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DONALD DUCK

I WISH YOU'D SEE IF THERE'S

PHOOEY!

IT'S ALL IN

YOUR HEAD!

A WINDOW OPEN!

I FEEL A

MY NECK!

DRAFT ON

HONESTLY,

I STILL THINK THERE'S

A WINDOW OPEN!

Saturday,

HONYONG TELEGRAPH.

PHOOEYI YOU'RE LIKE ALL WOMEN.. CAN'T TELL FACT FROM FANCY}

I STILL

SAY IT'S ALL IN YOUR HEAD!

HERE. DONALD! IF YOU'RE NOT TOO WARM, WILL

YOU PLEASE

GET UP AND...

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COMMENT

TELEGRAPH”

SATURDAY

By Scrutineer

British propaganda has had any effect In comparison with this domaing in dictment.

the result that the Queen's wedding own was bespattered with blood. His married life has been far from uppy, for tragedy has marked s ourse far more distinctly than Joy and gladness.

Finally, be had to leave Spain bo- couse he had liberal views and be- cause the reactionary party in power wanted a dictatorship on Nazi lines. The Germans say that the clause He did manage to steer his country In the Lease and Lend Bill which

war successfully permits British warships to use bases through the last

without getting Involved. The Kal- in the United States for repair and ter is

ser is said to have offered him

fuelling will be a violation of the Portugal and Gibraltor if he would

Hague Convention of 1907. America's join the central powers. FEATURE

joins in, Japan says neither can she ists and isolationists like Col. Lind. and Senator do anything till Germany gives some bergh, Senator Nye proof of her capacity to Invade and

und conquer England.

sky.

Please

threats at their face value and move heaven and earth to push Japan clearly indicated what would into the war, the Foreign Minister is happen if they were carried out. not going to make the same mistake The whole idea was to present that Mussolini made. He is not going future dévelopments, as the to take the Nazi word for it that to be invaded and con- United States, the British Em- England pire and the Netherlands East quered. He in waiting for that cam- Indies saw them, and to have the paign to begin and to show some measure of success. The Japanese

answer is that there could not be a was, ། Japanese in no sort of doubt seem to have un answer to every

do not want the former, bigger violation of international law I can take the latter when I about what they were really up German move. If the latter says she

History repents itself Hitler

offers cannot beat Britain unless Japan ugainst.

Convention city self-by the Ger- something similar, than the seizure of the Hague-the

but Generad Generi mans.

Franca believes that Spain must first Apparently, the Japanese peo,

united nation be- Wheeler have had their

This great privilege granted by the become a strongly ple had been looking at the posi-

it can become a great imperial have by this time probably voted with United States, which is not part of fore it tion entirely through German

If then we listen only to the Civil the minority, Even the Germans are the Commonwealth, throws into pro- power. His country, which has just eyes, whereas the Australian authorities in Japan, we feel that was resigned to the passage of the Bill, minence the refusal of Eire, which is came through a great crisis, is in nu

of Commonwealth, to allow nt condition to laun part

upon any broadcast began to make them is the last thing that is wanted. There for the German telegrams pay

urs. doubtful adventure. Franco fears u British warships to. use her harbours. British blockude, for is no need for alarm: Japan merely

tremendous tribute to British pro- The New Yorker humorously suya

for Spaln is already tacles. Then it did not look so

militarily. But when one turns to attractive.

press, much of which is under Nazi about this result. Nothing could be war is far too staggerlag to contem- It is the plate as it is going to cost the United control, or to the armed forces, there further from the truth.

States twenty five thousand million As the week wore on several is not the same reassuring note; and concentration camp, the Gestapo, the dollars to keep out of it. inspired questions were asked in as the civil authorities do not seen masaere of Poland, the rape of Hol- the Japanese Diet. Was it not to govern but to be governed, the land, Mussolini's stab in the back of future Is not necessarily what Mr a fact that the Tripartite Pact Matsuoka or Admiral Nomura in the France and the Tripartite Part, which did not ensure German and United States would like it

to be, have secured the passage of the Bill. it would be an insult to the meanest Italian support should Russin We are still in some doubt.

American intelligence to say that take advantage of Japan's in- In the meantime, it must be re-

nol

look at it through Italian spe wishes to expand economica, the poganda which, they sny, has brought that the price of admission into the on the verge of starvation. He fears

volvement in the Southern Seas? membered that while Germany has Could Germany be asked to rendered no service to Japan, and is rectify this omission?

