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ers engaged in frantic competi- tion to furnish Japan with the means with which to fight us.
After 1919, the white races. continued their self-betrayal, and technicians of all nationalities. hurried to Tokyo to furnish the Japanese general staff with the most recent creations in the art of destructions. To-day, in spite of the official disapproval of some governments, it is entirely due to European inventions that Japan is able to invade China with suc- cess. "The Fortnightly.”
According to certain reports, Hitler will make a great effort in the case of Polish resistance to the "settlement" of the Dan- zig and the Corridor questions— to smash Poland completely with- in three weeks.
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Hong Kong, Saturday, August 5, 1939. 150 years' peace pact, in return
MIRROR OF OPINION
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Hitler then intends to make the Western Powers an offer of a
for the Polish districts of Dan- zig, the Corridor, and parts of Posen and Upper Silesia, and the "peaceful" settlement of Ger- A professional politician who man and Italian claims in Africa. is out of office is like a jockey fulfilled he will be
If these hopes of Hitler
master in without a mount. It is only hu- man nature that he should want Europe and a "rounding off" in to get back into the saddle. But Africa will be a certain consequ- he should be frank about his ence. "New Statesman and Na-
to tion." motives; he should not seek cloak them under any highfalu-
In March, Hitler suddenly de- tin pretence, especially if his tal-manded a revision of the status. ent for making a nuisance
of Danzig and the Polish Corri- himself is at least as great as his dor, and shortly after repudiated ability to render useful service. his non-aggression treaty with Apropos, it is worthy of men- Poland. And why? Seemingly tion what another famous politi-because, after the destruction of cian said of Mr. Churchill years Czechoslovakia, Hitler believes it ago: "Winston is an uncomfort possible to apply the same pro- able bedfellow in politics. First
cess of pressure to Poland. of all, he tries to kick you out of bed. If he fails at that, he tries
the to pinch
clothes."- ""Truth."..
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The question is: Can he be brought to see that he cannot carry out this next item on his. agenda without putting Ger- Whatever the final result of
many at war with the world? The the "We want Churchill"
cam official German comment on the paign among the Government Premier's Danzig statement is supporters, the immediate effect that it only tells Germans what has been one of curious disinte- they already know. Does this. gration. Within the last fortnight mean that at last they do under- the really strange sight has been stand?"Economist. witnessed over and over again of Conservative M.P.s sitting ob- Official German policy is carry- stinately on the Terrace or in the ing on the tradition of the war- Smoking Room, resisting the ur time General Staff. But there gent pleading of Whips with are clear indications that Hitler's. What's the use of voting for the latest moves have left German. Government anyway?"
opinion bewildered and alarmed..
Such a situation is only com parable with the politics of 1905, when the Tory rule was dragging to its discredited close after the South African War.-"Time and Tidé.'
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The fact does not surprise me.. can recall dozens of conversa-- tions in which Germans, in re-- ply to inquiries about the extent of Hitler's ambitions, have as- sured me with obvious sincerity that the present Government haď onino There are many questions
intention of incorporating: which opinion may legitimately non-Germans in the Reich. They differ whether Mr. Chamber- believed such a step to be con lain is the only conceivable Prime trary to the whole philosophy of Minister, what the possible al National Socialism. Small wonder- ternatives are, whether it would that recent events have left them be to the national advantage to all at sea. "H. P. S. Matthews · broaden the basis of the Cabinet... “Headway.”
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There are a dozen points in the fields of national and interna
All over the Continent of tional policy regarding which criticism is both proper and salu- Europe millions of men tary-A.R.P., the restriction of standing to arms. By day they armaments profits, food storage, stare across forests of barbed the Ministry of Supply, a Minis- wire which divide the frontiers. try of Information but none of and through which not even a cat these call for a concentration of could crawl without detection.. personal attack on the Premier Sentries are posted in camouflag or any other individual Minister. ed trenches, tunnels and bastions,
"The Spectator.”
scanning the earth and search- ing the sky for an unheralded enemy who might be the precur- It was, as all the world remem-sor of a modern totalitarian war. bere, under the threat of the A fantastic ritual no doubt, but.
nons of the American comman-one in which Great Britain has ry: in 1854 that Japan was now become a Teating performer. rma- The miraculous muster of our
Air Defence units has guaranteed. the country against surprise. "Defence.
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