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son who la invariably the stupid devastation wrought by person, for it is impossible to Hitler's night raiders. mislead and befog others with-. out misleading and befogging one's own soul..
normal men, this unscrupulous figure has secured the degrada- tion of a great and cultured na- tion.
He has perverted a kindly and decent people-yes, the Germans are essentially that by craftily harnessing the whole resources. of their stato to the most revolt-
ing tyranny in history.
The crueltics of the concen- tration camp and the purges are.
And we stimulate the cul- merely features of the monstr ous process by which he has tivation of an attitude of completed the pernicious devas- mind, which, if it persists, tation of the mind and spirit of will result in disastrous Germany's "little men." policies when we face the His offence against his own Let us look at this de- gigantic job of post-war re- people is greater by far than anything he has done, or will be claration. It is of some construction.
ablo to do, against us.' importance For it is. It is vital from every point of view that we should Candour is the loveliest of typical of an attitude distinguish between the or- stood this.
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TOTAL SACRIFICE
IS Hongkong doing its full share to win the war? That is
It would be well if we under-
their captor.
human qualities. Literally, the
This talk about "chaining the word means "whiteness," as in which, under the savage dinary people of Germany well-laundered linen.
impact of the air war, is and those who control and Germans down" after the war
lead them.
is dangerous folly. The man of candour shows, increasingly prevalent.
They are chained now. It is Our struggle is just as not only that he scorna to fool
of little consequence to retort to ethers, but even more, that he When the war began, most much for their liberation as me that tlicy seem to relish their. scorns to fool himself. Only of us in our judgments on it is for the retention of our chains, and fawn at the feet of ed can we claim to have arrived the issues at stake drew a freedom.
For what is this war all Of course they do. In that. at the threshold of true manhood marked distinction between
we see the real evil of "Hitler- and true womanhood.
the responsibilities of the about?
ism." Only when that stage has been ordinary Germans and those. Is it not to stop Hitler im-
BOOK TO READ reached can we know deep and of their Nazi rulers.
posing on the civilised world satisfying friendship with an-Now it is not so. Under the monstrous system with other human being.
the ruthlessness of the Ger- which he has degraded his Nevertheless, it is perhaps man war on our homes we own people? significant that candour is not are abandoning that dis-
Are not the ordinary folk always esteemed as it should be. tinction. That is because it disconcerts
of Germany the first pitiful The emotions which victims of that system? and frightens people; and we
IF you want to understand the nature of Hitler's crime against the Germans you should read a book which Mr Gollancz has just published at 8s. 6d. Ask your bookseller or library for "Little Man-This must admit that some candid prompt this change are in- The bombing of Coventry Now," by "X. Y. Z." people, unfortunately, dispense evitable and natural. They and Rotterdam were brutal This book merits widespread with courtesy; which is a sad come to us all, mistake.
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UNDERSTAND!
n propaganda treatise. Nor is it a learned study by a sociological or psychological expert.
beyond all reckoning. But attention, particularly by those who are coming round to the My own anger, when I see these happenings and the view that the only solution of battered streets and smash- general savagery with which our problems is to wipe out. all a cogent question that all citi- "He is a very direct creature, ed homes, is as comprehen- Hitler wages war are but a the Germans.
It is not zens must ask themselves sooner I once heard a friend described, sive in its condemnation of minor part of his condemna- or later. The answer must in-and it was not by any means in-Germany as anyone's..
tion. evitably be in the negative be-tended as a compliment.
There have been moments cause it becomes more certain Had the critic been less abash-when I should have given every day that the "blood, tears, ed by my friend's candour, and complete assent to this pro- toil and sweat" promised us by more willing to appreciate a position: "There is no such spirit of utter truthfulness, he Britain's dynamic. Prime Minis-might have found in him, as I thing as a good German." ter was not a figure of speech found, a superb specimen of a but a superb symbol of facts.
An English newspaper writer recently asked his readers to put to themselves each day the question, "What have I done this winter's day to help win the war this summer?" Look- ing round at the daily life of Hongkong's citizens, inter- spersed as it is by fairly onerous Volunteer training, social efforts
to raise funds for Britain and
man.
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Yes, clear sight is a quality to revere, and candour the certain sign of the divinity that light the human soul so that it may one day-be-strong-and luminous enough to behold the majesty of God.
Robert Power
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It is a novel-an exquisitely THIS man's offence is told story of the lives of ordin- something infinitely ary German folk under the im- more criminal and menacing to pact of the. developing Nazi the world's security than the system.. bombs he showers on civilians. There is nothing in it which has any relation to this propo- The crime which calls for sition I have put before you. reckoning and resistance is that But, just because it is the mov- he has elevated the technique of ing tale of the prostitution of low-witted little gutter gangs- normal representative members "I submit that we miss the ters into a ruthless and gigantle of an intelligent race, it proves whole point of the desperate political system.
my contention. issue now being fought out
Through his warped genius, if our judgment is restricted allied with that of cunning sub-
BUT I now put for- proposition.
ward a counter-
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The Brotherhood of the Sea
China, and a certain amount of For the first time since man- A.R.P. training, the chief im-kind began to use the ocean for pression left is the remarkably trading all the ships at sea un-
of Europe are under one management.
By
I recommend you to read it. You will look at the rank and
file of the German nation with new sympathy and understand- ing.
small impact that hostilitiesder the flags of the seapowers Sir Archibald Hurd the United States and have been am
have made on the Hongkong re- sident.
