Nazi Peace Feelers From, Ankara comes-the report that, Hitler fg about to make an offer of peace Britain. If it tume out to be fne and iller really most face' of. Impertinence, whia docs make an offer io Brain ly will be, the This: war fas 9et"seen, he world has. become $0 accustomed to the Nazi technique that such peace offer was fully expected: and within Fecent- weeks spokesmen of the Democrasiee fave one to some. lengths to. emphaslas ft will never even be considered: Mr. Winston Cuurentihy tha, Prime Ministers only" recently Stated: "We have but one aim and one, single-revocable' purpose, We are resolved to des. troy "Hiller "and every" vestige of the" Nazi Fégime, From this nothing wil turn us. Nothin We wil never parley, We will, never negotia With Hitler or any of his nang." "That statement Would seem fo be definite enough; it could hard-before emphatic. 1t is therefore amazing that 'Wont leader should imagine for 2 moment Eat any offer of peace he might "make 10 Britain tomorrow would so much as tempt the War Cabines to relax the Empire's efforts for eon. Hier, of course, judges promises by Siiterent standard from' that upheld by. wee Democracies. To him a promise, @ sacred. come rallient. means nothing more Bour."at 12 something "to. be wool over. the eyes of a Dow ignoted the moment Is proves forge so: Hig bebaviour"toovlet Rosa Pation into' a mest dificult position. In Russia folly. Hiller et got the, German [was shown in the invention of Oliver Cromwell, Later statesmen in' England, made only minor Spostrophe between the "b" and the "1 at the alterations: fu their names. Dirsnell Taft out an beginning of his name. We- are also told that the correct form of the Prime Minister's name not Winston Churchilt but Winston Spencer Churchill with a hyphen, 'These variations are {ifling, however. not to be. compared with the Jeatastrophic changes that fave. cecurred- In the family. names.of the dictators. During the quiet "centuries that led up "lo the era lctatorships st wag' usually writers and not bolllicians. who showed a dislike of the names fiven. them" in. baptism. Branels Bacon, some Say, began it when, having written some Selient plays "he decided to call" himself Sill "SRakeapeares" George Blot was much more' striking name" than MaryAnn Evaps but me Bronies wore not so fortunate finer name than Currer™ Bell, Lacklly the their pseudonyms. Charlotle Bronte is. a Brontes ceased to be Bells on the covers their books. 'They hed found the perfect. name In'Bronte which: itself is supposed. to bean Shvention" concealing the original irish name of "Prunty:* Coming back again to" moder Limes. and' the dictators it appears that there has been quite a spate of name changing inthe Bilted Siates: the" other day, for imelance, hhousepainter called Samuel Joshua Hitler: ase About the same time Arnold "Alvin de Ribben= have his surname. changed to "Giller. frap expressed the wish to be called Robinson. Another American citizen: who makes his liv. ing, by, shrimping Tomes di Grandi, showed similar sensitiveness about a boat. that. Was called TY Duce and he, obtained permission' tg change this to Diana, "It costa me. ten bucks, hhe'saia afterwards, "but Tika much Detter."
Wha lo epee hing me ota re oleh "agg mee It is impossible not to be thrilled by the German armies are making slow progress at we err. mesg ra han tat lia Roa a statements Tike theses There are', mary alg crippling cost In the rear of these armies the Royal Air Force' Is making tremendous we suspected,—Thoreau, missions, Implications, and perversions ravages in. Germany's, factories and lines of them, that it would seer that thee inventors Communications. "Hitler's "hopes of postponing Ten, God, reel gf into tu hem elihet, have a very acute sense" of humour Indeed, or note tt al the late tre mea the starvation of his Swollen empire by sel of the harvests of the ing, have - fa bering ah coins
probable, since the newspaper which risted ort st shipping he led his His atiemps to choke Britain by. his Buch rubbish is known "or be under strone head. His "blockade" is failing, white the Brit.
