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Britain has thrown upon the United Nations Assembly the finding of a salution to a problem that has baffled every endeavour on the part of the British Govern ment, If possibly no other course is open to the Government at this sunge, it promises neither an ear- ly settlement nor relief from tension in Palestine itself, as can he seen from the acts of terrorism ver the week-end. The Assembly

sures.

plans that have from time to time been put before Arahi and Jews, and have been rejected by both will be submitted to the United Nations, and that body will be left to take its clasice or to make {new proposals of its own, "We Fdo not intend," said Mr. Bevin "urselves to recommend any pasticular solition." "That is to try the infant organisation of the United Nations highly. In the

HE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, MARCH-8, 1947,

THE LEAFLET

During the war. Alling and enemy bombarded each other with thousands of scraps of puphr. Evon forged books, wore cir-

In an English' culated in neutral countries by the Nazis. country newspaper offios a German daily newspaper was produced-it had a relation 01. million,

WAR

ed

suggesting surrender as thg only alternative were hurried ly printed and despatched. Mix-"

·with them were safe conduct passes, of two varieties; individuni and unit types. They, nearly always worked.

is The soldier away at the war thing that counts... That has to fight many things. Bul-we, get Danzig for the Poles'." lets and shella, monetony and The material which provided "You are surrounded," "The mud, sometimes depression and Goebbels with his number one Allies are closing in each side" came from London. and "Your only escape route s not infrequently fear. And in leaflet modern campaigns thore is a Early in the war when the the sea" wore printed in bold new Weapon-propaganda. Tommy gun first made its ap-type and fired either in a shell The Germans, with their It-pearance on the machine-car- or dropped from the air on to Hluns lä tle club-footed Goebbels as their bine of the British Army the hard-pressed

Inolated pockets. The Germans "propaganda - chief,

holding the front lines were told

their repeatedly that Eastern Armies were falling back and there was no stopping the Allies reaching Berlin. Day after day of this paper soon undermined the resistance of the most hardoned SS men.

Leaflots such as these were

porately

tried des-

hard to break the

over again

By PETER LAWRENCE

shown

War

the

CARNIVAL

By Dick Turner

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MALALIMELY DÍA BEROSET, 206 1.4L BED UNI

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"But I don't wanin play cowboy with daddy-every tim 1 always wind up at the. dentist!”

HEROISM OF EMPIRE WAR NURSE

.

morale of our men. They fail- ed. On the other hand it has been proved time

and radits that our leaflets broadcasts wont a long way to reduce the Hun to a state of misery, and thousands were persuaded to, desert their lines Winston Churchill was for the comfort of the Allled one. With the usual interest printed both in the field and which the Premier took in our in England. One firm of prin prisoner of war cages.

If you remember we started latest weapons he handled one tors which turned out leaflets

aftor VE-Day wan the leaflet war on a large scale and posed for a photographer. until as soon as hostilities broke out. With great glee the Germans Luton News, which also pro

airborne newspapers. Night after night the RAF was printed the picture with the duced out over onemy territory drop-heading "WANTED for incite. The object of these papers was to give the German troops the ping not bombs, but thousands ment to MURDER." •

unvarnished truth about

the I will not meet to consider the mat-of pieces of paper. There was

German leaflets can be divid. military and general situation; ter before September, and the de-always a lot of security about

the war and home fronts. liberations of any committee it the messages they contained-ed into two classes-thons for on

them was enlled! may appoint are likely to be pro-why, no one knew. They con- Allled troops and our people at One of

and those for the Nachrichten fur die Truppe longed to the meantime, the tained nothing sensational. Just home,

whole thoan (Newys for the troops). Its burden of the mandate must be simple, straightforward mes-neutrale. On the

our fighting men were circulation started at 200,000 carried, with all that it involvės Pages to the Germans stating for in heavy expenditure, the keeping our side of the argument. It is crude and lacked the finished copies daily and rose to 800,000- Manila Palestine of a large army and doubtful if they had any last- ingenuity of the various forms and eventually 1,000,000. They ing effect in face of the pro- of propaganda which found were packed in special bomba the continuance of security mea mise by the Germans that the their way into non-belligerent which exploded 1000 feet from war was going to be over with countries, One, aimed to appeal the ground; each bomb holding

