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JAPANESE MANOEUVRES

THE Japanese operation in Honan and Hupeh, the manoeu- vre in southeastern Kwangtung, and the reported despatch of further troops to Saigon auggest an urgent desire on the part of the military leaders to take the sting out of Mr Matsuoka's re- cent admission of difficulties in the China campaign, rather than being an integral part of a carefully planned objective. The three movements may contain significant pointers, but these

ure not obvious.

PRIVATE LIFÉ

OF A PRIVATE

Spit

And

Polish

Further extracts from

the diary of a journalist who is now a soldier.

THE THE man they call Meanie

looks up from a brown belt which ho has just taken to pieces, and Bays: "Can some- body lend me a dab of polish?"

The Man from Yorkshire says "No." The Kid from Widnes sticks out his lower lip and saya "Hal" Old Silence, throws over his tin and says nothing.

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"Come Christmas," едув Ginger, we'll whip round and buy you a tin."

"Spit an' polish!" says the Lad from the Elephant. "What I mean to say, we come 'ero 'to fight, not do blinkin' 'ousework. See?'"*

"My boots is that greasy,* says the Man from Leicester.

"Greasy!" says the Lad from the Elephant. "I've used up three tins of polish on this pair already, and stone me blind, if I 'ad a brace an' bit. I could bore a 'ole and run-qut a pailful o' ruddy grenso,"

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"Ah," says the Man from Leicester. "Look at what you've got to do. Just look. Get both pair of boots like patent leather.

February 6, 1941.

HAMM—AND EGGS

(Our Bombers successfully attacked marshølling yards at Hamm--official communiqué almost any day.)

Shake

Up Our Diplomats!

And the boots is full of grease,HIS is a total war. It is a SEEM TO MATTER VERY like yow says. Cap-badge has military war and a naval MUCH. THEY JUST GO ON,

got to sparkle till it nigh blinds

YOW...

"So's you're belt-buckles and all them twiddly bits of brass on them leggings, that pack, an that bloomin' great sackful o straps in webbing.

"Everything's got to be like a jewellery shop winder. And that rolle! Blimey, that roifle!

war and an air war and an GOOD OR BAD. economic war-and a diploma- tic war,

They never get thoroughly shaken up. They very rarely Hitler uses diplomacy as one get removed, however inefficient of his chief weapons. Ribben- they are. trop is with him as much as. How often does an Ambaase- Kictel. His diplomatic offen- sives are more frequent than his dor or Minister get a thorough good wigging from the Secretary military offensives.

of State?

R.A.F.

By

W. N. EWER

®

A British Minister may (this is no exaggeration) have a staff, We have to fight his diplo "Sergeant says, Yow're roifle's macy with our diplomacy. Our

It is all too easy-going, all of a dozen, while his German too slipshod.

rival has nearly a hundred. you're best friend. Well, diplomatic service is just as reckon it's you're worst enemy, much a vital war service as the If we had run the fighting And the German, too, will the way it gets yow into trou- Army or the Navy or the services in the same happy-go have the services of perhaps a ble."

lucky way.

Hitler would be score of "newspaper correspon- And the plain but unpleasant dining in Buckingham Palace dents" who send curiously little news to their papers but who this evening. vice is nowhere near as efficient

call regularly every morning at fact is that our diplomatic ser-

The root of the whole trouble the Embassy. is that the service is still hag- ridden by nineteenth century traditions.

The Lad from the Elephant says, "You want a whole day to what I mean, to get ready for do your shining in, if you get the next day. It'd be okay by me if you didn't 'ave to sleep at night."

as it should be.

́DRAWBACKS

He may have at his call also a score of business representa- tives who seem to do curiously

It needs, and should have, a swift and thorough reorganisa- tion, for, as it is, it simply is I don't mean the "old school little business. not up to its job.

tle" tradition. There is quite a _lot_of_about: although it is.mere The upehot of it all is that burlesque to allege that the men from almost all countries the Certainly that job has been a in the Foreign Office and the German Foreign Office is get- In continental Embassies and the Legations ting for fuller and far better difficult Europe above all, in Eastern are all a lot of monocled snobs. information about things that matter than our Foreign Office Europe-Germany has the great

MODERNISE IT! secures.. advantage of her geographical

The Nazis see to it that their position."

There are very few of that men are efficient; they see to it She can back her diplomacy type. There are far more con- that they are well staffed. They with the menace of big armies, scientious officials some able, have their diplomatic eyes and

one.

We cannot do. that. Once them very hard, for pretty poor

aome not-working, many of ears everywhere.

years ago, during an "ArmenianTM crisis," Lord Salisbury said of a

tion:- critic who was calling for ac-

pay.

The Good Soldier Phillips says: "Nark it. You don't It is difficult to appreciate know what spit and polish precisely what the Japanese ex-means, you don't. Once you've pect to accomplish in the latest got a good groundwerk on your Honan venture,

boots, you can shine 'em in ten except that carefully phrased official com- brasses, too.

minutes. That goes for your muniques on the action may go "What're you grousing about? a long way towards justifying, What've you got to clean? Your in the eyes of the Japanese rifle. All right. You'll need to public, the continued existence keep that clean, to save your of huge invading armies in

own ruddy lives. China. What does remain in- contestable is the fact that the

They work hard and spend lavishly to spread German in-. Japanese are finding it neces- "Apart from that, what?

