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THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 6, 1940
Hitler Has Blundered
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which | unprepared. Admirably unprepared, we should say if we lived in a world which was civilised.
There is one spectacle by
"as an the men who use war strument of national policy" (to quote: the, conveniently-forgotten Kel- logg-Brland Peace Pact). should al- ways be haunted-the spectacle of refugees fleeing from a war which is none of their making:
I first came across that spectacle in the spring of 1920, when earlier Reichswehr leaders broke their pledge not to advance beyond à certain line in the Ruhr district in the process, of "mopping up" the workers who had fought for the German Republic against the earliest of the many reac- tionary attempts to overthrow it.
Since that time, at depressingly short intervals, I have seen pathetic men prócessions of ordinary decent and women, with blankets, mattresses, other humble saucepans and their necessities piled on to a handcart or perambulator, trudging along, the weary and bewildered, among guns and the lorries and the march- ing armies.
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And still here at home, I heard the argument that it wasn't really our business. As each new people became the victims of aggression. evidence against it was produced and consciences were silenced The Chin- ese? They were too far away, and they had not always treated us and the other white men who sought to run, their country for them with de- ference and respect.
The Abyssinians?
were They Africans and the Italians were Europeans who were only doing what we had done in the past.
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But is this not a challenge to every- one who has ever seen beyond this present phase of economic and social maladjustment in which timidity and greed combine to produce bul- lies and dictators? By our own folly we allowed occasions to pass. when we could have put a stop to aggres- sion with the enthusiastic support of the finest elements in every country. We began the war in defence of
did country whose Government we not like and could not help, and of whose people we knew far too - little. Hitler. and Stalin between them are giving us back a moral cause to fight
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· The Norwegians were too weak to abusing prevent the Germans from their legal rights in the waters that
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wash their beautiful coast. Our deci- sion to drive out into the open seas the German ships that skulked along in these territorial waters was wise decision, approved by many neutrals who are anxious to keep out The Spaniards? Well, that was a
of this war. For, as Mr... Churchill were. civil war, even if foreigners intervening. The Austrians? They said in his broadcast ten days ago, spoke German. The Czechs? They "there could be no justice if, in had a large German minority and we life-and-death struggle, the aggressor sentiment of a number of tramples down every were later assured,
of shortcomings which very much sur-humanity, and those who resist him prised those of us who know them remain entangled in the tatters as hard-working, honest and demo-violated legal conventions.”
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But even had the decision' been -The Finns? That's all over, any- how, and they did once pass through vile and unjust, in what way. a period of reaction which the sup-the Norwegians and the Danes porters of aggression will not allow to be held responsible for it? The anyone to forget, but which, in point invasion of their territories must of fact, makes their great social pro-have been planned long before gress during the last few years all British mines were laid as obstacles the more remarkable and praise- to German trade along the coast from
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This new act of Nazi aggression is inexcusable even more blatant and than was the attack on Poland. And this time the victims are our closest relations on the Continent of Europe. Hitler may yet find that, by “protect- ing" against their will two peoples whose sons have contributed so much to the best in the British Empire and made, a the United States, he has blunder which will bring him that retribution he so terribly deserves.
Nor- But now the Danes and the wegians! I read in the evening pa- pers how Norwegians were, setting out from Oslo with pathetic and untidy packages similar to those of other refugees all the Continent over. a far And the Scandinavians have higher level of social. legislation and popular culture than we have. They the are, as James Maxton said in House of Commons, "the most paci- fic and civilised peoples in the world to-day." But that does not save them from being the victims of a "Blitz- krieg" which Hitler has not yet dared to employ against any nation of any thing like the size of the country he
(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL") is leading to disgrace and, disaster.
The Scandinavian Governments
Paris, To-day. have been obsequious towards
Marshal Petain, French Ambassador › aggressor during the past few months; but one cannot blame them. We, to Madrid, has arrived in Paris on a with all our potential strength, so visit of unannounced length. He has long refused to recognise that we already seen the President, the Prime must run risks to stop aggression, Minister and the Mirditer of Com-
lavas, and their armies are so weak and merce.
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