the Japanese rifle. All right. You'll need to position.
There are very few of that men are efficient; they see to it public, the continued existence keep that clean, to save your
She can back her diplomacy type. There are far more con- that they are well staffed. They of huge invading armies in
own ruddy lives.
with the menace of big armies. scientious officials some able, have their diplomatic eyes and China. What does remain in-
We cannot do that. Once, some not-working, many of ears everywhere. contestable is the fact that the Japanese are finding it neces- "Apart from that, what? sary to indulge in such a wide. You're in battle dress now: well,
tion:--- spread offensive in an
that means eight little bits o' aren which they are supposed to have and two little buttons on your Send the Channel Fleet to Lake
They have realised the im. brass on your gaiters, a badge. "What does he want me to do?
Of course, there have been re- Portance of the diplomatic wea had under their control for two cap. That's nothing.
forms the institution of com- pen and the importance of Bee- years. It gives new emphasis "I admit there's a bit o'
mercial attaches and secretaries ing that it is a hundred per cent. That is true enough. The and counsellors and of Press at efficient. the oft-repeated Chinese Blanco-ing to do on your web-fleet can chase the Italians off taches, for example. Still, the We do not. We make blunder claim, (several times supported bing, but you don't do your packs the Mediterranean: but it can- diplomatic side goes on pretty after blunder for sheer lack of
to
by neutral.observers), that the Japanese are incapable of con- trolling areas beyond the rail- way lines and the main roads, Is this offensive too, the mili- tarists' method of carrying out Mr Matsuoka's desire for "paci- fying" the Chinese farmers?
every day, do you?
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crisis," Lord Salisbury said of a pay.
years ago, during an "Armenian them very hard, for pretty poor They work hard and spend critic who was calling for ac- But the whole system has fluence and German propagani-
Van?!
lavishly to spread German in-
never been overhauled and mo- da. dernised.
Information.
much in the old way. batmen to do it for you? Char-
"What d'you want? Ruddy not sail up the Danube.
An Ambassador will see now women running after you, or of those countries recently-
Said a British Minister in one and again the Foreign Minister
IN THE DARK something?
"My German colleague has a Government to which he is ac- cause
or the Prime Minister of the We are taken, by surprise be- "Say you was in the cavalry hundred arguments he can use credited. He will move about in dark.
we are working in the and had to polish a ruddy horse with the Minister of Foreign Government circles. before breakfast. Eh? You've Affairs, which I have not. They got to keep yourselves clean. are a hundred divisions of in-
We lose opportunity after op Some of his junior staff, es portunity through sheer lack of Ain't you got no self-respect? fantry in or near the Danube pecially the keener ones, will drive, through using the easy- The routheastern Kwanglung en in tripe? With baggy breeches "Do you want to walk about
valley."*
make other "contacts" and do going methods of the old world what they can to get useful in- amid the tempo of the new. gagement has, perhaps, more point to . The Japanese 'declare that the
and rusty rifles?
That also is true enough. But formation and to put our case. We shall go on fighting Ger- "You're given equipment: you it is only part of the story.
But there is nothing like many in the diplomatic field with road from Shayuchung to Walchow got to keep it in good order.
"enough of it. Zeal is not one hand tled behind our back has now become ever more Import Because if it ain't clean, it's
The other part is that Ger- enough encouraged. Lassitude until our whole diplomatic ser- ant than the Burma highway for the
man diplomacy everywhere has is not enough rebuked. transporting of materials to Free tripey equipment. Sco?
vice from top to bottom is Rarely, as I say, does an Am- shaken up and weeded out and China, and the avowed purpose of
"So get on with the shining been more active, more vigor
more painstaking than bassador get told off for sending overhauled and made to undor- the latest manecouvre, which con parade if you want to go to the ous,
-infrequent or inadequate re- stand what is wanted of it in N.A.A.F.I. to-night. Go on! ours. stitutes a pincer movement from the
Shine!"
ports. He may easily get a ro- the new conditions. Walchow area and the Hongkong border, is to stop the alleged traffic.
The peculiar feature about the whole
thing is, however, that this smuggling
was ever allowed to attain such pro- portions. One answer is suggested by the fact that entirely fresh troops are being employed in this clean-up;
I do not want to criticise in minder that he is spending too. We must have good men and his neighbour. "D'you mind British Ambassador has been u
says Meanie to dividuals: to suggest that the much money on telegrams, Excuse me,'
spitting on these boots for me? total failure, that one not so I been eating toffee."
bad.
"First 'e borrers polish.. Now e borrows spit," says the Lad from the Elephant..
STARVED
are
enough of them to do the job.. And we shall not have an ef ficient diplomatic service until One answer, indeed, which (among other things) we They are officials and can't the diplomats can make to a
prepared to pay for it. answer back. And discussing charge of inefficiency is that the individuals isn't very cdifying service la 'starved.
IT IS A BIG JOB, AND. or profitablo, ñnyway.g
EASY ONE. BUT IT HAS Its importance has never been GOT TO BE DONE AND The strategical importance of Wal-
THERE ARE GOOD MEN IN properly realised. In the old WITHOUT DELAY IF WE chow vis-a-vis the Kwangtung
THE SERVICE, THERE ARE conditions a small staff was ARE NOT TO BE
RE- Hongkong border is, well known, but tung, and from a purely militaristic MEN WHO ARE NOT MUCH quito sufficient. Staffs romain PEATEDLY OUTMAN- there is nothing to Indicate at the surprising if the Japanese had taken BLE IS THAT IT DOES NOT changed.
viewpoint, it would not have been USE AT ALL THE TROU- small though conditions have OEUVRED BY moment that the latest Japanese ox-'action before.
TROP'S MEN.
timɑ will show how effectively the new broom sweeps.
∙pedition is based on ulterior motives.
it is possible important materials are getting into Free China via Kwang-
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