But the whole system has fluence and German propagan- sary to indulge in such a wide You're in battle dress now: well.

never been overhauled and mo- da. spread offensive in an area brass on your-gaiters, a badge, that means cight little bits.o'

dernised.

They have realised the im- which they are supposed to have and two little buttons on your

Of course, there have been re- portance of the diplomatic wea- had under their control for two cap. That's nothing.

forms the institution of com- pon and the importance of sec- years. It gives new emphasis "I admit there's a bit o'

mercial attaches and secretaries ing that it is a hundred per cent. That is true enough. The and counsellors and of Press at- efficient. to the oft-repented Chinese Blanco-ing to do on your web-

We do not. We make blunder claim, (several times supported

bing, but you don't do your packs fleet can chase the Italians off taches, for example. Still, the

the Mediterranean: but, it can- diplomatic side goes on pretty after blunder for sheer lack of by neutral observers), that the

every day, do you?

much in the old way. "What d'you want? Ruddy not sail up the Danube. Japanese are incapable of con- batmen to do it for you? Char- Said a British Minister in one and again the Foreign Minister

An Ambassador will see now IN THE DARK trolling areas beyond the rail women running after you, or of those countries recently:-- way lines and the main roads, something? Is this offensive too, the mill- tarists' method of carrying out Mr Matsuoka's desire for "paci- fying" the Chinese farmers?

"What does he want me to do? Send the Channel Fleet to Lake Van?".

information.

"My German colleague has a or the Prime Minister of the We are taken by surprise be "Say you was in the cavalry hundred arguments he can use credited. He will move about in dark. and had to polish a ruddy horse with the Minister of Foreign Government eircles.

Government to which he is ac- cause we are working in the

before breakfast. Eh? You've Affairs, which I have not. They

We lose opportunity after op- got to keep yourselves clean. are a hundred divisions of in- Some of his junior staff, es- portunity through sheer lack of pecially the keener ones, will drive, through using the easy- fantry in or near the Danube make other "contacts" and do going methods of the old world. valley."

Ain't you got no self-respect?. in tripe? With baggy breeches "Do you want to walk about and rusty rifles?

Shine!"

The southeastern Kwangtung en

what they can to get useful in- amid the tempo of the new, ragement has, perhaps, more point

That also is true enough. But formation and to put our case. We shall go on fighting Ger- to it. The Japanese declare that the

"You're given equipment: you it is only part of the story.

But there is nothing like many in the diplomatic field with road from Shayuchung to Walchow

enough of it. Zenl is not one hand tied behind our back. has now become ever more import- got to keep it in good order,

The other part is that Ger- enough encouraged. Lassitude until our whole, diplomatic aor- ant than the Burma highway for the Because if it ain't clean, it's

man diplomacy everywhere has is not enough rebuked.

vice from top to bottom is, transporting of materials to Free tripey equipment. See7

Rarely, as I say, does an Am- shaken up and weeded out and China, and the avowed purpose of parade if you want to go to the

"So get on with the shiningbeen more netive, more vigor-

more painstaking than bassador get told off for sending overhauled and made to under- the latest mancouvre, which con-

"N.A.A.F.I._to-night. Go on! ours,

Infrequent or inadequate re- stand what is wanted of it in stitutes a pincer movement from the

I do not want to criticise in- ports. He may easily get a re- the new conditions. Watchow area and the Hongkong

"Excuse me," says Meanic to dividuals: to suggest that this minder that he is spending too border, is to stop the alleged traffic.

mind British Ambassador has been a The peculiar feature about the whole his neighbour. "D'you

much money on telegrams. thing is, however, that this smuggling spitting on these boots for me? total failure, that one not so

I been eating toffee.". was ever allowed to attain such pro- portions. One answer is suggested by the fact that entirely fresh troops are being employed in this clean-up: time will show how effectively the new broom swcaps.

"First 'e borrera polish, Now 'e borrows spit," says the Lud from the Elephant.

badka

STARVED

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We must have good men and enough of them to do the job. And wo shall not have an ef fielent diplomatic service until They are officials and can't One answer, indeed, which (among other things) we

prepared to pay for it. answer back. And discussing charge of inefficiency is that the the diplomats can make to a Individuals isn't vory edifying service is starved.

IT IS A BIG JOB, AND or profitable, anyway,

"EASY ONE. BUT IT HAS.. pedition, is based on ulterior motives.

Its importance has never been GOT TO BE DONE AND The strategical Importance of Wal- it is possible important materials ara THERE ARE GOOD MEN IN properly realised. 'In the old WITHOUT DELAY—IF WE chow vis-a-vis the Kwangtung-geiting Into Free China vin Kwang- THE SERVICE. THERE ARE conditions small staff was ARE - NOT. TO ... BE RE- Hongkong border is well known, but ung, and from a purely militaristic MEN WHO ARE NOT MUCH quite sufficient. Staffs remain PEATEDLY OUTMAN- there is nothing to indicate at the surprising it the Japanese had taken BLE IS THAT IT DOES NOT changed.

viewpoint, it would not have been USE AT ALL.. THE TROU. small though conditions have OEUVRED BY RIBBEN moment that the Intest Japanese ex-'action before..

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