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THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 4, 1941.
CHINA MAIL
“WINDSOR HOUSE
AUSTRALIAN TROOPS
The arrival of Austral- ian
troops in Malaya seems to have aroused an astonishing amount of indignation in Japan, at least if the Japanese radio commentators can be cit- ed as indicators of Japan- ese opinion. These same commentators are, how- ever, labouring at a stupid falsity when they describe the Australian troops as hordes of "illiterate pea- sants, untrained and un- disciplined." One of the most important posts in! this day and age is that of a radio commentator. as they do much to mould. public opinion. The Axis Powers have adopted the| theory that the needs of propaganda demand adoption of the axiom which Hitler laid down when he declared in his text book, "Mein Kampf," that "in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility, because the broad masses of the nation more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small one.
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Japan: "Just a little slice off the rump, with your kind cooperation.”
Mr. Churchill
At
“Vehement. Jugh and daring
was his cast of mind."*
There is, however, no pro- So Mr. Churchill, in his one paganda value in stating and only novel, described the hero, what all the world knows and there
to be untrue. There being| no illiterates in Australia, there can be no illiterate peasants.
is no doubt that the character he had in mind was his
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battle how to rage."
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the doubtful form fighting. By his mother he had a right to wit and narrative power. But by his own account he was "an idle, unpunctual, untidy, shiftless, cheeky buy" at Harrow, hating games and work alike.
A portion of that spirit is m Winston Churchill's inheritance.
His recreations show yet an-
He
hum trifle in one of the few Bri-
tish cavalry charges that have happened in his lifetime,
In the South African War he was again a journalist only and again luck played the strangest bicks with him. He fought on an armoured train and was captured and taken prisoner to Pretoria. Then by # series of miraculous adventures he escaped and cume back a popular hero.
At the age
of 25 he had had
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