“JAIRMANY CALLING”

Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 May 1941, Page 6

“JAIRMANY CALLING”

WORRIED ABOUT MR. WILLKIE. It seems that the performers responsible for the “Jairmany calling" feaspecial appeal to the citizens of Manture on the Nazi wireless broadcasted a Chester and Liverpool instructing them to demonstrate against Mr Wendell Willkie when he arrived in their midst and to “show Willkie what you think of him and of Churchill," states the “Manchester Guardian.” It would be interesting to know why the people of those two cities wore singlecl out for that particular attention. Have the promoters of the "Jairmany calling” feature only just discovered that Mr Willkie is hero in this island-and not exactly floating round in a mood of earping criticism? Or do they think that, though Mr Willkie may be very ipopular in London, he is less likely to appeal in Lancashire? Did they really think that there might be “demonstrations” against both Mr Willkie and Mr Churchill? Perhaps they did. because on other occasions there has been no plumbing the abysmal stupidity, of those broadcasts, which are often just; plain fairy tales for Nazi consumption turned into English. Those responsible may have persuaded themselves that there is a fervent anti-Cburchill spirit in the industrial North which could be mobilised in outcries against Mr Willkie. And it would be quite unnecessary to assume that they would be in anyway disappointed or abashed by the; welcome actually given io the visitor.. After all. they could always announce in English that Mr Willkie was duly lynched and his mangled remains forwarded io Downing Street in order to remind Mr Churchill of what he himself might expect if lie were to-show himself among' the Fuhror-worshipping lads of Lancashire. It would be no sillier than a good many of the tales that are told under the "Jairmany calling” banner.