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MARCH 21, 1940
MIRROR OF WORLD
OPINION
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LIFE OF PARLIAMENT In November Parliament, having reached the end of its statutory ex- fstence, will be dissolved and the
an unexpected kind. "Touch wodd!" cried Miss Wilkinson at one country will be in the throes of a
point. "I very rarely like to be any general election, unless. a bill to prolong the life of the present legis considerable distance from a piece of lature is adopted., That there will wood," he replied, and the feeling is be a strong feeling in the country as salutary as it is general. that such a bill' is desirable at this are differences in the first months of time goes without saying. In addi- the two wars. There had been more tlon to being in the midst of a great open fighting-Coronel, the Falklands, war, the British nation is in an un- and the Dogger Bank, we had lost usal state of flux, many of the in- several thousand more lives in the habitants of the larger cities. having Navy. But in 1915 we were still al- been evacuated to the country, leav- lowing Germany to import food, still ing boroughs which were formerly permitting neutrals large voting centres partially denud ed of people, and crowding other and smaller cities with unaccustomed
There were good reasons why that population. The problem presented by this wartime phenomenon is not screw had not been turned. Germany not had only threatened. to break, a insurmountable, but will call for great deal of organization for its broken, the rules of sea warfare. This time illegality has been her policy satisfactory solution, since registers.
from the first days and the breach of of voters will have been disorganized
in- law, the sinking at sight, the machine- in all parts, and the customary dividual difficulties of different areas gunning, and the bombs have taken hundreds of neutral lives. This will have been modified or accentuat-. ed, according as the population has slaughter of the innocent, through 'contempt 'of, 'rules made to prevent it, decreased or increased. In addition: there is the still undiminished force causes too little astonishment in the of the old adage about changing outside world. Mr. Churchill rightly horses in mid-stream. It is usual for protested that it was "one of the most
extraordinary things we have a general election to unleash pas- sions which are never pleasant at known" that German brutalities were the best of times, and to be the occa- coming to be accepted as though to-day conditions," Mr. Churchill great deal of dirty linen. There can be little doubt that at a period when drove home his argument, particular- the whole energies of the country ly to the neutrals, the chief suffer- ers. It was not for Germany to preach should be concentrated on winning the war, such political ebullitions will to them "the strictest interpretation of the international code she has torn be wasteful. This does not mean,
to pieces." It is hard for us to allow Andrews Sisters.of course, that there should be no
from change in the personnel of the Gov. Germany to draw advantages ernment at present in power until our holding to the law while she di-
rects anarchy in the North Sea: after the war, has ended. It may well be preferable that changes should the be made as conditions alter in progress of the fighting, or it may
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In the interpretation of the rules and conventions affecting neutrals humanity rather than legal pedan- try must be our guide. This is a far-reaching statement; our right to make it is given by our re- cord of never designedly taking neu- tral life. There was one great change from the 1915 speech, for in the three months before it was made only fif- teen of our ships had been lost to the submarines. Germany, of course, had only about twenty of them when she Mr. Churchill began the last war. said that the balance of our present losses and gains was a loss of 200,000 tons, and compared this with the total loss of 450,000 tons in April, 1917. It should, however, be remem- bered that few German ships remain A quarter of a century ago, in to be captured, while our losses will February, 1915, Mr. Churchill intro- continue.
national basis of the Government and receive into the inner circles of the nation some of those who are now in opposition. These points have doubtless been considered by the Government and, should action necessary, it will certainly be taken. Plain commonsense. dictates, how- ever, a cautious policy in this con- nection until there has been an out- come one way or the other from the efforts being made to bring about an honourable peace.
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THE NAVY
duced :the first Navy-Estimates of the war. The other day, in his old place, he did it once again. The two} speeches make an Interesting com- parison. As....the rosy-viewed orator he perhaps did bet- ter the first time, for the House of to-day has a great-
TOTAL WAR
`In a'confllët of 'this 'uñparall- ed intensity, while the financial functions of "the Chancellar of the Exchequer are more vital and more onerous than ever be. fore, we require a Minister to co-ordinate our total organisation on the economic side just as we have a Minister to co-ordinate the fighting policies o of the arm- od Services. We all remember how the latter appointment was er liking for plain-resisted until the demand could facts, and, if any-
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no longer be withstood. Noga- tive logic is worse than useless
Neither the full German effort, nor our own reply, is yet in being. Ger- many had lost more than half her total of about seventy submarines by the end of the year, and 'Mr. Chur- chill estimated that at that time hardly more than ten could have been at sea at one time. Now ín April, 1917,75 German
thingne years In these great, hätters’Búrke ro- «Bubmarines were
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from 1915 to 1918 plled that though we cannot per- calve the exact moment when were an unequall-night changes into day, the dif-
ference between light and dark- ness is, on the whole, tolerably distinguishable.-J. L.' Garvin.
out, and '74 again in September. In the November of that year she had 178 submarines · ^avail-- able and 207 build-
our
ed school for cau- tious statement. Thus, when he was. praising the ac- tion of the Dogger Bank in 1915, Mr. ing. It cannot be supposed that she Churchill remarked that "it had been will do. less, this time or that supposed that the "Germans possess own difficulties will not be immense- ed a sort of supper-efficiency in gun-ly increased before we beat her. Op- nery" which they had failed to show, timism is a fatal thing, but, at least Yet part at least of what had been for the moment, we seem to know claimed for German, gunnery was to how to check the submarine. There be proved true at Jutland. To do the was a time in those terrible days be- younger Mr. Churchill justice the Op- fore when, as the sinkings steadily position was as sanguine. Of the mounted up, we had not the least German threat to wage unrestricted idea. Now, as the submarines submarine warfare Mr. Bonar Law launched to accumulate for the sum could say he "thought that if it could mer onslaught, our own yards have been made effectively it would turning out the new small craft for have been made Before." 1917 prov- convoy - work which - have ↑ proved ed him wrong. There were dangers themselves able to counter the past in that conidence, and
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