1941-04-29 — Page 12

Tuesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

April 29, 1941.

Many of the great men and women of to-day were sensitive, highly-strung children ....

But with sensitive children

there are dangers that have to be

watched during childhood

WHEN a child is highly-strung

and sensitive, it depends in many ways on you whether he'll develop into a fine human being or not.

You see, a highly-strung child has got all the qualities that are necessary to put him far and away ahead of other children,

He's alert, quick on the up-take, keen In his reactions.

But it in in this very mental and physical make-up of the child that the danger lies. He lives more in- tensely, resets more vividly to every little thing in his surround- ings. That's why the bringing up of such children needs far more insight on the part of the parents than the bringing-up of ordinary children.

Many such brilliant children hnyc failed in life. They've grown up weak, easily-led and over-sensitive, simply because their parents did not understand certain health warnings in child-

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When you notice that your child is off his food, or that he looks pale, pulty uptler. the eyes, that he's rather nervous and irritable or gels tired 100 easily, then you should set quickly.

All these are warning signs that the child is using up his nervous energy more quickly than he's replacing it. And it is at night, during sleep, that these stores of nervous energy should be replaced. If they are not re- placed, the nervous strain on the child gets worse and worse. He is suffering from Night Starva- tion.

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The Senate assembled. A nounced the name of an official tles of this impious doctrine. gust of anger blew along of the Ministry of War.

They told her that the inspirer, "Shall we ninage to save the thinker, and future the lobbies of the Luxem-

statesman was none other than Baudouin. He made an evasive gesture. from May 16, in which went up into the rostrum to

"There's Weygand, too," they "We're doing our utmost. added, the wind of catastrophe make a statement.

Forty-eight hours were lost She started. whirled above his head, to

"Weygand? when Gamelin was still in com- The Commander-in-Chief In Without preamble he pro- mand. We ought, not to have favour of defeat?" June 16, when he collapsed nounced the great sentence sent that army to Belgium." in face of the decisive effort, of the French Revolution, "Have you superseded many M. Paul Reynaud laboured which fell amid the As- people?" with prodigious energy and sembly like a bomb:-

a courage worthy of success to rescue his country from an apparently hopeless situation.

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these words

Hongkong Telegraph. "Present" without a shadow tences lashed the nerves of iation, was only three days.

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cil.

M. Paul Reynaud, I believe, never knew anything of this conspiracy, of which he was to be the victim along with the nation.

Capitulation

"He no longer believes vic- tory possible. Ile is practically "YCH.

And it's not finished won over to our side."

"And Petain?" she gasped. "The Country is in dan yet. We shall turn a good many

intelligent and determined "Oh, we shall convince him, ger!"

colonel into generals."

make him see that France, A murmur swelled into a "From information I have re- whose birth-rate is already low, His efforts were marked roar. There were demands ceived," I said, "may I put you cannot risk the loss, ns in 1914- by fatal errors, unjust and for the names of those to on your guard against a peace 18, of another fifteen hundred offensive intended to separate thousand dead, and perhaps blame, of those responsible. us from England?" useless cruelties, and by

more!" M. Reynaud disclosed that irreparable blunders.

"I guarantee that we shall He set about refashion- incredible errors-which withstand it." ing his Ministry. Daladier Would be punished --- had

The Fire Goes Out moved reluctantly from the been committed, notably the Ministry of War to the For- failure to blow up the Between May 25, when 1

And while this venom was hoard bridges over the Meuse.

which trickling into French veins the eign Office.

- Marshal Petain replied

The curt, accusing sen- warmed my heart, and May 28, military tragedy was develop- the date of the Belgian capitu ing. The defences of Boulogne and Calals were overrun by the his hearers, and raised ten- of hesitation when, for pure-

But in those three days the German motorised divisions. ly decorative purposes, he sion to the pitch of par- whole fire which Mr Winston was asked to accept a Minis- Oxysm. Gloomy silences Churchill imagined burned in try of State with the title of followed shouts of indigna- General Weygand was put out:

The Commander-in-Chief saw tion.

