1940-03-14 — Page 6

CROWNS A GOOD

"E"

P

Brown Brandy

ATUDY CLtd

buddin fequar mas NMK SRPOOLT OP

A. S.

DINNER

WATSON'S

"E"

FINE OLD BROWN

BRANDY

DISTILLED BOTTLED and MATURED IN COGNAC, FRANCE, BY RENAULT ET CIE

FOR

WATSON & CO.,

WINE DEPT.

LTD.

TEL. 20616.

PIANOS of QUALITY

ON EASY TERMS

ADULTS WHO SEEK RELAXATION FROM THE WORRIES OF MODERN LIFE WILL FIND IT MOST EASILY ATTAINED IN MAKING A COMPANION OF A PIANO,

THE PIANO IS EASY TO LEARN AND BECOMES A LIFE LONG FRIEND.

MAKE YOUR CHOICE A

"MOUTRIE

IT COSTS NO MORE

AND IS THE FINEST INSTRUMENT

IN THE FAR EAST

YORK BUILDING

CHATER ROAD.

CONVENIENT

MOTOR - CAR STORAGE Only three minutes walk from Star Forry At Nathan and Middle Roads (Opposite Peninsula Hotel)

HOT DAYS AND STORMY NIGHTS are coming-Remember a cool, dry, woll kept, spacious garago will keep your car fit and your temper cool. RATES ARE REASONABLE AND INCLUDE CLEANING CHASSIS. WASHING, POLISHING AND LUBRICATION SERVICE.

Cars or Trucks with Wheelbase not exceeding 80 Inches Rate por month

Thursday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH...

Good Used Cars

-READY TO DRIVE AWAY... (2355) Studebaker Commander

Saloon .... 1935 Model UK$1300 (3377) De Soto Sedan

1937 Model HK$2300

(912) Hillman Minx

1937 Model DK81800

(54) Humber "12" Saloon

1934 Model KS1000 (5382) Vauxhall "25" Saloon

1030 Model NIK83500

13208) Ford V-8 Saloon

1935 Model HK$1500

March 14,

1940.

AN AMERICAN LOOKS

AT

TO THE EDITOR OF THE NEW YORK TIMES

PONTIUS PILATE still lives. At the moment he exercises: greater influence on our national thinking about foreign affeira) · · than any other person living

(4500) Studebaker Commander

Coupe

..... 1937 Model HK$2500 (3280) Vauxhall "14-6" Saloon

1934 Model IIK$1200 -OTHER CARS AVAILABLE—or dend.

A guarantee given for three months on all cars over $1,500 in value

All care of $1500 and over carry the Hongkong Hotel Garage Guarantee and Ser- vice, the same as for new cars.

INSPECTION AND TRIAL INVITED

THE WAR

No attempt is being made officially, by Britain, through any agency, to introduco propaganda for the Allied cause in the United States of America. From time to time it has boon suggested that this policy is a mistakon one and that by inaction we are allowing Gorman claims and distortions to poison the American mind against the Allies. -

der" at Munich and their "betrayal" of Republican Spain. And to give point to their propaganda, they tar us with their brushes, Molotoff referring to our treatment of the Cubans and Johnson to the American Indians.

We can Ignore the Communist bunch for the moment-they are part of the price we pay for the freedom we cherish. But the propaganda is vicious to the extent it helps us to fool ourselves. We know better.

corpús, Magna Carta, habens

the common law, William Shakespeare,. the King James Bible, John Bunyan,. Voltaire. Lafayette, the Rights of Man, Wordsworth and Bobby Burns: **** |--they are part of our heritage. They

aro not Prussian or Nazi or. Com--

If that is io, a corrective is administered by a remarkable latter which recently appeared in the New York Times. By It in the courtesy of that nowspaper wo reprint it below. evidence of a currant of purely American thought which is finding expression in a number of quarters.

He strides the length and breadth of America, dinning

of! his immortal philosophy neutrality into our minds and hearts. You can hear him onl the platform, over the radio, in the club car, at women's club meetings and labour union columnists. Suffice it to say that had; "Merchants of Death" and the "Wall munist.

The conquest of Austria, the ruins gatherings. You can read his Germany won, the Treaty of Ver- Street Bankers," and depicting them

Czecho-Slovakia, the masen- words in current books, in sailles, in comparison with the Ger-as beguiling and forcing the Amer-of

man prace terms, would have seemed ican people against their will to enter cre of the Poles, the attack on Fin magazines and newspapers.

land, the torture of concentration like the Sermon on the Mount. * "Wash your hands," he says, "of

There was one magnificent sitempt That just isn't so, and you and 1 camps, the bestial crimes against race mess. I did once, and saved

in the Versailles treaty for a better know it. The average American and religion, purges, "blood baths," Stubbs Road. myself a lot of work and worry world-the League of Nations. Our doesn't give a damn what the "Wall "Mein Kampf" and the Communist That was none of my business. This President, Woodrow Wilson, fought Street Dankers" say or think or do Manifesto-they are not English or

none of yours. So wash your hard for it. Those awful European except when, as

French or Americon. No-we are

We know all about: hands of It now."

nations, our recent

associetes, Twenties, some of them sold us glit-not "ali alike."

that. But how long shall we let these For the last 20 years we Americans

necepted it. America turned it down edged flypaper on which we have been fooling ourselves,

HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE

Phones: 27776-0

The

Thongkong Telegraph.