Britain in setting up a me Borough mayors and mayoresses Hire the British Government

in A few months, but Rome to the American troops in Italy, 10,000 copies.

morial to honour Empire nurses' as well as other prominent no Strong lead is offered to the amusing stories

the were told: described in flowery phrases.

connected with United Nations. As Mr. Bovin

The block-making, setting, war-time sacrifices and services-pervans One was of a member of a bom. logy a Christmas party given explained the position, the variousber's crew who had the job of to POW's In Rome. It quoted printing and despatching of Mrs. Attlee held a special meet nursing profession.

A Fund is being started~~ at entitled the British Empira feeding out these leaflets in a troops as saying "It's a knock-this newspaper had to be carri-ing at Downing Street to launch nice steady stream. One night he out! It's a wow" and "Well, I ed out without any information national appeal. It was broke the monotony by letting am jiggered" (rather than "I'm renching people outside the tended by the Lady Mayores Nurses War Memorial Fund... London, accompanied by of which H. M. the Queen has Patron. go a consignment still done up in Jiggered"); and someone should Luton Newa office. One evening

consented to become its packing. Afterwards he was have told Goebbels. that "Gee- in a local inn a soldier on leave

lund the President of the Ap told. "You are careleea. You whiz" found its way into the from BLA had with him a copy 1945, whe Occupation news Helen, Duchess of Northumber

Gèr-i mortuary of. American slang of Nghrichten. To his friends papers wire started in

peal Committee, assisted by might have killed someone."

When the Germans started back in the late twenties. he described how the Germans many In addition to these-Lord-Maran as Chairman, while their advance into France and Spelling, too, was net the Ger-came over to the British lines newspapers the Luton, printers Lord Luke had agreed to be the Low Countries they produc- mans strong point,

carrying coples aaying, “Look, ran off some 1,200,000 leaflets come Honorary Treasurer, Förd Another leaflet, which the this paper promises us safe and set type for newspapers för Moran is President of the ed some Jeaflets bearing the lines,

"The French have let enemy hoped would help his conduct. Is it not

own the French, Dutch and other Royal College of Physicians past your three main plans, have you down." For the French cause was one giving easy les- newspaper? We shall be out of occupied countries. These extra and consultant adviser to the produced sons in how to report sick. It the war. There is good food newspapera- were printed by Ministry of Health with several Neen devised, the most promising Blaming the "let-down' on the gave hints on how to work up waiting for us as prisoners.".

other firms. being that of partition, since it British. In neither case did the symptoms of Jaundice, The soldier continued. "This received the grudging assent of this form of propaganda; carry nervous troubles, Inflammation is a newspaper the Germans

e of the contending parties. In any weight,

of the eye, alight affection of produce for their own troops. Of all the leaflets which we to his credit. Lord Luke has a genuity would seem to have, ex-. From then on leaflets. were the stomach, temporary par- Why can't the British do the produced perhaps the most in close association with nursing hausted itself, without affording dropped ou England-most of alyats and sore throat. (only same?" In the pub was a teresting was one in booklet Intercats through his work for the least ray of hope that the long them rather poor productions for those who still had their machine-minder from the Luton form showing on alternate the Duke of Gloucester's Red contention can rease. The chance both in contents and paper. tonails)all of these were Nows, He longed to say "For; pages pictures taken in both Cruse and St. John's Fund. that the United Nations can dis- After the Dieppe raid, however, "recommended to those who nionths. I have boon spending the 1914-18 and 1939-45 wars. cover some middle course accept the Germans became more think they need a thorough re- my days and nights watching One, pages showed our tanks in. of the 1917 and on the next our pre-

