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JAPAN LOOKS

AHEAD

Japan's decision to merge her 2,000,000 firemen with her national police force "In event of a state of

emer gency" passed almost

un: it was noticed, but

one of the most momentous policy moves made since the war by the Nipponese government,

It marks a decisive step towards the

of return Japanese standing army, and it was accomplished without the slightest Occupation demur.

want

THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1940.

America's Man In The Street

they

And Britain's Dollar Crisis

By CLIFFORD HULME

Some Americans who opposed the loan did so only because they wanted help to be in the form of a gift in order to avert bad feel- ing should Britain be unable to repay a loan. Britain's need for Marshall at after the loan was spent, was never seriously ques- tianed here.

Soon Evaporated

We

The concern of the ordinary.

over the con American citizen vertibility and loan suspenslow of two years ago soon crisis

Ho sald a few hard evaporated. things about absenteeism In Brl- tish coalmines, and from me to time grunted disapproval of wild-of a quickened cat strikes by dockers and others who were supposed to be putting their back into the British re- covery effort. But on the whole he has been contoni to get on with his own affairs and hope, whenever he gave it a thought, that with aid Britain would puli through by 1952, as he had been told she would. After all base- ball is so much more interesting than economics, and ho did take

states."

"Russia seen building up.buffer

Take any photographs?

If it can't be 'established that in the #meteor

•

From two of yesterday's papers: ' (1) "Swatow calm in face of Red advance."

(a)) "Swatow Today, Situation

said to be more tanac."

You pays your money and you takes your cholco..

time off last November to elect With the critical Cripps-

Harry. Trumap, stout champion Snyder dollar gap' talks rear-

of aid to Brilain. Ing. I wish I could report that

Suddonly last July the run-of- Anglo-American relations are

the-rill American was hit in the to In good shape. But be of life against the new, menace the facts, there is no question, eye by huge headlines about the honest they are not.

from the East, and they still feel that both loan and M-gid were | Cripps dollar cuts and yet nn- Everywhere one Signs of fresh strain and in that way. Millions of Americans mainly expressions of American other crisi entirely fresh quarters have ap- admired her wartime maree- en sy tent, solely as heard such comments an "After

all that help those goldamned Bri-It really was As yet Britain for her wartime game- tant critics contend, solely a mat= here recently.

tish are in mess again". It Urals, I understand there's going do not amount to anythingness and "Churchill spirit". Even ter of self-interest. decisively ominous

as the loan to Britain was being

sald utterly without bitter- to be quite a purge, os the theory or irrepar

afterwards, they

ness, but rather an one would that those who live behind iron able, but they may easily become debated, and Ko if the people of Britain and

gave practical expression to their

comment on the latest pecendiilo curtains shouldn't throw stones, of an amiable but Indigent their chosen lenders fail to heed warmheartedness in a stream of

brother. the new note of questioning that private food and clothing gifts

Quickly a handful of protes- has crept into American thinking

which was continued.

anti-Britishers got sional

to since Crippe announced the intest

vrdek. In the Press and on the crisis.

radio and soon I was made aware Interest by the average American in the ques- back of tion of aid. From the

the Britain- his consciousness baiters dragged long-burled criticism that

tho loan had been squandered. that resources were being used Peoples in subjection, that. Bri- Lish factories were ineffelent be- enuse there was routed objection to changes, and so on. Now in greater numbers than ever be forc in my four years in the country, Americans barbers.

after taximen, milkinen. laundrymen,

ono defeat What with hotel porters, shopkeepers and

another, it is beloved Gorgeous the like — are spontaneously Gussie Moran's breath is coming voicing to me what is undoubted- ly a growing suspicion in their minds. They all want to know from me as an Englishman, if or how far the Attice Government's Socialistle Incasures have con- tributed to creating a new crisis, It is as if in their untutored way they have come round to think-

To measure how much the grip of the hands-across-the-sea has relaxed, 18 is necessary

Ko back a le. When the war ended, Anglo-American friend- anew by'a very ship, cemented

that που differed crisis from

had plaguing 115,

Most of the argument was over been. never

not aims frmer.

amount and methods,

Both American and or need. Sentiment apart, and there was

of the restorative plenty of it on this side of the British hopes

and M-aid ocean, most Americanr,zonswer-effects of the loan ed the continuance of close ties were undoubtedly oversold with consequent disappointment, but with Britnih essential to the safe- guarding of their common way to those of us here who know

THE RIGHT

THIS ARMY OF RHINE'S ALL

By SELBY BRADFORD

Some 5,000 troops have been engaged day and night recently in a Brigade Group Exercise in this far famed training area of the former! Wehrmacht. They are part of the 2nd Infantry Division. to the fact

Nearly three-quarters of them to rush htm

National Service men. are Everyone I saw or spoke to was enjoying himself thoroughly.

