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Legions

Liberty's

are ready

By Harry Levin

The Mere Man

(OMEWHERE in Palestine, But a few days later he suc- Spain for France when Franco tury, the Duke of Windsor, is S behind a sale inscribed with ceeded in disappearing under won the civil war.

the simple word "Pax," a palm- the very nose of the Gestapo

They volunteered bodily for girdled monastery looks down agents,

this now war for liberty and upon a military camp.

Their motto is the motto of were sent to Syria. Ono young Two thousand years ago the Czechoslovakia's beloved

first man speaking for them all sald, Legions of Rome were encamped President. Masaryk-"Truth will "We long for home, but we do

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"La Patrie”

To-day it is a Polish Legion LUGGAGE SPACE AND A HOST which lives in its sunbathed great footballers. They sing & R.A.F. Preferred

tents. FEA-

those who talk too much: but Among the Palestino volun- Below the white walls of the their quietness is deceptive, for teers who have thronged to the monastery. its bugles ring out the steely look in their eyes re- colours are farmers, craftsmen as a great fire leaps towards the calls the fact that never have students and professional men. sky. It is a huge pyre lit by the Czechs made peace with

runners their "conqueror." torches brought by

The biggest rush has been to join the R.A.F., which for a from that holy fire that burns in the sepulchros of Jerusalem.

fortnight hus had to close its recruiting offices. After only a It is burning in memory of

Most of the Free Frenchmen few weeks training those re- the tens of thousands that feil

in the Middle East are in Egypt, cruits have achieved the smart- for the Liberty of Poland.

but some are here. They are ness which is inseparable from Across the darkening plain more reticent than the French- the R.A.F.'s blue uniform.. comes the haunting melody of men one used to meet in France,

This camp, fire is symbolic of Poland's famous hymn of free- and they bear themselves with dom sung by thousands of a dignity born of a tremendous all other camp fires in Palestine, where Britons, Australians, New sadness. voices.

Zealanders, Rhodesians and Mr H. Charrington wishes to thank

Most of these Poles passed They utter the words, “La many others argue in a strange all friends for their messages of

a grimness as mixture of languages. condolence, floral tributes, and through the furnace of the patrie," with attendance during his receni Polish campaign of a year ago though the Fatherland and they

They exchange experiences, in and succeeded in reaching the have been gravely injured. They Black Sea const, sometimes in have not yet had the opportuni- love and other things, pass groups, sometimes singly, until ty to fight but everyone knows round their sweethearts' and they were able to form an when they come face to face children's photographs and, as Eastern brigade which eventual with the foe they will prove im soldiers have done from time immemorial, arrange meetings ly took up its headquarters in placable.

to be held when peace has been Syria.

One of them who knows Eng- declared. Almost every one of them has land and loves it quoted Macau- lay-"Delusion may triumph but his Odyssey.

the triumph of delusion is only

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

bereavement,

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

Monday, December 16, 1940. Wyndham St., Hongkong Telephone: 26015

THE prefix "Special to the Telegraph"

is used by the longkong Telegraph 10 indicate news which is strictly copyright

One he has an Irish ancestor for the day." under the provisions of the Telecommuni-passed through the German

cation: Ordinance, 13th Buch new **

bears the indication "U" is received in lines, thanks to the pass he had Hongkong on the date of publication by filched from the body of a dead the United Press Associations, who re-

serve all rights and forbid republications, spy. either wholly or in part without previous arrangement.

Spain's Unit

Men of Faith

The fate which has assembled in the Holy Land these men from Manchester and Cracow, from Melbourne and Bruno, has their The longest pilgrimage to this crystallised

unshakable camp of Liberty has been made determination and unshakable One, stripping.. the uniform by the smallest unit, that of the faith in the victory which is to from a dead Hussar, got near Spanish Republicans who left be Britain's. the German lines. Then he was DURING the spring and early able to disguise" himself as a summer Hitler's sweeping attacks on peasant woman, and it was his neutral and largely unprepared feminine "wink" that succeeded his final in getting him past the guards.

Crneles In Hitler's Armame

countries followed by "blitzkrieg" on France blinded the

world to the weak spots in his armour. The Polish Eagle

To-day these dents have become definite cracks. Having falled to carry his "conquest" of France to Britain's shores Hiller lost his golden opportunity, since which he has been turning this way and Ohnt in his efforts to administer Ü "knock-out blow" to the British.

not so victorious as he would have

-DUNKIRK

kirk will be spoken with reverence.

