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THE CHINA-MAIL, SEPTEMBER 18, 1939.
MIRROR OF WORLD
OPINION
SOCIAL JUSTICE
In our gardens there are shelters, in our parks trenches. Our young men of twenty are in training camps, new factories rise up daily to make more arms, the night sky is picked out with searchlights, and the sound of military aircraft is seldom unheard. Never was a country and its wealth more given over to its defence. And yet the Spar- tan way of life is not entirely for us. It was the boast of Athens, a model for democratic peoples, that, unlike their enemies, they never forget, in their making ready for war, the true ends of life of the cultivation of the arts of peace. For the British Govern- ment there is a great need not to over- look the conditions it could offer to na- tions that lay threats aside, terms on which a peaceful world settlement could be made. For the British people, and the politi- cal parties which represent them, there is a need to keep before them the social improvement of the coun- try, lest through growing too absorb-
ed in the defence of their way of life they wake up one day to find its ex- cellences withered by neglect. The ex- penses of these times allow little fresh expenditure on the social services. But those parties and people who examine the needs of these services and have plans ready for social reform will have an eager hearing when the opportuni- tles of peace reopen. No humane per- son could have been satisfied with the state of Grent Britain before the clouds broken
over Europe.--“Man-
chester Guardian."
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HEROIC HEARTS
DOUBLE-CROSS
Fools have for years supposed Hitler to be a "bulwark against Rolshevism" Bol- his own "inverted he with shevism" of the Third Reich! They bo- lieved, because he talked so loud about killing Communism in Spain.
At the right strategical moment he becomes the benignant friend of the Soviet Government.
Power first and conquest! Convic- tions as a barrage of words to de- celve fools.
Bol-
Now, at one stroke, two sets of de- lusionists are blown sky-high--
(1)
The "bulwark against shevism" sheep who thought that Hit- ler would never, never talk to those horrid "Reds."
(2) The Communist sheep who got all their ideas of an ancient political doctrine from Stalinism and believed that Stalin would never, never com- pound with what he has repeatedly called "German Fascism."
This degenerate world belongs to the so-called realists who ought to know by now that no word pronounced" or treaty signed by any of the power- merchants has the slightest validity, whatever but a or means anything tactical move. Those moves are light- ning-swift. Each move may at any mo- ment double-cross the other.-"Daily Mirror."
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AMERICAN SUPPORT
It can never be said that this coun- The seriousness of the threat to the try has not done as much as it could interests of the democratic Powers for peace. If it were conceivable that created by this new situation in the Britain could turn her back on those Pacific stretches far beyond the prin- to whom she has pledged her sup- ciples involved port, and, whom she has enlisted in blockade..
her anti-aggression
front, her credit and influence would be sunk for all time. Europe would be lost, but not more completely than the British Em- pire. That is the conviction of the whole nation, and there can be no is doubt that it shared to the full by the nation's Ministers. The ordeal before us is N formidable than
we have faced before; and we are braced to
confront it with
"one equal pur-
pose of heroic.
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MAN'S DIGNITY
the
would
always stress spiritual rather than the political foundations of democracy. It lo a recognition of the dignity of man and of his individuality, and that dignity and individuality are hio ao a child of God....
We have to show the world that we have ideals, no less than the rules of the totalitarian States: that our ideals are harder of ao- complishment because they дге far higher they involve the co- operation of men of their own free will endeavouring to work with God himself in the raising of mankind Earl Baldwin,
hearts." We have neither wished for other factor
over the
Tientsin
The world watches our little Mafeking in the East, and we, re- member, have two Dominions great and many depen- dencies to whom the safeguarding of Pacific munications is as vital as it is to the the French and Dutch.
com-
They are watch- ing with a peculiar and personal an- xiety, which the of the presence
West American Indian Squadron
of battleships in the Pacific has probably done more than any
to allay. If we cannot
nor provoked that ordeal. It has been send a battle fleet ourselves, it is at forced upon us; and for us it remains least nice to know that one belonging Moral to take up the challenge with all our to a friendly Power is there. resolution and strength, sustained by support is almost as useful as physical of nerves."--"Dally the certainty that if bad must come, in this "war
yet what would be worse will be left Mail."
behind.-"Daily Telegraph."
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JAPAN'S POSITION
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STALIN'S PLACE
final word
Even for Stalin. Stalin cannot do everything
The form in which the issue. has been presented is whether the Japan- ese Government should or should not Father reverse the decisions of the end of right and the policy of making friends May last. The Tokyo correspondent of with Germany, for which so many "The Times," whose information is Soviet leaders, including popular Mar- were executed, generally authoritative, writes that shal Tukhachevsky,
the upshot of Cabinet's latest discus- will not enhance his internal reputa-
is sions
to reaffirm the de- tion. cision to follow
That this is so is evident from the an independent foreign policy The reasons ad- silence with which von Ribbentrop': duced
and arrival was greeted in the Soviet press manifest are both weighty: Japan depends for her for on Government orders; of course.
The man in the street in Moscow eign trade. almost entirely upon ·Bri-_ tish and American markets, and those even to-day is not quite clear about of Germany and Italy would provide the latest Russo-German moves, and negligible' compensation for the loss there is no doubt that opposition will of the former. But, as the Japanese arise to Stalin from two quarters. The themselves insist, "sincerity" has to be Trotzkyites will gain new strength proved in deeds, not words; and whe- from the manner in which Stalin is ther the Army does not, in fact rule supporting the greatest Fascist: coun- Japanese policy will speedly be shown try, and the republicans and 'monar- by evidence that the Japanese Govern- chists who hope for a new revolution ment can, or cannot, control ita forces in Russia, have gained new courage. in China.-"Sydney Morning Herald." "News Digest."