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Totalitarian Tirades AS A nation Britons
THE
AVERAGE GERMAN IS JUST BAFFLED
Report from Paul Bretherton
BERLIN,
IF you shout in a man's ear long enough you'll deafen him.
And then he won't be able to hear anything you say.
I cannot pretend that this is an old Chinese proverb, but it is just about what has happened to millions of Germans during the past few weeks.
The ominous mutterings of a real crisis beyond the horizon are drowned in the terrifle hullabaloo raised at home, a din which has already given most Germans the eprache and has driven them to tune In to Gennan news from England every night, just to hear someone talk reasonably.
The Quiet Voice of London
IN the morning the citizen's eyes are shocked with black headlines as thick as a man's thumb, shrieking; "A stab in the heart for the dastardly English wor-mongers; Ruritaina spurns offers of British pro- tection," or something of the sort.
Later in the day the Nazi radio announcer, in lugubrious toner, Bays: "Ruritania's praiseworthy stand shows that she, at any rate, has seen through the mask of the wicked, murderous democracles,"
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At a quarter past eleven at night the citizen, tunes in to London Regional, without much difficulty if he has a reasonably good set. quiet voice, in superb German, Buys: "The Ruritanian Minister in London called at Downing-street to-day. It was afterwards announced that the Ruritanian Government have given certain assurances to Great Britain that in the event of certain circumstances arising," ele, etc.
Rubbing his close-cropped head, our bewildered citizen of the Third Reich pours himself out a glass ut schnapps and tells his comfortable wife that "you never know what to believe these days."
Alice never seemed to be really nstounded in Wonderland, but even she would have been knocked off her balance in Germany at the presen! moment.
Brilliant, hot sunshine is flooding the country. In Berlin the beaming: restaurant proprietors are pulung tables and chairs out on are
fairly thick-skinned. Whoo foreigners abuse us heartily we are not unduly troubled. If they raise their voices to a scream we still can bear it, for we have had a good deal of this sort of experience.
Herr Hitler seems never
to
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have learnt to distinguish be. tween invective, which is branch of the art of rhetoric, and downright abuse.
Dr. Goebbels, on the other hand, now and then imports a dash of sardonie wit into his tirades against England,
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to the
pavements. We stroll through the Tiergarten to see the carpets of blue go and laugh at the ginnt panda in scillas that have just come out, or the Zoo. (Yes, we have a panda, too!) A group of Englishmen sit in a large, busy beerhouse, talking their own language as loudly as they like. Nobody takes the slightest notice, except perhaps when one of the re-
gular customers or the landlord him- self comes over, sits down and says: "Well, gentlemen, what's going on in the world to-day? Everything up- side down, eh?"
They're Still Polite
AND
NO yet every morning and every afternoon the printing offices have
orders to let loose their broadside after broadside against the only just stops short of being in- English In language that sometimes decent. If mild little Alice arrived
Berlin and was able to read a newspaper before doing anything. clse she would probably dive into the when he compared the Chamber-British Consulate for fear of being
Jynched.
But a walk around the town would
are treated
many. Once again, Alice would say "Curiouser and curlouser"
GRIN AND BEAR IT
Coạn, làm by Canal frente tendiente, Don,
LET.US FURE YOU BENTIFUL
By Lichty
"I want Gaston to look at you first-Gaston is our idea man!"
QUESTIONNAIRE
To End All Questionnaires
ONE of the prime arts of life is the ability to manage one's
purse in a sage, sane, and practical manner. you're practical?
Do you think
Here is a series of questions taken from typical psychology. testa used in colleges. Answer them honestly, or you won't get athing out of the test.
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When you're in doubt about an answer, score it against yourself rather than give yourself the benefit of the doubt, Having made ticks against "Yes" or No," look on page 7 for the method of scoring.
U.S. FLEET IN, PACIFIC.
