To the Editor of the "Nonmu-Cuma Dany News" wiGitscH, tm in complete agreement Your correspondent ONE oF Tne [Dea in his criticism of that exceedingly well-directed film. showing under the title of "Nothing Sacred." "or sheer cleverness, delicacy of treatment and first-class acting I have seen, ttle If anything to equal it. As satire on the inaninities that tie hind some of the headlines of a circulation-seeking press nothing has been shown so far that can hold a candle to it. Judging from the shrieks of laughter that came from many bench, when I was present, Shanghai fortunately not so "dead" yet, Turning from this I go on-to the united Press cable from Berlin (on age 5 of to-day's issue) which I must characterize as tendentious nonsense. The Pact between Japan and Germany {is not founded on what a few Germans with interests in China think, but on far more serious political and military grounds. Treaties are made by the man-in-the-street but by Governments and the Nazis know full well that in Japan they have an ally that has been and is still receiving every consideration in world politics. I suppose the next news from the United Press correspondent in the German capital will announce to us that Germany has decided to throw over the Japanese alliance for one with Russial Impossible? Well from what I have read in the press as related to what have seen, I am prepared to be told some fine morning that all armadillos have decided to shed their scales and have taken to champagne and beef puddings for steady diet.
One look at the correspondents; [gathered together in holy conclave the Terminus Hotel in Hankow is sufficient to explain away lots of things, And these are the very highly-paid gentlemen entrusted with the dissemination of news and truth throughout our modern world! Perhaps, to, will one great newspaper organization explain its reason siking this cable tots representative here—"Avold Japanese slant"
For reasons of self-interest England and France are allies, but the intel-Ugentsia and the man-in-the-street in the latter country is no Anglophile. But of course it would never do to insist upon that.
And is it true or not that the whole Kuomintang administration is directly, lurider foreign guidance? Maybe the United Press people will provide ar answer. clys Shanghai, May 10.
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