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THE HONGKONG Teleoraph, Monday, November 28, 1988.

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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1938.

Royal Visits

When King George VI and Queen Elizabeth visit the United States this coming spring Americans need only be them- selves to make their royal guests

feel right at home.

The differences that dis- tinguish the United States from. Britain are fortunately only such as emphasise the similarity be tween the two nations. Two

peas in a pod can show un- mistakable signs of separate identity without discrediting in the least the accuracy of the old phrase about their likeness.

American school children learn their early lesson in speech from British as well as American masters of English. "Flow Gently Sweet Afton," "Sweet and Low" and many another folk-loved British melody are as famillar to them as are Tiny Tim or Bob Cratchett-nor are they schooled in stressing nationalistic distinctions where this cultural heritage is concern.

ed.

What they say in

Germany

T

BAD GODESBERG.

HERE are many kinds of bad travellers, but the worst and most dangerous of all are those who spend a few days in "foreign parts" and return as exports on the people of the country concerned,

So let me at once say that I have been in Germany only a week, and that because I have travelled a thousand miles or so through the Rhineland and the Bavarian Alps and have spent a long week-end in Berlin I am not claiming to pose as an authority on conditions in Germany.

But any Intelligent traveller must form impressions, and if it is his job to observe, those Impressions are probably more valuable after a few days than after years of residence when perception is blunted and new things cease to be new.

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The most outstanding Inipres- sion I have formed is that the aver- age German--the chance acquain- tance in the train, the man you sil next to in the café and invite to Join you in a beer-does not want war, is like any normal human being frightened of war and if any. thing rather resents the idea of it being forced upon him...

I am convinced, for instance, that the German man-in-the street is not filled with an all-con- suming hatred for the Czechs. The whole Sudeten problem acems to be to him academic rather than real.

Two months ago in any English train or in the "local" you could hear outspoken and bitter condem- nation of Japanese atrocities in China, of the bombing of Canton and the slaughter of defenceless clvilluns. The indignation was real and spontaneous, although the matter was one which did not specifically affect Englishmen.

Now the German Press for the past three or four days has been full of horrific atrocity stories and pictures from Budetenland: thore has been a constant stream of the same sort of material over the radlo...

Not unnaturally, I expected the Czech horrors which, after all, should affect the average German more than events in China do the average Englishman, to be the main topic of angry conversation. I was apparently mistaken. The

Wife Does

Not Want

Divorce Absolute

A husband whose wife ob- tained a decree nisi against him a year ago applied to Mr. Justice Henn Collins in the Divorce Court recently to have the de cree made absolute.

The visit to North America will be the first undertaken by a reigning British monarch. Memories of Edward VII, and

of Edward VIII-both of whom, as Princes of Wales, found the United States a cordial cousin are awakened by the announce- ment of King George's and Queen Elizabeth's tour.. Like- wise the recent visit of British Royalty to France is brought to mind. The implications of the American trip differ from those of the French in that they are less definitely political. Yet among all three countries, liberal-mindedness, representa-stated that he was anxious to marry

The circumstances in which the court should accede to such a re- quest, if the petitioner opposes it, were discussed for the first time.

Mr. Graham Brooks said he was applying on behalf of Mr. Ralph Robert Chappell, of Manor-grove, Beckenham, whose wife.. Mrs. Mar- garet Mary Chappell, obtained decree nial in October 1937.

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aidavit by Mr. Chappell

the woman named in the petition, with whom he had been living since June 1930. She was expecting a child, and it was in her interests and that of the child that the posi

tive government and the recog- nition of the dignity of the in- dividual constitute ties that are symbolised both in the Frenchton should be regularised. visit and the intended visit to America.

The people of these three nations have no difficulty in supposing that King George and Queen Elizabeth may casily Imuigine they are listening to "God Save the King" whom they hear American lips singing "Sweet land of horty"

WIFE OPPOSES

Mr. Roland Adams, for- Mrs.

"The average German does not want war,” Scene in a typical German café,

BY BERNARD MOORE

reaction seemed to be not "this terrible -treatment of Germans is monstrous and must be stopped." but simply" the Czech situation is getting very grave."

It is as though the whole Czech problem is some complicated game being played out before them, but apart from them, without calling fer any enthusiastic partisanship.

When it was umuun: 4 in bai Godesberg that Czecho-Sloval, a bad accepted the new plan under which the greater part of the Sudetenland is to go to Germany, there were wild e thudasm,

Surely. I thought, this stupen- dous nows will result in some sort of Mafcking celebration. After all, it is a great diplomatic triumph for Hitler and for Germany, this ex- tension of Germany's frontiers with the help of the Western democracies.

But I was mistaken again. Rellof there was certainly, for there has been war in the air in Germany, as olsowhere, for weeks.

Visible enthusiasm, no-no hats in the air, no drinks, no cheering.

"That's good,” was all my walter at lunch had to say when I told him. I watched him carefully, but ho did not even trouble to pass on the news.

