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THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 24, 1989.

The Crisis And The Duty Of The Press

The writer says:'

Britain.

Pithy comments on the news cabled, ment? There are many of us; who from Europe by news agencies are would at least, feel a certain reller at contained in this letter, by "Gregal-knowing where we stand even if the lach," which appears in the "North primarily in favour of the totalitarian facts, cold bloodedly presented, were China Daily News," of Shanghai. states. Any fool knows by now that

appeasement has proved Rather more impressing than the ac

a tragic failure, except perhaps for the further complished fact of German seizure of six months' respite it has given us for Czechoslovakia, is the extraordinary

the benefit of our last minute Re- inability of the various democratic armament Programme. By giving us news agencies of provide the rest of the the truth, bitter though it may be, world with sufficient warning before British newspapers all over the world hand of this type of Anschluss. AB might stop trying to save Chamber- ̧· far as Britain is concerned, she has lain's face and start trying to save always prided herself on the possession of the finest intelligence service in the world and the complete freedom of her Press. Surely the two boasts are scarcely consistent in this instance. Either Chamberlain's officially profess ed astonishment at the overnight de- molition of a gallent little state waS genuine, in which case one can hardly congratulato Whitehall's hitherto es tablished omniscience, or, the Press has been muzzled, an indication of the pro- bability, constantly asserted by certain sections of the American Press that Chamberlain's appeasement policy is EVERY THURSDAY THE HON. really a shield for his secret hope of KATHARINE closer co-ordination with the Reich and TWENTY - SEVEN - YEARS · OLD other totalitarian Powers.

the

DEFENCE CHIEF'S

DAUGHTER-

"WAITRESS"

CHATFIELD,

no

It has often been said that there DAUGHTER OF OUR NEW DE- are three Englands. The England FENCE MINISTER, LORD CHAT- that is the House of Commons, FIELD, BECOMES A WAITRESS. England as represented by a Press and the real England-the

She draws no salary, earns Little Man's Country which is always supposed to tips. Neither do her three fellow- have the final word. But the Little waitresses, the daughters of Lord Man the man-in-the-street dorive at least a basis for his opinions Patrick Hastings, K.C., who serves must Charnwood, Lord Askwith and Sir from the Press, a source which is at present either deliberately from politi-

lunches to the unemployed once cal or private motives misleading the weekly at Aldgate East soup-kitchen. public, or being misled by its Govern- ment. There is so much information, which, the poor, dazed sheep in the democratic flock might surely have learned by now from an enlightened

"Stew, tuppence! Press. We are told that Slovakia has penny!" shouts Miss Chatfield, and appealed to the Reich for against Czech oppression

assistance plunges busily between the crowd- before weed tables. have even heardy Slovakin's case, or,

"AFTERS" ID.

Afters, &

for that matter, Prague's, that ("Afters" are cheap, well-cooked Ruthenia has proclaimed her inde- sweets of which the most popular pendence with the tacit consent of is boiled rice and jam). Germany and Hungary, and that the Czechs are marching into Ruthenia, that

When the meal is over, some of

She is an

I discovered her in a sprawling, untidy studio at the

great back of a children's dress-shop in Pimlico.. There was paint on her navy-blue trousers, paint on her scarlet jumper, paint on a red-hol, rumbling anthracite stove.

the Hungarians are marching the men leave. Others stay and Into Ruthenia, that the Rumanians talk. Miss Chatfield, who's been are marching into Ruthenia, that serving lunches for the past four the Germans Bro marching into Ruthenia, that the Rumanians are not

years, always stays. greeting the Hungarians with

artist. open arms, that the Ruthenians are putting up fierce opposition to the Hungarians, that Hitler consents to a Polish-Hun- garian adjacent frontier, that Hitler opposes same, that Slovakia has pro- claimed her independence, that Slovakia is to be taken over by the Reich and so on: Would it not be better, if we really are to have a controlled Press in direct opposition to democratic

Against an easel stood the pic- principles, that, instead of their

ture of an Indian's head in oils. sistent raking up of a "fait accompli,"

HE CAME EARLY wo were told. what Hitler's next step "I found him must logically be; to

in the soup-kit what extent. chen," said for instance, Russia is worth counting

Miss Chatileld. "I on as one of our assets, and how far think he must have been a gentle Britain and France may really rely man, because he had such odd ideas on American moral or armed support about punctuality. He arrived two in the event of a German drive to the Hours lute for the first sitting and, West. Is it not possible for the Press when I protested, two hours early to sum up frankly and freely the

con-

balance of power Britain's and for the second ??? France's united strength on land and water and in the air as opposed to that of Germany, Italy and Japan, instead of the vague and unsatisfactory figures handed out to us by a Press inspired by a necessarily optimistic Govern-

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WITH BELGIUM DENIED

Brussels, To-day. Press reports that negotiations are taking place between Belgium and Germany for retrocession of the región -of Eupen Malmedy to Germany, are authoritatively deni- en

The region in question was given to Belgium by the treaty of. Versailles.

Of 62,000 inhabitants, 52,000 are German speaking

der consist of Walloons. denied that in trocession of

ramer

the remain-

It is also

for the re-

the Ger-

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