LOS ANGELES, May 12-Nearly 100 Unfied Blates AC ships and auxillaries reached harbour in the Pacific, today,
The transit of the entire fleet in new complete Unite Preas
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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
MAAUSTRALIA
SATURDAY
• PLAKBOUTE
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EAN
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT sends his Flect hurrying to
Pacific. Why?
1. Do you leave electric lights burning in an unoccupied room?
Yes........
No..........
2.
Do you, or would you, habitual-
ly invite people for supper to your home, even though it coate extra money?
NG........
Yes
3. Do you budget your expenses?
Yes
No
4. Do you stick to your budget?
Yes
No
5. Do you regularly put adde something for a "raing day"?
Yea
G.
No
Do um, make it a rule to avoid buying those things which you know you can borrow?
Yea
7. 1:01
No.
Do you systematically have clothics inended immediately such mending is needed, realising that a stitch in time-saves cash?- Yes............ No
8. Have you trained yourself to forgo frequent purchasing of sweet- meats, sandwiches, cold drinks, de- cause you realise that such, habitual | expenditure is an unnecessary waste?
Yes.......*
No
9. Do you re-chéck-itemised retail bills to make sure that you haven't been charged for things you didn't get land to make certain of the addition,
in any case?
the
Yer
10.
lain umbrella to the Sword of her that John Bull's daughters Damocles, or wrote: "Poland
nssure may breathe again-England is are inted as politely here as they although John to send a public speaker."
Bull himself is denounced as Beelze
and the bub
arch-enemy of Ger- But he also, with his slavish satellites, all too soon falls back upon the conventional epithets for the Englishman-bloody, base, brutal, ruthless, liar, mans are fairly used to tension by For years Japan has been secretly perfecting a chain of sea- coward, covetous, hypocrite, now, and they can stand a good deal plane and submarine bases southwards from her island of
of strain. thief.
Formosa. Bohemia and Moravia were taken
.
like a faint but persistent smell of a clear Command of the Pacific-and that means in the air as well The crisis hands about Germany Because if war should break out to-morrow Japan would have smoke, such as you experience on autumn days in England. The Ger-88 on the sea.
•
No
as to get the most for your money? your clothes at out-of-season sales, so Do you make it a habit to buy
Yer
No
11. Do you ever succumb to the temptation to "treat the crowd" when In a mood of uncontrolled follity?
Yea
No This is a sad falling-off from so swiftly and smartly that there They start at Saipan, in the and Jopan made so strong as to be the level of the "Hymn of Hato" was very little apprehension about Ladrone Islands.
A formidable one come a direct menace to the Pactile money than you had decided to in 12. Do t/ou ever spend more the results.
"Oh, well, it had to is at Yap, in the western_extremity cous! of Americn itself. which Germans used to chant income, and surely you English will of the Caroline Islands. The Pelew
sending-cards or presents on birth- pre-Horst-Wessel days.
not start quarrelling with us about Islands are fortified. Innumerable that now?" was what my friend Islands in the Caroline and Marshall
days, anniversaries, and such; ration- Hana sald.
UNTIL recent years the United alising the expenditure by senti
States was content to keep mentalising? groups are suspected of Memelland simply slid into its refuelling and air bases.
of having naval Hawail with its magnificent Pearl Yes place without so much a rattle or
Harbour-os its outpost to guard
The author of that charming lyric, like Heine, was a non- Aryan, and so it is banned from the Nazi song-book.
When Signor Gayda tortures the liquid syllables of the Italian tongue to serve up horrid per- versions of British history, we regret his behaviour but do not And that it hurts us."
Yes
No.
Na..
a squeak, and Hans said: "It's all and the United States, who, above
Japan spreads her tentacles south, agalust a surprise of its mainland 13. Do you, or would you, lend over now; it didn't hurt very much, olt, desires to maintains the status quo farther into the island-dotted ocean. out security, merely because they are thores. Now, it dinge its forces people sizable sums of money with- did it? Nay let us get together in the Pacific, dare not stand idly by again."
and allow land after taland to bo Guam-one of the prizes,
with the
friends? Made Him Jump & Bit fortified against her. Her vast Pact Phillippines, of the Spanish-Ameri- ASSURED him that I did not ac trade would be ruined overnight can War, has become a naval and
base as well as
14. If you dropped a penny in a but he was unshakably cheerful,
believe that it was all over,
a stage on sewer, would you reach into the America's Transpaclic air line.
