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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1938.

Broadcasting

WE DO NOT intend to enter

into controversy with the anonymous writer who regularly contributes Musical Notes to a morning contemporary, and who yesterday made this newspaper the subject of an attack because it demands brighter and better balanced

from programmes ZRW.

Were it not for the fact that the writer in question makes particular reference to our com- ment on the playing of Chopin's "Funeral March" and suggests by innuendo that we are guilty of disregard for the solemnity of Armistice Day, his comments would go unchallenged.

In referring to the broadcast- ing of the "Funeral Murch", we merely illustrated the typical dullness of ZBW programmey, We drew attention to the fact that, on the day in question, listeners were inflicted with six and a half hours of solid classical

semi-classical

programmes, and no attempt was made to provide entertainment for the type of listener who abhors and does not understand what it is all about, and who is content only with lighter entertainment.

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That is not our idea of I balanced programme, nor is it an isolated instance of the local station's disregard for the re-l quirements of the bulk of listeners, the proletarian class who make the financing of broadcasting in this Colony possible.

We hold no especial brief for jazz, and would be as quick to deplore any attempt to revolu- tionise broadcasting in Hong- kong to the extent that it would become a continuous purveyor of the "red hot mammy" type of programme so dearly-beloved in Manila.

Frankly, we are irritated at the smug complacency of people such as "Ecyore," when they dismiss as a product of the "Silly Seacon" the legitimate com- plaints of listeners who have as much right to entertainment as the biggest taipan on the Peak or as himself.

We refer that writer to the) broadcasting programmes pub- lished in the South China Morning Post on November 11, and invite him to compare the programmes for ZBW and Daventry. In one programme he will see a constant repetition of the type of pro- gramme which, while it might be constructive, educational and high-brow, is completely boring to most listeners. In the other.

EUROPEAN CROSS ROADS

By Strube in the London "Daily Express”

Stamile

WHITHER?

an

IN the early years of this cen- tury 臨 famous picture depicted

aged, bearded patriarch, bent low over a globe, a lean finger pointing at the carth's surface over which the old man's sad eyes seemed to wander searchingly.

The picture bare the one word "Whither?" symbolising the plight of East European Jewry fleeing from massacre in Tsarist Russia and the anti-Semitic terrorism of Rumania.

the

Five million Jews are asking that question,

and thirty nations seek an answer.

BY

A. L. EASTERMAN

claim to be burdened by surplus Jews is well on the way to solution. IL is conservatively estimated

that in Western Palestine there are 500,000 acres of irrigable land of which less than one fourth has been made available for agriculture, If the whole available aren were cultivated, 75,000 familles could be settled

on it. AL present, only 15,000 families live directly on the Jand. There is room, therefore, it is claimed for another 60,000 familles, 300,000 additional individunis.

of Lake Lausanne, representatives of Balfour Declaration of 1917 and en- ruction, and in the factories as well over

the

the

live, and to-day the statesmen of the have risen connected by great motor there is no doubt that many more ofviding new opportunities for an

would

have

cap

trading

Alongside each agricultural family, Mediterranean where, 2,000 holdings, 5,000 in the "communal" two non-agricultural familities could be settled, giving another 600,000 Four million Jews left Eastern years ago, the Jews lived as a nation. settlements.

and the Europe in the 84 years between 1380 There, it is asserted, must be The others have been established individuals for Industry

the towns and "colonica" as professions. This is the basis of and 1914, to seek refuge in Europe, found the answer to "Whither?" in in

tradesmen and workers. Profes- Jewish economy in Palestine, one- America and across the Seven Seas. Palestine,

Heri

In the Jewish National Home stonal men, the lawyers, doctors, third to agriculture, two-thirds to

trade and industry. in Recently at Eyian, on the shore promulgated by Great Britain by the teachers, have found employment

building. bricklaying, road

calculate Jewish сод-

that experts 30 nations, convoked by President dorsed

a period of ten years Pales- the League of by

Nations,

in the hospitals, schools Roosevelt, sat round a conference 420,000 Jews have settled since 1920, as in

and tinc gan absorb, without difficulty.

