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PALVÍCE KNOWLES BE HUJINYS ESTEPHENSON VIRKŠEL BRUCE,

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1947.

L

How long do we ignore the lessons

of Bethnal Green?

LONDON, Sept. 5. HE little man with 'the tailor-and-pressing

business in

Bethnal

Green-road looked out yesterday and found that The Boys had been around again There chalking the lightning. were three anti-Semitic obsceni- ties on the wall, a threat, and the old Blackshirt sign.

When I asked him whether-- in view of what goes on these days in the Enst End-he would plank up his windows on Sun-

by JAMES CAMERON

day, he shrugged 'wryly: "I Their solution to the crisis got no timber licence."

It is now quite clear that the home-made Fascists are back. Mr Chuter Ede can write it all off as a frightful bore if he likes; nevertheless, yesterday I personally counted 12 "Hail Mosleys" in ten minutes on East End walla.

is

"Hitler should have finished the job."

Their freedom

THE British League of Ex- Servicemen is as good

循

Look back awhile on the Fascist question. Have we been warned or haven't we? If there had not been been Hitler would there have Himmler, or a dozen others such?

a

Their future

LET us-while there is yet a little

that all

of the

Ieleurs consider Around the perimeter British Union of Fasolsts existed. a cosy crowd of totalitarians waiting for a chance to shuffle into glory.

In 1910, Sir John Anderson, then]

the Home Secretary, told us that number of pald-up subscribers to the B.U.F. was about 9,000. Among us

now we have all those who resisted the impact of change, and an un- totalled number of fellow-travellers.

Nor do we too easily forget the League of Christian Reformers and

the peopl: who suddenly appeared at the sale of Ribbentrop's effects in! London, buying Hitler's bust for covername as any, though The £500, and Nazis flags for £102, and Boys are not bothering very set up their crank establishment in hard about disguises, Why Sussex As time goes on I find that in- should they? creasingly unfunny.

Let under-

We believe in

All these people may be trash, but free speech. They can talk even Hermann Goering was once, let race-hate, ventilate their frus- us not forget, a.figure of fun. trations and extol their faded us not then, in our anger, leader in the consoling know- estimate the difficulties that face a ledge that the police must head Home Secretary. off any heckler who tries to get

It has been obvious for a year that pretty soon the seedy rem nants of the blackshirt gang would crawl out of the political woodwork, and here they are tough. again, stumping East London with their shabby agitation.

They are all set för a beating up party any moment now, an- xious to prove that only n sucker thought we won the war against Fascism in 1945.

Take a look at Whitechapel or Hackney some week-end, and weep for the complaisant and fatuous dumbness of the Official British Character, which always has to learn its lesson twice.

irritation

a menace,

ex-

our

Free speech and democratic pression are the essence of especially tolerant democracy. The Home Secretary can still reply that he cannot exceed his brief and if he tries half the world will jump on his neck for dictatorship.

As far as the law stands, neither the Pubile Order Act nor the Law of Sedition makes a difference between Fascism and any other political view Cut out freedom for Fascists, and you cut it out for almost anyone.

Their strength

In your letters from Burma, this is one of the things you

said you carnal for!"

TERROR COMES

TO BALI

BY JAMES J. HALSEMA

But some Republicans silp through ERROR has come to the once

the cordon around Bali and reach peaceful Island of Bali.

the Balinese hills. There they find The silence of soft tropical allies in the so-called

"young in- In their nights, once broken only by the tilectuals" of Ball-men ancient

twenties Of the rhythms

who have read beyond the education of their fathers. Intellectuals" feel that "gamelan" gong orchestra. is indu

These "young now often broken by the scream their island should join the Indonesian of a man being hacked to death struggle for freedom. with all the brutality known in an Oriental world.

This is the echo of the war going on in Java. acuarated UNLESS Fascism (or perhaps from Bali by two miles of water

violent

No one knows just how many of these bands are now in existence. Dutch military authorities have de- finite proof of the existence store or more, mostly small and ex- tremely elusive.

As

Now Mr Ede, the Home Secretary, is said to believe that this Fascist recrudescence is an but not that strong action against The Boys would only give them use- ful publicity. Back in 1945 he said that with the revocation of 18B he had "no power to inter- fere" with Fascist activities.

its anti-Semitism in

THEY ATTACK AT NIGHT he.. added: A month later

The "terrorists," the Dutch form) can constitute a prima facle and a millenium in custom,

this- Government

ongrily call thein, attempt to "The

is giving en: for official action, little can be dress, language and religion.

courage all co-optration with the attention to methods of dealing done.

Both have been under Dutch rule: Dutch by

the elected heads of killing villaxe Meanwhile, let If Joe Doakes, of Hammersmith Ball for less than 50 years.

corporations who work with The Fascists have every legal with them."

say is permitted with police protec-

Repubilean bands, anxious to pro- the Netherlanders. Nor are them alone and they'll go home. tion to advocate the adoption of selyte their eastern neighbours, have

A man is snatched from the temple right of assembly. they the only people holding Oh, the arguments that could principles against which the war was made repeated attempts to gain a courtyard where he is making offer

fought, and the destruction of foothold on western Bali. Most of

ings of food and drink to the gods. A End. be brought against that! The Samuel Cohen's delicatessen shop in these groups, numbering as high as meetings in the East From the Communist and historic precedent, when the particular, then we may get favour 200 men, have been folled by vigil na village compound is surrounded t

come pro liberals of the Weimar Republic in heaven for our tenacious grip of Dutch patroly.

libertarian principles. 'That is Radical platforms

Brown- Democracy. posals and theories many people were saying that the would likewise disapprove. But shirts were a tiresome minority,

advocate anti- not worth stamping out! they do not Semitiem.

