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How to be Happy though Human
By JAMES CAMERON
WE
E all talk too much, of course. Because we are becoming a race of self-pitying martyrs, fretting away at this. or that fashionable grouse-of- the day, we begin to consider it somehow ingenious or resource- ful to exist at all. Coping" joins the list of tiresome and idiotic words.
But one must be fair. Coping with 1946 is a good deal simpler than coping, if you recall, with 1941. Coping with 1946 here would be a soft proposition to anyone from Hamburg, or the province of Madras. All the
same...
1046 is nearly aver, for me most of it has been divided among greater or smaller periods of Germany. Hol land, France, Delgium, Indlu, Italy, Egypt, Iraq, Tripolitania, the Marshall islands, and 17 of the United States. And what am I doing now? Worry- ing about a septic tank in Sussex.
For us earnest and rather anxious figures, the lownsmen who are trying so sturdily to go rustic, these things have an importance. I should any have given more profound and eri- teal thought lately to that replic tank than to the querilon of the Bul- garian frontier. I am a bit ashamed of it.
Nevertheless, there is a feeling that with a household which at its mini- mun involves three children, a dog, upwards of half a dozen cats, several geese, goodness knows how many plointive and Insatiable ducks, mortgage and a defective drain, one should not reasonably be asked to chafe all night over the problem of the Danube Basin.
As a professional chronicler of lowering news,
1 personally have been very crossly slapped down from time to time for asking people to spend their spare worrying-time, on disputable world affairs, when all they ask is to be let alone to brood on their overdrafts. Let that be a lesson to ane.','****
Counting Assets
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, DECEMBER
"What, he's not anti-Semitic? We'll soon alter that."
We Saw For Ourselves
Why
Speak Up Now?
Don't We
SED that 4,000,000 men], have been released from the Services since June 1945,
What has happened to their tongues?
What has happened to the resolu- tions we made that, when we got back, we would tell the people THE TRUTH?
Wherever we were-in Italy, Africa, Western Europe, or South- East Asia-we saw conditions at first hand. And we all said: "We will tell them about this when we get
home."
What are the things we were going will jog your
I HAVE at least got a house-nt to tell them?
last-wherein I am fortunate. I
should sny, beyond my deserts. It memory.
was requisitioned during the war by the Canadian Army, who treated it through their years of tedium in much the same way as later they treated Caen. Getting it going ngain has been a long job; very hard work, wonderfully good fun.
EGYPT
TO-DAY we read that we are being Union Jack has already been hauled thrown out of Egypt. The down in the Citadel.
BY
WARWICK
CHARLTON
+
who founded and edited the Service newspapers "Eighth- Army News," **Tripoli Times" and, "Crusader."
and I saw what caused his tears. Set up in big type in Italian and covered in dust-were the words: "ALEXANDRIA IS OURS"
The headline had waited for the day of enemy viclory, and now that ho saw all was lost for the Fascists and Nazis he tipped the type over with sorrow and regret.
INDIA
1946.
COMMENT By "Candidus"
F Japan had not been folled in her plan to dominate--to create her much vaunted "New Order in East Asia," where should we be to-day, and where would China .bo?
The answer is so obviously simple that it seems absurd to ask it. However, when one sees the incomprehensible attitude adopted by certain sections in China to-day, it appears to be strangely necessary to give tho answer. China would have been in perpetual bondage, as would have been every other For Eastern country which eame within the sphere of Japan's ainister aspirations.
Germany was frustrated, and Japan fell in consequence. Not however, before a terrifle strug- - gle was necessary on the part of China-o struggle which finally won owing to the great assistance rendered by the com- bined might. of Great Britain and the United States. Free- dom was gained, and with it we all hoped that those who stood by each other in the hour of the world's greatest need in history, would help each other to make good the destruction and erase bitter memories in a new-born friendship.
AND yet what do we find in China
to-day?
An almost unbelievable hostility on the part of a certain misguided section against friends-friends who gave all in their power to overthrow the
common enemy. During the war, China played her part gallantly, and her
people were brothers in arms against aggression and oppression. If to-day, her friends (in times of adversity are amazed nt her apparent desire to cast them aside now the way is over, China has only herself to blame.
We naturally think of Marshal Chiang Kai-shek, and cannot believe that it is his wish that his people should appear not to realise that they are part and parcel of the new and happier world to be that they fai albilities in the fact that their Pre- to appreciate the tremendous pos
British soldiers gave up. their ra- tions to save the lives of Indians. I remember one place where a British artillery unit cut a three-foot hole in the barbed wire surrounding their camp and gave food to any sident is one of the Big Five Leaders child who could walk upright under of the world.
