Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 17, 1940, Winnipeg, Manitoba Freedom of Trade Liberty of religion Equality of civil rights printed and published the Winnipeg free press company Lin Ritea. 3fco Caltoft Manitoba. J. W Dafoe. President. Genera manager registered at the Genera Post office. London. For transmission through the post1" in the United kingdom at the newspaper rate of postage. Winnipeg monday june 17, 1940 France forced out the tragic news of France s defeat and capitulation imposes Nev and terrific responsibilities upon the Canadian people who face them with Resolution and courage. The tidings received t if were not unexpected. It had been obvious for three Day at least that what has now happened was Likely to take place. The fish justifiably we All were hopeful that through the Emer or Vic of some hitherto unrecognized Factor the final blow might of at least postponed. The French surrender is not comparable in any Way Sitt unon created last month by the defection of King Leopold he Allied cause. What has happened in France has been a simple e year edit example of a military defeat. The German Arr ies. Vast in numbers and equipped As no army in the world has Over ii Cen before attacked and overwhelmed the French weakened hem by successive assaults drove wedges Between the different sectors of the front and finally succeeded in so in clop Nass of them that their Choice became one of annihilation. The resistance offered by general my was magnificent. They have inflicted tre upon the enemy and have fought for a week and hopeless conditions. Their gallantry is though they can hardly Hope that this virtue will recognition from their triumphant foe. The terms of tiie surrender that will now be imposed upon them will Render Frince in pm a for years to conic. This unpalatable fact should will now. After a breathing spell that is Likely to be or. The whole of his Power against great Britain who alone with Only one ally Able to Render any kind of ate help. Australia. South Africa and new zealand arc Iway to to of much use at this moment. The Burden re Resis upon Canada. We have become overnight not ,1 Smail nation taking a minor part in a big War. We Are that Britain has to help her. And As she faces this supreme that we have in manpower resources and wealth lie placed without Reserve at her disposal. No less than the obligation of Honor imposes course upon us. And the Canadian people will face then or nov est his department of the Al fortnightly Stephen Gwynn says the May number that he can think lord tweeds Muir As John Buchan Only As every one thinks of him. More than any Man 1 Ever knew he had the special Talent for Success and i never knew a Man More a spoilt by it he was Good at contacts. When we first met he had followed me at bras Enose ten years later. I asked if he Ever saw anything Walter in my Days was simply a figure to be seen with curiosity in the Quad or Chapel. Buchan told me with glee How he and one of the dons had insisted on dragging Pater out telling him that the Young wanted to talk to him. And profit by their chances Pater had thawed and responded. That was a thing achieved by intelligent friendliness and the will to a very proper end a Good example the reasons for John Buchan s out standing Success. He was eleven year younger than Stephen Gwynn who is now seventy six and with a lift of books written or translated or edited Well nigh As Long As Buchan s. Though he must seem scarcely Middle aged to his monthly unknowing readers. He says that you could never separate Buchan s work from what he had enjoyed and he thinks that he never rated himself higher than a Good Workman with immense Power of work. He was a born devised of stories. Whenever hat lie ahead United in purpose and inexorably Leisure came there was always a Romance in his or. Gwynn determined to stand fast. They will expect their government to every Lead needed and to make the demands upon them which the grim and difficult situation demands. We will no to satisfied unless the sacrifice of War in one form or another. S heavy hand at once upon every household in the land. Is impossible today for the Layman to gauge exactly what Hose sacrifices must take. No one knows How Germany acc its attempt to subjugate the British Isles. All that we is that that great and magnificent people will defend their Shore with every ounce of Energy and resource they have. Their problem is twofold to Ward off actual invasion and to keep open the Potts and sea lanes upon which their lives depend. In this task Canada will share with All its strength. We will not be found wan in the Young men s Section of the Winnipeg Board of Trade has organized an extensive Campaign be House of Orange ii quiet friendliness and today. The co of Welcome canadians the provincial tourist receive Princess Juli jul Eaux it is a worthwhile Anra and the baby princesses Ike Many other things that As gifts their excellencies the Section has undertaken in i the past. The idea that there Are difficulties or great inconvenience in entering Canada during the War must be removed from 1he minds of our friends to the South. They find a minimum of i Conven the governor general and the Colin toss of Athlone Are the guests a Dominion. C inn inns in general have but ideas of Holland. They think of tulips and people ski on Dykes and women kerchiefs. They know. Var ugly from their school Days hence As before. Canadians should with somewhat More Assurance that a Prince of Orange occupied with his wife the join sovereignty of the British throne. They May have forgot to. However that this William Iii himself a Stuart on his to ice i la and first Cousin to i . Of James ii. There of Ner threads of his 1 iry by can Britain and Holland. The Yngue has tales of Distin English refugees within its cacs. Sometimes there the wraith of Charles ii slips by with the faithful Clarendon by