It prime and filth up to your bare elbow. lies midway between Japan's Saipan to retrieve it?..
Congress, too, has voted £600,000
I
alr
and
There was a time when gentle foreseemed to swing into the going on outside his country. If he for making Wake Island-1,300 miles
ht
costs money?,
No
And then the mutterings started in-the-street would like to have beyond the horizon, and the word much clearer idea of what really is Poland
of dally conversation with has to fight, it would be nice to
15. Do you pile up bills by pur men were too proud to be any pecullor swiftness. Hans refused to know what he is fighting for, and of Guam- a strategic point. chasing things you can't afford?
Yes Midway Island, 1,500 miles west of perturbed, insisted that this was what led up to it. thing but courteous to one nothing to fight about, no matter If he really thought that Mr. Hawell, is to have £1,100,000 spent 16. Do you chatter endlessly: on Chamberlain was selling out to sur- on it: Johnson Island, 1,000 miles the telephone at home and pine, no another, and the language of what the papers said.
Albania vanished, and this made round the German Reich and then south-west of Howall, is to be diplomacy was noted for its re- Hans jump a bit. Then the broad sinash it to pleces, he would start strengthened to the extent of £250, thought to the idea that such taik
000, while a lonely Island just Anement, even when the art of sides at England began in earnest, cleaning his rifle straight away.
north- Yea
'No'. and Hans gave up prophecies for the
He has been told that this is. Mr. West of Hawali is to have haval and caricature was at ita coarsest.
17. Do you habitually get your moment.
eir bases costing nearly £2,600,000. Chamberlain's plen: but the same Neither Hans nór millions of his people told him the other, day that All this humourless hate-stuff;
paid bille receipted? Japon's threat becomes brethren "like the look of things" King Zog of Albania had been plant Not long ago she occupied the friends that your home is not a pro-
clearer Yer every time there is a European crisis.
No. In the German and Italian Press at the moment,
But they find it ning to start a war in the Balkans, Pentas ahoals is overdone.
off Hongkong. A It is too consciously false to Britain,
real and terrible war, with Great his huge neighbours. That was very
was the A hard to swallow, what Germans and Italians know
After all, the warm weather is And so there always remains the atolls, none more than eight feet cat at will? of England both as friend and take the paddleboat out of winter bim what really did happen in Al- 1,000 miles from Hongkong and 040 because it gives you a good fealing? starting, and it is just the time to hope that London Regional will tell above sea level right in the middle
of the South China, Seo, They are 19. Do you often overtip merely storage and get it ready for week bala and why. ends on the gleaming Mecklenburg Next time seo Hans he will pro- from Singapore,
bebly nak! It' true, as the paper deeper and deeper into the East In- 20. Do you consistently defu mbytë, stylish clothes
SETUR the same proper
180
it
18. Have you even' mentioned to
vision shop and that giteste are not to
hard to imagine themselves. at war, which would end in the collapsends a network of 'eight: coral betako: themselves to the larder and ́
falsetto is clumsily Jakes. rendered that it is scarcely, likely
to carry even Ita immediate audience very far.
No
Yes No
He's Been Told So Much anys, that England has only one anti-dian archipelago. She has a knack on the principle that stout-of-state (cou, well, you just light as what do you dinky And Hens wil That is why the 150 ships of the function: they cover the body?
course, if you have to go and And I shoir answers "Well, Hans, World's attention I diverted, clothes
well as you can. But one thing is rub his head and say, "It's hard to American Navy have hurried back strikingly clerk, that the German- know what to think, isn't it?” Ito the Pacife.
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