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May 15, 1941.

By Walt Disney

the famous British film star, acted as host to the crews of the British ships, Glenwood and Langleyturn, in New York recently, when at the same time the New York British War Relief Society shipped two portable canicens to England. Miss Neagle distributed wear- Ing apparel and other useful prosents to the crew. Her latest picture, "No, No, Nanette" is duo soon at the King's Theatre...

Diplomat Is Best-Seller

BRITAIN has a new

best-seller, out-top- ping most others. It is "Black Record," reprint _of_Sir Robert_Vansittart's broadcast talks on Ger- many. More than 250,000 copies, the nublishers told me, have now been sold. They say the demand shows no sign of drop- ping.

*,

This information set me thinking of the days when the "Times" was implicitly advo- cating the secession to Ger- inany of the Sudetenland and publishing. u letter jointly signed by, among others, Barry Domvile, Lord London- derry and Pitt-Rivera, saying, "We see the promise of a new era compared to which the tragic years that have gone since the war will seemi like a bad dream"-the days just before and after Munich, "In fact."

I

USED sometimes then to

acck comfort in a large. room at the end of the ground floor corridor of the Foreign Office. It contained no Munich- fancier.

It was a large, dingily opulent room with two win- dows on St James's Park, two on the Horse Guards, Be- sides furniture, it contained two globes, and on an expen- sive casel a map of Europe, 'from which nearly all the colours had faded, so that, with the oxception of these islands, it looked almost as though the greater part of the Continent was one huge state. I thought it an omen at the time..

Let us admit that if his advice was not asked at the time of Munich, his own tem- perament may have had some- _thing_to-do-with-it. Ho-docs—

not suffer fools as gladly, per- haps, as a diplomat should. On the other hand the amateurs who then controlled our foreign policy didn't suffer wise men gladly. The rest is history.

If all that seems past, it has something to do with the violent attacks made on him, for "Black Record," if it is, his view of the German nation, is, by implication, his justifica- tion and a round condemnation of the Municheers. -

man

WHAT is this pamphlet? It is an analysis of the Ger temperament, pointed with historical references; and it concludes with suggestions as to how Germany's per- petual desire to dominate the world can best be curbed in future. Its moral is that Goethe was right when he said that as an individual the Gorman is a human being, but that as a race they are im- possible.

It is written' in exuberant language, extravagant, if you like, I grant that. It is only fair to say, however, that some of the attacks made on Vansittart's thesis have been neither prejudiced nor violent. Many who have given much thought to the German pro- blem disagree honestly with' Vansittart; and have said so.

But nearly all the attacks- both from Right and Left- have been by implication: D. N. Pritt asks the Minister of Information. what use Dr Goebbels has made of Van sittart, Chief Diplomatic Ad--sittart's material. The aña- viacr to the Government.

wer, Toft course, Lis" "None.”--

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The Times," finding nothing better to attack him about, attacks him for having spoken in public at all, which is ir relevant.

But

Let us leave it at that. what sort of man is this who can perform the astonishing feat of making bedfellows out of Pritt and Dawson who edits the "Times"?

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would most surely apply the word "civllised" the face of Vansittart would come into my head and stay there. I could hardly describe him: he is too lively, even at 59, to be. pinned down. You feel that he shouldn't be indoors, that a tennis racket might appear suddenly in his hand, and that he wouldn't sorve n fault. Or that he's only waiting for the right moment to sit down and dash on paper some thought that has suddenly taken shape behind two sharp, pale eyes.

In the years I've known him I have hardly ever seen him sit down, except at a meal. Walking about his room with a Turkish cigarette between his fingers, he will suddenly put his hands up to his elegant head, as though he had just remembered some desperately unhappy piece of news. But that isn't it, at all, for when he takes them down again a second later he will be smiling. It's just a habit.

He's tall, broad-shouldered, and if he has tho kind of face that has never known what hardship is, that doesn't mean that it hasn't known something of great disap- pointments.

DON'T know, but I guess that he would wish to be more remembered as a poet than as a diplomat." But ho won't be, of course.

If I envied any man I should envy the one who will come to write his biography in 60 or 70 years' time. He will be writing the history of Bri tain's most tremendous per lod; and looking at the photo- graphs that will be available: to him, he will wonder why, perhans, this man had a faco that was not bitter.

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Berlin - Vichy Secret Agreement Alleged

LONDON, May 14 (Reuter). Well-informed circles in Vichy are of the opinion that the Franco-German discussions have covered a wider field than mere economic matters and that they - have not yet reached the final stages, reports the Swiss radio.

