THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 19,-1940
CHINA MAIL
WINDSOR HOUSE
"1066 AND ALL THAT"
Looking around for new fields of "Ersatz" to con- quer, the Nazis are report- ed to have discovered one in British history. It is reported that they are go- ing to write English his- tory in the way they think it should, as the little boy said, be "wrotten." And to achieve the effect that the little boy's blunder, sug- gests, they are going to use passages of self-criti- cism from great English writers.
But there is nothing worthy of the Nazi "new order" in such a project. The job has already been done, as is proved by the | existence of source mater- | ial for the German study. It has been done, let it be noted, by Englishmen who could say what they pleas- ed about the system un- der which they lived:
Such writers already have provided the sort of "history" which the Nazis seem likely to produce. In "1066 and All That" one may read a volume pos-
The
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Pete Wenyal.
'HULLO! GOING MY WAY
(Copyright in All Countries.)
Pare
Balance Sheet
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sibly as accurate. Here The British are inclined to fix of the Mediterranean and the rest; tite puct between Germany, Italy' ed. firmly together those who saw
there is a note for would their attention
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had the achieve-nt that inland sea is still a British and Japan
an electrifying the threat to their interests. for the Italian effect on the United States against The United States, Britain, be conquerors of the Eritments and success of the enemy controlled sea,
and to forget or ignore the ad fleet dare not come forth from its whom it was aimed. The signing China, Australia, Canada and the ish Isles in the authors' vantages they have gained. base to challenge British supre- accompanied by so much publi- Netherlands East Indies are now
Germany undoubtedly typical observation that
has macy there.
city, photography and ceremonial united in a common cause. The every reason to be satisfied with
was meant to impress and spread further expansion of Japan will William the Conqueror the tremendous advances. her THE Egyptian forces have been fear among present and potential bring this formidable group which Hitler strengthened, and the British, energies. With Germany, such encircles. Japan into immediate managed to drive some armed forces have made.
can look across. the whole of
fleet strongly reinforced. signing is far more important than action. - Britons back into the hills Europe from his Eyrie in Berch- There were five battleships in the spirit of the pact or the ob-
The opening of the Burma Road of Wales, thus causing tesgarten and feel very proud of building long before the war start- servance of it, since Hitler has a followed the conclusion of the pact
himself.
far greater reputation for repu- and at once restored. the confid- them to become Welsh, The latest acquisition is Rum- It is reasonable to suppose that diating treaties than for keeping ence and self-respect of all Brit- didish people in the Fay East. These and that it is now consid-unia with its rich oil-fields, and they have now taken their place them. This pact however,
fèrtile soil inhabited by a people on the battle line.
have a profound effect. It crystal- are great gains and go to prove ered doubtful whether who value their liberty at so small But of course the fifty Ameri-lised a situation that was both that the power of the British Em- this was a "Good Thing."
a price that they do not think it can destroyers have added con- nebulous and fluid in the Pacific, pire is now beginning to produce worth defending. A paralysis siderably to our escort fleets. Then or, to vary the metaphor, it weld-results. There are several things seems to have come over them, again we are inclined to think of the German leaders are and made them an easy prey for the bombing of London and for- the vultures which have now des doing to-day which may some day be considered similarly mistaken by their own people.
READY-TO-WEAR
cended upon them. The Nazis are still on their inner lines of
defence and on the mainland can march their armies where and when they will, But the occupa- | tion of this neutral state with the connivance and cooperation of General Antonescu is in itself a confession of; fallure.
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By "CIVIS"
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cliffs.
I Shall Go Again
I know I shall go again to see be worn; find a. French hat to wear St. James's Park in June. The at such an angle; laugh over the great ship will pull lazily into gargoyles clowning it from the Southampton Harbour, some.foggy safe vantage of Cathedral roots. I morning, while the cold, salt wind shall eat epinards a la creme and get the devastating effect of the goes hunting the decks for return-have a chateaubriant with what a It would surprise Ann
visits of the Royal Air Force to ing visitors to England's chalky sauce at a boulevard cafe.. military objectives in Germany,
The little fishing crait Taylor, who wrote, a hun-ITLER at the Brenner meeting
No Nazi rule, no Fascist claims Not only has the Air Force sav-with red and yellow and black can ever stop my France from be- dred years ago,
had to confess to his fellow ed us from invasion, it has also sails will come curiously alongside ing France, any more than they conspirator Mussolini that the taken the war into the enemy's to look us over; and spon the train can take a Frenchman's shrug Thank you, pretty cow, that made Pleasant milk to soaks iny bread, Invasion and conquest of Britain country. That is a new exper-will be unravelling the miles. to-away at will. know that I shall And I shall go again, to' gratitude to pretty cows real defeat of the war and having ered defeat in the last war her scurrying white clouds, and the Belgium with its great, still he had to ap- property suffered very little dam- subtle, shifting light of after-forests, its friendly Flemish may soon include exter- boasted so much
pease his people by some specta- age. Goering had assured Ger- noon.
tolk who eagerly draw us into nal as well as internal sat-cular move against a spiritless na-many that no British 'plane would
I shall see the Park with the sun converse. I shall eat crepe suzette tion,
cross the German frontier much, nestling cozily in great beds of iris covered with a chocolate sauce. be- isfaction.