his Side. There Loo go Argyle and Over there Marlborough. The first great Churchill. By there Are More than these Fie Ting footsteps to give common to canadians and their "ur-i.s. For centuries Orange was a principality within France by it own sovereigns. Its married the comte j . Hence the House of Nav to and Orange. That House the country which proudly Eck nov lenses it As its head has written a chapter in history which i p strength and stay in the March Mankind. Its Princess and her no sole heirs of this Jan Iii. At any time be Here. Now they comes imposed in us. That to to Ray May be one which in of will he remembered or with pleasure is the wish of spread j United i friends. This information in the the Little country has had states when writing to and honorable history to i it will be stressed also in organized publicity work. People coming from the United states Are entitled to the official rate of Exchange on their Money and there should never be any doubt of their obtaining the full Premium. Thov should receive every Courtesy and Token of hospitality. For special reasons directly connected with our War Effort we Are interested in securing the largest possible number visitors from the United states this year and it is for every Canadian to help As he is Able. Holiday happiness in Canada what 1 pkg. A80ut Canara and we Cool. South Africa fights Italy to London and commenced author As they say. In journalism in 1896, the year Buchan s first Book. According to who s he went Back to Ireland to live in 1904. His career includes too. A variety of posts the great War among them. He is still going Strong in the and his life of Grattan appeared less than two j ears ago. A poem filling fourteen pages giving whoever reads it enough to think about is called the inter its author Frank Ken Don in a Short apologetic tells that he wrote it in the first six weeks the War that it bears the Marks of trouble and that Reading it will involve trouble. He asks for patience to the end before passing judgment. Its theme is a War causing vast suffering an intense focus of human and of immense personal import Ance. It anxiety will permit read ers to read they will understand How essentially personal its com position was. To Many this anxious Day a War poem must be Brief and stinging in spiritual import. The literary article is an appreciation of the american poet Robert Frost by an English free Richard Church who tells that Frost left his Home in new England a Prophet in his own country ignored and unknown describing himself As a Plain new Hampshire but he was educated at Harvard though born in san Francisco of an old new England family. He went to eng land in what year we Are not told but there he became one of a group which met at the country House of Edward Garnett. It included Conrad Hudson Lucas. Galsworthy Davies and others. Edward Garnett discovered him a Genius and Man we Are Here told and that he was recognized As a in England. He re Medley of objectives Italy a has set herself in entering the War will probably allow her some successes at the Start but they give her so Many bristling fronts on which she will have to fight that any continuance of the must leave her a disastrous Oso. Her War policy forces her at the Point of the gun of her masterful attack he French in Force to strive to Ain control of the Mediterranean and to wage further Conquest in Africa. Italy has other ambitious bugs in her Bonnet but Only As she succeeds or fails in these primary Aims can she satisfy her craving for Empire and new spheres in fluence. The continent of Africa is the diadem the germans Promise Italy shall have and hold till they May want it. South african position the scope of Italy s immediate military operations in Africa is minor in the task she has had to 3et herself on other fronts but it directly accounts for the Union of South Africa coming More actively into the War. This outcome singularly confirms the Wisdom of Gen eral Smuts for it bears out the War policies he adopted immediately he succeeded general Hert zog As prime minister of the Union last september. The political opposition with which he was at first faced has been Defeated to the extent that his War programme is far More nationally approved Premier cod Bour Speaks Premier Godbout of Quebec in a radio address vehemently condemned Hitler and All his works and urged that the resources of Quebec be used to the utmost in support of the allies. French canadians and English he said have rallied under one Banner have gone to Aid of their two Mother coun tries in whom the Ideal and the reality of civilization Shine in an equal and splendid Cardinal Villen Curc also a few Days ago urged general support for the War to overthrow the nazi Power. Quebec is United As it never was in the last War and that Means a fully United country which will make a mightier War Effort than it could otherwise do. Tourists Aid War finance the tourist Trade valuable to Canada any Lime is Particia a a mutable nov because it the country a Large of american Exchange is urgently needed for the Purchase of War supplies in the to Stales. The foreign sex Mange control Board at Ottawa Fia emphasized the very great importance o the tourist Trade for pc reason. Every Canadian therefore who to help in the War in any he can. Will use every oppor uppity to encourage our friends in the United states to visit can in he will be doing something indirectly but surely the Allied cause. To bring the importance of this Home to the people of Mani toss and of the whole country today s scripture ecclesiasticus 43 the apocrypha the Beauty of heaven the glory of the stars an ornament giving Light in the highest places of the lord. At the command of the holy one they will stand in their order and never faint in their watches. Look upon the Rainbow and Praise him that made it very Beautiful it is in the Bright Ness thereof it comp