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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, APRIL 28, 1936.

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THE Italian is, to begin with, DEPRIVED of the stimulus of hating his adversary the bad hater, In many months' experience, on the Italian Italian is hekl up by a distinct front during the Great War I aversion from hardship or dis

I used to have great no single case of cruelty to comfort. la prisoner nor of any discrimina- difficulty in persuading Italian tion in the treatment of the orderlies to forgo sleeping in wounded.

sheets when it was impossible For several weeks in succes- to wash them. I seldom heard. sion I was posted at a regimental any complaint about danger, but first aid post a few hundred sleeping and living conditions

GEORGE EDINGER

who has had opportunities of judging them at first hand here displays the his- torical and psychological background of the man, now facing the stiffest part of the task to which Signor Mussolini has turned them in Abyssinia.

ITALIAN

THE SOLDIER

yards behind the line and I was in no way worse than those at responsible for the transport of an English public school would the wounded from there to a produce lamentation. casualty clearing station about two miles back.

NOTES OF THE DAY

The Italian is not a pioneer thrusting after the world's open spaces. When he emigrates, il is not to the Eritrean wastos or the Libyan wilderness, but to the sidewalks of the Bowery. and the restaurants of Soho. Even when he does, go to a young country like Australia or Indications in France to-day are Argentina you will generally the Leftists will have made notable find him, working in an office or gains in the Chamber of Deputies behind a counter at Sydney or

Buenos Aires, by the time the second ballot is.

SWING TO LEFT

completed next Sunday. How far

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BUT this widespread aversion

from hardship is not due to effeminacy. It is the natural result of two thousand years of civilisation.

But even this generalisation needs to be qualified. There are any number of individuals, there are indeed entire units such as the Alpine Corps raised in the Piedmontesa Mountains, who. are not only good fighters at all: times, but incline to feats of astonishing and often quite pointless bravery for bravery's sake.

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THIS often takes a form which

an Englishman would think showy and theatrical. I re- member a young officer who when a certain stretch of road was under shellfire insisted on walking up and down it while his men were taking cover.

. When I tried to persuade him to join the rest of us in a posí- tion of relative security, he answered: "Certainly not. The men must learn to follow their officers. They must think that he is not afraid of shellfire. They must think he is not afraid of anything."

HOWLERS IN THE CLASSROOM No matter how many of them

we hear we never tire of the "howlers" perpetrated in the schoolroom, and find them a wel- come tonic in the humdrumness of everyday life.. Here is a collec tion culled from teachers who thad that life in the classroom is not always crab.

Sir Walter Scott," wrote one bright pupil, "was called the Blizzard of the North. He tried to reach the North Pole but died in the attempt."

"New York Is behind Greenwich. time."

another scholar tells "because Americe was not discovered

much later,

us.

Italy's Dictitor would no doubt be interested to learn that "Mussolini is a new kind of stuff." Another young essayist states that he is "a sort of material used for ladies' stockings."

Queen Victoria's praises have often been sung, but one pupil in particu lar holds a great-admiration for her. "She was a very brave Queen," he says. "She sat on the thorn for more than 50 years, and was therefore the longest Queen on the thorn."

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A MUZZLED PRESS

The view that many of the perplexities and dangers ap- parent in Europe to-day are attributable to press censorship has been expressed by a veteran American journalist who has just concluded a lengthy tour of the Continent. In Russia, Italy and Germany, there are In "totalitarian" consorships.

this will influence foreign policy [several other countries, such as is open to question, for there are Spain, Portugal, the Balkan conflicting elements at work within States, Poland and the nations the Chamber and the result may

The Italians, like the Jews, bordering on the Ballic, the quite easily be a stalemate. It is are capable of great feats of iron hand of the censor des-fairly safe to predict that French endurance and great deeds of cends from time to time as foreign policy, so far as collective courage. The fact that their soldiers have won few victories of and that their people shrink national emergency dictates, action for the preservation

potatoes, and bicycles. Then there is what this Ameri-peace is concerned, will be firmer from hardship is emphatically

Persuade the Italian that he against the King of Naples or Cowper was also a famous man, for can observer describes as an as a result of the additional weight not because, they are cowards. fof Left influence in the Chamber:

lived twice committing suleide he really has something worth equally probably for the King a young blographer says that "after occult censorship, such as is

till 1000, when he died natural but whether it will be very confighting about (and that is not of Naples against Garibaldi. practised in France. Many siderably stiffened. as one might going to be easy with two thou- I remember talking in the death."

From another essay-book we find grinned at Miss Ophella, people have assumed from the expect, it would not do to guess, sand years of civilisation telling Great War to a Calabrian recruit

in which Unfortunately, it has been the him that way is a fool's game) who assured me that the people-displacing a set of beautiful-white wealth of invective the French newspapers indulge Leftist groups, while doctrinising as any in Europe.

they were being conscripted to Englishmen who generalise fight against the Florentines. destroyed by an overflow of salive when some foreign Government upon the merita of the collective

from the Vatican." It is also in- teresting to know that "from Austria incurs their disapproval that system, are not enthusiastic about from the Italian, record in the That was in 1915.

