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RUSSIA AND AMERICA

Negotiations between the United States and Soviet Russia acaking the establishment of diplomatic re- lations are being hampered by issues which M. Litvinoff anticipat- ed would be ignored by mutual con- At eleventh

YOUTH

By OLIVER BALDWIN

When they are young they are impotent.

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BRIGHTENING US UP

By Eddie Kelly, Storm trooper..

LL this correspondence in a

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·Indians getting their shirts out suggests that we should have a brighter Fashions-For-Men move- ment in Hongkong. Edward Kelly, with his : usual' insolence, has decided to support the move ment, and begins to-day's flints with the Volunteers and local Regiments, in mind.

conjunction with Mr. Firth Bernard, we have decided to brighten up things considerably in the local Army and Volunteer forces. Henceforth our motto is

go- ing to be "New Pants For Hongkong's Parade Grounds".

President Roosevelt, has dragged T every opportunity of trust are

hour, HE war-born children of overy that those who are seeking for an out most of the skeletons into the their nation the moment they cross denied it because they are of this cold light of day and consequent the threshold of manhood and take generation. ly, recognition seems likely to be

on their first responsibilities. Nothing outside their own little delnyed. The move is surprising. They start with a handicap which world seems to interest them, and suggesting as it does that for soma is not often realised and which their answer to any political or reason a change of attitude hands its origin in those dark days social injustice is either, "I don't come over Washington. America's of war when, under-nourished and know anything about that," or friendly resture, seized upon an over-sensitive, they pass a child-"why, should I worry?" In the provingly in Russia, may resolve hood of mass-infileted inferiority. face of this, one feels singularly BEFORE YOU DECIDE ON YOUR itself into a cool discussion upon NEW CAR CONSIDER THESE! points of difference between the two forced to live in a world of their I find it very dimcult to rely on countries. M. Litvinoff has had to own. They are of Httlo con- their word, since, to them, it is of TOURER

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their own opinions are valueless, due to lack of thought in the 4,450 AMERICA AND JAPAN

and they gradually develop an in-original statement; a carelessness The conclusion first likely to be feriority complex, often coupled that they are used to, and that drawn is that Japan's strong an- with a form of jealousy bound to their own generation accepts with tagonism to a closer rapproche-Produce trouble for them in the out question and with understand

future. ment between the United States

These children have grown to That there is a sullen dissatie- and Russia has contributed some-

manhood in a mad world in which factión with their home life is thing to events and it is easy to nothing seems secure and no one obvious, but it is rare that n defi- quote the decision to move the

appears to know the renson why pite break with family tradition U.S. Fleet Into the Pacifie significant of the President's an-things do not go on as they did is made, since the decision calls for more determination and sacri xiety to appease Japanese opinion. before the war

Idols have been smashed before fice than they are capable of show The two things coming together look curiously like circumstantial their eyes: slogans aro shouteding. confirmation of the suspicion that aloud to be denied within the year; I feel that this new generation voneral iden af a lot of young men America's Far Eastern policy has answers to their questions are le secking for something they call out for a nice long stroll

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Take the Volunteers. The big trouble with these people is that with the present uniform they look too much like soldiers. The whole art of soldiering is to deceive the enemy, and our iden of army uniforma is to creato à

Also, our army fashions are go- ing to change with the seasons. In futuro, Hongkong soldiers will wear their shirts out during the winter and get their shirts out dur- ing the summer. Nothing like be- ing a bit original.

Take hats, for instance. Thoy're far too orthodox. Of course, the members of the Scottish Company are allowed to wear berets, but that's only a tiddly-winking con- cession. Probably there wasn't onough left to go. round for the brims.

As the Anzacs are allowed' to. wear the feathers out of an emu'a tall in their hats, we have decided

other units. The Mounted Machine and parrot feathers for the

Then again, we will have to make war more comfortable, especially if we're going to spend so much money on natty uniforme. Fight ing in Hongkong during the sum mer would be strictly taboo. Of course, we could go away to cooler" places during a local summer wat. Cañada, for instance, where the beer is much cheaper.

not dofine; that they are conscious undergone a change, though a

All around them they see wealth of the futility of so much they have swift denial would probably follow. a direct question to the State and poverty, yet their cars are al- been taught and yet are incapable Aways filled with talk of the strug of deciding for themselves what it Department. Nevertheless, Litvinoff is likely to feel, if he be-gle for economic existence and is.

