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An aritele in the German newspaper He sees that the purpose of the Tri- Allgemeine Zettung under the itte Partite pact, which was to strengthen
The Privileged" elaina that
de party of isolationisn in the United fo con Staten, und frighten off the supporters selmanem of privilege underlies the of President Roosevelt's polley, has had English eliaracter, and condemning the precisely the opposite effect. public schools ng the most lagrant
tance of it.
say!
ngreed scheme, among the diferent racial groups themselves. That is ex- tremely hard to come by, but-li s slowly being worked out.
He asks Amerken to understand and en-sporale, with Japan in her Far There are two comments to niske on Eetern policy, but the former this. First of all Ribbentrop, whose that it is for more important that Japan should understand the trend of thought Ingwledge of English in excellent, made and its application in the United States, un application for his son to be ad- mitted to Elon and was politely in- Admiral Nomura, on his arrival, formed that there
begged America not to underestimate ent Evidently, the German Porelge Mink-Japanese power, and America in reply begs Japan not to make the Italian fer had such a great respect for the mistake of overestimating It. English publle seknol that, spite of thin rebut, he went on to interview Dr. The Foreign Minister, then, is going Costly White of Westminster School to Berlin in for different mood from
that in which the pact was signed.
WHE 210 vacancy.
with a view to gaining admission for his on there, Sir Michael Sadler a formed me tint Ribbentrop made quite or impression on the headmaster for the first quarter of an hour, but after that, apparently he could not keep
AMÉRICA NOW ALL-OUT
opinion in the United States which pro
The more we reflect on the stufe of
President Roosevelt's speech which
up the effort. the strain being too duced the Lease and Lend Bilt and on much, and no he failed malu,
ad-
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It wonhl-seein, then, that Bie miration for the publte school of one of the leading Nazis hug bern monstrated in the most effective way,
amely, by an effort to get his into one of them.
It sometimes happens that when - a small boy is excluded from a show for bebiving badly, he goes out and throws stones at the windows. This possibly explains the Nazi attempt ก bomb Eton.
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showed how thoroughly it was going to be applied, the more we realise how for
GRAZIANI'S TRIBUTE
We wonder how the volce of Europe in Shanghal explains away Graziani's advice to the Italian inhabitants of Benghazi in Libyn. The incident is recorded by an American correspond- Just before Grazlan took his hurried departure last month, and be fore the British troops entered, he said to these Italians, "Don't be anxious. You will be well treated by the Bel- Fish: they are gentlemen,"
What person of similar standing as Graziant has ever pald such a tribute to the Germans?
COMMUNITY- SERVICE
Local Rotarians are busy trying to is a sitestantial fund by means of the far day on March 20 The pro ceeds are in, be alivided equally "be- tween Britain and China for the pur- chase of motor ambulances and móbile canteens.
This ka aplendid example of cong anunity service and reflects great evedit on the local club.
There are other forms of community servier too. For example, in Des Moines U.S.A. last month, the Rotarions: Awarded the badge of honour in Mr Lee Hilton, whose classification Is "Funeral Director". His outstanding achievement for, the mouth was to place 50 young men in permanent positions
The second comment o# this state. Americn has travellest since the war The Des Momes bulletin leaves us in ment is from another important and broke out. It is certainly one of the doubt whether the positions were the well-informed German. 10 1936. The most rapid developments of political sort in which the young men could rise. thought in history, and we must look or whether that possibility was post- laid down their scheme of for the particukir case which gave goned to a much later age, education and completely changed the such acceleration to a roventent which whole outlook. In a discussion with in doubt would ultimately have reach- Dr. Wilhelm, who was one ઈ those the same goal, but which no une ex- pected would have arrived there so What quickly or even so suddenly,
responsible. If not for the reform at least for explainiost it in English. I expelly happened? criticised several of the Nazi aims and methods. Ils reply
that the
wwe endeavouring
No doubt the threat to Britain had a on deal to the with it, but the collapse
Geriau nuthorities had been nŝuch im- of Frazer and the imminent invasion pressed with the English public school of England stunned as many American The system unel
to people, as it roused to action.
former felt it was too late and were in their own mint sadly celebrating the The essential nature of the English absequies. Action was advocated not 20 mitch to save Britain as to preserve
cupy It
educational system is an expression of Amerien, which without the British the English character, and as such it Fleet would be exposed to Nazi attack. But what really galvanised the United
is much to dieult for the Germans States Into life, what really sent a very
to understand..
