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PRIVATE LIFE

February 6, 1941.

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Polish

Further extracts; from the diary of a journalist who is now a soldier.

THE man they call Meanie Tlooks up from a brown belt which he has just taken to pieces, and says: "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 says. "Hal" Old Silence throws over his tin and says nothing.

says

"Come. Christmas," Ginger, "wo'll Whip round and buy you a tin."

"Spit an' polish!" says the Lad from the Elephant. "What 'I mean to say, we come 'ere 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 nd a bruco an' bit. I could bore n 'ole and run out a pailful o' ruddy grease."

☆ ☆

"Ah," says the Man from Leicester. "Look at what you've

THE prefix "Special to the Telegraph" got to do. Just look. Get both is used by the longkong Telegraph to pair o' boots like palent leather.

indicate news which is strictly copyright

under the provisions of the Telecommun-And the boots is full of grease, cations Ordinance, 1010 Such Bows like yow says. Cap-badge has

bears the indication "UK" 11 received in

Hongkong on the date of publication by got to sparkle till it nigh blinds

YOW.

the "Unlữd Press Associations, who res serve all rights and forbid republications, either wholly or in part wout previous Arrangement.

JAPANESE MANOEUVRES

"So'a you're belt-backles and all them twiddly bits o' 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 roifle! Blimey, that roifle!

HAMM-AND

EGGS

(Our bombers successfully attacked marsholling yards at Hamm-ofetal communiqué almost any day

Shake Up Our

Diplomats!

THIS is a total war. It is a SEEM TO MATTER VERY military war and a naval MUCH. THEY JUST GO ON,

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 Ambassa- Kietel. His diplomatic offen-. sives are more frequent than his dor or Minister get a thorough good wigging from the Secretary military offensives,

of State?

We have to fight his diplo-

"Sergeant says. Yow're roifle's macy with our diplomacy. Our too slipshod. yow're best friend. Well, Idiplomatic service is just as reckon it's you're worst enemy, much à vital war service as the

or the Navy the way, it gets yow into trou- Army or ble."

R.A.F.

says:

THE Japanese operation in Honan and Ilupeh, the manocu- vre in southeastern Kwangtung, and the reported despatch of further troops to Saigon suggest 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 Lad from the Elephant the China campaign, rather than says, "You want a whole day to being an integral part of a

do your shining in, if you get what I mean, to get ready for carefully planned objective. The the next day. It'd be okay by three movements may contain me if you didn't 'ave to sleep at significant pointers, but these night." -are-not-obvious.-

The Good Soldier Phillips "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 groundwork on your Honan venture,

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

minutes. That goes for your maniques 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 Japanese are finding it neces-

"Apart from that, what? sury to indulge in such a wide. You're in battle dress now: well. that means eight little bits o' sprend offensive in an aren brass on your galters, a badge, which they are supposed to have and two little buttons on your had under their control for two cup. That's nothing. years. It gives new emphasis "I admit there's a bit o' Blanco-ing to do on your web- the oft-repeated Chinese claim, (several times supported every day, do you?

bing, but you don't do your packs by neutral observers), that the "What d'you want? Ruddy Japanese are incapable of con- batmen to do it for you? Char trolling areas beyond the rail-women running after you, or way lines and the main roads, something? Is this offensive too, the mili-

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tarists' method of carrying out Mr Matsuoka's desire for "paci- fying" the Chinese farmers?

☆ ✩ ✩

"Say you was in the cavalry and had to polish a ruddy horse before breakfast. Eh? You've got to keep yourselves clean. Ain't you got no self-respect?

"Do you want to walk about in tripe? With baggy breeches and rasty rifles?

By

W. N. EWER

A British Minister may (this

is no exaggeration) have a staff It is all too easy-going, all of a dozen, while his German

rival has nearly a hundred.

And the German, too, will If we had run the fighting the services in the same happy-go- bave the services of perhaps a lucky way. Hitler would be score of "newspaper correspon- dining in Buckingham Palace dents" who send curiously little this evening.

news to their papers but who call regularly every morning at The root of the whole trouble the Embassy. is that the service is still hag- ridden by nineteenth century traditions.

And the plain but unpleasant. fact is that our diplomatic ser- vice is nowhere near as efficient as it should be.

Il needs, and should have, a swift and thorough reorganisa- tion, for, as it is, it simply is not up to its job.