Asseth the heaven about with a glorious Circle and the hands of the most High have bended it. Nobodies Are people who Don t know anybody who can get it for them at the Robert Quillen. If we compare our actual War Effort with our potential War Effort there is a disturbingly wide Horabin poet turned to the United states shortly after the last War broke out to find himself famous in his native Robert Frost says or. Church brought a new element into the poetry of our language. Difficult to define it is partly new England Puritan and thus can be traced to the quakers and the Wesleyan the eighteenth Century. But the variety of qualities listed Are not new in new England. Many sociologists today believe that this Quality of quiet ism is doomed to extinction before the flood Barbaric noise brought in by the machine the radio and the Tator. I Don t believe it. The United states supposed to be the Pioneer of latter Day Hustle and go getting is saturated in this spirit of Allus Veness of under statement of quiet emphasis. It is the technique of the laconic Yankee. It originated in England latent from the Days of Chaucer recognized and organized from the Days of great protestant writers at the end of the seventeenth or. Church adds that Robert Frost the poet is the voice of his own people and probably More representative american than Wall Whitman. His Dis Cussion of the matter and manner of that poetry will interest the critics. Edward Thomas of whom we have read so much who was killed at Vimy was a disciple. But i must not forget to mention the ancient Beech tree the Footpath the Wood the Road and the environs of that House the built by Edward Garnett. Some Twenty five Miles from London where a company of geniuses once for gathered Over forty years ago Bookman. Today than it was when first Dis closed. The majority of the people in South Africa have changed their attitude in that Many who were dubious about the intentions of the totalitarian states have had their minds disabused. They were influenced by the vigor with which general Smuts prepared for the situation now brought about by the Entrance of Italy into the War. But they were More gratuitously perhaps influenced by the Ger mans themselves. The invasion of the Little countries of Denmark and Norway horrified South Afri cans As much As it did other Peoples but ravaging the nether lands was the most grievous of front offered a people of dutch origin. Political tension in South Africa has not so much vanished As that it has resulted in wholesale rejection of general Hertzog s intentions. He moved first to keep the Union Neutral in this War and then in january last to have the Union secede and become a self contained Republic. These Delu Sions Are no longer practical poli tics during this War but they were allowed to subside when subtler military arguments were set up to obstruct general Smuts War activities. The scope and efficiency of his planning deeply impressed the Union but if this were to be minimized his opponents had to Decloud his Clear sighted War policy. The new attempt at obstruction took the form of attacking Smuts the summer symphony by . For american isolationists the new statesman and nation we have no quarrel with Amer ican isolationists except when they make no Effort to understand. It was Only after the moral conflict and bitter humiliation of Munich that we reached with infinite reluctance and a full consciousness of its horror the terrible conclusion that War was better than a nazi world. We believe that an overwhelming majority of americans Are glad that we reached that decision even though their own conflicts Are unsolved. Whatever they decide to do we ask them Ito admit that and to remember it. Whilst the maelstrom of War continues to engulf More of humanity in its insatiable Depths those of us who Are As yet merely spectators skirting its outer fringes should not fail to appreciate our great Good Fortune in still being permitted to stroll along Somi of life s pleasant by ways. Particularly Welcome in such times As these is the announcement that commencing june 19, Geof Frey Waddington will conduct a second series of ten weekly sum Mer symphony concerts in the Walker theatre. If and the writer is surely speaking for innumerable wadding ton and his players at their Forth coming concerts can soothe our shattered mood with the Balm of Beautiful music no matter How Brief the period of assuage ment he will earn our gratitude. It is interesting to note that an oboist Max Fleischer who has had experience with the washing ton d.c., orchestra will be heard in the 55-Strong combination which has been assembled and it is rumoured that other players new Here will be heard. This of course is All to the Good As it is to be presumed that any changes in the personnel will be made on the grounds of improvement. Or. Fleischer s engagement invites re iteration of the Point that Wood wind sections have nearly always been the weak cog in Winnipeg s orchestral forces of the past two decades. Or. Waddington on the occasion of last year s series of concerts and if one s ears Are still to be relied upon was no More exempt from occasional tonal vagaries from this particular Sec Tion than have been other conductors. A question which naturally arises for consideration is that of How Many of or. Waddington s players sat beneath the Baton of James Robertson at the recent performance of the Canterbury there was general unanimity of opinion on the part of musicians familiar with Winni Peg s cultural activities past and present that the performance of that particular orchestra has per haps never been excelled by any local body especially with regard to the brass Section. Assuming that or. Waddington will have a Good share of the players in ques Tion it is to be hoped that they will be As malleable and responsive to him As they were to his confreres. Such matters As the number of