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THE CHINA MAL, JULY 9, 1940

CHINA MAIL

WINDSOR HOUSE-

PREMATURE

Hitler has frequently been proved right in his judgments when his satel- lities have been dubious and alarmed.

IIe is probably as right as ever he has been in de ciding, before launching his blitzkrieg against Eng- land, to proceed to Berlin to receive the adulation appropriate to the 'con- Europe,' the queror of 'military innovator surpassing genius,' the 'greatest living war lead- er."

of

After all, there is the possibility that this may be his last chance.

In- deed, unless we mistake the temper of the British | people to our complete confusion,

the there is strongest probability that it will be his last chance. Homage, at this stage, even from so prejudiced a source; appears to be a trifle premature. The real foe of Hitler and all the hated evil things he stands for still survives in tact, and more determin- ed than ever to smash this profaner of all the human decencies...

:

we shall fight

** on the seaY "On the beaches

on the landing-d) in the field ****in the streets in the hills: CHURCHILL

(Copyright iré

All Countries).

VICTORY BELL

(SCHLIEFFEN PLAN)

WE HAVE GONE TOO FAR, ADOLF, DER BRITISH HAVE DECLARED WAR.......

A Salute To Stil

If war were no more than a matter of arma- ments, Germany might be entitled to believe, from

Waters

Not far away from us the rivers would select the Fees and make steamer. The elderly clerk in a During the devil's tornado of re- cent Happenings and the roaring are lines of defence, their waters from Barnard Castle to its source, very old family solicitor's firm, the

I noticed the brief announcement; banks scarred with slaughter. We Snout into Yad. Moss, the very that typewriters exist, may be the

in'

her superiority in aero- cataract of rumours and of news fouled with war, their away up past the falls of Gauldron kind which has only just heard planes and tanks and the that the steamer service between cannot reckon that our own heart of England's windy and lofty only fellow who still finds félicity immense initial gains oxford and Kingston would be re- Thames will be allowed to run desolation.

newed this week. What a change: soft and serene throughout this It is often supposed that as peo-. The current that with gentle which these have assured was here from the tales of sky in summer, and for those in search ple become more and more the murmur glides, to her, that the defeat of wartime and of the ever-ascend- of quiet of boating the westerly vassals of noise and speed they and seeks his holiday where hurry the British Empire had ng scales of miles an hour-350, waters of Severn or of Dee are will increasingly welcome escape is unknown A wise and kindly re- 400, and even more! For that ser likely to prove more comfortable into places where the din cannot gimen will work for the protec- already been encompass-vice offers one of the most leisure- and pacific in the weeks to come, penetrate and the speed of the 'tion of such slow-movers in the ed or was just a matter of and pacific journeys in our Nor will they provide less beauty. snail is all that can be obtained, years to come. There will be areas land arid, in the flush of May, one The Thames, for obvious reasons, Yet really there are very few signs closed to speed of every kind, Na- 25 of the loveliest. A determined has had all the attention. It is the of a general revolt against up- tional Parks for Patient Persons, choosing the time

walker on the road from Oxford to river of the capital. To the Eliza- roar and outrageous racing. The and, of course, these will be situat- Hitler has been hold London would outstrip the patient bethan poets it was thus the foun- man who works in a whirring, ed round sedgy, sluggish rivers on enough to do. Great and vessel as it follows the meandering tain of the Muse, to Spenser It was clanging factory will like as not, whose flow of waters, tranquil as Thames and awaits the rise and the English Peneus, flowing by leap on to a whirring, clanging their users' flow of soul, the maxi- valiant nations, however, fall of water in the many locks. "the bricky towers" of the stu- motor-cycle and roar across coun- mum speed of any craft will not are not easily overcome The traveller by river in England dious lawyers and the stately try at the week-end, finding his exceed four miles an hour. This, of in a matter of days, heavisa water snail and repoicos in his palaces of the Tudor Strand, in- pleasure in the pace itself and not course, assumes that some slow- stead of past Tempe's pleasant in the peace to which it conveys movers will survive which may ly as they may reel before For those requiring a complete shore, and Thessaly's fair..glades. him. It is by no means certain that be rash. a crushing weight of ape from speed and dima jour- ney on the streams and canals or

tardiness.

