1941-04-29 — Page 23

THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 29, 1941.

CHINA MAIL

WINDSOR HOUSE

BRITAIN SPEAKS

Those who listened to Mr. Churchill's broadcast, and it was heard by mil- lions, must have felt once again the inspiration, the courage, the confidence

and the honesty of the Prime Minister. Charac- teristically, Mr. Churchill made no attempt to gloss over the effects of the de- feat in Greece or the dan- ger in Libya, nor did he try to cheer his hearers with false hopes or vague promises. He has looked at all aspects of the pre- sent war in Europe SO long that he seems to pos- sess an uncanny power of prophecy as to its future course as well as its final outcome-and can, there-i fore, speak more calmly and with greater assur- ance than a man of lesser vision.

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Mr. Churchill did not waste time in abuse of the Germans or in such bombastic utterances as are SO beloved by the German Fuehrer. He did not minimise the dangers to which the Democra- cries are exposed, but he was able to say that we must not lose our sense of

"But we've never had anything] I get my presents from the kings proportion, that Hitler

banned before. Never! Valentijas usual this year, or do i have cannot find escape from replaced his glass on the counter to have them from the dictators? avenging justice by ad- with a bang to show his indignia Nice presents he'd get from them tion and incidentally, its empli- ventures in the East, that ness. What do yeni mean, ban- he must conquer the ed British Isles or fail, and that the danger to which Britain is exposed to-day is

less incomparably alarming than it was last

PROHIBIDO

summer.

his friend "Suppressed," said Quito. "Forbidden. Prohibido."

"But it won't even a real piere."

said Valenti, "It's only a film. Why can't they just put the usual notice outside, Adults Only"?,'

gag and a pair of blinkers." "Still, you know, Valenti," said Quito, "they've a sort of right to object if the film makes the die- tators ridiculous,"

"Why blame the film?" said Valenti reasonably. "They do it!

And most themselves.

of US haven't waited for that to have a good laugh at thein."

For in-

boss

lot of the people, because it wouldn't pay.

"Sounds like a better reason."

said Valenti; "but it doesn't fit the

case when it's only a few Italians. Who cares about offending them, anyway?"

"We're neutral," Quito remind- ed him. "This war's nothing to do with us."

"So's Carillos neutral, and hel made the picture," said Vulenti. "Nothing to do with us, eh? Go and take a look round the empty harbour and say that again."

The war hits us all," put in the grocer. "If you knew what this wine costs me now you'd be surprised."

"I dare

say we should," said Quito dryly, "but the others are all as bad as you. And Montez's place is full of Germans, all

Heiling and arguing."

"It's not that sort of a film, hombre It's perfectly decent."

"All the same," insisted Quito, "Then Mr. Churchill poured

why does everybody "some censorship's necessary, so want to see it?" demanded Valenti as not to offend people. scorn, furthermore, on conclusively. "No, no, there must stance, you remember my

in it, and pretty used to take his family to Europe suggestions of uneasiness be something

strong, tou, considering what you every year before the war --me and discouragement in do

see. Eh? Oh, thanks. Yes, and the car and the boys and his wife and all. We used to go to Britain as a consequence same again,"

The grocer

served them

London for the season." and of the Greek campaign. To

"What stood polishing a glass with his

season, Senor Quito?"

**I had an argument with one refute the suggestion, the apron. "Maybe it's one of these usked the grocer, as Quito, paused last time I was there," said Valenti, "He said that, naiming Prime Minister did not go orgies. Senor Valenti. Bacchan to sip his vino tinto.

alian revels and so on. It's à long

"I don't know," said Quito, "the no names, the greatest of Aryan to the night-clubs of Lon-time since I saw a good orgy" he fog never cleared long enough for races would soon be getting don, but he went to the added wistfully,

me to see. Well, I used to go to the earth and everything in it. "It's banned for pulitical rea- the pictures quite a lot battered cities of England

to get So he got a bit from me-in his sons," said Quito. "A certain for- warm, and d'you know, half the face, with a cactus in it; but he' and among the people, eign' Power objects; we oblige English pictures had the villain an didn't seem to want it. No pleas-

Argentine. But when they're ing some people." and his verdict provided them. It's only polite."

here they call him an "They must be pleased just "I don't care what foreign Power shown the most stirring passages it is said Valenti warmly, or Egyptian or Rumanian or some-

now about this ban, anyway,' Quito. their thing. It's a form of censorship.'