Great War should not forget On the other hand, when the we get 22 from a bird called the the French press is free. On except where it directly concern that Victor Emmanuel's soldiers Italian soldier gets into his head emu.

the safety of the French frontier, were badly clothed (they had the idea that something he can "The Zoglee," writes on ingenious the contrary, it is the considered They have given the impression no waterproof coats), underfed understand has to be defended, pupil. view of this American news that they are inclined to selfishness (with a meal of soup and he will stand up courageously animals go after they are dead." They are alt for macaroni twice a day, they were to any odds to defend it. On He imparts some more knowledge paperman that it is subjected in this respect. to a remote control that is sti-the collective system, the League of lucky), inadequately supported the Plave in 1917, the word was by telling us that "a man who looks Nations, and mutual assistance by artillery owing, to their passed round that Venice must on the bright side of things is known flingly effective. In the dictator-pacts if it is to the French advan-country's shortage of coal and be saved. Most of the Italians as an optionist. If he looks on the ship countries, also, the art of linge; but if there is a chance of steel, and as often as not quite had some idea what Venice was, journalistic invective is, as has risk to French interests they be

up).

"Sir Walter Raleigh," we are told, was

a famous man. He invented inbacon,

that

experience of the past that the and he can be as fine a soldier in his village all believed that compell," It is sad to learn, "was

Leome cautious, and, without forcing! often been shown latterly,

the Issue, accuse the Government, developed to a high degree-butor the Right or Centre, or all three, only when the official order is of failing in their international be may given. In their case, the out-responsibilities. This

good politics, but it is not good burats are inspired from higher ethics, and makes no friends for

and Only Britain

the France. The Leftists could have

influence for good! United States, according to the tremendous

not only in the affairs of France American critie,

dis- are

but in those of Europe if they tinguished by a press which is exerted themselves and were loyal Independent and · unafraid. On to the letter of the principles on this point, it can probably be which they were elected. Perhaps in the next Chamber we shall sec suld with complete accuracy

a change. that there is no other European

country in which an effect are used only to drill the masses. analagous to that of the Ifoure into a certain stereotyped way Laval proposals on British of thinking, the effect can hard- be pernicious. The opinion could have been seen. ly fail to

British method is to permit am-! Nor is it easy to think that any ple freedom of speech and other European Government writing. It is based on a firm would have been so responsive belief in the rights of the people to public opinion as the British and on a consciousness of the Government was on that occa-fact that to attempt to stifle sion. On the general question legitimate opinion is compara- ble to sitting on the safety valve| raised, it will scarcely be dis-of a steam engine an eventual puted that if all European explosion is inevitable. A free Governments were amenable to Press and freedom of speech informed, constructive criticism are great heritages. Happily from the peoples they govern, for the British people there is a powerful brake would be no fear that the legacies left to applied to excesses and errors them by their forefathers ure in of policy. When newspapers danger of being taken away..

SIDE GLANCES By George Clark

ing, you seem to be losing Interest in your musić."

lions.

•ull

Son of the sky where

virgins,

other and

side he is called a planist." Another scholar, who is, evidently a football enthusiast, says that "be- fore the English beat the Spaniards they

were at the bottom of the Lea- gue of Nations."

"Some cows are very dangerous," writes a sound philosopher," "espectal-

ly the bull." "Herrings," he con- tinues, go about the sea in Shawls," and it is interesting to know that " cuckoo is a bird that lays other birds' egus In Its own nest and vice verso,"

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"Elocution," states another howler, - "is the method adopted by the American Government for killing people," and goes on to kay that "Bacchus is the God of betting,"

"A harem," says another, "Is a hutch for keeping hures in." Also, "a mugnet is a thing that you find in bad apples."

"Aladdin," We read in another essay, "had a mogle lamp, Every, time he rubbed it a guiness sprang out of the

"A connaissa

It is stated, "is n person who stands outside a picture house." And "a talisman is a man who calls every week for, money for the fur

fumiture,"

scholar, erman" saya a

clever

"goes to school at an early- however old he is."

particularly bright howler comes from the boy who writes:-- "The sun never sels on the British Empire beenuse it is on the east and the sun always sets in the west.'

"When he climbed Vesuvius," says"

the another essayist, "he found creator smoking at the top."

"The zebra," we find, is like a horac, only striped, and is used chiefly to Illustrate tlie letter Z." "the chief occupation of the e of Perth la dying."

"A sinister person is a woman who has not married," comes from an other,howler, who adds. "Hell

no fury: like a woman's corn."

Lavinia Derwent