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THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 25, 1940.
MIRROR OF WORLD
OPINION
HITLER'S GAMBLE
Hermann Rauschning, in his book, "Hitler Speaks," said that in 1935 the Reichsfuehrer told him:
- The magnitude of the gamble upon
Protected by the fleet; and-with the which: Herr Hitler has embarked now
co-operation of the air force; I shall stands out plain for all to see. The order a series of unexpected in- reckless manner in which he has been
dividual exploits. The Swedes will nowhere be prepared to put up а throwing his armies into the field, and
suficiently strong defence. But the enormous losses which have been
even if one or other of these exploits inflicted upon them in men, and ma-
fail, the overwhelming majority of terial support the opinion expressed by
conquer them, but wanted only an strategic points will be held. . . . I Mr. Alfred Duff Cooper that he is
should tell them I did not wish to staking his all on the battle which is alliance that was entirely natural now being fought. Should he lose it,
and would certainly also be openly desired by Sweden if she were not, he will have lost the war; should he
out of fear of Russia and Britain, win it he will have merely won the
withdrawing into a perfectly sui- first round, for the Allies are still pre- cidal neutrality. I should explain that I came to protect them, and so pared, and well equipped to continue
give the friendly elements in the the struggle. It is reported from the
country the opportunity of deciding United States that Der Fuehrer's pre- according to their own free will. sent plan is to attempt 2 drive on
Simply substitute Norway and Den- Paris, and if he captures the French mark for. Sweden, and here is the project. An additional feature, the capital to offer France # separate "Trojan Horse" plan of undermining which ex- peace, and then devote himself to the resistance from within,' destruction of Great Britain. If that plains some of the things that hap- is indeed in his mind it is indicative of same time, Even the offer to "pro- pened in Norway, was outlined at the how completely mistaken he is re- tect" was prepared. Other neutrals garding the French, and the realistic may read it with interest. They may have also particularly Sweden - outlook they have upon :- the whole
some new ideas about "a perfectly matter. Apart from her undoubted suicidal neutrality." "Christian Scien- loyalty to the Allied cause, of which ce Monitor.” there can be no question whatever,
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ONLY NEUTRALS HAVE FEAR
Ella Fitzgerald. France clearly understands what sort Ella Fitzgerald. of peace that would be, for it would merely mean the postponement of Herr Bing Crosby.Hitler's attentions while he sought to Bing Crosby. deal with Britain, after which the The French people suffered in the They had 3,000,000 people killed or peace he would have offered France 1914 war more than any other nation. would become just as worthless as so wounded, they had their country in- many of his other undertakings. Herr: vaded, their houses bombed, their Hitler would dearly like to separate forests destroyed, their fields turned
into battlefields. They the Allies, and deal with them piece-
have more reasons than anybody, than any other meal, but that opportunity will be nation in the whole world, to hate denied him. Indeed he may never war, to despair over the coming back reach such a position from which to of such horrors, Eighteen months or two years ago, when the threat was prosecute such a scheme, for already coming nearer, you could hear some there are signs that the German armies French people say: "Let's avoid this, I want are in danger of overreaching them- by all means. I don't care.
to die in my bed." Because French selves, the German attacks” in France":
people are only human beings. being reported as of not so great violence as previously. Whether that results from the strenuous activities of the Allied air forces behind the Ger- manlines is not clear, but in any event it seems that the enemy has been obliged to wait until further re- inforcemeants in
men, material have been sent up to repair the great wastage which the Allied resistance to the German onslaughts has created. One of the important factors in the situation is that Herr Hitler is meet- ing a resistance in the air such as: he has not encountered elsewhere; and he
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And then the time passed. And we quickly understood that we couldn't cheat, not even for a short time, on the law of sacrifice-sacrifice for our sake and for the sake of others-- which is one of the fates of our coun- try. That we couldn't cheat in our re- sponsibilities, dreadfully heavy ones, in Europe and in the world.
We discovered that peace at any price is no peace at all, that the black- mailing was going on, the oppression was going on, the conquest of Europe was going on, that life at any price has no value whatever, that life is nothing without the privileges, the prides, the rights; the joys which make it worth living, and also worth giving. And we also discovered that there is something more hideous, more atrocious than war is by no means obtaining that walk-or than death; and that is to live in over which superior equipment gave him against the gallantry of the Poles.
"N. C. D. N.”
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PREMEDITATED.
Some news reports persist in ac- cepting the Nazis' second-thought contention that the seizure of Norway was caused by Britain's mining of ter ritorial waters. Yet the first Berlin explanation gave a different excuse The official Germun note to Norway and Denmark (apparently part of the advance preparation which must have been under way for weeks) made no mention of mines, but claimed the Reich was preventing seizuto by the Allies. Manifestly the whole concept of a thrust into Scandinavia/wns hat ched in Berlin long ago,
Apparently even the method of sud den drives at key points was outlined.
fear. When danger threatens you, fear, inaction, are no solutions at all, if you go back one single step, the whole world becomes suddenly too small for you to find a place to hide and feel secure.
Having to choose, last September, between defending, or not defending our very conception of life, we chose to defend it and make it win, And, from then on, fear suddenly disap- peared, and left us. I don't pre- tend that we are happy; frankly, there is nothing to be happy about. But in a way, we are relieved. At the pre- sent time, fear is not with the belli- gerent nations anymore, with the. countries which are fighting,” which are menaced. There is no fear in Britain; in France probably no fear in Germany)-Extraordinarily enough, fear has gone somewhere else to the countries which are not fighting, which are not menaced, to the coun- tries:ffat peace Miley Eva-Curie, as quoted in the "New York Herald Tribune.".
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THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 25, 1940.