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THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 16, 1940.

MIRROR OF WORLD OPINION

GOEBBELS' STOCK

The enemy has succeeded in strik- ing a shrewd blow at Canada. Cana- dians have been caught with their guard down, and hereafter the activi- ties of Herr Goebbels will be followed with keener interest. One of the im- portant industries, in Canada is the tourist industry. Immediately after the outbreak of

there In

а

war

came

TO BE BROKEN IN

GRADUALLY ·

selective.

Some of the most amusing passages behind the scenes in the last war when the War Cabinet got hysterical about the food queues, al- though, they were largely the product of the miserable compromise the same War Cabinet had adopted a few weeks before in preference to ration- Ing, which, it was thought, would We are a the Germans. was encourage sharp drop

the little less foolish this time, although tourist trade. This caused sur- it is only a week or two since Sir prise, because the hunting season is Samuel Hoare was using the same usually a time favoured by visitors, old argument.. What matters, of but it occasioned no anxiety. The course, is not that we should have to

for our supplies of tourist trade, however, did not pick present a card

but that those up in October and November, and Only particular foodstuffs

be available to in December did the true cause be- foodstuffs should come clear. Letters began to reach the everyone, rich and poor, in reasonable Government, asking questions. These quantity. And that can be assured letters came from most of the large only if distribution is closely organ- cities of the United States, and the Ised. If Mr. Morrison's machinery is similarity of the questions asked, at as successful as was that in the last once revealed the work of the German months of 1918 we need not fear on agents. "Why is the Canadian Govern- that score. There is nothing in the ment seizing the cars of American visi- present rations that will impair health tors and using these cars for war pur- or, Indeed, seriously alter the standard poses?" "Is it true that the Canadian of living.

The Ministry of Food is Government is taking American money

wise to from tourists and giving them worth- stress from the beginning that behind less Canadian dollars?" and more of all these questions of supply lie the that order. The truth is that no change inexorable limitations of foreign ex- whatever has been made in the re- change and shipping space. Our pur- gulations governing the entry or de- chases abroad have to be

case of sugar we have parture of Americans, and steps are Thus in the being taken to make this fact known bought up the colonial crops but are in the United States. But this pro- trying to economise severely on for- paganda will probably cost Canada $50 eign supplies, even to the extent of a millions in income this year and, un- reduction of a quarter in our average less American tourists can be persuad- sugar consumption. The same principle ed of the deception, the loss might al- is being applied over the whole range most equal the country's war expen- of imports, and as time goes on the ditures in the first year of the conflict. Government will have to make a choice Herr Goebbels' stock is somewhat between widening the range of ration- higher than it was."The Spectator." ing to many imported goods that were not rationed during the last war. It is questionable how far the remedy, favoured then and in some favour to- day, of controlled prices is adequate. But in these matters we move slowly, the The mood is 1917 rather than 1914 and it is enough, probably, for -stubborn and disillusioned, not en- Ministry of Food to start with the pre- thusiastic or idealist. The

second sent range of necessaries. We have to point is that the Army is a number be broken in gradually.-"Manches- of different armies and that what is ter Guardian." true of one is not true of another. Friends who have recently been with the British Army in France, tell sur- prising stories of listening to friend- The political controversy sounds the ly arguments conducted on terms of one jarring note, but hopes are held Informed equalliy between generals, that the existing deadlock will be re- other officers and N.C.O.'s. There are solved. In asking the British authorities no buttons to polish at the front and a at this time for a declaration of their good deal of the "spit-and-polish” intentions towards India the Congress psychology has, thank goodness, gone leaders have added to the Viceroy's That is an inevitable develop- strenuous task, although the statement ment. In a modern mechanised army, recently made by Mr. Gandh! that he in which a large proportion of the has no wish to embarrass the authori- soldiers are independent technicians ties suggests that the Congress leaders whose duty is, most emphatically, to do realise the need for an Allied vic- reason why. If you drive a tank or tory to protect their own principles of operate its guns, you cannot be treat- freedom. Nationalist opinion asserts ed as cannon fodder. The same re- that the party would play a highly mark applies very strongly to the Air important part in winning the war if Force, where the distinction between only an assurance were given that in- officers and N.C.Os is very much dependence will be "conferred" blurred. After all, many men who are, India at the end of it. But it is not now pilot-sergeants were only a few an obstinate unwillingness on the part months ago in charge of flying in the of Great Britain which prevents that aerodromes; they trained the undertaking; it is because no such as- young men who are now. officers. The relationship is not that of the old sergeant major who trained O.T.C pilot

too.

THE MOOD OF 1917

-

an for the sergeants

are working

day by day- to-

gether on the same job as the pilots.

THIS ENGLAND !

•

IN INDIA

Stalin's vision won for him the

·leadership of the Bolshevik Par. ty,

This vviklonjƐan-warsaw at

-

on

surance can have any reality till cir- cumstances, in In- dia are such as will bring about Do- minion Status as a natural and auto-

the beginning, is based on a fummatie consequence. damental respect for the opinions. of others--"Daily Worker.

Nevertheless, in spite of the handi-.

this cap which political con- "the" country,

One" airman recently made the point troversy imposes that all enthusiasm was bad for an- the Indian war effort is one that is airman. Here the phlegmatic English deeply appreciated not only in Great man who thought of air fighting and Britain but throughout the Common- The whole group of bombing merely as a ""job,” soored over wealth.

ationa the Nazi airman who, he saidawan "free"

believing that he was carry

ing out a mission "for, the

SET.

all the fre

of it.

WHITEAWAY'S

the techni

would

be. if the Con- nd its way to read-

so that India

fully, in the

enemy to H-deter-

Pa

Pa

1

THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 15, 1940.