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THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 20, 1940
MIRROR OF WORLD
OPINION
BRITISH RULE IN INDIA
"The Nazis are fond of accusing England of using repression in her in India. Empire, more particularly
In fact, England has provided India not only with social legislation equal to that in the most advanced coun- a tries in the world, but also with
In splendid industrial equipment. 1920, of the twelve persons chosen by the I.L.O. to represent the most im- in the portant industrial countries world, one was an Indian.
"Since 1922 India has had 28 million workers, apart from peasant pro- prietors, 141,000 marine workers, 20,- 000,000 industrial workers and a rail- than any in the way system better world, except that of the U.S.A. Whilst it is becoming one of the chief in- dustrial countries of the world, it is also developing legislation adapted to its economic development and design- ed to ameliorate the conditions of the worker.
"The Indian worker is no slave. He is the equal of any Englishman or Frenchman, so far as his rights, and
concerned. liberties are
Since 1926 there has been a Trades Unions Act, based on that of England, which de- fines the obligations and rights pres- Six Swingerscribed for the enrolment of workers.”
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cars and deported them, freezing and starving, to remote places where they are enslaved or starved.
It has gagged their mouths and
and daughters paralysed their brains. It has set sons against their fathers
de- against their mothers. It has
they had famed the God in whom faith. It has set spies upon them. It has beaten and robbed and impri- soned and tortured them. It has made testify against their grandmothers them from their graves and turned term of their race into a universal approbrium: dirty Jews; dirty Poles; dirty Czechs.
put themselves
Yes, and to prevent the spread of the anti-God, this, the anti-human, the anti-man, the people of the de- mocracies have taken upon themselves their own Moloch, under their own governments, accept- inhuman and ed an unfamiliar and dangerous discipline. But to be free. That is what Eventually to be free. this war is about.-N. Y. Herald Tri-
bune.
AMERICA'S POSITION
Technically the American neutrality problem will not be fundamentally changed by the spread of the Euro- pean war into the Scandinavian area. Sentimentally, changes will result. The United States is brought closer to participation in some form or other.
American sentiment overwhelming- contention that the ly supports the Scandinavian countries truly desired to remain neutral and that they should That have been permitted to do so. As far as Britain and France
sentiment is explained partly by the concerned, this is a people's war.
Now, since this is a fact, it is well large Scandinavian element in the to try to understand what the peo- American population. But quite in- ple, the people of the democracies who dependent of the Scandinavian po- stopped, are pulation, American general senti- insisted that Hitler be
fighting about.
ABOUT
They are not fighting or graphy, or colonies, imperial power, They are to prevent Germany strong. They are fighting to prevent the spead of some- thing that threa- tens,-not only their nations, but their individual existen- ces, as human be- ings. They. are fighting for human rights, individual human rights.
This is a war against the brutal and. criminal pow- govern- ers that ments have usurped
to themselves over
all human rights..
are
of principle, is ment, as a matter about geo- against forcing a war on a people who balances of want no part of it and had no part in not fighting starting it. from being
The official and popular assumption .in the United the States from start has been and still is that this war is not the of the business
people,
LUST FOR POWER
The lust for power on the part of the Nazi leaders, the reilance of the whole nation on force for the satisfaction of their ambi- tions, the sadistic inhumanities practised on the peoples whose fands they, have ravished and overrun, these things constitute an outrage upon the Indians' sense of decency, and upon thoir innate humanity which has bitten deep into the very soul of the In- dian people.--Lord- Zetland.
American
But
as
that it is European and not American. as it spreads, a bigger and bigger bloc of the American - people get a direct inter- est and everybody gets an increasing interest, indirect the question mark relative to the pos-
It is not capitalism, not socialism, sibility of America's ability to avoid not any of the old bogles. It is the being involved looms larger. As the developments become more puzzling brutal, naked, criminal power of the the dangers as to the lengths to which Increase corres- runaway state. And they have seen they may carry that power spreading, octopus-like; pondingly. they have seen people, individual human beings caught by its tentacles, disappear into its maw millions of war and its line of development well them.
