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WAR ON DOPE DIVANS
MOSCOW
GOOD MEN AND EVIL
By Hector Bolitho
In the early days of the war when Mr Churchill still ny in waiting for his conquest, I lunched in a glorious Elizabeth, which keep them together are an house which has since been laced with suspicion, fear and bombed. It was Holland House, jealousy. They aer ungenerous in the heart of Knightsbridge. men, pathetic if poisonous heirs When the ladies had walked into to Bismarck's theory of con- the garden, I found myself next quest with blood and iron. Also, to Mr Churchill and the talk they are pompous-and
the moved to the King and Queen, limitations of pompous men are They were at the beginning of known to all of us. (It is gaid their war work but already, that Mr Eden once yawned at through their, quiet example, dinner with Hitler and that the they were making their in- Fuehrer saw him trying to hide influence felt throughout the his yawn behind his hand). country. Somebody at the table I believe that one of the fun- define that influence damental reasons why the Axis and Mr Churchill, with his cause must crumble is because genius for quickening our blood its leaders have no goodness in with a phrase said, "They have them. the rare quality of making a mass of people realise, in a flash, that they are good."
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hearted devotion with which he spoke of our cause against Ger- many, and of his delight over relationship the visit of the King. which exists among the leadera "I'll just put him into a pair in Europe ...a Europe which
of old flannels and drive him seems to be sour with jealousy! around in my old Ford," he
1, wonder if we appreciate in full what Mr Roosevelt's cour age has meant to us during the I walked out of the White past year? At the end of a House, certain that Mr Roose- dreary day in London his photo- velt was wise and clover. But graph in the evening newspaper I also knew that I had met what acts on me like sal volatile. Mr Churchill meant when he
I had the pleasure of talking spoke of "a good man." to the President when I was in When we compare the state Washington two years ago, I of leadership and ethics in had been told before I went into Europe with the Inspiration the White House that I would which seems to lie behind these meet a man who could charm a men who are guarding our bird off a bough. That was cause, I do not think we need truc. When I went into his worry too much about the philo- room, he turned the full warmth sophy which Hitler yells so of that charm upon me, as if it loudly in the shape of his New mattered deeply to him, as well Order. There can be no new as to me, that we should meet. order of living. The only order And I realised his friendship for of living was quite adequately this country, for he told me defined in a sermon preached at Our Lord two many things touching the fu- Capernaum by
THE long awaited war against Hongkong's illicit opium and hervin divans is at last to begin. The first shot was fired with the announcement on Saturday
Look then at the men whose that the Police are to be given
I have been wondering in the names shine on the side of the powers to clean up the divans on both sides of the harbour. past few days what that quality Allies! There is no need to . where does shake. the ermine edged trap- of goodness is This is a notable move on theit lie? How important is it in pings of monarchy or to stir our part of the authorities, the relation to the war?
fingers in the dust of tradition results of which will be watched In the safe old days of peace to remind us of what the King with the keenest interest. it was easy-to-be-cynical-about, and-Queen-stand for. Theirture. Now that his country has thousand odd years ago. If we come on our side, in all but de- stick to that, and fight like hell, the simple virtues. Now these conquest is their own! their vic- virtues are the raft of our lives. tory over the hearts of the claring war, I recall the whole- we deserve to win. Cleverness and cynicism have British people. There it is, in become "counterfeit, cheap and the simple words of the Prime showy," and we are not shy to Minister. "They have the rare admit that the chief comfort of quality of making a masa · of these melancholy days is in the people realise, in a flash, that companionship of good and kind they are good." It is exhilarat- people who keep our faith in hu- ing to turn from the gloomy man nature alive. Without this view of human nature which
intolerable.
The innumerable and ever in creasing dope divans constitute ore of Hongkong's most serious and pernicious problems, for in the majority of cases they serve a double purpose-illicit drug smoking and prostitution; addi- tionally, they have long been known to provide a source of graft through so-called "Protec-
KOWLOON CRICKET CLUB on." If, therefore, these dens faith, life in England would be men like Hitler and Mussolini
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own cause: to turn from those and socially evil influences can
two intense, pompous faces, to be dealt with at the same time.
the smiles of Mr Roosevelt, Mr The striking feature of the
Out of this there emerges a Wilkie and Mr. Winston Chur- announcement made by the great truth in regard to the chill. They seem to double our Police Commissioner is the post- lenders of the war, on both courage, tive form which theso latest sides. Is it not significant that During the days when Mr orders assume. European ser- not one of the leaders of the Willkie was in England I felt geants will be placed in control Axis powers is a good man, in almost bomb-proof as I read his of certain designated districts the sense that Mr Churchill
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and "ench sergeant will in future meant when he spoke of the speeches and caught glimpses of planation considers himself a preity I never had been so insulted in my
be responsible for the cleaning up of the divans in his section
King and Queen?
