1940-07-10 — Page 7

THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 10, 1940

NE KOT NA: INDIAWASAKI (92)

CHINA MAIL

-WINDSOR HOUSE

WITHOUT

RESPECT

"We must not deceive ourselves," Moltke report- ed to Berlin on the eve of the Battle of the Marne. "We have had successes, but we have not yet had victory" That, without depreciation of Hitler's astounding achievements, may fairly be said to be the position of the Ger- inan's to-day.

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BRITISH CAVALRY TANKS EXERCISE—The mobility of the British modern light tank is well-known. They are able to operate over the roughest of country and extricate themselves in an amazing manner from all sorts of seemingly impos- sible positions. They are now being turned out in increasing numbers as a "welcome" to Herr Hitler. (Copyright, Fox).

Rags To Patches

you would enough money for trans-oceanic building. There was a time have had to take even an Ameri- travel, and there are us yet pro-

haps state it in personal terms United States.

We must not count up- on a repetition of the blunders which caused Moltke to be superseded in 1914, and we cannot to- day expect another mira- cle of the Marne. Things

to all sorts of political as well as have passed that stage.

When the people know why social misunderstandings.

Thus the person who accepts a The triumphs which elud-can Congressman aside and ex- vided no allowances to make pos- their diplomatic service needs,

appointment: must ed the Kaiser when they plain this thing to him. And per- sible proper periodic visits to the more support, the service will get diplomatic

it. Legislative opinion is still res- either be assured of sufficient ap- seemed to be within his with a put-yourself-in-these-shoes One result is that many a male ponsive to public opinion in the propriations to cover his needs, or land whose capital is Washington, must be in a position to supple- grasp are already Hitler's. argument to convince him tot worker never again sees "the Firs This can be judged from the pres- ment his Government's provision

the, American State Department he left behind him." He marries He is in Paris. The whole could use more money usefully. into a foreign family and becomes sures that develop whenever na- out of his private pocketbook. A You would have said: "Suppose, even more Anglo- or Franco- or threaten some sectional interest. the American service is to make

tional economy measures begin to résult of inadequate provision in. of the Channel ports are

Mr. Congressman, that you were Italophile than he otherwise in his hands.

appointed to represent your coun- would. Perhaps this is not Between Britain and try abroad. Are you a rich man? tirely disadvantageous to the ser- Well, then, what would you do on vice or to. the cause of world un- disaster, however, there perhaps a quarter of the money derstanding, but its disclosure may still lies the Channel and that some other Governments al- the low their representatives in the North Sea and it re- United States?" And he might "I'd live within my mains essentially true have said:

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By Carlyle W. Morgan

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the appointment of an Ambassa- dor contingent on wealth as well as ability, arid, sometimes The counterpart of the Con- contingent on the former than the gressman of yesterday, who had to litter. Many a person be told is many an American cili- wealth of tact, education, insight zen who does not yet comprehend and moral courage must consider the part that social obligation the shortness of his money purse diplomatic plays in the sphere of diplomacy. when considering This voter still thinks that if he career. Democracy has therefore were sent abroad he would man- a hurdle to jump before it really. age to do his job without expen- can set the pace for ability in the

foreign service.

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that despite the tragedy ment and put on no airs. I'd do of the French collapse, it the Americas they found me, nevertheless enlist young Ameri- Hitler still has far to go toĮ But would he?" And if he can womanhood in the cause of sive entertainment:

for He does not realize that an Am- While recognising vast improve reap the victory.

would his representation adequate travel allowances

bassador to an important capital ment, both in the service and in abroad be worth even the limit- these workers,

for it, Surrender of King Leo-ed amount that his Government Though, to-day, happily, the may find himself the recipient of the financial provisions pold and then of Marshal spent to send him and maintain story, is no longer one of "diplom- such courtesies as cannot be re- State Department officials

of paid without great, expense pos- opportunity for further gains. him there? And

would he be acy in rags," it still is one

or. Both in the case of subordinates Petain, "the victor of Ver- truly representative of the diplomacy often in patches. But sibly fifty or sixty dinners

average

citizen other social events, many of them in mindr posts and in the case of dun," the overrunning of "American way?" These are ques- nowadays the

than the Congressman in his honours within the first Ambassadors to the most impor

capitals, these advances vast territories in all thresh out with him.

needs the talking-to on this mat- ninety days of his stay. The citi- fant these ways and at three To-day it is not so necessary to ter, say the gentlemen behind the zen may Have to be reminded that would seein appropriate in a' di- convince Congress that the Unit- white shutter-like doors that open unless such obligations, can be re- plomatic service dedicated to the times the speed, history ed States, foreign representatives off the almost too venerable cor- paid, they can hardly be accepted, maintenance of democratic pres- has tragically repeated it-need adequate funds to carry out ridors of the State Department and that refusal of them may lead tige. self after 25 years. And stably. It is recognised at the this time "the Hun is at State Department, even emphasis- ed, that. the political parsimony the gate" in circumstan with which the Department had ces which carry more once to contend has given way to notable improvement in the situa- meaning to Britons than tion of the United States diplo- has such a threat ever be-matic corps, Yet in at least two sections of the diplomatic service fore.

inadequate. financial provisión

their functions properly, and pro-

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Golden Banners

ised and re-equipped and point out by way of illustration. the golden banner which came in ed with black and maroon. My sence: There was

At the other end of the diplo-blossom during the first week of feet sank deeply in the soft, cold spicy, smell of sage in the air.

