THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 15, 1940
LONDON ANALYSES THE GOEBBELS PROPAGANDA
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LONDON, TO-DAY.
Albury, Supreme Court,
THE APPROVAL WITH WHICH THE ONEROUS PEACE IMPOSED ON FINLAND BY THE SOVIET HAS BEEN GREETED IN NAZI CIRCLES OC- CASIONS NO SURPRISE IN LONDON.
The close similarity of the technique to that adopted by the Nazi regime in its aggressions upon other Demo- cracies is in fact the feature of the peace which causes chief anxiety among Finland's British friends and admirers.
The jubilation with which Berlin is against Germany.
heralding the settlement as a defeat "This school finds its thought echo- for the Allies is not so easy to under-ed in neutral comment. stand.
It is only too well recognised that in the qualified success of Russia's aggression against a peaceful little State a serious defeat has been sus-
tained by those standards of decency, principles of law and ideals of neigh bourliness in international relations which all civilised States uphold.
For these the Allies have been compelled to take up arms and it is remarked
if in the by some that, mind of Dr. Goebbels these standards and principles are so closely identi- filed with the fortunes of Allied arms that Nazi propaganda finds it impos- sible to distinguish between a defeat for the one and a defeat for the other it is not, perhaps, for the Allies to complain.
That is a matter in which the Nazia themselves may be allowed to be the best judges and no one here is likely to dispute the ver- dict implicit in their reaction to the latest triumph of force and ruthlessness.
AUDACIOUS MEASURE But on no other basis of calculation can observers here understand how the Germans see a reverse for the Allies in the restoration of peace to stricken Finland.
NEW YORK VIEW
For example, the "New York Daily News" writes of the Finnish peace: "Is it a blow to the Allies? We think not. Suppose Finland had called on France and Britain.
The Allied fighting front would and have become greatly extended the strategic advantage would have lain' with Germany." /
Another
the consideration which Nazis are conveniently neglecting in their public rejoicings thought it must loom large in their private reflections, but which is by no means overlooked by onlookers here, has not escaped the notice of the "New York Times" which observes: "It cannot be comfortable for Germany to see Russia extending.. her naval and military control of the Eastern Baltic. Ribbentrop can hard- ly boast about the growth of German prestige in consequence of the Finnish- Russian peace."
First, for three months
Finland
Germany
DUTCH ANALYSIS Exactly the same point is made by the another neutral newspaper "Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Couran-" the cessation of hostilities in leaves the military position in the war against Germany as it was before the The responsibility for the frustra-Russian invasion began with two im- tion of the Finnish people's memor-portant differences. able fight for their liberties lies else- where than in London and Paris.
has seen drained off for the. Finnish "The offer of Allied assistance was campaign the stores of petrol and other given in an effort to avert that cruel supplies which she had hoped to re- miscarriage of an historic heroic receive herself and then she sees Rus- sistance. The offer was, in the view sia so disorganised by the unexpect of many authorities on strategy, an ed effort of the Finnish campaign as audacious measure and its imple-to postpone for many more months the mentation was no more likely to have prospects of the Soviets being able to been an asset for the Allies than a deliver what Germany requires. liability in the prosecution of the war
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