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TWO TO BEAT HITLER
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 look 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.
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tern civilisation through its most terrible ordeal.
"He inherited an unholy mass." 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- un 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 enemy. 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
men.
Hongkong Telegraph. Britain in her finest hour.
Friday, Aug. 8, 1941.
Wyndham St., Hongkong
Telephone: 26015.
THE prefix "Special to the Telegraph Is used by the "Itongkang Telegraph**
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. cóme disaster, and overcome it utterly. I am convinced that this is the most important thing about By
a crazy fluke of Nature, a disease
him. He knows it can be overcome. that usually hits only children struck Reports during the indicate news which is strictly copyrtelt Roosevelt mercilessly, cruelly, disastrously week allege that the two statesmen have been conferring secretly somewhere the Atlantic.
under the provisions of the Telecommual- rations Ordinance, 1915. Such News AS bears the indication "UP" is received in Hongkong on the date of publication by the "United Presa Astoriations, who re- serve all rights and forbid republientions.
when he was in early manhood.
Never again would he walk without
either wholly or in part without previous each step being an agony, resting on the
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.
arms of some friend.
in
His face, when last I saw him, wore an unusual gravity. Then someone in the crowd caught his eye, and he smiled.
He knows, too, that the place to over
He. 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, blackest reality. Then, when one has 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
He faced that reality: There was going to be a dread-
to his vivid, mobile face, in order to dietract attention from ful disaster. And because he faced it, Mr Roosevelt is his stricken body.
"Ho knows how to face disasters."
But there is another Roosevelt smile, and it was this One authoritative source smile that the pale, chilly man turned on that friend's calculated that German oll çon-*| sumption in the Russian cam- paign must be at least 300,000 fons a month, on the basis that the oil consuming forces employ- ed by Germany probably consist
of some 15 armoured, 20 motorised infantry and 160 ordiniry infantry divisions, -muking—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
that assumption
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 a month, assuming that the total planes in use is 4,000 and that half of this strength is in the air for three hours 11 day. Additionally there are the Ger- man naval forces in the Baltic and the Finnish, Hungarian and Rumanian armies to be catered for.
ON
Good Friday afternoon 1 went to a performance of 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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going to win this war-Mr Roosevelt and the 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 Ilitler 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-and he knew his luck had turned.
And, though Americans have confidence in him, they do not" know, perhaps, what Itoosevelt 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 disease 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 passionale 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 see.
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 sca: 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.
Do you speak
speak the language?
new
ing up such
Still less
own pattern.
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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.
The danger, however, is that,
a
At the beginning of the war Germany's oil stocks amounted to 12,500,000 tons which experts
an attitude would My objection is that all-con- with cinemas, to which the ris considered enough for Bix months'
Checking homicidal tenden- have about as much chance of quering Hollywood is defiling in generation swarm, in even fighting: but onc
AS a water-beetle at our English tongue and is rul the remotest districts, there is month after the Russian cam-cies...I answered that, as a com- success
has tempting to
ram H.M.S. Rod- ing out all talk that is not of its more than a possibility of, in a few years, the overwhelming paign had started only 7,000,000 poser, the mighty Handel
mass of the British community tong remained. The stubborn his points, and was met with the ney.
Besides, I am not opposed to Not only is Hollywoodese talking uniform language Soviet resistance has caused remark, "Aw, nuts!”. ___ German tanks, armoured cars Now this young man is about.films as such, and in moderation
am spoken increasingly; It is also which will be more Hollywood." as English as it is possible to enjoy them. and acroplanes to burn twice as much as was anticipated. Addi- be, and is the son of a well- venturing on even the mildest written. Many of our success thinn English, and from which tionally the Rumanian oil wells known clergyman. It is more criticism of the great American ful novelists use it, and certain all interesting differences of dia yield has proved disappointing, than doubtful whether he could nation, now bound to us with sections of popular journalism lect and pronunciation will have
thru."
The rustic burr, the brond thanks Jargely to the constant give a list of the minor Pro- stronger ties than ever before, are soaked with it "thru and vanished.
I like Americans, and my best phels.
We can admire as we do, the tones of the West Country, the and effective air attacks on Hitler them by the Russians.
But it is a dead certainty that friend is an American; I have expected them to give him an- he could give a list of the has worked and played in New York American nation without bor- Cockney twang-we shall know Yorkshire and Lancashire bands of Miss Joan and Miss and have always been happy rowing its inflexions and Its them no more. The accent of other four or five million tons
Constance Bennett (in the cor- there. I like the American modes of speech.
Further, this gangstor slang ("blunt and homely") will be a n year, but actually the yield is
rect order), and that he knows langunge and its slick, terse about half that.
what Miss Ginger Rogers likes idiom. for breakfast.
The threatening oil situation which confronts the Nazis can still be somewhat relieved by spectacular successes in Russia, but unless these come quickly, the German armies face the prospect of being borged in Rusela in the coming winter and eventually all resorves of fuel- will-bo-oxhausted.
is no more truly representative thing of the past. Even Miss But this film lingo, which is of America than the slang of Gracie Fields and Mr J. B. In short, he is a fim 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 fanaticnl type: the used with dreadful fluency by thang-you" and "rifi mill" type gooms be by-gones. band of his brother (and sister) thousands-nay, millions-who la representative of England.
And what, after all, is the vir- tics. Yet the loss of individua- 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. Ia lity will make the uniformity of is not even the genuino article, it so short and snappy? No. It this hybrid Apeech utterly dull, many Americans takes no longer to say "I'm in just as all uniformity is always NOW I am launching no attack and I know
upon elthor films or their who are openly amused by our love with a girl" than to say dull.
"I'm goofy about a frall. myriad supporters; anyone tak- use, or misuse, of it.
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