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list were Poland (who is said to have refused again), Portugal, and Hungary. There was a hint last autumn that Hungary would be the first to fall when Japan Initialled a "cultural agreement” with her at Budapest on Novem- ber 15. This agreement has not yet been ratified, but Japan has signed a similar “cultural agree- W.C.2ment" with Germany, and hopes
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hardly make much difference in this respect. More important, it means a further increase of Ger- man influence in Hungary. This influence is by no means popular among all Hungarians, and the Government, which is already facing keen opposition, is likely to be severely criticised for this new act of surrender; but Ger- man influence in Hungary is al- ready so powerful that her prés- sure may be difficult to resist. No doubt the Government hopes that in return the senior partners of the pact will champion her re-
Hong Kong, Wednesday, Feb. 15, 1939. visionist demands in Rumania
and Yugo Slavia, though Ger- many has so far shown little Sym- THE NEW MEMBER pathy with her claims in Ruthe-
to
the
Hungary's accession Anti-Comintern Pact, which has been officially announced in Ber- lin, will hardly excite the Chan-
nia. As an anti-Comintern Fow- er Hungary may be expected to appreciate the need for "an inde- pendent Ukraine."
celleries of Europe, but for all A Martyrdom
that it is an interesting develop-
Dr. Niemoller has spent his ment. This curious league began'
forty-seventh birthday in the in November, 1986, with a pact concentration camp at Sachsen- between Germany and Japan forhausen, where he was taken by mutual "defence against Com- the German secret police last March after the German judges munism". Since both Germany
had set him free. An unnamed and Japan had successfully ex- preacher at a service of interces- terminated Communism in their sion in Dahlem on Saturday said own countries this description that "if Pastor Niemöller has been much braver than others, was widely held to be nothing this courage is now "broken by more than a poor excuse for in-loneliness." The rigours of his terfering in other countries-an imprisonment have increased and interpretation which has been his health is failing! He has been forbidden to write or receive justified by events. At the time letters; he is in the strictest the pact was signed it was stated solitary confinement, so that his to be open to all other countries wife and friends who used to visit him at rare intervals can Po who agreed with its aims.
see him no more. We in this land, indeed, was invited to join, country can do nothing to obtain but refused. Herr von Ribben-his freedom, but it would be his wish that we do not let the trop, whose pet it is, made his
thought of his stand fade from next convert a year later, when our minds. His being in prison Italy joined the pact, thus turn-symbolises the whole struggle of ing the two axes into the Rome the Churches in Germany for the right to make the principles of Berlin-Tokyo triangle. Italy, too, the religion which they hold their had nothing to fear from the first observance. As he said in Comintern, but since she was his last sermon before arrest:
We have no more thought of "fighting Bolshevism" in Spain using our own powers to escape the pact was convenient. In the arm of the authorities than
in
1997 Japan, not to be outdone, had the Apostles of old. No more [are we ready to keep silence" at began "fighting Bolshevism"
man's behest, when God com- China. So far, indeed, the Anti-mands us to speak. For it is and Comintern Pact has worked best must remain the case that we when directed against the British must obey God rather than man. Empire, and it is noteworthy that It is important that we do not, in the press of interests to-day, on the only occasion when one of forget Dr. Niemoller and the other the partners, Japan, might con- imprisoned pastors any more than ceivably have been described as Herr Schuschnigg and the multitude of men who suffer in “fighting“ Communism” real-
camps because they believed in ity (at Changkufeng) the other something strongly and cannot two partners showed no eager, leny it at the will of politicians. Their only effect on the world ness to help, idt
now lies in our minds for they But Herr von Ribbentrop's can no longer preach their differ- proselytising activities were not ent gospels in words but only in ended. The next countries on his their suffering.