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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1947.

Thinking Aloud

ELL," said Harry the Mole,... here we are."

We were sitting in an after- noon club. There was Marie

by PAUL HOLT

Perhaps, Harry's girl friend in or whatever dump they crawled the rag trade, Jo-do Likewise, ontu. We both make a profit, Rudy Samba, The Larker, and see? Ony I have to change into a repulsive infant in long pants short pants." I took to be a junior Mole.

"Well," said Harry. "here we are all locked in. October the First and nobody must leave the dear old Mother Country. Churchill says we should stay and see it out, and Attlee's gorn and locked the ruddy ole Rory O'More. Nice pickins, I mus say. Red October those Roos- kies call it, and Red October it is. Y'know M'ree?"

"One must sacrifice for one's art," said Rudy Samba..

"I was seeing In some bladder of lard how this pressure guy Isanes is goin' to say tomorrow ration how he'll take away books from such citizens as is not hard at it working," The Larker gruffly. ration books?"

snitl "Wot's

"Hush your mouth, Larker "We met at the Film Ball." boy," said Harry suddenly. "Larker's been away." he ex- plained. "I show you one, Bext time we run some off."

I lied gallantly.

☆ *

Marie simpered, then gave me a harti look. "Hope wasn't stinking" she said politely.

"Well" said Harry, sighing. "make do and mend. That's what we all must do. Shoul- ders to the wheel, eh, boys? What you gonna do, this coming hard and croof winter. to see the dear ole country thru ***

"Club secretary," said Rudly Samba. "Club secretary," said Jo-Jo Likewise. "Club scere-

"snit The Larker. tury."

"That's gond boys." Harry. "Exempted. see? direction." he explained.

said No

"The Ministry of Labour official says that the public 18 entitled to its relaxation," said Marie Perhaps.

"Styuupid, Styunupid," saut Harry reprovingly. "They mean watching Tommy Lawton play football. You stick to the rag It's mock-ups for you, trade. dearie."

"Yes, Mr Mole," said Marie sipping a rumanline.

Sonny

"And what about here?" I asked.

The repulsive little boy eyed me up and down.

"Oh, meet Junior. No, no, M'ree and me's strictly plutonie. Junior's my kid bro. What you up to, kid?" said Harry fondly,

"Stamps." said the brat. "How educative, Geography, Trade follows the geopolitics. flag." murmured.

"Could be," said the boy, lighting a Lucky. "As for ine, All Pin off to Radiolympia. them foreign buyers. They got no money but they got stamps. I buy a Black Ecuador for a pony, sellem back a non-serrated early Bahamas for a monkey They can flog that for plenty gravy back home in Valparaíso,

"Don't have them things in- side. Life's nice and simple in- side," said The Larker.

"Well, boys. On yor tootsies. To work," cried larry briskly stubbing out his cigar.

"Got a nice new line," he con- "Selling pennants Lo fided.

Give Us Back motorists with Our Basic tastefully inscribed in red, white, and blue. Cost about a hob, and they'll buy 'em Such sweet for a full bnr. pigeons. Well, secinya."

Harry and his cohort, tertered down the dark stairs that led to the after- toon clubs. They' And the air of men and women and children well pre- gaurd for the winter, As Sld Fjeld

It would, I think, make his sera time more respectable and do some honour to his talent as a composer if we were to pay him what we owe him.

"

He has £15,000 'past royalilea so- questered born by the custodian of enemy allen tunds. It would be nice If somebody could find a way to free this monty for him, for whatever our own distress just now may be it is not honourable to be a debtor tu such a guest.

Love lyric 1947 I WAS reading all about how atom

bennbs breed, You just leave some U235, which la uranium lying around and it gives off gumma rays, which when they touch U238, which is neptunium, get so friendly they produce something else called plu- tonlum, which is what they dropped On Nagasaki.

I wish it were the spring and In poet. I would like to write a tender rhyme, to go like this:-

SPRINGTIME

for the Lay of the Passionato Atom)

There was an atom and his mass.

With

a hry and a

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DAB

AND FLOUNDER KA CUSTOMS

by Walter

Anti-Semitism In London

THE riots which have been

Tgoing on for some time

past in East and North ho and a London, round about meetings held by Fascist organisations, are a racket,

Who o'er the grey stock piles did JUNAR.