Increase in the cost of living, com-
war
MAN'S RIGHTS
ON the contrary. My plea for a full recognition of the real nature of what it is we
We are at, war because we
And if the outcome of this: war is to be a durable peace we and Rumanian flags as well as have to understand the Ger- many ships which until recently mans. were trading under the flag of Do not misunderstand me. I not suggesting that we would have suffered incalcula- bought from that country by should pull our punches.
British shipowners. The com- ble harm. Britain is the best When the Germans overran market for all that they have to "ng and going of these vessels the democfacies of Norway, sell and also the best market for be furnished that the British is the best evidence that could pulsory evacuation, inconvenience of Denmark, Holland and Belgium all that they have to buy. The Fleet commands the sea.. occasional bingk-outs, and payment and seized the great commercial British people import each year of war taxation are about the sum ports of France, the owners of goods to the value of about one What is most significant is total of the Colony'a kit practically all the shipping of
n plea for the relentless prosecu- Compare this for a moment with the those countries sought the hos thousand million pounds. Those that all these scamen, whether are fighting against is, in fact, seven lean years in Germany when pitality of British harbours goods are exchanged for many. of British or foreign nationality, tion of this vast undertaking on Hitler was squeezing his people dry They placed their vessels will. factured articles and conl, the are willingly going about their which we are engaged.
raw material which the British business on the great waters, of money, labour and food to produce ingly at the service of the Isics can supply in almost an risking their lives by day and favour the restoration of some what is to-day the world's most Ministry of Shipping in London.
by night. They realise that thing which is just as essential limited quantities. powerful land weapon, the German When Greece was attacked by
they are helping to maintain the to the world's future safety as Army, and the world's heaviest Italy in October lust, most of It is, therefore, a matter of freedom of the seas, not only
our own Burvival, bomb thrower, the Luftwaffe. Re- the ships of that country were supreme importance to neutral for their own countrymen, but And that is the right of or- call the social discipline and the also placed at the disposal of nations, and especially those of for all the peoples of the world. diriary people everywhere to live ruthless suppression of family and that
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their lives according to their sentiment that went to build up the The losses of tonnage due to routes to the British Isles should Nazi Party, the world's greatest Fifth enemy action were thus made be efficiently, policed by the So behind the sure shield of own innate sense of decency, Columnist and . Propagandist ma-good by enemy action. The British Navy so that the stream the British Fleet, the ships of unexploited by power-seeking
tyrants. sinkings due to U-boats. mines of traffic can flow in both direc- all the great, scapowern of and bombing aeroplanes were tions. If it ceased, what other Europe, who look forward to the Those ordinary people are not ́ever seek to emulate the feats of the way to the advantage of pro- Germans and Italians boast that from the yoke of their oppres-under Hitler's heel.
it is not suggested that we should neutralised in this remarkable market would be available? The day when they will be released only in our own country and those European States now Germans by their own methods. We ducers and consumers. through. they are self sufficient that ex- sors, are carrying the sea-borne must beat their hute-painted tools out the world.
cept for oil fuci and some ores trade of the world.
There are many millions of in the democratic way, but to do this
they need buy from no one. herolam, for many have already them in Germany. Their re- until we are exhausted with giving-- If the German war on ship but it is true that they buy from lives, merits the thanks of men our ultimate war aims as the That claim is not well founded, paid for their daring with their lease forms as large a part of and then wo must give ngain. ping, not only British and Al- other countries as little as possi- and women of all nations since preservation of our own liberty.
If Hitler's spring-time threat oven-lied but ficutral, had been suc ble-even under peace condi- but for their labours, sea-borne
UNWORTHY tuotes-and it must be attempted or ceasful, traders everywhere tions.
chine.
we must give in service and kind
la last chance of winning the war
British administration: South America, that the trade
la thrown away-Britain will suffer onco talked of as a satisfactory
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Their
trade would be at a standstill, with the result that the want I plead, therefore, for the and suffering would be univer-blackout of these unworthy, In- a torment that will require all the colling for the Royal Air Force, we
So traders in all countries are sal;
Jaccurate, and highly dangerous salve her Empire enn produce now talk of ten thousand a year. money to fill in the gaps in her night-Hongkong people who think of two interested in the safety of the I am moved to deep admira- notions that "there is no such
million dollars as a satisfactory high ships which are managed by tion of the skill, resourcefulness thing as a good German.” ing equipment on land, sen and air for the Bomber Fund will have to the Ministry of Shipping in and courago of these scamen of If that become the basis of raw materials from rich colonial think of that figure in sterling as the London. In addition to the so many nations, members of our attitude to the war Boils; personnel from her sturdy kin war continues. folk to take their place in the ne.
great British merchant navy, the great brotherhood of the might as well call it off now: Honkong Is in the war to the end this fleet now includes vessels sea. You, who rend these For our peace-making will be Hongkong is fortunate in that only and, although she has given, gener- under the French, Greek, Nor-. words, will also, I am sure, feel another calamity. And all our money is naked of hor at this time.||ously, she has not begun to give to This must be given Javishly, Where the full, Total war demands totarwegian, Dutch, Danish, Belgian, that you, owe them n debt of present labour will have been in. formerly ten thousand planes were, sncrifice,
Polish, Lithuanian, Estonian gratitude.
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