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"PEACE"
THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY, 12, 1940.
OFFENSIVE
Germany Afraid To Reveal Any Enthusiasm?
ALLIES WILL NOT ANOTHER
RENOUNCE AIMS AGAINST NAZIS
London, To-day.
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S "peace moves” 'have now been approved by Britain, France and Italy,
INCIDENT?
Baltimore, Yesterday.
Seven hundred pounds of mail was taken from a Trans- atlantic Clipper plane by the British authorities at Bermuda, It was reported on arrival of the machine here--Reuter.
as well as the neutral countries, and only in Gor- WAR WITH
many has there been no official comment.
In Amsterdam, the newspaper "Hetvolk" says Bri-LOUD
tain and France cannot renounce their demands on Germany.
If these demands were to be renounced, says the journal, we would surely have to fear for the fu- ture of civilisation, but there will be no pressure in this direction from the United States.
SPEAKERS
Paris, To-day.
The German troops on the western front apparently do not appreciate the efforts made by French troops to amuse them.
A
FRENCH VOTE OF CONFIDENCE
(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL")
Paris, To-day.
com-
Politicians widely ment on the fact that the Chamber adopted unani- mously full confidence in the Government until "a full victory is achieved.”
The motion was drafted and parti- cipated in by all leaders, including Blum, and the Socialist, M. Leon Rightist, M. Louis Marin,-Havos,
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AMERICAN COMMENT
(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL") Washington, To-day.
the unanimous Politicians deem vote in the French Chamber express- On the contrary, the disarmament | Church, in the future re-establishment
communiqueing confidence in Government and economic stipulations which Pre-of international order, was emphasis-
Command High
achievement of full victory
of opinion in sident Roosevelt has suggested to thejed in comments yesterday on the an-
of the anniversary issued in Berlin yesterday sternly re-
valuable indication
of the departure neutrals would have no point if he nual celebrations expected the great Powers to cling to of the signature of the Lateran Trea- buked the French, as follows:-
"Renewed enemy attacks through France on the eve ty which ended the dispute between
including musical Mr. Sumner Welles, United States As- autarchy and the arms race.
the Italian State loud-speakers, Vatican and com- the
sistant Secretary of State, to Europe Several neutral newspapers ment on the fact that the U.S. Under-which is being celebrated throughout items, took place at the front.
"As the contents were rude and into investigate the political atmosphere. The vote is also considered as an- were interrupted by Secretary of State will not visit Rus- the country as one of the most impor-
tant events in the country's history. sulting they
which the other indication of the determination to fire,
Nazi sia or Finland.-Reuter.
Editorials, inter alla, emphasise that machine-gun
ex- of the Allies to suppress the the French replied; the resulting the exchange of visits between King and the Pope during the past change of fire completely drowned the peril as a prerequisite to any peace
that loud-speakers." year are an acknowledgment Catholicism and Fascism are deter- of mined to prevent the destruction civilisation.-Reuter.
Three Different Explanations Offered (SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL")
Washington, To-day.
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Three different explanations given by political observers for Mr. Sumner Welles' trip to Europe.
Administration's con- Firstly, the viction that a military solution of the European war was impossible without terrible human sacrifice which would
plunge the whole continent into chaos and causing incalculable repercussions the world over, hence the advisability of neutral conversations which might avoid such a calamity;
Facts Realised In Washington
Washington, To-day, Well-informed quarters believe that official circles in Washington appre- ciate that any attempt to establish a sound and stable international policy would be likely to prove impossible while the Hitler ́regime-remains.
Peace and economic sanity in the post-war period was emphasised by the objectives Mr. Cordell Hull as the
the being sought in talks between United States and other neutrals and
Secondly, Mr. Roosevelt has re- Information ceived confidential from Germany describing hopelessness of the economic and which are politica! situation rendering the Nazi leaders des- porate;
as an- Thirdly, Mr. Roosevelt, nounced, merely wished to obtain the information on all aspects of general European situation, particu-
Havas. larly Germany.
Nazi Press Not Allowed To Publish Story
Reuter.
plan-Havas.
COMMUNIST "HOPE" PUT INTO COLD STORAGE?
Washington, To-day,
“MORE THAN 20 YEARS ago, when most of you were young children, I had the utmost sympathy for the Russian people," said President Roosevelt in a speech yesterday afternoon from the steps of the White House to mem- bers of the American Youth Citizenship Institute.
in the Sumner Welles visit to Europe. "In the early days of Communism," he went on, “I recog-
Mr. Cordell Hull said that the United States was doing every- the thing possible to keep alive basic Ideas of formulas and pro- grammes for stable relations after the war has ended.
The keystones were curtailment of armaments, and the adoption by all nations of sound liberal commercial policies.
Those objectives were necessary if there was to be economic sanity after the war instead of autarchy to Bri-totalitarianism.-Reuter.
Amsterdam, To-day. The German Press has not yet men- tioned the impending visit tain, France, Italy and Germany Mr. Sumner Welles, U.S. Under-Secre~ tary of State.
It har The only mantion of been a brief and colourless state. ment in the official news agency's foreign service.
of
The first reaction of neutral cor- respondents reported from Berlin was more favourable than might
have
THE FABLES CARRY ON
and
London, To-day.
in
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nised that many of the leaders of Russia were bringing education, better health, and better opportunity to mil- lions who had been kept in ignorance and serfdom un- der the Imperial regime.
of essentially the same, and it will "I disliked the regimentation
the indis- your task when I am gone from the Communism. I abhorred criminate killing of thousands of in-scene to carry on the fight for a con-- nocent victims. I heartily deprecated tinuance of Liberal Government and the banishment of religion, but I knew the improvement of its methods and that some day Russia would return to the effectiveness of its work. religion because four or five thousand years of recorded history have proved that mankind has always believed in God, despite many abortive attempts to exile God.
"Above all, we must help those who for have proved that they will try ever- lastingly to make things better the people of our nation with each of the succeeding years.
"Keep your Heals high, keep both "), with many of you, hoped that Russia would work out her own feet on the ground, and be everlast- problems and that her, Government |ingly happy.-Reuter.
would eventually become a ́peace- loving, popular Government with a free ballot and which would not in- terfere with the integrity of neighbours.
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IN COLD STORAGE "That hope to-day is either shat-
better day.
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An exaggerated version of a story published in a New York paper on been expected, but this was quickly February @ about damage to the Forth followed by a retreat into a tight-Bridge and British war vessels lipped reserve, and it appears as if the early days of the war, has been the Nazis had been betrayed into wel- spread by German propaganda intered or held in storage against some coming the possible chance of peace other countries.
The facts are that the Forth Bridge more warmly than they cared to show.
Neutral observers in Berlin
are has never been damaged, the state- under the impression that the Nazis ment that Hood, Nelson, Repulse and are anxious to avoid showing prema-Warspite have been damaged by enemy ture enthusiason, lest it should be in action is false, the atment that Reuter. Scapa Flow Is dored, is terpreted as a sign of weakness and, appearances, judging from outward Mr. Sumner, Welles is likely to have a very polite but by no means effusive reception in Germany. Reuter,
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