THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 5, 1939
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JAPAN'S DILEMMA Perhaps from the view point of the western democracies the worst even-
DECENCY
Danzig may not be worth a war but decency is, and it is international decency, not the international status quo, that the Peace Powers are de- fending. There would be no safety for the world or any part of it in declin- ing the challenge to reason and justice that is blared forth from Berlin. Dane- geld could buy nothing but a false security. To shirk the struggle now would mean facing it with probably increased odds later on. It is not Po- land we are called upon to defend but. the principle that human life and hu- man liberty are more sacred than a conqueror's humour. Our ancestors, from time to time, have died for that principle. Some of our brothers died for it in the muddy flelds of Europe.-"Calgary Herald.”
SOVIET CHICANERY Invasion by Russia in the face of by the Finns determined resistance would render continued neutrality of the whole Scandinavian bloc difficult.
tuality that may grow out of this situation is that once again Japan will find herself thrust by external pressure into a position in which she will be able to see but a single course of action open holding any chance of survival in the place she has attained. Trends in this direction already are clearly taking form. One, reads in the papers about talks at Tokyo of Com- rade Constantin Smetanin, the Soviet Ambassador, with Japanese Foreign Minister Kichisaburo Nomura, while other conversations proceed at Moscow between the Japanese Ambassador to Russia and Comrade Vyacheslav Molo- tov, Related to these discussions one at once recalls the kindly sentiments re- garding Japan of the Soviet Foreign Commissar voiced in the address he gave a the Fifth Supreme Soviet Council meeting on October 31 last. Russia is ready to negotiate with Japan, said the Soviet dignitary then. Japan' will turn toward her tradi- tional foe reluctantly as a last resort only when other expedients have fail-
Talk of ending the war to, the con- ed and when it appears to her that this trary notwithstanding, Russia would is the only possible course she can
like nothing better than to have de- take. It is a path she has travelled mocracy and nazism batter each other before, for it must not be forgotten into exhaustion or at least to stale- that she felt herself obliged by acts of mate each other. The delicate ques- western powers in Manchuria and in tion now is: How much can be done China to conclude a series of treaties to create and prolong crises, without with Russia in the years immediately overplaying the hand and thereby following the Russo-Japanese war driving the threatened small nations when feeling between the two nations into the camp of somebody else? Soviet was mutually more hostile than it has moves in the Balkan section, moves
which been even through the recent period
were essentially threatening of the Nomonnan border fighting.
to Germany, reacted to the benefit of Jap.n undoubtedly recognises
German enemies. that this for her indeed is a desperate ex- pedient and the hazards it imposes assuredly will cause her to erect every possible safeguard if at length she feels she has to join Russia, an action that: must lead directly into a new more sinister rapprochement with Germany. All this can only serve to bring closer another and more terrible general world war.-"Far Eastern Review.”
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We wait to see if history will repeat itself in the north.--"Manila Bulletin."
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HITLER WINS A KAMPF
Maybe Herr Hitler was too busy the other day to know or care that the Supreme Court of the United States had handed down a ruling which up- held his rights
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as an author. The court sustained the action of the Court of Appeals enjoying an un- authorised publication of "Mein Kampf". Hence Herr Hitler will get royalties from his American sales, if and when such royalties accrue and if and when they can be transmitted to him.
HITLER'S MADNESS Hitler's madness has at last come to a head and England, Egypt, and France are resolved to cure him of his illness. We are at war to-day with the most barbaric people in the world, and it is the solemn duty of every The issue is not, however, whether Egyptian to fight the Nazis, the real or not Herr Hitler gets his royalties.
enemies of man-
kind. We salute the
great Chamberlain,
man-
for all he has done and is doing for the welfare of kind. He tried hard to make Hitler come to his senses, but the made Chan-
THE
GREATER PROBLEM
I am not thinking just now, of India's deliverance. It will come, but what wil! it be worth if Eng- land and France fall?—Gandhi.
The issue is the larger one of the rights of foreign authors. In the American book market, and: of Americans in for- eign: book/markets. International copyright is the
cellor did not listen. Chamberlain foundation stone of the world- tried to preserve the peace. We Egyp- wide republic of letters."The New tians know what it is to lose indepen- York Times. dence.-"Al Misry, Official Organ of the Wafd."
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UNADVENTUROUS
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"HATE NO ONE”
There is a universal brotherhood of Then as we become different and fail man in many fundamental things. to understand each other, we go to
war,
We wust not hate anyone, not even a Fascist or a Nazi, for there are so many who do not know better.-"The
Boston Herald.”
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NETHERLANDS NEUTRALITY
One thing which might conceivably interest his (Goebbels) Propaganda Department, and even give a better opening for the display of its talents than a secret session, would be the current discussions about the pos- sibility of curing mutton into a kind of bacon. Surely Truthful Joe will not miss a chance of turning some of his minions on to that theme. It not only proves that the English must indeed be short of bacon but it also Netherlanda neutrality declaration indicates what a poor sort of show shows that, due to its position they make at the "ersatz" Industry, this neutrality is complete and strong- How feeble and uninspired it seems ly emphasised.. In spite of neu- to make bacon out of mutton the trality, Netherlands - public opinion mòre knowledgeable Nazis would be approves President Roosevelt's de- much more likely to achieve a bacon claration that no neutrality in the | substitute out of hedge-clippings, world can force the conscienos of the dried sea urchins, or pressed jellyfish. individul. It clearly discerns the peril In the meantime the unadventurous threatening all Europe by the unloos- English will presumably carry on ing of Bolshevist anarchy, The sink- with their experiments,, murmuring the while:
Mary had a little lamb,
But..it has now been taken, And shortly hopes to reappear As high-class mutton-bacon.
-“Manchester Guardian,'
ing of the Simon Bolivar made a deep impression in the Netherlands. Security of sea communications is vital for her. All violations of International maritime rights' create violent re- actions among Netherlands: public opinion-Basler Nachrichten,” Basle.