Just when a gigantic battle. that he could not hope to claim was in progress, in which the Vice-President of the Coun-

The atmosphere cleared the glory of an immediate re- fortune of arms seemed to be M. Mandel, the man who only a trifle when he pro- covery. He was ready to let his turning away from France and a miximum of intrepidity was wanted to conduct the war claimed his confidence in hands fall idly in his lap.

Foch, the indomitable, did needed to swing advantage to the great leader who has not live again in Weygand. serve all rights and forbid republication with ferocious vigour

our side, what happened? against the internal as well taken command of our Was, he influenced by the at-

"The Belgian Army"—I quote as the external enemy-be- armies," and "in the soldier mosphere of the War Ministry; the accusing terms in which M. came Minister of the In- of France who will be where almost all the men around Paul Reynaud, broadcasting on the Premier were adherents of the morning of May 28, trounced REALISM, by which is meant | terior.

worthy of his ancestors."

a rapid peace? unflinching acceptance of facts. Gamelin

to be re- During the twenty-first, My attention was drawn to Belgian army has just capitu- the King of the Belgians "the and potentialities no matter placed by Weygand, who twenty-second, and several secret meetings, conferences be- luted unconditionally in the how grim or disagreeable they may be, has always been an stood for the epic of the outstanding characteristic of other war. He stood for Mr Winston Churchill, but never Foch. They sent for him. has this been more forcibly or He would come. effectively demonstrated as in his speeches delivered during the past 18 months either in Parliament or through the The choice of these three microphone to the nethermost was calculated, for different ends of the earth.

reasons, Mr Churchill's realism is thutdence in the nation at a to inspire confi- of a courageous, honest man, period when the military buclouded by wishfulness. situation remained constant-days Sometimes his insistence upon ly disquieting. presenting the truth and nothing but the truth is almost brutal in its effect. Thus, during his magnificent peroration, to the Empire on Sunday night, he found himself as spokesman for Britain, capable of declaring, "While these grievous events (withdrawal from Greece and defent of Yugo-Slavia) are tak- ing place in the Balkans our forces in Libya. sustained a vexatious and damaging defeat j

CHURCHILL'S REALISM

whose vision remains un-

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was

Petain Weygand-Man- del.

Hope Renewed

France the Whole Truth

Third Article

by ELIE J. BOIS

Famous Paris Editor and for 20 years an intimate of France's leading politicians. -His death occurred in England yesterday.

thick of the fight and on the or- der of its King, without warning its French and British com- rades-in-arms and opening to the German troops the road to Dunkirk.

"That," declared M. Paul Reyunud, "is an action without - -precedent in history.”

Strict justice compele me to say that Belgian volces have been raised to clear King Leopold III of the charge of following, General tween two or three conspirators, trenchery laid upon him in M. Weygand, who had been visits made to one another by Paul Reynaud's specch.

M. Gutt, the Belgian Minister summoned and who had the apostles of a new mysticism.

Their object was to win over of Finance, who, until the ar- come in order to be the as many people as possible to rival in London of M. Pierlot saviour, believed in the pos- the necessity of defeat.

and M. Spank, represented the sibility of saving.

Defeat? Yes. Defeat! By Britain, publicly stated that Belgian Government in Great asking for an armistice at Leopold III had not come to once, they argued, good peace terms with the enemy and re- terms would be obtained.

mained a prisoner."

Despair

revived failing courage. If General Weygand's arrival Weygand agreed to conduct military operations, that That was the impression I meant he did not despair. had after a talk with M.

Indeed, as soon as he Reynaud on May 25.

Thanks to Mussolini, Hitler arrived, he conveyed an

would be magnanimous, well · "Weygand," he declared, impression of coolness, "is reassuringly clear-head-

content to have a few ports at their disposal against Eng- lucidity and vitality.

M. Gutt-and when one lund, ed. Marshal Petain is ready

with whom

France knows his moral and intellectual Mr Winston Churchill,

could then break off alliance. worth, for anything that may be

his evidence carries who came to Paris for a asked of him.

