PURE DELICIOUS WHOLESOME
THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 23, 1939.
WORLD
MIRROR OF
OPINION
STALIN ON GERMANY From addresses by the Soviet leader: "It is not surprising that ` Fascism has now become the fashionable com- modity among bellicose bourgeois po- liticians. I do not mean fascism in general, I mean, primarily, fuscism of the German type, which is incorrect- ly called National Socialism, for the most searching examination will fail to reveal even an atom of socialism In it.
"In this connection the victory of Fascism In Germany must be regard- ed not only as a symptom of the weak- ness of the working class and as a re- sult of the betrayal of the working class by Social-Democracy, paved the way for Fascism.
"Italian Fascism or German Nation- al Socialism does not have anything in common with such a system [as the Soviet's].
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"We stand for the support of the [nations which are the victims of ng- gression and are fighting for the inde- pendence of their countries..
"We stand for peaceable, close, and neighbourly relations with all neigh- bouring countries which have a com- mon frontier with
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is our position and we shall adhere to it as long as these countries maintain identical relations with the Soviet Union, as long as they make no at- tempt to trespass directly or indir- ectly on the inte- grity and security of the frontiers of the Soviet State.
THE MANDATORY
EMBARGO
Meanwhile, our policy is axed by the Neutrality Act of 1937 or by what is left of that Act. Important sections of it, including the cash-and- carry provision, have expired by limi- tation. The cash-and-carry section was enacted for a two-year period and is now without force. Only one vital section of the 1937 Act is in effect. This provides that upon the outbreak of war between two or more foreign nations the President is compelled to proclaim the fact that a state of war exists and must designate the belli- gerents.
In the same proclamation he is compelled to lay an embargo upon the export of "arms, ammunition, and implements of war" from the United States to all belligerent nations. It becomes a crime for any person ship such arms from the United States to a State engaged in war or to any other State for transhipment to a belligerent.
to
That is the mandatory embargo around which the long dispute has centred. It is that which the Gov-
WAR AND "PATRIOTISM”
In
It is a terrible thing to say, but there is not, and there never has been an act of violence by one people upon another people which has not been perpetrated in the name of patriotism. the name of patriotism, the Rus: alans have waged war on the French and the French on the Rusalan. And in the name, too, "Of course, it is of patriotism the Germans are quite possible that | preparing now to wage war on in Germany there are lunatics who dream of annexing an elephant-that is the Soviet Ukraine to a so- called Carpatho- Ukraine.
"In my opinion, there are two focal
two fronts.
In all hlutory there has never been a single war which has not been provoked by a Government quite apart from the Interests of the people.-L. N. Tolstoy, 1828- 1910.
ernment wants re- pealed and which every democracy in Europe has hoped to see removed from the statue
books of this coun- try.
Two other sec- tions of the 1937 Neutrality Act re- main. One con- tinues the licence system of muni- tions exports. This applies to export to nations at peace as
well as those at war. Its purpose is to give the Gov- ernment accurate knowledge day by day of all ship- ments of arms to any foreign nation. The other section prohibits any beli- gerent from bor- rowing money in
points of danger-one in the Far East, this country. Most European nations in the zone of Japan, and the other are barred from borrowing here now under the Johnson Act, which cuts off any nation in default upon its ob- ligations to the United States Govern- ment.
21 saa asia s færisaNASAGNESKES in Europe, in the zone of Germany. It is difficult to say which is the more menacing war danger.
"Long live the world united people's front against fascism and war."
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THE ALLIES AND POLAND
Yet it is true that the neutrality law as it stands unquestionably has wide- spread support. There are great sec- tions of the American people who have faith in an embargo as a measure of keeping America out of war. They would support-some of them, at all events an embargo that would apply to every commodity that might be used by a warring nation.
MORAL FORCES
"New
It is perfectly true that Poland was "shielded from attack" by the Anglo-
Fortunately, there is in the White French guarantees. The pledges were
House a relentless fighter. He may be applied for that very purpose. They stood between Hitler and his beaten on one front. He may suffer ambition to overwhelm his adversar- set-backs, and be compelled to endure ies one
to delays in reaching his goals. But he by one. They gave Poland, not the right to reject rarely lets go. He has not let go in efforts for a peaceful solution-she the present neutrality fight.
York Times." did in fact, accept all such approaches from abroad-but the strength to deal with Germany on equal terms. The British Government made it clear to The world has not reached a point Herr Hitler that no pressure would be where it can say with the same assur- exerted on the Poles to abandon any ance as a city that the law governs. position which they considered vital It has not yet found how to change to the preservation of their indepen- "laws" so as to right injustices among dence. If Colonel Beck consented to nations. It has no policeman whose go to Berlin, he would have gone as use of force is sanctified. Its legisla- the representative of a free and strong ture and court have not operated. country, with determined and power- smoothly. Yet a moral sense similar ful allies--not as a Schuschnigg or a to that which banned the settlement Hacha, to be harangued and intimidat- of private disputes by duels has been ed into surrender. The day for that growing. It denies that war is 'a just sort of thing has gone by. The Ger- or necessary way of settling disputes man Fehrer is not yet the undisputed between nations.. It makes a distinc- lawgiver of Europe. His pursuit of tion between force which maintains a power brought him finally to the point situation but is willing to negotiate, where he had to choose between free and force which says, "My demands negotiation with an intended victim or must be granted or I will resort to resort to war. It was a grim dilemma war." "It sees a difference between for him and for Europe, but it was a static force and active violence. dilemma of his own making. Bri- will condemn' him who starts a war. tain and France were anxious to help That this was recognized in Germany him find à péhceful way out of it, but was apparent from the manifest efforts Hitler marched, « "Sydney Morning to provoke Poland to violence.- Herald."
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