THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 4, 1940.
WHEN IT CAN BE TOLD··
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WE SHALL MARVEL
AT WHAT OUR MEN DID"
London, To-day.
THE BRITISH ACTION in going to the help of Nor- way immediately was a daring movement, says "The Times." Tactical failure does not mean that the attempt was not justified.
The Germans could reinforce their troops faster than we could by sacrificing great numbers of lives and the seizure of the aerodromes meant that they could prevent the Allies from landing heavy artillery and tanks.
The "Daily Telegraph" emphasizes that Mr. Chamberlain's statement was the interim one. It raises only an final question: were we right to com- ait our forces for the defence of Nor- way?
Britain's pledge of a crusade against the brutal aggression of Germany meant that she could not refuse to help, the paper goes on.
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Berlin planned a spectacular quick campaign, but at the end three weeks she has lost thousands of lives in troop ships. Life is cheap in the Nazi Reich.
UBC.
More precious, from the
Nazi point of view, are the acroplanes and petrol Germany has had to Most damaging of all has been the mutilation of the German Fleet. Sound strategy does not forbid an operation which is hazardous but when danger makes losses a certainty, plans must be changed. The Government is not afraid to change its plans and to come out of what might have develop- ed into a still more serious situation.
Military View
This is no time for condemning be- `fore the whole case is put forward, says the "Yorkshire Post."
From a military point of view, the Norwegian campaign might have been condemned before it started as too dangerous, but the decision was not taken on military grounds. We had to stiffen Norwegian resis--| tance and if we had not the neutrals would have received one more illus- tration of weakness against Nazi ag- gression.
When the full story comes to be told, we may expect to marvel at what our men did and went through. They will be found to have done all and more than they could have been ex- pected to do. It was not human spirit that failed but mass air power
won.
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Not Of Major Importance
The "Daily Express" says that when we look at the NorwegianTMTM affair calmly, we see that the reverse is not of major importance. The evacuation was a splendid plece of organization. -Reuter.
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"Glamour, and not oomph," Miss Pitts said without so much as a flut- ter of her hands.
"You see, I want to be a glamour girl, but I'm still trying to make good after twenty years in this busi- ness and that's definitely too late to try for this apparently newly- discovered oomph.
Miss Pitts suddenly found this en- thusiasm for ballet when they were "You Can't casting for the film of Take It With You."
She wanted to play the ballet dan-
cer.
"I could get up on my toes all right, but the only way I could get off them was to fall flat on my face and, oh, dear, I usually did.
"I'm concentrating on being а glamour girl now, and when I get that perfected enough to get into a Broad- way musical show, I'll training as a ballerina."-Associated Press.
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NOT A "PHONEY" WAR
"THIS IS NOT A PHONEY WAR," SAID MR. GODFREY HAGGARD, BRITISH CONSUL-GENERAL AT NEW YORK, IN A SPEECH TO THE NEW YORK SECURITY LEADERS ASSOCIATION.
"Rather we believe that the last war was a phoney war, with is set battles and its dreadful slaughter and destruction,
"We see grounds for hope in this fact that eight months after the de- claration of war Western civilisation still hesitates to embark upon the sort of suicide discussed and expected."
Paying a high tribute to Mr. Cham- berlain, Mr. Haggard added:
"We British believe in Mr. Cham- berlain. We bless him for having kept his head when others are losing theirs.
"For my part, I believe him to be an idealist, pure and simple-but much purer than simple "Reuter.
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