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WHITHER JAPAN?
Whither Japan? The ques-
It's Nice to be
in
England
By Edward Braitic UNITED PRESS STAFT CONRESPONDENT
LONDON, Oct. 1 (UP)- Promised death and destruction notwithstanding, it's nice to be in England with no place to go.
You any hest get much sugni your morning cup of coffee and twa
drinkers may be out of hack entirely on the refills uf engarettes ant beer may teap up. ward each time the Chunicellor of the
[11441** Exchequr looks armand taxes do caly the mounting set of Wat
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Tor
offers the second mot dominant problem in the world today. She has inveigled her self into Indo-China; Is it ta rench Chungking via Yunnan? The Burma and Malaya vin Hanoi and Haiphong? The Chinese rudiende the former suggestion, that apart from pointing t hamudnaps offered an invading | have been sadly maitoabed by military army by the difficult terrain on the Indo Can Yunnan border, it would respore half a million men to overcome Chinese opposí-
From
You can ever sale untere and Voo tlar natin meul tae steal 2 may stub your free on the talek -ut.
But IN
sur-Luthing Facblies
ca din
Hot any American who has spent! sand of the last teri maniths travelling on the mistent finds it almost a Bell Boat as probably here for the
because excel for pestial strips there's no itansporta
Vides be permillent to ac present auditionis, de runt even p
It is highly questionable whether Japan, without making to salesfantial troop withdrawals From Charto
could proper, attempt a southwestern invasion on this scale
Jew
The basis of mine was months the contineat, abu: half of which remed to be speaf waiting in quarters at consulates, Biting out ma turmis (12
sutastying th
The dirvetion of Japan may bewares, this currespondent in impos largely guided by the support. Į ko state- the longest trip be is Cene Lithe in vite dels toke fro moral only though it be at the
Three billing sixpence Takistle moment, afforded her by her European partners, and thereby bangs a report traceable 100 Chinese Sources,
21
indon to-day muy which my be able to utives, but at least they don't have to spend anything up to thuly donats a week in consulates, trying to estadilish that they have 1990 bombs about then persons, and are The aut agetiks of the Comilesh at
serve as a guide. Its contend- ed that the Vichy Government's Turnabout a few days ago, when
it allowed the Japanese virtually | Bruuns Haus
where tese worst
to take over the country with Feesti ransalates it my out a blow, was connected in no stall degree with the three-
tract
in
De nade pictures
ways More refugees, ex- Gezurants, Pules and otherwise Well ying to enter France U any other Ахін Power
Country Every application bund signed
quintuplicate, with Ave Europe shortly afterwards. IL
And the French were very suggested that #1 secret interested in the natecedents of aft prospective visitors I spent at l clause gave Japan authority to our once at the border trying to go ahead in her Indo-China ad- explain away an assortment of Cer-!
man visas and residence permits in venture, the French having been
my passport. told by Berlin to make no fuss in the malter.
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Italy and Germany have little to gain by merely forwarding
hostilities Japanese
against China: therefore the only inducement to the original Axis to take in their new partner is that Japan should act in Indo- China in such a manner as to threaten Britain on the other side of the world.
incidentally, the last nine months cost the United Press, in my case, 66 passport photographis, the best of which cost 200 Rumanian L dozen and made an Individual usually | talten for a Swede, look vaguely Balkon
per
six weeks for a Swiss visn, which
INVASION OF ENGLAND
CONQUEST OF FRANCE
THE TOP BOARD
Think only of VICTORY
By
F. G. H. Salusbury,
War
D
ם
ATC
defeatisl
qualities of Independence, bred in
democracy, which
stified under a Lyranny They are Klorious in emergenclea
You may hear old
they dodderers - Correspondent
probably have memories of some pre-Oreat War German who was a very decent feller mouthing over the possİ. ilities of unhonourable" pence with Hitler
EFEATIST talk must be
out of
Our ripped national vocabulary
Some of it is inspired
ag int merely by the success of Hitler's ume-table. done this or that, the weaklings Buy, then It is not absurd to Imagine that he will be
11 he has
London by the middle of August
是 Certainly in not absurd to
it is total imagine that
By precisely this assistance, work ing in advance of his
Holland,
and thrusti
Belgium Prater.