over table เจ solve

of the problem

1,000,000 what was previously derelict

new Inhabitants. Europe's Refugees, ficeing to-day desert land and malarial awamp they

Jewish settlement has been This estimate takes no areount of frem Hitler's persecution and have created a fruitful soll and accomplished despite drastic im the potentialities of Palestine as the threatened by mass expulsion and raised every kind of agricultural migration restructions and years of entrepot of the Near East and the penury.

from product,

orange to the terrorism and civil unrest. Had effect upon it of the necessary deve- household vegetable.

Britain, the Mandatory Power, lopment of the surrounding countries The Evian Conference was abor- On

DA sandy wasten modern cities opened wider the doors of Palestine

population. world, the statesmen at Evian like roads and rail. Water has been Germany's refugees

Nor does the estimate take into the aged Jew in the picture, are brought to the towns and the desic found asylum there.

account the possibilities of Jewish searching the globe for an answer to cated fields, electricity in light and Assuming freedom of entry, ex- co-operation with Transjordan, vast, his query. "Whither?"

power to the remotest village. They perla maintain that Palestine

populated un- have brought new industries to the nettle comfortably another million of developed, and put near backward Near East.

homeless and Europe's

hopeless Southern Palestine, tho Negev, as under sentence of doom; Hitler de-

yet unsurveyed and unpeopled, which crees, "No more Jews in the Third schools and a great University which

They have built hospitals and Jews.

Viscount Samuel, formerly High may become available for Jewish Goering, In Hitler's name, procinims a Four-Year Flon for the stands proudly on Mount Scopus, in Commissioner of Palestine, is by no colonisation.

liquidation" of Australia's 350,000

Jerusalem

means un extravagant advocate of It is noteworthy that out of Fales-

scale Since 1833, 135,000 Jews have fied large

Jewish immigration. Jews. Goebbels declares, “No room

from Nazi Germany, in German Austria for the Jews."

One-third Yet he has declared that there is tine's 0,000 square miles Jews now own only 500, with a population of of them, some 45,000, have been room in Palestine for a population 800 to the square mile. On 5,400 Poland's statesmen under Ger- seliled in Palestine, bringing with of not less than 8,000,000, including

square miles 900,000 Arabs man influence, proclaim a policy of them £10,000,000 in capital which one million Arabs.

settled-180 to the square mile. "Polonisation," purge of 3,000,000 they have invested in agriculture With an existing total popula- But Palestine alone is not enough, Jews from nil branches of Stateilte, and industry.

tion of about 1,800,000, there is, on for there are still four millions left Col. Beck, the Foreign Minister,_an- Fourteen thousand of these Ger- this basis, accommodation for

requiro to be absorbed by other nounces that "at least 1,000,000 Jews man Jews-former artizans, profes- least 1,500,000 more people. If that in Europe. Of these, one million will

the One million are sional and business men-have gone is 50, must emigrate."

problem of European countries, the-Baited States, South already on the starvation line.

on the land, 9,000 in private small Jewry and of these nations that America, and clewwhere, at the rate

King Carol of Rumania has sald that "hundreds of thousands of Jews, are not entitled to citizenship," and Hungary decrees an 80 per cent. purge of Jews from trade, the pro- fessions and the Civil Service,

In Germany 500,000 Jews are

Reich,"

at

AN ENGLISHMAN ABROAD

Arc

of 100,000 a year over the next ton ycaro. Two millions must remain in Europe. For them there is no escape. What is to become of these? Civilisation must proclaim that the settlement of refugees is no acknow- ledgment of persecution and the de- privation of rights. Justice demands Scores of thousands of Nazidem's Ț (IAD just arrived back in Nio and harm if you put some whisky in that these remaining two millons victims have already fled; the mil-I was spending the night in an hotel Frightful lack of sandtation here, must be given the right to live and lions nwalt fearfully their sentence as it was too late to leave for Sao y'know."

earn, unless they are to perish. of outlawry.