Thursday, March 14, 1940. Wyndham St., Hongkong Telephone: 28015

indicate nown which is strictly copyright under the provisions of the Telecommunl cations Ordinance, 1038. Such newn su beary to indicatión "U" is received in Hongkong on the date of publication by the United Press Associations who re-

serve all rights and forbid repablication, either wholly or in part without previous | arrangement.

Indicting A Nation

this

19

.

12

the war.

In the Nineteen

were

selves?

Pilate tried to do in another practical We wanted to preach, not work, for permanently stuck. Both our know-propagandists help us delude our a world of peace and ordered liberty-ledge and common senso refuse to elevate the munition manufacturers into gods of human destiny. They Perhaps the lovellest self-delusion make their unpleasant goods and sell we are enjoying at the moment is the

situation, when we've talked about America's foreign policy. We sull are. It's not surprising. We have been deluged with a constant stream

*

our

thetic

A

Yes, there's this and that and

gone'

Till prefix'special to the Telegraph of propaganda about the "Crime of thousand and one other things to be them because there are people who picture of America acting as a sweet is said about the "Crime of Versailles,

We will be happy, I am merely suggesting a few things Occasionally some over-zealous sales-the war ends. get?" the what did we

to remember. spectacle of a gullible America caught

The fairest summary of America's man may have encouraged a Central comfortable and "diaintereated.". Our

American revolution, but to pleture former associates will have in the wily intrigues of Old World

partielpation at the Versalles Pence diplomacy, England expecting every Conference was made by Clemen-these practient gentlemen as playing through the hell of a war they des- American to do his duty, the "Mer-

suffering, poor and tired out. There- und the "Wall ceau's right-hand man, Tardieu: "A decisive role in the destinies of the perately tried to avoid; they will be chants of Death"

war won by four could not end in world is plain silly.

America entered the last war. for fore we can do some more preaching, Street Bankers,"

a peace dictated by one,"

Sure we many reasons. The most immediate tell them what sort of peace they To-day there's a new but equally

But "We won the war." polluted stream of propaganda luridly uld. Almost single-handed. Almost, and compelling reason was simply should make (not too harsh on the THE saying, You cannot indict warning us against propaganda. The Let's try to be honest with ourselves that Germany, after repeated warn-Germans, because they are "a proud upshot of it all is that the thinking so that we may be fair to others. Ings and protests, continued to sink race"), and how they must behave if a nation, is in need of amend- †of, many honest people has become Let's remember what England and ships without warning, with a loss of they are to be like us.

Wait a minute. Suppose the Nazi- Well, brothers S. MOUTRIE & CO., LTD. ment, is indeed in process of confused, their nerves Jangled and France and our other associates con- American lives. If Germany had not

tributed to the winning of that war, sunk our ships and if American lives Communists -- win? heing amended. When Burke their emotions faded. And as

For instance, they fought the war had not been lost in those actions, we and sisters, if that happens, we'll have nation we have managed so far to

to do an awful lot more then preach coined it the modern German had escape from reality and the tough for three years while we remained would not have entered the war.

With all our faults, we Americans far more than if we frankly and not come into being. If Burke responsibilities of being a first-rate neutral and waxed rich at their ex- were alive to-day he might have Power. I don't mean that we have pense, England, with a population have a great faith in certain ideals actively elded England and France lost the Puritanical vice of preaching one-third of ours, lost in dead alone a faith that has moved mountains and now. It might be that we are count- made certain reservations to that to others, but we have failed to nearly 1,000,000 men; France, with has contributed mightily to our great-ing a little too comfortably on the dictum, as many persons are

exercise the Puritanieni virtue, of do- a population less than one-third of ness as a nation. When Woodrow Maginot Line and the British feet. ing our share-and. more, if need ours, more than 1,500,000; Canada, Wilson struck the moral note, the And, despite the peace-at-any-price doing now.

be of the hard work very with a population less than New York heart of America responded. Most propagandists, we do count on them. If the Allies win without our nid, by Why is it or is it the case-greatness requires of us.

