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THE preis “fpecial to the Telegraph" red by the Hongkong Telegraph to indicate news whirl be strictly copyright under the provisions of the Telecommuni- extens Ordinance, 1936, sich news an hears the indication "UP" fi received in Bonekone on the date of publication by the United Pres. Anoctations, who res serve all rights and forbid republication, either wholly or in part without previous arrangement
American Opinion
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As everyone knows, a change has recently taken place in the vpinions and sentiments of the American For a people in regard to the War considerable time they tried to adopt
neutral attitude of unconcern Many of them assunted an air of
Some bold- philosophic detachment.
was
ly asserted that their interest in this purely European struggle Was academic and not practical There was much loose talk about the self- sufficiency of the States, Its Im pregnable position in a naval and military sense, the danger of en- tongling albances, and Bie beauties of however, Recently, isolationism many Americans seem to have dis. euvered reasons for revising their opinions of a few months ago.
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The Atlantic Monthly is une of the outstanding American periodicala
which educated
public
September 16, 1940.
DESTROYER PATROL
by
• Taffrail: (The famous British Naval Writer)
We slipped from our buoy ́and steamed out to sea for our night's patrol in the grey bleakness of tho_winter after-' noon. Other destroyers went with us. We had some dis- tance to go before reaching our appointed beat.
The wind blew shrewdly from the north-east, to raise a confused Jabble of leaping white horses out-
de the harbour entrance. One felt the ship kick a little as she met the first of them. For the next eighteen hours, until we re- furned to harbour, she was never
Steaming twenty knots, we pass- ed &
a convoy of bluff-bowed mer- chant ships making up for their anchorage before dark.
On one of the shoals to starboard lay two broken-backed wrecks with the sca breaking over them,
victims or Mer- U-boat mines or torpedoes.
in the chantmen lay at anchor roads nearby. Beyond them the land showed as a faint grey blur against the darkening horizon. The visibility was low, the horizon to seaward being shut out in a blanket of mist,
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We passed by buoy or two, and lightship pitching at her moor- Inge. Night came as we turned to- wards our patrol line.
The first lieutenant, somewhere In the middle twenties, came climb- ing on to the bridge to report the ship darkened Our depth charges were ready, our guns manned for instant action
"Shall we have the torpedo-tuben trained out now, air" the first lieutenant asked the commander.
"Yes, Number One," snic the Intter, a tall figure in a due cont and sea bols, with the inevitable glasses alung ruunid tila neck, "Please du
Once out from the land the wind grew strenger, and the sea more aterp and confused, probably be- valise a strong tide and wind were running 10 opposite directions.
Whifts of spray came sweeping
port.
ferred to by the First Lord of the Admiralty es producing the dead- liest results.
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Arranging to be in certain spots at certain times, we half expected, certainly
to hoped, locate U-boat, in which case we should have made a concerted attack with depth charges.
But on this occasion there was 110 fuck. We sighted, or located, no more than a neutral steamer showing her lights, and a buoy or two. As the commander himself observed in the zmall hours of the morning while sipping steaming cocoa in the chartholue, largely a matter of luck. In any case a good many thousands of miles must be sleamed by many
was
hunters for every U-boat that attacked or sunk. He hoped for better fortune one day.
At about ? a.m., chilled through and through, I went below to one of the warmest places in the ship, the ship's company's galley under cocoa and carly breakfasts. In this Email compartment, about fifteen feet by twelve, nearly half its deck space occupied by
così with one range, the chief cook, assistant, produced three or four hot meals a day for 170 hungry sailors. They weren't halt "per- nickety" either, growing like fury If he failed to produce what they wanted.
the forecastle. The chief cook was there
producy, brewn
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Yes, he said in answer to my toughish job. question, it wan
the
Ha day's work started round about four o'clock in the morning and ended at ton al night, Before coming here he'd been used to a big ship with an ofi-fired galley and a host of assistants. In this Halley during bad weather the sea sometimes developed a playful habit of coming in through the door to send his
pots and Bring, and himself as well. fying.
These destroyers rolled like fury in a gale of wind with a heavy bean sea. All the same, he prided himself on his job, reckoning that his ship's company. grow! though they some- times might, were the best fed In the flotilla.