Hitler won his grandiose bel
Empty of Ideals
We cannot have an honourable neuer with Rider We enn have
that his hands but an intoler- able slavery There are no "decent left in Nazi Germany oven fellers to respect the dudderer's private property
Churchill's
Son-in-Law.
Keeps U.K. Laughing
By Ned Russell
United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, Oct. 1 (UP).--Vic Oliver, naturalised American comedian who makes more money amusing Britons than his father-in-law, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, makes steer- ing the British Empire through the war, tops a band of American theatrical figures who are deter- mined to stay here despite the
war.
The 42-year-old Vienna-born Oliver, who married Churchill's beautiful, blond actress- daughter, Sarah, is starring in the London season's biggest musical comedy hit. **Black Velvet," and does a regular Sun- day night comedy stunt on the B.B.C. with Ben Lyon and his wife, Bebo Daniels, former Hollywood mavic stars now starring in another musical hit. "Haw Haw."
Oliver recently was reported to be preparing to go to America because of a row with his pro- ducer, George Black, but now everything apparently is settled and the vows to stay here in- definitely-except for a four- week visit to New York, pro- bably next year, in order to keep his American citizenship.
Oliver's compatroits vowing to stay here through the war in- clude besides Lyon and his wife. Stafford, Teddy Brown, Leigh Charles Warren and a store of other lesser-known performers working in some of the numerous musical comedies and legitimate plays in the West End,
*
*
Much of Oliver's popularity is due to the way in which he changes his jokes to keep pace While his father- with the war. in-law ponders ways of winning the war. Oliver jokea and laughs about the whole thing. And Londonera like to laugh with
When the aliens' curfew regulations went into effect, Oliver pleaded with his audience to laugh quickly at his Jukes
"I have to be indoors by midnight," he explained.
There are young dodderers, too, him. columns
They exist in all walks of ite sinug Tools who pride theinseives ou TACLS, DA they call the temporary results of the binzkrieg, but will never face the real mean- ing of Cherman domination
Such
people
Enemy Origin
If these nations had been firmly 111 themselves strong united enough to resist the poison of fear. ful surrender and negotiation that was indeeird to them by their <rwn citizens -Thr Alles, despite material disadvantages, could have held out long enough in Europe tu turn the German tide.
with
Putten inahess.
rotten with boredom funk, empay of Idenis, worthy ly to be slaves
and
Their clight place is at the bultom the mental mick-heap which passes for Nazi philosophy The
Convert Π NOW. them, it possible, to a healthy out- look But silence then
Hileper
Some of the poison now sprayed aver us is however, directly of enemy oright and sympathies And of one of the few refreshing aspects of victory fils war is provided by the arrests
af such poisoners
Readers have written to me on this subject and I have passed the letters on to the authorities.
There must be to my allmy talk negetations or terms without The Government must always be apurred on by the tremendous vitality of the British people.
No orie entitled
In
One of
114 favourite Kags om- phasizes his "complete neutrality” about the war
Nyx
"I don't care who kills Hitler," he
Hiver
Indirect fun joked Churchill and the loyal Navy when the German pocketbattleship Grat wax scuttled at Montevideo,
"War traches people geography," Oliver saict. "Before this they thought Uruguay was a sort of tooth- paste
o
the
Oliver
theatrical
business Authority shall be
from playing the piano, to draw the slightest Previously he had worked in bunks evidence of
and for a cloth
He manufacturer, discouragement from
went to the United States in 1920, when he found out that he could make more money being funny than playing the plan.
those he exists to direct
Spirit of Great War
I ant one of millions of ordinary
whe people be believe that we shalt wio the war Morcover, having aren what I have as a war corre spondent, what else could I believe?
For i have seen nothing to Our lenders, in their turn, must
us and
the obviate persuade me that the Germans are encourage Invincible or superhuman. I know defeatists by evidence of imagina-
thal only
they Arc extremely tion in attack. Nothing will upset efficient,
Hitler's plans like attack
Better Than Germans
our
Let us recapture the are of the victory over the rut Spec, of the magnificent
the enterprise ut in Norway, of the Now we, too, are being efficient. destroyers
where gallant infantry patrols in in the air. particularly Hitler's attempt 10 conquer us sector in front of the Maginot Line, will be frustrated und whence of those recent landings in enemy- eventually he will be forced to occupied France. retreat.