"That's what they like, of yet one more speech of whether they choke with

own macaroni,

and censor- And it isn't that "Why do they pick on us, Senor banning and orders historical brilliance.

I want to see the thing particu- Quito?" said the grocer, also rather ship." As to the future, Mr.iarly. I like a nice murder film flattered.

"It's what they have to like," amateur murders, 1 Churchill foresaw a new myself

"Well, the villain is always the said Valenti, "but I can't see us mean, none of this Nazi stuff. one that goes running after the taking to it here. I wonder, now, fierceness in the war in don't want to be told I can't girl, isn't he? So they can't make if the whole thing isn't a publicity may lift the the Mediterranean, pos- go if I like. That's dictator's talk. him an Englishman, because En- stunt. The Mayor

Dictators tcha" He aimed his

ban, and then everybody'll flock sibilities of great new opinion

glishmen don't," of them into a handy trouble-centres, in Tur-cuspidor. key, possibly in Russia, ed the grocer, correctly interpret- "Very trying they are," assent- possibly again in the Faring the opinion. Even the chil- Why, at East. The participation of dren talk about them.

Christmas my boy said to me. 'Do Spain on the German side, of the extension of

"

"

"Vamos, chet The Mayor wouldn't lend himself to a thing like that. Nobody'll go out of his way to see it except those with a

to see it." The grocer regarded him in in- credulous silence and Valenti cocked a sceptical eyebrow over the rim of his glass. "All lame or something?" he inquired.

"They don't have to, explained Quito. "In England, you see, there's about five women to one man."

"Is, that so?" said Valenti, in-

grudge against the dictators. It's quite simple if you want to; _go. over to Montevideo for the day. There's no ban on it in Uruguay.". "Is that so, senor," said,,.the the war to Morocco, can- in the crusade for the

grocer thoughtfully. "That ac- one of the not be ruled out. But none liberties of mankind, and terested. "I've always fanicled a counts for it, then. I've got a here and of these forays by Hitler spoke of the indescribable trip to England. Do you have to nephew working on be naturalised. or do tourists get ferry-boats between

Montevideo, and he says there's could

in the long run, in-relief he experienced when the full quota? fluence the real battle, he learned of the United the grocer, leaning over the coun- time of the Graf Spce. Always "Can you choose the five?" said been quite a fun on day trips just now, almost Ilke there was the now being fought over States decision to "put ter

crowded they are." Britain's shores, over Ger- the tools within

our Those..., are statistics," said "With us freedom-loving Ar- Quito patiently. "Figures in news-gentines," said Valenti triumph- man industrial areas, and reach." The significance papers, you know. Five women, antly and a trifle pompously, in the Atlantic. In the of the Prime Minister's or four and it half, I don't re- "showing our opinion of the cen

member great Battle of the Atlan interpretation of the sur- "Como, a half?" said the grocer, "With the English colony. I'll. tic, which Mr. Churchill veillance patrols could wondering whether he had care- bet," said Quito instantly, and saw as the crucial issue of hardly have been lost up- Inglesas were tall, of course, but

lessly missed a customer's joke the Americans, the war, he referred signl- on any of his hearers cer- half a woman! ficantly to Britain and the tainly it was not lost upon United States as partners Nazi listeners in Berlin.

sorship."

"No, señores," said the grocer, for once contradicting them both. That's what's so, odd. It's most-

to see that po ou can't ly the Italians and the Germans...

"You point,” continued

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