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By J. B. FIRTH he had "stretched the bow too tight."

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E whether the ke for 50 done. He has wreat the Euchrer has still there-in Berlin, his vultus gone by. "Hell hath no fury Lure's cyrie at Berchtesgaden, like a Fuehrer scorned." There wil nt Headquarters with his be no Doorn for a second All- feverish impulse of the moment months ago, "When I have done with Generals, or wherever the Highest. Something must "give."

Hitler is reported to have said some may carry him,

these Polea, I will seek to earn my better guarded. The turns of his Di

No Dictator, I suppose, was ever living as an artist. As an artist! garden paths at his Bavarian home know,

forget, or did he never the Jast words of the are commanded by machine-guns. Imperial lute-player, "What an artist By the calendar The Fatould be in perishes in met"

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normal mind, usually qualifies its Tyrannies, however, are, as possessor if not for the madhouse, Aristotic said, usually, short-lived, at any rate for the "retreat." Catastrophle things have often Centuries ago Plutarch made some happened to supermen, and may pertinent observations on this sub- happen again.

Ject his brief Life" of Sulle, the A faulty ceiling, a sharper attack Right-wing Dictator of the Roman "the old complaint," aying Repubile, then hastening to decay, splinter, a severer brainstorm, a Sulin. was famous, or infamous, for vicious bug and the Belch might the ruthlessness of his proscriptions lose its Fuchrer and the world its un a scale unparalleled till he set his Great Abnormal.

contemporaties the baleful, example: "He had loved to lough from his youth and had been no compas- slonate that he often melted Into tears. The change in him, there- fore, could not but cast a blemish upon Power. On his account waa

believed that high honours and fortunes will not suffer men to re- main in their original simplicity, but that

them insolence. begets in

MIGH arrogance and Inhumanity.

Whether Power does really pro-. duce such a change of disposition, or whether it only displays the ma- tive badness of the heart, belongs, however, to another department of letters to inquire."

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Hongkong Telegraph.

Monday, July 1, 1940, '

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Evacuation

THIS DAY that was to have been n Bank Holiday witnesses the first official evacuation of women and children from Hongkong-an event unprecedented in the history of the Colony. Further evacuation will be carried out on and after Friday.

What put a full step to the career of the

Madman of Macedon? A carousal too deep and prolonged and a fit of black remorse. A bow was once

drawn @venture and a leing toppled from his chariot. A sure- foated horse stumbled over a mole- hill in Kensington Gardens and Loula XIV, was rid of his most im placable foe. The chapter of acci- dents is always springing new sur- prises.

to expect

The right attitude is nothing and to be aslonished at: nothing.

Even Before Fighting Starts Even before the great pause in the West is broken, we may look

Instructions from "Voices" and wisely withheld his own solution Evidently, Plutarch was puzzled one day and find that the Fuchrer of the riddle, if he had one. The is not there. A milltary coup: a talienists and psychologists of to-day ut frenzy: one of those Voices of the might insist on stating the problem weird Sisterhood which he hears in in another way. What is certain is solitude calling in 4. way that will not be denied: a

sudden glimpse that this terrible thing, Power, in its of the precipice on the edge of

highest ranges almost always draws which he has perilously poised the rather than the good.

out the bad qualities of the Despot, and some "strong-bearded comet" may stare at his mild, or wild, same "Life" is also particularly re- Another short passage from the departure.

levant:

Reich

Such an event must have its cornet. When Gian

Gian Galeazzo. Duke of Milan,

a man after Hitler's own heart, luy, dying, they whispered to him that a "Good," said the Despot, "God could comet had been seen in the skies. not bui signalise the end of so supreme a ruler."

We have to do with a mind dis- eased. Madness is of many kinds. Hitler's is

is the sort that attacks the megalomaniac who has sold his soul

and Germany's for Power.

The

"It gave Sulla pleasure to hear

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my surgery. They always case. The dyspepela giving rise to Ils success imputed to Fortune and do after a week-end. They come in the label may be no more than he encouraged the opinion, think- so sorry for themselves, so puzzled weapon wielded at home for purposes. ing that it added an air of great- and annoyed.

of domestic aggression, it may be due

ness and divinity to his actions. "I can't understand it, doctor," to the incapacity of the cool to pro... Whether he did this out of vanity they say, "Yesterday seems to have duce more than a narrow range of or from a

rem a real persuasion at its upset me thoroughly. It's done me digestible food, it may be caused by truth we cannot say. However, he more harm than good,"

rush and worry, it may be the ex- writes in his 'Commentaries, that Now I can repair the damage turous mind, it may even be quilte pression of a narrow and unadven- his instantaneous resolutions and quickly enough in most cases, but I enterprises, executed in a manner

different from what he had her can't compensate these disappointed genuine."

