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What a tremendous oppor- tunity!
I refer to the report that Mussolini has appointed Count Volpi to negotiate with British interests for the evacuation of about 200,000 Italian colonists from Abyssinia.
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If I were the Prime Minister,
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By JOHN BLUNT
It is the greatest crusade ever Anglo-American Crusade. In a which actuated such a depar- undertaken by men of this sense it implies a determination ture from the conventional.
We are supposed to be an un- world to defend the right, and to to make certain that the fittest restore the happiness and free will survive-the fittest physi- emotional race, but there are dom of alien nations who now locally, mentally and, most Im- times when our feelings are crushed and bleeding under the portant of all, morally.
deeply stirred, and I know that' cloven roof of the very devil in- How greatly this is appre British people throughout the carnate. It is an accord not clated by the United States has Empire were at first surprised. entirely divorced from fear been evidenced by the inspiring and then grateful, that such a but it is a righteous. fear, from and spontaneous geature of Pre- spirit of frankness, kindliness which has been born a mutual sident Roosevelt in going out and understanding could exist. determination to ensure that personally to greet Britain's new The first citizen of the United men, women and children of the Ambassador, It was a great, States surely sealed a bond be British Empire and the United and yet a simple gesture. Great tween his country and the States never shall be slaves.
because it created a precedent in British Empire which will prove diplomatic procedure which will of lasting.and mutual benefit to go down in history, and simple ourselves and to mankind in because it revealed the sincerity general.
I would guarantee to deliver every one of them back to Italy, eubject, of course, to necesanry terms and assurances. If pos- sible, I would use British ships, and insist upon "seeing them home". Such an act would be a crowning achievement in diplo- matic propaganda. Imagine the object lesson to the Italians if their own people were returned homo safely to their own ports in British ships. They could not ignore the humanitarian aspect on the part of the people against
No words can adequately des- whom they have been forced to cribe the momentousness of the take up arms. What a home.. coming for them! What a magnificant gesture! What a tremendous opportunity!
· INDUSTRIALISATION OF HONGKONG importance
The
vital
of
the
encouraging the industrialisation of Hongkong cannot be over- stressed. The prosperity of any race or country depends upon Its industrialism, and inhabitanta and the Government must do all in their power to establish firm foundation on which Hongkong's future pro- sperity will be built.
CURRENT COMMENT
There is a parallel between Hitler Is noi due to any affection Ifitler may and Layet in so far as bath had to have for that gentleman, but it is deal with the president of a state intended to show that France is & who was over eighty years of age, defeated nation And must obey Hier, who had a good many votes orders.
behind him, was able to compel Assuming Luval gets back to Hindenburg's palsied hand to sign Vichy, the question arises what will the document both
which he was Weygand do in Morocco, and what
Laval, Kranted dictatorial power,
will the French sailors do? without any popular vote behind him hard to believe they will fight their hut by virtue of the fact that he was chips, and still harder to belleve supported from Berlin, was able to they will hand them over to the impose himself upon Marshal Petain. Germana. It was the same German bayonets, therefore, which backed both of them.
England progressed centuries ago because of the industry of her people, and because of the encouragement given to those who became her "shop-keepers."
a nation of shop land was keepers," was actually a tribalo to the enterprise and indus trialism of her people. Let Hongkong remember that.
Laval, who has the most unsavoury reputation in France, has had G rather tortuous career. He was on
The present situation, however, does seem to justify the Primo Minister's action at Oran.
WILLKIE'S TOUR
or
By Scrutineer
shirkers, A lord who refuses to observe the black-out is, punished quite as severely as B crossing sweeper,
"Buckingham Palace has been bombed Just like the humblest workman's cottage. Tonight spent eight hours in a public shel- ter full of workers and petit bour- geols. These people's good humour, cordiality and solidarity in dia- tresz
profoundly moving. During the whole, of those eight hours, I heard no word of com- plaint or recrimination, no word against the authorities. Here once more are the deep roots of that great democratic tradition which ensures that the people has con- ndence in its rulers, because it controls them,
"There are no signs here of those divisions which reveal a state of
February 8, 1941.
By Walt Disney
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the peace, and as breker she will want a very high commission.
