1941-04-29 — Page 4

Tuesday

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH OF

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 chlidren. 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 iles. Ho Ilves more in- tensely, reacts more vividly to every little thing in his surround. ings. That's why the bringing up of such children needs for more Insight on the part of the parents than the bringing-up of ordinary children.

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

When you notice that your child Is off his food, or that he looks pale, puffy under the eyes, that he's rather nervous and irritable or gets tired too easily, then you should act quickly.

THE

All these are warning signa that the child is using up his nervous energy more quickly than he's replacing it. And it in 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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HONGKONG

WEYGAND

THE HERO, TURNS

DEFEATIST

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

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

"Shall we manage to save the thinker, and future statesman the month extending bourg, and M. Paul-Reynaud

army of the North?"

was none other than Baudouin. IN

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 utmost. 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 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, "Ilave you superseded many "He no longer believes vic-. M. Paul Reynaud laboured which fell amid the As- people?"

tory possible. He is practically with prodigious energy and sembly like a bomb:

a courage worthy of success

to rescue his country from

situation.

"Yes. 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, colonel into generals." ger!"

make him see that France, an apparently hopeless 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, as in 1914- for the names of those to on your guard against a peace 18, of another fifteen hundred by fatal errors, unjust and blame, of those responsible. as from England!"

offensive intended to separate thousand dead, and perhaps

more!" useless cruelties, and by

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

He set about refashion- incredible errors-which withstand it." ing his Ministry. Daladier would be punished

The Fire Goes Out moved reluctantly from the been committed, notably the

Between May 25, when I Ministry of War to the For- failure to blow up the

And while this venom was heard bridges over the Meuse.

these words 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- Hongkong Telegraph. "Present!" without a shadow tences lashed the nerves of intion, was only three days.

the date of the Belgian capitu- ing. The defences of Boulogne

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THE pronx "Special to the Telegraph

is ted by the "Hongkong Telegraph” to Indicate news which is strictly copyright under the provisions of the Telecommuni- cations Ordinance. 1936, Buch news as bears the indication "U" is received in Hongkong on the date of publication by the United Press Amocistions, who re-

had

his hearers, and raised ten-

try of State with the title of followed shouts of indigna- General Weygand was put out.

The Commander-in-Chief saw

Vice-President of the Coun-

cil.

tion.

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

Capitulation

and Calais were overrun by the 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

that he could not hope to claim was in progress, in which the Just when a gigantic battle 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.

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 nccusing 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 |terior.

worthy of his ancestors.".

a rapid peace? Gamelin was to be re- During the twenty-first, My attention was drawn to Belgian army has just capitu- the King of the Belgians "the placed by Weygand, who twenty-second, and several secret meetings, conferences be- Inted unconditionally, in the how grim or disagreeable they stood for the epic of the

serve all rights and forbid republications, with ferocious vigour

either wholly or in part without previous arrangement.

CHURCHILL'S REALISM REALISM, by which is meant unflinching acceptance of facts and potentialities 10 matter

other war.. He stood for Foch. They sent for him. He would come.

Petain- Weygand-Man-

may be, has always been an outstanding characteristic of Mr Winston Churchill, but never has this been more forcibly or effectively demonstrated as in his speeches delivered during

del. the past 18 months either in Parliament through .the The choice of these three microphone to the nethermost was calculated, for different reasons, to inspire confi-

or

ends of the earth.

Mr Churchill's realism is thatdence in the nation at a

of a courageous, honest man.

vision whose

remains 1:71-

presenting the truth and nothing

period when the military

France-the Whole Truth

Third Article

by ELIE J. BOIS

ам

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

KONALENIE ZAFIRADNJI JALARAE

thick of the fight and on the or-

der of its King, without warning its French and British com rades-in-arms aut"`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 III of the charge of

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

Weygand, who had been visits made to one another by Paul Reynaud's speech. but the truth is almost brutal Hope Renewed summoned and who had the apostles of a new mysticism. M. Gutt, the Belgian Minister 'Their object was to win over of Finance, who, until the ar General Weygand's arrival come in order to be the as many people as possible to rival in London of M. Pierlot revived failing courage. If

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

and M. Spaak, represented the Belgian Government in Great Defeat? Yes. Defeat! By Britain, publicly stated that Weygand agreed to conduct sibility of saving.

asking for military operations, that That was the impression I

an armistice at Leopold III had not come to once, they argued, good peace terms with the enemy and re- meant he did not despair. had after a talk with M. terms would be obtained.

mained a prisoner."` 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 for anything that may be asked of him.