rehearsals and the calibre of the music technically and imaginatively come into the matter but the undeniable lesson of the Canterbury pilgrims was that it is still possible to assemble a reasonably Good local orchestra in this City and that it can be made to play with no Little artistic effect statement which sums up All that one is concerned with in any series of., concerts in Winnipeg irrespective of who is the conductor or under whose auspices they Are held. V the. Opening programme will comprise Nicolai s the merry wives of windsor1 overture. Beet Hoven s symphony in c hoist s St. Paul s suite for strings Strauss the Blue Dan and three dances from Smetana s the bartered in other words the Choice of music will presumably conform in the main to the Standard repertoire. A repetition of much most or All of the works offered last year will doubtless be forthcoming and quite rightly so partly because they were largely of the accepted repertoire and concerning the merits of which argument ceased a Long time ago and partly be cause or. Waddington and his players by again interpreting the More popular symphonies will have further opportunities to explore scores which can hardly be expected to yield up All their secrets at a first performance. Principle that the defence of the Union might Call for military intervention far beyond the Union s boundaries that is beyond the Limpopo River. Hon. Oswald Pirow adopted this principle when he was Hertzog s minister of de Fence and actually promised the British military support if they were ultimately attacked in British equatorial possessions but when he joined with Hertzog against Smuts he reversed this opinion to obstruct the Union s War plans. Principle of african defence the clause in the defence act relative to this Point reads every citizen shall be liable Between his seventeenth and his sixtieth year both included to Render in time of War service in defence of the Union in any part of South Africa whether within or outside the through the heated controversy whether this clause could be construed As applying to All Africa South of the Equator general Smuts held to the larger principle that under pres ent Day methods and Means of waging Wasj any enemy attack in almost any part of Africa could be a distinct menace to these purity of the Union of South Africa. His plans have been accordingly designed to overcome the fifth column tactics of Ger mans in South West Africa subversive to the Union and his War plans were expanded to meet the expected contingency of Italy entering the War and among hex other activities campaigning to extend her Dominion on the Conti nent of Africa. The Union of South Africa might seem to have been reserving itself from co operating in. The War measures As other overseas do minions have been co operating but this did not take account of the special designs counselled and prepared by Smuts. Italy thus finds herself confronted in Africa by joint measures carefully integrated Between the allies and South Africa. The Brunt of the defence of Allied possessions Africa will not fall on South Afri can forces but must still be borne by French colonial troops in North Africa and by Imperial and australian troops based in Egypt and Palestine. But by general Smuts energetic reorganization of the South african military forces and the sure grasp he has shown of How the germans would enlist Italy he has brought effective Aid to the allies at a critical moment in a sphere of action in which Italy must be smashed. Birthdays Hon. T. A. Crerar Ottawa born Molesworth out., june 17, 1875. From the Golden books from a nature poem Robert Frost by june our Brook s run out of song and Speed. Sought for much after that it will be found either to have gone groping underground and taken with it All the Breed that shouted in the Mist a month ago like ghosts of Sleigh Bells in a ghost of or flourished and came up in jewel Weed weak foliage that is blown upon a Bent even against the Way its Waters went. Its bed is left a faded paper Sheet of dead leaves stuck together by the a Brook to none but who remember Long. Problem for the m. T president Roosevelt s reply to the tragic message from Paul Reynaud the French prime minister makes it fairly Plain that he. Is prepared to. Help the allies to the very limit of his Power but that this cannot go to the extent of furnishing military Aid since this rests within the Power of Congress., it is beyond question that no such action by Congress at this time is possible though the sympathy of the american people for the Allied cause is stronger than Ever before and there is a much livelier understanding in the United states of what the. Consequences to that country of an Allied defeat would be. The Case., for non intervention in a military sense probably seems to be As Strong to the people of the United states today As the Case for Complete neutrality seemed to be to those who gave it their ardent support less than a year ago. Both attitudes have been based upon misunderstandings. The argument for Complete neutrality derived its strength from a widely held belief that the issues of the War did not affect the interests of the United states and that therefore though a Victory for the allies was to be preferred Victory for nazi Germany would not be much More than the Triumph of one Brand of imperialism. This incredible popular hallucination has been pretty Well knocked out by the course of events. However the War upon this Point there More and More discussions of less and less no sooner entered into its violent phase than there was a general recognition in the United states that this was not a War of clashing interests and rival imperialism at All but a Battle to the death Between the democratic Conception of society and of political Organiza Tion and a monstrous Conception of absolutism based upon the destruction of civilization As it has been