1941-06-09 — Page 7

THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 9, 1941.

CHINA MAIL

WINDSOR HOUSE

ARITHMETIC OF CONQUEST

Nobody reads statistics.

Every cub reporter

knows that rule.

"Tell the story in terms

of John Smith

John

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of MILK daily is necessary for the maintenance health & energy

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beneficial form

Smith's family

Smith's dog.

John

But to-day is an excep- tion. There are some statistics dictated by a man named Hitler.

And to the John Smiths of five countries, and to the families of John Smiths, the total forms, the most tragic burden in the world.

You can say it quickly.

It is four billion dollars.

It is Hitler's bill to Nor- way, to Denmark, to Bel· gium, to the Netherlands, and to France. It is pure- ly a business proposition.| These countries lost their wars. They must pay the expenses of the armies of occupation- £840,000,000 a year.

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CYPRUS

WHO IS THE MORE WATCHFUL?

MATSUOKA

Publicity Chief

hood by his king.

By Corolyn Cox

Returning to England on leave

Sir Gerald Campbell, the com- Germany didn't make paratively new British Minister

in 1911, Sir Gerald persuaded Miss the figure public. Per-to the United States, who has just vigorously replied to Col. Charles

Margaret Juler, who was studying haps the Nazis knew that A. Lindbergh's reniarks about

music at the Royal Academy In nobody reads statistics Britain's military record, and has

London, to marry him and go out now been appointed Lo handle and thought that the British publicity in the

to set up housekeeping in the United world wouldn't be inter-ed by his countrymen. It was on States, was only recently discover-

Congo, at Elizabethville in the |Katanga District. When the brid ested.

the completion of fourteen years

and groom arrived, the brick bun- of continuous expanding success well-turned phrases. He acquired galow being built for them by But Britain was inter-in the British Consular Service in in a privileged fashion his intim-local workmen had suffered from the United States that his name ate knowledge of the Book with their neglecting to put a roof où ested. A parliamentary turned up in the New Year's which he now enriches his public till they had done the rest of the secretary recently put the Honours List, awarded a knight- speaking.

house and the rains had come and gone. figures together and ex- plained them to the Sir Gerald was born in St.

Mary's, Hertfordshire, in House of Commons.

one of a family of four sons and two daughters of Mary Head and He couldn't get thethe Rev. Colin Campbell. Clergy- amounts for Poland, forman Campbell put together most excellent sermons, and small Rumania, or for Bulgaria. Gerald's ears were early accus- But even without them

tomed to beautiful English and the total compares quite favourably with all that Germany paid in repara-

actual cost of maintain-want to be, he followed the usual

line of least resistance — taught In the middle of the first World tions for the War of ing the Reich's legions on school for a year at Haywards War Sir Gerald was transferred

Heath. School teaching French soil, and the Ger- 1914-18.

settles from Venice to Ethiopia, and off many an uncertain mind and Ithe trekked, with his wife and two mans are using the differ-settled Gerald Campbell. He tutor small daughters, to take up resids

At an early age Sir Gerald moved with his family to Weston- There being no one else to play

his 1877, Super-Mare, and there attended a the piano parts for

wile! small private school. But "boys violin sonatas, Sir Gerald picked. are made the kind of men they them out himself. become in their homes," says Miss Florence Campbell, his sister, who lives with her brother.

Sir Gerald went on to Repton and Trinity College, Cambridge. but he did not want to be a clergy- man. Not knowing what he did

In Ethiopia

And even a world which ence to "purchase" an the British Consular Service.

ed and took the examinations for ance in Addis Ababa. ("New.

is not interested in interest in French indus-

figures, and has forgotten try. them, will remember the

the

protest that Germany If John Smith is a Nor- made over the "iniquities wegian, it will cost him of Versailles." It will re- £20 a year. If he is, a member the conviction Netherlander, it will with which German amount to about £5 statesmen assailed the annually. Nor does "astronomical" demands burden stop there. of the Dawes and Young hunger and want, also plans. It will remember imposed, have followed in how convincingly the the footsteps of the Nazis. Reich's economists proved that Germany could not pay

For

There has been much argument over the cause of this privation. But the But Denmark, Norway, grim statistics to-day dis- Belgium, the Nether close the cause and the lands, and France must intent. pay. Their economy has been disrupted by war, their markets shut off Their raw materials are

African Saga.

Blower") among the eucalyptus: trees planted by Haile Selassie's predecessor, Menelik. The Camp- bell's third daughter, Jean, born in the Ethiopian capital,

was

It's hesh for the F.m its sulitresh when

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ly sealed.

When Sir Gerald was sent out from Ceylon to Philadelphia in |1920, he had no idea of the im- portance to himself and to his Contry of the chapter he was THESE FACES about to begin. The American, usinessman discovered one of the heard in many moons. Sir Geralit best, after-dinner, apealsera lig: hadi was in demandes

Vice-Consul-et Ria-was. Camp bell's first post, and then came the African Ban Throughout his consular service, he has landed continually in independent, pgsts From: 1908 to 1918 he was Vice Condquarters at Boma. Consul in the Belgian Congo with But the district was so vast that young bells for nine years. A trophy of ~San Francisco; had the: Camp- Campbell, sent out on long tours, this chase hangs on Sir Gerald's was on his own for months at: wall to dey—a vast scarlet: British time, hardly ever saw the Consul on having its tail tweaked, with under whom he worked.

signatures all over, it or San Francisco's businessmen who pre- There was on one occasion nsented, it to. Sir Gerald, at a fare- sporting bicycle trip he took from well luncheon. Mwanza -to Elizabethville, riding

on the bicycle on such parts of: From coast to coast went the the trip as had any, roads to ride Campbell family, winding up in jupon, carrying the thing, and his New York- skyscraper apartment

rifle, books, thermos bottle and so Sir Gerald, was Consul General In forth on other long portions where Gotham from 31 to 88 Later, his They show the uses of a roads were not. He thought on the went to Ottawa... conquered people,

whole the bicycle) was a banakkoparekoy Evienaai

What has happened to traditions You can't be out on your own Ƒál British red tape, when & Consul __A____ conquered" people in the African jungle and develop General in the space of two years

into a "yes mans. If after dva lis seen to swoop.

pest? success, and Sir Gerald did so, you. There are moments when the mun have learned to think for yourself. In the street beging to wonder, | to let 'raing rain theben van out whether cam invigorating, breeze and be ready to take up the tree has not Interrupted the ill winds

restricted; and their sup. provide the means, by years you have "proved yourself a an important...anciully to

plies requisitioned, by

which a conqueror may conqueror. Yet France,

carry on his conquest: for instance is charge more tharı twice the It is as simple as that,

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