THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 29, 1940
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OH, WELL, IT WAS GOOD WHILE.
IT LASTED!
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Germany's Anger QUEENS THEATRE Over Oran Action
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armed force-after six hours'
It is diverting to listen to the Toulon or are otherwise unac-ment of the crowded centre of that howls of impotent German rage counted for, what remains afloatjundefended town, that still rend the air over the will be at the service not.of Ger- How, in point of "criminal vil- "Copenhagening" of the French many and Italy but of Britain. The|lainty," does that act compare with ships at Oran.
shrill clamour that is being raised Oran, where we only resorted to Of all the prizes won for Ger- is the measure of the German dis- extreme measures against an many by the capitulation of the comfiture. Bordeaux junta none was more It might have been supposed parleying and the offer of alterna precious than the French fleet. that Goebbels had already ex-lives, including one (internment Visions of sea supremacy had al-hausted his vocabulary of abusive in the West Indies) which would ready begun to swim before Nazi superlatives at the time of the have had the same effect, both for eyes. United with the German and capture of the Altmark. But we France herself and for a Germany Jalian navies, and as powerful as now learn that the Oran coup is honestly intending to keep her both combined, the French fleet, it positively "the most criminal vil-word, as internment at Toulon? was calculated, might well suffice lainy in the world's history."
The Goebbels Trick
to tip the scale in the course of future sea warfare.
In any event, Britain would no longer be able to retain the simul- taneous mastery of the North Sea
When it comes to "criminal vil- Jainy" Goebbels's memory is curi- ously short,
Let
us recall the instance
on to
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The strident fury of Goebbels
of accuse Britain goes "stabbing an Ally in the 'back,"
and the Mediterranean and also Holland. On Oct. 6, 1939, Hitler trampling on a man when he is
down," and "completing the dia- bolical betrayal of France." No one, course, knows better than Goebbels
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to keep up the blockade against the vastly extended coastline now in German occupation. In their own good time the Germans would violate the Armistice, use the French Fleet against Britain and declared that "the new Reich, has case the Ally who has been "stab-NEXT CHANGE then sneer at the British as a set endeavoured to continue the tradi-bed in the back" is ourselves, and of simpletons for entrusting so tional German friendship with the "diabolical betrayal" was per- valuable a weapon to the safe-Holland. It has neither found any petrated not by us but against us keeping of German "honour."
jexisting differences with the State when, to our mortal injury--if we nor created any new ones." Yet, had not taken strong action-and Jon May 10, 1940, he not only in-in deflance of the most solemn vaded this traditionally friendly, pledges, a powerful, undefeated This German dream has been unoffending neutral without a fleet was signed away into the rudely shattered by Oran and the word of warning, but within 48 hand of a twenty-times perjured accompanying events of July 3 hours had massacred tens of thou-enemy. Apart. from the fragments of the sands of Dutch citizens in Rotter-What we have here is a prime French Fleet which escaped toldam by a massed aerial bombard-example of the familiar Goebbels
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It is by this trick that he arrives. at the preposterous pretence that "this crime surpasses even the Bri- tish treachery against Poland, Norway, Holland and Belgium."
Of our "treachery” to Poland it will be time to judge when the Germans are cleared lock, stocki and barrel out of Polish territory by the terms of the peace. As to Norway, Holland and Belgium, who are the traitors? Are they the people who organised the Quislings and their confederates or the people who are staking their all to rescue each of those nations-and the rest of Europe as well-from the Quislings' pay- masters and employers?
Perhaps the most diverting non- sense of all is the assertion that it was "unsporting" to go with supe- rior forces and attack a "defence- less" fleet lying at anchor. This| argument, curiously enough, com- mends itself especially to
tho Italians.
Their own ideas of "sportsman- ship" were nicely signalised by their behaviour towards prostrate France on June 10. But, apart from that, are we to infer that it is an article of the German and Italian code that you must never, attack an opponent except with] equal tactical advantage?
If so, was the attack on Poland
an example of compliance with
such a code?
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of "Copenhagening"-a verb de- rived from the British .action against the Danish fleet in 1807 and meaning to forestall by sud- den offensive "action the appro- priation by the enemy of some important resource. If it is as im- moral as Goebbels pretends to |"Copenhagen" a fleetTM which, by signed agreement; was about to fall into the hands of the enemy, what about `.
"Copenhagening","` por Morality of
merely a
feet but a whole series of coun- tries-Denmark, Norway, Holland, Belgium and Luxembourg-on which no enemy had so much as cast an eye?******
Goebbel's rhodomontade about Oran may be attuned to the crude intelligences of Teutons, but before the rest of the world it merely serves to render himself and his Teutons doubly ridiculous and trebly odious.
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