EMBARRASSED MATSUOKA

not in position to do so, Japan has been of great assistance to the Axis, for she has immobilised a part of the

This

British Fleet as well 19 considerable air and land forces in 10 non-belligerency is very Why had Germany and Italy the Axis, but it is costing a very great as well as to ourselves, not recognised Wang Ching-wei's deal to Japan as

has manoeuvred herself into government! This was rather Jan.

a position to please the Nazis from. embarrassing for Foreign Minis- which she can only extricate herself ter Matsuoka. Then, as if to if she takes a realistic view of the emphasise the Japanese Govern situation. Otherwise she, Hike Mus- solini, though without his exeuse, and ment's disapproval of Germany's like the other inferior nations of neglect of her Far Eastern ally, Germany calls them, will be offered the Foreign Minister said Japan on the altar as a sacrifice to Germen had officially recognised

the ambition. Dutch Government in London. THAILAND WAKES UP The Germans naturally protested Thailand woke up with a start that the real Dutch Government-when-the-rentised-how deeply she was at the Hague, to which the would be involved in the war, which Japaness retoried that the real her diplomacy had brought near to Chinese Government was in Nan- ber doors, She is now

with king. Then, as an epilogue to not in understand that her, que inning to: the week's talks, Col. Tanaka her own interests but in that of the said Japan should avoid Com- agent provocateur, who hoped to be munism, excessive individualism, asked to compose the quarrel and the reward which he thought pbtain and, he added, Nazilsm, and his

warranted. It services Fasciam. What Japan wanted feree who fixes the fee in this case, was the old Japanese way of life and so this little adventure is likely cast Thailand quite a lot: The pre- and not something foreign. sence of the Australian forces on her borders will no doubt enable her

It is the re-

at

an internal rising, knowing that the Catalans are merely sullen and not subdued. He tears that an

in to conquer an empire

Mompt this stage will meet with epposition, KING ALFONSO seeing that the memory of the last war there, when 150,000 Spaniards King Alfonso is very ill, suffering lost the lives, is so keen and bitter.. from heart trouble. His Ile has Like Alfonso, then, Franco niny been a most unhappy one. A bomb hope to keep his country out of the was hurled at his wedding coach, with second World War.

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BEHIND THE HEADLINES MORRIS

Thwarted and foiled in her much boasted plan of invading and crushing the British Isles, Germany, in her obvious desp

has now turned towards the Balkan States. In their dilemma, some of them may accept German domination for the time being rather than face the fury of the Nazi machine which, incidentally, is surely losing whatever en- thusiasm for conquest it may have possessed a couple of years ago.

Assuming that Germany does secure wider domina-

This sort of discussion does statesmen to think more clearly and tion, it will not help her not happen without the con- realistically now. There is evidence nivance of the Government and that it has already done so.

probably with its encourage UNITED STATES AND

ment. Matsuoka felt after this he had to crave the indulgence

PACIFIC

of the Diet for, introducing Ger- Japan seems to make but slight man technicians into Japan, and impression on the United States in well he might, for this visit or spite of her repeated requests that visitation merely dotted the i's the latter should recognise her mis- sion as the creator and guarantor of and crossed the 's of Hitler's a New Order in the Far East. contemptuour reference to Japan in Mein Kampf. The passage is too long to quote, but here is an excerpt:

States.

concillate the United

one iota in her desire to On the contrary, it will subjugate Great Britain.

increase her difficulties tenfold. As it is, she now controls the greater part of Europe; but the effort and responsibility of that control is slowly but surely weakening her.

There

are many thousands of cities, towns and villages scattered throughout the Europe she believes she has conquered, but in each and every one she is com- pelled to maintain a suf- ficient. force i to

guard against the natural ten- dency to revolt against

Probably no diplomatic act 011 Japan's part has been attended with such disastrous results as her decision to sign the Tripartite Pact. That it was aimed at the United Sintes 15 more clearly demonstrated now than "It from to-day onward the Aryan ever before. Japan is seeking to Influence on Japan would cease, then compose her diferences with Russin, the present progress of Japan in the only other power against whom it science and technique might still last might have been directed; sheet for a short time, but within a few cking to decades the inspiration would dry up

the Nothing ever did so much for and the native Japanese character would triumph, while the present Allied cause as this, It was regarded insolence civilisation would become fossilized in America as a plece of und fall back into the sleep from it, as far as the European war was her.

and so turned the American Isolation which it was roused about seventy concerned,

Into 11 very belligerent

While in the days past, the years ago by the impact of Arygn

increased voter for

armaments armaments that would culture

make the usual village gendarme suffic- .. Such a race (l.e. the Japanese effort seem pany in propor-ed to maintain order in the Japanese) may be called the deposition. As she is so very vulnerable hamlet, or a relatively small tory but never the creator of a cul- from an economie polot of view as ture." (page 224, Hurst'and Blackells (vell as from a strategle one, the in- sult she hurled at America is all the Edition).

more hotly resented.