SPeAn tleae Shea off orf rrr 'Naal influence, and: Nazis have ne ents humour except of thelt own ehildisn variety ignores them.—Seneca. find might be expected to believe every werd that they' want fo believe. "It would not thai during July the British destroyed, damaged. dificult Yo continue quotations like teen aeoee dips in" the North Sea of action "no. fewer than Our strength of nota. Not thd the "AWantic, until {nail sort of connections but It wou cee totalling, 281,000 fons, while in the Mediter- a SEO ea aut es era be worth while. Enough has been said to show that sections of the Japanese press ato Fagan 23 Axis ships were Gestrgyed, totaling ions. mot counting another fn°danger of making themssives 9 Meeahine which' Mr. Aitlee Gescribed as having been taste For Yood Oe mholde th cannot There is a physlomnomical character in 1 Sock outside their own country, Nowe considerably damaned.> This means a Ness to Intimidated by such stut. and it cones a Touch greater loss 10 them than a similar loss nearly 480-000 tons. of shipping deplorable contrast to the powerful comeer Pitty" not certain "buy he is eight char Would be to Britain. when the. proportion of sense with which Japanese thinkers have the mercantile fleas possessed by' the belliger lar in "Bi he ich the Frequently' dosed. their countsyomear? Tan ents Is taken Into consideration, Hitler is losing He therefore wants peace. In Soviet Russia his As no man ever had a point of pride shat Lai rap admissions row admiration for was! not injurious to" birny sovno that had ever read, at mush EP ieeon We toa fin and courage Hast tinies ate being cit by tu enemy "who useful is as powerful numerically and in of their force is inevitably as th hima, Livery "mam ina' ise ey, are themselves. The Luftwaife frequently accompanies them. lost In the spate of, nominee whic thank his" fautis—Emerson, min Shown itself to be quite incapable of prevent ing British raids on the heart of the Nasi war machine. Hitler's diplomatic offensives have Gatene,, sal, "Much music marreth, men's Jost, their sting, since the force he previously panners:""ond' Plate balli a notable place of stration Se dry Sitchammnes Give. the tabourer wage before his per- thi to. back them up has diminished. And time, of all others he appears to be seeking. he same thing in his books de Hep. well mank also. and "excellently. transla "Punk to make brace! it-Rorer''Ascham: "owned BY Polly An Inferior demon i not _a great ma sie, welter would tain persuade ne "ArinGe Part Seo, umiri hep reo, a ete.
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HIRAI Gt ari are, Experienced men of the "work know ver; our enure debs Always pay: 1 ea ty mat only a postponement.—Emerson.
cong We era gen Ye id a ent on this account, the Epictetus used to say that one of the vulgar any il that happens {him blames others 4 novice in philosophy blames" himeelf; and. Sther Francis Bacon. inllosopher' blames neither the one hot the 'The same strong susceptibilities which make the Rersonal impulses vivid and' powerful also the source from whence are generated th most passionate love of virtue, and the sternest self-control—John Stuart Mill.
'When' the tyrant saith to anyone, "I wilt bind thy Jeg." then he who. setteth store. by hig. tog. saith, "Nay. have pity" But he. that setteth store by his own wil, "If It seem more Profitable to you, then bind it!"—Epictetus. a moment before was on both parts regarded depute beun In Jest upon a subject which With careless indifference. 1s continued Gy the desire of conquest, Hil vanity kindles into rage. and opposition' rankles into enmity.—Samuel johnson. caper dose, Little localized powers and little narrow streaks of specialized knowledge are things men. ery' "wlset but for. this es principle very apt to be conceited Nature is how many smati talents and. litre accomplish: Homes, sen ments would be neglected Oliver "Wendell
Imaginary evils soon real ones by in-bulging our reflections on them. as he who in melancholy. fancy sees something like a face on the wall of the wainsco touches with a lead pencil. make it look visible and agreeing with what he fancied—Dean Swift, But to what end, ladles, do you alter. the fo, colour White, no planet bright sitts, of nature by the chitis of art? "Is there Bai Venus, Go limen date but Yuen Why ye about to make the face fair means; Which are' most foul? "a thing loathsome to Iman and therefore nob lovely: horrible before God and therefore not lawful—John Lyly.
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