Even German officials, if you ask them "What next?" reply, “The Fuehrer will decide.”

In Berchtesgaden there was the same air of detachment.

* What do you think of it all?" I asked a Lurdy Bavarian peasant in green Jacket and leather shorts as Mr. Chamberlain came down the steps

of his hotel following the first meeting with Hitler.

Blowly he removed his pipe. nodded in the direction of Hitler's mountain fastness. "The Leader has told him what we want,” be sald tersely, es though that settled the whole question.

Events have shown that he was right.

That is a general impression I found that the Fuehrer only had to tell Mr. Chamberlain and he would get it.

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I have seen no signs of anti- British feeling and, what is per- haps more important, no tendency to crow over the British for the great climb down. Perhaps it is because the Nazi Press, with its violent anti-British outbursts of recent weeks, reflects an official rather than a popular feeling.

butter shortage, I saw no butter displayed for sale in any shop. window,

There is no apparent shortage either in the hotels at which foreignera atay or on the dining cars of the trains.

In Berlin, however, I dined with some friends and was given rump steak with a small golden heup of fried onion on it.

To my shame and everlasting horror I learned afterwards that I had helped to eat the only onton they had been able to get for weeks.

An onlon, I agree, is not much to make a fuss about, but I was told that onions are only among the many things that are dimcult or even impossible to obtain.

Prices of some commodities are prohibitive even when the com- modities are avaliable; taxes and odd deductions are high, too. Many′′ of the clothes one sees in the street and for sale in the shop windows in Berlin, as well in the pro- vincca are obviously made .02 materials that have little real wool, cotton or silk in them.

Frankly, I do not know. All I can say is that everywhere, not only In official bat unofficial dealings, I have met with friendly helpfulness.

In oMcial dealings that was per- Every German knows of the

for haps not surprising.

the "

enormous sums Germany is spend- discipline which is everywhere re-ing on armaments, but I could see

markable could no doubt provide for that in view of the Chamber- Inin mission.

But these considerations could hardly apply in the case of the ordinary civilian, though he, too, as becomes a clitzen of a totalitarian State, is disciplined..

There can be no doubt about that discipline, for there are many things which might lead to unrest in a democratic State. *

Food for example. The window displays of the fruit shops are sig- nificantly limited. Although 1 looked carefully, for I had heard of

GRIN AND BEAR IT

By Lichty

"I had to hire some extra help for Culpepper-he's entered 137 prize contests simultaneously!”

Her attitude, he said, was not based tul contempt..

no outward sign of unrest, what- ever domestic grumbling there may bo.

It is a tribute to the iron disci- pline Hitler has imposed on the whole nation that the "guns not butter" policy announced by Mar- shal Goering has been pursued so far...without the reaction, which. would have been inevitable in a democratie country.

The Fuchrer, and his advisers, one can only presume, aro' conf- dent, that this discipline could be maintained even under the threat.

of ware

"Venus" Wants Apology

Miss Rosemary Andree, the "pocket Venus" of the stage and a Royal Command performer, boys she is de manding an apology from the Rev. Laula Ewart, vicar of Earls Barton, Northamptonshire, and chaplain of the Actors Church Union.

After seeing her poses from the front row of the stalls at the North- ampton New Thontro recently Mr. Ewart protested and contested and complained that her performance was "the most shameful thing he had over.seen in his life,"

Mr. Wart said: "I honestly could not believe that any woman would be permitted publicly to strip herself and brazenly exhibit her completely naked body before an audience."

Commenting on this, Miss Andree Bald: 'Mr. Ewart has no right to sel himself up as an arbiter in a matter of this sort.

"I AM NOT NUDE"

"He does not know whether. I am naked or not on the stage. I have never said that I'am or that I am not. "It has always boen my, socret, “ but to show the vlear that he is wrong I will toll 'you now, "I not nude on the stage: 1 suo Dovering which I Invented: designed jmyself.

them.

*: “It is a curious thing

"Members of the local Watch Com- mittee saw my performance and I Chappell opporod the; application of a real inability, not through wil Mosquito Attack Fizzles have had no word of complaint from

ous thing that on the on vindictiveness or dislike of the Mr. Justice Henn Collins; glving

OAKLAND, Cal. respondent,

judgment, said: "I think Mr. Chap- This city, which for years has very night the vicar saw my perform

A mosquito war. and ance a retired canon of the church He was, however, in; very grave' pell does not want to honour his conducted contempt of court in the matter of legal obligations, but prefers those obplement organization, mobilized came to my dressing room und com-

as his moral and rushed togarms when it was pilmented me on

Mr. EworlBald that he had rè- alimony, the whole of which was which he describes ordered for the benent of the obligations. I am quite clear that elieved the city was being invaded. children of his marriage to Mrs. this is a case in which I ought not Cliented all-sprayers and ceived repiles to letters which he sent slood befor, the defense of their to; the Home Office and the Actors" Chappell, and he had not paid the to exercise my discretion."

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