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Hong Kong, Friday, July 14, 1939.
MOSCOW HITCH
come
conformatory evidence that the mass of British public opinion is- behind the Government in most aspects of its foreign policy. How has. this striking change about? Part of the answer is- Herr Hitler, as a symbol of ag- gression, and the other part is Sir Kingsley Wood, the Minister for Air, as a symbol of British rearmament.
The effect of the rape of Pra-- gue was instantaneous and pro- found. It shattered one of the twin pillars of the appeasement policy, and cracked the other al- most past repair. On the one While, it is true, as Mr. Cham-hand, it smashed the hope that berlain told Mr. Noel Baker, that German ambitions had some to- recrimination will not bring An- lerable limit, which could be glo-Soviet agreement any nearer, reached at the cost of certain in-- the Labour member's suggestion justices and humiliations, but that all proposals be published without paying the terrible price sounds eminently reasonable. At of a world war. On the other present, it seems clear that Rus-hard, it reconciled many to the six is putting forward the obsta-need for paying that price. Bri- cles. What it fears, apparently, tish people had been ready to is that it may be saddled with too back the chance of avoiding world. large a share of the common risk war against long odds and in a and the common burden. Moscow steady losing sequence; but mil- wants to be sure that the liabilit-lions now made up their minds ies it is being asked to assume that war was almost inevitable.
This was will not exceed the guarantees it
perhaps the most is entitled to expect--that there striking of all reactions to the will be "absolute equality" with March crisis. As one commenta- Britain and France and complete tor put it, the grim resignation: reciprocity in the assurances to to the idea of war that overtook. be exchanged. The Russians, in the British public had to be felt. plain language, are not prepared to be appreciated.
to join in guarantees to the coun-
tries in which France and Britain |
are primarily interested, unless
they in turn are insured against French Stability aggression through "those, coun- tries on the north-western fron-
One of the stabilising factors
tier which may be powerless if in Europe to-day is the fact that ever they are forced to defend observers have been able to grow their neutrality." But Britain justly enthusiastic in their praise and France, even if they were of France's "moral and material prepared, at Russia's insistence, renaissance" Financial and econo to throw the peace mantle over mic recovery has been made pos- the Baltic States, are faced with sible, by the great change in the the practical difficulty that none temper of the French people. A of those States are anxious or fresh wind of patriotism has dis- willing to receive such protection, pelled the fog of defeatism that with Russia as a joint guarantor. long_threatened to suffocate the They do not wish to be caught nation, and reinvigorated the between the German and Russian national life. Whereas the Nov- millstones, to risk their already ember decrees had provoked hos- totility and the general strike, the precarious independence, or
decrees passed in compromise their precious neu- Draconian trality.
March and April were accepted Russia, it is clear, is resolved by all sections of the people as to drive a hard bargain with the stern necessities. With their com- Western Powers. She is well prehensive conscription of human they aware of the value of her contri-and industrial resources, bution to the peace bloc. Britain placed France on a "crisis foot- and France, she believes, need her ing." Even the cherished: 40-·| aid in buttressing the large lia-hour week gave way to one of 60 bilities they have undertaken hours or more, with overtime more than she needs theirs, and rates, in all national defence in--
Like Britain, France consequently must accept her dustries. point of view. Behind her intran, had, belatedly realised that her sigeance lies the old suspicion foreign policy could only be stated bluntly by M. Stalin last made more resolute by extraor March, and recently hinted at dinary measures which establish- again by M. Molotoff-that Brit- ed for it a sound basis of milit ain and France would not be ary and economic strength. The averse from seeing the dynamic need for such strength was only strength of Nazi Germany divert- too grimly patent. Munich meant ed against the Soviet. That mis the shattering of French power trust is one of the legacies of and prestige în Central and East- Munich and of the defunct policy ern Europe. Belligerent Italian of appeasement. Russia remains clamours for Tunisia, Corsica, unduly "careful" and excessively and Nice offered such an insulting “vigilant” in ensuring that there assumption of French weakness is to be no appeasement at her that all parties, dropping their expense, and the price she asks social and political dissensions, for a pact is higher than it rallied to defend the national hon- would be if no such misgivings our and territory. The final lingeréd. Britain and France al-shock of the German march on most certainly will be obliged to Prague completed the harsh proz
of consolidating French pay it, if the alternative is the cess breakdown of the negotiations unity. By their aggressive policy Time sses. Germany is alert Signor Mussolini and Herr Hitler
the weaknesses of her have notably assisted the rena and without Russiagance of France
force wil salon front is pe
complete. Prudence, rac
closing of the gap.
dion throughou