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The China Mail
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It is obvious that the very wide commitments we have under-
{fu'filled without a considerable in- crease in our land forces. We may still be able to do without an army of millions; but we need an army of at least one million, and the re- cruitment, over a period, and training, over a longer period, of a quarter of a million spare-time soldiers is not nearly enough.
The answer is conscription. It is true that many people have strong scruples against conscrip tion. Some of these scruples are reasonable and should be met. For example, it would be wrong to con- script man-power alone. But this can be met by a short declaratory Act of Parliament placing the whole man-power, wealth and in- dustrial capacity of the nation at the service of the State, to be called upon as required. "The Economist”.
Japan seems to be sinking deeper into the swamp from MIRROR OF OPINION which Marshal Chiang Kai-shek says she can only emerge, in face Do the Socialists really wish of prolonged Chinese resistance, Britain to hoist the white flag?las a second-rate Power. It may They are apparently, striving to be so. It is unwise to over-esti- kill the Military Service Bill. mate Chinese claims, but there Have they paused to ask them-seems no doubt that during the
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backs on Conscription now. Bri- should be helped in every avail- tish influence would vanish with able way. "Time and Tide." her self-respect. We should
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the nations. Our people do not It would be a mistake to as- run away. "Daily Mail."
sume that Germany's seizure of Czecho-Slovakia is all advantages. Let us all be conscious that It is not. Having eight million peace depends upon the impres- Czechs to look after in the event siveness of the Peace Alliance of a war is a disadvantage. More- during these very days and over, the disappearance of Czecho weeks. Let us recruit every pos- Slovakia has naturally aroused sible member for it. Let us hope great concern in countries like for the quick and successful con-Poland, Rumania, Bulgaria and clusion of the negotiations with apparently Yugoslavia and Tur- Russia and Turkey. Let every na-key. These countries are thêm- tion in the Alliance stand by itselves. unable to withstand the without reserve, and to the last strength of German imperialism. limit of its power. For upon ita They must, therefore, look to the solidity depends not merely the other big states, Russia, Britain safety of each, but the future and France.. happiness of our world. "Daily A Combination of powerful Herald":
states against a weaker combina- tion may for a time prevent: a This country's course is plain Because the fundamental cause of war, but only for a time. Why? Until the last of the doubts and dangers has been overcome it will war to-day lies in the fact that the capitalist states are unable to spare nothing either in effort or cost to extend its preparations solve the problem of distributing for defence and its arrangements the goods which their highly or with nations which are pre-ganised industries can produce.
"Plebs." pared to share in a common stand for civilisation. Without ceasing to work for a return to the rule
America's position, which of law it will be unresting and un remitting in resistance to any wou'd be vital in a prolonged war, and every attempt to impose is totally different from what it the rule of force. "The Time."! was in 1914. This time she Hás [foreseen the coffflict even more clearly than many in Europe and, What is Hitler's ambition? it is believed here, her sympathy What, in other words, drives him is accorded in advance to Britain on and makes him drive Europe and France. on? He belleves in a kind of Nobody in Europe, not even heaven on earth of which the the Germans, doub that "Ameri- National Socialist revolution is ca's. resources, would be thrown The beginning All his purpose and on the side of the demogracies or policy are dominated by the one that if Japan-another uncertain thought that in another war he factor-joined Germany, America must control the sequence of would be still less, neutral, "New events so that there will be vic-'York Times."
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