GERMANS IN JAPAN

The only possible way for Japan to cut her It is no wonder that the Foreign sateguned her future is to

losses in China and leave the Axis, Minister had to apologise for Intro for it is quite obvious that the alter ducing the German technicians. He native for her is retreat and im- was merely confirming Hiller's esti poverishment. She cannot afford to her. She mate of the Japanese people. Strange have Amerien hostile to

ment.

to say, Matuoka this week pointed should go in for a policy of appease- out that he was determined to sweep away racial inequality, and yol his ally in the one who most violently 'defends it.

LEASE AND LEND BILL

this

force of gendarmerie main- tained order and respect for the laws in the cities, Ger- many must now maintain a strong military organisation throughout almost the whole

This of Europe. diverling soveral millions of her troops, who are compelled to accept a rolo which scarcely befits tho supposedly glorious destiny of every German. soldier.

means

To maintain an army of Though the hundreds of Germany going to pass the Senate.

The Lease and Lend Bill le evident occupation throughout Europe advisers are in Tokyo for one purpose week. There seems to be no doubt is Indeed a stupendous task. _and_one_purpose only, namely, to about that.__The_non-intervention To attempt to maintain' such

By

annual race meeting. Would he have all the potties shot, and the many people attending them thrown out of employ-

JOHN BLUNT?

an army whilst straining every nerve to defeat the rest of the world, is not only impossible, but, from the most elementary

Australia is just as much' involved in the war as we are, but I am quite sure that the many race clubs in the Com- monwealth continue to attract

standpoint of military arra large crowds; that her palatial ment, utterly absurd.

Hitler doubtless realises this, and it is because of the fact that he does that he is compelled to make a suicidal move towards castern Europe. There is certainly reason to look not so very far ahead now, when the German bubble will be pricked, just as the Italian myth has been exploded.

I was interested in reading the article which appeared in un Australian newspaper by a well-known Antipodeån journ- alist who had spent a few days in Hongkong. He actually discovered that this Colony, in

spite of the so-called evacuu- tion, is not exactly the grim and womanless centre he had expected. Possibly he had read about the dend cities of the China coast.

It is true that the war has not cast its shadow over us to any appreciable extent-but why should it?

I am not endeavouring to defend our seeming indiffer- ence which, after all, is merely a superficial reflection that is liable to create a misleading impression. There is, how- aver, no reason why we should all assume a mournful anti fearful countenance.

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Underneath the veneer of galety, there exists a grim seriousness and appreciation the present position. Hongkong knows full well that it is very much involved in tho struggle which Britain is wog- ing, and should a direct chal- lenge come to the Colony, it will earn the same admiration In the eyes of the world which Malta has won.

Mr Clive Turnbull, for that is the gentleman's name, res ferred with obvious surpriso to the fact that Hongkong possesses a racing club which stablos somo 500 ponite, anil went on to mention that pre- parations.were in hand for the

cinemas,

and music halls theatres, sumptuous hotels, ali continue to prosper in spite of the war.

Perhaps Mr Turnbull was not fold that the Hongkong Jockey Club. has made very generous contributions to British and Chinese war funds, moving towards the half a million dollars mark!

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An event of outstanding interest in the history of the British Empire was recorded during the week by the arrival at Singapore of the Australian Forces. They are essentially defensive in character, and I was reminded of those old lines:

We don't want to fight.. But by Jingo if we do; We've got the men, We've got the ships- And we've got the money too!

Strong action such as this may well turn the scale of Far Eastern uncertainty into the certainty that peace in this part of the world will prevail. Japan must concede that Britain is in carnest, and în that bellef may be given fur- ther proof of the foolishness of her desire to dominate realms which never have been hers.

contribution Australia's must not only impress our- selves but the whole world. That a sister nation of the Empire, with a population not exceeding that of London, can place thousands of soldiers in various theatres of war, is more than comforting. Moro- over, on this occasion they travel equipped with the latest implements of war manufac- tured by themselves. Of their quality and tenacity of pur- pose, comment is unnecessary. They won their laurels in the last war, and in this have nl- ready given, in no mistakable manner, proof of their right to rank with the finest troops. in the Empire...

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