DRAWBACKS

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

The upshot of it all is that from almost all countries the

I don't mean the "old school little business. “lie” tradition. There is quite a~~

lot of about: although it is more burlesque to allege that the men in the Foreign Office and the German Foreign Office is get- Certainly that job has been a Embassies and the Legations ting far fuller and far better

оле. In continental difficult Europe-above all, in Eastern are all a lot. of monocled snoba, information about things that matter than our Foreign Office secures. MODERNISE IT! Europe-Germany has the great

The Nazis see to it that their advantage of her geographical

There are very few of that men are efficient; they see to it position.

She can back her diplomacy type. There are far more con- that they are well staffed. Thoy scientious officials somo able, have their diplomatic eyes and with the menace of big armies. some not-working, many of cars everywhers.

We cannot do that. Once, them very hard, for pretty poor years ago, during an "Armenian crisis," Lord Salisbury said of a pay. critic who was calling for ac tion:

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

da.

They work hard and spend lavishly to spread German in- But the whole system has fluence and German propagan- never been overhauled and mo-

They have realised the im- dernised.

Of course, there have been re- portance of the diplomatic wea- forms the institution of com- pon and the importance of see- mercial attaches and secretaries ing that it is a hundred per cent. That is true enough. The and counsellors and of Press at efficient.

We do not. We make blunder flect 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

information. much in the old way. not sail up the Danube.

An Ambassador will see now IN THE DARK Said a British Minister in one and again the Foreign Minister of those countries recently:- or the Prime Minister of the

We are taken by surprise be- "My German colleague has a Government to which, he is ne cause

we are working in the hundred arguments he can use credited. He will move about in dark. with the Minister of Foreign Government, circles,

We lose opportunity after op- Affairs, which I have not. They Some of his junior staff, es- portunity through sheer lack of are a hundred divisions of in- 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."

what they can to get useful in- amid the tempo of the new.

We shall go on fighting Gor- That also is true enough. But formation and to put our case.

But there is nothing like many in the diplomatic field with it is only part of the story.

enough of it, Zeal is tot one hand tied behind our back The other part is that Ger- enough encouraged. Lassitude until our whole diplomatic ser- vice from top to bottom is man diplomacy everywhere has is not enough rebuked.

Rarely, as I say, does an Am- shaken up and weeded out and more active, more vigor.

more painstaking than bassador get told off for sending overhauled and made to under- infrequent or inadequate re- stand what is wanted of it in I do not want to criticise in-ports. He may easily get a re- the new conditions. border, is to stop the alleged treme his neighbour. "D'you mind British Ambassador has been a

"Excuse me," says Meanie to dividuals: to suggest that this minder that he is spending too

much money on telegrams. The peculiar feature about the whole thing, however, that this smuggling spitting on these boots for me? total failure, that one was ever allowed to attain such pro- I been eating toffee."

"First 'o borrers polish. Now portions. One answer is suggested by the fact that entirely fresh troops 'e borrows spit," says the Lad are being employed in this clean-up; from the Elephant. ime will show how effectively' the new broom sweeps.

"You're given equipment: you

The southeastern Kwangtung en ingement has, perhaps, more point to it. The Japanese declare that the road from Shayuchung to Walchow has now become ever more import- got to keep it in good order. ant than the Burma highway for the Because if it ain't clean, it's transporting of materials to Free tripey equipment. Sco? China, and the avowed purpose of the latest moneouvre, which con- stitutes a pincer movement from the Walchow area and the Hongkong-

"So get on with the shiningbeen parade if you want to go to the ous, N.A.A.F.I to-night. Go on ours. Shine"

not so

STARVED

We must have good inen and enough of them to do the job. And we shall not have an ef- ficient diplomatic service until bad.

One answer, indeed, which (among other things) we are They are officials and can't the diplomata can make to a

prepared to pay for it.. answer back. And discussing chargo of Inefficiency is that the IT IS A BIG JOB, AND individuals, isn't very edifying service, is starved.

EASY ONE. BUT IT HAS or profitable, anyway.

Its Importance has never been GOT TO BE DONE-AND pedition is based on ulterior motives.

́ ́THERE ARE GOOD MEN IN properly realised. In the old WITHOUT DELAY-IF WE The strategical importance of Wal- it is possible Important materials aro

small staff was. ARE NOT TO BE RE- chow vis-a-vis the. Kwangtung-getting into Free China via Kwang- THE SERVICE. THERE ARE conditions a

OUTMAN Hongkong border is well known, but tung, and from a purely militaristic MEN WHO ARE NOT MUCH quito sufficient. Staffe remain PEATEDLY

RIBBEN. there is nothing to indicate at the viewpoint, it would not have been USE AT ALL. THE TROU. small though conditions have OEUVRED BY

surprising If the Japanese had taken BLE IS THAT IT DOES NOT changed.

TROP'S MEN.

moment that the latest Japanese, ex-'action before.

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