►

"SO LONG as the English tongue survives, the word Dun- For in that harbour, in such a hell as never blazed on earth before, at the end of a lost The Polish brigade left for battle, the rags and blemishes that have hidden the soul of Palestine when France capitu-democracy fell away. There, beaten but unconquered, in shin- lated. It includes Marshal Piling splendour, she faced the enemy. sudski's Legionnaires._and_the They sent away the wounded first. men died so that others pick of the youth of Poland. could escape. It was not so simple a thing as courage, which Tanned, friendly and smart, the Nazis had in plenty. It was not so simple a thing as dis- That Hitler'n march to Parts was Polish Eagle proudly displayed It was not the result of calful planning, for there could have they march along with the cipline, which can be hampered into men by a drill sergeant. been little. It was the cothmon man of the free countries, the world believe has since been upon their kapis-the broad-rising in all his glory out of mill, office, factory, mine, farm and

worn by the evidenced by the difficulties he has brimmed cap

ship, applying to war the lessons learned when he went down encountered in

with French Foreign Legion. negotiations

the shaft to bring out trapped comrades, when he hurled the Vichy-n fnel which is beginning to

This is not the first time the lifeboat through the surf, when he endured poverty and hard convince the whole of Europe that

Polish Eagle has been seen in work for his children's sake. these parts. Nearly 150 years ago Napoleon himself praised the valour of the Polish Legion- naires who played such a big part in his Eastern campaign

Brothers in Arms

General de Gaulle was right when he declared in his proclamation from London on November 9 that "France has lost a battle, but France has not lost the war!"

Not many weeks ago the world was

edified by the news that the German

Fuchter, dropping his role of dicta- tor, had decided to travel to Spain

This meeting round the camp- for the purpose of making a personal fire also emphasises the close- attempt to include that country in the Axis,

Spain's answer was plainness of the brotherhood in arms when Senor Suner, in collaboration of the many "Legions of Liber- with Sir Samuel Hoare, the British ty" gathered up and down the Ambassador, signed a financial agree Holy Land-many of whose re- ment with Britain. This may not

signify that Spain has definitely presentatives are guests of the turned her back on the Axis but it Polish Brigade to-night. certainly indicates that she is not suro

of Hitler's final victory in the war There are the Czechs, austere and therefore prefers to remain men whose sun-helmets bear the neutral for the time being. The symbol of the Lime leaf. Most Bulgarian king at the time of

Rumania's collapse went to see filter of them came from Syria after and for a few days observers feared the German occupation but some that he too was being drawn into the German net, But in the meantime. Prague's dual humiliation, Greece, which has always manfully and succeeded in escaping by rejected German propaganda and methods which even now cannot intrigue, showed the spirit of the be revealed. people by defying Italy to do her

worst. The subsequent successes of One of them was arrested ba- Greek arms probably had something cause ho raised his clenched to do with Búlgarlo's later statements

that above all things she desired to hand towards heaven as he stood maintain her neutrality. Whatever before the Czechoslovakian Un- the reason for his ignoble attack on known Warrior's tomb on the. Greece, 11 Duce misjudged the fight day of the invasion.

ing power of the Grecian army.

To-day na a result, reports declare

that Hitler is trying to persuado

Turkey to accept the role of media-attractive. The "conquered" coun- tor. The Grecian position, alded by tries in West Europe, while theore- the British navy, air forco and ifcally dominated by Germany, are materials 15, however, sufficiently beginning to show Increasing courage favourable to

all and temerity in their opposition to repudiate

such attempts. It would so... bo German rule. It was only last week dangerous to talk "pence" at this that German troops stationed in stage as Mussolini, oven If an armis Norway had to be put on a war foot- tice were declared, would have the ing because of hostile nets. It is also time he badly needs, in which to known throughout Holland that some Tepair his losses.