Paulo that evening. After dinner. I

Above all, the statesmen will have "It looks quite a modern town for

to consider means to facilitate Where are they to go? President met an Englishman in the comfortable all that," I said. Roosevelt, at least, has realised that lounge of the Copacabana Palace "Oh, looks, yes," said the English-emigration to the ane country which the Jewish problem in Europe must Hotel.

man scornfully. "Just a venter; « has shown the capacity to absorb be dealt

"Just arrived?" he asked by way vencer of civilisation. Underneath those for whom Central Europe de- of introduction. I nodded.

clares there is no place. It's rotten." "OT the Almanzora?" he continued, Bul President Roosevelt and the and again he was right.

basis,

with on an international!

He then went on to tell me a few

on

pressure And this involves other democratic leaders who seek "You'll and this a queer country more ruiten things about Brazil, He Great Britain, the custodian of the to aid the Jews are faced with this to stay in," he went en after a pause. again mentioned the people (male Jewish National Home, to end poll- female.) He poke of the Lical uncertainty in Palestine and to devastating dilemma-while Europe "These Brazzies (as he called the and

Mostly climate. He described the decrepit provide facilities through the removal prepares to shut the door behind the Brazilians) are a poor lot. Wandering Jew, the rest of the world half casts, nigger and what not. And state of the rallways. He told of the of immigration restrictions for the government. He entry of Jews seeking asylum and Ims already all but closed it in his you know what the half-breeds are. dishonesty of the

ineered at

at the habits of the people. freedom. Treacherous devils!

He did everything he could to con- "Better be careful not to quarrel vince me that Brazil was the worst So the searching fingers of the with them" he continued. "They're statesmen pass to and fro over the pretty quick to shoot. Do y'know country in the world. the other, only to find written above guns in his pocket. They're always the Englishman wilted only very tragedies of refugees occurred re- globe's surface, from one country to every one of the blighters carries a You must have been here a long them the words "No entry."

face.

shooting You've simply no

women! Even someone.

But over one land the fingers these folk

pnuscover

nald, finally.

A Refugee Tragedy

London,

One of the most heartbreaking

Home Office lettor

of 50 doctors who would be

no conception how slightly. treat their women! "About a month," he said. "Ocently when a the Eastern corner of Jealous? Why you daren't look at course some of the chaps who've been slating that he had been selected as

another man's wife, but what he pulls here a long time have been telling me one

refugee a few days an Austrians out a pistol. Of course they've some, all about it. They know, of course." allowed to practise in Britain reach-

At this stage I saw fit to mention Daventry-programme, reason to be jealous. The women he will find balance and perfec-re hot blooded. Southern type, that I had been ten years in Brazil, after he was found hanged in his y'know. I doubt very much if there's and knew somewhat different. Ibedroom, This was revealed at an tion, the type of complete pro-{kuch a thing as a virtuous woman in shocked the Englishmon by mying Ijinquest held at Milford on Sea, Hants

-the

A guest of tainment for all classKEN of whole thing's a vicious circle. The admired their habi's, and had never arranged for him to be

at Rose Collage In listenors.

men are brutes with the women and seen a man thot or a woman knifed. Lady Forester the women take their cue from the As I say, I shocked him. I know he view of his unfortunate state owing We do not feel sufficiently men."

hoped and prayed I was wrong Ato his experiences in Austria, Ro crushed by "Eeyore's" criticism The Englishmon paused for a mo- foreign country simply could not be cording a verdict that Dr. Sehwantzer dlled himself while the balance of even balf decent. to withdraw our allegation that ment and then continued.

Unfortunately he was not the only his mind was disturbed, the coroner abroad. Small hopes said he was salized that he had ample cause for worry and de, broadcastingcareful the water. Of course they for the Brotherhood of Man

Miller Walon pression say that the water can do you no

ZBW is a most hopelessly typhold, and what not. Better be Englishman

"A rotten climate, too. Fever and

unentertaining .... station.

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