1940-03-30 — Page 11

THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 30, 1940

MOLOTOV SPEECH

Moscow, To-day. The session of the Federal Council of the Supreme Bovist ended at 11.42 aim. (G.M.T.) yesterday and a joint session of the. Federal and National Coun- olle was to be held at 4 p.m. (G.M.T.), presumably for hoar- Ing a speech by M. Molotov, the Foreign Commissar-Reuter.

SHANGHAI

TO BOYCOTT WANG

Shanghai, To-day.

|DOCTOR SAIDĮ LOVE MAKES BOY GROW UP

BY A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT A bright woman in a shapeless old hat, earth-soiled, practical clothes and muddy shoes, toiling in a Bucking- hamshire garden;

A quietly competent physician in a Harley-street surgery, to whom come men and women for advice in bodily and mental trouble;

An unobtrusive woman, seeking out the poor in the poor streets, bringing the skill of the West End to the East End, waiving fees as of small ac- count

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These are all pictures of the same woman-Dr. Elizabeth Sloan Chesser, physician, psychologist and tireless friend, who died at her Harley-street, London, home after a long illness.

One of the most brilliant and out- spoken doctors of her generation, she was an advocate of early marriage and sex-education, always a critic of ignor-

Wang Ching-wel's plan to get Shanghai beflagged and decorated for the inauguration to-day of the puppet "National Government of China" infant motherhood. Nanking has been frustrated.

"I call a woman uneducated," she Circulars were distributed through- once said, "if she knows little about out Shanghai yesterday by Wang's the science and of living and of train- agents declaring March 30 (to-day) | ing children, even if she can' speak a general holiday in "commemoration three languages or has taken a uni- of the second anniversary of the versity degree." Ta-er-chwang victory." Schools were requested to close and all residents to hang out and hoist Chinese flags.

The majority of the Chinese in Shanghai have decided to ignore the circulars and there will be no re- joicing of any kind in the city to- day. Our Own Correspondent,

AUXILIARY AIRMEN AT

THE FRONT

On a bitterly cold air field behind the British lines I met officers and 'men of the Auxiliary Air Force squad- rons who volunteered for active ser- vice in France, writes a war corres- pondent.

Their duties consist of reconnais- sance and patrol flights, with special attention to ground "strafing" in the event of enemy attacks.

The best way to make a boy grow

up was for him to have a sweat- heart.

"It does not matter much about what the mother thinks about it," she added. "She should regard it like measles-something he war almost bound to have.” -

BETTER DIRTY

On another occasion she declared: "Few so-called normal adults have reached the age of more than sixteen or seventeen from a psychological point of view.

"That is why so many people are always wanting to know what life will give them. An adult person should be concerned with what he can give to life."

"Do not trouble to keep your chil dren clean," was another plece of advice. "It is not natural and they are all the better for being physio- ally dirty in childhood,"

Dr. Chesser devoted most of 'her sixty-two years to the service of others. And the result-"I have never

A chill mist hung over the aerod-known a person who enjoyed life so much," one of her greatest friends,

rome and the soil was thick with slush, but the men were as keen as Miss Caroline Haslett, told me yes- mustard.

looming 'planes,

Scattered round the field through the fog were their ready for immediate aetion.

The men are representative of all branches of civilian life. They come from Surrey and Durham, and most of them joined the A.A.F. about year before the war.

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They had no complaints, except, perhaps, of enforced inactivity owing

to the bad weather.

THE ANZAC SHIRT AGAIN

terday.

FINE COURAGE

Dr. Chesser gave her secret în one wherever you have too much luxury of her epigrams: "There is neurosis

and too little work."

"Dr. Chesser's courage was magni- ficent," said Miss Haslett. "She told illness. She knew what it would mean, me quite calmly months ago about her but she allowed it to make no dif- ference."

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A severe critic of her own sex. Dr. Chesser said of Mayfair women, "They pamper themselves with labour-saving devices, cars, radios and pet dogs. Then wonder why they develop strange internal complaints. . . . Bore- dom has brought on neurosis.”

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candour, went to the make-up of those doughty warriors. When the

Many of the, so-called "bright young British Government at last decided to people" of to-day, she said, have never accept failure, and to order the eva-really grown up. They are playing on cuation of the peninsula, the decision the threshold of life with simple, in- was so unpopular at Anzac that it al-fantile minds. most led to mutiny.

No one wanted to leave those sacr- ed heights which they had fought so hard to defend; and when the order came for the troops to be gradually re-embarked nobody wanted to be the first to go away. Obviously,” as the garrison became thinner, its chances of sustaining a fresh attack deteriorat="

BURMA AND HITLERISM

RANGOON, TO-DAY.

ed; and there was every possibility "WE WANT INDEPENDENCE BUT. that the rearguards on the last night,OUR" INDEPENDENCE WILL NOT covering the final withdrawal; might LAST IF HITLERISM PREVAILS," easily be overwhelmed.

SAID THE INDIAN – MAYOR OF Yet the whole corps wanted to vol- RANGOON AT A MEETING

YES unteer for his post of danger, and it | TERDAY INAUGURATING THE finally had to be conceded that the BURMA WAR DONATION FUND. honour should be given to those who

Acommittee under a former act- had served longest on the peninsula. ing Governor and including Indian, More than anything they hated to Burmese, European and Chinese lead- leave their friends' graves. "I hope," ers, was formed. said a soldier to General Birdwood on Contributions amounting to £1,000, the last day, pointing to the pitiful including subscriptions from the lines of little white crosses. "I hope Governor, Sir Archibald Cochrane they won't hear us to-night, as we and Lady Cochrane, were made march down to the beach

the meeting-Reuter,

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