THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 18, 1940
BASIC CAUSES OF THE WAR
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LONDON, TO-DAY. SPEAKING IN LONDON YESTERDAY ON “THE TWO IMPERIALISMS,” MR. ANTHONY EDEN OPEN- ED BY SAYING: “THIS WAR IS NOT A CLASH BETWEEN RIVAL DYNASTIES; ITS BASIC CAUSES ARE NOT ECONOMIC NOR IS IT EVEN A STRUGGLE TO DECIDE THE BALANCE OF POWER.
Nazidom's record of broken faith has established long since that the Nazi Government is not negotiable. But even this is not the whole and heart of the pro- blem.
The German Government's conception of the world's fu- ture is not compatible with ours nor is there room for both.
one race
For Nazism, humanity consists of that rules the German race - and a number of other races all and always inferior..
Unhappy Truth
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Illustrating what he described "this unhappy truth," Mr. Eden read from an official Nazi announcement We are convinced, on the other published in a captured Polish city hand, there can be no hope for man-which document concluded: "Poles kind unless peoples, small as well as who
have not yet grasped they great, are free to develop their own
the are
conquered while we civilisations in security and peace.
are the
will not conquerors and comply with the above decrees, will be punished with all the severity of the law."
It is therefore fundamentals that
are at stake. No more vital issues have ever been fought out in any war in history."
Nazi Ideal
Giving another illustration, Mr. Eden reminded his listeners that while the German minority in Czecho-Slova- Mr. Eden proceeded to a compari-kia had use of their own schools and son of the German and British con- ceptions of imperialism.
The Nazi ideal, he said, was based on subjection and repression and he cited the type of world peace en visaged by Hitler in "Mein Kampf” as being one "that will be guaranteed by the triumphant sword of a people endowed with the power to master the world."
In contradistinction to this senti-
recalled ment Mr. Eden
the 1926 Imperial Conference resolution which declared of the British Commonwealth į "free institutions are its lifeblood, free co-operation its instrument.”
While nations with divergent in- ternal systems, he continued, could live together provided conceptions of international conduct were approxi- mately the same, there was no room for the practice of two fundan entally antagonistic conceptions of world or der, and Mr. Eden added: "Either the German doctrine of submission or our doctrine of equality must prevail"
language and a great German uni- versity flourished in Prague, to-day in the whole country the Czech lan- the only guage is suppressed and university surviving is German.
Mr. Eden then turned to the work- British Commonwealth ings of the
the and pointed out the fallacy of
Bri- often repeated statement that tain owned a quarter of the world.
No part of the Empire owned any other part, he continued. Britain no more ruled over Canada than Canada over Britain or Australia over New Zealand or Britain over either.
The equality of each and all of the self-governing Dominions was plete and absolute.
com-
to
Conflict Of Worlds Speaking of the Colonial Empire, Mr. Eden said Britain subscribed
the the principles of Article 22 of League of Nations Covenant and re- garded government of the colonies as, a trust, and he said: "In some neutral countries which are not at all en- amoured of our enemy the belief per- sists that this is merely a war of in- terests, one imperialism against an other imperialism, one profiteer Mr. Eden warned his listen- against another profiteer, with profit
its only basis and 23 a
only motive,
In Practice
At the present moment, he said, both systems could be seen in prac- tice.
regard Hitler distinct from
the
ers not to phenomenon German nation. He was a direct ex pression of a great part it and the inheritor ⚫ earlier exponents of the German f h in brute force.
Mr. Eden pointed out that the Ger- man aggressive war had not been for economic gain but aimed to make the world yield to German authority.
Mr. Eden asked his audience not to underestimate the conviction this idea held, saying: "The Nazis believe it is for the good of Germany that the world be ruled by the Nazis and what is good for the German must be good enough for the world. If others cannot understand this crude and simple proposition they must be beaten until they do."
self-interest its
No. Many wars have been fought in the past on that basis and that motive but this is not one of them. This is much more than a conflict of interests. It is a conflict of worlds. The whole story of civilisation walts upon its issue."-British Wireless.
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