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Tuesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

April 29, 1941..

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

WHE

But with sensitive children

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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 is in this very mental and physical make-up of the child that the danger lies. He lives more in- tensely, reacts 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 brillant children have failed in Ilfe. They've grown up weak, easily-led und över - sensitive, simply because their parents did not understand certain health warnings in child- hood,

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The Senate assembled. A nounced the name of an official ties of this impious doctrine.

They told her that the inspirer, gust of anger blew along of the Ministry of War.

"Shall we manage to save the thinker, and future statesman the lobbies of the Luxem-

army of the North?"

'was none other than Baudouin, BRAKE IN the month extending bourg, and M. Paul Reynaud He made an evasive gesture. "There's Weygand, too," they

from May 16, in which went up into the rostrum to "We're doing our utimost. added. the wind of catastrophe make a statement.

Forty-eight hours were lost She started, "Weygand? whirled above his head, to

when Gamelin was still in com- The Commander-in-Chief 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 in face of the decisive effort, of the French Revolution, "Have you superseded' many M. Paul Reynaud laboured which fell amid the As- people?"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:-- "Yes. And it's not finished

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"He no longer believes vic- tory possible. Ho is practically won over to our aide."

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

and intelligent

determined "Oh, we shall convince him, colonel into generals," ger!"

800 make him

that France, an apparently hopeless A murmur swelled into a "From information I have re- whose birth-rate is already low, situation.

His efforts were marked roar. There were demands ceived," I said, "may I put you cannot risk the loss, as in 1914. for the names of those to on your guard against a peace 18, of another fifteen hundred

offensive Intended to separate thousand dead, by fatal errors, unjust and blame, of those responsible. us from England?"

more!" useless cruelties, and by

M. Reynaud disclosed that "I guarantee that we shall irreparable blunders.

He set about refashion- incredible errors--which withstand it."

would be punished

- had

The Fire Goes Out ing his Ministry. Daladier moved reluctantly from the been committed, notably the

failure to blow up the Between May 25, when I And while this venom was Ministry of War to the For-

which trickling into French veins the bridges over the Meuse. eign Office.

The curt, accusing sen- warmed my heart, and May 28, military tragedy was develop- Marshal Petain replied

the date of the Belgian capitu- ing. The defences of "Boulogne his hearers, and raised ten- But in those three days the German motorised divisions. of hesitation when, for pure- sion to the pitch of par- whole fire which Mr Winston ly decorative purposes, he

heard these words

and perhaps

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

Thongkong Telegraph. "Present!" without a shadow tences lashed the nerves of lation, was only three days. und Calais were overrun by the

Tuesday, April 29, 1941.

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under the provisions of the Telecommuni rations Ordinance, 1 received in Buch voWS AL bears the Indication

Capitulation

was asked to accept a Minis- oxysm. Gloomy silences Churchill imagined burned in The Commander-in-Chief saw try of State with the title of followed shouts of indigna. General Weygand was put out.

Just when a gigantic battle tion. Vice-President of the Coun-

that he could not hope to claim was in progress, in which the 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. Ile was ready to let his turning away from France and a miximum of intrepidity was claimed his confidence "in hands full idly in his lap. Bergkong on the date of publication by wanted to conduct the war the great leader who has not live again in Weygand.

Foch, the indomitable, did needed to swing advantage to with ferocious vigour

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

"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 worthy of his ancestors."

a rapid peace?

the King of the Belgians "the Gamelin was to be re- During the twenty-first, My attention was drawn to Belgian army has just capitu and. potentialitics no matter placed by Weygand, who twenty-second, and several secret meetings, conferences belated unconditionally in

the United Press Associations, who res serve all rights and forbid republications, either wholly or in part without previous arrangement

CHURCHILL'S REALISM REALISM, by which is meant unflinching acceptance of facts

how grim or disagreeable they

terior.

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

through or

the microphone to the nethermost ends of the earth.

Mr Churchill's realism is that of a courageous, honest man. whose vision. remaine un-

Petain-Weygand-Man-

del,

The choice of these three was calculated, for different reasons, to inspire confi- dence in the nation at a period when the military

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.

the

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 Reynaud, "is an action without precedent in history."

Strict justice compele me to say that Belgian voices have been raised to clear King Leopold II of the charge of

beclouded by wishfulness. situation remained constant days following, General tween two or three conspirators, treachery laid upon him in M.

visits made to one another by Paul Reynaud's speech. : Sometimes-his-insistence-upon-ly-disquieting-

-Weygand-who-had-been- presenting the truth and nothing,

summoned and who had the apostles of a new mysticism. M. Gatt, the Belgian Minister but the truth is almost brutal

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 in its effect. Thus, during his

and M. Spank, represented the magnificent peroration to the

saviour, believed in the pos- the necessity of defeat.

