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THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 14, 1939
MIRROR OF WORLD
OPINION
U. S. AND FINLAND
of
What effect the combination facts may have on Russia and the Soviet conquest programme is some- thing which can be determined only by developments. The indications so far are that Soviet Dictator Stalin
cares about as little about what any body may think as it is possible for one to care. However, effects on in- ternational Felationships ultimately will give cause for concern, for prac- tical reasons if for no others.
President Roosevelt apparently is shaping his programme in recogni-
tion of the manifest American sen- timent and planning his course of action as an effective approach in
campaign against Russia's arbitrary policy. His appeal for American po- pular support for and cooperation in EL policy designed at avoidance of being a party to Russian ruthlessness is explained on these grounds. In principle the stand taken by the White House squares with the standards which democratic nations advocate as the basis for international relation- ships.
realization that sooner or later, Ger- many, if it wishes to exist, must eventually resist. That German military, and naval quarters appar- ently fully understand. Hence the disunion reported from Berlin. They see in Russian manoeuvres in Scandi- navia, the Baltic and south-eastern Europe the assumption of the role of
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paramount influence which they have come to regard as traditionally their own. The Allies, it is clear from Lord Halifax's statement, were offer- ed terms probably not dissimilar from those which Germany has accepted. It is regrettable that that fact was not made clear earlier, for a better propaganda point could hardly have a been conceived. Rather than sell the smaller nations out, Great Britain and France abandoned hope of a de- fensive understanding with Russia, which turned to Germany and made that nation pay a high price for benevolent neutrality, the full tale of It which has not yet been reached. is idle in the circumstances to accuse the Allies of being responsible for Finland's plight. They knew what M. Stalin wanted, and would be no party to the infamy which he was de-
About American signing.
that Herr Hitler diplomatic and trade relationships had no qualms, and it is he and he with Japan - at least after the Jap- alone who is particeps, criminis with anese conquest of China was officially M. Stalin in this cruel onslaught upon and popularly denounced in the Unit- the dearly-won freedom of a youth- ed States.
ful, and energetic nation.-“N. C. D. The deciding point as to the ef- News." fectiveness of the Washington stand in the newest war is the preparedness to carry through with whatever is started. All right principle argues in favour of the severance of diplo- matic relations with Russia or at
In peace-time we live by credit. At least strict embargo of the class of war we win by credit. If it is not trade which will feed the guns and quite true that "the last sovereign motors of the planes of the aggressors, wins" for "it is the moral element
But that definitely is not neutrality. that is finally decisive in war,"
However, the same could have been said in connection with
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THE PRICE
THE SINEWS OF WAR
as
Baron Von Freytag-Loringhoven, De- puty Chief of the German General Staff, prophetically wrote in 1917- yet the last; sovereign may become a symbol of the moral, as. it is a means of the physical victory.
If, as it is suggested, the price of an understanding with Russia was the When Sir John Simon on Tuesday acceptance of arrangements whereby announced the Government's plan for the Allies would consent to what providing the small as well as the Russia has already done and is doing large investor with the fullest op- in the Baltic countries, it is not sur- portunity of strengthening the sinews prising conversations
of war, he es- tablished a princi- ple which is bound
that
the
at
to
that
"GOTT STRAFE
ENGLAND"
to prove
to
his
Moscow came nothing, nor Moscow went shop- ping simultaneaus- ly in Berlin,
This was no occasion for · Great Britain and France
more
When I left Germany my ex perience was that there was no hatred: among the mass of the German people against England se there' was In 1914. I am sorry to say that my information is that that has been greatly changed in the last two months, thanks to the propaganda of Dr. Goebbels. Be that as it may, I find here in- England very little signs of hos- tility to Germane as distinct from Hitlerism and its principles. --Sir Nevile Henderson:
He the
essential
purpose. made known Government's
deliberate decision to finance the war by voluntary ef- fort. Credit is Q notoriously timid thing. Force it, and you lose it. The very spring of
its: nature is its Spontaneity."
This question of method is of pro- found • relevance
to bess
the
of
sue
the
to play the parts of Judases, it was a role for which previous perior- mances clearly de- monstrated Herr Hitler. was than fit, and the readiness with which he accepted it is, in the cir- cumstances, eloquent
the scheme. Let the German method- extreme.. Had the Allles and the contrast does really illus-. consented to pay the price trate both the immediate case and the which M. Stalin demanded, Germany ultimate issue be invoked as witness. would indeed have been encircled so The German Government has no con- far as east Europe is concerned with ception of government other than that a ring of hostility. That country even of slave-driving the tactic of what now is likely to find herself in the Prince Frederick, Charles wisely dis- same state before very many years, trusted have passed, for while Herr Hitler takidlater!!!? hás Velded to Russia before the press téri 20
in
of circumstances, and those circum confiscate a Stances of his own creation—it is un zen bank-ba
Rely that he can witness the rising stồn 3 tb the peri
and therreductibk" or that sex to the uthe Voldritare:
vanları" lake' without
lding, punishing Prent taskmas- ople arbitrarily on of every citi
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