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THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 16, 1941.

CHINA MAIL

"WINDSOR HOUSE

WORDS AND MUSIC

The news that Allied. National Anthems will no longer be broad- cast from London every Sunday evening could not have caused many listeners to shed bitter

tears. Some of these spurs to patriotism and solidarity may be rousing enough, But when Wo hear them repeatedly and at re- gular intervals the most loyal supporter of democracy may be pardoned for stifting a yawn or testing his mind drift into a re collection of old, unhappy far-off things and battles long ago. The reason given for the discontin- nance of this B.B.C. feature is Indeed intriguing. Mr. Duffi Cooper has announced an embar- rassing increase in the number of our gallant Allies, which makes it impossible to do full justice tol

their National Anthems the allotted time. Let us count the lot: Poland, Norway, Holland, Belgium, Free France, Luxent- bourg, Czechoslovakia, Yugo- slavia and Greece. That makes

nie.

Enter Russia, and then there are ten. A Labour Member of Parliament wus naturally tempted to ask whether the abrupt discontinuance of this Sunday evening performance had anything to do with the suggestion, that the "Internationale" should also be rousingly rendered. Bul Mr. Duff-Cooper denied that this was a sudden decision. He must have seen it coming.

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Hardly less important than the Hitler is therefore bound toine-tools from Russia, not from) wards the National Anthem of our stubborn Russian defence against throw all his resources into the Germany. Allies is generally one of quiet the German invasion are the occu- Russian struggle. The power of What will Hitler do if he finds' tolerance. By "fusing to switch pation of Iceland by United States the German military machine is off the wireles hen one hears forces and the reasons for this step still enormous,

he cannot break Russian resisti To assume that them played one does not neces-given President

Roosevelt's it will make no serious breach in ance quickly enough to allow him Congress. Like sarily divide one's allegiance im- message to

the the Russian defences

to seek the "radical solution öft would be in Trinidad imprudent.

the war în the West" of which he.. partially among King Haakon, acquisition of bases

But its back 1e ob-

spoke on June 227 He would Queen Wilhelmina, King Leopold, and British Guiana the American viously far harder than the Ger-

have two alternatives. The first King Peter and King George of occupation of Iceland forestalls man High Command and Hitler

would be to offer peace to the the Hellenes; to say nothing of any German attempt to make an himself anticipated.

Russians, and the second would General Sikorski and General De encircling attack on the Western

be to offer peace to Britain. Un- Gaulle, The words in which hemisphere. The fact that these! loyalty to these monarchs arrangements and the patrolling position are the German explana-til he has hit Russia some crush-

ing blow a peace offer to Stalin! Atlantic by the tions of the slowness of the Ger- would shake German confidence. United States Navy enable British man advance. The Russians are So a peace offer to spirit of each country is express-

Britain ap ed are usually unknown to the warships and aircraft to concen, described as incredibly obstinate pears less. -untilcely: Indbed

German peace-kite has been trate their efforts against German average stolid B.B.C. audience and

flown from Rome where it was submarines illustrates the grow- do not matter at all. Not so the:

suggested that Britain would do! well to take this favourable op-|| disturbing words of the antheming efficacy of United States help

portunity of discussing peace with] adopted by the Soviet Union. to Britain and the European. Al-

Germany. This may be why Mr Anthony Eden declared publicly that the British: Government "are not in any circumstances: prepar ed to negotiate with Hitler at any time on any subject. We shall intensify our war effort until he and all he stands for are utterly destroyed. There is no room on way of life and ours." the earth's surface for Hitler's

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written in French by Eugene Pot- Indirectly, too, the United States tier in 1871. The music was com- is helping Russia. Supplies from posed by a Belgian worker North America to China by the who died in Paris in 1934. The Burma Road increase the difficul-

and tricky fighters. The Go first verse in the English version ties of Japan in the Chinese war

man public is told that the Ger- reads:

and tend to weaken the tempta-

man armies are faced with a tion Japan might otherwise feel

new kind of warfare; and that Mr. Eden is the only "Arise you starvelings from to embarrass Russia by siding

the surprising modernity and statesman of the front rank whom your slumber, arise ye prisoners actively with Germany in the Far

excellence of Russian military ment

Stalin and the Moscow Govern- THESE FACTS MAKE of want! For reason in revolt East. Hitler now has reason to

know personally. They now thunders, and at last ends understand that his ambition to equipment hamper, swift progress, welcomed him warmly when he visited Moscow six years ago, and the age of cant. Now away dominate the world cannot be I have long believed that Rus gave his name to a station on the with all your superstition; ser-achieved piecemeal, as he hoped to gian military equipment would Moscow subway. They believe, In vile masses, arise, arisel Well

his straightforwardness "and" "good achieve it, but must succeed or prove to be at least as good as nge, forthwith the old con- dition, and spurn the dust to fail in one struggle that is already the German. My informant was win the prize.”

world-wide. And it may be a German-mechanical expert who dawning upon him that his chan- in 1924, installed in Russia several ces of success are now much factories for the milking of guns, smaller than the prospect of total shells, riles and tanks. Fifteen failure.

million pounds worth of compli cated machine-tools were supplied One general conclusion can be to these factories by Germany fact that Britain's new Ally has no drawn from the Russo-Gerinan the German expert believed that

National Anthem. This ghting. It is that Hitler's offen- should at least restrain old sive is behind":" schedule. He in the Russian output would only be women of both sexes, who look tended to reach Moscow in three 50 per cent of the German out- under their beds for Bolshevikte wecks and to finish the Russian nut from similar factories In very night, from writing indig campaign in six. In Russla It is 1928 he inspected the Russian fat nant letters to their favouritej doubted whether Hitler will ever stories. To his astonishment he unlikely ta suçcoed is his lightning

All this sounds to most of us just so much revolutionary rub- Bish. But it is an embarrassing

A British military mission now in Russia and a Russian military mission In London, » The Russian mission will learn how British" aircraft are smushirik German war, industries, daily and nightly and are thus aiding Rus- sia. Under British auspices Rus- sla and Poland have come to gether and as Eden also an nounced, the creation of a really new Europe is being studied by British and Allied Governments States. So Hitler's peace offers iris consultation with the United and his "New Order scem BE

about the need for reach Moscow, and this doubt is found that not only was the Rus

offensive against Russian newspaper immediately burning all the works spreading in Western Europe, In- sian output higher than the Ger- Germany has not yet lost the of Pushkin, Dostoievsky, Chekov, cluding Germany. Not to reach man but that the Russians had war though she is farther than Gorky and Sholokov, and ban- Moscow would, however, be for copied and improved the German ever from winning it. It looks

as though one day Hitler's astro- ning broadcasts of Tochaikovsky's Hitler the beginning of finaf do- machine-tools. By 1920 Japan logers will need to interpret: to music for the duration of the war. feat.

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