At 7.20 1 returned to the bridge, to find it was half daylight with low visibility and a bling breeze
with from the north-eastward
1
on the over the bows, and
open bridge it
The was bitterly cold.
suffish top through which the ship officer navigator.
of the watch,
plunged uneasily Our anti-air- jookout and myself were co-txoted craft guna were manned and ready
muffled almost to the
bul title eyes. in case of an attack; The light of a winking
Probably the weather was came. buny showed away the darkness tu to bulateruus, and the clouds fou For another hour, until full daylight ene, we continued our hunt for a passible lurking U-bual; but no luck came our way
We turned homewards by
come, even- route whence we had
to reach harbour tually sccure alongside an oller to re- plenish our diminished fuel
low. The anvigator, bending down to look along the compass, noted its bearing, and then dived down to crouch under the canvas cover of the chart tuble.
"We're on the position now. atr," came his muffed voice after
interval
The new course
on-eight-four
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"All right," the commurider res
hve round to oh eight-four, MI Carver
plied. "Bring
The officer put his mouth to the Volceple communicating with the wheeihotase below.
"Starboard fifteen," he ordered
fifteen "Starboard
it is, sir," from the quartermaster Al the wheel.
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"Steady on oh-eight-four," came the voice of the quartermaster. The darkness had become tense. Astern could only just sec at the the black shapes of two destroyers following in our wake. Several times during that long
"Mulships," after
interval. "Purt ten-steady on uh-eight- fonit." opinion upon current questions usually finds expression, and its writers are now speaking their minds very freely con.. cerning isolationism, and even go 50 far as to advocate actual intervention in the War. Of course it would hardly do for an outsider to use the plain-spoken words and arguments employed by The Atlantic, but it is quite permissible to quote a few of them.
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I groped my way aft forward along the darkened upper deck, picking my way foot by foot through the many encumbrances which threatened to throw bendlong, dodging from port starboard to escape the overhang- ing lips of the after torpedo-tubes. I visited the mess dicks, to see
few
для fully clothed figur sleeping on tables, ready for a call, lockers and even the deck itsel Out on the bleak, windswept deck guns, torpedo-tubes the men at the and depth charges relieved other at regular intervals.
All through that night we carri ed out our patrol the exact locality of which cannot be disclosed. We carmy sut- were latening for marines with that uncanny inven- tion which has already been re-
the
to
to leave the up that day, but the next night she would be at sca again, and the two nights follow- ing.
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U.S. WORKERS WARNED OF
FIFTH COLUMN
HOLLYWOOD, Calif. —Aɛ- blinded as those people in Berting that there is no place Europe were. for any "lam" other than
| Americanism in this country, "Only two years ago, for example, Harry M. Warner, president of i met the Prime Minister. We dis- I visited Copenhagen.' While there Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc., cussed the future of his country for called on 6,200 employees two hours. When I asked him why he didn't do something to protect bis
said. turning over all informuation and people, he
They would not evidence of subversive activities dare to come near us. I tried to convince him the enemy was not in and out of the studio to the just on the other side of the border Federal Bureau of Investigation. but actually within. I had the same experience in Oslo. I had the same In London People couldn't understand that there could
Speaking to the first mass experience meeting, of its kind in Holly be enemies within."
Warner then read two paragraphs wood, which was attended by Warner employees and repre- from a book printed in Germany sentatives of other studios, the under the title of "The Deflement executive stated that the F.B.I. of Race," alone could not cope with expanding "fifth. column" tivities of democracy's ponents.
the Bear in mind." he explained. "that anything printed in Germany ac- represents the viewpoint of the gov- op- ernment. It can't be printed unless It does. Please follow these words carefully because your future de-
He called for an awakening of pends on them: the public to the dangers threat- ened by the same subversive methods which laid Norway. Denmark and Holland open to totalitarian invasion. He cited the "it can't happen here" at- titude he encountered in those countries on his last trip abroad.
"THEY laughed off the don- ger. We must take it seriously. We fought to obtain our inde- pendence and democracy when We the country was founded. must fight to retain it now." Warner said.
The presence of subversive propaganda literature within studio gates was revealed by Warner when he described the finding of such material in his automobile.
MR. HARRY WARNER
The
mission of
German no- Conally in the world in to free this When world of Jews and Christians, "We must report those hap. the meaning of national freedom is by ell other unfree recognised penings and track them down. peoples they will also recover from There is no place in our studio the illness that besets them by fol for exponents of Nazism, Fas lowing the example set by the Ger- cism or
other sm' but mun spirit any Americanism. We do not want
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to lose the freedom that permits **IF we wish to create some- us to hold such a meeting as this thing now we cannot permit the to discuss the serious problems existence and operation of dia- facing us and this country." organising factors such
Christianity. If we wish to do WARNER read from official a thorough job, we must over- German propaganda material throw and shatter all opposing that "Germanic blood and Chris and destructive forces unspar tian baptismal water does not ingly and without compromise. Germanic blood and Christian mix."
baptismal water can never mix.* He also read from President Roosevelt's speech of May 26 on tinued, "with the greatest organised "We are confronted," Warner con- "Afth machine.
the
the
of dangers
subversive or military, column" and the means of that the world has ever seen. fighting it, pleading for every
"We are faced with the same kind American to do his duty in op- of peril when anybody invades any posing encroachments on the part of our country with subversive fundamental democratic ideals methods to divide and destroy us. The least we can do is unite for our of the United States.
own protection.
