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THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 8, 1941.

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When the history of this war comes to be writ- ten, a chapter may well be devoted to the part played in the conflict by symbols and letters of the alphabet. Much may be written about the psycho- logical effect of the per- verted swastika, the dis- turbing hammer and sickle, and the inspiring cross of Lorraine. Among letters that will live in an imperishable combina tion, signifying epic hero-| ism, are R.A.F. And on the same plane will be the single letter "V." The campaign which swept through enslaved Europe on July 20, 1941, will bel remembered long after men forget the epitaph, "Here Lies Joseph Goeb- bels.' In spite of not too

subtle Nazi attempts at

adopting the symbol, it has escaped contamina- tion. "V" stands for Vic- tory in several languages, and for Victory in a sense that is entirely foreign to the present German Goy- ernment's conception of "Sieg."

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There is not much vir- tue in the letter "V" Experts evidently people into every line, is

are

obviously so tions. There is really a strong divorced from this idea of who arouse deep feelings of resto impress and cow the wretched case for Johannes Factotum, as

pect or resentment. Some recent

commoner that he or she will they called William Shakespeare, victory over the forces of observations concerning the mo-

for doing all the jobs in the in the omnis- evil. It is true "V" stands dern cult of experts brought a begin to believe

theatre. number of comments most of cience of the "nattily dressed" for valour. But it also which were written, so to speak, 4,000 and swallow anything in Everybody knows that many stands for violence and at the top of the voice. There

a general was

their jargons as well as anything expert jobs need expert handling by thoroughly trained people. A vice; for vagabondage and emotion on the subject, so strong in their saucepans. The expert precision instrument must be vagrancy; vagueness and that I believe some explanations cult is, in fact, a minor cousin of precisely made and used, and a the dictator eult, which is the complicated machine must be vanity; vampirism and

present scourge of the world. Its constructed, driven, and -mended The kind of vandalism; vacilla-

thing against job is to abolish self-reliance and by a competent mechanic. But which 1 was protesting was the to substitute for it an abject tion and vacuity; vassal- endless iteration

the necessity for experts in their of such words state of credulity and meekness

own sphere of the mysteries af before instructors. Of course in- age, venom, vermin, vul- as "expert" in order to mesmer-

craft and science is no excuse for ise the ordinary person and struction is a necessary

part of tures,

everything is the pretence that vituperation, crush them with a sense of hope-

better called "science" and hand- vitriol, vulgarity and less ignorance and inferiorit

ed over to those who have a Just after I had written there Vichy. All these unlovely appeared

formidable apparatus of theory in a popular paper a

and vocabulary. It is by things that begin with perfect specimen of what I had

means proven that the manage- in mind. The article was called "V" were thrust out of "Each Housewife a Mrs. Becton,"

ment of a home is improved by calling the process "Domestic Science," and I am not at all great "V" that stands for ously "tuok a dozen eggs" when-

convinced that discharging 4,000 experts, however nattily dressed. the overthrow of Hitler ever she felt inclined and cooked,

life, but the best teachers are into

poor women's kitchens in with an extravagance which appeared. It was fortun- would have been absurd in 1939 usually those who carry them- order to make Bectons of them ate that the Fuehrer's and is wholly impossible in 1940. selves modestly, have a sense of all is going to improve either the

humour, a power With every housewife striving to ism, and do not

of self-critic-national cooking or the national father, when he changed be a Beeton we should soon lose

present them-temper. One of the most im selves with the high title of portant problems of statecraft is! his own name from the war.

"expert" when they are teaching to settle the relative spheres of

science and common sense; Schickelgruber to some-

But let the lavish.lady and her their grandmother to boll eggs. thing more Aryan, did not dozen eggs pass. The second

In the authoritarian State the Common sense! It is surely also re-christen his off caption announced that in home

kitchens "Ministry Experts" expert launched by a Govern the sovereign quality in human ment department is a natural business and society. The words: spring Adolf with some would "Show How." The first implement of policy. He is part do not mean that it is a comman such name as Viktor. alluded to

opening paragraph the coming

of the whole apparatus of public property and widely spread, but of these

Democracies Anyway, Hitler has no use "nattily dressed experts."

have that its owner deals with com-t Then hypnotism. for the letter "V."

we read that the housewife would properly been shy of such crea- mon matters sensibly. Common His "lend her kitchen to a Ministry res,

and in Britain.. we insist sense is the eternal foc of pre- THESE FACTS MAKE whole faith is pinned to export," and that. "the expert" that each Government depart tentious theorising and cubrous the sinister initial “H.”

would arrive to take over. There ment, however large and learned jargon. Its first business is to are apparently 4,000 of these its staff of experts, shall be ruled look below the wont to the While Britain launched "experts" at large (are tax-pay at the top by a politician who meaning and never to accept the ers sustaining this entire legion comes fresh to the job, elther claimant to special knowledge the "V" campaign, it has as well as Cooper's Snoopers?) from his own private profession and the Becker after special

or from another Government power on his own terms. Com been said that she should and they realise that "housewives

our minds when the one Becton was a lady

a silly enough title since Mrs.

line of the

who notori-

which genuinely neotis his spe- cinlised Imowledge. It puts him

In the poor districts do not al office. This may seem a curious mon sense is essentially a probe." attach more importance was respond to the Mrs. Breton way of doing things, yet it does, Having agreed that the expert is to the letter "W" which touch." Considering Mrs. Beeton's on the whole, work out fairly an expert and that the job is one brisk. way with Ingredients, this well, provided the man in ques- stands for Work as the is good news for the Food Con- tion has natural ability and com-

to work. But when it accents best expression of the troller. Even better news is the mon sense.

him as an authority on technique; Will to Win. Incidentally, have sometimes actually given announcement that housewives

It is noteworthy that everybody It does not accept him as a there is not only a "W" hints, to the experts. One has is praising the control of our war, maker of policy. A world Tun but the full word "Win" always a certain sympathy for effort by Mr. Churchill, who has by experts would be chaos, bec been everything from a journal cause experts are habitually, and the fox that bites the MEH.

ist to a politician; from a soldier perhaps rightly, contred on a tiny in her Prime Minister's first name. This may be which crams the word "expert" has shown an extraordinary it apt to be one vast car, and to The object of this propaganda, to a sailor, from an author to a little world of their own. To the bricklayer, is a good painter, and ear specialist the human body is hailed as another portent

tachment to the design of new the gastric surgeon the human of victory, at a time when kie and Winant. Take and striking hats. At the same being may be little more thoma names, words and letters the first two letters of the time praise has been generally sac, some tubes, und an appendix.

justly showered Specialists need gumoral practi mean so much. It has first of these names and and no doubt, just who were spaers to sustain their sense of also been noted that three the first three of the ed with the greatest of case from proportion, and this is just as the production of cement to that true of politics us It is of meat=" great Americans have re-second and third, and you of newspapers and thence to tint eine. Every profession," Mr. cently visited Britain in have the reassuring of aeroplanes, proving himself as Shaw has said, "is a conspiracy talented a circulation-bulldor in against the public." It Is "a" this order Welles, Willwords, “We Will Win." the last us in the former occupa- salutary exaggeration.

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