B00 of her erstwhile leading adminis- trators are imprisoned in German. Whatever. Greece decides to do, concentration camps, while Belgium Hiller's armour shows signs of fur- and France are not foring much thor cracks, › Russia is not, proving better. As for Poland, the altuation sa amenable in regard to Japan as | is reported to ba horrible beyond Germany had hoped... It fuss!" con- description. Each country, although tinues her ald to China as she has submilling to German domination, le ¡ declared she will, Japan must retain a seething caldron of discontent and strong force in Manchuria, thus cannot but op Hitler's military making the long promised drive strength. A fast which he must * southwards more hazardous and lets recogolpe with some trepidation ve

This shining thing in the souls of free men-Hitler cannot command, or attain, or conquer. He has crushed it, where he could, from German hearts.

It is the great tradition of democracy. It is the future. It is Victory."

Reproduced from "The New York Times,"

FUNNY SIDE UP

By Abner Dean

"All; I wanted was a frao physical · oxamination..⠀

positiva they'd find SOMETHING wron

WEB:

The Duke of The most de

mocratic of Windsor British royal personages of the twentieth cen-

also probably the most dis- tinguished of Britons for all- round, universal popularity. There is hardly a place where his name is known that he is not fondly regarded with the friendliest affection, and no- where outside of the Empire is this moro true than in the United States. On his visita to the great American Republic as the Prince of Wales, Edward early carved for himself a niche in American hearts, and a very sure testimony of the love which Americans feel for him may be found in the remark made by a Middle Weat farmer, who said, after he mot him, **"Taint bad if these United States had some Prince feller jest like him!"

of

It is the name of the Duke of Windsor that springs most readily to mind when I think of the most happy cholce Mr Churchil van muke for Ambassador in the position of Washington, left vacant with such sudden untimeliness by the death of Lord Lothian. There is not a single doubt that at this most important of times,

and when

a new era Anglo-American co-operation

Into being, Britain should have a representative at Washington who f

is not only well-liked but who can be trusted" Implicitly for what- ever he dues by the American in of life. Lord Lothian was such a man, and fulfilled the highest expectations once of amerl- ile earned the confidence

coming

every walk

cans because of his natural simpli- city of

heart, hig disdain of the diplomatic tradition of mystery and Intrigue, and his common touch." Britain must select someone to re- place him who enn, in the same way.

right home American.

renga

to the individual

There may be other eminent men, suited to be Ambassador, who have even greater training and experience for the work than the Duke of Wind- sor, but there cannot be one who, -if-appointed, will be Instantly „ac- cepled with such spontaneous good- will.

I have three reasons for favouring the Duke: firstly, for his own_per- sonal popularity; secondly, for the fact that he is married to an Ameri- can, and thirdly, for the fact that

on appointment wo

would be B means of placing Great Britain back in the good books of those. Ameri- felt

such

cans who, rightly or alter

of

that their country had because Edward had to abdicate on account of his American wife

The Prime Minister, who is one

the Duke's

staunchest friends, must certainly be nequainted with all the factors, and it may be sure that his choice, whatever it may be, will not have been made without con- sideration of these factors.

It was Lord · Lo- The Filmsthian

who WAR Do Their quoted as saying Bit

that Hollywood is playing its part in maintaining British morale. The cinema, in these times when nations are struggling for their national existence, is certainly a welcome relief from terrifying. experiences.

Britain Is receiving more Ameri- cun flims than for many years since the quota system went into force, but European countries sadly miss them,

those especially

countrics whose populace must be kept satisfied and mentally keyed, to the war, cf- forl

The radio in Germany and Italy is not a vehicle for entertainment but for propaganda, and cannot tako place of the films. In Britain, now, the radio must also largely ba cupled with war news, warnings and oficial advice, though a great deal of pure, delightful entertainment is at being provided. So even "horse opera" and thriller serials are doing their bit in the fight of free peoples against totalitarian tyranny, "To Whot

Your

Whistlo'

had always imagined that. the phrase "to whet your whistle" dated

probably from Harry Weldon or one of the North Country come dians, But here it is bobbing up in the soventeenth century. Izaak Walton's "Piscator" «ro- marks, “Let's s'en say grace, and turn to the fire, drink the other cup to whet our whistles, and so aing away, all sad thoughts."

Incidentally-I-had-always-thought- the phrase was "to wet your whia- tie."

had never read Walton. It seems to me the perfect, book, for, thero days, with no apologies to the consumato asses and dolts who call anything but a wordid, "realistic” novel, or a treatise on local, govern- ment boards, "the Hteratura escope."

Claudius

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