They pay little attention to the comes involved in technical die-the necessity for economy and self-

denial.

opinions of their elders, and yet onaslon on debt claims and counter-

can never give a constructive al- claims, that he has been invited

Soon they are launched Into the ternativo.They mock at much their to Washington under somewhat

world to add to the number of ciders hold sacred, yet worship false pretences.

strugglers and fighters, and so in-things of even less value. tengo is the battle that immor- A love of speed, of exhilaration, ality in their methods of business may merely be sensuous, but it is Meanwhile, the seriousness of appears an easy way for their amazingly common among this generation. A disregard for life GOVERNMENTS AND developments in the Far East can weary feet.

not be overlooked. Russia and This strain produces a quality is also common, and the number THE PRESS Japan cannot maintain relations that was not very apparent in pre-of suicides is greater among these unro-youths than has been known for on their present delleate basis war generations. That of One of the most striking and without a break somewhere at liability. It seems that the post-many years. gratifying changes which has some time and with provocateurswur youth has little pride in the

They show an inability to stand State Opera Orchestra, Berlin. | during recent years has been 'the cone ut nay time. The story of something he is in duty bound to criticism which is strikingly femto provide quail, pheasant, spar-

como over Officialdom in England netive, stirring up hostility, it may fact that when he says he will do Bavarian Dances (Elgar, Op 27) London Symphony Orchestra. increased facility given to the the sinking of two Japaness war-keep his promise. He is perfectly nine in its essence and is the result Fire Bird (Stravinsky)--Dance of the Fire Bird-Philadelphia Or of Gun will, of course, be pro-

information on matters of public eon of Japanese origin, although had not time, or that he did some- childhood produced in the realisa-vided with horse feathers.

tion of their insignificance during Khowantchinn-Entr'acte (Moussorsky)

the purpose may defy analysts.thing else instead.

He has little desire to perfect the war years, Philadelphia Symphony Orch, concern. Time was,

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They have no respect for Age, many years ago, when, for all suggested that if Japan, seeks ahimself in his profession, and Largo (Xerxes") (Handel) Chicago Symphony Orchestra. intents and purposes, Govern-casin beft she will find one easily little enough interest in it as such, and that is Age's fault, for the ment, doors were closed in the enough, without worrying about He hesitates to nequire knowledge, world Age has made calle for no and seems devoid of an inquiring respect and no admiration.. In face of journalistic enquirera. absurd concoctions.

this I nec salvation, but, again, the Or, at best, if information was

lack of respect is negative. They eventually vouchsafed, a general AMERICA'S PROBLEM

Maybe he mistrusts knowledge; produce nothing to take its place. Press communique would be is-

They have a saner and healthier Will the next chapter of Amer-maybe he has become hopeless in sued, with the result that the enn recovery be printed on green-accing the strange use to which attitude towards the opposite sex fruits of one newspaper's enter- backs? The question still re knowledge is put. He is old in than their elders, and they are prise were made a present to mains unanswered although Prest-sou! before his time, but younger leas shy and awkward in company. others also. This unsatisfac-dent Roosevelt is being pressed for in mind than many a generation They are not behindhand in ex-

bafore him.

prossing their opinions, yet those tory method is still periodically a decision. The pressure comes He is content, with things as they opinions are generally critical and encountered in Hongkong. It from currency inflationista and

By their acceptance of things as is obviously unfair, and is sound money advocates alike. But are. He does not go forth to seek, unconstructive.

but le contout to drift with the thoroughly at variance with between the President's immediate tide. His energies are diverted they are, they deny the creative the practice now followed in the plans and runaway currency in from doing to watching; he justi-instinct. They accept and criti-

flation there to a great gulf fixedfies his existence by the soporifice cino, but refuse to build. Mother Country, To-day, press-

It is because so much in our men who call on several Govern Credit expansion is still logical of horse-race gambling or games. ment departments in search of step in the recovery programme, They are the whole of his life-existence is old and out-worn although the thinly velled op interest, the work and the recrea-that we become tired and lazy information encounter not the position of the banks to the whole tion combined.

about it. We accept, and find it slightest difficulty either in plan is creating unexpected ob For a long time I believed that unsatisfying.

the writers misjudged establishing contact or in secur- stacles. As Mr. J. M. Keynes has other

What we need is something to ing exclusive information. At-pointed out, the need now is for modern youth; I do not think so create-some new world in which tached to each Ministry is a expenditure on capital goods-now, but I do realise it is not their we can take a hand in the mould-supporting. As a matter of fact, Publicity Section, complete with that la, on those things which go fault. Theirs were, not the hands ing of it: in which we can feel we with American film rights thrown staff, which exists for no other into the building and equipping of that formed and fashioned the are creating, and, having created, in, there's no reason why we have something now and fresh and couldn't make a little over for the

Canteen funda. purpose than to furnish the manufacturing plants, and whose atale of society in which we live,

It was not they who murdered bright to hold on to. Press with official statements.production employs a vast army