They are not spontaneous. They are a mean, cruel, dirty racket, inflicting serious in-

In springtime, in springtime. when flaslon is pour mission,

And nuclears sing her ding-a-juries directly on these London

ding-a-ding

Sweet panimas love the spring... But it is wintering and my Muse bas n snußl»,

What is home?

PRAU

MARGARET LADE. 20.

came with her com Gunther. 11. and six-year-old Klaus from Ger- bays, "This is the dawn of apvill- many to Cambridgeshire

sation."

The artist notes

MAREL LUCY

ATTWELL, who

MA Miaus been drawing cuddly children for 50 years, said at a iterary lun cheon that in all that time she has not puttend children have changed,

But the altitude of their

mothers

who

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Ao marry ex-A.A. Gunner John Chapman, 39. of Waterbeach,

Her children had been living on che ment a day of beans, potatoes And and carrots stewed in water. they slept in is bumbad cellar.

Hut when Gunllier, , arrived the glowered. He would not ent, He followed his mum around when she wanted to be alone with Gunner He would DOL sprak English nor answer when questioned. Fully Frau Lade toole her children back in despair to potato soup and the bombed cellar.

has changed,

Perhaps their mothers, meraber their own childhoods, made Chapman. up their minds to the change.

On divorce

districts and indirectly on the whole of England, which certain persons have promoted to serve their own interests.

to

The pretext these persons have used is the determination of Sir Oswald Mosley to return politics. That he really | hopes to do so is hard to believe. It is. indeed, as if the proposi- tion that Queen Anne is dead were disputed by Queen Anne herself. Bat he has gone into business as a publisher, and on his list are books, pamphlets, and a news-letter. written by himself in the character of political leader.

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By REBECCA

WEST

Rebecca West is the most distinguished woman writer of our time..

Miss West has con- ducted an inquiry into the revival of Fascism and anti-Semitism in London.

She has been to the meetings in North and East London, sat in the

when police courts cases arising out of the meetings have been licard, investigated the organisations behind

the agitation.

BERKECAMACISTA SEKARAN DAN BERNARD

vote, in forthcoming Municipal and Parliamentary elections held in Lon- don, and to make general pro- paganda for their parly.

JESTS AND

JEERS

You can tell that some people are already readjunted to this post- war ie the subfrets of their letters to the pagers.

Col McCormick, owner of "the Chicago Tribune, is to visit Hong- kong and other British territories. * fle is expected to have one of two receptions—a hot time, or a cold shoulder.

Overheard on the ferry? "They're

expecting their frat Income tax exemption in December."

A honeymoon is the morning after the knot before,

Anybody who has had the time and the patience to make a series of visits to the battlefelds in Bethnal and Dalston must have re- the tacties and strategy. AL

go on a date, take care that you the crowd is don't have the wool pulled over

Advice to sweater girls-when you

Preked with Neel interrupters, your eyes.

when they

every Fascist some Jewish, some not, who take up

positions 60 that enn shout in chorus they massed effect. and are dimrutt to eject. They wear Communist budges and carry Communist iterature, to make it quite plain what they are. Most of them are not resident in the districts where

ancetings take place, and inany, come

me from

Overheard at a women's tea. well-to-do bourgeols homes.

"Why. I didn't tell Fascist didn't know it was a sceret." no matter

Remember why the dog is called the friend of man-he wags his tail, not his tongue.

1bo

the

They speakers what they are talking about, chanting the words, frequently by

Sometimes "Down with Faselm." they rush the platform. Often they create such disorder that the police the Fascists to close their

order

meeting.

tears Few of us will shed real over this termination to their revels. But, unfortunately, it may be part of a humbugging programme which makes the gorge rise.

It unfortunately happens t number of men have gathered to gether to revive the title of an ob- scure pre-war organisation named the British League of Ex-Service- FIFTY THREE HUNDRED AND

The implication is that Gunther

men, and hold various meetings in But think SEVEN out of 500 Essex priests is a horri Hille Nazi,

various parts of London, of which behave that | WA children would have viled agdnst a proposal that must

bramberley profess Fascist doctrines as pro Horn,

In they shell Tomarvy

cellar, in everything to an 1-year fessed by &ir Oswald before the war, tremely ignorant that they cannot noments, though they party in a divorce sunt.