Belgian Government in Great Empire on Sunday night, he

sibility of saving.

Defeat? Yes. Defeat! By Britain, publicly stated, that found himself as spokesman for

asking for an armistice at Leopold III had not come to Britain, capable of declaring,

once, they argued, good peace terms with the enemy and re- "While these grievous events

terms would be obtained.

mained a prisoner." (withdrawal from Greece and defeat of Yugo-Slavia) arc tak- ing place in the Balkans our forces in Libya sustained a vexatious and damaging defeat . . It is certain that fresh

........................................................................sesse | dungers 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 granaries of the Ukraine or the oil wells of the Caucasus. They may do- minate the Caspian. Who can

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This is pinin speaking, but it is not defentium, 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- ruting their prowess S war- riors, would fight them until

victory had been won.

And it was Churchill's realism which prompted him once again to insist that the final victory

General Weygand's arrival revived failing courage. If 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. arrived, he conveyed an

"Weygand," he declared, impression of coolness, "is reassuringly clear-head- lucidity and vitality.

ed. Marshal Petain is ready Mr Winston Churchill, for anything that may be who came to Paris for a asked of him. few hours, paid this "Yesterday we went to tribute to the septua gether to see what the de- genarian when he had a fences of Paris are like conversation with him: just in case it should be "I'm afraid you're a little too young." Weygand plunged into the adventure. He flew over the Franco-Belgian front to dis- cuss matters with the com- manders of the armies un- 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- At the War Ministry this tences: . flight was considered as the prelude to a skilful

manoeuvre.

would come in the defeat of Hitler's Atlantic offensive. In effect, the Premier said: We

"In Danger!" may suffer reverses in the Bal-

Then the names Peronne, kans, Egypt, the Near East and elsewhere, but we cannot lose Arras and Amiens appeared this war until Britain has been in the communiques. invaded and overcome, or her ocean life-line across the Atlan-

tic has been taken from her.

especially in a place like Hongkong,

who may find cause for fretfulness

necessary to defend Paris."

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

"Can He Do It?"

I reminded him discreetly

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

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Thanks to Mussolini, Hitler would be magnanimous, well content to have a few ports

Despair

at their disposal against Eng- M. Gutt-and when one land. with whom France knows his moral and intellectual could then break off alliance, worth, his evidence carries In writing this I am putting weight has declared that the forward nothing of which I am capitulation of the Belgian army not certain.

was inevitable. I say that persons of impor-

He wrote: "The total collapse tance-and I know the name of of the French armies in the one to whom Marshal Petain's South, coupled with the orders Government recently assigned a of the French Generalissimo prominent position-inade to preventing the Belgian troops several people confidential re- from retreating at a time they 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 generation. Victory Defeat is necessary for her re- unavoidable."

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

to moral ruin.

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

through where and when they like,"

Defeat followed by a rapid

In him the strategist and the peace will perhaps cost us a tactician began to give way to province, a few ports, some the partisan with a fear of Bol- colonies. What is that in shevism. comparison with France's re- generation, which is indispen- sable?

Conspiracy

From

then

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

To-morrow

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

One of the people the group wished to convince, because her To nervous, short-term policy and disheartenment in the current "Even if you went to Tours salon was the meeting-place of The French Government leaves thinkers, this may be a forbidding war news. The battle which is to It would be scarcely less danger- a number of distinguished men rarks for Tours. De Gaulle surgesta alternative, but for those who have destroy Iltierism once and for all is

and women who might be useful making a desperate stand in Brit- courage at the present and faith in still to come. Britain and the Em-ous than Paris." the future, it places in true perspec-ire, alded by the United States, are "Obviously.. Unfortunatoly propagandists was at first in- tany. Arrangements made to go tive the position existing in the fight busily preparing for it; Mr Churchill, we haven't enough planes, dignant at the monstrosity of vention of Mae, de Fortes and the which the democracles Dro now us leader of the Empire, awaits the enough material. Oh!" he ex- the plan. waging against totalitarianism. Mr hour with calm confidence; much claimed. "That" And, rals. So they invoked the authority Weygand demands that a request bo Churchill's message comes as a new leadership demands our unswerving Inspiration to those in the Empire,' support and loyalty,

ing despairing arms, ho pro- of the mon who were the apos- made for an armistice.

There are overruled · through inter-

""Penen party," who want Bordeaux.

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