1937-03-27 — Page 3

THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 27, 1937.

THE

WORLD

GOES BY

SPANISH FASCISTS

GERMAN CLAIM

Berlin, To-day.

No fewer than 2,000,000. Span- iards are now members of the Spanish Fascist organisation,

E is a judge who has an ob-"Falange Espanole," says the spe

Hvis just his work, and cial Salamanca errespondent per his court is very popular with the "Berliner Lokalanzeiger.” spectators, especially the fair sex Gossip hound in Home paper

The organisation was founded three years ago by young Jose Primo de Riviera, son of the former

I really never thought I should live to see women described as the Spanish Dictator. “fair sex”

The first-line militia of the It is not only a grandfatherly movement, says the correspondent, cliche, but an e

n entirely false descrip-numbers 250,000 men, all of whom tion of the pasty-faced, mousy are now engaged on active service haired girls who inhabit this misty, on various fronts in the civil war. rain-soaked island.

“The "reserve line,” which has not Englishwomen, with a few ex-yet been thrown into the fighting, ceptions, are anything but fair (if also numbers 250,000 men, alleges by "fair" you mean "beautiful") the correspondent. and most Englishmen (though plain Women in the organisation num- enough, heaven knows) are much ber 80,000 while 100,000 youths are better looking.

enrolled in the Youth organisation of the Falange. Trans-Ocean.

Indeed, this is probably true of the sexes of all nations.

Women are usually only beautiful when their faces are coloured, their hair dyed, and their hats and frocks so designed to show off their good points.

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editors' tables and are due to an- other rumour going round that sometime probably in about 100

Imagine any woman you know years somebody may, or may not, bald, without make-up and dressed in a drab suit of serge

She would be so repulsive that you would run screaming from her pre

senice.

Then again, if Englishwomen are so fair why is there such a large sale of periodicals advising them how to make their plain faces beau- tiful?

Why do thousands of girls sign- ing

themselves "Puzzled," "An- xious” and “Worried" write letters}} to beauty editresses asking them what they can do about their big ears, their red noses, their chapped hands, their oily skins and their wild hair that won't be tamed?

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Why are they always moaning about their insides (health is beauty and beauty is health), and complaining of headaches, nausea, cramp, colic, catarrh, and hot flushes when some lout says "Good evening? or

"Do you like Greta Garbo?”

*

Libel

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When pathetic little squeaks of excitement are heard issuing from newspaper offices it may be pre- sumed that they proceed from sub-

try to amend the law to prevent people earning a decent living by sing newspapers for far-fetched Lipels.

Meanwhile, for sub-editors

the situation remains something like

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