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Friday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

January 12, 1940.

NEWS FROM AMERICA by Robert Waithman

GOOD

USED CARS Britain

The Following Aro Available

And Ready To Drive Away--

Hillman Minx Saloon-1939 Mortel

(0.014 miles)

$2,800

Han Minx Saloon-1038 Model

(14,003 miles)

$2,400

Chrysler Roadster-1030 Model

(14,023 miles)-

$2,000

Ford 10 Saloon-1930 Model

(4,000 miles)

$2,350

. All The Above Cars Carry The

Will Lose

News Chroniclo New York- Correspondent, who has just been elected President of the Association of Foreign Press Corres- pondents in the U.S.A.

American Support, Unless..

NEW YORK.

THE complexion of

things here, the

T

en-

tire American atti-

tude to the war, is changing.

Hongkong Hotel Garage Guarantee & Though the overwhelming

Service

also

majority of Americans still want to see the British and

Hillman Minx-1935 Model.. 51,269 French win, the number of

(a good serviceable car)

•

Inspection and Trial Invited

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Stubbs Rond

The

'Phones 21770-9.

those

the who believe United States should or will enter the war has decreased.

From the beginning the desire of Americans, to stay out of the war has been almost unanimous, but a few weeks ago it was being qualified by a feeling that it might become necessary

Thongkong Telegraph. to fight. Fewer people now

Friday, January 12, 1940. Wyndham St., Hongkong Telephone: 20015

THE prex "pecial to the Telemaph"

Inned by the "Hongkong Telegraph" to

under tins wilen of strictly copyright

the provisions of the Telecommun

bear the Indiention UI is received in Itongkong on the date of publication by

the United Press Associations, who re

serve all fights and forbid republication. either wholly or in part without previous arrangement.

Guns For Butter

honourably stay out.

That's how we got it in the neck the last time (Chicago Sunday Tribune)

informa-

were Homo

I AM as sure as I have. ever been of anything- action. But they that this, the sensation of moral would not, for let-down, is behind, for example, what is troubl- the new results from the Gallup ing them most polls. Instead of, as at the be- deeply is not ginning of the war, a majority the lack of belief that America will be action but the drawn into the war, there is now lack of direc- a slight majority belief that tion.

America won't come in. Where- The Ameri- us at the beginning of the war for all 44 per cent, of voters were in oratory favour of joining Britain and protesta France if or when Germany tions of self-

appeared to be winning, only 29

cans,

their

and

interest. are

men and women per cent. would do so now, who think and

The Germans are pretty sure

feel very much to ascribe these changes to

their propaganda.

48 British

people think

may very

But in fact

and feel, and it German propaganda so far has be their misfired at every point. The remote- Athenia story and the Iroquois ness and their story were epic propaganda determined ne failures, and even the deluge of trality that put

them in a posi- stories and pictures sent here tion to see the to demonstrate the invincibility confused scene of the Nazi legions' in Poland in better per did more harm than good. Nazis spective.

seem incapable of reallsing

of

German propaganda has failed

think it will become neces- sary for the United States to fight. More people are

WHAT many articulate that American minds do not Americans are now work as their own minds work, ready to accept the view "news and other

I tion," then

think the

saying and what many more aro and that Americans, so far from cations Ordinance. 1916. Such rewi as that America can safely and

demonstrations admiring Government. is wrong. feeling without being able to put might, are Instinctively drawn German propaganda here is the feeling into words is some to the under-dog. failing, and if the Govern- thing like this: "Here is a ment is now proposing to turning point for the world, a here because it has proceeded output of moment too big for anything on the assumption that Ameri- A QUESTION put by attempt the

Mr. George Ridley counter-propaganda, but honesty. The hope of tens cans ure. in the same state of

British Empire, in all democratic last war. nounced like the English word in the House of Commons whether it calls it that or of millions of people in the mind as they were, during the directed against "lie" has recently been boast and the reply Sir Edward not, it will be, in my opinion, countries and in all frightened twenty years of intensive home ing that the Germant Labour Grigg made to it seem to inviting a failure ten times small countries, is in the British propaganda as great.

