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Thus the war can be called a holy war on both sides, and no kind is more implacable than war of religions. So the Chinese, with an inspiration never, before vouchsafed them, fight ̈ ́· on.----- “Great Britain and The East.”
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receive more than a trickle of old men, women and children. The young men would not dare to go back, even if they were allowed.
-"National Review:"
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Is it possible that the German people will realise the abyss to (which they are drifting and them- selves insist upon a change of course? It is possible, but it is not probable. For five long years the German people have been sub- jected to the deliberate destruc-- MIRROR OF OPINION tion of their critical faculties.
Hong Kong, Suturday, July 29, 1989.
They are congenitally addicted to We have to convince the world self-pity, envy, herd emotion,. that we have not made ourselves obedience and a lust for domina strong in armaments for nothing, tion.
but that henceforward, every-j For these reasons I believe- where, we intend to pursue our that war is almost inevitable. But: policy and not yield an inch to I believe that if we demonstrate- threats of violence.
that this country is prepared both We have to make it known that for the maximum of resistance campaigns of insulting Press pro and the maximum of conciliation. paganda and war talk will not in there is still some slight chance the least change our policy. Dan- of preserving the peace. Harold zig is one fixed point. Tientsin Nicholson in "Nineteenth Cen- should become another. It would tury." be disastrous if in the negotia- tións at Tokyo we should offer to modify in the smallest degree our major policy in China. The Spectator."
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The democracies, as well being united against aggression,.. are agreed that, the highest. aim.. of statesmanship is the improve- ment of the general standard of life. Great Britain desires this. It is evidence of the strange improvement not for her pass into which English politics people alone. "So far from wish- has come that the Government ing to embarrass Germany in the should have been broadly pursueconomic field," said the Foreign ing for the last three months a Secretary, "a really prosperous programme that until March was Germany would be good for all anathema to them. Even now a Europe and for us; and, so far- certain ingrained reluctatice to from wishing to obstruct a settle-- stray too far from the path of ment, our one aim is to throw the appeasement has been accom whole of our weight in the scale panied by clear failure to grasp of a peaceful settlement:"
the fall implications of the poli-Times.' * * **
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Despite outwardly different: |forms of government, the two- The negotiations at Moscow countries are united in a common. have not been helped by this, or way of life and a common, resolve by that suspicion which not un- to maintain their democratic naturally attaches in Kremlin air-traditions. Together they con cles to the makers of Munich: trol material forces which, must. The Ministry of Supply and other always command, respect, and the items in preparedness might have moral, forces inspiring them are been better contrived had their no less significant. There is no- drafters not been the men who surer guarantee of peace than had formerly, denied their neces-good relations between the Unit
"The Economist,”
ed States and the United Kings- dowNews Chronicle.'
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Two thousand five hundred years ago, the great: Jimmu Few people could read the Tenuo, first Emperor of All signs, which became clear soon Japan, left on his death-bed & after Münielf, that Hitler was try- half-prophecy, half-behest, that ing, to reach an arrangement withi fit, was Japan's destiny to control Bussia. The first sign was the
efèren and guide all Asia. On that in, absence of provoca innotion numbers of Japanese to Russian his
are acting today in perfect sine second was the sudden, cessation cerity. Although the papera still of German activities in the Care talk of the China anident" the pathian Ukraine. The next sign > came from Moscow the dismis. fanatics, talk of their “holy war.
Ching too is fighting a way of sal of Litvinov.uk ideals. To many the Revolution Once the Soviet Government of 1911 was but the normal con- begins to eliminate the Jews from fusion of one dynasty against am the administration, it begins to other ubssesîh ithairerrings offer Hitler the possibility's to telf
now-- his peoplề "Ruskie"""fa-hp- ught Bolshevist the Bolshevist, ale
being eradicated.
land" musta
changed China ment
her still.
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