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 defeat of Yugo-Slavia) are tak- ing place in the Balkans our forces in Libya sustained a vexatious and damaging defeat

. It is certain that fresh dangers besides those which threaten Egypt may come upon us in the Mediterranean. The war may rpread to Spain and Morocco. It may spread cast- 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 tell?"

This is plain speaking, but it

Mr Winston Churchill, who came to Paris for a few hours, paid this

"Yesterday we went to- tribute to the septua- genarian when he had a gether to see what the de-

.

Despair

when

one

Thanks to Mussolini, Hitler would be magnanimous, well content to have a few ports at their disposal against Eng-

M. Gutt-and land, with whom France knows his moral and intellectual could then break off alliance, worth, 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- fences of Paris are like tance-and I know the name of

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conversation with him: "I'm afraid you're a little just in case it should be

necessary to defend Paris.' prominent too young."

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

"Can He Do It?"

Weygand plunged into the adventure. He flew over the

cuss matters with the com- Franco-Belgian front to dis-

is not defentism, for, in his pur-manders of the armies un-

poseful tone of voice, Britain's

I reminded him discreetly

Premier went on to declare that der his orders, including the that on May 16 some mem- Britain would meet the Nazis Belgian army and the B.E.F. bers of the Government had anywhere, and, without under-

Everywhere he left an insinuated that Paris should rating their prowess as war impression of calm and con- be evacuated. He replied in

fident strength.

brisk, ardent, staccato sen-

riors, would fight them until victory had been won.

And it was Churchill's realism which prompted him once again

manoeuvre.

"In Danger!"

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

At the War Ministry this tences: flight was considered as to insist that the final victory the prelude to a skilful would come in the defeat of Hitler's Atlantic offensive. In effect, the Premier said: We may suffer reverses in the Bal- 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- tle has been taken from her.

thin this for the forking

Then the names Peronne,

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

his evidence carries

He wrote: "The total collapse

Government recently assigned a of the French Generalissimo South, coupled with the orders one to whom Marshal Fetain's of the French armies in the

position-made to several people confidential re- from retreating at a time they 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 defeat. Army and made the surronder Defeat is necessary for her re- unavoidable." generation. Victory would

During the night of May 27- strengthen the political re- 28, a. Council of Ministers was

ime 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 Germana will get fidioun a regime,

through where and when they like."

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

shevism. comparison with Franco's re- generation, which is indispen

sable?

Conspiracy

. From then on hia chief

thought was to keep ready to

his hand an army of social de- fenco against an imaginary re- volution. No longer would he command victory.

To-morrow

especially in a place like Hongkong,

One of the people the group who may and enuse for fretfulness

wished to convince, because her and disheartenment in the current) "Even if you went to Tours salon was the meeting-place of

newa. The battle which is

The French Government leaves Walroy Hltieriem once and for all to it would be scarcely less danger a number of distinguished men Paris for Tours. De Gaulle suggests still to come. Britain and the Emous than Paris.'

and women who might be useful making a desperate stand in Brit-

Τα 'nervous, short-term policy

alternative, but who have courage at the present and faith in the future, it pinces in true perspec- vire, aided by the United Sintos, are "Obviously. Unfortunately propagandista was at first in- tany. Arrangements made to zo tive the position existing in the fight|| bully preparing for it; Mr Churchill, we haven't enough planes, dignant at the monstrosity of there are overruled through inter which the democracies

vention of Mme. de Portes and the aro now s leader of the Empire, awaits the enough material. Oh!" he ex- the plan. waging against totalitarianism. Mr hour with calm confidence; such

"Peace party who want Bordeaux. Churchill's message comes as a new leadership demands our unswerving claimed, "That" And, rais So they invoked the authority Weygand demands that a request be Inspiration to those in the Empire, support and loyalty.

Ing despairing arms, he pro- of the men who were the apos- made for an armistice.