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BRITISH

YOUTH

IN TWO WARS

IF ONE COMPARES

THE YOUTH OF

BRITAIN during the years

of the War of 1914-18 with

By SIRDAR IKBAL ALI SHAH,

The well-known Muslim author

is being waged in a spirit of such grim and sober strenu-

ousness.

Of course one remarks quite a deal of reckless galety and even a certain, incidence of folly, but that,

I am sure we will all agree,

is much more sporadic and incidental

than general.

The English Miss, drop- dicated the writing on the However, the dread of past the young people who are ping her somewhat nun-like wall with dramatic fore- example by no means ex-

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plains everything. In the early months of the war a

to-day, certain marked dif- ing, appeared in a new veil- The bare truth was, ferences become almost at ing of sunset-hued gar- think, that men on leave certain attitude of "Well, if once apparent, particularly ments and made free with from the mud and blood of we must," was apparent in to the Oriental mind. The cosmetics. The last sad the trenches naturally crav- some quarters. Indeed, it greatest contrast, perhaps, rags of Victorianism seemed for a relaxation as vio was to be found in places up is to be found in the spirit ed to be thrown to the wild lent as that of the life-in- to the moment of excitement which pre- winds of festival.

valled almost throughout

the former struggle, and

*

of the

death they had been facing. Franco-Belgian debacle. The girls, always keenly After Dunkirk a marked studious of male moods, change became apparent in

the unruffled attitude to Liquor in abundance present events of the young heightened the feverishness quickly sensed this prevail- the manner and bearing of manhood and womanhood of the proceedings. The ing spirit and found them-

our youth. Britain was cocktail with its deleterious selves in sympathy with it. fighting this war single-

of this island.

handed. It was going to be There was something al mixture of vintages and

no picnic, but had resolved most vociferous about the spirits was certainly respon-

But the aftermath was a itself into a life-and-death sible for much of the row sad one. In spite of whoo- struggle between the Brit- manner in which the youth

diness of the war years, as pee and cocktails Britain ish of Britain approached its

Commonwealth, the was the American habit of won the war. It left in its natural upholder of human Thongkong Telegraph ordeals in 1914. Indeed

"The isle was full of carrying a flask in the hip- train, however, scores of freedom, and a mob of noises", and patriotic senti- pocket. These things made ruined careers. Thousands gangster brigands whose for a freedom of manner be- found themselves unable to the world subservient to sole intention was to make ment ran high.

fore unknown to the coun- put the brake on and con- their will and hale it into The music halls, the tem- THE prefix "special to the Telegraph ples of this highly-strung

try,

tinued the headlong follies bondage. and of war-time in the piping

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1936, Buch new

Parents 'stormed

under the revisions of the Telecommuni- and pugnacious, cult, fur- beard the indication Ups receives nished songs so exuberant- raved but saw that they times of peace. Broken could make no impression. lives and hearts strewed the

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THE so-called state, visit to Japan of Mr Wang Ching-wei,

and

ly martial as to surprise a

*

The young people, with

arracserely or in part without previous foreigner, who could scarce- The ferrule of authority paths of the post-war years. their lives before them,

ly credit the cool and col- had slipped from their The legends of these were were thinking furiously. lected British people with grasp, and they solaced told in every household.

They saw and saw steadi- such uproarious militancy. themselves with the formula

The youth of to-day heard ly, that unless the world that the country, and The shrines of the dance humanity along with it, had whispers of how Uncle Bill were made safe from the No. 1 defector from the Govern- were tumultuous, not only gone to the dogs. Elderly or Aunt Ethel, debauched German menace any pros- ment of China, closes one door with the newly discovered ladies muttered Apocalyptic by their-wax-time experi-pect of future happiness

slender enough. American jazz", but with warnings about scarlet ences, had never been able they might have would be opens another. The that "whoopee" which made women" and "the mark of to get into step again, and Japanese nominee is being re-the fatalistic Oriental feel the Beast," and clergymen shuddered at the thought of The abominations perpet- ceived by the Emperor of that Europe had found a preached on the text: "Let these "horrible examples." rated in Poland, Holland Japan, this in itself being tacit new affinity with the spirit us eat, let us drink, for to-

This may explain to some like iron into men's souls, and Czechoslovakia, entered approval of Dr. Honda's recent of Africa.

we die," and in- extent why the present war and revealed what would vehement utterances that a set- tlement of the China Incident must be sought through the medium of the Nanking ad- ministration and not by any other means. Dr Honda, Tokyo

morrow

PRIVATE LIFE OF A PRIVATE: Another Chapter

It's

a

Lovely

Weapon!

