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THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 21, 1938

would be touched by Mr. Vernon Bartlett's pathetic disclosure about the price of success at by- elections: "I have received many friendly pats on the back 8A Wyndham Street, Hong Kong. that it is painful to wear braces." Telephone 20044yOne has heard of American Pre- sidents with their arms in slings 7, Garrick Street, London, W.C.2 as a result of ordeal by hand- shaking, but back-patting carried to such a pitch that the galled All communications intended for show'der afterwards winces un- publication should be addressed to der contact with the braces is a the Editor, and, be accompanied by

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some people who might be de- scribed as back-smiters rather than back-patters; the stalled ox might be felled to the ground by ene of their tremendous thumps of congratulation. They are, however, comparatively rare per- formers; most people do not feel that it is necessary to knock a man down in order to show that [you approve of him.

The sensitive condition of Mr. Bartlett's shoulder-blades is

Mr. Walt Disney's creations, it seems, have been let off the proof rather of the old adage Italian Ministry of Popular Cul-about the perpetual dropping of ture, which had announced that water that wears away a stone; children's literature and art it is not the single stunning forms from other lands would no thump but an endless sucession longer be admitted to Italy lest of genial pats that has left him they should corrupt and under- uncomfortably conscious of a mine the pure and resolute tone special area where the braces of the "Imperial Fascist age," stretch onwards to meet the has now made a special exception breeks. It may be wondered how to the general embargo in the many pats are necessary in order case of the Disney cartoon films. to bring about that condition; So Mickey Mouse, Donald, Duck, one of those learned groups of and the rest become, as it were, research workers who inquire honorary Fascists without doing into various aspects of industrial anything to earn that distinction fatigue. might look into the mat- beyond remaining their own and ter. Do all by-election victor- unchanged selves. It is a great victims suffer in the same way? compliment; Mussolini's Italy Or is it a special tribute to a could hardly pay a great one famous victory and the warmth even to Mr. Chamberlain or Lord of West Country convictions? Halifax.

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characters who are still excluded. A Guard Of Honour Donald and Mickey are safe

within: the Fascist fold, but the In a world where innovations White Knight, the Walrus and are seldom both utterly right and the Carpenter, Tweedledum and remarkably ingenious at one and Tweedledee, not to mention the the same time the fullest measure immortal Alice herself, must be of approval ought to be reserved still excluded as undersirable for Mayor LaGuardia's action in aliens. The same must apply to protecting the German Consulate Brer Rabbit and Br'er Fox, to in New York from insult or as- Peter Rabbit or Winnie the Pooh, sault by mounting a police guard and to many another established round it composed entirely of ornament of English nurseries Jewish constables. It seems a from the cow that jumped over perfectly gorgeous gesture-at the moon to the Jack who climb-once just and genial and no doubt ed the beanstalk.

thoroughly effective, for one can Mother Goose, as a person of see those representatives of the French antecedents, will un- oppressed taking the most exact doubtedly be on the black list, care over the preservation of the but apparently the characters of proprieties towards the the Brothers Grimm, German sentatives of the oppressors. (and in plenty of cases rather Only one thing would be needed "horrific" and ungenial) though to complete the picture and the they may be, will be excluded object-lesson provided by that from Italy, while the Disney guard of honour. It may be sup- picture gallery passes the cul-posed with some confidence that tural, Custom-house without the actual occupants of the Ger- murmur. Curiosity remains to man Consulate in New York will be satisfied on one. interesting not themselves be addicted to point; what will the purely Fas- Jew-baiting on

any pronounced cist fairy tale be like? (That is scale; it may be that they object to say, of course, the Fascist to it as heartily as any other ra- fairy tale as deliberately design- tional beings. To bring Mayor La- ed for children; some people Guardia's civilised gesture home might hint that the models in with the utmost effect it would tended for those of riper. years be necessary to have one of the are already familiar).

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undoubted oppressors looking out of the window and appreciating the complete protection afforded by the "corps d'elite" so kindly posted outside. It seems a pity, for example, that Herr Julius Surely even the people who Streicher is not at the moment Inurse a perpetual suspicion of a paying guest at the German "politicians" and all their works Consulate in New York City.

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