Since the war began that little ship had spent between 70 and 75 per cent, of her time at seu, and had been under way for 100 days out of 127.
are of My chief recollections thuse muffled figures on the bridge peering out through the inky dark- ness of the patient quartermaster in the wheelhouse with his face illuminated in the dim light of the gyro compass
Robert of the men stationed round the guns, torpedo-tubes, and for instant depth charges ready action; and of those others below in the engine room and stakeholdı. The whole impression gained was one of readiness for anything that might happen-of that sleep- less watchfulness and preparedness which are the prime duties of the
Royal Navy in time of war.
FUNNY SIDE UP
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In an open letter to American undergraduates, Arnold Whitridge, Master of Calhoun College and Pro- fessor of English at Yale University, Bays that the average undergraduate student of Dartmouth, Comell, Harvard, and Yale, although he hopes that Britain may win in the present struggle, is nevertheless so anxious to keep America out of war that he hopes that the United States will "grant no credit, give no supplies, and send no men to help the Allies." Some of these undergraduates, Mr. Whitridge says, are Christian pacifists and as such are worthy of respect. The true religious pacifist is a Hon of courage. Some per
persons, who call themselves conscientious objectors enrol themselves under that banner, not because of conscience, Technically we are at peace with the but from unwillingness to take up a Third Reich; actually we are at war. hard duty, Again, there are some nations to keep the peace. We did We did not choose to help other
to use our herculean
students who admire Hiller because they have been brought up to admire not choose success in any realm of effort. Me. power to prevent wars. We had no Whitridge, however, warns them that foreign policy that made sense. We in the midst of their admiration they of our high-flown words." He de- have been intoxicated by the sound should remember what Professur clares that the upshot of all this William James said about the danger futility besetting America: "The danger of States faces a hostile world in arms that to-day the United moral flabbiners born of an exclusive without a strong friend save Britain, worship of the goddess, Success." At France, he says, is in chains; Japan, 17 the close of his appeal Mr. Whitridge not actively hostile, is non-co-opera- states his own position and belief in Uve, and the South American coun these words: "If the way of life which tries are a Hobility rather than an we have evolved in America is worth asset.
preserving and we have taken it for His advice to his fellow Americana granted so long that we torget how is that they should fola Great Britain much we love it-I believe we shall to fight and fight offensively, carrying have to do something more than hope the war to the enemy on his own for victory and sell second-hand ships terms, on his own soll." He exhorts to Great Britain on a strictly cash them to organize for production, basis. I believe that, much as we build planes, train pilots, and flad bate war, we shall have to fight, and mechanics; but, he adds, strike at the sooner we get ready for it, the once, for America: now faces "the better."
dirent peril it has ever known." He In the same August issue of The might well have added that his advice Atlantic, Mr. David Cohn, described to Americans to-day is practically the by the editor as "a Southerner who same as that which Mr. Churchill would defend with his life democracy gave to other neutral, countries here and in England," says without earlier. They all failed to take it and mincing his words, that the United ́everyone knows the fate that over- Stater is again at war with Germany, took them as the result of their folly.
Schless, European "You must join together to pro- manager for Warner Bros. with teet yourselves. If you know some- headquarters in Paris, reported one working with you who is n briefly on the situation abroad enemy, I think you owe it to your and ended with a stirring plea will know what to do about it. To to "Awake, America."
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"PUBLIC calamity Ig mighty leveller, Bursting shells and machine gun bullets are no. respecters of race, colour or creed.
"The fact that you are Republican, Democrat or whatever is no protec- tion from the horror of brutal Com- munist invasions...
"God knows I want peace. The only certain way to insure peace is to be so strong in arms and defence that we can command it. We will: ́never be strong enough to see that
realised until we erase from our. midst those enemies who are boring: from within to undermine our now. tional security and plan the sabolage of our great country.
"I don't know of a finer teaching. in. the world than Christianity. pray that It may survive. Where can you find anything finer than 'Peace on earth-good will to all: inen'? Christ didn't say peace on earth and good will to any particu lar faith,
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