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THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 21, 1939.
MIRROR OF WORLD OPINION
THREAT TO FINLAND
NO WEAKENING
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should It is not enough that we carry out our pledge to Poland to as-. sist her in the event of attack. We should also make it clear that if and when the nations gather round a con- back Poland's case ference table we on its merits. It would be disastrous if we successfully used our power to pre- vent the triumph of aggression, only to concede all that the aggressor wanted when it came to discussion.-"News Chronicle."
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With the mobilisation of the Finnish army and the evacuation of women, and children from three principal cities, Finland is putting herself in a position to defend herself should the present negotiations with Russia lead to hostilities. Up to the present the de- mands which the Soviet has made or is preparing to make have not yet been made public, but enough is known to show that present anxieties are just fled. The entry of the United States into the matter with a demarche made to Moscow, expressing the hope to the Soviet Government that nothing will occur which may prejudice existing peaceful relations between the U.S.S.R. and Finland, together with similar representations by Denmark, Norway and Sweden is sufficient in- dication of the gravity of the situation, Washington has a very great respect for Finland, and invasion of that coun- The resources of a fifth of the world, try would un- doubtedly arouse the greatest pos- sible indignation. How far that is likely to influence the Kremlin re- mains to be seen. The
case of the Scandinavian
SAD SEARCHING
All the members of the British Commonwealth of Nations are agreed, as they were in 1914, to fight out, till the battle against victory in won,' aggression.
BRITAIN'S POINT OF
VIEW
There are some who say that the fate of European nations is no concern of ours, and that we should not look far beyond our own frontiers. But surely they forget that in falling to uphold we run the liberties of others, great risk of betraying the prin ciple of liberty itself, and with it our own liberty and independ-
ence.
We have built up a society with values accepted not only in this country but in many other parts of the world. If we stand idly by at and see these values set naught, the security of all those things on which life itself de- pends is undermined, Halifax.
Lord
on Field-Marshal Goering's estimate, are now devoted irrevocably to the overthrow of Nazism. That should cause sad searching of heart in German coun- cils. If reason still exercises any countries is very
sway there, it must different. They see
find even more de- in the threat to
pressing the fact Finland a threat
that the resolve of to themselves, and
the Nations of the political observers
Empire was made are now asking themselves
in perfect freedom, how
and only in South far the Soviet in-
Africa was there tends to go with
enough difference respect to them.
of opinion to re- There are attrac-
quire a vote. The tive prizes to be
Ger- leaders of wrested from both
many believed, or Norway and Swe-
at least they told den, particular the
their people, that iron supplies of
the British Em- the latter which
to pire would break into fragments un- might prove of great assistance
Their pre- Germany, and are not to be ignored der the menace of war. even by Russia herself. In addition to decessors-made the same prophecy in that the whole of the Scandinavian 1914. But Germans have since been
instructed that the evolution of of peninsula under the domination Russia would place that country in an Empire into self-governing States has overwhelmingly dominant position destroyed any chance of united action, vis-a-vis of Germany, and would in the virus of democracy has corrupted fact make the Baltic a Russian sea. its strength. Now the German people The price which Herr Hitler is pay- must awake to discover that freedom ing for non-aggression on the part has fortified the unity of the Com- of Russia seems for the moment to be monwealth. They have proof enforced without end, and the only real gainer upon them that powerful, prosperous from the contract up to the present States in complete liberty to choose has been M. Stalin. It remains to be their own course are determined to seen what the Scandinavian Powers join more closely together that they will do in the event of a further threat may achieve, in Gen. Smuts's words, to their independence, which must "the destriction of Hitlerism and all choice pro- eventuate it Finland is destroyed. That that it implies." The they would fight seems to be the most nounces the judgment of civilised probable outcome of the pret high- mankind" on Herr Hitler's rule. ly unsatisfactory position, and that "Dally Telegraph.". they would be able to put up a hard
· fight seems more than likely. The de- marche of the United States may have a decided moral effect upon the U.S.S.R., but it has to be remembered that the Kremlin is in a most advan- tageous position, and may be able to carry out its immediate Intentions un- less Finland, Norway and Sweden op pose a united front against the peril which threatens them:"N.C.D‚N.”
RIDDLE OF "MUSSOLINI
SCHEME
There
Eficient and Secure
NO BLIND PLUNGE
the
"We disagree partly with Mr. Eugene Chen's article urging China to imme- dlately enter the European War.
"We must not blindly, plunge head- long into the European Conflict, but wait and watch the moves of the Soviet and America; after that we can consider which road to take."
"It is not that we are not confident that Britain and France have all the chances of a victory over Germany; we also fully confident that China: will-
de.and