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February 7, 1941.

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WRITTEN THE COMMUNIQUÉ YET

WHAT A QUESTION TO ASK

DOUGLAS REED says

I

Hitler's diplomacy has failed;

is

The R.A.F. is just getting into its swing; the Navy master of the seas; the Army is improving daily; In Albania we have the chance of scizing a big success -quickly.

Why

We

I KNOW Will Win

ENGLISH IN SONG

Educating the

Foreigner

In the far-off days when there was a country called. Austrin and in it a city called Salzburg where artists congregated for music and drama and the mu- tual refreshment of talk in the enfes, there was a Viennese singer whose ambition it was to- sing English songs perfectly. "But," she said, "they tell me I can never master the English language unless I talk with pipe in my mouth." Her new- found English acquaintance gallantly rubbed the stem of his pipe on his sleeve and offered it to her, but she was quite ready to begin practice. Actually she spoke and English very well, but there was that roundness of the vowels, that crispness of the consonants, that difficulty in awallowing tho weak final syll- ables in words like "straighten" and "able" which betokens the foreigner. Perhaps the pipe would have helped.

★

not

aang

To-day there are thousands of foreigners in the Empire, allies and friendly aliens who are burning to learn to talk English. We understand that the proper

authorities are setting up the proper machinery: They are to be taught by word of mouth and by gramophone records. Soon they may all be speaking like B.B.C. announcers, but will they be

talking as English people Italk with or without pipes in their mouths? Probably not, and possibly the proper authori- ties would think it very im- proper if they did.

But let us leave pipes and come to singing. Their aim is the opposite of the Viennese lady's. She wanted command of the language chiefly that she

can If the Italians can be driven had to read the story of "The might eing English, songs. AM convinced we win this war, and know out of Albania into the sea, if Battle for Britain written by Surely singing English songs their Dunkirk can be turned an American newspaperman could help them to get some a dozen good reasons why into a disaster-that is a deci- who spent ten days here! we cannot lose it.

command of the language for sive success in this war.

It is fantastic to think that their own purposes. But if I

historians of the future will find i Smash The Italians

Consider how much the songs so little about this stupendous

A

+

were doctor, examining a superlatively heal- good reasons why he should not thy man, I should know a dozen

I do not know, as a layman, if incident in our island story in of Schubert, Brahms and others to the landing of British troops. have to look up foreign news- the German language in British there are insuperable objections our island press, that they may have done for the knowledge of ale, and that still would not help The danger of a swift German

lorry.

the

Italian attack on

which depends the future of the if he walked in front of a motor- descent on them from the north. Papers to find the name of cities countries. No doubt there have that were bombed, that the been English singers whose of another Dunkirk, is obvious, heroism of bomb disposal singing of Lieder has been ad- In Germany, Hitler is creating and

squads, firemen, policemen, bus-mired but who, when they got a New Order for Europe, and Greece may have been meant to drivers, and all that unknown to Germany, found some dif- Goering is creating a new order-tempt us-to-such a landing. legion, will be practically un-culty in choosing the right kind

But I do know. that if we can, known to them.

of sausages or in explaining to for Goering.

from the air and from the sea, Goering's order is a new

Our greatest setback in this a railway porter exactly what for German airmen, give the Greeks now just that medal

Handyepack. Battle of Bloomsbury. It is a named after Roscheim, his own extra ounce of punch they need war, to date, has been in the they wanted done with their birthplace. He is its first re- to push the Italians into the sea dreary story.

that is a major victory. The Italian morale, already heavily burdened by the memory of the headlong retreat at Caporetto in

Colony; yet, für from Hongkong displaying the "jitters", there is ample evidence to show that confidence in its future is greater than ever.

Principal illustration is the rapid development of industry; the Shamshuipe and Lalchikok arens are now alive with Chinese factories, turning out in impressive quantity rubber fool. wear. torchlights and batteries, hardware, minerals and ores, picce goods and tobacco, to men- tion but a few. The result has been a considerable increase in export values during the past twelve months, the release of now capital in the Colony, the employment of thousands of ad- ditional skilled and semi-skilled workers, the demand for more property, and a consequent im- press upon the current pro- sperity of the place.

It is a significant and en- couraging sign; true, a good deal of this industrial develop

ment was the outcome of cir- cumstances and not any con- scious effort on the part of the Colony Hongkong's purpose must be to seize this golden opportunity and to consolidate it. Everything possible should be done to stimulate the new trend. With an eye essentially for the future, industrial plan- ning should become a policy. At the present factories are being built with little or no attention paid to the sites; they are suita- ble for immediate needs, but in many cases offer little scope for important development in the future.

The New Territories bonst many open spaces served by road and rail; here might be established a centralised indus- trial area; around the factories could be built workers' houses. Hongkong could have its indus trial centre, thriving and self- contained. The Iden is partly visionary, but, indications aug. gest the desirability of such a plan in the future, and the pre- sent appears to be opportune for

cipient.

'New Order' Flops

A knowledge of lyrical poetry will not give conversational case in daily No Cause For Gloom emergencies, but if the poetry is

joined to a

tune written to fit it, it We have a good story to tell, and will at least give some perception of should tell it through the lips of our the shape and accent of the language. own people.