State, about 100,000. In other words, Americans did believe that we were had the United States suffered rela-fighting "to make the world safe for what right will we have a voice in the that the Nazis, or even the whole

tively as France did, our dead alone democracy." Whether we succeeded peace terms? What will have been contribution? A fow German people, seem to suiter. The purpose of--this-letter-Istol would have exceeded 4.500,000 men. or failed is irrelevant at this point. America's

We did fight for something worth cheers, lots of moral support, and..... from moral diseases which suggest briefly that WC average As It was, we lost about 75,000,"

some of these We never knew the horror of an fighting for, and we need feel no re- goods for cash down. Again, I say, appear to be peculiar to them- citizens question

Let's not fool ourselves. We should slogans and catch-phrases which are air-raid, the terror and degradation gret or shame for that motive and don't let the propagandists fool us. selves? Various interesting

a least be too adult for that. doing so much to paralyse the moral of an Invading army destroying our purpose.

Pontius The latest trick of the speculations are made, but driving force of the American people. towns and cities and enslaving a

Somewhat allled to the foregoing Pilate propagandists la to warn us. nothing more definite has been Too many of us have been doing our large part of our civilian population thinking on foreign affairs by proxy, to be hewers of wood and drawers

the enemy country. reason were our national heritage against propaganda. Apparently they $17.50)

20.00 reached than that a corrupt A lot of us let the columnists do it. of water in

traditions. English people, assume that Americans are a simple, 22.50 condition exists.

I suggest that we stuff our cors for Fuel-less Sundays, Liberty Loan and 25.00

a while to the stately measure, the drives, and one piece of sugar instead French people and American people childlike, almost moronic people who Some theorists go back as for

sounding brass the tinkling of two were among our major enter-belleve in their hearts that individual need nurses and guards to keep them 27.50 30.00 as Original Sin, others trace the cymbals of various of these. Maybe prises. Yes, they helped-helped a freedom is one of those few things out of mischief. It is insidious stuff, likely to cause moral impotence and 32.50 evil to what occurred some two it we do that we can hear ourselves lot, "turned the tide" and all that worth fighting for and, if need be, which, taken in too large doses, is

sort of thing. But as a nation we worth dying for.

Intellectual sterility. It is reminis- The German ident in the last war. cent of the old Quaker's remark to 35.00

thousand years ago. When the

Long before Hitler made the were spared the agony our comrades- Romans carried their civilisation "Crime of Versailles" his favourite in-arms endured. My point is that as in the present one, was different, his wife: "All the world's mad ex over most of the known world a bed-time story to the German people when we stop to think and make and what is important for us to bear cept thee and me, and even thou art

many of our "Intellectuals" were real effort to be fair the propaganda In mind-really endangered our ideal a little mad," halt was called while yet the talking and writing about it in the we have been fed for several years then as it does to-day. Despite all the effusions of Nazi-Communist town gossip. seems a bit indecent.

We are asked to 'shut, our eyes toʻ those fevered manner of a

philosophy, of fabby intellectuals, the most blazing truths, to avert our Pseudo-historians, irresponsible

and of demagogic 'pollllefans, | gaze from the plain facts of our con- journalists and disgruntled liberals who couldn't digest some of

There is something "phony" in the materialism is not the only driving temporary life, to stuff our ears and how, in some way, wo can cocopa rougher facts of life all did their contrast between our nolsy pride in force in American Ilfe. It wasn't into harden our hearts so that some

from the tough realities of this world bit, There was also some honest, in our fighting prowess and our self- 1917 and it isn't now.

Nor did we fight to pull Englund's and, on B

evade the tanks telligent and justified criticism of it abasement as diplomatic morons.

which nature, our moral traditions. As a treaty it had imperfections. You know that oft-repeated phrase, chestnuts out of the fire. We never and the uncompromising forces of

say destiny have set for us to do. having been drawn by Imperfect men America has won every war and lost representing imperfect peoples, most of whom for four years had endured every peace conference." The next a war that was not exactly perfect. True, Germany lost some rather un-i profitable colonies in Africa (in 1014 they accounted for less than one-half of 1 per cent. of her forcim trade), France. Any objections? The house

90

100

110

120

130

140

150

RATES ALSO INCLUDE DAILY "CHECK OF GAS, OIL, WATER AND AIR.

Export maintenance and repair service are also available at reasonable rates.

BOOK YOUR SPACE AT STORAGE DEPARTMENT Driva in Entrance from Nathan Road

FAR EAST MOTORS

26 Nathan Road, Kowloon

λ λ λ

FOLLOW

Ligu

the

REAL QUALITY

Tel. 59101.

ZORIC

GARMENT CLEANING SYSTEM)

AIR CONDITION

DRY CLEANING.

FOR ALL TYPES OF CLOTHING

RUG AND CARPET SHAMPOOING OUR SPECIALTY

THE

STEAM LAUNDRY

Head Office & Works: 37082

Hong Kong Depot, Peax Depot,

Tal 20352. Kowloon Depot,

CO.

without

think.

