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THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 5, 1941.

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America "Ever Ready To Fight Again"

For Democracy SIGNIFICANCE IN ROOSEVELT PHRASE?

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SPEAKING AT THE DEDICATION WOODROW WILSON'S BIRTHPLACE STAUNTON, VIRGINIA, AS A NATIONAL SHRINE YESTERDAY, PRESIDENT ROOSE- VELT DECLARED THE AMERICAN PEOPLE HAD FOUGHT BEFORE AND WERE “EVER READY TO FIGHT AGAIN” FOR THE EXIST- ENCE OF “DEMOCRACY IN THE WORLD.”

The President said Woodrow Wilson taught that Democracy could not survive in isolation. "We applaud his judgment and his faith," the President added.

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Declaring the Manse where Woodrow Wilson was born "a new shrine of freedom,' President Roosevelt said that by the act of de- dication "we are bearing true witness to the faith that is in us, a simple faith in the free- dom of Democracy in the world.

Mr. Mrs.

GERMANS GUN LIGHTHOUSE

Lighthouse keepers in the Pentland Firth waved when they saw a bomber flying to- wards them. They thought it was British,

But the 'plane, a German, machine- gunned the lighthouse, smashing glass and doing interna! damage.

The keepers dived for cover. Their chil- dren, who were play- ing in the open, ran to an old quarry for shelter.

SUCH A NATION CANNOT DIE

CANADIAN M.P.S CHEERED AND THUMPED THEIR DESKS | WHEN MR. LAPOINTE, MINIS-

TER OF JUSTICE, SAID:

"It is the kind of faith for which pact of spiritual force.” we have fought before and for Lord and Lady Halifax, the existence of which we ure and Mrs. Cordell Hull and ever ready to fight again." Woodrow Wilson were among President Roosevelt express the large gathering who applaud- ed faith that Democracy wouldled strongly when

President lions emerge triumphant from the Roosevelt notified the world that women and "traglo conflict which the world the United States was "ever ready end the war by surrender if they witnesses to-day.

to fight again."

"ALL RECORDED HISTORY Further cheers greeted the Pre-

BEARS WITNESS THAT THE sident's declaration that those re- HUMAN RACE HAS MADE lying on the sword would perish TRUE ADVANCEMENT ONLY by it. AS IT HAS APPRECIATED HUMAN VALUES.

Eulogy

"The world admires Britain. "We admire above all the mil- of long-suffering men, children who could

brought pressure on their Gov- jernment, but who refuse.

"Such a nation is a great nation. It cannot die, cannet lose.

"We will try to be worthy of that splendid people and great nation, and will not fall her in her

Reuter.

Destiny Of Sword The remainder of the Presid-hour of trial."

"Those unhappy peoples who have placed their sole reliance on the sword have inevitably perished by the sword in end.

"Physical strength can permanently withstand the

ent's speech was devoted to an eulogy of Woodrow Wilson as a statesman who tried to

bring nearer the day of "emancipation the

of conscience from power the substitution of freedom never the government of the world."--

im-Reuter.

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"Pussy-cat,

pussy-cat,

have you been. ?"

cat

where

Panda, black and white pet 01 Miss Alice Edmonds, couldn't tell you where he's been, though he's been most places.

He wants to see the world and is probably England's most widely travelled cat.

His mistress, a schoolteacher near Woodborough, Wilts, travels by train from there to Newbury, Berks, and back once, or some- times twice, a week.

And Panda accompanies her. If she tries to leave him behind he follows her to the s'ation.

When not on a train he's gener- ally to be seen peeping out of the basket on Miss Edmonds's bicycle.

Wears A Collar

Getting ready for a journey Is this star turn. He'll carry his own rug downstairs to be pack ed and sit on his miatrosa's suit- case until it. is time to leave.

He wears a collar and lead and will follow like a dog. S'ationmasters and porters all know him, and once on the train Panda is sure to find a corner seat where he sits up and looks out of the window;

TINKER TAILOR-

and in

Almost everyone to-day knows that for air raid warning purposes the British Isles are divided into numerous sections.

that the in- Many know, too, structions for sounding the sirens in these areas in Brighton or or Berwick-go Bodmin, Bangor

from the Headquarters of out Fighter Command. But few know that the men in that headquarters who sift the Observer Corps' re- ports form an amazing cross- section of peace-time life.

the

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One morning among the men whose job it is to know whether the approaching machine is hostile, there may a barrister; in afternoon an artist; at night journalist: next day there may be an actor, an engineer, the son of à famous England cricketer, broker, a shopkeeper, a scientist, a mathematician, an economist, a commercial traveller, a car sales- man, a factory owner or a famous sportsman.

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Some of them were young Royal Air Force officers in the last war, at the end of which they were faced with the problem of forging a new career for themselves, They soon forgot their wings and their ribbons, and with the same spirit with which they had tackled the Boche of 1914-18 they tackled that by no means easy task.

In: the many different avenues into which "design, or chance guid- ed their footsteps they met with

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Almost human," Miss Edmonds's sister, who lives at Newbury, told

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"He once followed my sister to school, but he must have been disappointed when he found there wasn't a Journey the other, end, He didn't stay and he never fol- lowed her there again."

the danger signal which followed Munich sent them flocking to the ||Royal Air Force Volunteer Re- serve, once more offering their services to the country,

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They knew, of course, that their actual flying days, were over, yet in their new sphere they are per- forming duties none the less vital.

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