The negotiations, it is said,

dealt with France's place in the

new Europe of Germany and CAPTOR OF

HESS IS N

Italy.

It is also reported that the Armis- tice Cinuse will be revised and that

a new demarcation line will be

established between the Occupied and Unoccupied zones.

Nothing definite is yet known of

NEW. HERO

French concessions to Berlin but the But Protests He Is

main German idea seems to be to

oppose the Anglo-Saxon Industrial bloc by a European industrial bloc in which French metallurgical

and

No Film Star

LONDON, May 14 (Reuter).

mining Industries would play an im--Offccra of the Special Branch portant part.

Berchtesgaden. Again

of Scotland Yard throughout the

LONDON, May 14 (Reuter).The day have been checking all recent meeting between Hitler and callers at the hospital where Admiral Darlan took place at Berch-Rudolf Hess is detained. lesgaden, according to the Swiss

quoting Vichy reports.

Herr von Ribbentrop and

radio

Marshal Keltel were present.

Field

A military guard also has been posted at the gates, only, authorised persons being allow-

Admiral Darlan arrived by special ed to pass.

train from Paris, accompanied by the A horde of newsreet men lo-day

Nazi Am

the ploughman,

Ambassador there, Herr Otto descended upon Abets, and Commandant Fontaine of David McLear, and begged him to the French Ministry of Marine. re-enact his part in the capture of

ing to be a Alm star-I have no time McLean declared: "I am not want- to go to pictures."

The Swiss announcer added that it Hess. had been unomcially stated in Vichy that Admiral Darlan would shortly go to Paris where he would have fresh meeting with a "high German personality" with the view to putting into operation the agreement already reached in principle.

ENEMY SHIPPING LOSSES

con-

LONDON, May 14 (Reuter), --Enemy shipping was tinually attacked by units of the British Fleet and R.A.F. during the week ending May 12.

the

When newsreel men said that they would come back later, McLean replied: "It will need to be later. A ploughmar's work is never done."

Posed Ploughing

In response to their entreaties, he said: "You can take me while I am ploughing." So the cameramen staggered over the field and McLean, greatly amused,

rough ploughed.

said to his horse: "You can think a lot more of yourself to-day, Silver." When the photographers had Onish- ed, McLean told them: "You people coming up here and keeping me off my work has been more trouble than the German was."

Hallucinations

BASLE

letter left by Rudolf Hess contains May 14 (Reuter).-The no signs thut Hess deserted in con-

hallucinations.

At least 12 vessels, ranging from sequence of an armed merchant cruiser (sunk by According to the "Basler Nachrich- H.M.S. Cornwall in the Indian ten" correspondent Ocean-to-patrol-vessels destroyed off oflleially stated in Berlin, this is

Bertin Consis of Norway, Holland,

The statement, the

correspondent France and Germany, were sunk or adds, warns the publie against draw- rendered total losses.

ing conclusions from statements Five

about Hess from England which Bri- tain is using for propaganda pur- poses and which already have been branded as obtained under duress.

Tells of Hardship LONDON, May 14 (Reuter)-Hess

supply ships with an estimat ed tonnage of 18,000 tons were sunk and at least six others were severely damaged.

During the attack by British naval forces on Benghazi Harbour on May

8, an enemy ammunition ship of is reported to have told farm people

was of the hardship now being experl-

a supply ship enced in Germany and of the great

between 5,000 and 8,000 tons blown to pieces and of 3,000 tons was sunk in the same distress amongst the people there

while engagement,

further over the bombing by the RAF, and bombardment from point blank range of the muffering of the civilian popu on the night of May 10 caused mora Intion. damage to enemy shipping and mill-

tary objectives.

a

Attack on Warships

suc-

Lord Gort At Gib

GIBRALTAR, May 14 (Reuter)- new Governor of Gibraltar,

The R.AF. made two more cessful attacks on the battle-cruisers. The

Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, at Brest Ceneral Lord Gort, assumed

com

on the nights of May 3 and 7, and it and to-day and took the oath of

a certain that direct hits with power allegiance at Government House.

armour-piercing bombs were

ful

obtained.

On May 11, the German merchant vessel, Coburg, of 11,400 tons, which has been acting as a supply ship to German raider in the Indian Ocean, and the Norwegian tanker, Ketty Brovig, of 7,000 tons, captured by the ralder, were Intercepted by the Australian warship Canberra

and H.M.S. Leander.

A number of Norwegians and Chinese were rescued and 18. Ger- man officers and 47 ratings were taken prisoner.

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