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UPROOTED LIVES
Every indication is that the strategy of the Hitler-directed Nazi armles is to conquer Poland and then try to dodge the general
which the move against Poland started. How- ever, it is inconceivable that Great The uprooted lives of the evacuat- Britain and France should entertain ed populations make a great problem peace offers predicated on a Reich which will only be solved by hard co- the local which includes Danzig, the Polish cor- operative work between ridor and the bomb-shattered parts authorities and the various social bod- of Poland over which the German
les under the council. It is easy to war machine has advanced.
and As a rule the aggressor gains an foresee certain cases of distress
and one of the most initial advantage. The act of ag- bewilderment, gression generally carries such an ad- useful things the council. is' doing is vantage. The invasion of Poland the establishment, of "centres of ad- where was an act of aggression, but in com- vice and help in every area mitting that act the Nazi armies they may be needed." Some confu- gained control of territory) · When sions will arise, but they must be Britain and France foresaw the dan- quickly overcome, for a country ger of this act they also must have modern war must be well seen the prospect that it would give with the minds of its civilian people can be."Man- the aggressors- an initial advantage, as much at rest as control of all the territory that could chester Guards."
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be grabbed before British and French armies could get in position to strike
on the western front. It is clear that
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FOOTBALL: AGAIN
Football
the initial advantage for the invad- ing armies was foreseen, and since there was no way to prevent that The Home Office and the blow the defence was planned in the Association have agreed that football, form of a drive on another front. We on a semi-league basis, should be re- are certain that, London and Paris sumed in England. This is a wise de- foresaw not only this phase of the cision, for in a period of National struggle but also succeeding phases crisis when the maintenance of before they warned Germany and tional moral and, a re-invigoration of promised support to Poland.-"Manila spirit are necessary to fortify the
Bulletin.".
SINO-JAPANESE PEACE
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country.for..the trial ahead it would be, detrimental, to interfere, too seri- ously with those outlets of sporting rivalry which make the British people what they are. On the outbreak of war it was easy to believe, in view of threats, of intensive German bomb- The only way whereby Japan and ing and other activities to undermine of the nation, China can terminate their war is the basic existence through the regular diplomatic chan- would be a precaution to forbid: gath- nel of negotiations. That in effect is erings of crowds at sporting events, the theme which, runs through. Dr. or dissipate energy on activities un- Wang's Interview, and it is from related to the mobilisation of national this theme that he developed forces in the grent task to which the
the suggestion that the United States.
HITLER: PATHOLOGICALA
Mystic and quarterback! The men around Hitler, a former Nazi higher-up once, told me, talk of hls "somnambulletlo sureness." The somnambulism....comes from... hie hours of self-communion-on- the next step to be taken in mak ing great Germany greater, i.e.,. bigger. For days his fleutenants. may have been wrestling with a stop in that direction, and then,>. Just as they- have got to the mem- orandum stage, in walks the: ra......... awakened Fuehrar with' ħla own z full-blown-conception. The sura
country is commit- ted. However while the process of co-ordinating
and operating the defence forces. re- presents the major job of the Govern- ment and; its off- cers, equally im- portant is it to maintain that spirit of imperturbability at home which will enable the or- dinary organisation of social life to continue. It would be-exerting a pur- poseless, and un- necessary restraint arisea from the · SUCCESS- to abolish such a which has attended all-the-plansnational manifes~ which Hitlar has evolved to date.tation as the popu- And nothing
lar game-football.
nosa
has hitherto “euo- -
is in a favourable position to facilit ate the return of peace in the Orient. In this con nection, it may well be remember-· ied that the Chinese Foreign Minister made it quite clear. that before peace negotiations or any other kinds of negotiations - are possible, there must be a willing- ness on the part of Japan to treat China as an inde- pendent nation and not as a colony of puppets.
The suggestion made by Dr. Wang that President Roosevelt and the United States Gov- fav- ernment are ourably placed. to act as mediators is a logical
of urday afternoon. Under the new one. As an advocate
international scheme, there will be regional competi- peaceful settlement of
tions arranged geographically so that. problems through the orderly pro teams will not have to travel too far cess of diplomatic negotiations, the in carrying out their engagements. United States is eminently qualified Hitherto, there have been a series to be an impartial orbitor in the of "friendly matches which meant Orient. The fact that the United nothing in the assessment of comparR- States is not likely to bring her own tive merit. Without some sort axe to grind to such peace negotia- regional rivalry much of the interest tions will enhance confidence in in the game is lost, and those are no Washington on the part of both days, to submit a sport-loving people Japan and China.
like the British to the régimented But before the United States can and state-supervised restrictions of a act as a mediator, before there is any country like Germany, which
and useful purpose, to talk
think shackles its people to the military about.... Sino-Japanese peace, there machine that normal impulées and must, we repeat, be a willingness, on desires are slavishly subordinated to the part of Japan to come to the con- the whim of one man,-"North ChinaTMTM ference room without her war para- Daily Newz."
ceeded like exceus, so that thereThere are other are seemingly no external reo- traints upon even his most mega- - lomaniacal· fanoles. H. Elliston.
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sports- which - ap- peal to the public but none is so na- tional as football, which attracts its millions every Sat-
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