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DEATH

January 4, 1941.

ROBERT. NEVILLE, Foreign Editor of the famous New York paper "PM

who is now

יי

in Hongkong, has written the accompanying article specially for the "Telegraph.“ It reveals in vivid phrases the real attitude

of the United States towards the

war.

ON my recent visit to Chung- anything (within reason) that I king I discovered that Dr. Holling would write, I hastily accepted. It ton Tong, chief glad-hander of Frec also explains why I quickly decided not to write about the rice situation China, was assigned by the Generalissimo to welcome to the whether Manuel Quezon wants in- in Szechwan (which is bad) or Chinese capital two classes of visi- dependence (which he doesn't), but tors: foreign missionaries and instead decided to do some badly inclined to think this an odd com- ing, of all things, America and the foreign journalists. At first I was needed missionary work in explain- bination, something like oil and war.

water, but later on I came to accept I feel deeply that neither Mr Roose- it as the most natural thing in the velt nor Mr Hull has been quite clear world that Dr Tong should invite or sufciently indiscreet in defining American policy toward the conflicts both newspapermen and mission now raging practically all the way from aries to his excellent breakfasts of Yap to. Ulster. I think I can clear up waffles and sausages, or that in a few points. arranging interview with Cabinet

ministers, Kuomintang officials and ONE must remember that for years important generals he should send we Americans have viewed with alarm the tendency of our diplomats abroad both a reporter and a clergyman to go European. Send a middle-wes- over for joint question-asking. terner to Berlin, for instance, and be-

"S" to look like a swastika. Give a

All in all, I came to regard Dr fore long he will be writing a capital Tong, a fellow alumnus of Colum southerner 'a post in Paris and he will bia University, as something of a soon acquire the habit of sitting in pioneer in recognising the very open-air cafes, drinking champagne STOKES-At the Matilda Hospital special relationship between the ind sporting Legion of Honour decorn- Funeral will pass the Monument papers and spreading the gospel. I is certain to start week-ending with years professions of writing for news- tions in his lapel. Let a corn-fed cannot speak for the missionaries, lords and ladies and, horror of horrors, but I can say that there is not a he will soon be turning up at St James's good journalist under the sun who Palace in knee breeches. Let me add,

on January 3, 1941, Walter James Stokes, nged 78

at 5 pan, to-day.

The

Missourian proceed to London and he

Hongkong Telegraph. would not like to have a pulpit from incidentally, that it now worried us

Saturday, January 4, 1941, Wyndham St., Hongkong Telephone: 28015

THE prex "Special to the Telegraph"

is used by the tangkeng Telegraph' to

which he could periodically set for one minute that our American Am- bassadors were frequently mistaken for people right on questions which, to head waiters. him, are terribly important.

All this may seem trivial to Euro-

This all too frequently sup- peans, but to us it was the very essence indicate news whlelz is strictly copyright pressed longing explains, indeed, of the reason why, in the dark halls of under Use provisions of the Telecommuni- why, when the editor of the "Tele- invariably outwitted. Now Mr Roose- tangled Old World diplomacy, we were bears the indication Up" I received in graph" recklessly offered to print velt is much more a'man of the world

cations Ordinance, 1936. Such new

Hongkong on the date of by the United Press Associations, who ro serve all rights and farbid repúblications, either wholly or in part without previous

cangement.

HITLER'S DILEMMA

HITLER appears to be in- dulging in another change of strategy probably more 91- forced than voluntary. Since his partner Mussolini has suf- fered reverse after reverse in the Greece campaign and shocking setback in the Middle East, Hitler is bound to regard the position of the Axis in the Mediterranean with profound misgiving. In fact, it has, become imperative for him -to-make-some-big-effort to resuscitate his causé in this theatre of the war. Hence the decision to afford Italy the as- sistance of part of his air force, with the simultaneously with- drawal of Italian' machines from the west in order to make the effort 113 concentrated and powerful as possible.

The Axis has three tremend- ous problems to face; how to stage an invasion of Britain: how to gain redress in the Mediterranean; and how to bring gallant little Greece to her knees. Germany is undeniably powerful, but it is inconceivable that she believes herself, even with the assistance of Italy, capable, of tackling these three issues simultaneously. Unless the transfer of German planes to Italy and the concentration of troops in the Balkans is a feint, it would seem that Hitler Kay decided once again to turn his attention from that all-engross-

America

To

Learns

How

Non-Intervene!