Then the much heralded parti-less-inflict any damage.
-yellow, blue, and white, and the yond description: at. that little
through their lunch hour. The Union Jack waved in the wind
to learn that such property. He had suffered the first hus fought in many wars and 'suff- little gardens along the tracks, the
be ruled out even as a pos- ience for Germany. Although she ward London. There will be the go again.".
erlalised. Why we do know, Ruhr, where
The beginning of a new cipation in the war by Spain on Well, enormous ́damage has solemn business-men, strolling hostelry, in Le, Coq, where the industry has been made the side of the Axis has not mat, been cone to surty per sent. of children will be there. feeding the from the North Sea beside the flag by converting skim-milk but Spanish possessions over sea Germany's armament works are ducks in the little river. No bomb of Belgium, to signalise visitors into wool, differentiated nerable to
like the Canary Islands are vul- and oil plants at a dozen different is made that can destroy. West-from across the Channel. I. shall sca power. Spanish places. Her docks at Humburg minster by-the-Thames. Great go again at twilight, just as the from the sheep's as "milk South America which has thrown and Bremen together with the square, solid and censorious yet last rays of sun fall in the old in its lot with the United States, ships in them have suffered very aspiring too--here it will stand cathedral at Antwerp to see wool," and usable for up would give no encouragement to heavily from the R.AT. bombers. forever..
Rubens' "Descent from the Cross" I know that shall go again" to holstery, hat making, and General Franco.
The psychological effect on Ger
-to stand enraptured by the other purposes for which would be aggravated by the cur, mans asserted that the British sheep graze motionless in the float-hand brush. No. tyrant's
Spain's impoverished condition many, is profound, since the. Ger- the Sussex Downs in May, where master's.
shall ever be able to the sheep has been tailment of her trade with Britain were decadent ns. their fighting ng shadows of clouds that drift destroynay even to occupy
and North and South America. spirit had been sapped by ease across the hills. I shall smell the my Belgium, and I shall go again, sheared.. There is a sub- Franco also owes his position very and luxury. These punishing at heather, wet with rain, on a Scot stance known as casein in largely to the encouragement and tacks carried out with the highest tish mountain; buy Baens at an
I was thinking of Holland this blessing of the Pope whose ad- degree of courage, give the llo to
Irish market.
morning as I laid the Dutch break- skim-milk, which
on vice on this occasion to his loyal such an accusation in a form that
fast cloth, a bright, cheerful one closer, acquaintance was catholic subjects would be against even the most docile German can-
One day I shall go again to interspersed with blue and red participation. found to have very much Whatever the reason we must
travel slowly through the chateaux and green figures which I cherish of the Loire, stopping to smell the for the darker mornings: It:dofles: the same properties as count it a diplomatic triumph that THEN the Italian advance: to flowers climbing round little a Holland conquered, Holland oc- sheep's wool..
Chemical not actively hostile. So at leastwards Egypt has been halted. French provincial houses, white, cupled, Holland lost. What made treatment removes from for the time being the gateway solini merely a matter of advane meadowland round about. I shall strayed, nor stolen. It lives in the the skim-milk everything except the casein, which,
Spain is still non-belligerent. and
nat fail to understand.
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It, too, was according to Mus- clean, and sunned in the level my little cloth, is neither lost,
ing tccording to timo-table' and it sit in the courtyard of the Faisan, heart of Holland along with her her should certainly have been easy d'Or, in Tours, bathed in the soft tulips, hor sunlit canals, for their task was halved while French air of the countryside, wooden shoes, and galleries filled ours was doußledɛas a result of watch natives washing their with Rembrandt, Rubens and
clothes and chattering by the Franz Hals. I want to go again to.. the French collapse:
broad, beneficent river's edge I stand at the crossing waiting for. THEN we shift our gaze from shall go to the Gardena of the goy, bicyclists to pass, to look at Europe to Asia we have still Luxembourg to watch adorable windows shining with an unbe- more reason to be thankful. babies clad in the briefest skirts Bevable cleanliness..
DOROTHY DESMOND..
is changed into the fibres perhaps some author of necessary for spinning it Verse for children will add another couplet to Miss into milk wool.
Where the sheep has Taylor's— led, the cow follows, and For the wool that makes my dress The solemn signing of the Tripar
Thank you, protty cow, ng Icss
and the shortest pants possible to
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