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May 15, 1941. By Walt Disney

the fatnous British film star, acted as host to the crows of the British ships, Glenwood and Langleytarn, in New York recently, when at the same time the New York British War Relief Society shipped two portable canteens to England. Misa Neagle distributed wear.

is due soon at the King's Theatre.

NEAGLE ing apparel and other useful prèsenia to the crew. Ifer latest picture, "No, No, Nancite"

Diplomat Is Best-Seller

BR

new.

RITAIN has a

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 conies, 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 Gor- many of the Sudetenland and publishing letter jointly signed by, among others, Barry Domvile, Lord London- derry and Pitt-Rivers, 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

Beck 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, dinglly 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 easel a map of Europe, from which nearly all the colours had faded, so that, with the exception of these Islands, It looked almost as

•`though the greater part of the Continent was one huge state. I thought it an omon at the time.

THE room belonged-it still

doen-—to Sir Robert Van- sittart, Chief Diplomatic Ad- visor to the Government,”

Let us admit that if his advice was not asked at the time of Munich, his own tem- perament may have had some-

the

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

4

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 Munichecrs.

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 Goothe was right when he said that as an individual the Germán 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 pró.... blom 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

Goabbela has made of Van

kama sittart's material, The ang

HEY, JOE! DID YUH KNOW YUK GOT A FISH ON

YER HOOK?

The Times," finding nothing better to attack him about, uttacks 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 fent of making bedfellows out of Pritt and Dawson who edita the "Times"?

IF I were asked to whom I

would most surely apply the word "civilised" 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 à tennis racket might appear suddenly in his hand, and that he wouldn't serve a 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 à second later he will be smiling. It's just a habit.

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

I

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

If I envied any man I should envy the one who will come to write his blography in 60 or 70 years' time. Ho will be.

of Bri writing the history tain's most tremendous per- lod; and looking at the photo- graphs that will be available to him, he will wonder why, porhans, this man had a faco that was not bitter to le

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Agreement

Alleged

LONDON, May 14 (Reuter), -Well-informed circles in Vichy ore of the opinion that the Fr anco-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 Italy.

CAPTOR OF

It is also reported that the Armis- HESS IS

tice Clause will be revised and that

a new demarcation line will be

established between the Occupied NEW HERO

and Unoccupied zones.

Nothing definite is yet known of

French confessions to Berlin but the But Protests He Is main German Idea seems be to

Anglo-Saxon Industrial No. Film Star:

oppose

the

bloc by a European Industrial bloc in

which French metallurgical ard LONDON, May 14 (Reuter). mining industries would play an im--Officers of the Special Branch portant part,

of Scotland Yard throughout the

Berchtesgaden Again

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. tesgaden, necording to the Swiss A military guard also has radio quoting Vichy reports.

Herr von Ribbentrop and Field been posted at the gates, only Marahat Kellel were present.

authorised persons being allow-

Admiral Darlon arrived by specialed to pass.

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

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

The Swiss announcer added that it less.

had been unofficially stated in Vichy McLean declared: "I am not want- that Admiral Darlan would shortlying to be a film star—I have no Ume go to Paris where he would have à to go to pictures.”

fresh meeting with a "high German When newsreel men said that they personality" with the view to putting would come back later, McLean into operation the agreement already reached in principle.

ENEMY SHIPPING

LOSSES

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

replied: "It will need to be later. A ploughmar's work is never done.”

Posed Ploughing

am

In response to their entreaties, be suid: "You can take me while ploughing." So the carneromen staggered over the rough ploughed field and McLean, greatly amused, said to his horse: "You can think a lot more of yourself to-day, Silver," When the photographers had finish- ed, McLean told them: "You people coming up here and keeping me off my work has been more trouble than the German was."

Hallucinatione

BASLE

May 14 (Reuter),—The letter left by Rudolf Hesa contains no signs thut Hess deserted in con- At least 12 vessels, ranging from sequence of hallucinations. an armed merchant cruiser (sunk by According to the "Basler Nachrich-

ten Cornwall in. HMS

this is Ocean) lo patrol vessels destroyed off coasts of Norway, Holland,

correspondent France and Germany, were sunt or adds, warns the public against draw-

ing rendered total losses.

from statements

the

_the___Indian molly slated in Berlin 15

correspondent in

the

The statement,

conclusions

Five supply ships with an estimat- about Hess from England which Bri- ed tonnage of 18,000 tons were sunk tain is using for propaganda pur-

and at least six others were severely poses and which already have been damaged.

branded as obtained under duress,

g the attack by British naval

Tells of Hardship on Benghazi Harbour on May LONDON, May 14 (Reuter)-Hess 8, an enemy

ammunition ship of a reported to have told form people between 5,000 and 6,000 tons was of the hardship now being experi- blown to pleces and a supply ship enced in Germany and of the great of 3,000 tons was sunk in the same distress amongst the people there engagement,

further over the bombing by the. R.AF, and bombardment from point blouk range of the suffering of the civilian popu- on the night of May 10 caused more lation. damage to enemy shipping and mill- iary objectives.

while 1

Attacks on Warships

suc-

Lord Gort At Gib

GIBRALTAR, May 14 (Router)---

The R.A.F. made two more cessful attacks on the battle-cruisers. General Lord Cort, assumed com- The new Governor of“ Gibraltarj

Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, at Brest

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-alleglance at Government House. ful armour-piercing bombs Were obtained.

On May 11, the German merchant veszel, Coburg, at 11,400 tons, which has been neling as a supply ship to a German raider in the Indian Ocean, and the Norwegiant tanker, Ketty Brovig, of 7,000 tons, captured by the raider, were intercepted by the Australian warship Canberra and H.M.S. Leander.

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

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