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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1938.

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A Different Day

ON SUNDAY we woke to a different kind of day- Christmas Day.

Boxing Day, yesterday, was a holiday, but it seemed too much like every other day again. There probably is something in this Christmas business. now most agreeably over.

· Hongkong spent it in devious ways, In England, our home- folks had a real Christmas, with snow and skating to go with the turkey and plum pudding, and most of the people there spent Sunday like their King and Queen, in front of big roaring fires. Everybody missed what has come to be accepted as an annual B.B.C. arrangement-n broadcast from the King to his people.

The British Empire was able to forget its worries and its troubles-even in torn Jerusalem there was a truce.

But Father Christmas was not happy elsewhere in the world.

In Spain, Franco chose the most inopportune time of the year to launch his greatest offensive against the Loyalists. and Christmas Day saw not peace and goodwill in a country already torn by over two years of bloody strife, but mangled bodies and wrecked homes,

China flared agnin 19 Chinese and Japanese bombers took to the air. Japanese bombs fell on Wulanno, Chekweisiang, Yuchen, Kwellin, Wuchow. Changsha, Sian, Siaoshan and Tunglu, Chinese bombs on Wuho.

Give Thanks

PEOPLES of the British Em-

T

Look

to your

Liberties

BY

FRANCIS

WENTY years ago the war which, so we were told, was fought to Silve elvilisation, ended. And civilisation was not saved. It is still imperified. For civilisation

is not simply the material troppines of progress.

Ita spirit is in those qualities 01 tolerance, of liberality, of reasonableness. of readiness to accept in our lives the Bovernance of law rather than to accept only the naked arbitrament of force, which is to-day most threatened in the world.

"erhaps if the war that was fought to cave elvilization had been followed by a stvilled peace the face of the world to-day la have been different. But it was not. And because it was not, one by one the dras of Mercy that burned in Europe are INES ALL

Already for more than six out 01 every ten of the men and women of Europe the darkness has fallen. For them the crisp daylight of freedom is ended; they are called upon to suppress utterly those qualities of mind and spirit, those precious attributes of individuality which have always seemeti most desirable to civilised men.

For them now there is but the one creed of conformity.

We who still told to the traditions of free- dam but who saw these tradicions almost dally assalled, need to think of them particularly upon this day in the two minutes when even the armament facienti pre silent.

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T is not post. 2" in some quarters ju* now to Esit of the countlal qualitie : *bi civil....kich now why democracy in the only true basis of a modern civilization. For it is held at to prašau democracy is t criticise dictatorships, and that is an unfriendly net.

Yet it seem to me that parilenturfy on this day we should look to our liberties, that on this day perhaps above all others, we should ask ourselves by whint jude- ments we are to chida, by what standards we are to ilves

I do not feel called upon to pre- tend any love for dictatorships. I im not ready to accept the accusa- tion of war-mongering if I say that the dark creed of Fascism seems to e to challenge all that is most rable in the human spirit.

BITTERLY, England, must

thou grieve- Though none of thes

poor men who died

But did within his soul baliove That death for thee ves

glorified.

~~DE LA MARE

I do not believe that men cen be freed from Fasciani by Li

et or exercise of external fores 1 Forelsm is to no down in the countries where now it rules it will

down not before the bombers of 19 arm in adopting means that an external enemy, but because we bad. of the uprising of those who are now its captives, some of them For let us not deceive ourselven most willing captives.

It will fall as other tyrannies have fallen before , because mea Krow weary of tyranny, because the desire for liberty, for the right to be their individual selves, is deep planted in the hearts of men. b. cause in the long run ideas are more powerful than swords,

UT let us not deceive

B ourselves either as to

"Britain must be strong to meet the menace of Fasclat aggression. The Fascist countries are strong because they are organised for obedience Wider determined Governments, Therefore we too must organlse in the same way. learn from their methods, be ready to sacriflee some of our liberties order that we shall, if the occasion come, be efficiently organised to safeguard our larger liberty." runs the argument.

There lies

salvation tor democracy and etvilisation in such a course.

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Of course we must arm for our defence. ΟΙ course We must. the potency of bad organise to meet aggression if it deas in the 'short run. Truth is comes. But we must do so us free tough, and in the end it cannot men who, if the need should come be kept down, but in the short run

arms to defend HOL the there seems sometimes to be in empty shell of liberty but a con- ideas, as in currency, a Gresham's ception of society which we know Law by which the bad currency to be good because it is ours to drives out the good.

The currency of Fascism is be- coming current even among some of those who call themselves de- mocrats. It is currency danger- ously adapted to the purposes of Governments which fear criticism. Moreover, it lins a specious appest to those who, confident that the ends they pursue are righteous, see

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pire should count their blessings. This great Common- wealth does not wake each day to the roll of gunfire and roar: of the bombers, slaying the good i and the brave in thousands. Flood and fire, typhoons and the other tragedies of mature we know. But, we do not suffer the vast misery of "d" million homes swept away by the demon of A

John Hippo

is

tako

enjoy.

