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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, MAY 1, 1939.

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The Bill

IN the coming financial year . Britain will spend a total of £580 millions on the defence of our Empire.

The entire cost of building over

a million clean new houses would!

be less than that. Slums and over- crowding, curge of generations, could be completely wiped out.

For a tenth of the sum, Britain could revolutionise the educational system, freeing it from every exist ing blut.

For less than a twentieth of the

NO 'WHOA' FOR THE WEAK

Start's

Remember What Happened To Napoleon..

ATELY Hitler has been the ruling prince of Liechtenstein Hatly, and Napoleon begun to turn

writings of Napoleon.

reading the life and

sum Britain could have a contribu- tory system of old age pensions, offering 20s a week at 65, with of a man who won enormous He has found there the story 95s, for a married couple,

[power,

It is a grin business, for a demo- But he also found there, the cracy. But as things stand to-day story of a man who abused his it is an inevitable business. And power, and was brought down. the Government is right to spend

the money, though it ought to be That man was brought down raising a much higher proportion by the might of the British

Empire.

of it by direct taxation.

But there are two sides to national

defence. There are the preparations devouring egotism and ruthless Napoleon had two faults: that must be made to meet a bad in-contempt for the little man. ternational situation. More impor-His egotism made him under tant, there is the effort that must be estimate Britain. made to improve that situation, so,

that diminish,

take his own art treasures from Vienna, Napoleon regarded works of art only as a sign of national prestige, plundered the galleries and museums of Italy for the Louvre.

NOW Northe

choico faced Nupe-

choice

west and attack England? Or should which

be drive to the cast? Hitler faces to-tlay: Should he go

fils eyes towards England.

Britain greeted this news with Joy. "Never has so happy an opportunliy England, having acquired Russia stroke for the rescue of the world," existed in Britain to atrike a bold and Austria as alles, took a lent from Napoleon's book, and declared into the Peninsular War.

people said. And Britain plunged war Arst. It was the beginning of conflict which did not really cease

till Napoleon's Anal defeat at Water this to his generals, and went back But Napoleon left the conduct of loo, twelve years later.

to Paris. No British Army ever faced Napoleon in battle til Water-

"FIFTEEN MILLIONS of loo, and none was ever defeated by Napoleon chose the cast, and con- referring to England, "must give

people," Napoleon said, kim. quered Egypt and invaded Palestine way to forly Navy at the battle of the Nile and

only to defeated by the British familiar ring.

millions." It has a

This was his first serious mistake, He underestimated England as a foc. in Palestine by Sydney Smith, Sea-

He was too sure of his own in- power defeated.generalship.

His cunning naval strategy mis- fallibility. It was an error which slipped back to France, and

fired. While we were trouncing "the" led to the ruin of all his proud hopes. the help of political friends over- marched into Vienna. Next year, in his power, but England's sea

Evading the British cruisers, he swinging on his heel, left Boulogne, French Navy at Trafalgar, Napoleon,

He had conquered Italy and Ger- threw the Government, making him- aged thirty-seven, he captured Ber- power cut short his ambitions.

with smashed his way across Europe, und many; Switzerland and Holland were self First Consul of France; which lin. was a polite way of saying Dictator.

THEN, in 1812, he came up

against Russia.

the needa of defence may And the instruments of his

This was the summit of his suc- downfall were British commer- What is Britain doing positively cial strength and the strength Began great public works (like west, marched into Madrid, and put Moscow, Having taken Smolensk in NAPOLEON now:

(1) Cess. Codified the laws. (2) to help create the kind of world that and strategy of the British Hitler). (3) Made

Next year (1808) he drove to the to lead his armies in person to He determined to conquer Russia will be less dangerous to its peoples? | Navy.

peace with the his brother on the throne of Spain. mid-August, he hesitated whether to

It lins done much these Inst seven years to fill the world, with danger.

Church (unlike Hitler).

It was then that Britain For this last he was nicknamed realised that this man, who dreamt loving himself infallible, he pushed

Js

all

This till of £580 millions is a terible lessly carried out, his intentions was Adolf

"A WELL-THOUGHT-OUT Restorer

at last push on or wait for the spring. Be of the Altars. plan, rapidly and ruth- nickname after

Hitler's of ruling his, imprisonment mashed. acequal rendered for past errors and veiled until the moment of execution, Adolf.

Europe,

on. It was his second inust be

disastrous Legalite Law-abiding

mistake. Retreating through the follies.

