Timely Topics

Northern Advocate, 21 July 1938, Page 6

Timely Topics

f “The real audience which the chair|man of even a small company ad- ! dresses (says the “Economist”) is far wider even than > WHEN SHARE- the total o f the i HOLDERS MEET, proprietors, since it includes all investors, large or small, who may i choose to become proprietors in the .future. I “Such an 'audience will pardon, and ;even welcome, the enthusiastic satis- | faction of a directorial board with its i own achievements. Conversely, it will Ibe sympathetic, in time of depression, ?to a frank avowal of difficulties encountered. It does not expect chairimen to give their companies a bad | advertisement or to do the sharehold|ers’ job of criticism for them. What ?it desires, above all things, is news I about a company, its achievements, its I aims, its hopes and its problems. Investors, indeed, have an insatiable ap- | petite for positive facts, from which I they can draw their own conclusions | with the assurance that no consideration which is basic to their decision | has been omitted. The best speech lean never be a satisfactory substitute | for detailed and informative annual ? accounts.” ? 0 M IS 8 { “Perhaps the greatest tragedy of the ? Third Reich’s relations with the rest lof the world,” comments the “Glas- ? gow Herald,” is I THE GREATEST that neither Herr ♦ TRAGEDY. Hitler nor any of his most influential colleague knows any language but German. Thus hampered, they have very little understanding of the psychology 0 f foreign peoples such as might suggest to them that the critical foreigner is not necessarily their enemy all the time. The truth is simple enough. “The Third Reich has itself to blame for the bad Press it has received in this Country. If it showed its strength at home in moderation it would find very little but commendation here; if it showed its good faith abroad in , a clear statement of its foreign policy it would find a readiness to co-oper-ate. But it does not. “Between them Herr Hitler, Field--1 Marshal Goering and Dr. Goebbels 1 have done more to alienate opinion in 1 this country than all the comment ! that has been made on them. What stands between Britain and Germany 1 is not the hostility of the British Press but the mystical fanaticism of National Socialism.”