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THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 1) 1939..
MIRROR OF WORLD
OPINION
· BRITAIN'S POLICY
THE COMPARISON
the
Britain's pre-World War policy The greatest danger in the present should be contrasted rather than com- situation is that unreason 18 taking pared, with the clear line Britain the place of reason in a great part of adopted in the guarantees to Poland, Europe, and we have nonsense regard- Turkey, Rumania, and Greece which ed as sense.. Germany claims were forerunners of a gigantic effort right of self-determination for 280,000 to buttress the method of negotiation inhabitants of Danzig; at the same `against that of fait accompli and force. time she is oppressing in a most cruel In 1914, Sir Edward Grey, as British manner nine million Czechs in Bohe- Foreign Secretary, hoped that, under- mia and Moravia alóné.: tainty as to where Britain stood The ideas that Hitler stands for re- might be a restraining influence in present everything that the Czechs France and Germany alike,To-day have fought against, yet he is repre- leading British opinion seems agreed sented as their saviour. The so-called that absolute certainty as to where protection has spread the economic Britain stands has become one pre- ruin of the country which is being requisite for peace."Christian rapidly stripped of all the fruits of 20 Science Monitor,”
years hard work under democracy. — "Great Thoughts."
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THE CHANCES OF WAR (If a stockbroker assessed, on a long- range view, the chances of war in Europe, the most bearish factor would be the psychological resistance of people--in Germany no less than here against the proposition that there will be neither war nor assured peace in Europe for years to come.
The strain of uncertainty may be- come so intolerable for nations that they plunge into disaster as a release from forebodings."The Economist,"
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A JAPANESE APPEAL
to
An appeal of a Japanese comman- der of forces in China for foreign powers to co-operate in efforts "obtain peace, which should be restor ed as soon as possible," would be far more convincing if it did not have so much of a tone of distress, If such an appeal had been made three days before instead of three days after the fact became known that Germany had dropped Japan to team up with THE BALKANS
Russia it might have convinced the Whatever the reasons for Bulgaria's world that the prospects of peace in apparent turn,toward a happier state of the Far East were improving. affairs in the past days and it seems The foreign powers (meaning Brit- clear that the Turkish concentra- ain, France and the United States in
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ern European in the Balkans will regret the ending of that particular tension between Bucharest and Sofia..
3 Nor, if Bul- garia's quietude is the rewarded in coming months by practical-and- con- tinuous help of an
MR. KENNEDY
"I am not planning to leave England. In spite of the fact that every morning, when I get up 1 seo" either that my successor has been named or that I'm due to leave.”—Mr. Joseph Kennedy, the U.S. Ambassador in London.
of peace. in China and would hope it
might be restored ...at the very earliest possible monent, if there were in- dications of peace honourably. sought on an honourable basis. But no pow-- er can build great hopes on peace géstures made, un-
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economic kind, der distress curcumstances such will, the Bulgarians themselves pro- those of the present-Manila Bulle- bably feel so disappointed at the tin." passing of what seemed to them an excellent Revisionist opportunity. "Great Britain and the East."
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JAPAN AND THE WORLD
British shipping has done more than that of any other country in supply- ing Japan with the commoitieg, she needs for her war. The actual ampunt of wan material supplied by. Britain The sense of Impending crisis which is smaller than that supplied by; the United States 21 per cent, pf; the revived" in Europe. In the spring hã
total, against 56 per cent and the grown in intensity during the succeed ing weeks, and, moreover, the rulers United Kingdom, owing to her geo- graphical position, supplied less than of Germany refuse to sinko Britai
parts of the Empire nearer, the scene treaty undertakings seriously.
Both Lord Half and thers Prime of operations Canada, (which sup- Minister have made it clear that our plies virtually all the nickel) Malaya, polloy is to establish a peaceful world and India.
Acting in conjunction with the and that every... Ibgitimate grievance
would be listened to with sympathy United States the British Empire could round the conference table. If the completely cripple Japan's supplies of will to peace really exists among the such essentials as petroleum, copper, leaders of the Axis powers, now is the scrap iron, lead, mica, and asbestos.. time to demonstrate. It.-"Crown
In the last analysis Japan holds no winning card. “Manchester Guard--- Colonist."
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GREESE AND THE AXIS
What would
comes?
the position
Every speech of Generaly exudes sympathy
He
COLONIAL OFFICE PURGE
shuffle, which has just taken: Flacq;df the Calentat, Wiffled will have ittle effect unless some drastic reor- ganisation is also introduced. Many advances in tropical, administration was trained in Germany Linsulted by have been made in recent years. But very much has gone wrong. One of the British military authorities 1915, and disgusted by the way in the principle reasons is that the pro- which Great Britain and France: ran blems have not been seen as a whole Venizelos, deposed King Constantine and in perspective, Soll erosion, popu- and permitted, the Greek expedition lation problems, nutrition, public to Asia Minor only to leave it in the health, town planning, rural recon-
struction, etc., require administrators.
lurch.
Yet against this, the Greek people with a working knowledge of these is fervently for Great Britain and subjects and a Colonial Office, with a France, in spite of Spain, and Munich. co-ordinated plan.-"New Statesman
"New-Statesman And Nation."
and 'Nation."