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THE CHINA MAIL, NÓVEMBER 15, 1939
MIRROR OF WORLD
RUSSIAN
OPINION
plain
MANOEUVRING tered propaganda, the fact is
that Germany at the very outset of
was
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The negotiations in Moscow are not only a problem for Finland but for the whole of the North, of which Fin-
on the
It is to be hoped that the optimis- the war is beginning to feel the eco- nomic pinch In 1914 the country en- tic feeling reported from Helsingfors, joyed the profits of peace right up to regarding the possibility of a peace- zero hour. But to-day the immense ful issue resulting from the Finnish Nazi rearmament programme has kept her in a state of economic siege for Soviet parleys at Moscow, will be jus-
years before the first shot was, fired. tified in the event, and that Finland She has been progressively impover
levies on industrial will be able to escape from hostilities ished by State
financial without making sacrifices inconsistent undertakings and only the with her national honour. From all jugglery of Dr. Schacht kept up the
economic structure. tottering
The that has happened up to the present goods may be there for Germany to it is clear that Finland has met the buy. But without money or its equi- valent in goods Germany will exper- Russian demands with a readiness ience the pangs of a Tantalus torment. which does it infinite credit. It has "Ceylon Observer." made concessions consistent with its national dignity, and while it thought that the rejection of one-third of Russia's demands might lead to an outbreak of war, it is thought possible land is an indivisible part. The pro- blem is the more serious because the that that fatal outcome will still be
Moscow conversations are but a part averted. M. Molotov refrained from of a far greater process which repre- mentioning Finland in his speech on sents a very great danger to the North Monday, while the Soviet Press is re- and the whole of Europe.
If the Soviet makes demands ported to have ceased their attacks Finland which are unacceptable upon that country. That may be latter will not be able to expect as- only because of a desire not to press sistance from the Great Powers. Ger- the Finns too far, and so make a com- many, which helped Finland against Bolshevism in 1918, now regards the plete rejection of the outstanding task of "Europe's guardian against the points no more than a possibility. It Asiatic pest" from another angle. is not expected, however, that Moscow Britain does not wish to provoke the will be satisfied with much less than still neutral Russia to enter fully on the acceptance of her original
de the side of Germany, and the United mands, and though the situation at States are a long way off.-"National the moment appears to be favourable, Tidende," Copenhagen, the possibility of Finnish-Soviet re- lationships degenerating into the out- A STAR TO STEER HIM BY break of another war cannot be dis- Townsfolk in Britain continue to re- regarded. Indeed an amicable ar- port that the complete darkness of rangement between
their streets after the two countries
nightfall has need not necessarily
brought at least one be the forerun-
compensation. It ner of peace in
enables them to that part of the
see the stars pro- world, for the fact
perly; and few is that the Soviet,
people would deny and this probably in
that, from the aes- conjunction with
thetic point of Germany, has a
view, there is a very predatory eye
gain when the city fixed upon the
is loosed from the riches of Norway
bands of neon and and Sweden, and
allowed to adopt the question which
those of Orion. is agitating the minds of the states- men of those two countries is whe- ther they in their turn will not be subjected to pres-
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HALER-BY G. B. S.
An idolised One Man autocracy is never a reality, because the Idollaed One cannot be every- where, and must therefore dele- gate his autocracy to a host of nobodies whom he le obliged to support no matter what atrocities the worst of them may commit. Another is that the One Man may, as in the special case of Herr Hitler, suffer from the well-known Jewish complex of belonging to a Chosen Rice which must how all other races to places before the Lord in Gligal; and this, as Mr. H. G. Wells contends, disqualifies him on the ground of lunacy.-G. Bernard Shaw.
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Yet there, are times when this point of view is not likely to be uppermost in the mind of a citizen who is forced to
his
his
sure similar to that which is being adventure as a gentleman of the shade put on Finland. The lot of the neu- --when, for example, he loses tral in this struggle is likely to be- way. Although some light is permit- come increasingly hard, so hard that ted him, and the carefully shaded they may be forced militarily to de- electric torch, the illuminated button, fend their own interests, for the same and even the tail light, enable hideous game of power politics is be- fellow pedestrians to avoid him, they ing played, and both Norway and hardly help him to lay a course for Sweden are not countries to relin- his destination. Perhaps that is the quish their traditional independence moment for him to take a more prac- and neutrality without a severe strug- gle.-"N.C.D.N."
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tical interest in the stars: under "the sweet influences of Pleiades," or by keeping Jupiter on the port bow, he could, one imagines, stick to his gen- eral direction. However, a cloudy night would leave him a star-crossed
DR. FUNK'S BLUFF Dr. Funk, the Nazi Minister of Eco- nomics, has vigorously denied the re- ports that the British blockade is be- mover; and perhaps it would be bet- ginning to tell on the German indus- suaded to try a little luminous paint ter if the authorities could be per-
STRONG REACTION
trial system. He claims that all the raw material which is now being ef- on the names of the streets. "Chris
tian Science Monitor." fectively prevented from entering German ports will be obtained from elsewhere. Even if such a sweeping assertion is 'accepted at its face value, Dr. the statement means nothing. Funk may point out the immense ad-. vantage Germany now has, of hav- ing secured the economic support of Russia and of the Balkan States. He |might argue that it was not so in 1918, when Germany's almost inevitable economic collapse for red the war to reaction not only in Scandinavia.-but of also in the whole civilised world, and
a conclusion before the infliction
a decisive military defeat.
The "Svenska Dagbladet" writes: In the event of Russia believing she can treat Finland like other: Baltic States it will arouse the strongest
But behind the imposing facade of not the least in the United States economic Pacts and sedulously fos- "Svenska Dagbladet,” Stockholm.