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MIRROR OF WORLD OPINION
MINISTRY OF
INFORMATION
of
also is
of living under the perpetual threat of Nazi aggression." It is unfortun- ate that, although Indian opinion is Lord MacMillan's statement in the united in condemning the aggressions have been victims, although Pandit House of Lords brings more light to of which Poland and other countries bear on the functions and future
his Party's sym- Warsaw recording the Ministry of Information. But, if Jawaharlal Nehru sent a message to it answers some questions, it
pathy with its-gallant defenders, Na- Lord MacMillan prompts more.
zi propagandists should be able to re- able to report progress in the reorgan-
Committee as a demonstration in Ger- isation of the department along lines present the attitude of the Working. which have already been given gen- eral as well as official approval, but many's favour. It certainly contrasts. it has not apparently gone far enough with the generous offers of aid and India have received from the Princes yet to fix the new allotment of res- co-operation which the Government of ponsibilities. The right of direct ac- and with the spirited attitude of the
Premiers of the Moslem provinces of Punjab, Bengal, and Sind.-"Times.”
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GESTURE TO GREECE
Withdrawal of Italian troops from border where Albanian-Greek
cess to Government departments is restored to the newspapers, by their emphatic and unanimous desire. The Ministry ceases to take responsibility for the dissemination of official state- ments, though, as a matter of conven- ience, they will still be transmitted simultaneously through its centralised the machinery. At home a vast, self-or- they had been concentrated since the ganised system of spontaneous publi- seizure of Albania is interesting for city is already at the disposal of that the small ray of light it throws on cause in the Press, the wireless, the the course of Italy in the European cinema, and the platform. should be no need
a
for elaboration on this side. Most of the work would be done whether Ministry existed or not. On the for- eign side it is very necessary. It is also necessary that there should be close touch with, public opinion abroad, ef- fective dissemina- tion of the truth of Allied aims and progress, and equally effective counteraction
o f
enem propaganda. This has never
There war.
THE GERMAN PEOPLE tain and France to
The Nazis are trying with some There is success to deify Hitler.
no place for Christianity in the Nazis creed. The Church is now only tolerated in modern Ger- many, as Its sudden abolition might cause too great an opposi- tion to the Nazi Party, but in this respect the recent alliance with Bolshevist-Russia is bound to in- fluence this position, which will than become more precarious ever.—A. N. Balfour.
Greece is a mem-
front ber of the engineered by Bri-
halt aggression.. it With Turkey constitutes the Me- diterranean out- post of that front. The
of inclusion these states in the Anglo-French bloc
counterweight helped to provide a:
tom
sup--
the military port which under Axis might be to given, by Italy Germany. More-
sus-
over, it was pected that Greece.
been questioned. The questions have might soon find itself a victim of Ita- always been how and through what lian force; the Greeks feared possible this to be accomplished Italian seizure of Corfu. agencies is
Thus the withdrawal of Italian forces: and with how much or how little du- plication, diffusion, and contradiction from the Greek border indicates that of efforts to that end. The world's Italy is preparing to settle down to a Press, for example, is already fully long period of neutrality, and that it represented in London, eager for all does not consider this war as a safe the news that London can give it, and opportunity to push efforts for Italian. no new system of oversea communi- aggrandisement. Italy's action may be a intended to reassure the Allies of its. cation and publicity will provide
What is needed good intentions, and to remove at least substitute for it. over and above should not require the one cause of Allied pressure on Italy. whole-time services of a staff of se- But as this war drags on, Italy will veral hundred specialists, nor can the find it harder and harder to preserve
if its neutrality. And it is inconceiv work be swift and well-directed
there is more than one agency engag- able that any such gestures as this. even made to Greece will serve to coun- ed upon it-and the Ministry,
in terbalance in the Allies' consideration now, does not seem to be alone
the fact that by remaining neutral the field.
Italy is covering one front for Ger- many. "Christian Science Monitor."
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INDIA AND THE WAR
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SEEDS OF DISCONTENT
The object of this declaration obvious enough. The Congress Party
In the new list of reserved"occupa- represents a majority of the British Indian electorate. The leaders of the tions, published this morning by the Mr. Ministry of Labour, are to be found Working Committee, to which Gandhi does not belong, do not follow the seeds of most graves discontent.. him in advocating the unconditional It is important that certain trades, co-operation of the Congress Party essential for the prosecution of the with the Government of India. They war and the maintenance of the life evidently hope to extract political pro- of the people should not be denuded fit from the situation by inducing the of men; but this schedule denudes: trades in the British Government to make further the Army. There are constitutional concessions in the shape list which have little or no right to be of modifications of the reforms. So there. In the others, the age limit is far as is known they have not yet too low, for it withdraws from mili- formulated any specific demands. They tary service a great number of men, have indicated that they find it dif- of the best ages for soldiering, who British are not yet well enough experienced. in ficult to co-operate with the and Indian Governments in the pro- in their civil occupations to be secution of the war except on condi- any way indispensable.
Since the original schedule was is- tions affecting the political relations of the two countries, but they have sued, in January, there has been a only expressed these conditions in ab- great response to the recruiting ap- peal for the Territorial Army. Many stract terms. Their request for a-de- Anition of British war aims seems men who patriotically answered that
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