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Mira, Culbertson: The or Greek gift bearers, for forthwith "DEAR
game of bridge is a grand he led another diamond to the ten- medium for IQ tests and, in ex- spet in his hand. I played my queen with a chuckle and remarked that submit the following: "Dr. W. good player. (For his patients' pake life! I hope he's a better doctor.) Last From then on there wasn't much night in a rubber bridge gume Dr. to it. The heart ace and nine were W. was sitting East; I, South, when cashed. Then four club tricks and three! this hand was dealt:
the ace of spades. Down Poor Doc! By his own bad bid he two tricks, but always was act through his lack of respect for my intelligence, or else his own low I.Q. rating, he yielded up an extra 300 points.
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"Any comments? L. B., New York."
his smile.
I turn my memory back to a Hitler is, of course, a patho- week last November in which and for keeping his section free logical case. His story should this difference was impressed of them in future." There is be written, not in the Diction-
upon me. It was the week in nothing equivocal about that and ary of National Biography, but which Mr Roosevelt was re- if the orders are carried out to in a peculiarly nasty chapter in elected as President: the week the letter and with the zeal and the Psychology of Sex. And also in which Mr Neville Cham- efficiency which the community Mussolini, who might have been berlain died. Mr. Roosevelt's has a right to expect from its a great man if he had remained opponent. Mr Wendell Willkie, police force, it should not take a domestic leader and not han said in New York: very long for the clean-up to kered after imperial glory, has "We have elected Franklin jeopardised his domestic hap. Roosevelt President. He's your become 100 per cent,, effective.
My only comment is that the doc- tor fell for a "gold brick" that any Another interesting and en-piness In untitly morality, I President. He's my President.
player of reasonable experience couraging point is the directness have never been so completely We all owe him the respect duc
should scornfully reject. No matter. of action which is to be taken. wrong in my judgment of any to the high office. We give that
how little he thought of South's Arrests will not be made, but body. One summer day, ton respect. We will support him
game, it still was inconceivable that South would have given him on en- our best efforts for our the police officer will have the years ago, I spent an hour with with
"East, satisfying his penchant for try to dummy, where none really power-in fact more than that, him in Rome. I thought him country."
'smart' bids, bld one club, South existed, except for the specific pur- he is ordered-to raid divans, charming and I bolloved him to seize all implemonts for smoking bo great. I still wonder what Mighty Difference doubled and West and North passed. pose of inducing another diamond
Doc.couldn't take it,' so he then bld finesse, and all drugs found and take poison there was hiding behind In the afternoon of Tuesday, one notrimp, which I (South) now. You can insult an opponent only them to a police station; where the friendliness and the ap- in the same week, Mr Winston realize was the act after, either a Magistrate's order parent regard for all that Eng- Churchill paid his tribute to a man grasping at a straw when he will be secured for the destruc land represents, I still wonder man with whom he did not al-could have reached one or two stout: South dealer.
planks just as tion of the property or the owner what weakness it was. that ways see eye-to-eye, In politics. doubled, and there the contract
was played. may show cause in the Court turned him from the achieve He.
"It fell to Neville Chamber- why his property should be re- ments of a solid domestic turned to him.. This form of leader, to play such a humiliat lain, in one of the supreme action is well conceived and ing and fatal role at the heels crises of the world, to be con
VAB04 tradicted by events, to be dis merits approval. It helps to of such a master. eliminate red tape behind which The way in which both appointed in his hopes, and to so many offenders of the law leaders throw aside their be deceived and cheated by a have successfully hiddon them friends and generals and sup- wicked man. These hopes, selves in the past, and at the porters is some guide to the de- these wishes, were surely among same time gives the authorities gree the low degree.. the most noble and benevolent more freedom of action without of confidence which exista instincts of the human heart three of hearts, putting the load in How should South play this tour denying any member of the among them. They are men What a mighty difference dummy reis. Doc evidently had spades, redoubled contract? Open public his legal rights,
without friends the bonds there is between these two inevas, beard about the Trojan horse ing land, diamond ace."
said:
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would be lost. know, that my queen but as I saw the trick coming when East would perforce play out his diamond ace as soon as he was on lead. But I was ready to test Doc' 1.Q, and I immediately played the
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