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THE prefix "Special to the Telegraph" is used by the "Hongkong Telegraph' to indicate news which la stricity copyright under the provisions of the Telecommuni- calons Ordinance. 1036. Such nOWS RA bears the indication "UP" is received in Itangkong on the date of publication by the United Press Associations, whe re- serve all rights and forbid repúblications, either wholly or in part without previous arrangement,

MIGHT OF THE R.A.F. THE increased striking power of the Royal Air Force in their

attacks on vital centres in Ger-

man and German-occupied terri- tories, is not, perhaps, fully appreciated. This may in part. be due to the inherent shyness

OPPOSITE NUMBERS

The air champions

Sperrie

Portal

OMMANDER of the

COM

German Air Forco wing operating against Britain Field-Marshal (Ale Marshal) Otto Sperrte monocled, fiftylsh, fat, fought as a bomber pilot in the last war.

WHAT has GERMANY

given the world?

ONE of Britain's most influential and intelligent friends, Mr Henry Luce, has written an article of such vision and constructive power that it should be broadcast Republicans in Spain. throughout the English-speaking When he cane buck he

world. convinced Goering that Britain would. not stand

Ho commanded the Condor Legion of Nizi "Volunteers" against the

to bombing. He en- gineered the civilian mur der attack on Coventry and other British cities, and wrote about them: "These attacks were' par- ticularly vigorous and. successful."

He has no known hobby, and spends his - time

It is called "The American Cen- tury"; it is published in Mr Luce's own magazine "Life," and it may be described as a plea to America

every community in the world, from Zanzibar to Hamburg, recognises in

comņion.

"Blindly, unintentionally, accident- ally and really in spite of ourselves wo are already a world power in all the trivial ways in very human ways."

There is one word which I should delete from that summing up. It is the word "only."

There is this American inter- nationalism, and it is highly important that an

American of Mr Luce's eminence should admit it.

By BEVERLEY NICHOLS

to assume, in conjunction with planning civilian Britain, the leadership of the chinos with high explo- civilised world, with all the respon-

sives and incendiaries.

His most famous say-sibilities, sacrifices and hardships ing: "Is there a foe that which such a leadership would in-

volve.

bonbing cannot break?"

COMMANDER of

the

Royal Air Force operating against Germany-Air Chief Marshal Sir Charles Parial, has deep-set yes, prominent none, and is ig Thinker of the RAF forty even, slim, served in the list war. first no ranker,

He borsed

Bomber Command when wat started. and evolved the great "maa- ter plan" which is devastat In Germany's war industeler Is, too, in a bomber pilot. and won the bomb-nimer's prize of the R.A.F. 1e bow Heves in playing the carne, and m cricket was captain of the school eleven at Win- chester.

Spare time is spent in written falconry, He books about it.

has

I most famous saying: * 'em. and hit 'em hard." Also been known to say': "Bomb them to blazes."

}

I have no space even to begin to describe Mr Luce's propositions. But one paragraph in the article struck me 48 worthy of further coni. ment. (Mr Luce puts it in almost as an "aside.")

To those Americans who still cling to the illusion of "isolation," who are still terrified by the very sound of the word "internationalism," he addresses the following reproof:

"Once we cease to distract ourselves with lifeless arguments about isolation. ism we shall be amazed to discover that there is already an immense American American jazz, internationalism. Hollywood movies, American slang, American machines and, patented pro- ducts are in fact the only things that

MAYFAIR NOW

By Alison Settle

*

But

if you look at a map of

two other internationalisms-the

the world you will realise that there British and the French.

are

WE

and the French have the same genius as America for making our ideas the property of the world. And though they may sound trival, they aren't.

To consider two "trivial" examples, it is not for nothing that two English words which are understood in almost every language are the words "gentle- man" and "cricket."

Nor is it for nothing that two, French words which are equally inter- national are the words "liberte" and "chic."

If we und the French had not cer- tain moral and artistic standarde in which the world believed, as firmly as we believed them ourselves, those words would be of merely local importance.

Now how does Germany come out of this test?

There is no German equiva- lent of "gentleman." There is no German equivalent of "chic." True, there are Hamburger sausages, but outside Germany those are only popular in some their house, their furniture, of the more Teutonic sections of workrooms, fabrics and models the United States, and even all gone.

But they converted there they are being called by In the streets of London's through the night, or that the the back of their building, the another name.

There is Pilsener beer, but luxury quarter, Mayfair, are designer himself, the managers, part that opened into another

about their achievements, but

goods, had also been out through rooms and workrooms, taking national. (To-day I understand once stood. The rubble that the night dressed in the khaki rooms nearby for those of the that it can hardly be called beer, prefer, rather, that results

either!) was an aristocratic mansion of the Home Guard.

staff as they could not accommo- should speak for themselves, falls across a street.

And, of course, there is cau- *

date, and within a week or two

de-Cologne. But don't -you even though these may not be

Such are the couture houses were showing models again. think it very significant that But that is only here and of London, which are sending Even royalty came to look. immediately visible to the

In Bruton Street is Norman sent its fragrance round the this product, which really has there. Between these gaps, their first united collection out Hartnell, the Queen's dress- life goes on with almost the this spring. same regularity as if war

of the R.A.F. who hate boasting | great gaps where houses and the men who dispatch the street, into showrooms, stock that can hardly be called inter-

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What is known, however--

Their

In Grosvenor Street, facing maker, and Victor Stiebel, who world, should have been obliged to attach to itself a French dresses the debutantes and

name? and the knowledge brings re-were not wrecking the lives the American Embassy, is a new

When you come to think of it, establishments almost inforced faith and hope in the of half the people of the building of pale red brick with young married women of so-

a handsome central portico; that ciety.