It takes him about a week to get from Blighty to his wit and the length of time is largely due

that nobody

wants

Two-day Resting

an

He may be awfully sick It was mellon with a touch of the boat over from Harwich to adventure. It was a glorified pic- The Hook-so when once he is

Bielefeld-of at

much- nie with a tremendous amount of in Germany he is rested for two bombed viaduct fame-before he hard work thrown in as well. It lays was all new, anyway--as new

dreas Anally goes to his unit. Army field as the latest

There he is worked for his first which a number of them were

six weeks: probably from 8 am. Japan's leaders

arying out.

even 7 pm. It is under- and to 6 or Watching them digging stronger police force. They camouflaging weapon pits, laying standable. It is also considerate. efficient be made an also want a standing army telephone cabies, erecting

wire He must

as possible. soldier as quickly Most of them believe that entanglements, or sowing mine-

con-felds, it was hard to realise that Consideration comes in strongly, the second, and more

and I believe rightly here, its the no! them had

belief that it is better to get this troversial, alm can be secured the majority

been in the Army for more period over as quickly ne

pos- period thin six months.

It was harder still to

think Bible.

Afer this the replica of our eld in last Bow SUTE friend whom that probably not more than 50 of them all would "Lake on"

civilian life four months ago gdes as Regular soldiers.

of his into

an active company regiment.

most casily by concentration on the first.

ter.

to

ed.

Unfair Criticism

It is often said that the No-

Army.

whom

unanimous, in

house

to

a

of British in-

It is the "All Arms Training

You should hear also the high worls of praise which his Regu lar NCO's give him.

But the fact is the

scheme ing that Aid plus does not work. The National Ser-egunts Crisis. vice man will not become a Re- the Regular gular soldier, and NCO's and officers are getting so heartbroken that one can fore- see an impending crisis in the Army of mRYS retirements of senior NCO's, if not of officers.

Eskimo Know-How

In Canada

By WILLIAM STEVENSON

will

keep native

Socialism

disagree

may Many Britons with their rough and ready ding- nosis made admittedly on only a superficial knowledge. I am not saying these Americans are right or wrong. I merely record my experience to give warning of number of what an Increasing them are thinking on the eve of a conference at which crisis remedies will be discussed.

dollar

our favourite news agency again. "Ancient Egyptian crossed the Atlantic to discover the Amer icur possibly thousands of cen- turies before Chriatppher Colum- bus....voyages to the West started about 20,000 years ago.” Or maybe the item escapesa" from the puzzle page.

-

in short pants, lace it happen mutavia

It was really hot, and the coru- pany had been mutching throug the New Territories all day, and One matt water had run out. sat on a rock, his head in his hands..

"What's the matter with him?” asked the sergeant.

"Hoo sickness," said Private Smith

"Lot's of us have that."

for him-hig "But it's worse father keeps a pub."

*

Overheard at Kal Tak

Two women

to were about board the new air liner. One of them turned to the pilot and "Now, please don't travel

Turned To Suspicion sa

faster than sound. We want to

friends London.

talk."

Sald Myrtle to a young man. the other night, "I've been talk- evening. ing about myself all Now suppose you talk about me for a change.""

going

"The ik plies of Flatford Dridge, Suffolk, which was paint- ed by Constable, are rotting and n conference is to be called to consider its future,"

Not enough coats, perhaps.

