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HITLER'S SPEECH
INVASION BRITAIN
THE DOG AND THE SHADOW
IS THE WAR-TIME ENGLISH WOMAN
ENIGMATIC?
by
THE senses of the German people served to me that it was have, we know, been dulled by the symbolical of modern Eng- SIRDAR never-ceasing blure of the Nazi pro-land. paganda. broadcasts; bui even D nntion suffering from fi state of intellectual semi coma must surely had witnessed a similar dis- begin to wonder when their lord and play performed by German]
master is going to find something to
During his Berlin visit he
sary more attractive and more coni-youths, which he regarded pelling than the relteration of ten-as the sign of Nazi expres- year-old bleatings. Hitler this week sion.,
without even the embellishment of
-the United States, threatched-invasion-
World Order.
clearly encourage him to continue
IKBAL
ALI SHAH, the well-known Muslim author babies", and dangers to the life
sons and daughters in regard to
of
secured
by
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Who Won the Election?
By J. Roscoe Drummond
All right, who did win the' election?
This question is still being asked in Washington; at least it is still being answered and the ultimate answer may not be as obvious is it seems. The evidence is still coming in.
Now, left-wing New Dealera, from early in the morning until p.m., are continuing to have no end of fun retorting to remarks about national unity with the simple formula: "The President won, didn't he? Rally 'round!.. Let's push on."
Of course, President Roose. velt won a salient and significant victory and the Presidency de- serves not only the loyalty of the governed bul the goodwill of the governed.
But events in Washington are beginning to clarify another im- portant fact-the fact that Pre- sident Roosevelt was not the only one who won the election; that there was another winner, that that other winner was Con- gress, and that the same Ameri- can people who put. Mr Roosevelt In the White House for one pur-. pose," elected a Congress to achieve, in part at least, a dif- ferent purpose.
In a word, Congress won the election, too; and there is de- veloping evidence that Congress is construing its own mandate
* in its own way.
The evidence is that, despite Mr Roosevelt's own personal third-term triumph, the new Congress will prove itself as in- dependent of the President as it has been the past two years during which it has passed not a single item of major New Deal legislation.
The evidence ls that, despite the fact Mr Roosevelt helped the. Demo- cratic Party radically to reverse the trend which showed Republican strongly, in 1838 and to retain over- control of both whelming nominal House and Senate, the new Congress will be more dotermined. than ever to insist upon its co-ordinate respon sibility in the Federal Government.
The shape of Congressional things
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line.. The New Congress, In Its main figures and forces, is little changed and, therefore, the developments on Capitol Hill of recent days are of bath present and prophetic sign- fence,
The decision of Congress to remain in session against the picas
of the Administration leaders to been mostly a gesture but it was a adjourn was the tip-off. It may have meaningful gesture. It meant that decisions. It meant that the Demo- Congress was going to make its own cratic majority had let the ink dry on the rubber stamp. responsive to public opinion.
* *
The action
There was more to come. It came.
The Senate's unexpected passage of the Logan-Waller bill applying judi-
When in the company of be left undiscussed here. One are great facilities for fumale bears the indication "Up" is received in an Oriental potentate re-thing, however, is patent that education in England to-day the infant mortality in this which enable these girls to be- Hongkong on the date of publication by cently, I was watching country has been reduced by an come "secretaries" in offices, serve all rights and forbid republications, physical exercises being skil- enormous degree, and Infant and thus a degree of economic
fully accomplished by the Welfare centres have greatly independence is
in "rearing bonnie them, yet marriage is still the English women members of assisted
"best profession" even for the the Health and Beauty
most modern young English wo- man, because between the ages movement, the Sheikh ob-
of 21 and 24 the decline in that
employment entegory sharply marked. Only 65 per cent. in place of 80 per cent. of that class are in the office ser- vices. As often as not married young women are not employed in certain offices because it is contended that "their support is their husbands", and they ought to give place to unmarried wo- primised his people "a message'; he His comparison was signi- of mothers ut child-birth are so men, thus reducing a possible to come is already revealing its out- gave them the same old rantings ficant when he said, "in rare that they might be said to pressure on unemployment.
