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BY

DOROTHY THOMPSON

MR WINSTON CHURCHILL has entered his second year of office as Prime Minis

ter of Great Britain.

Twelve months ago, with Britain facing the darkest crisis of the war, this great man took control of the coun- try.

He offered "blood, toil, tears and sweat," but by his indomitable courage and forceful leadership he brought Britain through grim days of defeat and strengthened her to fight on for victory.

men.

Hongkong Telegraph. Britain in her finest hour.

enemy.

"He inherited an unholy mesa.'

Here in America we have another great leader, Presi- dent Roosevelt, to whom Democracy looks in the fight for face in the crowd: quick, spontaneous, infinitely winning. freedom. Between them these two men will bring Wes- One can be an opponent of Franklin Roosevelt- tern civilisation through its most terrible ordeal,

an opponent time and again, on specific measures. But To-day I want to tell you what I know of these great only the most embittered partisan or die-hard can be his

First, my own President Franklin Roosevelt, who has inspired us with the, determination to defeat aggres- He has brought the White House down to the indivi- sion: second your Premier, Winston Churchill, who leads dual fireside. No American President ever had so many people in the land who felt as though they were his personal FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT, President of the friends.

Roosevelt is a man who, in his personal life, has over- United States, is the man whom Hitler hates and fears more than anyone on earth except Winston Churchill come disaster, and overcome it utterly. I am convinced that this is the most important thing about By a crazy fluke of Nature, a disease THE greax real to the Telegraph that usually hits only children struck Reports during the him. He knows it can be overcome.

week allege that the two statesmen have been conferring secretly somewhore in the Atlantic.

Friday, Aug. 8, 1941.

Wyndham St., Hongkong

Telephone:

sued by the Hongkong Telegraph to intente news which is strictly copyright under the provisions of the Telecommuni- allons Ordinance, 1916, Such news ** bears the indication "UI" is received in longkong on the date of publication by the United Press Avariations, who re serve all rights and forbid republications, either wholly or in part without previous arrangement.

HITLER'S PROBLEM

BIGGEST problem confront- ing Hitler in his Eastern Front campaign is the toll it is taking of his oil reserves. The Ger- mans, in fact, are faced with a disastrous situation.

One authoritative source calculated that German oil con sumption in the Russian cam- paign must be at least 300,000 tons a month, on the basis that the oil consuming forces employ- ed by Germany probably consist

of some 15 armoured,

motorised

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infantry and ordinary infantry divisions, making approximately 6,300 -light-and heavy tanks_in_opera- tion together with 72,500 motor vehicles of various kinds and

| 3,750 motor cycle combinations. The average fuel consumption by tanks is one gallon for every mile and a half, and on the assumption that all tanks operate for about 60 miles a day, the daily total consumption for all vehicles is probably 1,020,000 gallons, or about 100,000 tons per month. Consumption by the Luftwaffe for all purposes is estimated at 60,000 tons month, assuming that the total planes in use is 4,000 and that half of this strength is in the air for three hours a day. Additionally there are the Ger- man naval forces in the Baltic

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Roosevelt mercilessly, cruelly, disastrously when he was in early manhood.

Never again would he walk without each step being an agony, resting on the arms of some friend.

His face, when last, I saw him, wore an unusual gravity. Then someone, in the crowd caught his eye, and he smiled.

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He knows, too, that the place to over- Не come it first is in one's own mind. knows that you overcome it, not by refus- ing to see it, but facing it in its last, one has blackest reality. Then, when faced it whole, one can overcome it.

FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT was the first Demo-

cratic head of a State to know beyond peradven-

There are two Roosevelt smiles. There is the almost ture of a doubt that Hitlerism meant war. automatic smile of the man who perhaps attracts attention

to his vivid, mobile face, in order to detract attention from ful disaster. And because he faced it, Mr Roosevelt is his stricken body.

But there is another Roosevelt smile, and it was this smile that the pale, chilly man turned on. that friend's "He knows how to face disasters."

N Good Friday afternoon I

and the Finnish, Hungarian and cut to a performance of

Rumanian armies to be entered for,

At the beginning of the war Germany's oil stocks amounted to 12,500,000 tons which experts

afternoon Do you

Handel's "Messiah." Later in the day I mentioned the fact. to a youth of 18 or so, whose com- ment was that the music was "phoney."

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new

He faced that reality: There was going to be a dread- going to win this war-Mr Roosevelt and une American people-aligned on the side of Great Britain.

The man who survived the blitzkrieg on himself will be the chief factor in winning this war. That is why 1litler knows his end was in sight when Roosevelt was re-elected.

Americans don't know it. Not yet. But Hitler knows, it. He is a superstitious man-ind he knew his luck had turned.

And, though Americans have confidence in him, they do not know; perhaps, what Roosevelt means to the rest of the civilised world to the British, to all the Norwegians, and Dutch, and French, and Poles.

