Round Hole

A Square Peg in a Round Hole

A FAMOUS London commentator, Hannen Swaffer, has this to say in.

“World’s Press News”, of February 26. about a gentleman well known in Fiji:— Now that Singapore has fallen, we can look back and wonder what share the press repression had to do with the catastrophe.

Australian journalists were censored.

An American news commentator was thrown out for daring to say a few words of the truth.

“Nothing made sense in Singapore,”

Frank Gervasi, the American journalist, warned us, weeks ago. “The funniest and the most exasperating character was the local Press Relations Officer.

“For some 20 years he had been a magistrate—in the Fiji Islands. He was a naval reserve officer, a lieutenant-com mander. and was called to duty recently.

As a former magistrate in the Fiji Islands he was, of course, extremely helpful to the foreign press. He didn’t know one newspaper from another and the only press association he’d ever heard of was Reuter’s.

“He knew what the BBC was, but he’d never heard of CBS or NBC. He dedi cated himself to the proposition that no one. absolutely no one, old boy, should find out one damned thing about Singa pore.

“He was eminently successful.”

Mr. Theo Thomas, who got away to Australia from New Guinea just after the Jap invasion, recently enlisted in the AIF in Sydney. His wife now is living at Picton, NSW.

Miss M. Clipstone and Miss V. Wakely, of the New Hebrides Field Mission, recently returned to Australia.

Monsieur Guillot, formerly chief jus tice of the French Colony of St. Pierre and Miquelon, has been nominated as head of the Department of Justice at Papeete, Tahiti.