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These groups are united in a desire to "call the bluff” of the dictator countries, instead of seeking to negotiate with them as Mr. Chamberlain has done. They all claim to be as much in
favour of peace as is the Prime
Minister. They attack his policy because they differ from him as to the best means of promoting peace.
In all this there is no party dog-fight. Indeed, the differences cut right across party politics. Moreover, groups which agree on certain questions are found dis- Government on one point, this or agreeing on others; against the that group is with it on another. Thus Mr. Churchill favours con-
scription, and strongly insists that the new National Register should be compulsory. The La- bour Party is with the Govern- ment in disliking compulsion.
In one important respect there is no disunity. All, in the Govern- ment and outside it, urge
the strenuous organization of all the resources of the country for de- fence. The disagreementTM is sole ly concerned with the methods to be employed. Unwelcome as is Hong Kong, Tuesday, Feb. 14, 1939: the terrific financial strain of
Fostage Abroad Extra
DIVIDEDLY UNITED
Anyone who may expect to find in Great Britain that facade of unity which is erected in totali-
arming on the present scale, there is unanimous feeling that Britain must bend all its energies to the task of being strong.
tarian states is looking for a vain A Juggler's Lot thing. There is deep and intense feeling about the rights and the Poland has stepped onto the 38 one of wrongs of the great issues which international stage confront British statesmen, and Europe's busiest jugglers-with which are being discussed with three big balls. Russia, Germany hardly decreasing anxiety as the and now France, in the air. The Spanish situation develops.
geographical position of Poland
Anatole Kitain, Ania Dorfmann Anatole Kitain,
The very life of democracy de- has always required of that coun- Wiener & Doucet. pends upon such critical feelings try the most dexterous handling finding open expression in public of balance-of-power matters, but Ania Dorfmann.life. There need, therefore, be no since Munich the possibility of a reproachful cries about "disunity" clash between larger powers Ignace Friedman. ........... Ania Dorfmann, if Mr. Chamberlain's Government which lie on either side of Polish Anatole Kitain. finds itself face to face with vehe- territory and the increasing pres- ment opposition, provided that sure on Poland of some of their this opposition is not merely cap-claims have kept Polish states- tious. This is the way in which men more than occupied. constitutional government works, The Third Reich's reported not driving discontents under- schemes in the Ukraine could ground but allowing them to ap-mature only at a big cost to Po- pear on the surface, so that their land, where live millions of dis- constructively corrective influence satisfied Ukrainians who presum- may be felt, and the Government ably would welcome support from may be able to modify its policy Germany for an independent if it finds itself drifting away Ukrainian state. Poland also is from public sympathy.
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Ania Dorfmann.
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Under the fierce but in the long been under consideration main wholesome fire of criticism, among smaller European states to Mr. Chamberlain has been able to form a bloc to bar German ex- sense the current of public opin-pansion. On the other hand Po- ion, with the result that recently land long ago saw a need to con- he has stiffened his attitude to- ciliate its powerful neighbour, ward Germany, demanding that Germany, and entered into a non- its rulers too should give a "sign" aggression pact which spelled the that they will co-operate in peace-first break in the "ring" which making. He has also declared French diplomacy had construct- categorically that he will support ed around the Reich. France if Italy adopts other than In recent weeks Poland has diplomatic means in pressing its been mending diplomatic fences claims in the Mediterranean. on all sides. After taking the The Parliamentary opposition opportunities which the Munich to Mr. Chamberlain is strangely agreement offered to annex Pol- assorted. In the attack upon his ish sections of Czechoslovakia, foreign policy we find the Labour thus seeming to place itself in Party allied with anti-Socialist the German camp, Poland im- Conservatives like Mr. Winston mediately turned away to streng- Churchill, Mr. Alfred Duff-Coop then its relations with Germany's er, and the Duchess of Atholl, chief antipathy, Soviet Russia. and with idealists like the Conser-Then von Ribbentrop went to vative Mr. Anthony Eden, and Warsaw to talk with Colonel Jo- Sir Archibald Sinclair, leader of sef Beck over the European sit- the Liberals. Detestation of Fas-uation. Now the Polish press, cism, as such, animates the La-commenting on that visit, dis- bour Party. The maintenance of chases the possibility of improv- the strength and prestige of the ing relations between Poland and British Empire especially moves France.
Mr. Churchill and his Conserva- This expenditure of diplomatic tive group. Bellef in the ideal energy for results that never can of collective security and in the be quite certain is the price Po capacity of Britain to guide the land pays for a geographical posi- disinterested nations and help tion which only a successful sys- the weaker inspires Mr. Eden tem of collective security could and the Liberals”
make quite comfortable.