in- tended, always succeeded better patients for their wasted money and On festive occasions, however, this.

favourites sound

racking strain of absolute power, No human being can stand the least of all if his eyes are fixed on

than those on which he bestowed lack of hearing that heartening com- tion to the winds. When it's done effort, and, worst of all, for their type for some reason throws disere- most time and a grandiose ideal which free men who

forethought. Add ment at the end of it all, "My word, knowingly, and that in the 'Commentaries'

strange menus are value liberty more than present

caten through from start to finish scribed to Lucullus, be advises him you do look fit!" peace dare not let him attain. The

to depend upon nothing more than I divide people broadly into four with gusto, the trouble is often not. strain destroys that mental balance

upon that which Heaven directed types, and there's a different sort of so bad, and only recurs in aggravated To the people who must leave and

which is the infallible-test of sanity.

to him in the visions of the night holiday best suited to each one--May-form on return home, How few men since Dictatorships the remarkable list of great men of

Sulia, therefore, must be added to be you won't admit to fitting into any More often it's done unconsciously to the loved ones they must leave began have, climbed to

world

of these groups, chosen for their weak by eating too much of the things behind the decision of the authorities and remained

power cool-headed enough to

action who have heard "Voices," points. But better be wise, and that are supposed to be harmless, cannot fall to bring pain, bewildersee the point where they must stop. scen visions and received super- choose what's good for you.

but are found in more tempting form- ment and worry. The people have almost alone.

In that respect Augustus stands natural assurances that they are the

than at home. Diocletian not been psychologically prepared time and grew

retired in

of Henven. Yet It is a cabbages. for the blow and now that the bomb worn out in vain attempts to har side purely religious experience-to

Charles V.,

working rule-especially out- My first type I call the

MUST Get Away from "Mere" is the cry of the has exploded beneath them they aro monise the discordances of a scattered regard with deep distrust those who else" folk. These are people who dazed by its suddenness and vague- Empire, withdrew to Estramaduras through cestatie periods and take their physical well-being sert with work and feels urgently in need. person who is getting really fed up ness. There are no positive indica- and tried to synchronise his palace claim to receive special instructions ously, and are always on the alert with are unde tlors that they will remain in Manila despots, admitted at St. Helena that card by Joan of Arc, and Oliver bodies are one up on bogey, and w tucs of going away that he's apt to

clocks. Napoleon, greatest

from the unseen world. The Voices to prove to themselves

that their and who

So insistent is he on the pure vir for any length of time, or that they will proceed to Australia. There are migrants who are Asintles. It might beyond my philosophy.

Cromwell-two absolutely different at the same time are always anxious and contrasted temperaments are to

to improve their friends' handicaps, whether he's going to be comfortable be cardless of where he goes, and no positive indications that they will be said that in times of emergency Hitler speaks of the Voices he has by a workaday world in which their and entertained when he gets there.

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So when it comes to a fine the sun and do nothing." and houses, they do not know whetion. We have seen similar immigra-Churches, to pilluge and torture one muscular output whose amount will to murder, to persecute the week-end they plan an orgy of ther to give up their homes entirely tion laws applied against refugees race and to exterminate, as far as determine the superiority of this he gets bored, because his is an sc

If he gets sun, he probably gets.. miserably sunburnt. In (and perhaps return in the near from Europe even England had to possible, another. future to cominence the heart-break close its doors against the multitude

year's effort over inst.

tive mind that needs change of rou- Last summer, they covered 20 miles tine, not plafa stagnation. Hitler has never shrunk from crime on a Sunday hike, played 30 holes. the explanation for the Hongkong in fear of ghostly punishments. If or awam for & hours; this year windifferent to common sense in seck

And when he gets bored ho gets Government's decision, the authorities the State benented no other justinca- luck and decent weather it will being diversion. He bathes when he have committed a blunder in notition was required; to the State alone 32, 54, and 12 respectively. making it public. At a time like this need he render account. He is not They will come back crocked, and docan't specially want to, and catches secrecy is dangerous. We experienced half

ing task of Anding a new home in

the Colony), they are told vaguely

that the Government will assist them

financially but are not told how they can go about obtaining this, assist

by Totalitarian oppression. If this of people driven from the Continent The Catalogue of Crimes

ance. The question of Eurasians and an example of Government indecision so religious as was another mis- the excuse, of course, will be that/cold. He eats too many oddmenta, - other British subjects has become an on Saturday, when the Colony was Great, who counsel Sale, Peter the "It must have been something rotten/or drinks similarly,

creant on the

deeds at which I ate." alarming one. The impression has

alive witht: tho wildest kind of humanity shuddered yet was pene gained ground that the Government rumours. Executive Council met at trated with the serene conviction that

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Hitler,

Inst.

