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The HongKong Telegraph, Tuesday, NoVEMBER 8, 1938.

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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1938.

I have just

become British

In these days when oppression

in so many parts of the world is compelling thousands to flee from their native lands, it is comforting to think that we in this country still have our freedom.

Here are the thoughts of some

one who has just become a naturalised British citizen, not as a refugec, but as some- one who felt happy here.

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HAT does it feel like to belong to the Bri- tish Empire?

What does it feel like to Ec

of those one 400,000,000 in the British Com- monwealth of Nations?

Few English people know, for the simple reason that they have never bean anything but Briilch subjects. Only a foreigner who has become naturalised could tell you.

I am such a foreigner on whom good fortune (and à clean record at Scotland Yard, I presume) has

1 bestowed the privilege. I might nl- most say the high distinction, of becoming a naturalised British subject.

A Flight was Made THE 7,200-MILE FLIGHT by fully-Inden British bombers

a magnificent achivement. To the world, however, it is a

UT first, I ought to make warning that every corner of

something clear: I am not a German, Austrian, our earth has been brought | or any other refugee.. I 3m not political exile. If I had within reach of the most des-ben, this might have explained tructive force science has un- leashed on civilisation.

There is no longer isolation SYMPHONY for any nation. The compara

tive security distance gave the United States und Canada is no

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the security and isolation en- joyed by the British Isles before Bleirot flew the Channel in 1912, A fully-laden bomber of the type which flew non-stop from

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why I am so grateful to the coun- try which has given me refuge. But I was not forced to leave my coun- try either because of anancial or political circumstances.

ago. I intended staying but a

I came to England eight years short time and writing a few articles (writing happens to be my profession But something hap- pened which changed my whole

Bfe.

I fell in love with England. I fell In love with the English people; with the English language.

tainty and fear spread from land to land.

Bo I stayed on and made my home in England.

Now, after eight years, i have become a British subject and take upon myself all the duties and responsibilities to England in re- turn for the privileges of living as a free citizen.

The other day, after the usual formalities and inquiries us to my paat, I received a letter from the Home Office Informing me that I had been granted naturalisation.

It was the happiest day of my 10.

When a friend of mine, distin- guished foreign writer, whose work has been translated into more than twenty languages, heard of this, he wrote to me a letter of congratula tion, in which he said:

"In these dark hours of Europe, to become a British citizen is the greatest gift one can expect!"

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NFORTUNATELY, few British people reuilse this.

They are hardly aware of the great part they are destined to play is the world.

With all their love for Britain and for their democratic institu- tions, they are not fully alive to the fact that they are regarded in Europe as the great bulwark of democracy and liberty ta mad world.

The democratic peoples in Europe may often be disappointed. bewildered, even farlous. at the polley of the British Government towards the Dietaters. But their trust in the British people, their

alth in Britain is never shaken.

Centenary of a

Woman

YESTERDAY MARKED the centenary of the death of Mrs. Grant of Laggan, a native of Glasgow, where she was born on February 21, 1753. ↑ Yet it is with the. Highland parish to which she went as a bride of 21 that her name is usually linked, and it was in Edin-

her latest and most brilliant years.

I have had the opportunity ofburgh that she was to spend

studying these feelings many times on the continent, and particularly on my recent visit to a dozen Euro- pean capitals. Everywhere you go you are asked the same questions: "What are the British people thinking? next?"

T

Anne Macvicar was the maiden name of this remarkable

woman. What will Britain do

HE Fascist countries are spending millions :on propaganda in the scared Ittle capitals of Eastern, Central, and Northern Europe-as in the Near East--with the sole object of persuading the frightened people that Britain is degenerate, that she could not help them if they are attacked; thint she lets herself be bullied and her ships bombed on the Spanish coast, be- cause she is losing her power.

And still, somehow, no one be- lieves it on the Continent. On the contrary. ore than ever before The democratle peoples of Europe now feel that Britain is their only hope.

It is a thousand pities that people generally in this country know so little about their decisive rôle in the destiny of nations.

That is why one is so conscious of having become a British sub- Ject in this fateful hour.

It gives one a feeling of awe to belong to that great family of nations of which the British Commonwealth is composed: commonwealth of all races and creeds which can bring to heel any man who wants to plunge Europe Into a new deluge of blood.

Why this Trouble In Palestine?

I discovered for myself the Englishman's sincerity. I became captivated by his manners, habits. attitude of mind. I was fascinated is a sad commentary on human |

by the quiet beauty of England's

scenery, by the grandeur of English

literature.

Ismailia in Egypt to Port Dar-||1 acquainted myself with Dritain's history and tradition.

Chater Road.win in Australia can cross the And, above all, I discovered for the

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Atlantic, dump its cargo missiles and re-cross the ocean to its base. It brings every part of Africa within range of ani European enemy; every closely inhabited part of Aus tralia or Canada within range of a Pacifle aggressor. It no longer makes Singapore com- paratively free from direct air attuck.

The success of this British Royal Air Force flight is the greatest argument in favour of the abolition of the type of plane which made the flight-the long-range, high-powered bomb- ing machine.

first time what it means to live in a free country,

I was reborn in England, spiritu- ally and even morally. And after having tasted, the sweet fruits of English freedom it was impossible for me to go back to my native land, where, alas freedom was only a bitter mockery,

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nature that the country which saw the birth of Christianity should now be the centre of the most law- less activities, murder, and blood- shed, yet such is the fate which has overcome Palestine.

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migrated to other parts of the world. Now that our thoughts are diverted They were terrified to return to their from the European crisis they Brown country, and became wanderers turning to the unpleasant situation on the face of the earth. which has arisen in that country. It

true

As a child of five she was taken by her mother to America, where her soldier father was stationed. Hero she unconsciously garnered the im- pressions which she was after- wards to turn to auch practical account. She learned to read at her mother's knee, but she was given no book excepting the Bible.