There'd be no rough stuff in our of labour of all types. Expendi- their fathers and brothers in four That new thing, that new world, No attempt is made, to be secreture of this kind must be financed. years of war. They are not res-can be made by this post-war ware. Anyway, It's about time tive, neither is there any ques-through credit. A prospect of ponsible for the world's state of generation. It can only be made mon got rid of the childish iden tion of permitting other news currency inflation could only bind-nerves. They know the state of by them. They it is who have seen that they go to war to hurt each papers to profit from the enterer credit expansion because no-one thinge, but they have no desire to its rottenness from their earliest other.

years, have experienced, and are prise of their rivals.. "First wishes to tie up money in loans take part in bettering them.

oxperiencing, the reactions to its i They avoid responsibility when-gross materialism in the shape of

(Continued on Pago 6.) ever possible to such an exteat

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come, first served" is the prin- when it appears that he will be ciple on which these official repaid in currency of less value, Publicity Sections work. This, after all, is as it should be. COMMODITY DOLLAR Government departments at The need for adjusting the dol Home do not arrogate to them-lar's value to changed conditions selves a position, over and above is recognised by the Administra- the public, to which they have tion. Justice to debtors, who are no rightful claim. They realise trying to meet obligations in dol that, if anything, the boot is on lare which reprefent much more the other foot-that the public, goods and effort than those through the medium of the they borrowed calls for adjust- Press, has a right to information tunately still jibs al achloving this

ment. But the President for on matters of general concern. through currency Inflation which Here in Hongkong, there are might easily become a source of officials who net on this, prin- continuing injustice to creditors, ciple, whose helpful attitude we His principal advisers at the mo- freely acknowledge, but there ment are Prof James Harvey are others the majority, unfor- Rogers and Prof, George F. War- tunately-who are so hide-bound ren both of whom are "commodity with the traditions of the past been directed towards the creation dollar men. Recent polley has that they invariably "play for of the commodity dollar--whose safety" by taking refuge in value would be adjustable to ac- silence when approached for cord with changing commodity: official information: Happily, prices and the President is pledged we have as head of the Adminis- to give it every chance to prove it tration at the moment a Gover-self. Europe's experience with nor who, unlike some of his pre currency inflation offers a grave decessors, thoroughly believes warning against the issuance of in taking the Press into his con-printing-press money. Neverthe lesa certain sections of American fidence. There are lesser lights public and political opinion are in the Government, however, advocating virtual fat currency. whose attitude is distinctly Farmers, anxious to see another otherwise. Is it too much to substantial prico rise in their pro-. hope that during. Sir William ducts before crops leave the farms, Peel's incumbency, a general have a formidable representation Instruction may go forth to all in Congress. And it may safely be departments to follow the Home predicted that unless the Admini- practice, thus opening up to the stration succeeds in bringing about substantial increase in farm public some of the avenues prices, the country will be faced which are now wrongfully closed with the prospect of currency in to enquirers on its behalf?

flation in its most dangerous form.

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"When he calls on you again, can't you just montion that your father might consider a position with his firm?"

In the winter we could slip back to Hongkong, Fighting along these. lines would be good, not only for the soldiers, but for the shipping companies. Special tourlat rates could be provided for civilians, who would be allowed to mix with the troops en route.

--The civiliang-could-be counted:"

upon to improve the war, as they would provide the necessary touch of enthusiasm and encouragement so often lacking in past wars, Ad- mission charges could be fixed so as to make the wor practically self-

You rush up to a man in Dea Voeux road, and stick even a pin Into himlet alone a big, long bayonet and see what happens to you. In ten minutes you'd be arrested and charged with wound- ing with intent. If that's not war; what is?

The word "battle" would be absolutely taboo in our war. - As an alternative we would suggest that the word "bottle" be substituted. It would gain an enormous number of recruits for the Volunteors if they knew they were going to fight on the bottle-front.

·GENERAL KNOWLEDGE TEST

Someone said the other day that averago Hongkong person had the mentality of a child of six The Editor says very nastily that it's' because they read this column, but: we take no notice of him. Anyway, just to test out our Great and Ad- miring Public we have set a sories · of questions. The person giving the most accurate reply will be givon, as first prize, a night out (if It's a woman) or a thick ear (If it's a man).

Q. Who said bo would rather haya writton what than take what place 1

Q. 2Who stumbled on landing: where, and making a quick recovery. said what?!

Q.-Who said that when she died what would be graven on what?ARAN

24-Who never did what again on hearing of the wreck of the what?

D5 Who said Take away that what," and on what occasion?

Q.6-Who put down his what for whom, when sho' was abbut to step. In;" a what?