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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, Wednesday, AUGUST 30, 1939.

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played by the aeroplane. Its strik- ing power may have been exagger- ated; that remains to be shown. But undoubtedly it would intro- duce for the civil populace a factor of strain and anxiety unlike any- thing experienced during the Great War.

This strain would be virtually continuous, day and night, until the defensive forces of the coun- try had asserted their superiority to the raiders. Hence the impor- tance of the task that has been udertaken by the group of specialists in nervous diseases who are seeking to determine the best means of dealing with war-time strain it would affect

AS

the

nation's nerves.

Even to-dny, under conditions that have been called nominal

WILT, many peace or undeclared people have been showing signa of the strain. There are some who o about their business in utter indifference to European crises. Perhaps they neither read the newspapers nor listen to the wire- less bulletins. Whether they are to be envied their blissful ignor- nuce of what is going on in Europe is debatable.

But there are many others who cannot indulge in this cool indif- *** |ference. The possibilities of the present situation are ever present to their minda. If worry killa, they must be marked down for premature demise. The effect of the wear and tear on their nerves is obvious. There are plenty of these victims of pre-war neurosis to provide the specialists with mutorial to assist substantially In their investigations. If they could devise practical means of making these too conscientious citizens forget about the war danger, they would perform a national service of much importance.

It is just such people that the Nazi propaganda machine seeks to Influence, with a view to under- mining British morale. They may be called the jitters-prone. They are a unique problem of these days, and happily a small minority.

Encore! by SECTON MARGRAVE

Until quite recently the idea of encores for films was thought unworkable, but now it has been tried out with complete success.

Many scenes, grave and guy, crowd to my memory:

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Charles Laughton saying

in "The Private Life of Henry VIL": "The things I do for Eng- land!"

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Sir Guy Standing, in "The Lives of a Bengal Lancer," saying: "His Majesty the King has been raciously pleased to make the posthumous award of the Victoria Cross to Lieutenant MacGregor. In accord with the custom of this regiment, I place this Cross upon the saddle of his horse.**

"The

. Merie Oberon in Private Life of Henry VIII.," say- ing on the way to the scaffold:

What a lovely day."

Shirley Temple singing, "Ok, My Goodness" in "The Poor Little Rich Girl."

The Sisters in "Mr Derds Goes to Town" saying of Gary Choper. He's surely pixilated."

It."

Jean Harlone agging in "Dinner at Eight": "I was reading. a book, a nutty kind of book, and do you know, it said every profer- alon could be carried on by ma- chlurry." And Marie Dressler re- plying, "Oh, my dear. That need never worry you."

Danielle Darrieux in "The Rage of Paris" saying: "I can took

Norma Shearer in "Idiot's Delight" saying: "And that nice English boy: I can see him in his neat uniform upposing the ad- vance of a tank with ds Uttle pistol and the tank rolls on and all his fine body is just a 'miess, but he dies happy because, he thinks she is safe, but in an air raid she has died like a dog in a cellar,"

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Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers singing and dancing the Cole Porter hit, "Night and Day." in "The Gay Divorce."

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Robert Donat in "Goodbye Mr. Chips" saying: "The Danube is blue only to the eyes of those in love.

Mickey Rooney in "Love Finds Andy Hardy".complaining. "What do you think? First of alt I had a car and no girl. Now 1 have no car and three girls."

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Joan Crawford in "Love On the Run" saying: "I hear there are ghosts in Versailles. I want to meet Voltaire. I want to see if he looks like George Arlisa,"

Roscoc Korns asking, "What is Rembrandt doing now?" as he watched John Barrymore madly designing a. singe setting in "Twentieth Century."

MEN AND THINGS ABROAD

MUSSO losing

his GRIP

IGNOR

BY W. N.

MUSSOLINI is growing tired, is losing his grip on policy and on ad- ministration, la sitting back and letting his fieutenants do the job.

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That had to come sooner later. No man can go on for ever as the Duce has since the march on Rome in 1922. Whatever one thtuks of his polley, one has to ad- mire the energy and driving power of the man.