Our armen, man for man, are better than the Germana, That is the bald truth, not political soft--
soap.
They are more during, more sell-
He made his first vaudeville per- formance zit the Lyrie Theatre,.
at
York
He op- at the
London was
fudianapolis, in July, 1920, and inter toured the United States. peared first in New Palace Theater in June, 1929.
His first appearance in
the Palladium, where every vaudeville performer hopes to top his His first try at musical career.
"Follow the Sun comedy was in produced at the Adelphi Theatre Feb 4, 1930, by Charles B. Cochran, the English: Florenz Ziegfeld,
Let us rely on the spirit of the
Since then be has become the most Great War, which still fumes in the popular of England's entertainers In heart of our Empire.
inen
Shall the ghosts of those whom some of us still think of as comrades rise to mock the British
rellant. They have those very of 19407
a clean bill of health from all and near-sighted customa man to pick to
sunuy
+
even during Finland was easy, The Russo-Finnish
but for war, Luxembourg look at least a week, In which time the average ablebodied man could have walked twice around the Grand Duchy.
ces or losing because you left it somewhere for safe keeping a fow days before the Nazi drive turned in that direction.
다
cabaret and variety theaters and has made several motion pictures,
Mayfair Man Who
Owes £6,668 Escort of Warders
In order to get a Danish visa, you
Victor Frederick Cochrane Hervey, had to be able to prove that you
There was the accordion-pleated 24, a nephew of the Marquess of would be able to leave the country
ssport. My passport is now nearly Bristol, was accompanied by prison for some other capital when your
three years old, and in addition to its warders when he applied at London stay was over-a thing usually Im-
original 32 pages for visas, now, has Bankruptcy Court for his discharge. possible, because to get any European
nine.extensions, each with six folding He had been sentenced a year ago. visa you were always required to
Then there was the matter of cur sheets.
to three years' penal servitude for specify when you intended to enter, rencies. Outside the fact that most
in a his purt
Mayfair jewel theft and it was difficult to know that very nations forbade the export of more
conspiracy. How this could be done is long in advance.
WOR the than a small aur, there
It was stated that he failed in 1937 All are full, of everything from hecoming clear with the flooding Some people had to walt three to business of counting and registering Turkish police stamps to the thumb with liabilities of £6,000 and assets dr Indo-China
person, both en- by agenta, their work watched un-
teled on required special letters to Berne and try cent on you, plus the difficulty Prants of American vice consuls. of Bs. He had endeavoured to supply that at almost any moment you wore Everyone on the continent last win armaments to a foreign Government, officially, but sympathetically by
apt to find that the Donish crowns ter seemed to carry a rubber stamp and expected to make a large com- Germans who are now hastily her facilities similar to those or Dutch guilders you had tucked in one pocket and an ink pad in the mission, but the venture was abor- date of the receiving order Hervey, leaving the doubtful safety of, wrung from Admiral Decoux, away as safe neutral money were other. Now there is nobody left to live. In the 12 months before the £3,950, spent Chungking and Kunming for and then follows the threat to worth next to nothing because Hiller stamp.
lind just marched in.
Finally, from a strictly professional whose income was
on travelling, entertaining.." now hunting grounds; their Burma and the Malayan archi- Then there was the business of point of view, there le the business £6,827
On arrival in and so on, although he had a do With black-out and other of expense accounts. work appears to be the under-pelago. It may become no more trains.
after flelency of £3,300. mining of the present Indo- than a threat, but its nuisance train was apt to smell like an Ameri-
restrictions, the average continental England in early November
ghly three months on the con- Mr. W. A. L. Raeburn, for Hervey China regime.***
value alone to Germany would can cattle car, except that the cattle tinent, I submitted an account in said that a third party was prepared fourteen currencies, including the to put up £1,400, which would pro Once accomplished, it will be be considerable, and for this car has ventilation. a simple matter for Japan to reason Britain must pay
There was the added complication precious dollars which almost every vide a composition of 58. in the
Mr. induce a compliant and some the closest attention to Japan's inually either lugging into some for a non who once lunited algebra,pound Registrar Kean adjourned the what helpless Thailand to give maneuvres in Indo-Chins.
blacked-out station platform for alt. was a great strain.
hearing for a week
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