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Hong Kong, Tuesday, July 4, 1939.

IN THE "PROTECTORATE"

Ambassador, spoke for them in his speech at Liverpool when he said that he had,

urged on the newspaper pub- lishers to write something about current affairs in “Ameri- ca so that the people in Eng- land would believe that some- thing happens there besides gangster shootings, rapes, and kidnappings,

The challenge has been taken up in the current P EP broad- sheet Planning." It is a close study of the American news in seven English nowspapers. through the course of one week. It does not find that our press prints too little American news which amounts to as much, as that from Germany and France. But it goes nearer to - agreeing with the charge that some- news- papers sacrifice too much of their space to "human interest" of the well-known kind. One difficulty Political independence

in hard to overcome is the involved Czecho-Slovakia is, of course, at course of American politics as an end. The two parties which played to constitutional rules that were tolerated in the mutilated are hard to explain interestingly State left by Munich have been in small space. Another difficulty forced to amalgamate, and the is the time factor, since much of Party of National Unity, alone is which is important takes place too legal. A single party has on the late in America to be adequate- face of it, a totalitarian quality ly reported in the next morning's which should have satisfied the papers. One of the remedies pro- new Nazi "protectors," but ap- posed by P E P is desirable but parently it is not enough. The is a matter of expense. It sug- Party of National Unity is not gests that more British corres- one which can conveniently. be pondents should be maintained in described by any teminology, for the United States in order to al- it represents the limited self-ex-low the magic circle which con- pression of an essentially defines most of them to New York, mocratic. nation forced to adopt a not entirely representative city, the strait-jacket of a dictator-to be broken. There are many ship; as such it received a sur problems to be overcome before prisingly large number of votes the desired cousinły understand- in the necessarily artificial elec-ing can be given a fair chanc tions which were held recently. PEP did well to call attention Since those elections the more to them.

blatantly Germanophil elements

have been exerting themselves, On “Savage Noises" and their efforts have culminated

in large-scale rioting in Prague, The Archbishop of Canterbury the object of which has been to has raised up for himself a good get rid of the present Govern-many critics in: one direction or ment and substitute for it a another, and the chances are that plainly Fescist Government un- he may find himself in trouble der General Gajda. The idea that again by his excursion into musi→ the Czechs could, as a nation, de- cal criticism at the final service of sire such a Government can be the London Music Festival. The at once dismissed, but the fact Archbishop attempted to decide that this demand can be publicly what was great music and what. advocated has some significance. was savage - noise," "There Strictly speaking, such demon-fought to be no place for the sav- strations against the representa age noises sometimes heard. tives of the only legal party They are a degradation, I might. should be at once suppressed, and use a stronger word a prostitu the fact that they have not been tion in music." But he seems to suppressed suggests that they have overlooked the fact that...- are encouraged by the German what is denounced as savage: protectors. The Czech Fascists, noise in one generation may be under the leadership of General acclaimed as-great music in the Gajda, were never, until recent-next. The case of Wagner is a ly a more serious political move-notable example, One remembers ment than their counterpart in a spirited rendering of the pre- England.

Their stimulus lude to the third act of Lohen-- must be artificial and the arti-grin" on the terrace of a Swiss ficiality in Czecho-Slovakia to day hotel a good many years ago. is derived from only one source. receiving from a French listener It would appear that Germany the comment, "How he howls""" is using her wellknown methods And that was quite a common Im for preparing some further inpression. ternal change in the governing Nor was it entirely due. of her latest conquest.

American News

racial antipathies. It is on record that at the beginning century a pupil was expelled from the Paris Conserva

Because the United States, and having been found in possession Britain share a common language of the core of Debussy-811 it is too easy to forget the real leaset Melisande... while attend- differences between the two na-ing a class, and when Debussy tions. Yet on their mutual, un- back from Rome those who

derstanding no one knows how lund awarded him the Prix de much'uf peace and civilis

may depend. For this it

portant that the newspaper

should.

amented that