WORLD TOUR

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 149, 12 July 1937, Page 8

WORLD TOUR

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Happiest Place is The Antipodes GLOOMY GERMANY

{By Tdesrranli

AUCKLAND, This Day. "I have come back to the Antipodes feeling that here is the happiest and cheapest part of the world in which to Iive," declared Hr Stanley S. Crick, managing director >of the Fox Film Corporation (Australasia), Ltd., who Teeently xeturned by the Mariposa with Mrs Crick after a tour of America, England and Europe. SpeaMng of his impressions of the political situation, Hr Crick gave an emphatic "No" to the qnestion whether the world was likely to suffer another world war conflagration. He gave as xeasons England's statemanghip and might, Europe 's food shortage andjits unsound dnanceg. In his opin3©n,i however, a better understanding an&jlasting peace could only be gainedjk%v'ijhe lowering of Customs duty bmgiers, enabling all countries to xeeojye their nlodicum of income from the world of trade. Everywhere in Eunope Mr and Mrs Capkf.were accorded the utmost eour"tegay »",These countries to-day," said MMtthiek, "trading as they do so much wfrainjthemselves, regard tourism as an in^ustry. In Italy we found a really progressive country; the people seemed ^bappy.. Adults and youth seemed to eonceritrate, however, ,on some form of military'' discipline, and we were present at one of the dictator's great mil'■tary* shows. 3 3 Deplorable Food Shortage " Contrasting with the,. lighier temperaments "oi the Latin Countries, Geraany seemed full of despond. In Ba|in :we were treated well, but we felt"- nnhappy. Nobody seemed to smile-rnoxcept the children — and we felt that'-here everything and everybody was tmder restraint. Again nothing butysSlitarism seemed to matter to thogeiin'power and when-on Hitler's birfcday.- eountless thousands turned ou^ty /witness silently Germany's dictator^aas^.through miles of every form of fjnodern military machines and man pfrsr I ® unconsciously shuddered at the|.ihought of what might happen if ever these war dogs wero let loose. • * jYefc'*while Germany can be admired forfher'economies and, regarded from the point of view of efik.ency, as great a country as any in the world, I believe that this craze of militarism might tyet;.be the undoing of both Italy Rnd« Germany, for the food shortage is deplorable, and to-day these countries find it dif&cult to feed their millions satisfactorllv." Britain Solid Although Erance appeared to be i% a parlous state and labour conditions deplorable, the morale of the people there seemed different, said Mr Crick. Then came London and the Coronation: one had only to attend sueh celebrations, with their splendid, dignity and organisation, to realise why the British Empixe stood so high. He realised the gieatness of the people who so loved their country, their King and their Empire. "I felt that here of all places there was no room for Eascism, Oommunism or any other 'ism.'," said Mr Crick, "but just an inherent desire to trade peacefully and to live peacefully. ^ •"'The day after the Coronation we left for America, a country which has niueh money and many prdblems, strikes of ali descriptions, soaring production costs — and with their problenip, a grnwing regard for everything that is British. ; ;