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THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 27, 1930.
MIRROR OF WORLD OPINION
HITLER SPEECH
WHAT EXPERTS THOUGHT YESTERDAY
detrimental to China's interests or her campaign of resistance, "because the Soviet Apparently world opinion is divided relations between China and on the question of whether or not Russia are regulated by the Sino- Dictator Hitler intended his speech as Soviet non-aggression pact." Soviet a peace move or as the signal for more Polish relations are also "regulated" war and more ruthlessness in war. by a non-aggression pact, but that has But it is vain to hope that the effect not prevented the Stalin Government may be in the direction of peace and from embarking upon an invasion of international order. If that speech Poland, thus literally stabbing that the country in the back while it is engag- has any effect whatsoever on
ed in a desperate length and the
attempt to stem character of this
the German in- war it will be to
vasion, prolong the hor- rible conflict and widen the scale of its destructiveness. Apparently the Hitler plan is to Ignore the Western Front war and to try to dictate terms the of peace on basis of what has been done in and with Poland. But nothing could be. more effective in making that plan impossible of ac- complishment than the Danzig speech.
If Britain and France ever were
From the August issue of the American Mercury: FRITZ KUHN, leader of the "Ru- Bund: German-American mours that Germany will anter into a pact with Communist Rus- ola are part of a campaign to smear Hitler with a Communist brush."
aro
THE DAILY WORKER, Com- munist organ: "The whisperad Iles to the effect that the Soviet Union will enter into a treaty with
Nazi Germany nothing but polsan spread by the snemies of peace and democracy, the appeasement mongers, the Munich men of Fasolam."
disposed toward giving. the least bit to
Whether Japan will conclude or consider conclud- ing an agreement with Soviet Russia as vital as the deal which Hitler made with Stalin, re- mains to be seen. It can be stated with certainty, however, that Sta- deems lin, if he such a deal desir- able, will not al- low the tiny trifle of his govern- ment's hitherto professed sym- pathy for China way. On
stand in the
important
of attention to the proposal of ending the side of Japan, as we have pointed the war where it is and settling on the out previously, a substantial deal with basis of the results of the first round Moscow would yield two
ever advantages: It would untle her hands (which we hardly think they were), they would be virtually forced in Manchuria, thus enabling her to to forget that disposition and to go all concentrate almost her entire military the more doggedly to the task of fin- efforts in China, and at the same time ishing in the only honourable way that give her added bargaining power with the European "democracies' whom she which they have undertaken.
regards as a hindrance to her conquest of China.-"China Weekly Review."
Hitler has made it more thoroughly impossible than ever for them to quit -or even to hesitate.-"Manila Bul- letin."
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NAZI DESIGN
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TRUE IMPLICATIONS
Austria, Czechoslovakia, Memel, and now Danzig-the tale of aggression stretches out far enough already to Pick out among those precedents the show its character and to point to its closest analogy with Danzig and Po- extreme catastrophe. Those who spe- land, and you light upon Memel or clously ask, "Is Danzig worth a war?" Lithuania. Memel is to Lithuania either do not realise or wish to dis- what Danzig is to Poland, And the guise the true implications of the pro- annexation of Memel was used as a blem. It is not merely Daznig, it is battering ram against Lithuania, des- human destiny that is at stake; and pite a Hitler pledge, after the taking it is comforting to know that on this of Memel, that there would be no fur- occasion the British people have no illusions as to the true issue. What- ther demands upon Lithuania.
ever German- propaganda may have The Nazis didn't even wait till the done to unite the German people, Ger- ink was dry upon their pledge. Within man policy, as it is inspired and di- three months of the annexation of rected to-day, has consolidated Memel the Lithuanians received a 'British people to a degree which has peremptory demand from Berlin for never been surpassed. It is their hon- participation in 60 per cent of Lithua- ourable part to be the cornerstone of nia's foreign trade. What could little resistance to unbridled aggression, and Lithuania do?
whatever befall they will stand firmn and implement their pledges to the. full. They can do no other.—“Daily Telegraph."
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LEBENSRAUM
the
There's no League of Nations any more to keep bullies in their place. Nor can small nations play off one big nation against another when there are so many bigger stakes in this lawless world. And Lithuania wouldn't have been able to talk back to Berlin even with Memel. The loss of Memel merely made very simple the quiet
Encirclement and lebensraum (llv- transformation of Lithuania into eco- ing space) are two of the Impostor nomic vassalage to Nazi Germany. It's terms with which Hitler has seduced a precedent that was duly noted in Germany. They apply only to Ger- Warsaw, if one requires an exact pre- many, of course. They do not justify cedent -nowadays for an understand-
any other country in nursing ‹n' griev- ing of Nazi Germany's great design. ance just the Herranvolk, or superior H. B. Elliston.
people, in Germany itself. But, if the thought of another country's situation in respect of encirclement and leben- sraum ever dawns upon a Nazi, he might consider the case of Poland. Here he will find: material worthy of contemplation. Poland before the in- vasion, was process of bath encircle- ment and the denial of lebensraum. And the process was occurring at the hands of the country which in shout- ing from the housetops its own dis» abilities in both respects. "NY, Tires!
SOVIET AND JAPAN
The "Shun Pao," leading Chinese daily, indulged in some wishful think Ing on September 17 when it expressed the brief that the Savish Government, despite the truce, would - do nothing