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THE BOMBER FUND
A bishop in India recently aroused some resentment, and also some acquiescence, by a ser- mon which mildly castigated white people in Imlia for lavish expenditure on entertainment and living during the winter months while Britain was under- going her worst ordeal. Yester day the news was published of 1,000 deaths and many more casualties in the Merseyside and Clyde areas as a result of two nights' bombing.
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trivial for broadcast Rome Radio too LISTENERS-IN to Rome war with Greece.
was definitely worried, for the bulletin. Reports of shops being Radio should first possess nation knew nothing of the closed for offences against price as background some know-timatum. Glaring discrepan- regulations, of sentences against ledge of Italian home poli- cies crept into the news bul- hoarders. They are obviously ties. Without this the pic- letins and the Gaydas who used as a deterrent against other delivered the talks were hard offenders. On December 15 the Adelche ture will be distorted.
put to appear plausible if not Party Secretary,
Serena, called all the regional secretaries of the central and northern provinces, telling them More to intensify their work. money Was to be spent on assistance funds and
Strange as it may appear, it coherent, was through Hitler that Musso- lini's weakness was shown up. It was after the march into the Sudetenland. Besitles approv-
By
in the Fuchrer's action, the F. A. Shepley is to be made to extir.
well-drilled Italian Press appeal-
ed for closer union with the Reich.
pate defeatists and dissentients. Then Taranto. "One warship Party sections are to remain The notable exception heavily damaged." The listener open in future day and night was the "Corriere del Padang, sensed something more. When to "render assistance." which carried a violent article
was fully against the suggestion. Balbo finally the report signed it and at the same time known, Rome became furious. signed his death warrant.
Something akin to dismay
to
FROM the foregoing it will be seen that the Duce does not feel too sure of his position, and
seized the people, particularly MUSSOLINI himself had to realises that he may have to the northern Italians, when the speak, but it is significant quit hurriedly at any moment. A month ago one million odd
full significance of the Duce's that he had to speak to the Judging by the frantic efforts dollars were poured into the zig-zag polier was realised. Italians, not to explain away the of the Rome Radio to stem the Rooty Hill Derby sweepstake.Tongues wagged.So-much-so Taranto affair, but to pave the deterioration of Italian morale,
admissions the
of one might anticipate a climax- the way 1938, that in October,
case the Greeks smash Ovra received hasty instructions reverses in Greece and to call to in to take a holiday. The people order the "pacifists, slackers through, or the overrunning of British. were ripe for revolution.
and defeatists," whose number Tripolitania by the
Certainly, when the moment apparently was growing. What was wanting was, and
arrives there will be no hospit- It was the first clear sign that able Bellerophone to save Musso- still is, a lender.
something was coming unstuck, lini from the wrath of his delud- This preface will help to the first tangible evidence of the ed followers. The most likely throw light on some of the more weakness of the Italo-Fascist solution will be the Blackshirts" obscure manoeuvrings of the relations, Duce and Fascism, though
To date the number of tickets sold in the Bomber Fund raffle, while good, is not worthy of Hongkong when one remembers the cause at stake, and in view of the splendid lead given by so many firms in offering nearly $50,000 worth of prizes.
Able as Hongkong is to-day to pursue its sporting activities, evening amusements and unra- tioned meals with comparatively negligible inconvenience, it is conceivable that the Colony fails to appreciate the extent of the sucrifices needed now, and which
are to come. It should certain ly be possible, without making
ourselves miserable in anticipa tion, or skeletons before ration. ing, to conform more to the pre- sent Homeside standard of living, and thus enable ourselves to make greater contributions towards the Empire's cause.
It is obvious now that the war will be long and arduous, calling for careful planning by the Ad- ministration and loyal co-opera- tion by all individuals. Tighten- ing our belts in Hongkong while our larders are full is not only a wise precaution, but an act of grace which recognises that the Battle of Britain is not merely a task for those in the front lines
at Home, but has its need of Hongkong's loyal and gener- ous participation.
But since we cannot share the front line trenches, let us give until it hurts. Which brings us again the Bomber
onco
Kund.
to
listeners-in must not expect to Right on top of the Albaniant- detect immediate and startling campaign came stringent rution- revelations as to trends and ing decrees. changes of policy.
reverses
new
were
pride: the dagger.