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Logically, I should have stayed blackbirds whose flute-like song rolling hills and far down in the ribbon It makes gratifying hampers the most desirable de-

velopment of this service.

home and helped with the spring filled the air. One handsome fel- green valley, a silvery reading, therefore, to be These two sections are the high-work instead of going for flowers. low and his mate were especially where the creek wound its way. assured that the B.E.F..est bracket and the lowest brac- The mellow black loam of the nervous and hovered closely over Beyond the creek there were wild horizon stretched after the staggering dis-kethe Ambassadorships in the garden plot had been plowed and my head, scolding and threaten- breaks and arroyos and low across

world's chief capitals such as warmed by three full days of May ing all sorts of dire consequences the northern

Black Hills.' location caused by the London, Paris, Berlin, Rome, and sunshine. It was high time the unless I took my immediate de.. the mysterious purple haze of the

im peas and carrots were planted, for parture. withdrawal from Dunkirk the minor positions in less

My downward trail led through › portant cities, consular assistants, already the potatoes had pushed They should have known better

their fuzzy tops through the than wärn a twelve-year-old a busy settlement of prairie dogs and then again after the clerks and so forth.

ground and the winter rye had prairie girl in such fashion! which sat stiffly erect by their I tremendous effort to bring the Court of St. James's has to

The American Ambassador to been in head for a week past.

Hastily removing shoes and holes and barked shrilly as

A great, long-eared the maximum possible as- keep up with the London Joneses a most important occasion in our waded into

But, after all, this was May -- stockings, I lifted my skirts and passed.

the tules where I jackrabbit sprang from the shel- sistance to France for the on scarcely more than a fourth of household. It was father's birth- found

away. A the nest-a dainty grass tering grass and loped

trotted along the the means at the disposal of the day! Battle of the Somme, has British Ambassador to Washing-

pouch suspended from the reeds. gray coyote Father was particularly fond of In it were four blue eggs, splotch- ridge, all unmindful of my pre-

the pungent.~* been completely reorgan-ton, State Department officials

I swung over the ridge into a is ready for the worst matic scale are the members of May and in our section of Wes- ooze which made little sucking

the clerical staff of the Foreign tern Dakota was found in only, ooze which made little sucking protected valley where bluebells Leaving the dam my trail led on grew largest and where the edges threat that Hitler can service who have never made one small area, two miles from our bring to bear against the the unpatriotic inistake of Edward homestead. For more years than through the upper pasture where of waterholes were each spring-

Everett Hale's "man without I could remember, mother and I the slopes were waving green seas bordered by the soft, orchid tones British Isles.

country," but yet experience Phi- had always arranged, as a special of, prairie grass. The white faced of the Dakota lily. At last That, and the an-lip Nolan's inability to return to surprise, to have a big bouquet of cattle were sleek and fat: Meadow sighted the golden banners acres

their native land. Their incomes day dinner table..

the yellow blossoms on his birth- larks sang from every fence post upon acres of them. In this shel- tered valley the south wind was nouncement that the step hardly permit

and occasionally I came them to save

Immediately after breakfast I little grass nests where baby horn- tempered to a bare whisper and the knee-deep which will complete the

slipped from the house and down ed larks awaited their parents' blowing over

yellow carpet carried the soft, through, the orchard, using every return with ever-open, ever-ex- mobilisation of industry

across the sweet fragrance far fof the war effort is about on that basis and only care that my departure be un- pectant beaks.

observed, so the surprise would

At last I had climbed the buttes The goal had been gained all to be taken, should give us with readiness to scrap be complete.

and was approaching the boundary too soon, for the sky was so blue, fence which divided the fertile the air so clear, the morning so the fullest confidence. For accepted methods

homestead lands of my father from big and beautiful in this grand

of new world. there is only one thing which the panicky eva-

the vast, unpeopled sweeps

That evening, with the radiant that can beat us, and that cuation of Hong Kong ist was pleasant in the orchard, the open range. To us it wasn't

The last plum blossoms had fallen' is ourselves.

one.

and tiny green leaves were Burst- just a fence: We saw it as the ad- blossoms shedding their glory vance guard of a New Empire; ond over father's birthday dinner, I ing from the naked limbs, The late which marked the coming of civi- asked why he loved this parti To avoid that self-im- The Prime Minister, apples were white with bloom and isation, of homes and promise. cular flower so well. molation, we must use our and Mr. Bevin, have given the Norway poplars had leaves Beyond it lay the old, untamed The sdid 1 probably wouldn't

the size of a cat's ear.

Westcattle country and free- understand but to him they were best men and to the full- us the vigour of action in

My path led past the stock dam, dom, the prairie primeval emblems of promise for no mat- est advantage, without the primary field. If it is A pair of mallard ducks flew out To me it was the thrill supreme ter how long or disheartening the respect to previous custom reflected in vigour of the cat-tails and a muid hen to reach this dividing line at the winter, unfurling of the golden dove hastily at my approach, very summit of the ridge. Not banners theant andther.spring 'and' faith and or the established rules' action and intelligence in Great schools of tadpoles and baby until my hands touched the wire filled with hope

sh lay in the sun-warmed shat would I let my gaze sweep over strength for a brave, new begin- We can match "organisa- the others, we can sleep lows at the upper end of the dim the wide expanse of prairie bo- ning. They seemed to him to then as cen- symbolize the prairie people tion with organisation, easily. Outside that, we and water skaters sported over fore me, the same

the Burfate. The pussy willows turies before not a house nor themselves. NELL MURBAR iron with iron," but only can but hope for the best were thronged with red-winged a field, neither trail nor tree, only GER,

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