The American attitude toward the
may prove a decisive factor in the U.S. political situation. The stock of It has divided families; it has broken President Roosevelt as a prospective into the family cash box; it has third term candidate moves upward as the combination of uncontrollable engaged in every criminal activity in murder, and arson, and infanticide. forces causes more persons to ask in It has bent men's backs to labour of increasingly serious tones whether it It has will be possible for the United States no conceivable human use. taken the food from their mouths in to avoid involvement. Right or wrong, order to put guns in their hands and this is a fact, even though the Roo- sevelt declared platform has been tell them to murder their brothers."
It has forn hundreds of thousands against getting in. This is explained of people, individual people, from at least in part by the fact that Presi their homes, from the houses in dent Roosevelt is known as a big navy which they live, and the soil on which President, an advocate of being ready they work, and thrown them adrift to meet situations which everybody penniless upon a cold and cowering hopes will world. It has herded them into box Bulletin.'
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ALLIED AIR FORCE NO PEACE BEFORE PLAN FOR
FOR TURKEY
PLANS FOR a vast Allied Air Force operating in the TURNS LEVER
Near East from Turkish bases were discussed in the recent military talks in Ankara, capital of Turkey.
If war flared up in this area, aggressors would find GIVES NAZIS planes. Such an air arm would be doubly important be- A FRIGHT
their way barred by 3,000 British, French and Turkish
cause of the great distances where no railways run.
The talks were conducted by Air to more than double it in Marshal Sir William Mitchell, coming year. mander of the British flying forces in the Near East; Gen. Jaunneaud, French Air Commander in the Eas- tern Mediterranean,
General and Kilsikh, head of the Turkish Air Force.
Intensive construction of new air bases for Turkey, is likely. Many went British and French instructors recently to train Turkish pilots. READY FOR ANYTHING Though the Turkish Air Force is now estimated at only 300 planes. French craft American, British and
are on the way, and the Turks hope
NAZIS LOSING PRESTIGE
the com-
French
With the British and Near East Forces, Allled alr strength in this area would reach, It la estimated, 3,000 planes. Air Marshal Mitchell, broadcasting recently from Cairo, declared' Britain and Egypt were "building a combined force, ready and equipped to meet any aggression in the Near East"-Asso- ciated Press.
NEXT WINTER
"I am not one of those who be- Heve that we can settle with tha Nazis before, next' winter," de- clared Captain Euan Wallace, the Minister of Transport, in London.
SWISS BAN A GERMAN POSTER
A mistake by an electricity power house worker has glvon German troops on the Western Front a shock.
The worker accidentally turned on the current to a village near the lines that has been thoroughly blacked-out since the beginning of the war.
Seeing the blaze of light from street
the and houses,
Germans, lamps thinking it the signal for a big attack,
The poster, a huge map that took "stood to" and had, as a French off- cer describes it, "a few very bad min-up practically the whole of the win- utes."
SPINSTERS PANIC CITY OF UNWED
Hundreds of spinsters, excited by Leap Year Day, ran wild in Aurora, Illinois. They seized scores of frigh- tened bachelors and flung them into the city gaol.
Spinster Alderman Helen Guyton, shouting. "This place stinks of liquor and cigars," flung ash trays through the windows of the City Hall and A neutral observer who has
sprayed the place with perfumé. the anti-bachelor Many bachelors decided that all this contributed articles to the
At night, with
not so funny, Başler Nachrichten on "Be- reign of terror still in full swing, un-strong-arm stuff was
cars and made a married men fled the city with spin- and they crowded hind the Scenes in Germany" | sters in pursuit.
dash from the city.
Spinsters, shouting wildly, pursued has summed up his impres- The male Mayor and City Council
them in high speed police cars.
sions.
of Aurora and
blamed for these
The conviction that a German vic-riotous scenes. tory would free the country from Nazi In what they intended to be digni- The fled tribute to unmarried women, rule is, he stated, widespread. victorious generals would not take they handed over to them complete long, it is thought, in establishing city rule for the day. their own regime and would probably sweep away a system so detestable to most of them.