Nothing demonstrates so fully the sad plight of France, as these vain attempts to exclude, first, the Japanese and, secondly, the Thailanders from Indo- China, France lies there with none to do her reverence-n miserable, emaciated body which attracts the vultures as well as the rats and the maggots,
Japan moves south at the comunand of Germany in the same way as Thol- land move cast at the command of Japan. These movements are preli-. minary to bigger events and no doubt will take a long time. The negotia- tions will be protracted, for the next atage is fraught with dire con- sequences and no one is anxious for zero hour to arrive,
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MUSSOLINI'S MISTAKE
The Italians' lust for war Is not quite as strong as their lust for vic- tory. Mussolini declared war in June against Britain because he thought victory for the Axia was cer- tain, and he launched his attack Bgainst Greece because he was con- vinced General Metaxas would see that his defeat was certain if he did But yield to the Italian demands. General Metaxas, however, replied by giving an order to his army to resist and added: "Wo sholl win, but In any case remember the Gręcka have always preferred Clory Victory,"
to
Here ive see the difference in the mentality between the two peoples. The spirit that dominates the Greeks an they hurl the invader back out of their country is not to be found in the Italian army. It cannot be, since the Italian knows that deep down in his heart he is erely engaged on a merely thieving expedition. There is real Inner compulsion. The thief caught redhanded is usually a sorry spectacle. His courage, never very high, at once deserts film and he is an casy prey for the captar.
The Italians in every way have sunk desperately low morally. It will take centuries to live down the horrihic stain of dishonour, treachery and cowardice which has marked the Fascist regime since 1923, and especially since linking up with the Nazis in 1930.
It would be more than a milltary catastrophe if these Immoral princip- decadence. The other, evening, I les upon which Nazism and Fascism dined with a City banker. He is stand, were to prevail. The Greeks have shown nearer sixty than fly. He pat-and-the-British, however, I
that the enemy forces, however great, rols the Thames in boat.
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must yield before the assaults
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those who are conscious of the daughter is'n nurse."
righteousness of their own cause and 19 Such
the testimony
of the fundamental evil nature of the enemy's.
His
the suspect list the last war, WenCell Wilkie has completed his 1.c. on Carnet B, which meant that he tour of Britain, where he has been The gibe of the past, that "Eng. had to be started, as was befitting for the benefit of the members of watched by the secret Rathering evidence and impressions police. He his humble circumstances, on the the Foreign Affairs Committee. He left wing of politics, butas his praises the steadfast courage and wealth-Increased-he-moved--to-the-high spirits, which he has found in no bombe, It is said he owes his fortune all places and which to his association with Francols de whether Incendiary high ex- Wendel, the potentate of the Comete plosive, can destroy. He is impress-. des Forges. Cadette, formerly The cd with the unity that prevails in Times' correspondent in Paris, says face of
face of the common danger and with it came by more devious and even the friendly rele
relations between foreigner who has lived in England more questionable ways.
workmen and Year in and year out Lavol wears Winston employers. He regards now for some months during the Churchill's leadership as heaviest bombardment and such is white washable necktle. Some inspired and inspiring. It is some the kind of report Mr Wendell Wi- attribute this to stinginess, some to thing of a miracle that the greatest kle will take back with him to its publicity value, and others any, crisis in British history should throw Washington,
Of recent years, factories of every description have sprung up in the Colony. They have carried the name of Hongkong to! the four corners of the earth, and Hongkong, has been the gainer in that the volume of actual trade (apart from goods in transit) has been largely sup ported by the export of goods manufactured within the Colony.
It stands to reason that fac-
They contribute directly to the revenue of the country, and they make it possible for
their workers to make their indirect contribution.
A Socialist denu
IL
GERMANS IN DILEMMA
of a
he needs something clean about him. up the ideal leader.
clear that Wendell Willkle's deputy once interrupted speech by Laval in the Chamber testimony before the American Com- with the words: "I wish your hands miltee will be along the lines he has were as clean as your necktie. Such already indicated. He was at home Is the man who is nominated by in England, because he was at the Goebbels simply cannot understand Hitler. to rule France.
source of American life, the
mantle of Napoleon had fallen upon
The German broadcasts in the past
week have been quite remarkable.
Marshal Petain was infanne ended because they were in should be two newspapers produced
LORD LLOYD
thou-
Lord Lloyd's death removes 1 vital figure from public life. As Secretary of State for the Colonies he recently made a special appeal for funds to buy mobile canteens. Hongkong Rotary Club Immediately sent £300. The British Council, of
made an annual grant of one
Hongkong which will be supplement- ed and enable twenty students from the interior of China to study here. As such scholarships will bring the University, into close. contact with educational Institutions on the main- land, It is the sort of grant that will beneficial and far-reaching have. effects. The Rhodes Trustees have also allotted a lump sum of £1,000 to Hongkong University
Iwo for scholarships to be held in Oxford.