Have

NOW what would the travel-

is differentiating, that a certain part general knowledge in the Colony, the hands of Gin his own phrase, man. He is pretty familar, and uses

am.. and it soon

God."

IN type two is the "Must- of the populace is not considered that something momentous

My-Nine-Hours" cases?". When was

The exercise fiend he would handle true-blue British when it comes to a foot. This office was flooded with took upon himself to be "the Supreme the phrase at both ends of the day; by urging him to a place where the question of protecting their men anxious enquiries. We made repent-Court of the German People" for the at night to avoid going to a party, temptations of variety would tend to folk. The first psychological blunder, the authorities. We were informed political massacre on the Neronian having to

ed efforts to

to obtain a statement from space of 24 hours, he sanctioned In the morning to excuse himself prevent him from pursuing one ex- in this respect was made that the Executive

gobble or lose his break-clusive activity, by the military authorities when they cided to cat statement--It would fellow-fighter," was shot like a dog is a matter of fact, he usually calms of tennis, bathing, boating,

This friend

A resort where appealed for recruits for the Regular be released at noon. Only after re- not for his vices, which Hitler had does need his regular sleep, and his and rambling are combined with the Anny. Their statement was bald-peated representations were we able known and tolerated for years, but claim that he is a wreck all day If advantages of cinemas, dancing, and. only Britons of pure European de to obtain the notice of evacuation at because Hitler feared him. If Hitler he doesn't get it is often sub-good eating and drinking would be. scent" need apply. The subsequent 4 pm. An hour later part of the now sees hideous shapes and "gory stantiated. Of course, with careful far better for him than one where explanation a perfectly logical one notice was amended: It would have locks" in his dreams, what wonder? training, he can be got out of this he can indulge only, in his favourite should not have been necessary. Leen better if responsible authority If his night thoughts work like mad habit. But not on Sundays. The appeal should have been word had immediately informed the Press ness in the brain, is it surprising? At

exercise. Human nature would ar ed so as not to offend any section of of the decision taken, and so killed least it shows that something of con- Mr. Nine Hours think that when he's properly balanced enjoyment..

Unfortunately, vanity often makes seri itself, and he would succumb to the community. The Hongkong Gov-at their inception the wild and fan-science in left, for without conscience away it will be as simple as anything ernment has repeated the blunder by tastle rumours that spread through-there is no remorse."

The sleep head should not be to risa with the lark and lunch with allowed to go where local custom. announcing that it makes

similar out Hongkong on Saturday.

Ivan the Terrible, another imperial the morning milk. This he distinction in its evacuation vans.

sets might demand early morning heroics, In this respect the military and madman of divided brain, sought to himself a programme which involves nor should be be encouraged to sam. No attempt to explain the reason for naval authorities have co-operated explate the crimes of half, his reign early starts to catch ferries, to climb ple camping of caravanning. The this cruel statement has been made.freely with the Press and the public-the earlier half was most exemplary and ace sunrises, to fish with early ideal for him would be either a town We believe there is a logical reason. is fully acquainted with the situationby pending his few last days on We know that the original evacuation on the border. We venture to be-earth in a

inte at night. Or perhaps iolence of the hotel beds, ticorby diver chooses his companiona badly, and sibns, and culaine, or a motor tour visaged evacuation to French Indo been or secretive as the civil authori- Aaimilar strain of madness ran they plan it for him,

in a district whero fascinating spots China as well as to Australia. How ties there would have been another through the Orst. Caesars, the taint So he'll be in the surgery, too. over cruel it may seem, there are set of grotesque rumours regarding in the blood transmitted by heredity

lie ao close together that a breakfast Anished at ten would allow for a Immigration laws in Australia which the Japanese operations between being aggravated, particularly in preclude any but British subjects of Namtau and Shataukok. As it is the Calus. Caligula, by the exercise of

day of leisurely driving without any pure European descent from entering pubile, fully informed, are treating unbridled power. So with several of

TOW the "Must Be Careful need to watch the clock.

What I Eat" man`sounda Ho should be encouraged, in fact, The Country New Zealand, and the Japanese operations as the order the Master Emperors who reigned at reasonable, although perhaps | Canada have the same laws. The for evacuation should be treated Delhi in the 14th, 16th and 10th ilkely to be the heart and soul of a

not to be as lazy as possible. United States will not accept im- with perfect sang froid.

The dyspepties should be scrutinised Tum to Page 5, Sixth Column party.

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