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As the series of Italian defeats in Albanin lengthened important changes were made in the com- ITALY has been very much in mands of the fighting forces; hut the limelight of late. She has Rome Radio only just mentioned been involved in three major the fact. At this point the events; Taranto, the Greek nition began to show signs of campaign, the Egyptian debacle. restiveness, the proof being that The point to note about them the propagandist was obliged to technique and is their rapid cumulative effect, adopt a They represent, be it remem- occupy himself with facts; gen- bored, the first undeniable, erulities would no longer do.
unhideable factual,
Daily the radio announced: experienced by the regime since surprise visita paid by Fascist its advent to power in 1922. district chiefs to the various the first quake-proof building- throughout the the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo. Fascism feeds upon success: headquarters defeat spells death. Till now country, during which section Completed in 1919, it was derid-
received. Such ed by many critics. Mussolini has been a psycho- lenders logiat of a high order, and has sudden visits have always por years later they had to eat their known perfectly how to prepare tended something grave in the words. his public. Thus, when Italy State. entered the war, the masses thought it was a walkover.
The Italians were filled with staked all on Graziani, and lost. vulgar "new order" talks, long and in- The bombastic and credibly detailed accounts of epithets hurled at England have Two years ago-before war Fascist airmen's successes in rebounded most impressively. Hon-he vicited London and this is
"It interests me as Africa, out of all proportion to The rapid Italian withdrawal what he thought of it:--
had to be admitted in the piece, but as a modern city it is not their military valac.
communiques, but only in-at for human habltation.
"The British have The news bulletins were in directly..
"Your Government 13 making tended to impress on Italians only recuptured a paltry few plans for evacuating the city. Why the certitude of victory. Re- square miles of desert and not evacuate 11 for good? There is versea were not even contem- worsened the strategic position." plenty of room on his green earthi
for everybody." plated; only the sort of pence The latest line taken up la He said he could build for the to be imposed afterwards. The that "the full weight of the capital
perfectly bomb-proof propagandist threw prudence to British Empire is being used shelter.
"But why should I?" he the winds and let himself go. against Italy. We are proud of stateamen cannet solve the pro- Suddenly, things started hap- the honour." Other items have blem at its source, civilisation is pening. Something had slipped: erept into Radio Romn news, hardly worth saving."
The
of quake
1923 destroyed nearly everything in Tokyo, But Wavell provided the next not oven a wall of Lloyd Wright's shattering blow, Rome Radio | hotel was cracked.
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A sensational book, has just been published in London. Its German title is "Der Todfeind Des Christentums," or The Per- secution of the Catholic Church in the Third Reich.
For some time the relation of the Pope to the present war has been made the subject of shrewd and effective Axis propaganda. Many Catholics in Britain have been gravely perturbed and a prominent London newspaper urged that the position of the Vatican should be clarified.
When His Holiness recently blessed a large congregation at St Peter's and urged them to be faithful servants of their Father- land, the newspaper reports made it appear that the congre gation consisted entirely, of Italian Officers which was, of course, not true.
Subsequently a report was is- sued from Berlin that the leaders of the Catholic Church in the Third Reich had sent a message to Hitler thanking him for his tolerance towards them and, by keeping the enemy at the gates, permitting them to get on with their Christian tasks.
Concordat?
Further reports Indiented that Hitler would place the whole of Europe with its new order under the spiritual domain of the Pope. In other worda a concordat seem- ed to be in the process of accom- plishment between the Vatican and the Nazis.
But now, like a bombshell, comes "Der Todfeind Des Chris- tentums" with its documented its sensational proofs that Hitler charges against the Nazis, and regards the Catholic Church as a greater enemy than the Jews. In fact some of the anti- Catbolic cartoons in this book, reproduced from German papers. have all the virulent coarseness with which the Jew was lam- pooned and tibelled. One of the present Pope is so offensive that I cannot describe it in detail. It is sufficient to say that Humanity is portrayed as woman of an obvious class with his Holiness as her admirer. This ja taken from Das Schwartze Korps of July 22, 1937.
Pope's Goodness
I am not a Catholic but on the occasion of Mr Chamberlain's visit to Rome I had the privilege of a long private audience with the Secretary of State at the Vatican, the then Cardinal Pacelli. It is not for me to re- veal what was said between us on that occasion, but seldom have I been so impressed with the essential goodness of a man. To him the people of the world were one family, and their suf- ferings were his sorrow.
Because of that interview I have refused to believe that he has changed in his attitude to- wards the Axis and especially Germany. The position of the Vatican and Fascism is com- plicated by a cluuse in the fam- ous
the Concordat whereas Vatican agreed to take no sides. in a war involving Italy. That is an understandable concession based on the reality of the Vati- can being physically a section of the Italian State.
But as I read the revelations in this German book of the per- secution of priests, the banning of Catholic Youth movements, the poisoning of the child mind, the denunciation of self control as a crime against nature and the State, and the delineation of the Pope as a Communist and a criminal-then
that I know there can be no peaco of the spirit between the Vatican and the Wilhelmstrasse.
So far Dr Goebbels has made no reply to the British publica. tion of "Der Todfeind Des Chris- tentuma."
The documented accuracy of the book probably presents u problem which may prove too difficult even for the ndroit brain
of Germany's Propaganda Mini-
stor.
Beverley Baxter, M.P.