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THE CHINA MAIL, NOVEMBER 24, 1939
MIRROR OF WORLD OPINION
HIT BACK
to
use against Japan may be utilised
even when it is known the weapon is If you listen regularly the double-edged. This fact assumed B.B.C.'s gentle talks after the news prominence when Germany dropped you will know that we are urged Japan out the window to fraternise (with the aid of appropriate inusic) with Russia. The picture changes in to keep the Tranquil Mind; or it may detail as time and wars go on, but be the Steadfast Mind; or the Mind the essentials are not materially that keeps, Light in the Black-Out,
changed from the Chinese point These are useful sorts of Minds to
view.
cultivate or to possess by Nature.
An equally desirable type of Mind is the one that prefers truth to flap- doodle.
of
In the same way that Russia is the joker in the European game we call war so she is becoming or threaten- ing to become the major danger and
on
This Truthful Mind nourishes itself, outlaw factor in the Asiatic war. This not on wishful thinking, but on facts, state of affairs does not necessarily It knows that "things are what they mean more or heavier fighting are"--particularly in wartime. It
the battlefields, but it does darken the outlook for what may follow the end cannot turn of actual warfare, of the kind fought mishaps by by armies. the
knows that in war we ugly losses into trifling paying compliments to and skill of Ger- man U-boats, or by TEL. 20016. announcing, in old rule Britannia tones, that the Brit- ish Army is ready to die in a nobly traditional man-
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We don't want the British Army to die in a nobly it to be so well led that it will sur- vive and win.
We want skill and daring on the enemy side to be countered by dar- ing and skill on
daring
Those who had most sincerely hop-
INDIA AND EMPIRE
"Whatever the future has in store for each and everyone of us, whatever units of our army may be privileged to fight under the British flag in this war, I am con: fident of one thing, and that is the gallantry and loyalty of my army; and that every man from Bikaner will, when the time comes, give a good account of himself, and that you will all contribute your utmost to main- tain the great traditions of the State of Bikaner and
of its army, Maharaja of Bikaner.
ours. We want fewer
sentimental ers from
speeches and headlines minimising Bulletin." losses. We want to hear that our skill
and daring are well marshalled so as
to strike back.
wasteful
Not (as of old) in huge offensives on the Western Front, but in hampering German concentra- tions-by bombs. For sermonising leaflets do not hamper Nazi advances. The Nazis prepare their onslaught on the West. What do we do to fore- stall their preparations?
They raid our fleet. Their raid is at least as successful as was ours.
They torpedo a big battleship in the recesses of Scapa Flow. A daring exploit! We once performed one at Zeebrugge. It would hearten us to hear that we have not lost the power of riposte, of hitting back, of attack ing unexpectedly.
Passivity does not hearten:; nor does the skilful but essentially defensive war on U-boats convince us that we can face a three-or-more-years' war by leaving all initiative to the enemy. -"Dally Mirror.”
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BOGGED DOWN
ed that Europe might be spared from war, those who had gone the furthest in support of appeasement as an escape from war, after they were convinced that war could not be averted, fell back on the hope that the inevitable war might clear the atmosphere and reestablish peace on а more orderly and more perman- ent basis. This second hope suff- entry-Manila
Russia's
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WASTE OF TIME
It is waste of time of conjecture what calculation will weigh most with Hitler in 'reaching his (next move) decision. He may decide for some desperate offensive on the Western Front, together with an intensification of the attacks by sea and air on this country, and an attempt to forceTM on neutral Europe a boycott of all Brit~- ish trade. One thing alone is certain, that he cannot safely remain purely on the defensive. The morale of the German people, already · tried rather high by the disconcerting capitula- tions to Russia, would not easily stand the strain of a merely defen- sive strategy, in the hope that the Allies, would break their strength against impregnable - positions. It is much more likely, as Mr. Hore- Belisha suggested, that the “continued resort of Nazi policy will be the at- tempt to lure the Allies into a dis- cussion of premature ~
*peace terms, such as Mr. Lloyd George has so un- helpfully-except for Germany-been forward in recommending. That must Japan is 50 thoroughly bogged be a lure against which it behoves down with the war in China that des- both France and ourselves to be perate procedure will be adopted if no sleeplessly on guard. Any peace pro- . better way out is found. Copying posals-any discussion of peace Germany's use of the Russian club, or based on acquiescence in successful probably the Russian weapon, is a aggression would mean surrender of possibility as a desperate way out. the fundamental cause for which the Most assuredly that will backfire Allies have taken up arms, and give seriously for Japan but at the same Hitler time to recuperate his resour- time it can multiply and intensify the ces before an inevitable resumption troubles for the rest of the major of hostilities at an early date. As powers of the world. When Tokyo Mr. Greenfell, of the Labour party, gestures toward a tie-up with Russia, well gaid, when Germany has with- Far Eastern peace and order are drawn from Poland and Czechoslova- threatened for a period of inestimable kia it will be time to talk of peace. length.
There is, indeed, something at stake Theoretically China should be the greater than a mere confict between first to realise this factor rather the antagonism of nations something China, should be next after Japan in which cannot be compounded for appraising the consequences. How now without treachery to the future ever, China also is in-a trying posl- and its hope of peace and security. tion as a consequence of the Japanese The high mission of the *illes is to invasion and also might feel forced to bring that truth home to Thai Ger- play a little of the Russian game, many, as it has already been brought China's Immediate enemy is Japan, home to the rest of thé civilised and a weapon that looks effective for world.—“Daily