Is it then a crime to be beaten at all. marriage?

the innocent way.

even

E

and Gunner Chapman, nice man as

It seems fair to think that Frau I should have thought that such Ladle wanted to better her children, peale, applied and perhaps desperate at the failure of their Arsi attempt to live in God's estate, were doubly in need of the support of the Church,

e is charity no longer the virtue it was taught to be?

Debt of honour RICHARD STRAUSS, an old, inu-h

respected musician

is coming to London to conduct his For the past five years he Works. has been living in poverty in

The surely is, came second in her thoughts. Otherwise she would not

have gone homic.

Safety first

I MET a man from Italy. "How is

it in Rome?" I asked,

"Ob. about the same,"

said. (he is 89). "When the Fascists were in power we used to be nice to the Communists and hide them. Now we are nee as well to be prepared for the future to the Fascists and hide them. It is and we do not complain. But it is

Switzerland, begging from friends he was allowed to exile himself there by the Nazi

Usponsive,"

SOCIALISM'S NANNY

ONCE only I heard Sidney

Webb. And what I remem- ber more than anything he said. was the hush which preceded his saying anything. It

measured the reverent awe in which he was held by already nging teachers of the social sciences.

And remember, log, that when it was over Sidney and Beatrice Webb linked arms and moved slowly to the exit. he with apple-red cheeks and frosty beard. she with an immobile, button face, both tiny-and as they moved, the ranks of Social ism gave way to the Royal Couple of the Movement.

By- JOHN MATHER

"Quite true, but that is so any

men are stupid

·

sell these new' writings of his, and

greatest

be

These Fascist speakers are so ex-

interesting. If you imagine a frequently refer to him as "the lecture on endur by semebody who knows nothing about it, but is de- estest living Englishman."

men fall into various cate- termined to probe the matter very Korles. Some are men who lack deeply, you will get the effect. neither intelligence or education,

these On their own power blinded to fact by their ad-

not hold

audience of miration for the strong arm stuff could

and hundred or two

who are

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men.

whom

none

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anyone...I

INSTITUTE OF NAVIGATION

of Fascism, and the black magie by They could rope in

more than three or four hundred. simple people to the knowing little passers-by who had nothing better Arcamacker, very naturally marched whose interest is not less great and

which it gave power over the silly,

to do at the moment; and they have Others are stupid men who about 200 supporters who turn up are too stupid to recognise a fact they fell over one.

regularly at all their meetings, none of whom are persons pussissed of any influence.

The worst of these are the kind of stupid men who indicate with a nod and

wink that body con

The first steps have been taken towards the formation of an Institute of Navigation with headquarters in Lordon,.nt the initiative of indivi- duals concerned with the science of navigation, with the help of inter- ented societies and associations. The Communists created such a disturbance at Fascist meeting! At an inaugural meeting, a Steor- at one turning off Kingsland-rond.ing Committee was set up and nu- The Fascists' angry supporters were thorised to proceed with the forma then joined by a eurlous mob which tion and registration of the Institute attaches itself to them at

selection of such and the

provisional members of the Council.

The aim of the Institute is to unite to listen to a speech. This consists of boys and girs between 10 and all those in the British Common- 20, adolescents who were children

are wealth who are concerned with and during the wee and pent every

Interested in the science of naviga- night in the Underground, and now

tion.

will. not be Its membership miss the exeltement, These, sing-

composed exclusively of scientists or Mosley ing and shouting about

navigators or manufacturers, but will of them has ever seen also include others whose qualifica- occasionally Jetting of

tions are perhaps less Impressive but on Communist meeting which wus

whose support the Institute regards being held in other

tuming off

as no less important. under the false Kingsland-road, title of an

"anti-fascist" inceting,

Educational Side and tried to break it

it up. The Impression left of the simple In the field of education it wit population was expressed by aim to encourage among university, Jewish matron who had attended professional and industrial workers the Communist meeting because she a uniformity of teriminology, nota-

street made miserabletion and by Fascist oratory every Sunday while in the international sphere it computational practice,

evening. "What nice people the is intended to maintain close Julson Communists she said. "When with other organisations, such as the

were at that lovelyInstitute of Navigation of the U.S.A meeting, and those horrible Fascist who are Interested in the science of hoolitans marebed in, Just navigation. thought, Well, If one has to make