MATSUOKA'S VISIT
-painfull-drill-through every nerve in the
American body politic, was the signing i of the Triparité Pact.
It was the insolence of this move, and the implied accusation of moral and
In the visit of Matsuoka to Berlin is. physient cowardice, which changed the one seems to detect, a very different outlook. Even Be extreme pacißeists, note from that prevailing on Sept. 27, whose idealism was not questioned in when the tripartite pact was signed, America, now realise that their motives with such rent pomp and ceremony, were construed very differently abroad. This diplomatic act was meant to be The suggestion was that under no cir Impressive and decisive. It was to put cumstances would they uphold the an end to all doubt about the solidarity principles of liberty abroad and would of the Axis and its determination to therefore not be in a position to defend pursue Its aim of establishing a new them at home, as their heart was not order in Asia as well as in Europe. it the business. As soon as America found herself "on the spot," the woke
The pact was intended to encourage Up with a start. Isolationism, pacl- the Japanese nation, and at the same tick, non-interventionism melted away time act as a very soleman warning to the fierce heat generated by thi others. It was signed E
challenge, and the Unked States then forthwith to forge the+ when the Germans were proefalming proceeded
September
the imminent downfall of Britain, and Weapons of war on a scale never heard
before the United States had decided her policy of full aid to Britain, China and Greece.
af before
I was to defend the Anglo-Saxon structure of society from within t To Italy was nilotted the role of the Lense and Lend i was passed. driving the Dritish Fleet, out of the and to ward off the attack upon the Mediterranean and the Imperial furces try from without as Indicated by Put of Egypt. In addition to this, the the Tripartite Pact that this vast rear- Duce Hght-heartedly
xpansion was delivered histament programme of
undertaken. But whatever the motives ultimatum to General Metaxas at 3 behind the 1, or the issues which am, on the ineralog of Oct 20, and so were considered, the stupendous pre- undertook th complete the total des- parations now being inade, and the truction of all those who dared to op- spirit in which they are being under Dose Italy and support Britain. Jain aften, indiente that America will be was given a larger and a much more all out, long before Iritain is ever lonely task. She was to bermine the likely to be "all in". warden of the Far Eastern Murches.
the New Order
n establish
"Greater" Eastern Asin.
for
The word 'greater was added re- cently indicate the inclusion at the
How
COMMONWEALTH CO-OPERATION
The broadensts of the voice of Europe
recently, Shanghai have
Netherland East Indies, Indo-China and frout other unspreifted possessions, completely the
Japanese identifed bedience in orders from Derlin, been themselves with the German polley lacking the administration of
British Commonwealth of Nation
the
does
shown in the interview given by L One of the astonishing things requested General Ochima and recorded in the is that Britain should not oppress Deutsche Zeitung.
Caundo, South Africa and Austraila. It is hardly conceivable, but apparently After expressing admiration for it is true that the gentleman in the Germany's army, and affirming Japan's Shanghai studio is not aware that these adherence to the three-power pact, he states could not possibly be more free referred to the emergence of the old from British control than they pru. Japanese ideals after their temporary But, of course he probably Pelipse by liberat SONICH of thought, sincerely believe that what he says What is meant was' that the reforms is true, since under no other systein of the Melil Emperor of 1808 are could he imagine Australians, South therefore abolished, and Japan is now Africans nd Canadiana coining to ranked with the dictator nationa
swell the ariles of the Empire. To other Germaus as well as tu himself, Such was the position In September, this amazing Imperial effort is Inex- Now Me Matstiska murveya the ruins plicable on the grounds of common of the Italian Empire in Afrien. and deals and must be due to coercion. He the collapse of her armies before the cannot understand that while India la small but determined forces the quarrelling on
of
adomestle question, Greeks, to learns of the passage of she is quite unanimous in her altitudo the Lease and Lend Bill and the towards the Nazi system. She emphatic pronouncements
Pre- demna it through her chosen leaders, of sident Rosevelt about the application andhi and Nehru
1
of that bill. Ito witnesses the growth
con-
The dimeulty In India is not about
of the colossal armaments of America, the desirability of the goal, Dominion
and the growing inferiority of Japan status, but about the method of get- in relation to that power.