* the be non-existent. England they train new phraseology. ile roved ut
Also perhaps a smaller num-
Beside entering the several in Gerber of children in a family helps liberal England; blamed us for the continus-mothers-to-be
professions-medicine, tion of the war (of course, too, we many the would-be fathers". in bringing about a closer com-aw and the like-women in started it), cursed Jewry, "warned ' He was favourably dis-panionship between the children these islands have also gone in and the destruction of the Writish posed towards the female and their parents. Greater at for national and municipal Isles and her Empire; promised a new training, because he thought tention can be given to fewer politics. Since 1918, when the that as "woman is the their education than to such right to vote was granted to wo- of women have entered Parlin Not a single point was Impressive. mother of man", the future large numbers upon which their men in this country, a number Hitler may be the world's best, tub-generation of a race had Victorian relatives prided them-ment; whilst in various public thumper: but tub-thumpera are not better to grow up in the selves.
Both the industrial pheno-bodies such as County Councils, expected to produce results, whereas
which administer local govern ilitler must, or he will be for the laps of well-trained mothers, mena and the smallness of the
not an insignificant number hold high Jump from his own people. rather than be reared by numbers in a family has brought ments throughout Great Britain, Hitler has, it must be admitted, pro- more robust fathers who had about a change in the method of seats, Women have also held duced sente impressive results which so little time from bread-the present day English wo-office in the government of the
country. thing. she has no use for large his tub-thumping; yet fear is plainly winning occupations under man's mode of life. For one
vogue: The helping hand which the women discernible belting fin coarse bravado, the strain of the present houses, flats are in
which due to shortage of ser-had been lending during peace time This is shown by the fact that he is day European life.
wants can generally be managed had been extended energetically and whole-heartedly during the war. Its with the aid of a daily help history begins with the Great War of people about the causes of this war The observation is hot com- Econornic and social conditions 1941, when thousands of women (she likes to believe them) that the effects. His new World Order mon-place; also it does tend to which surrounds a middle-class volunteers were enrolled us
to-day have Haries, as clerks, orderles, nurses. is even more nebulous than Japan's reveal a hidden-hidden at least English womun
cocks, bakers, post-office workers and New Order in East Asin; it has nu to an average Oriental-facet of made her generally much more and they saw service in the majority alliance between Democratie appeal to the intelligence, only to the English national life, and it skilful in cooking and house helds of Flanders. "Without the afd emotional; it hangs on the word of a is the astonishing degree of management than possildy was of women it would have been Im-independence of the Democratic bloc man who would destroy overnight support which the women of her grandmother, who left much possible to
years ago. anything he had bullt up, for the England have been giving to of her cooking and house work Minister of Munitions twenty or more their man-folk to build a solid to easily procurable woman ger- purpose, of self-aggrandisement.
This, however, was not the most national structure not only in vants.
broke out the striking feature of Hitler's speech. regard to the up-bringing of to
comradeship between the two sexes The scarcity of domestic ser-was quickly revived; with the con- Careful reading reveals an undertone day's young men whom they of uncertainty; he wants to attack nursed twenty years ago, but England-knows that he must sooner also themselves entering into vants in this country is largely sequence that the Women's Auxiliary monly known as Wanes, swiftly came or later if he is not to find himself in the several avenues of public due to the preference which Army Corps of the last war, com a position from where retreat and service and life of their coun- most modern English girls have into being as the Auxillary Corps of wariness of Congress
for factory or office labour than Territorial Army, and with a fort- the movement to set up a joint defeat awaits him-but he is by no try.
In order fully to appreciate an the drudgery of dish-washing night's training went straight to Senate-House committee which will erve. The same kind of auxillary give continuous scrutiny to defenen means certain how to go about it; so he talks airly about his sub- English woman's place in Eng. and sweeping the house. Then serve.
the ulr force.
