Milford chronicle., 1942-02-20
CCRIB BILE G
~ By ROBT. H. YERKES ~

SINGAPORE, often called the Lion City,
founded by the late Sir Stanford
Raffles, 123 years ago, together with
its brave under-supplied garrison of
10000 British troops, has fallen to the
Japs and Tokyo in a moment of jubil-
alton celebrates the conquest as one of
tremendous achievement. The victory,
however costly to the Allied nations,
also was costly to the armies of the
Mikado. The docks, guns and other
installations were rendered unservice-
able before the surrender and instead of
modern $500, 100000 naval base the
Japs have a blasted ruin populated by
100000 fighting mad people, who will
await the day with patience until they
can aid in hurling the sheaky little
men from Nippon into the sea.
/s/s/
The Axis has always counted on
fifth columnists to soften up a nation
before an attempted "Blitz." In the
cases of Denmark, Norway, Holland,
Belgium and France, the method was a
pronounced success and in "Merrie
England" the notorious "Cliveden set,
while not classed as fifth columnists
nevertheless preached the doctrine that
to oppose the Axis especially Herr
Hitler was folly and a negotiated peace
was better than no peace at all. The /
power once exercised by this group is |
reflected in the peace in Our Time"
pact obtained at Munich. In America, |
today. there is a wOuld-be "Cliveden |
Set" who for the most part are un- |
consciously playing into the hands of
the Axis, by berating the English for
the present conduct of the war. The
sooner these people realize that we are
as much to blame for the debacle in |
Malaga, through our negligence at
Pearl Harbor, as are the English, and
that Hitler, Mussoini and Hirohito,
want the American people to become
dissatisfied with their English partners
SO dissatisfied, that instead of working
together we will fall apart thereby en-
abling them to step in for an easy kill
For the sake of humanity, for the sake
of all things you hold sacred, and all
the things your father and your fathers
father held sacred, beware of this in
sidious plan. For once the Axis obtain
this sought for cleavage, they will ex-
ploit it-until instead of being nations
of free people, we will become nations
OF, serfs. United no power or group of
powers in the world can for long hold
the upper hand against us. Hitler
knows this, so does his stooges, and
they know despite their long list of
victories that they are doomed.
/S/s/
Because almost every evening some
of the Red Cross organizations hold
meetings; and because it is almost i'm
possible to write a detailed account of
each meeting, the Chronicle has started
with this issue to carry schedule of
the various meetings. This schedule
appears on page one, column one of
the Chronicle, and will appear in the
same spot each week.
/s/s/ l.
Each week we receive a number of
letters regarding this column, which
we so timidly started a few short
months ago. We would not be honest
if we said they were all Of friendly or
congfatuiatory nature. However, the
majority offer constructive criticisms
and we are glad to get this friendly
comment.
/s/s/
Next week and for all the weeks to-
come we will carry an original recipe.
Next week the recipe will be for fish
balls, and it is so good that the late
President Harding, who heard about
it from Delaware friends, had the
White House chef use it at regular
intervals.