At the age of six, however, this precaclous child was porint over a copy of Blind Harry's " "Wallace," gifted by a Scots sergeant

From this, she says, she "caught an en- thusiasm for Scotland that ever since has been like a principle of life. Then a brother officer of her father presented her with a copy of Milton, with the result that the child of neven electriẞed an Intellectual gathering by supplying a long and aut quotation from her favourite "Paradise Lost,"

Careless of Spelling

It was not until the year 1700 that the family returned to Glasgow, the father having Invested his fortune in ground which the American Revolu- tion was afterwards to render value- less. She describes herself at this time as

very tall, very awkward. and so sensitive that a look discon- certed me."

Even now, she was forever jotting down poems of her Own composition, "employing the spelling that came to hand." To the end of her days this learned woman never learnt to spell!

Aral

It is difficult to understand the enormous literary reputation which Mrs. Grant enjoyed when alive. That her standing was very high is cerinin. Illustrating this is the story that when

the mystery of "Waverley" was perplexing the public, the nume of Mrs. Grant of Laggan was sug- gested as the most likely author.

Sir W

Walter always had a great "and admirallon for Mrs. Grant,

along with Henry Mackenzle and Lord Jeffrey, he exerted himself to secure her a pension from the Clyll Lint in her later years. But she had a quarter of a century of striving and struggling before this was to come.

She was one of the first of those modern women who adopted author- chip as a profession; for, although she scribbled all her life, it was not until the death of her husband, when she was in her forty-sixth year, that she decided to capitalise her Hierary talents.

Many Admirers

It was a great undertaking for the is not easy to understand how and The Balfour Declaration why the difficulties have arisen, but

widow of an obscure parish minister, Almost exactly four hundred years saddled as she was with eight de- they have become so serious that they have necessitated the dispatch of after the Turkish Invasion, the Great licute children. It stood to her credit War provided an opportunity for

now that she had always been an In- about 15.000 British troops to pre-driving the Turk from Palestine, and dustrious correspondent {serve order.

Without going too far back in his- restoring the country to

She had been accustomed to scat- tory one can trace the origin of the owners. The British campaign water her verses among her friends present trouble in the year 1516, so successful that in December 1917 without ever troubling to keep a copy. Lord Allenby was able to march inte These friends rallied to her ald now. when Turkey frst conquered

For four centuries 20 country.

verses she had showered as Jerusalem and proclaim that Pales The naturally intelligent people were dis-line had fallen to British forces. largesse in the past were more

carefully couraged and enfeebled by the gross Five weeks earlier Lord (then Mr. collected, finally appearing in

1803 vho Arthur) Balfour, who was misgovernment of the Turks,

under the title, "Original Poems inflicted one hardship after another time Foreign Secretary, had made Some Translations from the Gacile." on the natives, with the result that on behalf of the British Government The list of subscribers for the volume thousands of them left Palestine and (Continued on Next Column.) extended to the unprecedented num

ber of 3,000.

EANWHILE, the face of Europe became and more covered with the dictatorial leprosy. Countries where liberty prevailed. where the human individual had still a claim upon his soul and body, became fewer and fewer. Unrest, uncer-

To-day's Thought. OUR country is that spot to which our heart is bound. -VOLTAIRE,

I want to go to Birmingham, i

And they've put me down at

Crete,

have reckoned themselves vic- tims of the oracle, of a mystic pronouncement beyond mother. wit to interpret, of a Brad- shavian jest.

Bradshaw BRADSHAW'S Railway Guide enters upon the hundredth year of its existence this month, and arrangements are already being made for a centenary cele- bration in 1930. Although the honour of being the first time- table in Britain does not belong to Bradshaw, it alone, of the early pioneers, has become the authority whose rulings admit of no appeal. Many have com- plained of the crudition neces- enry to understand its cabalistic of Milton, which is "the last re- symbola; and many, forced to ward of consummated scholar- make some such pathetic plen ship," it is a fact that, once

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Oh, Mr-Porter,

What shall I do?

One sympathises with these, but, nevertheless, it is their understanding that is at fault.

For although bewildered stu- dents may feel that a full comprehension of Bradshaw is as remote as that appreciation

grasped, Bradshaw, 'liko Milton, will not fail to transport his reader.

the ot

with

Mrs. Grant was now fairly launch- ed on her literary carcer, and in spite sorrows, she con- many private tinued with unfalling courage in her chosen pathway. She was to outlive all her children,

excepting her

of

GRIN AND BEAR IT

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"You tell your chef, Albers, that I could simply kill him ́for mak- ing such delicious food.”

youngest son, who survived to her memoirs and correspondence.

Of her

cdlt

Be-

her many works, the best known la her "Essays on the Superstitions of the Highlands of Scotland with Trunciations from the Gaelic." sides being a very capable and con- selentious writers, she was a brillant conversationalist. In her last years no Edinburgh gathering was con- sidered complete without the witty Mrs. Grant of Loggan.

A. W.

his now historie declaration, which is revarded as the cause of the present dimeuities.

"His Majesty's Government," suld Lord Balfour, "view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and w

will use their best endeavours to faellitate the achievement of that object. It must be understood that nothing shall be done which may pre- ludier the civil and religious righta of existing non-Jewish communities jin.

Palestine, or,

or the rights and

political

status enjoyed by the Jown In any other country."

The declaration was endorsed by the Allied Powers and embodied in the Vertailles Treaty, when Palentine was entrusted to the League of Nations, who gave a mandate to. Great Britain 10 administer the country.

Arab Maiority

For n'few years little happened. Lord (then Sir Herbert) Samuel wa appointed as High Commissioner`and · (Continued on Page T.).

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