There are two explanations of his Lain from which come thote the British mentality and so cannot which he was chairman, recently
deals interpret correctly anything he hears, individual he
The most astonishing talk in English tories, if properly supervised and quarrel and 'his arrest by Marshal of dependence, justice, visch on Tuesday was the severe castien sand pounds to the University of
Petain. According to Time," Laval controlled, arc assets
for the ty and all those things. which is sold to have arranged
give human life its value, tion of British leaders for their every country must encourage, body of Napoleon the
First's com to Wendell Willkle was made to under straightforward warnings to the They absorb n considerable be brought from Vienna and rein- stand what these things really mean. United States and the argent demand percentage of the population. terred in des Invalides. Hitler and how tenaciously they were being for material aid. The British leaders
Ribbentrop were to grace the cere defented, how even life itself was of were accused of mony and thus show to Frenchmen no account in comparison with the dim
exaggerating the their reverence for the greatest of safeguarding of these splendid tradi-culties of the situation in order. to persuade America into doing dictators of the past. Hitler himself tions. These things he saw enlarged, something the did not want to do.
more important, and more vividly
The speaker suggested that there was to be there to indicate that the
in England: one for America in read of the arrangement and expected to
They
are the principles at life proceed to Paris, and according to which America holds in affection, but and one for British readers. This is the plot he was to become the puppet which cannot be enjoyed unless the sort of thing that is done in Ger- ruler, or murdered. The old man reaffirmed and defended whenever many, where the right hand is not to know what the left la are threatened. refused to play the part assigned to is not unreasonable to..suppose doing. Somehow or other, the Ger- him and so tho whole offair fell through.
that Wendell Willkie has increased mans cannot or will not understand that. British people prefer the truth, to the Another explanation is that Laval his prospects of election as the vice-president of the State had. Presidency of the United States in however unpalatable it may come arranged for the French fleet to be 1044 by his visit to England, seeing times be; they fight better when they handed over to Germany, as well us that the two Anglo-Saxon nations know the worst.
The Germans were recently saying bases in the Mediterranean. Marshal are destined to march forward in the Petain, who has a higher sense of defence of those things they hold that Britain was beaten, only she did honour, refused to be a party to the equally dear and to destroy those not know it; the ship of state was scheme and had Laval arrested. Nazi forces which threaten them. With the help of his numerous Ger
Unfortunately, officialdom haå, to a certain extent, hindered rather than encouraged indus- trialiam in the past. The restrictions and difficulties which have been placed in the path of the pioneers have hindered the progress so desired. In spite of difficulties, much has been done, but much more can be done if judicious control is exercised, and genuine enterprise fostered The Colony maintains Itself out of its trade, and the healthier that is, the greater the revenue so urgently required for so many needs.
ANGLO-AMERICAN
ACCORD
I have often wondered re- contly whether the tremendous significance of Anglo-American accord is generally appreciated for what it really is1
It is more than a mero fusion of common ideals; it is more than a mutual understanding of a common problema
man friends he was quickly released BRITISH UNITY
and escorted to Paris by Otto Abatz.
Ideal Aft columnist
who
allowed
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sinking they sold, and the passengers should now be taking to the boats, The Captain and officers however who should go down with the ship. and there he has been ever since as Mr Wantere, formerly Belgian were keeping the one life boat for the perfect tool of Hitler. He is the Minister of Information, writes of themselves and letting the passengers drown. Now they do not believe this now London as follows:-- threatens to turn France Into another When I first come here, an to be the case. In fact, they suspect lure Germany on to invading ter of conviction. To-day, It is a mattor of certainty. There will be is that they cannot make head. or no war of nerves in England and tall of this situation in Britain, which this is not because the English they now bellove is for stronger than have no nerves. This people is to they ever imagined. day reaping the benefits of duca- tional methods long applied In. England, the effect of which is 10
Rumania. Everything depends on Petain who has, the Frenchman's
obstinate regard for the legal and logical interpretation of such docu- ments as the armistice.
The whole business, however, is quito In keeping with the technique Hitler laid down in Mein Kampf never to impose the harshest con- ditions, at the beginning but to put the screw.ou gradually uni!l the nation's will is sapped and, finally." the victim collapses entirely under the strain,
The insistance on the reinstate "ment"of Laval in the Vichy Cabinet"
English victory was for me a mat- it in all a rood what is certain
develop character rather than id
JAPAN, AND THAILAND
The events in Indo-China, where tellect. I am struck by the calm Thalland, or Toyland as the Ameri discipline and civic spirit of this cans call it, has been causing troublé gical riation. Everyone is, at his in obedience to the demand for a new post doing his job in the knowledge order in Asia, have led to an armla his neighbour is doing the same tice, being signed, Japan, who ar There are no privileges and no ranged the incident, now arranges
Nazis' Plot To Kidnap Horthy
A PLOT to kidnap Admiral Horthy, Hungarian Regent, and set up a Nazi regime, has been revealed by the Hungarian At- torney-Generaf in Budapest.
He said the plotters had plan- ned to murder the Admiral's suite and force the release of Nazi leaders in Hungary.
The murder of the Hungarian. Minister of the Interlor was also planned by the Nazli.
They Intended, also, to seize an arms factory abd arm their followers. |- Szálaki, Tander of the Arrow Cross Party (the Nazis in Huvimary) whe to have been appointed Premier.
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