1939-08-30 — Page 30

THE HONGKONG Telegraphi, Wednesday, AUGUST 30, 1939.

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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 undertaken by the group of specialists in nervous diseasca who are seeking to determine the best means of dealing with war-time- atrain as it would affect the

nation's nerves.

Even to-day, under conditions that have been called nominal pence or undeclared war. many people have been showing signs of the atrain There are some who go about their business in utter indifference to European erises. Perhaps they neither read the newspapers nor listen to the wire- less bulletins. Whether they are to be envied their blissful ignor- ance 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 minds. If worry kills, for they must be marked down premature 'demise. The effect of the wear and tear on their nerves is obvious. There are plenty of these victims of pre-wor neurosis. to provide the specialists with material to naaist substantially in thair investigations. If they could devise practical means of making these too conscientious citizens forget about the war danger, they would perform a national service uf much importance.

It is just such people that the

| Nazi propaganda machine socks to influence, with a view to under- mining British morale. They may be called the jittors-prone. are a unique problem of these days, and happily a small minority,

They

Encore! by SECTON MARGRAVE

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

Mony reenes, grave and gay, crowd to my memory:

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Charles Laughton saying

In "The Private Life of Henry VII. "The things 1 do for Eng- land!"

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Sir Guy Standing, in "The Lives of a Bengal Lancer," raying: "His Majesty the King has been graciously pleased to make, the posthumous award of the Victoria Cruss to Lieutenant MacGregor. In accord with the custorn of this regiment, 1 place this Crana upon the raddle of his horse."

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Merle Oberon in Private Life of Henry VIII.," say ing on the way to the sentfold: "What a lovely day."

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

. The Sisters in "Mr Deeds Goes to Town" raying of Gary Cooper, "He's surely pixilated." it."

Jean Harlote saying b "Dinner at Eight": "I was reading a book, a nutty kind of book, and do you know, it said every profea- slon sold be carried on by na- chisery." And Marie Dressler re- plying. "Oh, my dear. That need never worry you."

Danielle Darrieux in "The Hare of Paris" suying: "I can toolc

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Norma Shearer in "Idiot's Delight" saping: "And that nice. English boy: I can see him in his Brat uniformn upposing the ad- vance of a tank with his little pistol and the tank rolls on and all his Ane body is just a mess, but he dies happy because he thinks she is safe, but in an air Taid she has died like a dog in a cellar."

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 saping: "The Danube in blue only to the eyes of those in love.

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

... 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 Arliss."

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

MEN AND THINGS ABROAD

MUSSO losing

his GRIP

BY W.. N. EWER

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MUSSOLINI IGNOR growing tired, is losing his grip on policy and on nd- sitting 15 ministration.

back and letting tits Beutenants do the job.

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Thai had to come sooner later. No man can go on for ever as the Duce has since the march on 1022. Whatever one Rome in

thinks of his policy, one has to ad- mire the energy and driving power of the man.

nut Year after year he was merely the end of the Govern. ment." but the Government itself -the whole works." 1le kept a tight hand on every Minister and He made every every Ministry. 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.

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Mussolini's physique and vitality could stand it indefinitely. Now the strain begins to tell,

I realised when 1 saw him last Jani- usly in Rome that this was a changed man from the Mussolini I had ween nf Stresa in 1936.

Tini Mussolint was keen, ât, alert. A nicel spring of a man; bright-eyed, hard-muscled, capable, one guessed, of any exertion a man of energy and de- claive with,.

The Mussolin of lust fanuary was, He looked by comparison, flabby. for more than four years older. The skin was not so clear. the jowl wa sagging The eyes bendy rather than bright. The springy walk had become nemething of a waddle One suspected ellort-perhaps even a corset.

It was the difference between a man minn gode in hard training and a rather soft.

All that I hear from Italy confirms the suspicion i had then.

It begins to be general talk that the

“Note the strain begins to kell”

Duce these days is not working-hot- 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 day's there is more time for enjoyment, less for work than before.

He spends more time at the Vill Torlonin, just outside Rome, or at his country piner at Rocca delin Cam- innin: In less time at his desk in the Palazzo Venezja

Matters which really need his per- sonal attention have to wait for days.

THIS DIET TALK!

THE subject of diet has been so much all round," as the writer heard publicised in the Press of late a scornful ductor say recently.

often with such con- Overloading the System years (and flicting opinions both from doctors and laymen) that the ordinary per- son who wants reliable general in- formation is sometimes not a little puzzled to know what to make of it all.

Certainly us regards meat we do consume far too much as a nation, and there is little chance of our be coming the A1 people we have talked so much about while we go on load-

Some of the "food specialists" telling our systems from the cradle to the (often prematurely early) grave us we all ought to eat little but no with hyper-nitrogenous and uric neld ture foods, fruit and vegetables, and forming proteins.

drink huge quantities 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- quirements, are alike, and that onction in these islands is enough to man's meat is often enough literally make any decent physiologist's hair

stand on end. another's poison?

