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MIRROR OF WORLD OPINION
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WE ARE THE PEOPLE tries. Those restrictions are no doubt It is curious, what a persistent bar- imposed for what appear to be good rage of bouquets to the British Se reasons, but they are having the most Where to many of cret Service the propaganda depart- injurious effect. ment of Truthful Joe Goebbels in the peace-time channel of interna- Bists on putting down. Hitler, of tional trade are closed or obstructed main- by war conditions, it is the more ne- course, has never ceased to tain from the days of "Mein Kampf Cessary to free those between
Allies, onwards that it was solely British
Unfortunately, however, in these propaganda that drove the Germans out of France and Belgium in
matters of reciprocal trade there has the
been a lack of liaison work. There autumn of 1918; they were in no sense booted forth by superior force would seem to have been no thorough consultation between the authorities (though some of us can remember
in, France and this country who seeing that process most effectively
framed the existing restrictions, or in operation just twenty-one *years ago) but were wafted mysteriously of the trading interests' concerned. homewards on the wings of far too Complaint is made that no regard has successful British inventions in the been paid to and no injuiry has been made into the nature of French busi— realm of "ideology." And, just 16 Hitler. has for reasons of his
of British ness in this country and own
business in France. If grievous. lose sung the praises of the British pro- paganda of the last war, so Truthful is not to be incurred, it is essential Joe and his minions salute with fury that, unity of command should be es- tablished between the Allies in the the miraculous performances of the British Secret Service. Long-dis- economic as well as in the military fleld, Accredited representatives of tance death rays are nothing to the feats performed by that astonishing industrial and commercial activity in both countries should be brought department, which can blow up a Bavarian beer-hall as easily as it into consultation with each other, and causes the Rhine to rise and flood their joint recommendations should the Siegfried Line. Moreover, its be pondered and paid heed to by those successful efforts are the result of officially charged with the drafting of trade regulations. In other words, long practice; it must have blown up the Munich beer-hall,
the the object should be to adapt regula- "Borsen Zeitung," because "it has tions to suit the trade and not the When been proved that in fifteen years 72 trade to suit the regulations, attempts financed by Britain
the respective presidents of the Brit- made on the life of Napoleon I."
ish Chamber of Commerce in Paris It seems a pity to drag in the first and the French Chamber of Commer- Napoleon; we all know where he ce in London unite in complaining of spent his declining years and why. the waste of a valuable. Allied asset However, it all shows what persis- resulting wholly from unco-ordinated tently efficient people the British are regulation, an authority superior to when once they get going. It seems that of the Departments should assert rather odd of the Nazis to rub that
itself. Goodwill is not lacking, and moral into their own people so inces- it should be made effective by good santly, for some of them may begin sense.-"Daily Telegraph ̧”. to wonder why on earth they have let themselves become embroiled once more with such determined and Moreover, accomplished neighbours.
says
were
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FLESH CREEP
Ribbentrop has called in the ventive powers of Nazi propaganda in an effort to make our flesh creep. He has an aeroplane, it appears, that
can reach London in an hour and
it sounds as though they must be rather nice as well. If they sent the Germans home by just peaceful persuasion in 1918, and if you have to go back as far as Napoleon I's time for supposed evidence of their
a half. Germany's parachute corps Infamy, why the recent behaviour is undergoing "intense and feverish of this remarkable people must be training." Two hundred submarines almost too good to be true! "Man- have been ordered. "The moon goes chester Guardian”.
from the first quarter to full," the propagandists add, "and" people gen- erally feel it is a very suitable time to start."
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A UNITED ECONOMIC
FRONT
Those are the very accents of the Fat Boy of Pickwick. Unluckily for
PEACE AIMS
а
Boy just as he is a failure in every- thing else, Britain is no Miss Rachnel Wardle
We do not trem- ble at his menace of a "truly bor- rible war." Some of the exploits of Nazidom in this war... have · been truly bor- rible already; -and we are not per- suaded that we have
As Allies in the field, France and Ribbentrop, who is a failure as a Fat Britain have lost no time in putting their armies and navies each under single supreme They command. have also recognised the advantage of correlating their de- monds upon what may be called the munitions market- whether of raw ma- terials or manufac-
·tured arms-in or- der to avoid the costly possibility of becoming com- peting purchasers and of so inflating prices and jeopar dising the satisfac- tion of each other's needs. There still remains to be realised a logical corollary to these sensible and timely decisions, as was pointed out the
We are not concerned with the form of other governments; our only concern is with their be- haviour. Each nation should have freedom to decide what type of government It prefers. An absolute monarchy, even dietatorship, may suit some coun- tries far better than what we please to call a democracy. Each according to his likes. But the nations are definitely concerned with the degree of co-operation which other governments, what- ever their form, are willing to give to the establishing of a world order in which peacefut The nations may live at peace. only peace alm that can justify sacrifices is, the establishing of a world of states upoh a sound eco- nomic and political bäsle. And the destruction of existing forme of government is justified only as a means of olearing the stage for the establishing of such a world.-J. Anton de Hann.
been spared them within our shores because of
any sentimental attach- ment to us, Mercy plays no part in the Nazi make-up. Fear does; and if Ribbentrop's words have, not
been followed so far by deeds it is because
he and his fellows
in
other day in a point letter, from the that we have the respective Presidents of the British back... Chamber of Commerce in Paris and `; We will wait and the French Chamber of Commerce in 'attacks us, we are^ London, What these authoritative yesterday's shout – in. correspondents have drawn attention battle in a war of to is the handicapping of Anglo- seem that the Garman French trada by the burdensome – re- more likely to bê -atriétions placed upon it in both coun- we care---“B
ming
know strike