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MIRROR OF WORLD OPINION
DIPLOMATIC COERCION
a new
One who reads the reports of Japan-
and semi-official cse official
com- ments on the prospects of friendship between Russia and Japan hardly can escape the conclusion that there may be an element of diplo-
dislike
matic coercion in these comments.
Japanese officialdom knows that a tie-up with Russia means a surrender for Japan, but everybody also knows that it would be dangerous for a large part of the world at the same time, The democracies naturally seeing Russia get such an advantage. Knowing this, the Japanese can take advantage of the situation to pressure the United States, among others, to- ward a disposition to deal with Japan to head off the Russian influence at least they can try it.
One way of looking at the matter, one might assume that the example of the tie-up between Russia and Ger- many might make the Russo-Japanese threat more formidable. But another
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The democratic diplomats know that the weapon which the Japanese are playing with is double-edged.—, "Manila Bulletin.”
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A REMINDER
Mr. Lloyd George has again pressed his idea of "conference before carn- age" in an eloquent speech at Caer- narvon. With much of it all of us can
particular commitment as he has been. in the past. After all, in face of his major perfidies, the Invasion of these two neutral countries would be in his eyes a minor matter and in his present plight he might very well ask himself why he should strain at n so. competently gnat after having swallowed so many camels. The at- Holland titude which Belgium and have adopted throughout has been Their position is a entirely correct. difficult one, for in their neutrality they owe it to themselves as well as to the belligerents to make sure that they shall not deviate either to one side or the other in their endeavour to prevent being involved in this pre- sent struggle. On their eastern borders they are faced with a ruthless, relent- less enemy, heeding no codes such as those which honourable men observe,
and depending upon their strength to escape the retribution which is the reward for wrongdoing. They will not, however, escape it. The deeds of their government have aroused the firmest determination that this evil thing which has been created shall be exterminated. Nothing has happened since the outbreak of the war in any way to modify that determination. In-
deed there has been much to streng- then it. There may be much more in the future when the dogs of war are finally unleashed. It may be that both the threatened countries will be overrun or at least made the cockpit of contending nations, but of this they may rest assured, an Allied victory means for them a continuance of their history; an Allied defeat means their subjugation and slavery such as has We can agree that "a river of blood" been fastened around the necks of should be avoided; that our relations Czechoslovakia, Austria, and Poland. with neutrals, and particularly with That they will resist invasion is clear. Russia, should be improved if Stalin In doing so they will receive the as- is agreeable; that we should not be sistance of the Allies, and all the world provocative and truculent; that we wants to know now is when Herr should let it be known that our "war Hitler will drive them out of their aimis" do not demand humiliation for neutrality into Allied arms. the enemy. All acceptable. But all "N.C.D.N."
agree.
vague.
have
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THE INGENIOUS MIND
War hath its victories, even in the
HISTORY'S VERDICT?
Hitler's proposals - so far been those of a conqueror. In ac- cepting them, we should fix upon the German people a tyranny of which many of them are weary: to take the matter only from the German side. If we felt bound, as Mr. Lloyd George has always done, to "stand up firmly to the dicta- tor" when they be- gan assaulting the weak, why should we cease to stand up to them now that dictatorship
has
"History alone, will determine whether Herr Hitler could have diverted Nazi-ism into normal channels, whether he was the vlotim of the movement which he had Initiated, or whether it was his
own megalomania which drove it beyond the limits which civilisation was prepared to co- lerate."--Sir Nevile Henderson.
cause
walks of peace. Amongst them must be reckoned the ray which will, If its inventor's clair be justifled, a lamp-post approached in a black-out to emit a warning shriek, Reversing the principle, a Hindu soothsayer claimed not long ago to have solved one of
the problems that baffled the medieval
some
added another victim to the lengthen- alchemists--the secret of invisibility. ing list?
Invited to demonstrate, he declined to Let us remind Mr. Lloyd George do so on the ground that as he had of his
yet reception of the "truculent" not
perfected the antidote German peace proposals presented to there was
likelihood the Allied Governments in December, of his remaining permanently 1916.
invisible. It is easy to see that even a philosopher might find this condition a source of embarrassment in society. A Hungarian claimed to have achieved the same result by making a Budapest reporter vanish from his chair. This device, long prac- tised unofficially in Fleet-street, sug- gests an interesting method of dealing with certain characters on the screen and others, no less familiar, in clubs.
He then said: "There has been talk about proposals of peace. What are those proposals? There are none. To enter at the invitation of Germany, proclaiming herself victorious, with out any knowledge of the proposals she proposes to make, into a confer- ence, is to put our heads into a noose with the rope end in the hands of Germany
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Why, in 1916, did Mr. Lloyd George see so clearly a truth that he denies in 19397-"Daily Mirror.”
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In
the a different category falls woman inventor's grapefruit shelter- a small glass dome, with an opening for the spoon, which can be turned to one side to avoid splashing, so long as the diner's neighbour does not re- gard this as an unfriendly act. Others even odder may not be safely ridi- culed. For it is an uncomfortable fact that most of the great inventions, from the steamship to wireless and the fly-
NAZI THREATS . The significant feature about recent at- developments is the change of titude with regard to the neutrality of the two countries threatened. From unconditional assurances that their rights and integrity would be respect ed, there has been a chance to a conditional undertaking, one in which the sole judge of its applicablity or ing machine, have been dismissed at inapplicability will be Herr Hitler, first as fantasies; and even the craziest and the danger to Holland and Begium is at least evidence of the faculty that is that, as his position becomes in-
J.
creasingly desperate, he will become lifted man about the apes.---“Dally decreasingly likely to honour this Telegraph."