Saturday,
BRITAIN AT WAR-New
SLOWLY but steadily,
the Empire on which the
never
blackout
ends swinging into its stride.
is
From far-away Australia and New Zealand," from Canada and India and from the Colonies, empire fight- ing forces are converging on the European battle
zone.
From factories through- out the British Isles, planes, guns, shells and other ma- terials are flowing in in- creasing numbers. Merchant ships to bring food to these islands, and warships to.
WAR to
convoy them, are gliding down the slipways.
Each
day finds more men and women — in
uniform.
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
March 9, 1940.
Exclusive Series of Articles
the FINISH
To a foreigner who has lived with the British through the past troubled year, it Beems there has been in recent weeks a quickening of the national pulse.
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his name.
by: WALLACE CARROLL
Less than a year ago Chamber- i "We've got to get rid of that lain hoped to be remembered as man,” said a waiter in a Strand the "great Prime Minister, of restaurant, who like other Bri- Pence.' Now fils unswerving tons, put Hitler on a plane with aim is to crush Nuzi Germany,
the devil by never mentioning That has made it possible for him to work in harness with Winston Churchill, formerly his NOT that there is yet any-most dangerous critic and rival. thing like the crusading spirit "Winston," as nearly everyone which swept the British Empire calls him, has been warning the and its allies on to victory 22 nation against Germany for in the years ago. But the British are years. His presence finding themselves after the first government is a guarantee the bewildering months of what war will be waged without res- some have called a "bore war." pile. ·
Another guarantee is Vis) They are beginning to warm
austere, up to a "moral issue" of a kind count. Halifax, the to which this nation always has deeply religious foreign scere- responded. Their political and tary who obtained a firm grip religious leaders and King on foreign policy after the George himself have told them Munich conference and never they are fighting "for Christian swerved from his purpose al- It was a drab, grim kind of civilisation" and "against wie-though war loomed ahead. kedness." During the coming
months
this
gather pace.
the war
offort
"erusade" will!
United Press Staff Correspondent
packed restaurants and theatres
try to get a table at the Ritz]
will they and their trade be if Gør- many wins 7"
American winecracks about "this cockeyed war" also are Causing some resentmunt.
The British feel this is their war, and people who aren't will- ing to fight shouldn't criticise na- tions which are doing their bit to "defend clylliantion."
The with
There is, of course, plenty of outspoken criticism at home. government, in accordance British traditions, makes no attempt to stifle It
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BIGGEST "gripe" of all is the blackout. As there have been no air raids, the people cannot understand why they must continue to stumble about fin darkened streets and live be-
hind black curtains.
"I don't mind their rationing my food," said a British news. paperman to me, "but I do wish they'd turn on the lights."
Rationing of bulter, bacon, ham and Hugar bekua Inst month. [There already have been many com- plainta against the rationing ar rangements, and these probably will grow in volume as 40,000,000 Bri-i Tons have to go several days a week without their "brave British break- fast of bacon and eggs."
Evacuees have been lamenting the
or a seat in one of the half-dozen † dullness of their lives in the coun- good revues now running.
try. They don't ace why they
You hear reports of a big increase should remain away from their in output of guns and planes. But homes and fathers or husbands more than that you can sense it in when there has been no bonbard- the way people now, talk about the ment of cities. war,
Defent of the pocket battleship Graf Spee was perhaps the turn- ing point. That was the first taste the British had of what used to be called the glory of
war.
There British cruisers tore into the mighty warship and clung to
Workingmen are beginning to complain about rising prices of food, ciething, gas and electricity, Rising prices are felt oven more clearly by the unemployed whose runks were swelled by many who lost their jobs since the war started.
Evacuation has ruined the trade of many small stores. Doctors and it like terriers to a wolf. The other professional men have seen British nation
thrilled to the their practices disappear. thought of their navy regaining the] Agitation against war has been "Nelson tough."
Koing on among workers on the Coming about the same time, the Clyde, and one trades council voted Soviet Invasion of Finland stirred in favour of immediate peace. But the nation over another war. the whole nation is united in ita British people as a whole had a war
the effort, rendy to follow historical dislike for the "Rooshi- government which has announced And they linked Russia and preparations to fight a war lasting Germany together as partnera Init least three years, million or more families | crime. Although' the government torn apart by evacuation faced did not declare war on Russia, the
feeling grew that Britain wn an uncertain future.
fighting a war of liberation, a war war-war without a song, with-in defence of liberties for smaller a poet, without a slogan. atis. For the first time, the nation's feeling against Germany
to begun harden. Before war, Englishnien looked on Gei- maNS as good solid beer-drinking allows like themselves. They re- arded
Frenchmen 18 excitable Latins who drank wine and had ther peculiar habits.
A
out There was no tune to compare
LED by Chamberlain, the en- with "Tipperary" to lighten the tire War Cabinet has swung Tommies boots as they slogged In undisputed command of into action in a speaking cam- along the roads of France
is the Prime paign to arouse the "crusading ronds trodden by their fathers Minister, Mr. Neville Chamber-spirit" which won the last war. 25 years before. lain, now more than ever master of this country.
His spare, unbending figure dominates Parliament. Barring serious military reverses, he can remain Premier as long as ho desires or as long as his health stands the strain of war.
There was no crusading en- thusiasm in the air that elear Sunday morning Inst September when the British nation awoke to find Itself at war-nor in the first! few months that followed. Grim resolution was the note then and bewilderment.
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In the early months of the war, herefore, there was little feeling gainst the German untion my die- nct from Hitler. But now many ritons are beginning to hold the German people accountable for the
insand-bogged---Lonilon-under-ar——. Blackout. there was one of the easy money, easy morals or atmos-
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phere such as war is supposed to "BLIMEY, of course they're create. Restaurants and nightclubs to blame," said a working man were deserted, Theatres and even in a Fleet Street pub. "If the movie houses were closed as a pre- German people didn't like every caution against als raids. Families thing that man stands for, they left in the capital sealed themselves wouldn't have put up with him behind tack curtains, amusing all this time." themselves as best they could or listening for the painfully synthetic merriment diffused by the British Broadenating Corporation.
The nation had steeled itself to face ruthless air bombardment. But it found itself only half at war, and was bewildered.
* X BUT How the war effort is gaining momentum. You can on increasing number of uniforms in the streets or in
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English friends of mine who used to be critical of France now are saying the French want to an- nex the Rhineland and partition Germany after the war. They hope the British government will not in- terfere.
Another trendi the growing im- neutral countries patience with
The British Empire never has known defent, and it is charac teristic that the average Briton- probably unlike the average Ger- man-ever dreams of defent in this war.
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