To-night most of the council, were in hiding-flabbergasted and fright- ened. with the war-like manner in which the women conducted the day's duties.
On the other hand, many Germans are almost shocked to find themselves reflecting that only a speedy military In the morning flying squads of un- defeat of Germany "can save the married women stormed down-town Fatherland and the world from sink-business offices, ing into..anarchy.".
It is not an uncommon thing to find in letter-boxes propaganda leaflets which read: "Help us to establish a Democratic Monarchy." The writer thinks that the Hohen- zollerns, especially since some of the ex-Kaiser's sons embraced Nazism, have lost caste. He suggests that one of the former ducal houses might sup- ply a suitable Pretender.
In Roman Catholic circles there is a yearning for the old system of provin- cial State government.
mobbed bachelors
and dragged them into the streets.
Other flying squads raided public- houses, clubs, trains and buses, roping in more bachelors.
The prisoners were herded into vans and taken to the city gaol where, by order of pretty Leap Year Mayoress Audrey Kesel, aged twenty-five, they were locked in the cells and fed on bread and water and taunted by their female gaolers.
Welles
LAWYERS ARRESTED Wealthy prisoner Richard sang, "I wish I'd someone to love me.' Later, growing restless, he demand-
·
Three lawyers answered the call. found to be They were all three bachelors, so they were ordered to be imprisoned with Welles.
A distraught public is more and more inclined to blame the Nazi re-ed to see a lawyer. gime for the muddle ensuing from the frequent countermanding of orders which have turned out to be either impracticable or which fulfil no useful purpose. All this strips the regime of more and more of its prestige. "The respect for the Nazi leadership is dwindling."
Dozens of prisoners were con- demned in court by a spinster Judge as hopelessly insane, although some offered to kiss her.
9 BLOWN-UP - ESCAPE
A mine cought in a trawl blew the Lowestoft trawler Halifax out of the water-but the crew of nine escaped death. They were picked up by sister, ship, the Ipswich, and landed at an East Coast port.
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One of the crew told a reporter "The first we heard was a terrific explosion astern. The ship was lifted out of the water, and we were thrown about in all directions..
"Only one of us, G. White, the third hand, was slightly injured. Evidently the mine exploded by striking one of the heavy wooden doors of the trawl before it got near the ship. Otherwise there would have been very little chance for us.
"The engine room the steering gear put and the wheelhou If the skipper cha
'stead of on deak he would have been
hurt.
"
"The Ipswich came up in answer to our signals. After we had gone to her in our lifeboat she took the Halifax in tow. "After two hours, however, we saw was setting down, that the Halifax and we went back to her and got our spare clothes and belongings just be- fore she sank.”
The crew of twenty-five of the Glasgow steamer Clan Stuart (6,700 a- French trawler tons), rescued by after their ship had foundered in the Channel- following a collision with another vessel, have beon landed at a West Coast port. was wrecked, The Dutch steamer Eulota (6,238 out o aotion, tons) has sunk after an explosion. damaged that The crew of forty-two were picked up been inuide in- by a British warship (says Reuter).
to An angry crowd forced officials
the remove a German poster from window of a Swiss publicity firm in Zurich. "Take it away or we break every window in the building," oried the crowd. Police were powerless to calm the demonstrators.
dow, bore the slogan: "Germany, stronger than even in war, in national economy and export trade.”
The map showed Poland as part of Germany, and the frontier towards Rusala was marked "Russo-German zone of interest." Three aircraft and three submarines were shown travell- ing from Hamburg in the direction of England.
70-YEAR-OLD PATRIOT
ARRESTED
Josef Truhlarsch, 70, president of the Sokol, the largest patriotic athle- tic organisation in the Czech Protec- torate, was arrested by the, Gestapo in his bedroom at 7.30 a.m. He was ac- cused of having been associated, dur- ing the last war, with the erstwhile Czech secret opposition.
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