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BRITAIN'S WINTER OF WAITING

Tests To Come Listed As Those

Of "Flesh And Spirit"

The tont Winter of "waiting, waiting" under almormal con- ditions of life constitutes the greated, war threat to Britain, Anne O'Hare McCormick of the editorial staff of The New York Times declared at the first Fall luncheon in New York of the Foreign Policy Association at the Hotel Astor.

Mrs. McCormick opened a discussion of “America and "the Battle of Britain." joined by Alfred M. 'Bingham, editor of Cam- mon Sense, and Colonel Henry Breckinridge. former Assistant Secretary of War. Pointed reference to relations with Japa 11. Was injected by Chester H. Rowell, former editor of The-San Francisco Chronicle, an unscheduled speaker summoned from his dals sent by the chairman, Freak Ross McCar, president of the

association.

Mrs. McCormick asserted at the fats, a vastly Complex historical outset that America was certainly phenomenon. Mr. Bingham said a conversation topic, between Hit that US policy toward Britain. ler and Mussolini at Brenner Pass accordingly, had to be a complex Friday,

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WEATHER REPORT

Hongkong Royal Observatory

10a.m., Nov. 25. Barometer. Cat sea level) 30.02 ins. Temperature, 74 F Humidity, 78 per cent. Wind Direction, E/S Wind Force (Beaufort).

| Temperature; maximum yesterday

76 F

Temperature: Minimum last night.

68 F.

Rainfall for 34 hrs, ending 10th

today,. 0.06 ins.

Total rainfall dice January 1st,

117.59 ins,

Against an average of 89.84 ins. Sunset tonight; 5.38 pm.

| Sunrise tomorrow, 6.63 am

4 p... Nov. 25.

Barometer (at sea level), 29,95 ins

Temperature, 73 F. Hamidity, 78 per cent. Wind. Direction, NNE

Maximum temperature, 76 F. Wind Force (Beaufort), 3. Minimum temperature, es F.

Rainfall, nD..

HONG KONG TIDE TABLE From 26 Nov. to 2 Dec. 1940.

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Moni.

Borg

Kong Standard

Height,

Standard Time

Height.

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"The paradox of our situation." We must continue to help Bri- she routinued, "Is that these two tain by all means short of war," men-or one man, for Hitler he said, "but those means -must swings for the Axts---actually has remain short of way as long as power over our actions. He does conceivably possible We cannot more than. we do ourselves to stand for the subjugation of Bri- | make our foreign policy. He air-but we cannot stand for the produces the events that govern subjugation of any other people. us, governi - 118 so completely, that Let us use our bargaining power. great traditions are swept aside. Let us not throw away our ald domestic Issues are forgotten, all without getting some assurance! the searching argüments of this that there will be a decent peace." | Ture; 26 campaign fall, upon the air like He continued:

Wed. 27 old, forgotten, far-off things, be If Britain falls, we cannot pas. cause the dangers from without sibly be secure during the five to Ther. 28. seem nearer and more menacing.seven years required to complete a than are dangers within."

two-ocean Navy, except perhaps Fri. 29 ACT OF FEAR IS SEEN by the tabrication of a gigantic The Axis betrayed lear in taking air power. If Britain stands, the in Japan, she said, but with the threat of the aggressors falls a war at a turning point comparable[harmless dud. If Britain falls, it to that which came with the fall becomes "a menace to our very | Mon. 2 of France, they must beware mis-existence. The fall of Britain takes of judgment. Se cutlined words be the end of freedom-our the course" of Hitler triumph so freedom,

Pleading guilty to having an- far and pointed out that- French

"Every dictate of common sense, chered in a "cable ground." be- military morale was broken by the self-interest and humanity re- tween: Tai Kok Tsui and Stonecut long walt without fighting, be- quires that we maintain and inters Island at 11.15 am. cn Nov. ween the outbreak of war" and tensify the flow of aid of every 1. Lo Ki, coxswain of the motor- the invasion of the Lowlands.kind, that Adort Hiller 1 shall boat "Tung Hing" was fined $5 [not conquer the British Isles, des by Lt.-Comdr. J. Jolly, R.NR. yes- "The British were not worn troy the British Navy and leave terday. Police Bergeant McCarthy down before the battle. Life in the coasts at the United States prosecuted.. England was not disicented as it open to attack, was, everywhere on the Continent. The British did not belleve that Hitler would -attack--the French Army. They did believe in the] efficiency of the blockade. When the Butzkrieg started they were as little prepared" for what they had to face as the French, but they believed in themselves.

She continued!

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"Hitler has not set foot on Eng- lsh ground because he has been unable to soften it and this is one reason he has not softened it. There were as many Nazi agenta In England as in France. There was more sympathy for Germany. But 'subversive influences' do little damage where the spirit is firm, where the nation has faith in it- self.

"The British Maginot line is a wall of indomitable human flesh and spirit. The greatest danger is not that this will fall the terrible test will be a repetition of the tac- tics used against France-a long Winter or waiting. waiting, under more unnatural conditions than prevalled among the French from September to May."

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