the only "gestures" ultimate superiority of our air-city.

is the house of Molyneux, re- have not been hit.

which Germany has made to the men over the Luftwaffe--is that And here goes

Hartnell's elegant establish-world have been ugly gestures. on the built to twice its size just be- British aircraft is now being London couture, now joined fore the war. Further down in ment is decorated in pale, cool_do_not_include_music, be constructed at such a rate that by some of the most famous the same street is the house of water green, the doors and cause the great German, compo Worth, which has stood there windows are of mirror glass,sers are, of course, utterly alien we can afford to send hundreds houses once operating in for generations, and where you the banquettes in palest water-to the concept of modern Ger-

Paris.

many.) of bombers, accompanied by

see the portrait of the original green corduroy velvet,

Stiebel uses a strong, vivid Worth of so many generations

Bismarck used the phrase fighters at one time in raids on The women of England back, and one who extended his lime yellow for his curtains, blood and iron," and that the Continent, where before we

cannot the exquisite business to Paris. Still further white for the walls, green for passed into the currency of cul- models which are being in the same street is Digby the carpets.

tured conversation in every were restricted to a few squa-

is 'in Creed created in the heart of May- Morton, in a house decorated

Piccadilly language. But it can hardly be drons; that we have invented a

fair-dance-gowns made of like an English country house. Lachasse faces the ruin of what called a pretty phrase.

Paquin ? new bomb which is incomparably lace worked over with there in Dover Street since the Mayfair, a street in which new-goosestep, and that would be in-

They have been was the loveliest little street in The Kaiser * invented more effective than any high jewelling, rich dinner turn of the century. A bomb ly-married couples used to take stantly recognised for what it is, explosive missile used by the

their Dover miniature houses with doll-like even if you showed it to a group' Nazis; that our targets have gowns, elegant clothes for brought down

luncheons and afternoons. Street premises one night. They gardens. Peter Russell is near- of Australian aboriginals. But

were rather put out to discover by.-(United Press).

it is not a very pretty step.

been so carefully chosen and our

1 Small High Explosive bombers' aim so accurate that Bomb

use

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The South China Morning Post, Ltd. will be pleased to supply cards 14′′ x 11" of the above list, with the name printed therson of any Firm or Club wishing to start a Strapmail Sex

rarely more than a third of those tweeds and top coats for the suffered by the German air war work on which they are invaders, which demonstrates engaged. They have to risk that either our airmen have

the bombs as they pass] learnt the secret of evading the Nazi defences, or that their de-through the streets; when fences are immeasurably in-they sit at dinner, the din- ferior to those of Britain,

oring room may well have lost both.

its wall.

And in taking stock of the task of the British pilots in their endeavours to disintegrate the Nazi war potential, it must not

work But the

of making luxury clothes goes on inside the couture houses of Mayfair. In the stock room lie rolls off silks, velveta, laces, as well as *exclusively our finc woollens and brilliant bombing power against Ger- tweeds. They are there to be man cities. The R.A.F. has made into dresses for the world R large part to playin ontside Britain, above all for the defence of our

a be forgotten that we cannot

concentrate

ship

ping. Apart from sea and ocean patrols, there are the enemy bases to be disorganised as well as the aerodromes from which British

the world, that is still not at war. Every dress made, every British fabric shown in such a model, is not only an ambassa- dor for Britain, but the means towna are attacked. of getting in the money which Neither must the invasion ports is at once translated Into be overlooked. There is no lack planes and guns and tanks and of jobs for the R.A.F.

battleships.

None the less, its strength increases On the walls of the elegant

so rapidly that each of the many

claims

met.

on tis bombs will soon be fully showrooms and in the work- If the British Government de- rooms alike you see posters pro-| elines to commit itself to a policy of claiming: "Courage, Cheerful- blind reprisals, that is because nuch a policy not be most effectiveness, Resolution-theso bring us bo rememing the war. But let it Victory." To see the workers

towards

that the Reich is stitching away at chiffons and

being badly hit by our intrepid air laces you would not think that men. Hitler, Geering and Goebbels some had passed their nights In know this whatever fantasies may the underground shelters, or 110 propagated in their oficial

had worked at first aid posts bulletins,

GRIN AND BEAR IT

By Lichty

"The United States says we're guilty of aggression in at- tacking our neighbour island, and they've 'frozep' 'our assets of 78 coconuts!"

the

ND, of course, there is, all over the world, the legend of German "efficiency."

The German professor is a stock theatrical character on any stage, North. South, East West. But when you ask "effléiency for what?" the answer again is not of the pret-

tiest.

But now switch your eyes south, to Austria

that "lesser" Ger- many which is so much the greater Germany, I need mention only one defall-the Viennese waltz.

You can whistle the "Blue Danube" on the banks of the Nile and the bostmen

will join in.

You can hum a few bars of Strauss or Lehar in a Mexican village and the district little urchins will grin and shuffle their feet.

Now, at a moment when Germany aspires to rule the whole world, it really is profitable to recall these de- tails (which might be multiplied tudefinitely), because they mount up to a fact of considerable importance.

WHICH is that the Germans lack something which may prova even more vital to them than any raw commodity, and that is the curious combination of tact, common sense. strength, gentleness and compromise which may bo Bummed on the genera)

torm-the capacity: to

colonise.

If the Germans had this capacity there might be real danger for Nor way, Denmark, Poland and all the rest of them. Their individuality might then Indeed, be absorbed in a vast Germanic unit

As it is, each week that passes by makes them more Norwegian, more Danish, more Polish, and more "ali

rest of it,

the

It is a happy augury for the future.