developed Over the past two thousand years by the blending of greek Wisdom roman Law and the ethical and religious teachings of the Chris Tian Church. With this enlargement of understanding there was a Start Ling change in United states opinion fittingly. Represented by the Complete reversal within two weeks by. States Senate of its earlier decision which was almost unanimous not to permit the roundabout Sale of government material to the allies. The president s engagement which goes to the limit of his Power is also the result of this amazingly rapid change in Public opinion. The United states has moved within a year from Complete neutrality to a neutrality partial to the Allied cause and from this neutrality to a non belligerent association with the allies. At this Point it is evident. American opinion wants to stay or at any rate to Tarry. The reasons for this Are obvious and they would be conclusive if it were not for one consideration which the people of the United states refuse As yet to. Recognize with its necessary implications. What they will see As yet is that they Are in this War and that there is no Road out of. It for them Victory or arid that therefore their policy should be governed by Long time views and not by Short term expedients of supposed temporary advantage. A Germany triumphant in Europe and with the resources of that continent at its disposal will proceed to Settle accounts with the United states and no american of ought to be under illusions on this score. The German Consul general at new Orleans has said As much to the great indignation of the americans but he has told them the truth and they should be thankful to him. It is greatly creditable to the As the real Issue emerged they moved almost instinctively to the Relief and support of the allies. They did this under the leadership of president Roosevelt who appears to Haver a e in More fully alive to the menace to civilization of nazism than any other National Leader in the world. He has sought unavailing by for More than two years to impart to his countrymen his judg ment upon nazism and his apprehensions that an attempt would be made to extend it by the sword. It is less than a year ago since he called representative senators into Council. To advise them of his. Fears All he succeeded in doing was to give the late senator Borah an. Opportunity to Tell the president that from his own sources of information which he claimed to , he could him that there was no basis for his. Alarmist views there threat from nazism there would be no european War and. So Forth. V.1 there is a vocal Section of Public opinion in the United very much in the minority would have the country enter the War forthwith. Against this there is the argument which is said to satisfy both Congress and the advisers of or. Roosevelt that if the United states should it could make no contribution beyond what is already possible under Roosevelt s pledge to Reynaud. The hollowness of this argument May Only be apparent to the Ameri can is very much too late. Active participation in the .War., would apart altogether from matters , bring a moral support to the allies which might mean the Dif Ference Between Victory and defeat. It is difficult to believe that with one or two exceptions there is any free in the does not at heart desire the Victory allies since Only by such Victory is their own continued free existence there is Here a great mass of influence and Power which in various ways not necessarily belligerent could give the allies Succov and support just As the is doing. But elementary considerations of prudence restrains them while the Issue remains so doubtful to the allies not be As indifferent As the United states is what Germany will War. The difference Between the United states giving moral and material support to the allies and actual participation in the War would be immense in its moral weight very few countries in the. None perhaps not even believe that the free nations can be finally Defeated if the United states is one of them and that general belief would go far to make a nazi Victory impossible. If it be the it is hard to that any intelligent american looking at the matter dispassionately can have doubts on the the United states is already in this War by reason of her course it would seem to be self evident that it ought to decision on some other Field of Battle than North America adjacent Waters. It is quite possible that by following policies of apparent prudence at this time the United states will let itself in for a defence. no Distant Date of North against a nazi dominated world with no help from such assist Ance As Canada already exhausted by her exer Tipa in the great War can give. If it be the Case As reported from Washington that president Roosevelt favors armed intervention these Are the considerations that move him. His countrymen looking Back from some Day not far in the future will see How right he was. Ing to announce. Arrival at any time of is Apt to grow into a nuisance. Some. Consider hylas a Beautiful youth having hone on Shore to draw water was carried off by the Naiad. A Story told by theocritus to make knowledge valuable you must have the cheerfulness of wis Dom. Goodness smiles to the last such words As breaker rugger soccer and fresher were not Given to the world Syd Ney King far Low. Too much noise Why. Do you honk your Horn be Ionest now do Ryou honk it solely As a measure of traffic safety or do you use a signal to your friends that you have arrived to from their party or out Early game of Golf Iii Winnipeg with of apartment practice of Horn blow Tion should be Given those who must listen to the honking though it is not intended for their ears. Surely ii a Driver arranges to Call for a Friend he can set an exact time for to expect him. This should Jap away with the kind of honk ing and the nuisance it is to those who live near bar. R ;