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THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 10, 1940
MIRROR OF WORLD
OPINION
OUR WAR AIM
The defeat we have to inflict, as
- LOOKING INTO 1940
It's a fairly safe wager that 1940 Mr. Chamberlain well said, is not will see the end of the past year's merely the overthrow of the military War No. 1. Many factors support power of Hitlerism, but the destruc- that theory. The chlef factor argu- tion of the brutal cult of treachery ing to the contrary is the possibility and aggression and torture of which that War No. 1 may join hands with Hitler is the prophet. Not till Ger- War No. 2 to pool the major troubles many has learnt to abandon it can of the Western World. But optimis- she find any way to peace. When tic is he who can confidently predict she is prepared to abide by pledges the end of the combined Communist and respect the rights of others and and Nazi menaces this year.-"Manila obey the common law of civilisation Bulletin."
a peace may be made which will establish Д new and prosperous Europe. "Daily Telegraph,' London,
LOOKING BACK
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HUMANITY MUST MAKE A CHOICE
Speaking at he annual meeting of the Canadian Bar Association, Lord Halifax claims credit for the Maitre Jacques Charpentier of Paris, "Judgment and instinct” shown by representative of the Bar of France, our Government last summer in re- said something to the assembled law- fusing terms that, as we now know, yers that carries a tremendous moral meant that Stalin would have bar gained with us for the control of the Baltic States, instead of with Hitler. On those terms an agreement was indeed impossible.
Fas- set
for all of us. The world, he said, is divided into two camps-one of which believes in the Christian God, not. On the one the other does hand are the isms-Nazi-ism, But that is not say that, in the cism, Communism, all of which Litvinov days and earlier, every the State above religion; on the other the effort should not have been made to hand is Christianity, which sets cultivate friendly relations with Rus- man above the State or the race, and sia in the hope of forming a de- whose precepts are the basis of de- mocratic front against, the "aggres- mocracy and human freedom.-"Mon- Borg."
treal Star."
sum-
It was indeed too late last mer. Who can say whether it would have been too late at the time of Munich, when Russia was deliberate- . ly cold-shouldered?—“Daily Mirror," London.
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VOICE OF FRANCE
M. Daladier spoke for a people that is better known than, our own for its ability to see facts clearly even when they are unpleasant, and he did not pretend that this war will long go on as it is being conducted now. Germany may yet "let loose all her Lothian, forces of destruction." For that last United bolt, a sign of desperation like the States, that Germany would launch present illegalities at sea, France, like
AS GOOD A GUESS
Lord The prediction of British Ambassador to the
air,
is
a terrific attack by land,
and ourselves, is prepared. M. Daladier's sea, using every weapon in her ar- tribute to the French forces has been moury, in the early spring, is pro- earned by deeds-the astonishing vic- bably just as good a guess as any in tory of the nine French fighters this entirely -strange, new——war.-—A-;
"anTM example-which have aroused- successful blow against Britain's sea- great admiration in this country. The power is, to all intents, and purposes, history of France itself is enough to the only way to an early German vic- give her allies confidence and pride, tory, and a quick victory is just as and we can be thankful, as we read imperative now for Germany as It the strong and generous words of was when hostilities first commenc- her Prime Minister, that we have ed, despite Herr Hitler's boast that entered upon what may be the great- he was prepared to fight on for five est struggle of our national existence years if
necessary."North China with France, her intelligence, her Daily News," Shanghai.
unrivalled industry and
military strength wholly at our side.-"Man- chester Guardian."
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Mine warfare and mind raids like
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THE NEXT PHASE?
HOUR NOT YET
COME
that Russia is making on Finland The question which everyone must are carrying into every little capital be asking now is the extent to which in Europe a renew- ed appreciation of collective security. This war has proved more clear- ly than ever that there is little secu- rity even in neu- trality. Indeed, neutral trade, ap- pears to be the ma- jor theater
of
"The hour has not yet come to talk of our aime and conditions
of peace. Our only object at present is to win the war."-
·Edouard Daladier.
the war will spread during the com- ing year. That it will spread is gen- erally taken for granted. If Soviet Russia succeeds in vanquishing Fin- land and then turns her attentions to the Balkans in more decisive fashion,
blockade warfare. And neutrals Turkey will almost certainly move to like the Dutch -are - suffering more halt the Russian advance. With than some belligerents,
Turkey Warring against Russia, the The little Baltic republics have al- mutual assistance pact between the ready felt the claws of the Soviet Allies and Turkey will be implement- Bear and know what happens when ed. Soviet Russia will then have been there is no law but violence or drawn into the war and, in all pro- threat of violence. In the Balkans bability, will become the active ally the lesson has not been missed. Even of Nazi Germany. It requires little Hungary, which naturally had reser- imagination to see that in such -a vations about League set up by the situation continued Italian-neutrality peace which
embered her, has would be virtually impossible. Mus- nowɛ sɛne
for collective se- solini would have little alternative but
of 1 Austria, to join
camp. The Rome- and Poland
Duce still hopes with the
Pa
Pa
THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 10, 1940