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"Good morning, sunshine !”
Go to blazes !" "Now, now temper 1. That's not like mummy's little blue- eyed boy."
go and climb a tree. I hope you get a thick head like mine.
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stiff glass of Rose's lime juice
"You'll get one now if you don't cleatrout, [Pause.] What did you say about lime juice ?” "My dear fellow the path- ology of the common hangover is interesting. The blood alcohol content falls rapidly after ad- ministration of Rose's Lime the stomach ....... Juice "Fred - does this stuff work retrospectively P!!!
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THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 29, 1940.
MIRROR OF WORLD
OPINION
A DINGDONG
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SELF-INTEREST AND
THE WAR
being the war has turned out to be one of movement, and that at a speed which has never before been contem- It is inevitable that there should be plated. The struggle in the "Battle of the Bulge" has been described as an considerable fluctuation in the titanic enormous melee; with speedy tanks struggle which is proceeding in France, behind each other's lines, and rapid and the fact that the Germans have changes from the offensive to the de- again been able to make some head fensive and vice versa as the tem- The porary fortunes of the struggle dictate. way should cause no dismay. initial momentum with
the Swift thrusts of tanks and armoured and advances enemy commenced the invasion of the cars are being made Low Countries and France has been claimed which may never be con- very considerably reduced, and the solidated. They in turn are being met with similar moves of the Allied probabilities are that in the near future there will even be a further echanised forces and at the present reduction. The further the Germans all that can be said of the encounter get away from their supply bases, the is that it is becoming a dingdong strug- longer their lines of communication gle in which, at any rate for the mo- grow, the more vulnerable do they ment, the enemy seems to have secur-
ed some advantage.-North become, while the ability to
Daily News." severe and disrupting blows to the enemy's rear calculated to hamper the bringing up of supplies, is something which must always be kept in mind. What the world is seeing is the putting into the operation for the second time of the plan formulated by Count von Schlieffen in 1905 for the invasion of France. That is modified to the ex- tent that whereas the von Schlieffen
The American people are still more plan contemplated Germany having to strongly opposed to war than they are fight on two fronts, Germany is now to aggression. Even deep indignation fighting on one. Roughly speaking over the Nazi invasion of Denmark von Schlieffen's plan was to seek a and Norway has not so far crystallized decision against France by a great en- in any move by which the United Sta- veloping movement across the Meuse, tes would take a more active part in through Belgium and beyond the holding such crimes in check. Even zone of French frontier defences. alarm over the possibility of Japan From this it will be plain that the in- going into the Netherlands East Indies vasion of the Low Countries for the and current reports that Italy is on purpose of "protection" as claimed by the verge of joining Germany have not the enemy, is in fact just the same as- aroused any apparent feeling that sault on the neutrality of the Low America should take preventive ac- Countries as was contemplated by tion. · the German strategist thirty-five years
Indeed, by all tests of opinion and ago. Von Schlieffen's successor, the
reports of observers, of which the last younger von Moltke, accepted the plan is our Intimate Message to-day, the in principle, but as years passed after determination to stay out has been 1905, and the offensive spirit develop growing firmer, Undoubtedly the ed so strongly in the French army, it struggle has come much closer to most was modified to the extent of streng- Americans-even to those who judge thening the German left wing in Al- by Greenland rather than the intangi- sace-Lorraine. To this von Schlieffen bles of ideals and influences---but so, was to the end of his life bitterly op- too, has fear that steps "short of war" posed, "always insisting that risks would lead to war, should be run in, that area in order It may be cogently argued that such that the right should be made as steps would be the surest guarantee of strong as possible. Nevertheless, the keeping out,of war, but if other na- plan, as it developed in August, 1914, tions could not see it when Manchuria involved the throwing into Belgium and Abyssinia were invaded, if and France of seven armies consist Britain and France could not ing of ten cavalry, seventy-two active see it before Munich nor and reserve divisions, six Ersatz divi- the Scandinavian peoples when Fin- sions and fourteen Landwehr brigades. land was attacked; it may be under- Germany at the time was ahead of standable that America is still un- the rest of the world in the provision, convinced.
the
and tactical employment of machine Understanding is needed. It is guns, and heavy artillery, and her needed among the belligerents to pre- plan of campaign was in fact a vent condemnation of the United States
increase would only judicious combination of offensive, and which defensive methods. The story of how difficulties of co-operation. It is need- that scheme was eventually brought ed in the United States because com- to naught and the Germans defeated plaint that other nations did not re- after more than four years of bitter sist aggression until their own inter- warfare, is already well known. The ests were threatened is a poor ex- Allies passed through weeks, and even cuse for repeating that action. And others' mistakes months of anxiety as the various Ger- such centering on man offensives were worn down, and may hide the fact that America's own the initiative finally wrested from interests are involved. German hands. The position in this
Motives are wretchedly mixed, but
war is somewhat different from that undoubtedly one of the main restraints. in the early days of the last. The on further American action to check perfection of solid defences by both aggression is the contention that the sides in the shape of the Maginot Line Allies are merely fighting for their and the Western Wall has, to the own interests and that nothing else is greatest extent possible, removed those involved. Present United States Navy risks which von Schlieffen was pre- estimates and the possibility that pared to run. There is also the ab- American territory and commerce in sence of German preoccupation in the the Atlantic will no longer be protect- East which existed in 1914, and the ed by Britain should awaken some sweeping movement contemplated by of a less tangible but even more vital citizens. And there are other interests von Schlieffen, is being undertaken
nature. The words of the British Am- with even greater forces than he pro- bassador, Lord Lothian, in his vided for. Hence the severity of the frank speech at St. Louis point to enemy blows in the early days of the considerations Américans cannot present battle. The employment of
ignore: large forces, of mechanised troops, and
Why do the Allies. go on fighting? the aeroplane, has imported new con-
They are fighting, of course, first siderations into present day concepts for their own existence. But they are of war, in almost the same manner as also fighting because they are convin twenty-six years ngo. Then what was ced that not only a victory by Nazl expected to be a war of movement Germany but a truce with Nazi Ger- was eventually reduced to a positional, many would be the end of most of the *** struggle" in which trenches and atabile values which Christianity and western rised positions played their important democratie civilization have laborious- part. Nowadays all that has been res* Built up in recent centuries.- versed, and at any rate for the time" "Chriftian Science Monitor ****
THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 29, 1940.