They think he has a "lucky star." To them he is the great man, the man with the laugh, the man who survived the blitzkrieg of discuse and who isn't afraid of Hitler.

EVEN more hated by Hitler is Churchill, but Hitler would have liked him, I think, if he had been a German, Not in generations have such words of passionate love and measured-indignation-fallen from English lips as Churchill ut- tered in a series of speeches called "While England Slept."

And while he spoke, while he spoke mostly to unheeding ears, the shadow was lengthening, and finally loomed so tall and menac- ing that all the world could sec.

And then, when it was over them with all the full darkness

of its horrors and destruction, the people of England lifted Chur-

chill on their hands, crying: "Speak and fight for us!"

It was very, very late when Churchill took up his last fight for Britain. He inherited an unholy mess.

Let us tell the truth. He inherited all that the men of little faith, the money-grubbers, the windy pacifists, the ten-to-five bureaucrats had left undone. But he said no word against them. He did not do what you, Hitler, have done to your predeces- sors hold them up to ridicule and contempt.

Churchill is half a generation older than Hitler, but he took up the fight for the sceptred isle, that precious stone set in a silvered sea; he took up. the fight for the world-wide common- wealth of men, held together by the most slender thread of com- mon language and a common way of life-and he fights his last fight, for the ways and the speech of men who have never known a master..

speak the language?

Slang.should not, of course,

be ruled out altogether. Slang words and phrases from all na- tions add to the colour and the vigour of our speech.

ing up such an attitude would My objection is that all-con- With cinemas, to which the ris considered enough for six Chucking homicidal tenden- have about as much chance of quering Hollywood is defiling the remotest distrleta, there is

thru."

The danger, however, is that, ing generation awarm, in even

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months' fighting;

as a water-beetle at our English tongue and is rul

few years, the overwhelming month after the Russian cam-cles, I answered that, as a com- success

own pattern.

mass of the British community paign had started only 7,000,000 poser, the mighty Handel has tempting to ram H.M.S. Rod- ing out all talk that is not of its more than a possibility of, in a tons remained. The stubborn his points, and was met with the ney.

uniform Inngunge Besides, I am not opposed to 'Not only is Hollywoodese talking Soviet resistance has

more Hollywood caused remark, "Aw, nuts!"

Now this young man is about films as such, and in moderation spoken increasingly; it is also which will be German tanks, armoured cars

Still less am I as English as it is possible to enjoy them.

written. Many of our success than, English, and from which and aeroplanes to burn twice, as much as was anticipated. Addi- be, and is the son of a well- venturing on even the mildest ful novelists use it, and certain all interesting differences of dia- tionally the Rumanian oil wells known clergyman. It is more criticism of the great American sections of popular journalism lect and pronunciation will have yield has proved disappointing, than doubtful whether he could nation, now bound to us with

The rustic burr, the broad thanks largely to the constant give a list of the minor Pro- strenger ties than ever before, are soaked with it "thru and vanished.

I like Americans, and my best. and effective air attacks on phets.

But it is a dead certainty that friend is an American; I have. We can admire as we do, the tones of the West Country, the them by the Russians, Hitler

Lancashire expected them to give him an-ho, could give a list of the hus- worked and played in New York American nation without bor- Cockney twang-we shall know

Yorkshire and other four or five million tons bands of Miss Joan and Miss and have always been happy rowing its inflexions and its them no more. The accent of

the American modes of speech,

Further, this gangster slang ("blunt and homely") will be a a year, but actually the yield is Constance Bennett (in the cor- there. I like

rect order), and that he knows language and its slick, terse

is no more truly representative thing of the past. Even Miss about half that.

what Miss Ginger Rogers likes idiom.

than the slang of Gracie Fields and Mr J. B. But this film lingo, which is of Amerien for breakfast,

In short, he is a film fan of spreading over England, and is our comedians of the "Ay Priestley may have to let bah . I can imagine worse calami- the most fanatical type: the used with dreadful fluency by thang-you" and "rill mill" type gooms-bo by-gones." .

And what, after all, is the vir- ties. Yet the loss of Individua- band of his brother (and sister). thousands-nay, millions who is representative of England. enthusiasts in this country is have never crossed the Atlantic, enormous and growing hourly. and. are never likely to cross it, tue of it? It it witty? No. Is lity will make the uniformity of la not even the genuine article, it so short and snappy? No. It this hybrid speech utterly dull, NOW I am launching no attack and I know many Americans takes no longer to say "I'm in just as all uniformity is always

"I'm goofy about a frail." upon either films or their who are openly amused by our love with a girl" than to say dull. myriad supporters; anyone tak- use, or misuse, of it.

The threatoning oil situation which confronts the Nazis can still be somewhat relieved by spectacular successes in Russla, but unless these come quickly, the German armies face, the prospect of being bogged in Russia in the coming winter and eventually all reserves of fuel will be exhausted.

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PHILIP PACE

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