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THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 13, 1939
MIRROR OF WORLD OPINION
TOO GOOD TO BE LOST
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staff to his purpose
man fitted the than he began laying about him on in all sides, felling the noblest trees are
the wood.
"The Oak, now seeing the
whole
When the country's energies concentrated on making war then is the time to care about the permanent needs-that is to say, the peace needs matter too late, whispered to the Ce- "The Brat concession has lost of the country. Hence the neces- dar: sity to watch over the education of all; if we had not sacrificed our hum- we might have yet the young, the protection of the weak, ble neighbour,
the treatment of the defective and stood for ages ourselves'.""Mont-
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the dangerous elements in society, the gomery (Ala.) Advertiser." maintenance of tolerable conditions of life, and the libertics of the people. The more any of these is endangered by the making of war, and all of them
CRUSADE
are inevitably endangered, the more It is believed that, apart from those we must stick to them. If we pro- chauvinists who have remained in fess to be fighting for civilisation; then we should make sure that the civilisation is not impaired or tarnish- ed by ourselves in the effort. The needs of the war tend to be, but ought not to be allowed to be, all engross ing. "Manchester Guardian."
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OUR WAR AIMS
power all too long, the masses of the German people are just as desirous of peace as those nations which are at present fighting them. They can only achieve that when the present lead- ers of Germany have been driven from power, and an opportunity given to German moderates to rebuild their country along lines, which will make it possible for the rest of Europe to live in amity with them. The hideous system which Herr Hitler and his ac- the complices has created must be destroy- the ed, and the common decencies of in- ternational life restored. It is for that
are
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CHECKING TERRORISM
The people know what they fighting for. They seek to rid world, including Germany, of curse of Hitlerism. They desire to
to release stricken Poles and Czechs that the Allies are fighting, and
call it a crusade is to describe it by from the yoke of aggression and to
the only term possible.-"North China free mankind from the threat of ag-
Daily News." gression. They insist that all disputes between nations-including the dis- pute which has precipitated the pre- sent conflict-shall be submitted for settlement to the arbitrament of law and third-party judgment. This three-
The method of aggression is always fold cause, and no other, is the cause the same the atrocity campaign, the the people will "fight to
a ultimatum, the assertion that it has finish," They will not per-
been rejected before there has been mit their
rot
the to read it, the bombing, time in another vindictive Versailles. Hav- troops on the march. Serbia in 1914, ing learned the lesson of past wars Austria in 1837, Czechoslovakia they will not tolerate the exhaustion 1938, Poland in 1939 are all instances of morale and spirit which, when con- of the classic German way of picking flict ceases, leaves the peo- a quarrel. The outside world ple of all nations helpless victims of power-politicians. When Nazism ends, this war ends, and the building of peace begins. "Reynolds News," London.
sacrifice
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to
THE ECHO IN ASIA
a tumble in China
in
has
never been in a doubt about it, and least of all at this moment. Germany brands herself as the aggressor, and, since Italy is taking no initiative, she stands alone, except in so far as she may have the promise of secret sup- port from Russia. British and French action is predetermined in such a si- tuation, and there is not the slightest doubt about it.
THE NAKED TRUTH
It is impossible to escape the con-
We have no need to define our up clusion that Russian stock has taken, war-aims. They are all summed
in the supreme one of creating an international or- der in which men and women may pursue the life of peace without fear. Let us hold to that; and firmly resolve that it shall
in the last week. Events of the last months few
had been forcing China closer and closer to regardless Russia,
"There is no need for us to counter lies with lies. We know that truth will always come out on top. We give nothing but the naked truth. I am not afraid to make use of propaganda, and of tendentious propaganda."-Nazi Propaganda Minister Goebbels.
us.
not be perverted by any of the trials and afflictions that London "Sunday
of several points of distaste on the part of the Chinese. The urgent need for as- sistance in the war against Japanese invasion compelled the Chinese to as- awalt
to- Times."* sume a more receptive attitude ward Soviet co-operation than would have been thinkable under most any other circumstances. But now Rus- sia has launched her own campaign
Finland alone cannot possibly offer of conquest, is doing much the
resistance such as is required to deal sort of thing that China bitterly con- demns from Japan. So it is difficult effectively with a Russian invasion. to see how China can be indifferent ditions it is hard to see prospects of -And under prevailing European con-
same
or tolerant, even to the extent of ac-
THE DANGER
cepting what help may be offered, the needed help.
Every practical consideration ar-
Furthermore. the current turn of events renders less probable the con- gues for a friendly attitude on tinuing offer of help. All this is, at least for the present, to the advan tage of Japan's position.-"Manila Bulletin."
the
part of the Scandinavian neighbours to the west, but more than friendly attitude is the urgent need of the oc- casion. Idealistic sympathies on the score of basic right and practical friendship on the score of commun- Ity of interests notwithstanding, Nor- way and Sweden cannot be expected to rush to the aid of the invaded Once upon a time, long before Hit- neighbour and ally. One of the num- ler was ever dreamed of, a woodman erous practical points to be consider went into a forest to ask the trees to ed in this connection is the question give him a handle for his axe.
whether a solid front by the Baltic
EDITORIAL BY AESOP
"It seemed so modest a request,” states. might not tend to force Russia according to Aesop, "that the princi- and Germany into a closer military pal trees agreed to it, and it was set- alliance the they yet have worked tled among them that the plain, homes out for themselves or indicated to be 1 Ash should furnish what was in imm wanted. No sooner had the wood- letin."
“Manila Buš--.