LAKE

CONISTON BEWARE OF SPEEDBOAT

7

of Large segments opinion here at all levels are convinced that Britain cannot get out of the ditch as long as it has a govern- ment that pursues nationalisation and other paths in which most Americans have no faith. Even larger segments of opinion here have latterly turned from indif-

Don't you, love these coined ference to suspicion about what Government and military words? By a chill summer's dawn I

is going on in Britain. Together Even yesterday's deactivation" saw Canada's first regular para- they add up to a formidable body la a bit thick. They probably troops drop from Royal Cana-of thought that neither the Tru- intended that work was

nor Congress Can The police force is in two

dian Air Force transports into man cabinet

to non unstop.. parts, national and local, an

the sub-arctic tundra of Can- afford to or will ignore, in con- idea put into practice by

nda's North West, 50 miles up sidering what further aid can be

given.

Even Britain's best de- MacArthur last year,

Up till now be may have been the Alaska Highway and 250

the miles North of Edmonton.

here, including former dicated

mollycoddled--as the admirable

tional Service man is "messed slightly

Nearly one thousand of them Ambassador Averill Harriman,

Д air into theory that such decentrali- about," badgered by pelty res- Victorians would have said. Now

"combat are saying "Britain must face fat- he take his part in the battalion. came by.

held by an imaginary realities." To show you to what sation would destroy the pre-trictions and unnecessary

He mounts guard. He does real areaTM

extent this feeling prevails, let from "nemy. war base of the Japanese gues

When the Army of the Rhine, training, moving forward

Another 155 reserve Canadian me, quote an American Liberal Unfortunately concerned 1 am convinced that, the elementary barrack-square police state.

Army officers *ore at present friend who once lived for a year deploying somewhere in the plan has turned out a speaking as a whole, this is on ritual to field exercises and on-

the among the working people of the wards.

Rocky Mountain foothills beyond North of England and admires all complete flop, to the quiet entirely unfair criticism.

HC

still re- is alleged to do endless It is equally clear that it is thi

the road Peace River here. things English while five bat- satisfaction of the new demo system which is wrong and not fatigues. After secing

Next February the Dominion of maining a lover of his own coun- am convinced that

Canada's armed forces will leave try. crats and the embarrassment the manner in which it is carried talions here

of "spud-peeling" this rich checkerboard of green He said, "I go along with most he does less .out. of SCAP.

soldiers

bos and chocolate countryside for of what Attlee has done. I want There has been no liaison- Men in the Manchester Regi-than any British ever done before,

barren Alaska, where U.S. forces us to help Britoln till she is on But like thousands of or even serious attempt atment, the Norfolks,, sappers und

will join in further war games, her feet. talked From Americans'

Never

before have military other American progressives. I liaison-between the scornful Runners with

while they were getting ready

Civilian labour does it instead exercises of this general nature recognise that political and eco- national police and the rab for their third night in the operand rightly so. As most senior been held by Canada Jarnomie realitics in. the United ble of confused, disorganised were practically and unpopular autonomous praising the way they are treat-Army officers will tell you: "That North. They simulate the type States demand that a line be the first thing we have learnt of airborne counter-attack which drawn beyond which our aid, can- from the Americans-by

not go. The time to draw that no Canada's Defence Minister Brooke units. Occupation troops have

the average barrack s

Claxton predicted would be line is approaching fast. I dread means the last" been called out 10 quelloccommodation in Germany pro-

This is emphasised if you come necessary to combat an enemy. to think that one day soon we 1 standard of comfort

may hear across the Atlantic Canada's 12 million people now one from labour disturbances when theydes

camp like the local police have failed, and hitherto unknown in the British which I am writing. There are spend 160 shillings each a year cries of 'Stingy old Uncle Shy- and are lock. Yet the judgment of my defence, nine battalions

Gri national

head is that any solution, of the such incidents, have been All barracks occupled by Bri-

prepared to spend more. bulit between fantry in it.

The series of exercises which dollar crisis, must, in part, at least. smoothly exploited by such uish troops were

The rooms Centre" for the Army of the began in North West Alberta and be along American lines." self-professed worshippers of the past two wors,

Bluntly translated, he wHA SOY- give are spotless and usually

moving North

Attlee government, America as the prime minis-four soldiers. They are centrally Rhine. It controls an area of well car

over 100 square miles in which Canadians and the accompanying Ing that the hested, with

an op- must make concessions and relax invariably hot and

to see whether the its tight planning. the cold Simultaneously

howers and baths; while people seem to let off guns of US military observers

most descriptions-all fully load-portunity

money is well spent. kitchens-with has the Japanese government

pressured at every conceivable minute

Much of it is going into re cookers and all the latest equip- And yet its staff is something developed a strong campaignment are a housewife's dream. like 20 officers and 100 British search. "North Americans wil have a tough time waging Aretic The food may perhaps become other ranks. for police reinforcements and better arms. Apart from the monotonous, but it is essentially