The appeal aims at raising able to Arabs and Jews can only ambitious, and distributed covery from the hardships of that paper" pour out.

keep sent day tanks. The next two 2260,000 to be devoted to a two- The slight.

pictures of the tanks we left war. In pleasant surroundings pressen" but he had to If this was to be the end of

behind (everyone

pages showed smashed up Ger- fold purpose. This is to main- know we with affectionate treatment and silent.

food." It hits been said After the Alljes had entered mau, planes from both wars; tain à nurses memorial chapel all the efforts in the past 12 had planned to do so, anyway) good

Westminister Abbey and and various shots of prisoners that the instructions contained Germany a new paper, Shaef, then would follow shots of dis in months to discover a way of com- being marched off. Closer ex in this leaflet were "borrow which contained Instructions hevelled prisoners rounded up provide travelling, scholarships promise, two questions arise. The amination revealed that in most cl" from a similar one wo drop for German civilians, DP's, in 1918; and equally dishevelled for post-graduate study for first is whether better results

nurses and midwives from- sil and 'POW's, was printed in the prisoners of this war.. cases the prisoners in the dif., ped on the Germans. might not have been achieved had ferent pictures were the same

same office, and Nachrichten The German soldier who parts of the Commonwealth. the Government earlier resolveit

For the propaganda which he was printed by the Sun En- picked up this little booklets An Educational Trust, total- mon, snapped from different on a policy of its own and an-

angles. The caption to the fed to the neutrals Goebbels graving Company until its last could visualise in a flash that ng £200,000 is to be establish nounced its intention to enforce leaflet fell very flat:-"British relied mainly on hand-out issue on VE-Day. Shaef was his army was heading for theed for the latter purpose, and fit. If necessary. If it was not. Invasion of the Continent." photographs of the war on printed in English, French, same defeat he befell the army of this amount, 35,000 has al- prepared to do that at any stage From the moment the raid land and at sea. In the early German, Pollsh and Russian in which his father" served. And 'ready been raised by nurses and of the negotiations why was the started the BBC had informed days America was flooded with and its circulation rose to the that was what we wanted him midwives themselves during the course dow taken not adopted listeners at home and in France pletures of British soldiers, million mark. It ceased in July, to visualise earlier? That would have spared that this was no Invasion at Covered with oll, being rescued boats, and these received a big fice of life and treasure that the raid. endeavour to bring Arab and Afttr the real invasion had coverage in the US press. Some Jewish views into agreement has been going fat some time the of the pictures were real and involved. If, as Mr. Bevin nowe Germans produced a newspaper Bomo were fake, and it was at says, there was no power under called "That Other Side" which faked productions that Goebbels"

League, who was her partner, the mandate to award the coun- they dropped on England. It backroom boys achieved their try to either the Arabs or the only

raised the hearts, which he ran to two Issues and most remarkable results.

Booklets which looked

to be almost surely of know each one was rather humorous Jews, or to partition it between in its way. "Never in

One of the toughest declarer them, an obvious plan was that world will we

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two support, because of and printed in England were problems in the game in the only four cards, with just three Germans la circulated outside Nazi-occupied management of a trump suit now taken to tell the United

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The first of these travelling' scholarships Is being given by the Royal College of Physicians, while Lady Mountbatten of Burma has also promised one. Westminster Abbey Shrine

proved to be unworkable is prae- frontier of Germany give you "Penguin" book called "Post-one dofender holds four of the fion with his club fit and dia-historic Upper Islip Chapel in Nations that the mandate has "Didn't the full-stop at the Europe, 'One of these was 'a of four cards opposite three ir factors-one, the ideal distribú-

| Jews, should never become the

ible with the aim of

State. Endeavours to

reconcile

Ing. "Nover move

dis-

make

mide.