Year after year hu Was no! merely the Head of the Govern- ment," but the Government itself the whole works." He kept tight hand on every Minister and every Ministry. He made every important decision personally. The detalls to which he himself at- tended were Innumerable, often even ridiculous.

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could have stood the strain so long. Not eveli Mussolini's physique and vitality could stand I indefinitely, Now the strain begins to tell.

I realised when I saw him last Ja11- unry in Rome that this was a changed man from the Mussolini I had seen at 90s in 1935.

The Mussolini was keen, fit, ndert A steel spring of a man: bright-eyed. hard-muscled, capable, ong guessed, of Any exertion a man of energy and cle elsive will.

The Mussolint of Inat January was by comparison, flabby. He looked far more than four years older. The akin was not so clear, the jowl was Bugging The eyes beady rather than bright. The springy walk had become something of a wadille. One suspected effort-perhaps even a corset,

It was the difference between a mon In hard mining and ** man gone ruther soft.

All that I hear from Italy confirms the auspicion I had then.

It begins to be general talk that the

EWER

"You the strain begins to tell.”

Duce these days is not working--no! in the way that he used to work. He. is taking things easily, giving more time to pleasure.

Self-Indulgence would be perhaps a harsh term. But in his days there is more time for enjoyment, less for work than before.

He spends more time at the Villa Torionis, just outside Rome, or at his country place at Rocen deila Chun- Inata: far less time at his desk in the Palazzo Venezia.

Matters which really need his per- sound attention have to wait for days,

THIS DIET TALK!

has been so much all round," as the writer heard THE subject of diet

n scornful doctor say recently. pubileised in the Press of late years (and often with

such con- Overloading the System fieting opinions both from doctors und laymen) that the ordinary per- Certainly as regards meal we do suh who wants rellable general in- consume far too much as u nallen, formation is sometimes not a little and there is little chance of our be puzzled to know what to make of it coming the Al people we have talked 50 much about while we go on lond- nil.

Some of the "food specialists" telling our systems from the cradle to the (often prematurely carly) grave us we all ought to eat little but na with hyper-nitrogenous and urie neldi ture foods, fruit and vegetables, and drink huge quantities

forming proteins. of certain

fluids, ignoring entirely the fact that To study the official returns of the no two people, their systems and re-growing figures of meat consump→ Is enough tu quirements, are alike, and that one tion in these islands man's meat is often enough literally make any decent physiologist's hair another's polson!

"Eat

more

stand on end.

more

meat!" **Ent

Seriously it is contended that the bread" "Eat more fruit!" are the meat eater is more vigorous and dis- That is noruense. In slogans we have so often seen, and ease realsiant. the blunt fact is that the mass of youth there may be a bigger produc- our people "eat a darned sight too tion of brawn, but later it is equally likely to mean early heart strain and kidney bother and neither of those atates indicates an emulation of the

GRIN AND BEAR IT

8-3 lich

MATINEE TODAY

By Lichty Methuselah legend.

"Estelle has been so disagreeable fately—always sticks up for

anyone I happen to talk about!"

The real truth lles somewhere on these lines. Find out what sults best. De as moderate in all things dietary as possible, Masticate thoroughly and slowly. As middle- age comes on reduce diet somewhat and rest always after a meal. Drink! morning and evening, but as little as possible with meals.

Let poultry, Ash, milk, cggs, cereals, wholemeal, fruit and vegeta- ble replace most other things after: thirty or forty.

Between Meals

It is not a good thing to be nib- bling and nipping at all times and! between regular meals. Many people never seem to think that their stomachs need a rest or a minute's holiday. That is a mistake, and to work them at high pressure continu-: ally means eventual dyspepsia at Jenst, and chronic at that,

One hears a good deal about vita- mina to-day and the foods that con- tain them. One need not bother. Nature herself looks after that part of the business, and the less we trou- ble the better. A generous mixed diet that we fancy and can digest will give us the necessary vitanilns without book study or the chewing of this and of that.

As for the amount of food a man needs-it all depends on the indivi- dual constitution and its wants. Top ask the doctor. how much meat or pudding, &c., a man should take per clem is rather like asking how often he should go to the cinema or pay his taxes.