They do the work-and do it war," said Air Vice-Marshal Ken

M. Guthrie, commanding the disunity, good, nearly always well cooked brilliantly. But supporting them Royal Canadian Air Force's North inefficiency of

and is exactly the same as that are nearly

German clvi- West Command. Yoshida-san pleads, the coun- Issued to the Army commander lians who cook and clean, dig and try has no army, and would or to any officers' mess.

delve, and do the general chores a be unable to maintain in-

Bulk Monotony

normally ascribed as the role of the British private. ternal security, in the absence The monotony is probably due of Occupation troops. This is to bulk buying in advance

I shall never sympathise un- possibly true, and many U.S.the fact that nobody can supple. officers make no secret of ment his rations from the open duly with the lot of the National German market-which is un- Service man out here, save for

flesh is no For once, human rich their agreement with this bellevably in foodstuffs the fact that he is a victim

weaker than machinery. Arctic. claim. With a polite bow, the these days.

maybe a very unwilling one-of

weather does strange things to I have seen a number of messes the "pressed

gang.' is asking for premier

Control military equipment. in which the National Service

for modest increase of 60 per man sits down to clean table-games-for

eves wires grow slack, pipelines leak, capacity and cent in the size of the force, cloths each meal. I ought to have learn to ride if he likes or shoot accumulators lose up to 200,000 men.

said long ago that in his bar pig or partridge at a very small movable equipment may map in that rack room he has, of course, cost. He has full recreational the hand, where undue force is He has pointed out

To doctor military machines, the Communists have em- bed with sheets laundered facilities in clubs and canteens.

His leave camps in Germany Canada has established at Edmon offensive of

on a parallel to are barked on an

No, there is nothing to condemm] and Austila

winter-experimental" for which tourist station, manned not only by strikes, agitation and the as far as I have seen--and I have with those provocative use of force, that teen two wars and two pence-agency would charge-15-guineas RCAF experts-but-by-member-of- time · sumy reconstractions-in) a week. don't think he does so the Britian Ministry of Supply, the murder and sabotage have the treatment of your young badly at all. been committed in protest soldier in Germany,

The people who suffer are the against retrenchment in com-

Regular NCO's and officers who train him, bring him along, and pliance with American direc-

out that she should then see him go back to civilian tives. It is not fair or just, he made

Individual-and efficient argues righteously, for Oc- have a small, lightly-armed life just as he is be coming an cupation troops to be mixed standing army. In Japan to then have to do it all over again

Army's Desire 72 degrees below zero. this domestic strife. day the second proposition is

Making men fit for Arctic-war- Give us the men, he says in the natural corollary of the I painted a gloomy: picture fare is another matter. At for

from Fort George of the National Northern bases in Alaska and Booking effect, and we will finish the first.

the Yukon

Agents But SCAP should realise, Service man's entry into

Territory; airmen are job:

is writter in a tearing from Eskimo and Indian as from their public utter- Army. If this Maybe Japan must have a stronger police force, even if ances would not seem to be different vain I have not changed instructors how to live, off the

my coat.

land-how to catch fish without the reinforcements are rethe case, that the process of

to maio In its power to

build now-houses and how to sat presented, for the moment, as building up a stronger and every mieve the Army is doing wetting the gloved hand, how to

this acheme.go. merely "fire brigade.co-better-armed police force, as

I am sure the National Service Slowly, but in step with the operation. If Japan is to be a first essential step towards man views it from the same US. and with Great Britain's ap- America's proud new ally a new Japanese army, is now angle, and does his very best, proval, Canada, is streamlining. Branch: Omice: 50 Comstigli Boad, West. and Amatic bulwark against in operation, under the noses Crime, incidentally," is infiniteal her fighting forces and sharpening

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If it refuses to da sa, not the least consequence will be the alienation of millions of Ameri- cans who though disturbed about af doing things, Britain's way count themselves Britain's friends and very much want to stay friends.

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