By Ivor Brown

the young men of infinite daring slainant

been and endurance who have. scaling the skies at hundreds of miles an hour In this war will when peace comes feel the im-)

Milton, remembering. “Sabrina pulse

IMPRESSIONS OF

to walk on the hills or By ACHIM, “LUPE

and

and

armis. France appears to England offers most somir ilent and soothing opportunities, Indeed, have been temporarily travel seems to be altogether

TRAVELLER stupefied by the fury of too strong a word for such a pro-

After visiting Germany the tornado which struck gress: "journey" is better because fair." did something to restore the change or book a place on the Ox-

it suggests a day's work. Work? balance and put in his noble word ford-Kingston steamer and sit Austria, I returned to China short- her, and never recovered Hardly that. Unless one is propel- for the river that swerves superb- serenely dozing as that vessel ly before the declaration of War

by Italy. from having her theories in the vehicle with a pole or a ly out of Wales and almost back goes a-chugging among the moor-

paddle it is really a form of sleep again, forming the great salient of hens, slowly-skirting the willowy The situation within Germany of defensive warfare shat-sliding. The air of our lowland Shrewsbury Bridgnorth, Worces fringe of golden meadows, has become very bad as far as food tered by the "revolution-rivers is soft and the plashing of ter, Tewkesbury. But the London lingering in the gurgle of the and materials are concerned. I do the ripples against boat and bank influence has been too strong. If locks. They may ask instead for not believe that they have got ary strategy," as Goering is as potent a lullaby as (and more-a steamer piles on the Severn it speed boats, which will crash and much out of the occupied-teriji- is pleased to call it, which pleasant than) sitting in a cinema is as news. cavite mug the wideous dirt tories, because those countries sui- on a hot afternoon. The placid It is national news. That is the a quiet mere into an aqueous dirt- fered themselves great shortage consists in hurling an un- Ouse or Avon, Thames or Severn, difference. Yet the Severn has track, and prove that the habit of before the occupation since the paralleled aggregation of Giving a gentle kiss to every attractions wholly unknown be colossal acceleration is no more outbreak of the war, and after the

serige.

side the Thames--the steep and easily got rid of by provision of occupation much more on account force against a selected He overtaketh in his pil- castled banks of Bridgnorth, for the opposite than is the habit of of destruction. disorganisation and

grimage, 6

example, a town of Rhenish me drinking whisky dissipated by an disorder. I do not think that the point. The method is as is the gentle home of every patient jesty.....

offer of good, cold water.

Germans have yet got any great -old as war itself; only the people, of fishermen apparently Let us admit that a slow river The idea of dnevitable hunian material support from those ter-

sunk in a profound félicity of on a sultry day can he dank and reaction against the dominant ritories. weapons are new, and coma and of campers to whom a midgy source rather of headaches mood and practice of one's time What are our impressions about they were wielded with a mile is a great matter and any than of quickened heart and mind. is a 'happy one, but hardly sub-Italy?

water meadow, now turned by Injoyment of the water much de- ported by history. It is not true I met an Italian Professor, who gambler's audacity, the the buttercups into a field of the pends on one's reaction to a humid that the man who lives one way expressed the ardent hope that stakes for Hitler being cloth of gold, is an invitation to air. Some find it calming, others in his working hours insists on the Allies will win the war, for if

delay.

oppressive. For myself, despite the having something quite different not, he said, then no Européan nothing less than the mas-

happiest memories of the Dee at in his leisure. The busman's holi-nation will be safe any more from tery of the world. Not the and has no love for the sleepy Chester, as well as of day is not an idle whier of the so-slavery, also, not the Italian. On Thames and Cherwell in equally clal observer but an actual fact. the boat I spoke to many Italians, British peoples alone, are capitalist" Democracies sleepy Oxford and of hours on less The people who live and work in of the liigher classes as well as conscious of what is at is but, belatedly, it is being renowned but sweetly secret a crowded mass prefer to take of the lower classes (seamen etc.), streams such as the Yorkshire their holidays in the same condi- but they were all very bitter about sue in these portentous borne in upon the cynical Derwent, the mountain rivers are tion. Solitude bores or frightens the present Italian policy of sup- days. America knows, and rulers of the Kremlin favourite: These, of course, are them. They are addicts of the great porting Germany; all wished that not for navigation, but to be fol- communal outing, the solid Black-Britain and France would win this is preparing not too late, that, in giving the signal towed on land. Here the water pool trek. Accordingly the men of war. I did not and a single sym- we mist trust and believe for Nazi Germany to at-music is rapid, the air keen, and the machine in war may be un-pathiser with the Germans, among the scenery austere, The over- able to endure its abserice in them. I confess, that this surprised to give the defenders of tack Poland and thus set whelming lushness, the jungle of peace; the master of 400 m.ph. me very much. Because here there freedom more of the aid Europe aflame, they un-sedge and weeds are replaced by may condescendito 200:asthis holl- is a government obviously carry

rock The change from green to day pace, but not to anything less. ing out a policy against the wishes which they so direly need leashed forces which may sterner colours is not universally So perhaps it will be the folk of their own people, and I do not Russia also knows. She yet he turned upon them-popular. But if I had to choose two who already move slowly who belleve that this will turn out so or three days of perambulation by will be faithful to such lovable well. I cannot understand how the cares nothing for freedom, selves.

the bunks of any English river 1 Inggurds"us" "the "Oxford Kingston Italian government can do that..