A Journal devoted to the discussion a cholce between Fascism and Con-of matters of navigationat interest, with particular reference to scientifle advancement, WILL be publlstred periodically, and the Institute will is too weak, compared with what to provide fur

the use of its meinbers library of navigational interest.

fool them, they are much too clever, that there were no hell-camps at Toor old men who have found Itved-in- with a clevernes which tells them Belsen and Buchenwald, and that hard to earn a living all their lives, all the photographs and articles

les and and it a relief to be told that published concerning them were just they failed not through any fault propaganda inverted by the news of their own but because of the papers. There is

ere is nothing to do with widert Jews. Fleree old ladies, who these people, who mean no harm but want somebody to lead them in a have

blind eye for the truth, ex- attack on the Kremlin. Dotty old cept wait around

with an under- Indles, who joined the Leute be- taker. Only death cures such ob-

cause of something clairvoyant saw stinacy.

in a crystal. Disagreeable people not Others again are

so much

both sexes, a terrifying number of stupid people as simpletons: And

these, the customer who barks at waitresses.

the waitress who barks

At 41, Grosvenor-road, they re-perhaps it would be made to ent

reived

I know which I would

Everything I

have sold before

I SAW.

These riols have been coldly and deliberately manufactured:

.

at lunch and dinner the them saints who have never found at all customers, meet there and nido leading political, trade union, and the right stuff to be saintly about, by side howl that Britain should be business figures of the carly

who have poured theip faith into the British.

into for the twentieth century.

to persuade the electorate, quite Temporary address of the Institute Those are the

There are also a number of chil- unworthy vessels.

falsely, that it is under a neces-ls care of the Royal Geographical people who stood by Mosley even dren, some as young as 13 or 14.

to choose between Fascism Society. I Kensington Gore, London, after 1037, when the whole world These would be, were it not for the and.

and. Cemnunism.

S. W. 7. had made up its mind shout him, netion of certain elements, all the h's movement was splitting, and he audience the British League speakers had become not a menace but a could expect. uruste-hall joke,

breatise They ked all comers--Balfour, und sein Tillett, Asquith. Haldane, Rose- bery, but they disfitted one visitor, Afterwards they quarrelled with him-Ramsay MacDonald.

few are blind."

The Webby' partnership was a marriage of true minds to which nobody and no development could admit impediment. But the most extraordinary part of it was that it should have begun at all.

Ju

For he was a Poor Boy, moderates and she was a Rich Girl. immoderately rich,

His mother, married to an on- countant, kept a barber's shop off Leicester-square, Sidney lived over the shop.

She looked out for somebody to put her on the eight track. She approached a woman journalist, who said: "Skiney, Webb's your, inani,”

So they mot

And Ramsay disliked them.

She

That peerage

I

#JA-

But the Fascist meetings are now

attended two

by and three thousand SIDE GLANCES

people. Indeed, at some of the dis-

Jected

But he gave Webb the Board of Trade in his frst Government and

turbances that have centred round the Colonial Office in his second.

The British League can claim one them, it has seemed to me that four And, with the Colonial Ofice went

speaker only who tras a lively mind or five thousand people have col- of the meeting because a peerage.

the Socialist and considérable command over the

at the team in the Lords needed support. tricles of oratory. But even de ls and in the surrounding streets. This not very good, and all his colleagues happens because a number of people

who

are anti-Fascist

go to these are bores.

Some of them practise the first meetings to protest against what the 2 for Beatrice Was me

lae THAT peerage of the

Fascists say, and because of 1929 did it. Fine boredom of inaudibility. They daughters of Illchard-Potter, pro- The hairdresser's son was re- cannot manage the microphone, and treater number of people go to wil- sident of

of the Grand Trunk Railway luctant enough, and refused a coat fill the surrounding streets

because they with hess those protests, At No. 41, Grosvenor-road, at Canada, director of the Great of arms. between the Houses of Parlia- Western Hallway and others at home daughter was furious.