Wini is wanted. is on ting there,
TELEGRAPH
QUIZ
1.
Who is the Premier of
(a) Greece (b) Canada let Australia (d) Ontario?
2. When did Britain be-
come Great Britain?
3. What British ships took part in the River Plate battle
4. A columbophile is a
(a) pigeon pie (b) district in the West Indies (c) pigeon
fancier.
5. What are these sub- stances which are in daily use
-No2 C03. (b) NaHCO3
(c) CaCO3.
6. Who are the Patron
Saints, of (a) cobblers (b).
travellers?
7 What have these in
common (a) Haggai 16) Malachi (c) Nahum?
8. Who is Secretary of the U.S. Navy? Who was in the last war?
9. The Galactic system is (a) a group of organic acids (b) The Milky Way (c) series of languages.
10. Who wrote (a) The Pied Piper of Hamolin (b) The Forsaken Morman (c) Lochin-
var?
Answers on Page 16.
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Otto: I wonder why Goering is getting so fatl Fritz: Gives him more room for his medals, I dare say.
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'Tell me, doctor
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Are you sure? I can't believe that all this should have started with a tiny cut on the finger! There must be some way of prevent ing such awful results ... Tell me, what ought I to do??
The smallest cut or scratch is enough for the germs of blood-poisoning to enter. There is only one way to prevent their invasion; they must be killed-at once. "Dettol,' the atodern Antiseptic, can be applied im- mediately. Dettol' is gentle and tender on human tissues, non-poisonous and non-staining to the skin- yet death to germs. Your chemist has ‘Dettol.
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HEADLINES 'DETTOL
By John Blunt
And so it's Cherry Blos- som Time in Japan!
I suppose that as Mr Matsuoka strolls along Unter den Linden or the Wilhelmstrasse, (R. A. F. permitting) his thoughts will fly back to his native land, especially when he observes the pinched faces of the people about him. He will doubtless remem- ber that his own people too are denied many things, thanks to the man with whom-he-is-to-hold-con-- versations in Berlin..
Whether he will have the courage of what musc he his convictions, remains to be seen, but I cannot believe that he will grasp
the hand of the world's greatest tyrant with genuine enthusiasm. I rather imagine that Hitler himself will be conscious of the assumed cordiality
of his visitor.
Japan's Minister knows as well as anybody else that Hitler is now haunted by the writing on the wall. Did he not assure both Japan and Italy that a triple alliance between the three countries would soon put paid to the British account?
No doubt Hitler will offer many excuses for his failure to implement his promises, but it must be assumed that Matsuoka will not be satisfied with either excuses or further promises.
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Yes. It's Cherry Blos- som Time in Japan, and we British people in this British Colony are invited, according to an advertise- ment, to visit that delight- ful country during one of its most entrancing phases, as we did of yore. How happy the people of Japan would be could they but put back the clock and
resume happy relations with the world at large!
Personally, I am glad that the invitation has been given. I believe that it represents a significant gesture which must not be
overlooked.
It is true that since the outbreak of the present war, many Germans have taken refuge in Japan, and endeavoured to carry on a campaign against us. That they have failed is beginning to be realised.
That good neighbourly relations in the Pacific have been shattered be- cause the Japanese per- mitted themselves to be duped must be fully realised. Japan has tres- passed against one of our friends, and caused great distress in consequence. She has insulted and ob-
structed us, very largily at the behest of Hitler, and now she is beginning to reap her reward. Even now it is not too late for her to make the amende honorable; but the sooner she understands that she cannot serve Hitler and at the same time remind us that it is now "Cherry Blossom Time in Japan" the better.
She may yet, reveal her strength by admitting her weakness. Her attempt to dominate China has failed; would it not be better for her to write off her errors to the evil influence of German in- fluence, and start. afresh by endeavouring to restore har- mony in the Far East?
This is not a far-fetched hope, but a very sound exam- ple of wishful thinking. We wish it; the Chinese wish it, and the mass of thinking Japanese wish it. With the restoration of normal inter- course between those who inhabit the Far East, order will be restored out of chaos. Prosperity will conquer exist- ing, depression and, again, people will welcome the advent of Cherry Blossom Time In Japan.
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