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MIRROR OF WORLD
OPINION
AMERICA'S POSITION
What is likely to happen in the
HITLER'S VOLTE-FACE
Of all those outside Germany who European war was made clear by have persisted up to now in adopting Mr. Elliot Roosevelt, the U.S. Presi- a favourable attitude towards Hitler dent's son, in a recent broadcast. He and his Nazism those only will re- said that America would not keep main henceforth who, either by rea- out. He did not advocate either ab- son of crass stupidity or for the säke stention of intervention, but merely of personal gain, refuse to yield to voiced the opinion of every experienċ- the lesson of the Nazi-Soviet pact of ed observer that with Democracy at- non-aggression.
"eternal war tacked, American public opinion would. To-day, the Nazis'
ended. Nay, force active intervention, probably against Bolshevism" is within six months.
more: It is shown up to have been American troops will probably not a trumpery opportunist stunt, devoid be sent to Europe, but all other pos- of every shred of sincerity. So may sible help will given. "English it well be with all the so-called prin- Speaking World."
be
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THREE MISTAKES
Adolf Hitler made three mistakes in his campaign.
In the first place he should have struck against Poland on August 24. That was the day when Joachim Rib-· bentrop returned from Moscow with the Soviet signa- ture in his pocket. Hitler should have used the momen- tary moral shock to the world to smoke-screen his attack on Poland.
The second was the cancellation of the great speeches arranged for him at Tannenberg and General for Brauschitch the radio, and the postponement of
von
over
the Nazi Rally, For the first time the blind Nazi follow- ers of Hitler began to sense that the Fuehrer was, after all, not infallible and that things were not going all
his way this time.
ciples which they have been scream- ing in the ears of humanity for the past six years.-"Jewish Chronicle.”
FOOD RATIONING IN GERMANY
It is reported from Berlin that, no.
moré private cars
THE COVENANT AND
THE GOVERNMENT
While professing to stand by the Covenant, and describing it sometimes as our sheet anchor, we
have in practice when it comes to taking risks, applied two standards; for the law and the Covenant, very little risk in- deed; for the protection of our own special interests, very great risks if necessary.
So long as we fail to grasp the moral principles of defence, our policy will become amoral, if no Immoral, and we shall remain as insecure as we are to-day, twenty years after the defeat of the ag- gressor, who has now returned, a greater menace than ever. Is our next victory over him to be as effective?-Sir Norman Angell.
The third and, perhaps,
greatest police
did
not
mistake was the issue of food ration- Zurcher -Zeitung.' ing tickets before the guns had been fred.-"News Digest."
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QUESTIONS
Let us be thankful that Parliament can still meet!
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are to be seen in Berlin since driv- ers seem to have exhausted their petrol supplies.
Complaints about the rationing of the public become more. and more outspoken, not only because the rations. allotted are in themselves inade- quate but also.be- cause the system of distributing does not seem to work sufficiently smooth- ly.
Unrest is re- ported from many public markets in Berlin and other cities, where the grumbling of housewives took on such propor- tions that the
intervene. "Neue.
GERMANY'S FINANCES
It is in no very promising position that the Reich contemplates entering. upon a war. Financially and economi- cally the Germans have paid the price of war strain long before hos In the general black-out of news, tilities have begun. In that sense streets, entertainments, and normal the German economy is much less ways of life, the House of Commons, strong than it was 25 years ago when appears dimly shining through the the profits of peace were enjoyed right
where ques-up to zero hour..
gloom-the sole place tions can be asked and answered, and a little "information” extracted cön- cerning the course of the war.
Yesterday the questions were many and varied. No wonder!
For these, out of a hundred pro- blems, need consideration-
(1) Why we must live in a black- ness not imposed on French cities.
(2) Why, in consequence, we must nightly slay scores of stumbling ped- estrians.
(3) Why all recreation must there- fore cease.
(4) Why, in consequence, thousands of workers in entertainment trades
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ler
The Third Reich is more ready in many ways than William II's Empire. Preparedness has been made a way of life, but it has been a desperately hard regime, and Germany is at bot- tom no stronger now, to say the least, for having placed herself in a state of economic siege for years before the first shots were fired.-"Economist.”
RESISTANCE IN THE CZECH PROTECTORATE
bean transferred “dy made con-
It is now clear that the Czechs will remain a thorn in the Nazi side. Czech workmen who to the Reich. ment and increased the anxieties of met with the underground move-
the Gestapo.
Last week, Brun, Nazi party leaders were disturbed by a speech in- structing them, if evacuation was nec- essary, to retire lik kuud order, and in order to fight Hit leave all property intact. It is doubt- dictatorship), we fut how far the factories can be ted - ourselves in an worked. This also applies to Austria, dictatorial manner. -- where Socialist, activities are ricreas-
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