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"Eat ment!" "Eat more bread!" "Eat more fruit!" are the alogans we have so often acen, and the blunt fact is that the mass of our people "ent a darned sight too

GRIN AND BEAR IT

Biz ich

MATINEE TODAY

HAW FLOOR J

By Lichty

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

anyone I happen to talk about!"

Seriously it is contended that the] meat eater is more vigorous and dis- ease resistant. That is nonsense. In youth there may be a bigger produc- tion of brawn, but later it is equally likely to mean early heart strain and kidney bother and neither of those states indicates an emulation of the Methuselah legend.

The real truth lies somewhere on these lines. Find out what sults best. Be as moderate in all things Wetary ILI 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.

milk, eggs, Let poultry, flah, 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 mcala. Many people never seem to think that their Glomachs need rest or a minute's holiday. That is, a mistake, and to work them at high pressure continu- ally means eventual dyspepsia at least, and chronic at that,

One heurs a good deal about vita- mins 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 d'et that we fancy and can digest will give us the necessary vitamins without book study or the chewing| of this and of that,

As for the amount of food a mai needs--it all depends on the indivi- dual constitution, and its wants. To nak the doctor how much mest or pudding, &c., a man should take per diem 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 ones unthinkable. And very many im- portant matters never have his personal attention at all-a thing even more unthinkable in the old days.

Gosip says though I cannot Touch for it that ho did not se the final draft of the German- Italian Treaty until it had been signed.

He still makes sperches-though he has hinted that he is going to stop even this. He holdsa reviews. He goes on tour in the provinces. He talks now and again with his Ministers. He presides over ooca- slonal 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 head of a Government which runs itself. Not yet merely a figure-head. That would be a foolish exaggera- tlon. He still has fits of the old energy and the old fire. 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 Ciano, Achtile Dino Alfieri. Blarace, These are the three men who make polley to-day: the three men, say the Romans under their breath, who are turning Italy Into a Ger- in colony.

Tiranu,

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the Italian invasion, portraits were distributed so that Albanians might know and hon. our their, new rulera

A year or two ago there would have been only two. The King and the Duce But there were, in fact, four. and The King. the Duce, Cano Harnce!

Not Alferl. He is the least of the trio. And his is an unobtrusire technique. The distribution was pre- sumably his job. And it is character- Istic that he should efface himself.

Io likes rublier methods of work. And his position la not yet quite well established. He needs to flatter the other two, for he depends on them.

Count Galeazzo Ciano is only 25. He would in all probability be still an un- distinguished member of the Italian Consular Bervice had he not chanced to marry Edda Mussolini, the Duce's daughter and favourite child.

As it is, he is Europe's youngcat Por eign Minister, and certainly believes himself to be the destined successor of his father-in-law as Head of the Government. Other people have other blo.

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ELF-CONFIDENT, arro- gant, fond of galety and good living. he dresses well, wears his uniform-cap Jaunt- lly cocked on one side, is swagger- ingly pleased with life and with

· Galeazzo Clano.

lie hus a greater and greater hold on the Duce who seems content to en- dorse all that Ciano does and to say whatever Olang suggeste

Hia poliion therefore is strong. But in it there is one weakness which may be fatal Ha is probably the most dis- liced man in Italy, and the dislike iz untinged with respect.

ignor Achille Btarace, aged 40, is la a key position. He has been for more than seven years Secretary General of the Fascist Party, For seven years before that he was Assistant- Becretary.

bard. Short, unimpressive. able, working, intensely ambitions, he has complote control of the party machine. which means that he can make or break any party official, any govern- ment ottel

on bla Ho tucs decreas Authority. He lasites orders to officials behind the backs or over the heads of Ministers. And his orders are abeyed. Only the Duce himself can control Starace. And the Duce, there days, does not trouble.

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Like Olano, Starsvd has ideas about the succession. But they are not the samo idesa, Starace's candidate for the Duceship -Ḥtarace.

Ho and Clang work together-and watch each other, and kirigue ngainat ach other for position when the time for the struggle for power shall conie.

INO ALFIERI is the old- ost (63) and the least of the trio. I think he has no ambitions. He is Minister of Popular Culture-a post which used, more accurately, to be called "of Propaganda." It suits him. He likes it. I think he is content with it: though ono nover knows.

Handsome, dapper, charming to the verge of suavity, he has the subtle mind and subile methods of a Bolog › 180 lawyer.

His is a dificult job these days. Clano may frame policles for accept them ready made from Berlin), Blar- nce may use the party machine to maintain the régime against rumbling discontent. Altori must try to make both the régime and lis policy popu- Inr.

He has one great asset. The prestige of the Duce is still immense, Bo 100g as the three can work "under tho banner of his dread renown.” they canL secure assent if not enthusiasm.

But the task grows harder. And as the Duse'a formidable grasp relases, it will grow harder still. As Mumbo- tini falls the régime must werken.

None of the three, none of the others, can be "MINOLES." Passiem la based on a tremendous personalitz that already begins to weaken.

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