Through singing, pronunciation be He reminds me very much of the last war, would suffer a

But, even in spite of that, when comes instinctive, and Buch know- Bruce Lockhart's diplomat, of mortal blow.

I stand back from the picture of the ledge as the singer gains is not mere- whom it was said that if he got For the first time one of the war and look at it, and look at the ly iterary. He learns the language phrases not in words, and the another decoration he would two dictators would have been common people of this country, in

well-written only have one place to put it and driven from territory cheaply should say that the gloom prophets musical phrases of a he would then be unable to sit taken in some spectacular Satur- are very wrong when they say we song express the character of the verbal phrases. Take Purcell's line: are "virtually defeated." down.

day-afternoon swoop!

Our magnificent Air Force is just "No, never, no, never intending to. What of Hitler's New Order Not only Mussolini's standing getting into its awing; our Navy, hard visit them more."

It has been translated into German but also Hitler's would be pressed, is still master of the seas:

Army has vastly improved to fit the music as "Auch wenn hir in Europe?

ainie wiedersell, wiederselt hier diesen So far he has collected three seriously shaken, and all round our

the be able to find one.

of translations, lies all across very small tags to the tail of his the Mediterranean men would through long training; we need Rumania (where his troops are), towards us. German-Italian-Japanese kite begin again to look up and look success somewhere gong, and should Strand." The German, ns is the fate The war on our cities is certainly musical phrase, but the foreigner very serious, but nobody in

who has sung Purcell in English will thin W Ilungary (which hopes by this Relief For. Franco

at leas know how to any emphatically country thinks that it can beat us that he does not intend to do some

More serious are the writings of thing. Moreover, he will not in sycophaney to keep them out)

In Bulgaria King Boris's hand and Slovakia, which has been in would be strengthened in his American newspaper correspondents, future tend to pronounce the words Hitler's possession for eighteen lonely struggle to keep his me as staunch and stalwart friends as "nevere" and "vecscet." months, anyway.

country out of the war.

some of them known personally to

of this country.

good

But the really big or useful And in Syria? There French They have been writing that bur

But teaching the language by song recruits, the ones Hitler wants soldiers are already talking of censorship "is ominously reminiscent Russia, Spain, Bulgaria, Turkey de Gaulle's successes in Central of that which oppressed France be- can only be done through good songs. fore the French suddenly found the There are too many songs written to still stand aloof."

Africa, are already listening

contradictory of the

flow of tha And that bringe

Triomphe." me to eagerly to the news that his enemy marching under the Arc de English words where the tune is a And the Americans, at that, suffer German words imposed on it, perhaps words as is the Purcell tune of the Albania, a word which at this emissary, General Catroux, has moment should be written on all arrived in the Middle East. far less from the censorship than do more so. But good songs are not Catroux, who as a prisoner of the British people, who never had se necessarily "classical songs. Think our leaders' hearts.

Not only the people of this war in Germany in 1916 was little information before they acquir of Chevalliera "If you die an old ed one of the most expensive minis mald you've only got yourself to country, who are very staunch in kept in a dark cell for three tries of all time, the Ministry of In-blame. The music-hall, when it was

fuller of

specimens than the adversity, but, far more, those months, is a patriot in the grand formation.

trar ition, known Our Other Army' English concert platform, other wavering and threatened French

nced + British throughout the French Empire. countries,

English song from the sixteenth One day, I hope, and I hope soon, century to the twentieth, not forgot success.

These are the things we might

we shall begin to organise the ting the ageless folk-song, is a rich In Albania the gods the achieve, if we are daring and "Army of Pre-Occupation of heritage of the English language set Greek gods--have sent us the alert.

teurs and disintegrators inside Hit-

singers have neglected_re chance of one.

The war on our shipping is ler's conquered countries and inside platform music which our concert Germany itself which enabled Hitler prehensibly. Never mind the concerts certainly very serious, as serious

Ko quickly, and

casily to conquer hati repertory. Go anywhere, where its preparation. Hongkong in as it was in April, dolt than Norway and Holland and other run ordinary English, people sing their exporting its own manufac we were nearer to defeat thun

songs the way tured commodities more and ever before; but we overcame it. This in the army which can win own language. Pick out a handful of more; it is not impossible to then, and we should be able to us this war, and which our fighting them, put them on gramophone re- services, our secret service and a real cords if necessary, but above all get envisago the time when the overcome it now.

Ministry of Information should now the foreigners to sing them as er- dinary Engiialt people king them, not Our chances of winning this war as the International-minded singing. teacher teaches them, and it will be The use we make of those chances odd it the singing foreigners do not

Colony's export trade in home- In recent days I have had to be combining to form. made goods vics with Its entre- watch an American film about pot business. Enterprise and the R.A.F, and an American are good, not bad. intelligent planning at this stage flm boasting that only Ameri-well, it is up to our leaders, and gel on terms with the labguage may do much to bring this can newspapers now tell their great chance offers unexpectedly in quicker than those who learn from about.

readers the truth, and I have Albania,

textbooks.

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