In order to carry out this great with dignity and wisdom, the Chinese President, his country and his people must do all in their power to foster and develop International goodwill.
RECENTLY, Shanghal has been
it.
While this was happening many responsibility Indians and people at home were throwing the blame on Britain. You and I said then: "When we get home we will tell them the truth. We will tell them of the communien- and order she has, tried to enforce, tions Britain has built, of the law
faced with anti-foreign measures and we will tell them how the In calculated to create discord and i dlans themselves have wallowed in will. Hongkong has had a couple of corruption a chance."
whenever they have had incidents, trivial in the international sense, magnifled and distorted beyond But have we kept the vow we human intelligence. made?
I hear no
voices raised The recent border affair should among my ex-comrades and among have been settled in the light of the people I mix with every day. I sweet reason and co-operation, and hear no one defending the Indians yet behind it lies on unmistakable who fought with Britain and now desire on the part of a cortain find themselves despised and threat-faction to create unfriendliness and ened in their own country.
bad feeling.
China must either take-steps-to educate her masses along the lines dictated by common sense and reason, DIVERS of tears are being shed and control the malcontents, or she the unfortunate Germans, must not be surprised it the great
GERMANY
AND what about those of us who ND what about those of us who is exciting and rewarding to got four counter-march because we are slow, tions have been so much corrupted. It may be a platitude to you, but it Egyptian students marchand a country where good British inten- decrepit walls that had once meant in the opiniontected in a vantry We have tried to give them a British R something to the life and landscape which we protected in wartime code of law, justice and fair play who would have wiped us out of opportunity for international fellow- ut a yillage, and coax them back to against the Germans and the Italians. But we have also
use and value. It is more than a physical pleasure to wipe some paint up here and push n. wall down there, doing, it yourself if you can't get licence for repairs or can't afford them.
ex-
We
the
Been wlinesses that
Before we saw Egypt we imagined outside the law courts waiting to be existence. Remember how sick you ship is lost.
student demonstrations
hired by the highest bidder.
were when the first pictures of Great Britain offers friendship and pressed the will for freedom of, a,
Belsen came up to your weapon pit?
17.co-operation. Shall it be said that We know who is most unkind to Remember how sick you were when China was unable to reciprocate be- people downtrodden by the British, the Indian: When we got there we found you self.
Indian him- you saw at first-hand the wickedness cause of uncontrollable and know could hire a mob of Egyptians to Fourth
that the of the Germana? You were going to irresponsible elements in her midst? It is a sort of regeneration of the demonstrate against anything for a the best division which fought with what's happened?
Indian Division probably tell them at home all right. Well, spirit to grind through ten-foot few coppers.
The blame for undergrowth and find that, just as the
the British Army-returned to their empty bread bins in Germany plan said, bere was the paved walk,"
homeland almost unwelcomed. We also discovered that most of
being manoeuvred on Britain, here they had the leech-pond. just exist on a shilling a day. But when papers went crazy with delight over a little balance against the fantastic the 16,000,000 Egyptians have to At the same time Indian news-were in the midst of it all-to keep believe it is up to us-the men who here they used to walk by the river. the British Government wanted It costs more than you expect, but raise the pay of the labourer it was
to the exploits of renegade Indian sol- forgetfulness of what really brought not, I think more than it is worth.
the Egyptian businessmen who pro-countrymen with the Japs under the
diers who had fought against their ruin to Europe. leadership of the Chandra Bose.
to be, so though after what we have. done with it we had any fight to expect otherwise.
Fascist Subhas
in
I
ARE YOU SURE? Answers
(Questions on Page 6)
1. (a) Without rights, (b) with-
out dividend, (e) without interest 2. The
of the National
4. Antine. 3. Order of Merit.
His brother is in the present HERE were you? In the George Government of the Republic Government.
VY Cross Island? Greece? Western Europe? Africa? Burma? Malapa?
All the sour arguments of this day tested. only manage to prove. one thing: that the world is a more awkward
The British Chief of Police an- and troublesome place than it used nually demands better rates of pay for a force which can often be bribed with half a crown. But the Egyp tlan rulers won't listen to demands for a decent living wage for thele own police force--a force organised in the first place by the British. when thousands died.
And which soldier,who has ever! wasn't fleeced of his Army pay by the Egyptian shopkeepers?"
Their Secret
moral note
During the great famine in Bengal when hundreds of thousands of In- dians died, the British soldier on the had cornered rice and were unmoved apot knew that Indlan merchants
These black marketeers
starved. Death paid a dividend,
cared
of
Italy? China. 5. A ball which appears to India? be bowled so as to break from the leg alde, but which actually turns in from the off; it was first perfected by B. J. T. Bosanquet. d. Machinery. preliminary. 7. Rudyard Kipling... 3. An ornament worked in low re- lef. 0, "Loving and giving. 10. The China-Burma-India command the US forces.