A

"In Westminster Abboy, the

tice and to seek its guidance. In an idea how long the war will war Troubles written by a winner. In some of those spots, viously managed another mean by the Dean and Chapter an a missing six, including a suremond shortage, and the, other, the North transept just beside his recalling how she had pre- the choir, has been appointed that way the time of strain and go on? Your military experts F. Drummond" which WAN

commemorative shrine. It has stress might have been shorten are talking about advances in circulated in Stockholm. Its the only possible chance for the

trump suit, contract is to size up your op- } ed by many months.

feet and Inches. Get out your main purpose, of course, was

The diamond K was led to not been used since the Re- And reckon how they the A. the ponents From the very beginning it has foot-rules and check the

to show that the Allies were not

was ruffed by the formation and is now being re- been clear that there was no pos- tances to Berlin, You will see really Allies and that Russia will act if you tempt them to heart 4; the spade. K was restored and furnished in sibility of reconciling Jewish and that it will take you 18, 19.or and Britain lived in fear of mistakes. The brilliant payed by the heart 9, and the heart hallowed place in the heart of particular mistake or entry, the diamond was ruff-suftable manner. It will form a Arab claitus. Arab insistence that 20 years to get there."

one another, and quoted (or

Buch chologist, who can lure

the Commonwealth, where rather mis-quoted) Churchill;

Q won scored. A club then put the 'help from

other Laski, and The other leaue gave some Anthony Eden, major community was incompat-

Eant in with the K. He also anics of the women of Empire A Jewish hints on house-to-house fight various British writers. The can get some seemingly impos- scored the A and then--fatal who gave their lives on active albja victorica thereby.

error-led the 0, which West service will be recorded. close In the book is a good example of for

S. AJ 87 8 the irreconcilable were bound to stroots. Use instead collar en- Fery except for one slip-up:

ruffed with the heart 6. Now to the memorials of the men #aû 4'

they nursed. the diamond Qwan ruffed by fail. Nor can greater success in trances or holes in the parti- The imprint shows that it was

the heart. 10; the heart A and The present plan has or tioned walls." No doubt our "printed"; at Hardmansworth that direction be expected from

K took out West's last trumpyginated in the desire of mány the deliberations of the United troops found that very enligh instead of Harmansworth (Mid-

tening

dlesex).

and clubs Onished the hand.to pay their tribute to a brave Nations. Reference to that body The Germans. It, hùa been.

The Germans produced pro- H. J868 NH. 72

Practically everybody else and devoted company of water. becomes almost a counsel of des- said, are a nation without any paganda and leaflets until near D. KQ10 W ED. 7542

tried 3-No Trumps in the South Always to be found at their pair at this stage of abandoned sense of humour, but the fol- the end of the war. The 83SC AKO

and got set two tricks, as did work of mercy, no matter how negotiations. What may be fore- towing "box" from the front presses in Hamburg (where Č. 42

the one other pair which at gravethe peril, members of seen is that after a prolonged de page of "The Other Side" is SOLDIER is now printed)

tampted 4-Hearts. Mrs Vonch the Commonwealth nursing and lay the whole sorry business may worth recording g

was the only player to make a calafer professions are held in i del in Chobbels, un

contract on the deal, for a clear the highest honour h Britain. top over all of the more noted. It will never be forgotten how, masters...

Lon the beaches of Dunkirk, In hospital ships and transports, Hunder bombs and rockets in Bri- Lain, in the African deserta, in the Jungles of Burma and Mainya as well as during the Invaalenn of Europe, AsIKUAND Africa, this intrepid hand,nover hirked theif duty whatever the "danger bræardship::

returning to U.K. at intervals during March courses will then be Hackney a hero from Holland leaflet which in the Germans

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policy of our own by which we him at the station. n image, he soca la supposed to Soulb

T are prepared to abide, whateverYes George, our house is still be himself in later life-a face the consequences. Neither pro- all right And George went heavy with lines and the cor- mises any finality to the problem lovingly But that night the left shoulder resting on

home and his wife looked after nere of the mouth turned down, 4X of the displaced Jews, which

flying bomb shattered George's crufch, a pleture of pathos and should be apprincipal concern to house. When they dus him out depression. It is the picture of the United Nations, ondern

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