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THE CHINA MAIL, NOVEMBER 9, 1939
MIRROR OF WORLD OPINION
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are trying to exploit the incident with a view of worsening each other's re- lations with the United States, for this Hitler-Stalin partnership is character- ised by nothing so much as the mu- tual distrust and suspicion which each entertains for the other.
What is wanted is friendship, not payment. What form the British res- ponse should take might well be work- ed out by consultation. In their pre- sent mood Indians would not strain at
"Willy-nilly, having made a politi- the method so long as they could ac- cept the aim and recognise the hon- cal bedfellowship with Hiller, Stalin est intention to achieve it. First and finds himself dragging along at Hit- foremost, a British gesture is requir- ler's coat tails. It must have been ed, a declaration that will focus the highly embarrasing for the "neutral" goodwill that has surged up in India Stalin to have a German prize crew since this country has been engaged bring an American ship into a Soviet In fact, Congress is looking port. He could hardly have refused That would to the British Government to provide the vessel admittance. what so many people in this country have angered Hitler and weakened a are demanding a sign that England partnership which Stalin is fearful of is taking to arms not merely in de: breaking-at present."-"China Week- fence of interests but in the hope of ly Review," Nov. 4. creating a better world order out of victory. We may yet have cause to be grateful to Pandit Nehru for press- ing us to face the larger issue.
in war.
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COMPROMISE
The doubt that prompts the pres- The long-pending Kulangsu issue sure cannot be really justified, though was settled amicably by exchange of the Government has by its past ac- ratifications of the agreement con- tions helped to rouse it. This coun- cluded between the Japanese and the try may have been forced to go to war Kulangsu International Settlement au- In order to ensure its own survival, thorities. The event signifies a good but once engaged it is determined to deal because it indicates a compromise use the triumph of arms for which it on the part of Britain in particular hopes in organising the triumph of who had assumed the stiffest attitude reason among the nations. The Bri- of all the interested Powers. One tish Empire has already gone far in potent cause of the present solution of the progress from Imperialism by this issue, however, is the recent out- way of trusteeship to free association. break of the European war, which The Dominions have proved in these has had to engross the attention of days that the road was the right one. Britain in that direction.
It is exactly one hundred years since A glance at the contents of the Lord Durham in his report on Can- agreement shows that the six items ada advocated full self-government as which constitute the agreement point a cure for rebellion. Only ten years to the approval on the part of Kulang- ago Sir Austen Chamberlain told the su Municipal Council of almost all the then Premier of Egypt that Britain original claims raised by the Japanese. "could not recede" from the position This would make one easily perceive "in which God had placed her," yet that if the Municipal Council author- Egypt is to-day both free and friend- ities had not used too much bargain- ly. What is now needed is a frank ing tactics from the outset by under- assurance to India that the free and standing Japan's reasonable claims, equal association of nations is the ob- the issue would have been readily set- ject of British policy and the very tled much earlier. True, among the ideal that England is fighting to es- items of the agreement there are some tablish. It is no more than the truth, whose actual enforcement has been |but truth must out. The Government reserved for the future for financial must act now with decision, with po- reasons. But those items even are litical wisdom, and with the justice confidently expected to be actually that we proclaim to be our guiding enforced sooner or later without any principle; this is no time for pettifog- difficulty if the Council authorities ging caution. The words of Queen are so disposed. Victoria to another generation of In- dians should be re- membered to-day "In their prosper- ity will be our strength, in their contentment our se- curity, and in their gratitude our best reward." "Man- chester Guardian,”
A BLUNDER
THE VILLAIN
em.
It is a common thing for man who believe in peace to phasize the stupidity of war. We tend sometimes to think that peace la so easy, war so brutal and Insensato, that we should never have an armed confilct were it not for the fact that the statesmen and rulers of the world are so unbelievably wick- ed and foollah. Peace workers ara at their worst' when they pursue
this argument, Their "Ever since
In the for the villain the search end of 1939, when
drama has never been markedly successful. Some blame the the United States
diplomate, some the munition entered into diplo-
makers, some the International matic relations with
bankers and finanolers. It Im the Government of
only necessary to know a few Soviet Russia, diplomats, a few munition mak- Kremlin spokesmen ers, or a few international, bank- have worked over- ara to realize how wild and how time to
unjust those accusations maintain
Dr. Frank Aydetotte. friendly relations
with Washington. During the past
arg.
The solution of the Kulangsu is- sue in itself makes an event to be heartily congratu- lated upon for the sake of mainten- ance of peace and order in the same International Settlement. But at the same time it signifles a .great deal as a "test case" leading to fu- ture solution of símilar issues pending between this nation and the Powers in China. For instance, the present solution of the Kulangsu issue furnishes a good example to be fol- lowed at least in the case of Shang- hai and Tientsin.-
week there has been a sharp change "Tokyo Asahi Shimbun." in the tone and attitude of the Soviet authorities.
German
"In place of gushing friendliness there is now a marked hostility.
"It all started with the seizure on the Atlantic of the Ameri- can merchantman "City Of Flint.”
FRENCH DEMAND ON GERMANY
·· No one has ever asked Germany to The fact of the matter is that both renounce defence of its vital interests. the German and the Soviet Govern- What is demanded of her is that she mente blunderedly badly the former gives up her methods of expansion by seizing an American ship, the lat- through violence and respect the rights ter by allowing it to be taken by a and genuine vital interests of the na- German prize crew into Murmansk, tions so that a sound political equili- Each has been trying to "pass the brium and reign of international law buck" to the other. It is also not can subsist on the Continent. "Le unlikely that both Hitlers and Stalin Temps," Paris.
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