1940-10-24 — Page 21

THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 24, 1940

MUTT AND JEFF

WE'RE STILL QUITE A WAY FROM HOME! LET'S THINK HARD AND SEE IF WE CAN FIND

A WAY TO GET HOME!

LET'S SEE!

IF WE HAD SOME MONEY WE. COULD BUY TICKETS!

HOW INTELLIGENT! BUT WE HAVE NO MONEY! NOW LET'S TRY AND THINK OF SOME WAY!

LET ME SEE!

9-11

HOW COULD WE BUM OUR WAY? HOW COULDWE GET HOLD OF THE PRICE OF RAILROAD FARE?

MUTT, I'VE GOT IT! I KNOW HOW WE CAN GET THE MONEY!

HOW?

GO TO

WORK!

Page 5 By BUD FISHER

ALIEN CAMPS 'NO

JARGON IN

BETTER THAN GOAL WHITEHALL QUEEN'S THEATRE

This statement was made at the Central Hall, Westm aster, by Mr. H. W. Nevinson, the veteran var correspondent, in a speech to national confer- felegates at a

treated as

friends and

ailles,

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Mr. Churchill, attacking the "I have never felt so ashamed or humiliated in

jargon at Whitehall, invites his colleagues and the heads of Civil my life than at the behaviour of our country towards

Service departments to condense their reports and avoid "official- those foreign friends of freedom who came to this

cse,"

He quails at such phrases country expecting to find England a city of refuge."

as: "It is also of importance to has been for a long time. These bear in mind the following con- " or "Considera- at the sideration people, after suffering hands of despotism, came here tion should be given to the pos- thinking that they would besibility of carrying into effect..

Mr. A. P. Herbert, M.P., who but directly they landed they still wages his Word War, calls were posted off to a camp which jargon "Jungle English" and Is no better than a prison."

Sir "Ribbon-Writing."

Arthur Dr. Marrock, of the Socialist Quiller-Couch, another hater of Over 1,000 delegates, represent- Mcdical Assoc'ation, said over 65 woolly abstractions and pompous ng Trade Unions and other or- doctors and dentists were intern-periphrases, once remoulded ganisations, attended the confer-ed in this country, with no chance Hamlet's soliloquy in an exercise

of their immediate release, and beginning, "To be, or the con

had also been 600 nurses

dis- trary? Whether the former or the missed from their employment be- latter be preferable would seem

to admit of some difference of cause they were aliens.

opinion..

nce called by the Council for the Defence of Civil Liberties to dis- uss freedom of speech, associa~ ion and the Press.

ence.

"Sir John Anderson has blamed The War Oflice," added Mr. Nevin- son, "because of the risk in war ime of having aliens free in our midst.

“Shameful”

There were shouts of protest when the chairman of the con- ference, Mr. W. H. Thompson, announced that the Lord Privy Seal, Mr. Attlee, had refused to receive a deputation from the -Conference Committee.

"Officialese"!

of

the

Here are examples "officialese" which alarms the Prime Minister:-

"There must be some risk, but ve as British people are prepared to take such a small risk rather than allow this shameful treat- LL.G.'s Message

"Pending this it is suggested that, having regard to the structure of ment of our natural friends and allies, many of whom came to us Mr. Lloyd George sent a tele- industry in resulting in the

the to

the hope that whole almost invariably gaining escape from

tyranny gram expressing against which we are all fighting."our Government will not use a or suffering from the condition of it might be "I am not complaining against war in defence of civil liberty as the key industries, the conditions in the camps, al- an opportunity for suppressing it." considered reasonable to give a though I know that families have A telegram from Mr. W. Lunn, certain measure of orders to the beer separated, the father in Labour M.P. for Rothwell, said¦--area; any such action, it is be- Canada, the mother here and the that the "information disseminat- lieved, being likely to provide a son in Australia. I am protesting led by Duff Cooper, Harold Nichol-greater proportional alleviation of against friends of freedom being son and Bacon, the North-Eastern the very serious situation existing n internment camps at all. Regional officer, is the sort that then in almost any other district."

"The

the view of calculated to help "They came here believing is best

unity of participants in the conversations that England was a refuge and enemy in our midst."

nus been established regarding the exceptional importance at the

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