Hero and then a swift and decisive blow." greatest difference between them, world power of Britain which drove 115.000 troops perished, from hunger.

winter snows from burning Moscow "It was the hope of crushing the (the enemy had set it on Are), his crystallised the British taxpayers would pay their That is how a British military expert Napoleon made all his conquests by Napoleon to his worst aggression, and cold, share of it more willingly if only described the strategy of Napoleon. fighting. Hitler, after the failure of the aggression en Spain," writes a

Does it seem a familiar pattern? his Munich revolt, determined to win leon had conquered cowed and dis- another army

famous historian. Hitherto Napo By an amazing effort he raised The broad outlines of the two power only by "legal" methods, careers so far are very similar.

pirited nations only, but Spain rose battles in the following year, but and fought severel Now came the second conquest of as one man. Hitler is the son of a minor civil

bis Judgment was losing its edge, There is no such assurance. There servant. Napoleon was a wealthy

and In October 110 was definitely is no steady British policy Inspired politics in Corsica (his birthplace) lawyer's son; he became involved in

defeated, Meanwhile Wellington. was pressing up from the south.

As each conquered nation was set free by Britain it joined the ranks of Napoleon's jocs,

there were some assurance that the crrors and follies will not be re- peated, will not bring in their train bills even heavier.

by determination to build n world in and at the age of twenty-three bad which international law and national to flee to France with his family. rights are respected and from which] the prospect of war will fade.

New B.B.C. Dance Policy

Further developments have oc curred following the disclosures of trouble in the dance band world in London.

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At twenty-four, like Hitler, who served a term of imprisonment after the failure of the Munich putsch in 3023, Napoleon too was sent to prison. But the next year he seized his first great clance, when he erushed a royalist rising in Paris. (His next step was very un- Hitlerish: he married Josephine.)

The B.B.C. Is appointing a private were commission to inquire into the whole Napoleon's rise. affair.

There is to be a new B.B.C. dance fore

He said: "Centuries will pass be- band policy. Listeners are to have events which led to my career can

the unique combination less dance musle.

JAPOLEON was carried to power on the crest of a' wave of vigour created by the; French Revolution. The desire to seo order restored, the enthusiasm aroused by France'a victories, these the real motive-power of

bands and

Band leaders have lodged with the B.B.C. a formal complaint of favouritium) towards certain music publishers. The facts have been fully docu- mented and are to be investi- gated by the private commission. Another complaint is that the

B.B.C. force dance bands to Include

recur in the case of another.".

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He was wrong. Only 130 years later another nation developed n craving for order and economic res organisation, a need for now vic- tories to restore ita national pride. And once again the need called forth the man.

At the ngo

of twenty-seven Napoleon conquered Italy; captured

the music of a certain publisher in Sardinia, overran Tuncany, crushed every programme.

One of the "Big Six" band leaders Venice, compelled the Pope, the King refused to change his programme to

it Naples and the Emperor of include a number published by this Austria to ask for pence. He who firm, and the B.D.C, are alleged to soldier ended in supreme control, sturtest an unknown, unpopular have threatened to cancel his engage-France's greatest warrior, salt ment if he did not.

Like Hitler, who will not allow

GRIN AND BEAR IT

By Lichty

Ch. 1725 by tuised Peabere

"Wake up, Fitzhught This is your birthday party-this is the night you wanted to roar)"

The lion was at bay at last, Napoleon fought with superb strategy, but his days were nam- bered. Early in 1814 Paris gave in to the united armies of his foes. A week later he abolented.

Naw there

is only the epilogue. Escaping from his retirement at Elba he again raised an army and defled Europe. Striking like light- ning as usual, he won the battle of Ligny, but his slower rivals caught up with him at-Waterloo. The Hundred Days were over.

suvlour.

Trst, Napoleon had been regarded as a hero and a Beethoven dedleated his Eralca Symphony to him in admira- tion. But go hearing he had been made emperor, ho realised Napoleon was interested only in himself and tore the dedication from the manus- cript in a fury,

Hitler, too, firet climbed to power us the Iberator of the oppressed. Like Napoleon, he stands in danger of his own concell in his in- vincibility.

Napoleon reached a point where he could only keep his power by piling conquest on conquest

That is the point where he came up against Britain,

Hitler, having read his Napidean, should not underestimate the British Empire's inexhaustible commercial strength and fighting power.

Gordon Taylor