.

happen to the people of Britain did the Nazis suc- ceed in getting a footing there. To some extent it stopped the flow of gaiety at its source, though it did representative in Nanking, pre. "EVERYBODY'S got light

"Well," anys the imperturb-, "The same goes for us against not quench the natural ceded Wang to Japan "to re-

"machine-guns,” says Charlie able Hitch, "they don't. See? Jerry. So long as we've got the buoyancy of the British

The Wops fight with the same same sort of equipment as he's people in face of danger. port" only a few weeks ago and the Chancer.

weapons that we use...... And-aro!. it would now seem that Wang

got, we can beat him all right| Hitch, the Wigan Sergeant, we beating the Wobs 7" had demanded something abso-looks at him in a deceptively

because our heart's really in the deeper spirit of gravity not In any case, it diffused a "Maybe we are.” lutely final in Japanese recogni- simple, ox-like way and says: Send what are we beating "See, you wad-scoffing Twom- only through all classes, but

"Ther's no maybe. We are. fight. tion of his status to kill con- "What d'you mean, "Everybody's them with, do think?, met? So don't talk like a soppy particularly among the stantly recurring rumours of got light machine-guns?" "

Death-rays?"

great Snurge, you silly sausage. young men in the Army and peace overtures to Chungking.

"Maybe we are."

The Bren is a lovely weapon. "What I say, Sarnt. Ain't

the young women in the The answer is in the visit to Jerry got 'em?"

"Well we're not, see?. We're "Now put your fags out and allied services. beating 'em with the same let me hear you run over these Tokyo. Once having presented "He has," says Sergeant weapons as they use. Why, groups of parts. You, name me

For although the young him to their Emperor us the Hitch.

Wavell out there, he had the four groups.”

folk of 1914-18 realised to leader of China, the Japanese

nothing at all to start with: ho "Butt group, body

the full that in Germany "Well, I don't see what all the just bluffed 'em at the begin piston group, and barrel group," they were fighting a vicious

group, can hardly withdraw their excitement is about this here ning Well, why are we beating says Charlie. patronage.

and vengeful enemy, they "We ought to have death- were under the misappre Bren gun."

the Wops? Because we're free It is evident that the Japan-

men, see?

rays," he adds, "It gives you a high rate of ese would have dearly liked to fire," comes the answer. "It's

Government

you

see Axis recognition of the dead accurate. It's got no shock GRIN AND BEAR IT Nanking

before of recoil. A ten-year-old could) proceeding to this extreme fire it, take it to pieces, and put stage; alternatively they would It together again. have preferred to have met a "It's little and don't need any little encouragement from the cover worth mentioning. What feelers sent out to Chungking. more do you want? Do you However, the uncompromising want it to go out and take attitude of General Chiang Kai- prisoners, you silly Twillip?" ; shek, which events have proved had the support of Chungking enabled Wang Ching-wei to de- mand extrication from humiliating position into which he had been placed.

When

the

not one reputable

"No, I do not want it to sing and dance to me, Sarnt. But if everybody's got 'em, what's the points? Where do they get us?; We fire Brens at them; they fire Brens at us."

Chinese, let alone a foreign "A lawyer," says Sergeant} country, followed Japan's lead Hitch, sadly. "That's what you by giving him "face" Wang are. Listen. In the last war, was strengthened by the know- did the Jerries run about naked ledge that his fall would be in-

with spears?" algnificant compared with the loss in prestige that Japan would suffer. Accordingly he has the confidence to insist that Japan commit herself to sustain his star and the Tokyo "junket" to use an appropriate Ameri- can word is the outcome.

་ ་་

It remains to be seen whether the Nanking leader will find his star in the ascendant there.

"I couldn't say, Barrit.” "What does this horrible Twidget mean, he couldn't say?" "I wasn't there, Sarnt, and no more was you."

"All right. Do tho Wops -fight, with and arrors?".

"They might do," says Charllo the Chancer. "I never seen.

hension that these poison- ous qualities did not reside so much among the German

By Lichty people as among the mili-

"I didn't sleep a wink all night trying to think of now ways

to show, Phil-that he means nothing at all to mo

tary and their leaders, par- ticularly the group which surrounded the Kaiser.

This generation, on the contrary, is well aware that the homicidal spirit of Ger- many's leaders is fully en- dorsed by the German peo- ple at large, who are by nature sadistic and blood- thirsty, as well as animated by the ungenerous passionsTM of envy and revenge..

In a word, the thought of the perilous position of humanity as a whole has assuredly reacted upon the youth of Britain, making them determined and watch- ful. And I think, too. the lessons of the past have been thoroughly taken to heart and their dangers fully recognised.

M

Britain will prevail, but it will be because of her so- briety, thoughtfulness and calm courage in the face of danger unexampled,