त

The author-Robert Nevilla

than any of his recent predecessors, played and the Star-Spangled and he some years ago began to change Banner sung. If America were a few things. Our State Department to drop non-intervention and began to study the art of polite lying adopt war as a policy, I would Our diplomats took courses in plotting and intriguing. They picked

advise Britons to be cautious. pointers here and there, but I think about dancing in the streets. that undoubtedly the soundest lesson They might come to regret it. -they-learned-was-in-London, at the time

up

the famous Non-Intervention Commit-

tee was holding its long and stormy

We Americans are impetuous

session. This committee, in which about cure-alls and after this America was fortunately not re-war there is simply no predict- presented, was a body especially de-ing what we might want to do signed to allow Germany and Italy to to Europe. The last time self-de. non-intervene in Spain to the extent of termination of peoples was go- hundreds of aeroplanes and thousandsį

of troops for the Franco side. Its ling to solve everything. That bours were undoubtedly the most having so shockingly failed, we notable achievement in diplomatic would in all probability this double-entendre since Tallyrand. time do something very drastic, I could imagine, for example,

I have no personal knowledge, but our deciding that what gets I believe that the impact of the Non-Europe into such an unholy intervention Committee's work on

American diplomacy must have been mess every 25 yours is wine. It enormous. Witness, for example, U.S. is possible that we might figure policy to-day. The other day I had to out that there were too many correct n British friend who referred languages in Europe and decree to Americans as neutrals. Someone universal Esperanto. It is even else called us non-belligerents conceivable that we would ex- which is more nearly, accurate but still not quite exact. The "ham-and-cggs" plan of pre- periment with California's truth is, of course, that we are senting everybody with $30 strict non-interventionists-a; la Germany and Italy in the Townsend's of giving all over 60 every Thursday, or with Dr. Spanish Civil War.

LETTERS

ing, but formidable proposition Universal Week of Prayer out the world, at any, or all of these of invading Britain,

The signs are that the Nazi dicta- To the Editor,

tor is far from happy about his posi-

The "Hongkong Telegraph.”

tion at the moment. The conquest

wildest Imagination. Then come the

times.

a cheque for $200 every month,

Do the Allies need more nero-We might order the French to planes? Then We will

plough up every other row of taken when on Thursday the 8th and intervene by selling all we can lians to double their consump- champagne grapes or the Ita-

Further stops towards unity will be

are invited to share In the Commun-

non-

of France promised him unexpected Sir,I wonder if we might have Sunday the 12th, all Christian people spare. Does Britain desire des-tion of spaghetti. We are capa- and boundless possibilities; he found the courtesy of your columns to lon Services which will follow im-troyers? Then we will non-ble of an infinite variety of dan-. himself in a position to believe in a bring to the notice of your many mediately after the Service of Prayer intervene with 50 of them. Does gerous solutions. Cele und been beyond his posters and pamphlets dealing with

victory within a period that readers who may not have seen the and the United Service, respectively. China need money? We will

Further details concerning the make a non-intervention loan the British expressing gratitude Every once in a while I hear extraordinary work of the Royal Air the matter, that the Universal Week Universal Week of Prayer may be had Force to thwart him: later the

of Prayer will begin on Monday, from the posters displayed at the of $100,000,000 or

We for America's help in the war. of the Italian expedition to

January 6, and continue until Sunday, Star Forries, Peak Tram stations, and are now apparently on the I hate to hear it. The U. 3. A. still inter a growing hosulity and opposition

from men In France whom January 12. Each evening of this business premises in the city, to all

of non-intervening is definitely not an altruistic na- he thought had had completely under week, brief services of prayer, lasting of whom we are grateful for this threshold

with leases of war material, tion to-day.. Mr Roosevelt is his control; then the brilliant British approximately half an hour, will be

nothing if not a bellover in the campaign

It is, perhaps, scarcely necessary to Later wp may decide to non-quid pro quo, and for that most Egypt in

almost | held in St John's Cathedral, at 5.30 which overnight, destroyed the Axis dream p.m. i..

stress the need of human penitenco intervene with some of our Americans are rather proud of of triumph in the Middle East.

and divine intercession at a moment Hitler is still in a position which

measure of publicity,

co-

On Sunday, January 12 a combined in history such as this, so it is with Navy or oven our nir force him. There is even some talk. the conndence that we shall have a Non-intervention, we feel, is in the U.S. of building an operation in understanding and exactly the right answer to our American Empire. Your cor the consideration of all who have present-day diplomatic needs.

respondent, who fervently hopes the world's true waifare 'at heart.

that all such loose conversation

allows him to take the initiative; eher of Hongkong and howloon wt but he has no longer a single pur- be held in the English Methodist pose; neither is his dilemuna a self- Church, Queen's Road East, Hong imposed one. - He is not likely to stake all on a

successful Medlog, at 0.30 pm. terranean offensive; on the other hand he cannot, under any circums

tances, afford to sustain defeat in this theatre, for then would his hopes of an occupation of Britain be com- pletely obliterated,

These services will be conducted by clergymen of the various non-Roman

I remember that when we will die out, nevertheless does On behalf of the various non-came into the last war there not need to draw diagrams to churches of the Colony, and we car- Roman Churches of Hongkong and was a big thanksgiving service show how that might affect the

dially invite all who believe in the Kowloon. Power of prayer, to unite with us and all our fellow-Christians through-

J. L. WILSON, E. MORETON.

at St Paul's in London, at which setting-sun situation over the Ithe Stars and Stripes were dis- British Empire.