Congress is on its own; Congress la marines resuming their warfare in land's war effort, one ought there is a draw to the cities and corps were attached to the navy and progress and defence expenditures.
thousands girls come on the watch. collaboration with his Luftwaffe and really to acquaint oneself with towns from the country areas;
but-modern military is so because town at- forward for firm and agricultural Women's Land sclence--the science which generals have created-makes this ing: that is in her home en-tractions, the lure of the shop work, styled the theory nothing but wishful thinking. vironments, in the surroundings windows, the cinema, and the labour throughout the countryside. Hitler has first to destroy the British of her factory or office if she thousand and one distractions Then there are the nurses for the last but not the least is their work as navy: then to destroy the British air has to earn a living, and finally which are considered "n curse" hospitals and air casunity posts; and
ule-enld wardens. force; finally
home Dom to in the larger spheres of political by most and blessings by the suficient
rest.
Whatever the reason of the and gain the upper hand. life.
The part which each of this section To
"draw" to the town life, it cer- of services has played during the stroke is impossible, even in this
basis of Inasmuch as the birth rate in tainly is definite, for nearly 80 war-effort in this country, makes me war where so many impossible things have been made possible. And it is England is one of the lowest in per cent. of English girls be realise again that my Orientul friend he this knowledge, plus the realisation that the longer he delays action the the world, the size of an Eng-tween the ages of eighteen and was right in what he had said that leadership on issues more polent becomes his adversary lish family has considerably twenty are working for their when mothers of a nation are trained, to the war. It can mean that on war, public opinion has expressed its and the greater becomes U.S. aid to diminished in numbers since living-mostly in the offices-to they in turn can train the future issues primarily unrelated to the Britain, that gave to Hitler's speech the beginning of this century, the extent that only two and a fathers, heavy, weight-llliing sentiment, its direction, in the Con-
generation, belter this week nn undertone which belled
man is the mother of the bravado of his words. One re- Whether this is the index of in-half per cent. of typists in Great "plants. How true, Indeed, is the press it elected to office.
dent action in London to Hitler's threat to tensive industrial competition, Britain are men or boys, the taying that "woman
mothers who themselves can shoulder invade and destroy England was that or raising the standard of living rest are all girls of the above an", and greater is the glory of such the remark marely became a wet in a machine-controlled civilian mentioned age.
the man's job in a struggle sucli as xquiban apt and truthful description of West; or again whether It is interesting, however, to faces this country! Or is the Engilsh tion. The German nation, it seems, it is a good or a bad sign may note that even although there woman in enigma?
still more concerned in telling his
numbers to enable them to
Consolidacomplish this at onu fell
Jin stil to discover its truth,
When this
nuxi-
win the war"--said a
than
cial restrictions to the Federal re- gulatory agencies-unliked by the Administration - and the decisive vote in
in the House approving Senate Kress to be following its own judg- changes in the measure, showed Con- ment, its own Interpretation of the "mandate" of the election.
The most significant element ini these and other decisions by Congress ls the renewal of the recurring
and Republican Congressmen. The
Loo
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su soon after the President's notable victory is
is so unusual as to suggest that it.
of public expressive opinion
ns a whole and will continue exercise a major influence, The tonor of Congressional opinion
to
of the
Is also apparent in its initiative to enforce a faithful Federal budget apart
gency-defence dependence
The further
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But does this men that there in in the making a deep and diverging elected tho
by people, and a Con rift between a President, decisively
by gress, decisively elected
the people? Not necessarily: con mean something quite different.
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the cun mean that because sident sought third term on the
the emergency.
it
Pre-
of the war,
was elected to exorcisa · his primarily related
Prezent evidence is that the Preal- will be dominant in foreign polley; that Congress will be domin- ant in domosile policy.
Both won the election,From the "Christian Science Monitor,"
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