In writing this I am putting weight-has declared that the few hours, paid this

forward nothing of which I am capitulation of the Belgian army "Yesterday we went to not certain. tribute to the septua gether to see what the de-

was inevitable. I say that persons of impor genarian when he had a fences of Paris are like tance-and I know the name of of the French armies in the He wrote: "The total, collapse "I'm afraid you're a little Just in case it should be ane to whom Marshal Petain's South, coupled with the orders Government recently assigned a of the French Generalissimo prominent position-made several people confidential re- from retreating at a time they to preventing the Belgian troops marks which I can sum up as could have done it, bought about follows:

the encirclement of the Belgian France is in need of defcat. Army and made the surrender Defeat is necessary for her re unavoidable." generation. Victory would

During the night of May 27- strengthen the political ro- 28, Council of Ministers was gime which has led to her held at the Elysee. moral ruin.

Weygand was called on to forecast the course of events. Anything is preferable to It was asserted that he said: the continuation of 80 per- "The Germans will get fidious a regime.

through where and when they liko."

conversation with him:

too young."

necessary to defend Paris."

"And it will be defended?" "Tooth and nail."

"

"Can He Do It?”

It is certain that fresh, dangers besides those which threaten Egypt may come upon us in the Mediterranean. The war may spread to Spain and Morocco. It may spread east- wards to Turkey and Russia. Germans may lay their hands for a time, on the granuries of the Ukraine or the oil wells of the Caucasus. They may do- minate the Caspian. Who can tell ""

This is plain speaking, but it is not defeatism, for, in his pur- poseful tone of voice,. Britain's Premier went on to declare that Britain would meet the Nazis anywhere, and, without under- rating their prowess, as war- riors, would fight them until victory had been won.

And it was Churchill's realism At the War Ministry this tences: which prompted him once again flight was considered as to insist that the final victory the prelude to would come in the defeat of

a skilful Hitler's Atlantic offensive. In effect, the Premier said: We "In Danger!" may suffer reverses in the Bal- kans, Egypt, the Near East and

Then the names Peronne, elsewhere, but we cannot lose Arras and Amiens appeared this war until Britain has been in the communiques. invaded and overcome, or her

Weygand plunged into the adventure. He flew over the Franco-Belgian front to dis- cuss matters with the com- manders of the armies un- I reminded him discreetly der his orders, including the that on May 16 some mem- Belgian army and the B.E.F. bers of the Government had Everywhere he left an insinuated that Paris should impression of calm and con- be evacuated. He replied in fident strength.

brisk, ardent, staccato sen-

manoeuvre.

"It was Gamelin who scared people. I ordered him to defend Paris at any price.

"We have gained the ascendancy again, and I assure you there's no long- er any question of leaving Paris defendless."

Defeat followed by a rapid peace will perhaps cost us a tactician began to give way to In him the strategiat and the province, a few ports, some the partisan with a fear of Bol- colonies. What is that in

shevism. comparison with France's ro- generation, which is indispen, sable?

Conspiracy

From then

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thought was to keep rondy to on his chief his hand an army of social de- fence against an imaginary re- volution. No longer would he command victory.

To-morrow

ocean life-line across the Atlan-especially in a place like Hongkong,

One of the people the group tic has been taken from her. who may find cause for fretfulness |

wished to convince, becauso hor To nervous, shori-term policy and disheartenment in the current thinkers, this may be a forbidding war nows.

"Even if you went to Tours salon was the meeting-place of The battle which is to

The French... Government leaves alternative, but for those who have destroy Hitlerism once and for all it would be scarcely less dangor- a number of distinguished mon Paris for Tours. De mulle meet courage at the present and faith in still to come. Britain and the Emous than Paris."

and women who might be useful making a despersio stand in Brit the future, It places in true perspec- nire, nided by the United States, are "Obviously. Unfortunately propagandista was at first, In- tanz, Arrangements made to go

which the democracies are now as leader of the Empire, awaits the enough material. Oh!" hò ex- the plan. waging against totalitarianism. Mr hour with calm confidence: such claimed, "That" And, rais Churchill's message comes as a new leadership demands our unswerving ing despairing arms, he pro- of the men who were the apos- made for an armistion,

So they invoked the authority Weygand demands, that a request be Inspiration to those in the Empire, support and loyalty.

tive the position existing in the fight busily preparing for it; Mr Churchill, we haven't enough planes, dignent at the monstrosity of vention of hiine de Fortes and the

there are overruled through infor

"Peace party," who want Hordeaux.