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ENTHE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 19, 1940
MIRROR OF WORLD
OPINION
THE ANTI-WAR VOTE
REVOLUTIONARY
Whatever the French many choose Politically change is in the air. The to do there are excellent reasons for "House of Commons, with its strong not trying to suppress
the British Conservative majority, has suddenly Communist party. Elections like ceased to be ruled by party feeling. It Silvertown and Stretford are not the has come to life as an active trustee of least. And the same thing holds of the nation, neither sparing triticism. the Fascists. Give them rope, let of what is faulty nor withholding sup- them appeal with all their ability to port from what is good. The whole- the electorate; the result is quite safe. some innovation by which-selected The publicity value of such defeats is "members of the Labour Opposition immense. When the ablest figure in have independent access to Govern- British Communism, standing in a ment Departments and are entitled to confidential Information, wholly working-class constituency, receive spending lavishly on all electioneering strengthens public confidence that aids,cannot raise more than 986 nothing is being done or will be done votes in a poll of over 15,000, even of which the nation's elected repre- Moscow must sit up and take notice. sentatives would not approve. The still more derisory 151 votes of · More important still is the change the Fascist may help to bring home in political thought about the future. by to Berlin what a miserable following Neither the crushing of Poland Sir Oswald Mosley can muster. Some Germany and Russia, nor naval losses people grumble that we tolerate these like the sinking of the aircraft carrier "freak" by-elections in the war. They Courageous, nor uncertainty about are a nuisance to the older parties the course the war may take has af- and as the register grows staler and fected the deepening and widening the removals, enlistments, and shifts conviction that peace, when it comes, of population greater they will become must bring fundamental international an even bigger nuisance. But they change.
are. none the less a valuable safety-" Some of the ablest British, French, valve and barometer of the state of and German minds are already at public opinion. The first contested work on this: problém which, in es- of by-election was at Clackmannan and sence, transcends any statement East Stirling in October; a pure paci- "war aims" and bears upon the future of civilization itself. So we are not, fist polled against Labour 21⁄4 per cent of the electorate. The second as an American preacher once said, was at Stretford, where, against a "stumbling backward into the future Conservative, an I.L.P. pacifist polled with our eyes on the past." We are nearly 6 per cent and a Communist looking forward into the future with only 2 per cent. In the third by our backs turned to the past, save in election, Central Southwark, against so far as the lessons of the past may Labour a "stop the war" man polled teach us what to avoid.
And this, in itself, is' an almost re- 41⁄2 per cent and an eccentric 4 per
H. Wickham cent. In Silvertown the Communist volutionary change. and Fascist together can raise only a Steed. little thari: 21⁄2 per cent.. These are significant figures which show what a FENCING WITH TREATIES tiny fraction of the population is ready- to vote against the war and, particu-- larly, how very few are ready to vote Communist.
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If the United States continues its oppression" of Japan, the Japanese
Indeed, the experience Government may abrogate the Nine- is that the presence of the Communist Power Treaty. This possibility was
is the best means of whipping up a voiced in a session of the Japanese. good" vote on the other side. "Man Parliament the other day. Americans.
chester Guardians."
NATIVE POPULATIONS
will take note of it.
But they will ask by what stretch of language their increasing reluctance to abet Japanese oppression of China] can be described as oppression of `Ja- pan. "Abrogation of the Nine-Power Treaty is obviously suggested as
the possible reprisal by Japan for “Knowledge of the Nazi, war aims United States abrogation of the should do much to deter the gentle- American-Japanese trade treaty of men who are urging the Allies to call 1911. This legal act by the United off the war and to make whatever temporary peace is possible with the German war lords. Not a few of these have suggested a transfer to the Reich of the form- er Colonies as be- ing the most suit- able peace offer- ing.
MAXIMUM POWER
We should think of nothing, In the first place, but how to bring our maximum power to bear upon the enemy without avold- ablo delay. We have to meet the enemy's total organisation by our own. We should; subordinate everything to that truth. ⠀⠀⠀ The whole sequel would have been “It is significant | better-the whole world would' of the subtlety of have been happler to-day-had we succeeded in halving the dúr. Nazi propaganda that a number of ation of the last confilct by the great Gallipoli plan, L. Gar- people should have
-vin." allowed themselves to be bamboozled into a belief that
States
an act which has not-yet resulted even in removing Japan from the list of most-favoured na- tions is doubtless the "oppression" to ́which the Japanese G. o v ern.. ment's spokesmen obviously refer. Abrogation by Ja- pan of the Nine- Power Treaty would also be le- gal. What Ameri- cans are objecting to is the illegal ab- rogation of that treaty which has the Treaty of Versailles was an occurred in Japan's violation of it.. instrument of injustice, and that the The possibility of abrogation to-day- Germans had been deliberately misled contains chiefly a promise of clarifica- into the Armistice on the strength of tion. Of course it does suggest that the Fourteen Points. Those who ad- American rights and safety in China vocate a transfer of Colonial popula- might be further jeopardized by acts tions in yet another attempt to ap- of the Japanese military, just as Ja- pease Germany would do well to con-panese sources of supplies might ac sider the injustice they do to Colonial tually be closed or curtalled through economic acts by the United States, peoples, whose opinion as expressed. in African papers; is decidedly against now that the 1911 treaty is tóft the German colonial administration,
books But this type of reprisal- and Ľ"With acknowledge of the conduct counter reprisal is not made more or the present Nazi teaders, confirmed less likely by the mere existence of often by personal experience of Ger- a treaty which one party has not, and nan misrule in the former Colonies, in effect says it will not, honour in
I not surpri
at the Native po-practice. We are looking on at a pulations should:
game of diplomatic fencing, in which the adve aries thrust and parry with chment scrolls."Christian Science "Monitor."
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THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 19, 1940