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THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 27, 1939
MIRROR OF WORLD OPINION
MOSCOW'S PATH
OF PEACE
M. Molotoff, the Soviet Premier and
SIMPLE RULES OF RIGHT
Each can discern right and wrong
cross-
Foreign Commissar, is, however un- as they apply to one person and his His relationship to humanity. From the wittingly, a first-rate humorist. review yesterday of the international tangled snarl of international situation in Moscow is full of those purposes and enmities there come in- startling paradoxes in which Mr. Ber- creasing indications that humanity is nard Shaw has hitherto been regard- more and more conscious of the fact ed as the past-master. For instance, that the plain ABC rules of right and he upbraids this country and France wrong must govern nations as well as in good round terms for seeking to men, that justice among the nations extend their influence in order to es- must be patiently built upon a basis cape from the bankruptcy of the ca- of enforced law and order.
More individuals see and hold to this pitalist world. He then contrasts "this imperialist policy" with "the policy of plain, simple truth to-day than ever national and interna-
peace" of the Soviet Union; and at before. And once
claims as one of the greater tional action will follow where their "Christian Science triumphs of that policy of peace the thought leads. annexation of Eastern Poland, It Monitor." must be admitted that imperialism
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md capitalism have nothing to show RATIONING UNREQUIRED comparable with that example of
what M. Molotoff calls "proletarian in- It can now be said that there will ternationalism"; but the achievement be no rationing of food at least be- is not П very edifying example of fore the New Year. There is as yet "the policy of peace," so
called no substantial case for an irksome re-
London "Daily Telegraph."
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OUR WAR AIMS
The War Alms of the British people are their Peace Aims.
We seek to build a world from which the economic and political causes, of conflict will be uprooted.
striction on the freedom of traders and consumers alike which might be in- does terpreted as a weakness which not in fact exist. A temporary short- age of butter and bacon has certainly occurred; but for the rest, the stocks in hand and in prospect give assur- ance of ample supplies for all classes. What deficiencies have shown them-
We seek to effect settlement of all selves have been duc, in the main, not conflicts—including the present con- to shortage of supplies, but to imper- Alict-on the basis of negotiation and fection in the mcahinery of distribu- tion, which should be quite easy of third party judgment.
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We seek to guarantee to all peoples rectification by other means.~London within the orbit of the new and bet- "Daily Telegraph."
ter European system freedom in their choice of government and the peace- ful ways of life.
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CURRENTS IN GERMANY
the
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These peace terms guarantee German nation against the cruel folly
is happening behind of another Versailles. They are avail- frowning facade which Nazi Germany able to the German people now on two presents to the outside world? conditions-the essential conditions of Munich bomb explosion, whatever its good faith; that the German Army origin, was a sign that all is not well gets out of Poland and the Nazi yoke within the Third Reich; and there is lifted from the neck of Czechoslo- have been other symptoms, including vakio.
the mysterious death of General von It is the British Government's duty Fritsch, and the reported arrest of to state these peace terms now. "Rey-- Field Marshal von Blomberg, that Ger-- nolds News," London.
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DESIGNS ON
SWEDEN ?
The possibility of common Russian and German action in Sweden been freely canvassed for some months stress of external
past and the desire
of both countries to secure command of the rich natural rescources of the nation has become all the more in- tensified since hostilities have broken out. The suggestion that they would Co- operate in the seizure has to undergo some mo-
dification in view
mans are not one big happy family under Hitler. It will be sufficient for the foes of Nazidom to note such indi- cations of disharmony, without exag- gerating their present significance. The are likely to become flaws of to-day has the fissures of to-morrow under the Such re- defeats.
verses, if and when they occur, may also give reality to the cur- rent talk of a monarchist revival
A REPLY
"However much we may “ap” pear to be absorbed at present in pure defence against ale attack, and however loth we may be to begin on bombing, if it should start we and our Allles could ra- In fact, ply to some purpose.. we're better placed for this par ticular brutal form of warfare than the Germans ́are.”—Major- General Bir Ernest Swinton.
in Gërmillany/ It is? obviously"pre- mature to speak of a “compalgma" In Prussia "for the re- turn of the Ho- henzollerns, or of a separatist› "move- ment" in. Bavaria. These are pos- future rather than
of the fact that Russian co-oper- sibilities of the ation in Poland was along lines which actualities of the present. The 'Ges- ensured that he should receive her tapo would be alert to suppress any full share of the spoils without hay- such open manifestations of disloyal- ing to await Herr Hitler's fulfilment of ty to the regime, even if yearnings for his pledge in that connection,-M: a Hohenzollern restoration should be Stalin apparently realizes that the day latent in the higher" circles of the of miracles is past. On the other hand, Army. It is a measure of the detesta- as evidencing the supreme trust which tion felt for the Nazi'system, and per- Herr Hitler has in M. Stalin, it is haps of the fear of a Bolshevist trend suggested that German co-operation in Germany' at a later stage, that a in Sweden would be for the purpose monarchist revival would probably be of seeing that the Soviet did not grab regarded with benevolent interest by the fron and steel supplies for herself. the Allies. Hitler's National Socialist Consequently should these two rulers Germany is seen as a greater menace actually prepare to carry out their al- to the stability and peace of Europe see even than” the “Imperialist “Gërmany leged intentions the world may them in a race for the Swedish mines, which they overthrew 21 years ago. It with the handicap very much in favour is unlikely, "however,"to prove as tough of the Joviet. The world may yet' see in resistance. The foundations of the these two bandits quar Elling over the "House, That Hitler Büllt were not division of the spoils, and that would securely laid, and the edifice already bë an “edifying and not unamusing shows signs of Internal weakness.--- spectacle. North China Daily News." "Sydney Morning Herald.”
THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 27, 1939