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THE HONGKOng Telegraph, Saturday, JUNE 10, 1939.

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FRANCE has been rather out of)

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over The change that has come

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last autumn bus scarcely Leen realised, "She un longer a divided nation. There is a new spirit abroad-evoked by the call of country which has never foil- ed her and never will.

Before French industry could be made ready for a war economy it was-necessary to create a new and sounder financial structure. That has been accomplished by M. Rey- naud's decrees of tast November.

The 40-hours week has disap- without peared almost

murmur. Production has increased, unemploy- ment has declined, tax yields rising, and gold is flowing back to

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Last month additional powers to increase war production were taken by the Government. In every de- partiment of defence the Republic is

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THE HONGKONG SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF CHILDREN.

The total Expenditure in 1939 on behalf of sick and destitute children is estimated at $30,000, against which the Income to date is $18,500 only.

In order to continue to work, the Society ashs for the balanca.of.

$11,500.

before the close of the financial year on 31st October.

Hon. Treasurers:

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The King and Queen Donning Lifebelts in “H.M.S.” Empress of Australia

The Queen

she

T will not take Queen Elizabeth long to realise

America that woman's country.

is a

She will make that discovery

name is

will

feel

has

for

known years

wives,

her

UEEN ELIZABETH, in-

terested as she is in family affairs, may be disappointed to know that she has met an oracle instead of But Mrs. Roosevelt is

a housewife.

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housewife,

mother.

100,

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She has six children. To many u not only because she is an observant woman, but also be column, "My Day," rend voraciously with sincere obviousness she's done While House mother they would have credit for the abolition of child labour, been divorced during their father's cause she has already met the by nearly 6,000,000 American house- much good. To her must be given been a trial. Three of them have

and Iow sweatshops, starvation, woman who, in a way, rules The Maginot Line is fully manned.

In her magazine articies and books, wages. To her must be given the tenure of office. It is bad polities for the The forces on

America. Pyrenean and

in her radio talks, she has mixed, credit of achieving a position of poll the President to have divorce in his have it that politics and personal hop- Italian frontiers have been strength-

the Spanish That woman is her hostess. Iler with reports of plays, pictures, and tical influence unequalled certainly family, but Mrs. Roosevelt would not ened. Down near

Anna Eleanor Roosevelt. people she has seen, her mail, her since the death of Queen Victoriu,

library, her travels, her out-and-out

When the time comes for America plness do not mix. In each case she frontier France is caring for over

Mrs. Roosevelt is more than a consort support for freedom for Tom Mooney,

sure they knew what they wanted to 400,000 refugees,

to the President of the United States: for the glamping out of racial into to elect a woman President and the fold her children that if they were lerance in the mutter of the negro prospect is less fantastic in America she is his partner.

anywhere else the leading go ahead. singer Marlan Anderson, for beller than

domestic servants and candidate will undoubtedly be Anno Her husband, like all American wages for

counsel farmers, for bigger relief appropria- Elcanor Roosevelt.. husbands, listens to her often follows it. But it is not lions. She has openly taken sides

influence

her against Hitler and Goebbels in Ger- through her

Herbert Hoover husband that Mrs. Roosevelt virtually many, against rules America; it is through her in- America. fluence on other women and he- cause American husbands listen to their opinion

She possesses the second largest Navy In Europe. Under the stress of Intense Italian competition she is building more ships.

In the air she is bullding a fleet of 5,000 first-line warplanes. Last year her production was, no more than 50 planes a month. To-day it is over 200 a month, and she is nim- ing at 400 a month.

Such Agures are an indication of the rapid progress achieved in six months.

ME French people remain cool, THE

France re- steady, purposeful. fuses to be shaken by the "war of nerves."

Those who have visited the country in recent weeks and months. testify to its phlegmatic calm. France has not got the jitters.

Friendship with Britain is the basis of her polley. That solidarity sald M. Daladier recently, is "closer and more confident than ever."

Nothing has heartened our allies more than the introduction of British Conscription, an net which called forth a warm tribute from the Freneli Prime Minister.The dengracie, pre. showing the world that they can act as swiftly, as surely, as, forectully as tire Diétutarstipa,

over

on

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Mo public office are at least called her "Eleanor Everywhere."

No stranger to the White House. kitchens is the mistress of the White

:

WHEN Queen Elizabeth was

outwardly retiring. Mrs. Chamber-

There was a famous cartoon show- lain and Signora Mussolini are con- tent to appear only occasionally in ing two miners looking towards a photographs with their husbands. mine opening and saylag in a startled Mrs. Herbert Hoover, predecessor to voice, "Good gosh! Here comes Mrs. Mrs. Roosevelt as America's First Roosevelt!" Catty-minded Washington and was Chief Scout of America's the President's wife would arrive at Lady, gave quiet, discreet tea parties, women said they never knew when

their back doors with a bunch Girl Guides.

spinach under her arm.

A man once wrote to Mrs. Пtoost in velt and told her he had named his House. She loves food, eats anything watch after her because I never and everything. She often drops in stopped. Even the President cannot to order something special for the In all but possibly one of these keep up with his wife's energy. A President, and gives the chef i de-- wives therefore public attitudes, American public opinion former servant of the White House talled recipe._

Mrs, once called to coe him. He was busy whole has followed Roosevelt. They used to lough about and asked his secretary to get Mrs.

introduced to Mrs. Roose-- and Roosevelt to see the man. "I'm OST wives' of men In her. They joked about her,

sorry, Mr. President," said the usher, "but Mrs. Roosevelt has been out of volt she raw a long-legged woman.. Her clothes were good, but they look- ed as if her dressmaker had too much town for three days."

She knows Amerien beller than material and used it all up. She was any one living, in the first year of blooming with good health. She 40,000 miles; the

speedometer her setting-up exercises. Roosevelt's Presidency she travelled rises dully at dawn and never misses

her. on

blue coupe registered 10,000 miles. She left Washington thirty-eight times. This year she is likely to travel 50,000 miles,

of

✓

Her only refle..of shyness, which once caused her endless suffering, is an occasional casting down of her kindly eyes.

But Mrs. Roosevelt delivers many

Even when she is travelling-slic more words and public pronounce. IN the 1930 election politicians

She started talking immediately; ments than her husband. At first

on the other alde recognised prefers to fly-she is always busy. In she spoke and wrole carefully, using her as a mensee. It wasn't those her airplane she knits, reads, and and a little too shrilly. Voice lessons gracious platitudes when she ninted ball" for them to attack her, but answers her mot In her cur-she which she has been taking to Improve even stops suddenly to investigate some her radio delivery have not bee that she did not approve of child their womenfolk did. One labour or the rape of Ethiopia; more started a rival column called "My lng that interests her, or to ask a successful yet Sho:In: Uttle hard of woman standing at a cottage door a heating, but within ten minutes. often the revealed with charming Say," "but with Roosevelt's return to simplicity that Mr. loosevelt liked the White House Airs. Roosevelt question that suddenly occurs to her. Queen Elizabeth must have felt that she has known her for years, and scrambled eggs for breakfast on came back stranger than ever.

She has shaken more hands, met she will want to know her for years Sunday,

-To-day-those who used to laugh more people, and polled moro bubles more. Now she has come out with more and those who used to attack treat than anyone except possibly-her- clearly defined views on a variely Mrs. Roosevelt with respect. They husband's campaign managei, James Her only title is Mr but slig

is as gracious as a queeTI, of controversial subjects in her daily know that with obvious sincerity and Aloysius Farley.