You have been and you have seen. about what you have seen. It is our duty to tell the truth The people who drag Britain's name in the mud are always articu-
Speak up!
been there really believes that he little how many of their countrymen late.
The thing, though, that struck us!
BUT and here one introduces the with the utmost embarrassment-the people I know who avoid the contemporary miseries most successfully are those people most of all was the inhumanity of who have got their teeth in some the Egyptian ruling class to their sort of job of personal creation. own people., Now Britain is, han- ding over Egypt to there fcuddl
The making of a home, the re- Juvenation of an old car, the archt-bosses.
It's time you and I said. tecture of, a cabbage patch, the de-mething about it. We vowed we veicament of a child-in any way would, the making of come personal issue
WILLIAM HICKEY.
CLERICAL ERROR
PINIONS of the Rector of
of
"I'm very fond of reporters, they the statement can surely be accept-
with
"You
is
the strength and also the colour into motor-car tyres.
Britain imports £2,000,000 of enz- bon a year from America which he Of thinks we could
make in Britain
that han more fulfilment this year lists with colton-wool
It is time we answered the iden
Stokesley could hardly mat have a dimcult job to do and do Cabo, makes carbon which puts than last.
always see Britain as the oppressor. are normally confined, to that
brains who ter: less, and happily his views their best. In Samuel Fronting Ademit vien
"Come, come," 110 ndded, Did we sweat and fight in the de- northerly bit of the North man-of-the-world Joviality. graphyn! Alexander. Worllcott, sert for years to throw away the good
know what a parish magazine which 7 em half-way through rend-Britain has done for the people of Riding. Ing, there occurs a pungent end not Egypt as though it was unworthy plece of advice-given by waste?
Just for once they now get wider not meant for a wider public. so much Why don't the Prince of Wales in 1035.
wa tell aur įpublicity because I want to encourage / course. It isn't true; quite an exog-tiselt and save dollara. people the things we learned?
The Priner suggested, "pending the millennium, each man night take hold of the piece of depression next him and do something about 1,"
So, in the light of all these un- Hirung circumstances, WŁ mich!
use our spare time for a day or two in examining such questions
Money (how one earns it and never háð my};
ITALY
sympathy for those unfortunate Yorkshiremen who have to pay tup-
are
gerated statement,
"Just at times the headlines seem pence for the Deanery Magazine yet to lead us astray and the-weaker-
all expected to have faith.
minded.
among us get a wrong int- TAKE Italy.” The things we learned ΤΑΙ
"Above all," writes the Roy.pression." theref How easily, for example, Clifford Hubert Davies, "do not be So did I a. Fascist could become a lifelong fed into paying too much attention non-Fascist within. a few hour to
what
were near enough..
•
newspapers
So the Board of Trade has ap pointed a commitice—
Which does accm remarkably odd. There l no need to talk to the Cabots
It will do just as well'if they nod.
ranging
minutes even if the Allied Armies have to live, pers say. Reporters
though I sometimes NOT being so fussy as his fore- TN ten-song programme wonder why! And they appear to bears, Mr Themas Dudley Cabot from opern to ballads, that sweet
mainly on horrors. We made a note of that for the
"Maureen" read our papers ta to think mading to bones whatever shout most applause from Pentonville lage time when talk of democracy started that the country consists main ho comes from Boston and that, as at prison concert
when Dublin lenor Sean Rvan sang again..
low well I remember an old klst."
ly of thieves, murderers and big you no doubt remember,
is the home of the bean and the for. Joh McCormack, Shortly before Scola Sir Hugh Roberton wrote it Italian printer in Tripoli whose tulk
he died McCormack beard Ryan Where the Lowells talk to the ainging in a Forces broadcast, sent
for him and gave film the song And the Caboti talk only to God.
down long since. As he is prepared Cabol with a gein. We've lived that NOTICED in Regen-street by render AH Perry "Invisible
"Children (how. one has them ona made me think, that all Italiáns were naked the roctor what he cod.
never cams teen).
by such stupidly, he was against the war at heart most affable and sporenly, to our Cabote, the Germans and Hallons in Africa taken seriously.
But on the day we finally defeated prised at the very thought of being of the day! How to be happy I saw him go over to a corner of the1-. Metaphorically RE LINEN deny that we nro shobs," said ! priating room. His eyes were filled down the telephone, he soured me with fears when I went up to him, that it, was "all just a litle Joku
In enrrot, the great proposition though human.
See you here next. Sati
to talk-oven to the Board of Trade, i mender wanted.
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