(Editor "North-China Daily News," 1911-1930)
London, May 20. CT is pleasant and homely to get back to such evening paper poster as "Three Times Convicted of Manslaughter"; and "From Overtures in South London."
Of course we are sorry for the victims, but the point is that for the moment we seem to have no crisis to bother about.
Even Herr Hitler's tour of the Siegfried fortifications got very little notice in the London papers much to the perplexity and annoyance of the Nazis, so it is reported.
Of course the clouds may gather at any moment. Only yesterday a friend consulted me about a south coast village for next winter, where the climate should be good for his wife and they would be away from air raids, "when the war comes."
But (touching wood) one cannot help thinking that the energy which Great Britain is showing in rearmament and the adoption of conseription have had a very pacifying effect abroad. Among my own circle of acquaintance there are few people who are not training in one way or another for war service of some sort, So it is everywhere, A curiously apt quotation from Froude's "History of England" was given by a correspondent of "The Times" yesterday aod Te Taya apane ese rene "Thirty years
warlike English nation, and to have so They nad no tonger the energy io dee fend their own frestas, That was written of what Europe thought of us just before the Spanish Armada. So despite heavy taxation and 6%4d. for the old 6d. packets of cigarettes (it is extraordinary how annoying that extra ha'penny is) people's thoughts begin to turn to holidays. France is the most popular objective this year, with Belgium, Holland, the Scandinavian countries and even Finland not far behind.
Owing to advantageous exchange and the cheapness of living abroad, a foreign holiday is little or no dearer than one at home. Germany, in spite of strenuous advertising, is right out of the picture,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.