Certainly our home-made cheap Fascists are small fry, skates from the basement. a mediocrity, too.

Their doctrine

THE organisation that serves Hitler was

The Boys as a loose con- But somehow (it turned out),

is called the not a nonentity. ventional blind British League of Ex-Service-

men,

one

Their target

nuts.

the dead of night by armed men who atault their victim with long, wicked knives. They frequently chop him Benjuewangi, the Javanese part closest to Bail, was one of the first inte mincemeat as an example to the

rest. For me, I say it is democracy gone chjeets of the Dutch "palice action"

Not many Dutchmen are victims In July.

of these attacks. One of the lust

acliander. BANANA ANT'Aults on

months ago, when one resident was crippled for life in an ambush' on mountain road.

BIK

BY THE WAY

by Beachcomber

IN connection with the Poets' pleased thun, it med biter dis-

and

1

WON

Japan. The on the south coast, said that his people felt that if the gods were pro-

treated perly

things would inprove generally,

There is a noticeable absence of the general

and tension felt on Java Sumaira. Captain D, W. H. Hubrecht, Cambridge University graduate and long a

a rezident of Ball, goes unarmed reversals held

is town Strike to be

next many

in performing als duties winter, secret counter-measures appointments we can of last look

forward to having

scrumptious mandunt in Den Pasar, the island

Cupital are being devised by the B.B.C.'s herring-oil in our margarine, Nit

But no one knows what the future the tiniest bit use telling small Jewish Advanced Planning Sub-Com- at the delay is

may bring. excusable. It is in direct line of descent IT is no

traders that this is just agitation|mittee,

But let us not relax our efforts,

GOOD RICE CROP from the B.U.F., the National

Being a member I can tell you

girit

Let us keep plugging away.

The people of Bali, for the main Socialist League, the British which will be stopped at the hint of

course) plugging away, until our next ob-part, have as their object today the action. They remember very well (for your private car, of People's Party, and all the other that Musly started his crowd in a at least something of our intentions. fective has been taken, until every restoration of ancient ways disturbed

by the Wor with backstairs bodies that flourished back room in the King's-road, Chel-One idea is to read out aloud such British breakfast table has its very

classics an Mrs Recton, Bentley's own individual pot of luscious venerated priest at Sancer, a town sporadically between the wars, san. late in 1932, and in less than Cade, and Whitaker's Almanack, not toadstool marmalade. In the final analysis, they all two years there was the scandalous in their original racy prose, but in

Battle of Olympla in June 1934, with more solema verse form. Actually, By any other name came down to the blackjack.

Third all the protected pomp of a police the suggestion came from our

Programme people, when treat

who,

dificult

A rash of timple rebuilding is going These people are exactly State.

Or to remember, who you are? ing the L to Z portion of the London Do you at times find

on all over Bau. Temple orchestras Directory

Is would expect

similar what day it is? And things like are rehearsing. The rice crop And the War of Cable-street, Telephone what

the maladjusted Radicals, sordid Stepney, two years later, with barri fashion some time inci, brought to that? If so, we may or may not good. For the first time since

wer, 1947 will see a food surplus.

killings

continue. The But the little anti-Semites, Ring-wing cades out, and hundreds of police light many now and hitherto hidden be able to help you. Anyway try

blackshirt meanings. This should make these this method for a month.

the seven political

potis feel pretty silly. bobby standing by to save a

Climb up on

Dutch, acting through throwouts,

a high chair and examine your gas meter. Write hereditary princes or rajahs of Ball, soxers of the rubber-truncheon

Bright lights, tinsel and

down the reading of the dials fram ve ordered penalltes ranging up to It is equally not the slightest use persuasion.

'strect-

heartbreak dept. left to right. When the land is be- confiscation of 50 percent of the telling them that all this

any village found tween two figures put down the rice crop Their line is the same bitter corner talk is hot air, signifying The eight boy horses that used smaller one (but if between 9 and she village must establish a sheltering a member of a Republican old half-baked doctrine: "inter- nothing. They hear a speaker say: to draw the Lord Mayor's coach u put down 9). When the hand Is

guard. national Jewry," "alien politi. "The only way you East-Enders can solve your alien-problem is with a clans," "the financiers' war,"

few half-bricks in the windows and "the necessity for Anglo-

big sticks, on the skulls." German anti-Bolshevist co-

They think of Liverpool a few .operation."

weçits ago, and know to what sad Their solution for Palestine ends ill-instructed mass-nager can is "Put them up against a wall.": lend.

NANCY

Over Impressed

massacre,

-

in

(Dally paper.) "AFTER the Lord Mayor's Show." sighed old Dabbin: "comes the load of chemical fertiliser."

of

ara now employed on farm work on a figure put down one less ex- Captured Javanese officers aro sent cept when the hand on the dial tras out with a Dutch propaganda team. just passed 6. The reading is in This propaganda team shows motion hundreds of cuble feet, so add 00 to pictures which the Balinese prince, the total figure. Subtract last week's Sockawati, is omelating as president. total from this week's (with 00 of the Dutch-sponsored state of East added in each cause). The answer Indonesia, to which Bali belengs. The shows how many cuble feet you Ballnere seem to enjoy these shows. EAR fellow members, wherever tised In the week. You do, grusp They love entertainment-Associat

you are,--No one is more the ide:7,

ed Press.

Mrs Grasshopper says

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By Ernie Bushmiller

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