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"Perhaps I'm hard to please

When I was younger

I didn't much care what I ate or drank or

smoked. But nowadays I take my pleas

ures, not sadly but seriously. I suppose you

would call me faddy. I hate to be put off with second-

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best, no matter what it is. I won't eat a peach unless

are it must be Beluga.

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it is English. If I order

:

You see what I mean about whisky. While I can obtain a whisky as soft and smooth as a fine liqueur, why on earth should I be put off with anything less

than White Horse? I.

admit that perhaps I am

hard to please but take

it from me, it pays.'

THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 18, 1989

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AVING recently returned from Germans in Danzig look eastward is not satisfactory

visit to Danzig, Warsaw, towards their common frontier of view of a stable Berlin and Paris, I find friends are with East Prussia. But the Vis clusion is chiefly inclined to say, "Well, what do you tula, deep and broad, separates that the German make of things?" This is not an Danzig from East Prussia, and is most successfully

because only spanned by a single, bridge convinced that the easy question to answer, the shape of things to come largely at a place called Tczew (you pro- circled by a coalit depends upon the ideas and inten-nounce it as if you were imitating by Great Britain.

a- steam engine), which is just în tions of the Fuehrer, and it is both Polish territory. Troops are sit- It is, of course, y his strength and his weakness that ting on this bridge and explosives the fields for poss he is a man whose mind combines are underneath it. flexibility of procedure with rigi- dity of purpose.

The Danzig question-like that and determined, They have 750,- not make senge of Tunis-could be settled to 000 men under arms, which is an he believed is tha morrow to the satisfaction of all expense pressing hardly on a poor circled" to preven the peoples directly concerned in country, and they are determined bensraum"the ́ ́) the matter if it were to be dealt to fight if their independence is figures so promin

as a local problem on its menaced. It may be that they are paganda.

over confident from a military point of view, and do not make. sufficient allowance for the changes in war which have been brought about by mechanisation and air-

with merits as such.

But if-again the parallel with Tunis is exact-it is to be used as

POLAND ALERT & UNITED

least we hope the the average does not wish to

In Warsaw the Poles are resolute this- line of

a smoke screen behind which lar craft. ger schemes are to be developed,

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there is no peaceful solution to However this may be, they have the Danzig question. The last peo- known alien rule under ple who can tell you what is likely Russians and Germans, they to happen to them are the Danzi- justly proud of the progress gers. They will tell you that their which Poland has made in many fate is in the hands of the Fuehrer, directions since her re-birth after. and there is no means of checking the Great War, and the nation is the genuineness of this apparent united as never before in its deter-

WHITE HORSE ques

WHISKY

You can tell it blindfold!

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ON THE DANZIG HORIZON

BY C STE KING

He (I am ref mination to die rather than sub in the street) do mit to German domination. They this means, but i have seen what has happened to the If you press for f Czechs; and they draw the appro- he will explain th There are plenty of Danzigers printe conclusions from this object Germany, taxes a who would like to enjoy the ideolo- lesson.

food is not scare gical thrill of being part of the

often troublesom Third Reich without participating The Poles are naturally cau- lebensraum”—ir in the economic sacrifices required tious in their relations with the colony or two- of those who have already achieved Russians; this caution is sometimes would disappear. that questionable distinction. explained as being due to fear of

"Bolshevism.” This is not the real Who is strugg In the City itself the Nazi party explanation. The rulers of Poland ple "lebensrau is as much in control of affairs as do not believe that the Third Inter- Fuehrer. Who it is in Nuremburg. But commer- national counts for much in the Germans the ele It lool

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great ports of Poland, and al- sent time. Their caution is inspired man Mr. Cham though the citizens of the Free City by a very proper and sensible de- not so good as look with jealous eyes at Gdynia, sire not to give Dr. Goebbels more Munich, or else they will admit that business is not material for his propaganda than by the warmong too bad, and that if only Europe can be avoided. would settle down there is plenty

of trade to keep both ports fully occupied.

Around the boundaries of the Free City sit five Polish divisions.

It is all very sa and Germany o

It is realised in Warsaw, and by but there it is, i no one better than Col. Beck, that over again, and Herr Hitler's ability to continue a was encirclemen forward policy is in the last resort, ing out through

These troops Bay them would dependent upon the extent to which cal error.

be in Danzig in half an if the Germans were to play any monkey tricks.

of

On the horizon, to the north · Danzig, one can see low-lying spit of sand. It is Polish territory, and

the German nation regard it as inevitable and forced upon him by the policies of others.

·NAZI CAMPAIGN SUCCESS

· There is: no, D of the success. V circlement" myt than the chang has taken place

This brings me to a consideration the seizure of P

is reputed to bear heavy artillery of the position in Germany, I am after that event which could range across the bay bound to say that my impression of Nazi regime sa and reduce Danzig to ruina. - The the state of affairs in that country was freely said

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