1940-10-24 — Page 5

THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 24, 1940

MUTT AND JEFF

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

A WAY TO GET HOME!

LET'S SEE! HF 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!

HOW COULD WE BUM OUR WAY? HOW COULD WE GET HOLD OF.

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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 QUEENS THEATRE

This statement was made at the Central Hall, Westminster, by Mr. H. W. Nevinson, the veteran war correspondent, in a speech to 1. delegates at a national confer- ence called by the Council for the Defence of Civil Liberties to dis- cuss freedom of speech, associa- tion and the Press.

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Mr. Churchill, attacking jargon at Whitehall, invites his colleagues and the heads of Civil Service departments to condense

their reports and avold "official-

"I have never felt so ashamed or humiliated in my life than at the behaviour of our country towards 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- people, after suffering at the sideration ." or "Considera- hands of despotism, came heretion should be given to the pos- thinking that they would he sibility of carrying into effect. treated as friends and allics, 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."

"R.bbon-Writing." Sir Arthur Dr. Marrack, of the Socialist Quiller-Couch, another hater of Over 1,000 delegates, represent-Medical Association, said over 65 woolly abstractions and pompous ing 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- 600.nurses had also been dis-trary? Whether the former or the missed from their employment be- latter be preferable would seem cause they were aliens.

to admit of some difference of

ence.

"Sir John Anderson has blamed the War Office," added Mr. Nevin- son, "because of the risk in war time of having aliens free in our inidst.

“Shameful”

There were shouts of protest opinion.

when the chairman of the con- ference, Mr. W. H. Thompson, announced that the Lord Pr.vy Seal, Mr. Attlee, had refused to receive a deputation from the Conference Committee.

LL.G.'s Message

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Here are examples of the "There must be some risk, but

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which alarms we as British people are prepared

Prime Minister— to take such a small risk rather than allow this shameful treat-

"Pending this it is suggested that, ment of our natural friends and

having regard to the structure of allies, many of whom came to us Mr. Lloyd. George sent a tele-industry, in- resulting in the to escape fromi the tyranny gram expressing the hope that whole almost invariably gaining against which we are all fighting.our Government will not use 'n or suffering from the condition of "I am not complaining against war in defence of civil liberty as the key industries, it might be the conditions in the camps, al- an opportunity for suppressing it." considered reasonable to give a though I know that familles have A telegram from Mr. W. Lunn, certain measure of orders to the been 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 protestinged 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 in internment camps at all.

Regional officer, is the sort that then in almost any other district." "They came here belleving is best calculated to help the that England was a refuge and enemy in our midst."

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"The unity of view of the participants in the conversations has been established regarding the exceptional importance at the present time of an all-embracing collective organisation of security on the basis of the indivisibility of peace,"

"The Minister sees no reason to question the view of the Council that, having regard to the fact that the site is closely adjacent to a road Junction and that vehicles must enter or leave the premises in reverse gear or alternatively stand on the highway, the increase in traffic to and from the pre- mises, consequent upon the erec- tion of the pumps, is likely to be detrimental to public safety.".

Now Whitehall must search in- stead for the "short expressivę phrase." Mr. Churchill says that the discipline of setting out the real points concisely will help clearer thinking.

We wait anxiously for officials: to "give consideration to the pos- sibility of putting into immediate practice the reconumendations with regard to verbiage stressed by the Prime Minister in a memorandum which has lately been circulated for scrutiny to responsible ȧu-. thorities in the departments con- cerned."

Or words to that effect.

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