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THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 4, 1940.

MIRROR

OF WORLD OPINION

WHAT WOULD

"CONFUCIUS SAY”?

PUBLICITY

All dictatorships are born in the

Does anyone feel sorry for the Chi- dark. They survive for a time in the nese sage who is now being widely shadows. They invariably die in the mistreated through putting into his light. mouth many words and sentiments The one thing tyranny cannot stand that he never uttered? If somebody is publicity. It must gag the press, wearing a Chinese scholar-costume of stop free expression, silence the pul- the twenty-five centuries ago could re- pit, censor the radio, control appear and allege that he has been movies, propagandize the public with is the shadiest cruelly misquoted, that would be Con- half-truths--which fucius.

way of lying there is,

The real bulwark of democracy is. not the ballot box but the honest newspaper. "Michigan Christian Ad- vocate.

"East is east and west is west," wrote Rudyard Kipling, "and never the But he did not twain shall meet.' stop there. And we need only com pare the Chinese sayings with those of Benjamin Franklin's Poor Richard to realize the kinship of all wise men. "In style," Confusius averred, "all that is required is that it convey the meaning." Now the regrettable feature of the current fad is the inanity in most of the parodies. However, Con- fusius might concur in some measure with the modern vogue. "Better be remembered by all," he might say, "than forgotten by all but scholars." -"Christian Science Monitor”.

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COLLABORATION .

The first months of the war were prolific" of paper constitutions of the international commonwealth of the future. They have served a valuable purpose in focusing thought, but their remoteness from practical politics has rapidly become apparent, and already the whole class of them has begun to "date." The doctrine implicit in. them all that, if law is to replace force in international relations, the limitation of sovereignty must be ac- How seriously should we take the cepted is, however, unquestionable. the propaganda of Dr. Goebbels? The The Anglo-French declaration points public in Britain, France, India and the way to the practical application of elsewhere-for Dr. Goebbels has his this doctrine. In dealings between public-treat it as excellent enter themselves the two nations have tainment and discuss it with a laugh, already given up their absolute

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But derision, though it is an excel- lent antidote, is not а sufficient

Dr. Goebbels has learnt from Lenin

sovereignty. That part of it which they have surrendered into the com- mon fund of authority will remain there at least until the new interna-

that the first task of subversive pro- tional order has been established; if paganda is not to create a public that order realizes the hopes that opinion in your favour, but to destroy have been formed, they may never the unity of your opponents.

find it necessary to resume it. What

The German propagandist starts, distinguishes the model of interna- and therefore, by a consideration, not of tionalism that Great Britain his own country's message, but of the France will in due course "Invite the social conditions in the country he is

attacking.

“BEAUTIFUL” THOUGHTS

Words ara beautiful things. Machine guns, ships, aeroplanes, are still .more beautiful. War alone brings to its highest ten- alon all human energy and puts the stamp of: nobllity · on- the ', people who have the courage, to

lead it-Mussolini.

world to expand is

that it is the direct result of experien- ce. The British Constitution con- tains no abstract dogma of liberty, no declaration of the rights of man; it consists of an elaborate nexus of separate liberties and rights, secured to the subject at different dates in history, and each

To take an ex- treme

instance, German propagan- da has commend- ed the moral courage of the conscientious . ob- jector in Britain. It has done so, not in the hope that the conscientious ob- jector will become a Nazi, but be- cause he sees the nuisance value to one devised to meet a particular Great Britain-of a strong movement need or to avert a particular threat to against war. It has stirred up an freedom. It is not the only approach agitation against the Hungarian land- to the problem of liberty and law; but lords, not because Hitler believes in the resultant system has achieved a the confiscation of the latifundia-the unique stability. German landlords still control their estates-but because peasant unrest will play into the hands of Nazi im- perialism.

It is interesting to observe Dr. Goeb bels' tender solicitude for the condi- tions of the British worker, for the plight of the evacuee, for the allow- ances to soldiers' wives, for the peo- ples of India, and for everyone of those democratic privileges which he has destroyed in Germany,

Our French friends, who themselves frame their political ideals In more general and abstract terms, are on this occasion disposed to ask the world to confront the problem of peace in our ". way, The combined Anglo- French polity has no written consti- tution, no fundamental law. But it actually exists and works for the the common good and towards destruction of the common enemy. In certain departments of life we are On the English air, he becomes finding that it promotes efficiency and one of those humanitarian socialists, harmony if we sumbit ourselves to a whose heart is even softer than his join authority, in which both nations head, on the French,- a near-ocm- participate equally, in certain others munist determined to liberate his we find it better to go our separate country from slavery to international ways. When the time comes to discuss finance; on the American; an isola larger systems of co-operation we tionist who Is 100 per cent, American; shall possess a great fund of worldly Eastern European listeners find in him wisdom on the two essential ques- a, passionate advocate of land-reform tions--what community of ideas is and opponent of "Jewish" Imperialism; necessary to make co-operation pos- in India he is the ens y of Imperi- sible, and to what definite, ends it is

Indian Infor tion"

desirable and possible to co-operate. 22"The Times,”

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PLAYING WITH THE WAR WARNING

"THE MORALE of this country from the fighting point of view-is nothing like it was when we went to war in 1914," said Mr. H. G. Wells.

"Then there was a simple, eager patriotism which was almost universal. In 1915 we were talking freely about the issues of the war and we were free to criticise, to throw out Ministers and throw out the Government.

U.S. ARMY PRESCRIBES DIET FOR OUR TROOPS

British soldiers in the front line will soon be eating a 30. a day emergency ration developed by the United dietary experts of States Army.

The British Government has given an order with an Ameri- can firm for a consignment of the new tinned ration, designed for three-day emergency during fighting.