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sometimes for weeks-a thing onse unthinkable. And vory many im- portant matters never have his personal attention at all-a thing even more unthinkable in the old days.

Gossip saya--though I cannot vouch for it-that he did not see the final draft of the German- Italian Treaty until it had been signed.

He still makes speeches-though he has hinted that he is going to stop even this. He holds reviews, He goes on tour in the provinces. He talks now and again with his Ministers. He presides over occa- sional Cabinets and meetings of the Fascist Grand Council.

But he does not, as he used, con- trol everything all the time. He is becoming a rather easy-going hend of a Government which runs itself. Not yet merely a figure-head. That would be a foolish exaggera - tion. flest has Ats of the old energy and the old Bre. In the last. resort it is his word always which is decisive. But he is no longer, as he was, an all-time dictator.

Who are the men, then, whom the Dictator, relaxing his own grip, allows to run Fascist Italy to-day?

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HERE are three of them.. Galeazzo Clano, Achille

Starace. Dino Alert. These are the three men who make policy to-day; the three men, say the Romans under their breath. who are turning Italy into a Ger- mau colony.

In

after Tirana,

the Italian vasion, portraits were distributed so that Altanlans might know and hon- our their www rulers,

A year or two ago there would have been only two. The King and the Duce

But there were, in fact, four. The King. the

And Duce. Clang Starace!

Not Allert Te la the least of the trio. And JUN Is an Enobtrusive technique. The distribution was pre- sumably his job. And it is character- 1stle that he should efface himsek.

ite likes subtier methods of work. And his position is not yet quite well established. He needs to Batter the ather two, for he depends on them.

Count Galeazzo Clano is only 35. He- would in all probability be still an un- istinguished member of tho Italian Consular Bervice had he not chanced to marry Edus Musolini, the Duce's daughter and favourite child.

As it is, he is Europe's youngest For- eign Minister, and certainly belleven himself to ar the destined successor of his father-in-law as Head of the Government. Other people have other Pens.

.'11 ELF-CONFIDENT, arro- gant, fond of galety and good living, lie dresses well, wears his uniform-cap Jaunt- By cocked on one side, is swagger- ingly pleased with life and with Galeazzo Clano.

it hus a greater and greater hold on the Duce who seems content to en- dorse all that Ciano does and to say whatever Clano auggesta

His position therefore is strong. But In it there la one weakness which may be fatal. He is probably the most dis- liked man in Italy, and the dislike is antinged with respect.

Bignor Achille Starace, agod. 40. is. In a key position. He has been for Becretary- than seven years mor General of the Pascist Party, For sever years before that he was Assistant- Secretary.

hard- Short, unimpressive. able. working, intensely ambitious, he has complete control of the party machine. which means that he can make OF break any party official, any govern)- inent omcial,

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He issues decrees on authority. He issues orders to officials behind the backs or over the heads 91 Ministern. And hir orders obeyed Only the Duce himself can control tarace. And the Duce, these clays does not trouble.

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Like Clano, Binrace has idens about the succession. But they are not the same ideas. Ataraces candidate for the Duceship is-Starace.

He and Clano work together-and watch each other, and intrigue against each other for position when the time for the struggle for power shall come.

INO ALFIERI is the old- er (52) and the least of trio. I think he has

Dehe

no ambitions. Be is Minister of Popular Culture--a post which used, more accurately, to be called of Propaganda." It suits him. He kes it. I think be la content with It: though ono never knows.

Handsome, dapper, charming to the verge of auavity, he has the subtle mind and subtle methods of a Bologn ese lawyer.

žiim in a dimcult job these days. Ciano may Irama policles for accept them ready made from Berlin). Bar ace may use the party machine to maintain the régime against rumbling discontent. Alfieri must try to maks both the regime and its polley popu

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He has one great asset. The prestige of the Duce is still immense. Bo long as the three can work under the banner of his dread renown,” they can secure essent if not enthusiasm.

But the taak grows harder, " And as the Duce's formidable'grap, relaxos, it will grow harder still As Musso- lini falls the régima musi wenken.

Hone of the three, none of the "others," can be a Mciasolini. Fasciem is based on a tremendons personality that already birgina to weaken..