Government. If now it would foreign propaganda hus changed Americans from a people who Front, of which he is the lender, show that the British

The present change in set before the world a plan for would believe everything to a S. MOUTRIE & CO., LTD. has cured unemployment in Ger-Government is aware of this American feeling has little a just peace and a way of life people who will believe nothing.

many and improved the lot of change in American senti- or nothing to do with pro- ality could accept and aspire to, ment. But it seems also paganda. It seems to me if it would commit itself boldly

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that every man of every nation-

The truth is that

ernment noticed what

been content with that refuta-British point of view. Sir show it. Senators and manoeuvring and smart dip staged by Conservative clements

It is perhaps unfortunate that that the Government is it is explained by a sense to fight and work for a defined HAS the British Gov- this claim should synchronise attributing what is happen- of moral frustration which new order, those tens of millions happened to Mr. Duff Cooper on with the substitution of a ten-ing to the success here of has come over this country of peoples would rise in gratitude his arrival here? He gave an hour for an eight-hour day; but German propaganda and within the last few weeks. and follow the British lead. But interview in which he expressed Mr. George Hicks, P., has not the lack of publicity for the Everybody is beginning to there is no plan. There is only the conviction that a revolution

lomacy, evasion and uncertainty. will break out in Germany. tion of the claim. In a spirited Edward Grigg promised Congressmen, writers and All the British Government says If any British Cabinet Minis- statement he has underlined a

"constant endeavour to broadcasters and the man is that it must end Hitlerism. ter had made such a public pro- few home truths which Dr. Ley, discreetly enough, ignored. He secure the largest measure you meet in the drug store of course, it must end a system phecy during the last war the points out, for instance, that in of publicity in the United or office corridor or hotel which bullies, persecutes and fact would have been recorded deforms a nation and threatens liberally across the front pages. But the competent "New York Germany there are no longer any States" on the British war elevator.

every other nation. But there effort.

They don't all know what should be more than that, and Times" gave Mr. Duff Cooper independent trades unions Or other organisations to protect}· If the Government does it is they are feeling. Some if there were, what chance would only two-thirds of a column on- "When are Hitlerism stand against a leader a relatively obscure inside page. the worker's interests; and that believe that the United of them ask:

'ship which mobilised the free This was (1) because the idea overlime, night-work, Sunday States is being swayed by they going to start fighting peoples of the world behind it? was not a new one, and (2) this war?" They think

Yet at this great moment there because Mr. Duff Cooper has to work and holiday work have all German propaganda

things would be clear and scom to be only small motives, be classed here, however reluc- been vastly increased while pay-that the solution is to in that they would understand only power politics on the old tantly, as a British propagan ment for these exactions is crease the flow of British everything better if there model"

forbidden by law. The German

worker, Mr. Hicks adds, is now in effect subject to forced labour. This is the consequence of the dellberate policy of producing guns instead of butter--the policy so dear to the heart of Field-Marshal Goering, whose frame suggests that he himself has not had to make choice between the alternatives which he imposes on others.

Trade unionists in this country may have to reckon nowadays with a rise in prizes; but at least they are not in the same case as the Hamburg dockers, who have to work 12 hours a day for 25 marks a week on the fortifica- tions of the Western frontier. "It is clear," pungently remarke Mr. Hicks, "that Dr. Ley has cured unemployment lu the way that Pharaoh cured it when his press-gangs herded up the Israelitos." It is hardly con-

James Agate picked

this out

Come, Sleep, and with ty

sweet deceiving Lock me in delights awhile; Let some pleasing dreams

beguile

All

care

and

All my fancier; that from

thence 1 mor

nay feel an influence,

of my porpera bereaving! Though but a shadow, but à

sliding, Let me know some little.

joul

Wa that suffer long annoy Arc contented with a

wrought:

Through an idle

toroughtn

fancy

O, let mu jos have some

abiding!

-Beaumont and Fletcher. [Francis Beaumont 1804- 1610, John Fletcher 1679 1020.1

ceivable that Hitlorism, with is the Nazi pretension that com those characteristics, can have pensation for all sacrifice is pro much attraction for the workers vided by the Strength through Joy movement, Strength there

GRIN AND BEAR IT

dist.

As he now prepares to. tour the country, one of the anti-war

By Lichty organisations is prossing the

I'll

take them right back aftor our dinner party next Sunday!'.

In any land; and to crown the may be; but where, one asks, is "Now, don't get a stroko—if you think they're too expensive mockery of Dr. Loy's boasting the joy?

Secretary of State to give a ruling on whether ha, Lord Marley and all other visiting British and French lecturers- and speakers shall be required to register as agents of foreign principals, under a law passed last year with the precise inten- tion of attaching a public label to suspected propagandists.

THERE may lo a case for providing Ameri- cans with lectures, but there is. a far better case for providing them with a lead. The cry for a lead seems to come out of the long and revealing debate on neutrality, and in a different senso it is coming from Ameri- can business mon, who are now manifesting a serious doubt whether a war boom is to be desired. Most of all it is shown in the recurrent talk of the pos- sibility of a mediation move by President Roosevelt.

Americana feel that peace- the right kind of peace with Hitlorism gone and a how world design to work on ought to be nossible. They are discouraged, repressed and frustrated becaust no design has been drawn.de