Each soldier will carry one 15oa. tin of cooked meat and beans, one of meat and vegetable hash, and three more tins, con- -talЯing, 6oz. of biscuits, 1oz. of sugar and 4oz. of finely ground coffee, soluble even in cold wa- ter.Associated Press.

WHY MINES EXPLODE ON OUR SHORES

"Now after six months of renewed war there is much more suppression both of opinion and news than there was in 1915. Why? Everybody knows our Government le grossly Incompetent and yet no one dare at- tempt its replacement.

"Why is there this hysterica! trust in loyalty to the Government? The lack of confidence in the spirit of our people is psychologically different only in degree from what is hap- pening in Germany.

"The Germans adhere to Hitler be- cause they fear complete chaos if his gangs break down."

"DAMN US UTTERLY"

He said that the Prime Minister and Lord Halifax were, at the pre- sent time, "just playing about with the war."

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Edna Best and Ingrid Bergman are the two women who love Leslie Howard in “Intermezzo, a Love Story," the new romantic drama pro- duced by David O. Selznick and now showing at the King's Theatre:^

DEANNA PUTS OFF TRIP

War-and hard work-have put an end to Deanna Durbin's hopes of visit- ting England, where her mother and father were born, in Lancashire.

But this is the only disappointment in the life of the "world's happiest girl," who at seventeen has achieved a million dollars, six successive pic- He criticised the Government pub-ture hits, and a steady boy friend. lication entitled, "The British Case," which, he said, was issued with the blessing of Lord Halifax, and accord- ing to which we were fighting for the British Empire and Imperialism.

"It is calculated to damn us utterly in the eyes of America and all neutral countries, and even in the eyes of our ally, France," said Mr. Wells.

4 challenge you to read it and say whether Lord Halifax is a fit and proper person to continue in charge of our foreign affairs. I believe you will say, with me, that if this is the stuff for which we are fighting, then It is foolish to fight."

Mr. Wells said that whatever Mr.

J. M. Keynes and other sincere sup- porters of the present monetary system might claim, the spending of

Many of the public are under the impression that according to interna- tional law a mine which comes adrift from its moorings must automatically be rendered harmless, and they can- not understand why, if that is so, £6,000,000 a day on the war meant drifting mines should have been ex-inflation and bankruptcy. In quite a ploding on the shores of Cheung- short time it might be found that the chau and elsewhere in Hong Kong.

Article 3 of money in people's pockets would buy

What are the facts?

of 1907 (to subscribed)

the Hague Convention

Great Britain which provided that-

"When anchored automatic contact mines are employed, every possible precaution must be taken for the safety of peaceful navigation".

British mines conform with this provision. If they break adrift, a switch (operated by a powerful spring) is broken as soon as the strain is taken After that a off the mooring rope.

the mine ship has nothing to fear; cannot be exploded by contact with the projecting horns. There is in fact no case, in this or in the last war, of ship under way being seriously

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practically nothing.

NO PEACE POSSIBLE

Asking if it were possible to have peace at the present time, Mr. Wells said that National Socialism, like Bol- shevism, was eyewash for individualis- tic control of the countries where those in being. There was systems were nothing in their systems with which peace could be made, for peace could not be brought about with disorder. We were in the presence of a system that was breaking down.

To avoid a catastrophe, he advocat-

damaged by a drifting British mine.ed the setting up of one civilised peace Thus in the words of the Hague Con- and one general economic control in vention "peaceful navigation" faces the world.

no dangers from such mines.

The backbone of his hopes, ho said, was an entirely practical pro- poaltion for "a world-wide coales- cence of all the scattered forces of the

con- human heart 'Into one soldusly revolutionary movement based on the declared rights of man."

Why then do the mines sometimes explode on reaching shore on the example? Cheungchau beaches for There is still a large explosive charge electrical firing The in the mine. device actuated by the horns has been put out of action and contact with a navigating ship will not fire the charge, But repeated pounding ori

He was addressing the British Stu- the shore by the action of wind and

and in fact sometimes dents' Congress at Leeds University, wave may, does, as we know from experiences at Cheungchau. --

Similar explosions. have occurred in many parts of the world besedes Hong Kong; there have been reports of drift. ing mines exploding on the coasts of Denmark, Holland, Great Britain, and indeed of all countries adjacent to minefields of any nationality.

The public may rest assured of two things, first that the mines of the Royal Navy are efficiently and care fully laid, second that every possible precaution to safeguard peaceful nu- vigation is taken..?

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE

LESSON SERMON Subject-Everlasting Punishment. The Subject of the Lesson. Sermon in all Christian Science Churches to- morrow, May 5th will be: "Everlast- ing Punishment.”

The Golden Text will be The way of the Lord is strength to the upright; but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity." (Prov. 10.29).

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"We were embarrassed," she smiles, "when, at my birthday party December, word got around Vaughn had given me a ring and we were planning to elope.

"That's silly. We go steady, but we don't consider ourselves engaged. 1 haven't Marriage is so far off given it a thought." Deanna is one of the few actresses

Her latest picture, "It's a Date", in Hollywood without a flop to her with Kay Francis, became a Broad-record. Universal paid her £44,000 way hit this week, and is likely to last year. Other sources-Durbin prove another money-maker for Uni- dolls, dresses, various "tie-ups" versal Pictures.

brought in perhaps £20,000 more.

The boy friend is Vaughn Paul, a handsome, clean-cut young fellow of means. Deanna good family and doesn't mind telling about him.

RONG KINH

But to Deanna, who isn't especially good at figures, her salary is a com- fortably vague thing; handled by her parents.-Associated Press.

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