But the railway magnate's sounds as of a dairy farm just before turn into entertaining fights. milking. Others, 100 audible, аге ment and the Tate Gallery, they and abroad.

called her husband "the trite and verbose. She worked for half a century pre-

was presented at Court, a Individual who 1:00s

under the Their matter is monotonous, senting the burgeoning Socialist. Society beauty at 18. Then a little fantastical name of Lord Passfield." must be necessary mure restricted Now it is very natural that certain later she wonted to write a book She would not be Lady Passfield than it was before 1930, when they

wish

protest movement with its ammunition on trade unions. Something had at any price. Debutante days were could point the triumphant people should

against the Fascist speeches, und against Capitalism,

happened to her.

well forgotten.

achievements Rnd humanitarian Their works, including three

And so they became "Lord, Pass-characters of Mussolini and Hitler, those are our Jewish fellow-citizens. At any time it would be enraging held and Beatrice Webb" Then, of They now have to rely entirely on

to any Englishman, of Jewish blood. classics on the British Labour

course, smoothly

they

anti-Semitism, and economle became

to find a horde of fanatics standing th Movement and one on Soviet

Sidney and Beatrice Webb. It could tionalism.

the streets outside his home and Communism, fill a column of

not have been otherwise,

Contrary to popular belief, the bawling that he had no right to be Who's Who now and filled the

The partnership lasted 40 years Fascist speakers, with very few ex- in his own country, and that he was until, four years ago, Beatrice Webb ceptions, devote far more

time to minds of two generations of

NO Sidney and Beatrice Radicals and Reformers-but.troduced. He sent her a Fabian ing.

were in- died, aged 05. Sidney gave up writ- their economic doctrine than to their guilty of all sorts of crimes of which he was in fact innocent, or else he anti-Jewish campaign. Their attacks would be in gael. Now when we not Revolutionaries.

pamphlet on "The Rate of Interest,"

He retired at Passfeld Corner,

on the Jews consist usually of vague know that such talk elsewhere en- Alle later he sent her Rossetti's he remote Hampshire home of their references to "International financo." gendered the massacre of innocent tove poems, Something had happen- later years, There he died

abstract malignity about Palestine, Jews, we cannot blame any Jew it ed to him.

October 13, aged 88.

and disclosures of such weighty scan he runs mad at the sound of it; and His

courtship thereupon Was It was onid that only one person dals og that Mr Litvinoff was born when we remember how many Jews bound up mainly with Blue-books,

knew

a Enkelsteki and Mr Zinovief an died for England in the lost war we much about everything as statistics and third-class railway Sidney Webb-and that was Mr. Apfelbaum.

must be brotherly with him and take for

and Journeys to Socialist meetings. But Sidney Webb.

greater length,

his surrows upon us. with Now both

they equal one day they went to Epping Foreat.

there is n are gone,

passion,

But this is hardly relevant to the doctrine There, Sidney returned to the vast British community-Including, expatiate on a

of pre-issue. For it is not the Jews who within the British ComY→

Fascists subject of Rossetti's poetry. They as he has confessed, Bernard Shaw ferenes

are joining with the they came away, and announced

which wiser for their having

le, fundament- create disorder in North and East- monwealth were engaged.

been. But whether they are hap- ally, it must be admitted, not very London. It is the

Communists. Thoy were married in 1802---and

is yet pier

a quite simple mechanism the on unresolved social different from that advocated for

long by Lord Beaverbrook and re- Communists have heartlessly ex- spent their honeymoon investigating fact. trade unious la Dublin. From which Perhapn some young man now cently by Mr Bovin. But few would ploited the grievances of the Jews the Fasciats In order to point their life was one long honey- courting

the deny that, except on their off days. against moon-investigating subjects like Beveridge Report will one day. let Lord Beaverbrook and Mr Davin do create disorder under the Labour the trade unions of Dublin,

it better.

Government, to capture the Jewish

For was Sidney Webb who gave the British Labour Movement its most lasting slogan-which any- body is entitled to think has been dropped recently the inevitability of gradualness."

Dry humour

their work was dry--and to many boring-their humour wna equally dry and to a few fetching. When, for example, a man sald to Beatrice Webb: "Much of this talk about feminism is nonsense; any woman would rather be beaut ful than clever," sho, replied:-

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