Alsace-Lorraine.

and

-was

་ ་

the

to restored

hears none.

Then there were the reparations,

TC- time some parlour intellectual peats that phrase in the pompous

܀

A

have. The propagandists who single instance in our entire history we have done so. cannot prove as a nation to support their falsehood,

munist toetle of repeating a falsehood

and

Germans were civilising influences.

Lord Rennell puts the situation thus:-"The result was that the greater part of Germany remained outside the Imperial | radius and was never subject to

This propaganda ngainst propagan- da makes many an average citizen certain inhibitions and obliga-

throw up his hands and say, "What

I believe?" Well-you can be. tions, and in particular respect

lleve in yourself, your own common- for the sanctity of treaties and

manner of the man trying to make a And yet by using the Nazl-Com-cata conversational Impression ask him

own decent instincts, con-gain and again they have deceived dense, your.

own your how many and what peaco

values and

traditio contracts, established by the

to fight: Roman system and upheld after

ferences he's talking about. Did our some honest, well-meaning folk and which you cherish enough

for. These peace-at-any-price

people: diplomats lose for us the American have soothed those frantic people its disruption by the Church, its

Revolution, the War of 1812, the who can not bear to face the simple who consciously or unconsciously, but sometimes hard truths of lifere giving dolly aid and comfort, lo Mexican War of 1845-46, the

do. successor as a social influence."

Come harm

create more confu- Spanish-American War or the World Have you observed how these same Comraden Hitler and Stuin will Another warning of history. Much too much. Al' any raic, Lord Rennell adds, lies in its machinery was set up whereby they War (when we ducked our job by propagandists will scream with rage slon before the courageous comm

They won't. Lovidenco of the temperamental could be scaled down to a reason-repudiating the League of Nations)7because England is at moments re-sense of America says,

flon which they urge us to shirk? because we'll stop deceiving ourselves able figure and that was shortly done. Didn't they do pretty well in the cant to do the hard Jobs of civilisa-you're a fake"

when the hour of declaion is at handl disposition of

The fashion of our present-day. German Voluminous tears have been shed Louisiana and Alaska purchases, tho

I have been discussing the pro-Som for acting in 1917 the role of the propagandista is to aneer at Uncia kan fisherles controversy, the Ain- peoples to be swayed by domin over the war-guilt clause. Through Oregon boundary dispute, the Alas- [ant and ambitious leaders rather all the fog and smoke of controversy bama claims; the Venezualan crisis of paganda about America's part in the Good Samaritan. According to these one Uiling is clear, England" and You may not be able to con-inst war. At first sight it may seem people, the Good Samaritan was, a than by defined rules of conduct. France did not invade Belgium. The vince him, but at least you will have like beating a dead horse, because fool and a "sucker." He actually in

war was not fought on German soll. the satisfaction of exploding a myth. we now have another great war and convenienced himself in There is scarcely any need to nut-but-the Germans are a proud At any rate, let's stop talking non-must make up our minds what to do share as a member of the human

were no profits examine that, assertion. It has people." Since when has pride be sense about being "bamboozled" by about it. The old propaganda hat family.

He "minded. As own been patent to all the world for come a cardinal and cleansing virtue? wily foreign diplomats. It's just un been mentioned because it has tended what he did. But the Levite wat in

Do you remember what the Ger-other way of.

alder briefly now some of the present-business and went his own way. the last eighty years; 'and svon | mun lendorn snid they were going to evading our real selves and to warp our present attitudes Con- "wise guy."

Perhaps Uncle Sam should us the it do to the rest of the world if they One of the favourite sports of day pitfalls that constantly threaten Dicin't lose a nicket.

won? If you don't and are really writers who have consciously or un-our thinking. Interested, I suggest that you dir back consciously misled and misinformed They're all allico." Who says so? same. I don't think he will. Ho lan't into the official documents and the the American public: in recent years Such strange bedfellows ne Motolo, that sort of fellow. In due course, and also read the Treaty of Brost caused and the purposes which Hugh Johnson and our milksop his coat, and do

who only yesterday but worthwhile world Litovsk. The peace-at-any-price inspired America's entry Into the last intellectuals propagandists to-day will not tell World War. They have created were screaming at Chamberlain and you, nor will the facing-both-waya togies and scarecrows, naming them (Deledier for their, "cowardly surron-

the.

thus early in the present war has become evident that for brutality and shameless lying

18057

doing hi

Tel. 21279, Gloucester Bldg, 2nd Flr., Tel, 2unes 1 Hitler and his gang maintain the / files of newspapèrs of 25 years ago, has been to derida the motives which the Soviet Minister of Foreign Affairs,' he'll rub his eyes, stand up, také' offi

Tel. 00545, worst traditions of German

barbarity.

man's job in a hardl

LAWRENCE HUNTE

New York.