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January 12, 1940.

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few weeks ago it was being qualified by a feeling that it might become necessary

Hongkong Telegraph to fight. Fewer people new

Friday, January 12, 1940..

Wyndham St., Hongkong Telephone: 20615

THE prefx "Special to the Telegraphe

neces-

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

were som e

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 in not ginning of the war, a majority the Jack 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- as at the beginning of the war for all 44 per cent. of voters were in oratory favour of joining Britain and and protesta- France if or when Germany tions of self-

appeared to be winning, only 29

cans, their

interest, are

men and women Per cent, would do so now. who think and The Germans are pretty sure feel very much to nscribe these changes to

British

their propaganda. But in fact

a

people, think

may

very

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

them in a post stories and pictures sent here tion to see the to demonstrate the invincibility confused scone of the Nazi legions in Poland better, per tid more harm than good. Nazis spective.

seem incapable of realising

in That's how we got it in the neck the last time

(Chicago Sunday Tribune)

under the pre-klont frictis copyright ready to accept the viciv "news and other informa- WHAT many articulate that American minds do not

3 and hy the "Roogkong Telegraplı to provisions of the Telecamiaani.

rathi Ordinance, 1936. Such news s

hears the Untication "i" is received in that America can safely and

tangkang on the date of publication by, the United Press Associatious, who res serve all rights and ferbit republication tiller wholly or in past without preylour autangement.

Guns For Butter

the German workers.

honourably stay out.

☆

tion," then .I think the

Americans are now work as their own minds work, Government is wrong, saying and what many more are and that Americans, so far from admiring demonstrations of German propaganda here is feeling without being able to put might, are instinctively drawn

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 Germau propaganda has failed here because it has proceeded

A QUESTION put by attempt the output of moment too big for anything on the assumption that Amerl-

that every man of every nation-

crnment noticed what

Dr. Ley-whose name is pro-

Mr. George Ridley counter-propaganda, but honesty. The hope of tens cans are in the same state of nounced like the English word in the House of Commons whether it calls it that or of millions of people in the mint as they were during the British Empire, in all democratic last war. The truth is that "He"-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 -inviting a failure ten times small countries, is in the British propaganda directed against ing that the German Labour Grigg made to it seem to Front, of which he is the leader,show

as great.

Government. It now it would foreign propaganda hus changed that the British

Americans from a people who 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. The present change in set before the world a plan for would believe everything to a 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 It is perhaps unfortunate that that the Government is it is explained by a sense this claim should synchronise attributing what is happen- of moral frustration which new order, those tens of millions

to fight and work for a defined HAS the British Gov- with the substitution of a tening to the success

here of has come over this country of peoples would rise in gratitude his arrival here? He gave an happened to Mr. Duff Cooper on 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 The George Hicks, MP, has not the lack of publicity for the Everybody is beginning to there is no plan. There is only the conviction that a revolution -been-content with that refübf British point of view. Sir show

manoeuvring and smart dip staged by Conservative elements lomacy, evasion and uncertainty. will break out in Germany.. promised Congressmen, writers and All the British Government says "constant endeavour

If any British Cabinet Minis- to broadcasters and the man is that it must end Hitlerism. ter had made such a public pro- 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. Germany there are no longer any States" on the British war elevator.

But the competent "New York Independent trades unions

every other nation. But there They don't all know what should be more than that, and

Times" gave Mr. Duff Cooper 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 the worker's interests; and that believe that the United of them ask: "When are Hitleriam stand against a lender a relatively obscure, inside page. This was (1) because the idea overtime, night-work, Sunday States is being swayed by they going to start fighting ship which mobilised the free

Yet at this great moment there because Mr. Duff Cooper has to 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- things would be clear and

seem to be only small motives, be classed here, however reluc- crease the flow of British everything better if there model."

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A HOWARD HAWKS PRODUCTION:

tion of the claim. In a spirited

statement he has underlined a Edward Grigg

few home truths which Dr. Ley,

effort.

or

it. Senators

and

work and holiday work have all German propaganda this war?" They think peoples of the world behind it? was not a new one, and (2)

ment for these exactions la forbidden. by law. The German: worker, Mr. Hicks adds, is now in effect subject to forced labour. This is the consequence of the deliberate policy of producing guns instead of butter-the policy so dear to the heart of Feld-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 prices; 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- tlens of the Western frontier, "It is clear," pungently remarks Mr. Hicks, "that Dr. Ley Itas cured unemployment in the way that Pharaoh cured it when his press-gangs herded up the Israelites. It is hardly con

James Agate picked

this out

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Lock me in delights awhite; Let some picasing dreams

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All my fancies; that from

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I may feel an influence, All my

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Though but a shadow, but a

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Let me know some little

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and

ceivable that itlerism, within the Nazi pretension that com- these characteristics, can hava pensation for all sacrifice is pre- much attraction for the workers vided by the Strongth through Joy movement. "Strength there

GRIN AND BEAR IT

in any land; and to crown the may be, but where, one naku, is "Now, don't get mockery of Dr. Ley's boasting the joy 7,

dist,

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

By Lichty organisations is pressing the

think they

"take" tham Night

pansivo: inner party, next Sunday!!!

Secretary of State to give, a ruling on whether he, Lord Marley and all other visiting British and French lecturers and speakers shall be required · to register as agents of foreign príncipals, under a law passed. Inst year with the precise inten- tion of aftaching a public labet to suspected propagandists.

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

Americans feel that peace the right kind of peace with Hitlerism gone and a new world design to work on-ought possible. They are discouraged repressed and Tru

dosion has been draw