WILLIAMS ·

And it possible to take once again the initiative in world affairs.

How can that be done? It can- not be done by copying the Fascist powers. It can be done only if we turn back to the fundamentals of our democratic creed and on their

build foundation

Otr with all energy a more just and equitable Society.

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"We hold," said the draughts- nien of the American Declaration these truths to of Independence, bo cell-evident, that all men are ated equal, that they are en- dowed by their Creator with cer- 1:13 unalienable Rights. that mong these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

"That to secure these rights Governments are instituted among fen, deriving their Just power In the coat of the governed." There are the great principles wivel Inn-e everywhere the con- teption of democracy.

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TOW, when democracy is threatened as never bc- are called upon

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It we would save it to give effect to them, and in so doing by our ex- ample, inspire those who to-day live under tyranny with a new hope.

We shall not achieve that unless we are ready not merely to hold Jast to the democratie institutions which we possess but to go forward to a more complete democracy.

There can be no live democracy so long as we acquiesce in a social fast to auch civilisation system which confronts un daily as we already have and make pos- with the Injustices of immense sible a higher civilisation is that disparities of wealth, with the somehow the democracles shall private control of economic power

HE greatest need at the: moment if we are to hot

ARMY STOPS BROADCAST RIVALRY between Army sergeants prevented a broad-

which shoul be organised & the common god, with the giern- ance of vestd interests in utters which concm deeply the ippl- ness and vll-being of orgary men and wmen..

Man is much more that an economic ng: but there es be no true egality of social ojor- tunity, norue freedom, no on- plete rule justice unless W 80 reorganis our economic life iat the skill gnien in material thgs * used pr. the good of ill. Without the democracy is a mile edified był upon sand.

There do at our command sh resourcesof mind and spirit materials can. If we so determe enable V to slow to the wed haw Bria civilisation a 起 democra can bulid.

...

But dly If we have confider. in dercracy, confidence in aight men to criticist al discuss to decide for themsel the corse that shall be taken ai abide the view of the majorit confidice in that insistent why which at the heart of progres

in

ONFIDENCE,

too,

must have. to fight fo the freedom of othe even when their views are suc as wdo not approve, confidend

essential goodness orditry people and a determin tlonhat no man or woman shal suff Injustice and we remal stler

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A‡, above all, a determinatioj to deep away poverty and sock incity and to build a soci sysh of which we can bo trufi prqi.

we do that then this time a min truth save civilisation,

'Mothers Bribed To G To Centres

cast recently. Company Sergeant Major A. Ed-er for Caniff, told, a meethor wards, of Grantham, was to have broadcast at 7.20 in the Northern programme as "Champion Recruiter of the British Army."

. J. Greenwood Wilson, Mcbi

National Baby Week Councat Ministry of Health reces "e soaring dgures for attende maternity and child wird we ke

LARGE male hippopotamus soon to be added to the Zoo's war, of countless millions suffer-collection of rarer animals. ing as they do to-day in war- At present, while the Zoo is rich in pigmy specimens from Liberin, li torn China and Spain. Many of has no male hippo of the larger Cen-

Instructions from the War Office, however, caused the B.B.C. cres-Agures in which

smuch pride-are false and our people could eat more and tral African type.

to postpone the talk. Joan, the solitary specimen, has

obribery." better food. Yet so far none, been a lonely widow since her matr.

In its place was given a talk on Christmas puddings, not even our vast multitudes in the famous Bob, tamest and friend-

"Certain facts in the script sub- Behind this statement is a story stend of being places for India, have suffered the faminellest of hippos, died a year or

mitted by C. 5. M. Edwards for ap-jof rivalry between recruiting officers. thing of mothercraft, ago.

C. S. M. Edwards claims to have the centres, he said, such as China cannot escape. Joun is a creature of strong likes proval by the War Office have had to

Such verification has secured more recruits for the Regularer than milk shops at whle We have our misfits and our and disliker. She ruled Bob and is be verified.

quite equal to ruling any newcomer. taken longer than was at first anti-Army than any other permanent staff cloyment assistance board of miseries. But we have some- Dr. Vovers, superitendent of the eipated, and in consequence it has thing

security. clse -****

Other recruiting sergeants, how- on the look-out for m Zoo, has had Give

offers of three mafu hippos and he proposes to inspect all been found necessary to postpone the ever, claim that they have been ableons for supplementing thanks.

Ito enlist just as many now men. ismes,

three.

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broadcast," the War Ofice sald,

Instructor.

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were