THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 29, 1940:
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CHINA MAI Looking Forward
WINDSOR HOUSE
NEW WORLDS
NOVEMBER ALLY
In his last speech in the House over the world of food reserves, than the planing of relations be--| blems of transport, of housing and f of Commons the Prime Minister destined for the relief of Hitler's tween food? importing and food public werks, and of industrial re-. refused to embark on any discus- victims-among whom Mr. Chur- growing countries in such a way construction would be a prudenti To-day dictators
are sion of the shape which might be chill was careful to include the as to clear the channels of trade, anticipation of needs which can looking about for other given to Europe after the war or people-of Gërmany and Austria to regulate its even flöw, and to certainly be foreseen whatevery
of any
"new securities" which so soonas Nazi power is over- remove the arbitrary interférence! political shapera liberated Curopsy worlds to conquer. But might be required. This caution thrown. But the problem of food of national or individual self- may assume: This is a more prac
was clearly right. Nothing could supplies and nutrition is not limit-intercata that is not because they be more unreal than the elabora-ed to the immediate needs of post- now for this task, and to extend var aims and of post-war inter
To make preparations tical approach: to the problem; of; have finished one job and tion at the present time of hypo-war relief: No International task the surveys to other aspects
thetical political structures. to it will be more urgent.after the war European: reconstruction to provising of political constitutions,
of national cooperation thao thứ để are ready to go on with the situations which cannot be fore- next. They need new seen even in broadest outing..
Nothing could be more unwise worlds. And they need to than to undertake commitments make them look as impor- or to encourage hopes whose ful- filment might prove either wholly tant as the one they are impracticable OL incompatible not conquering. They may with our larger purposes. hide from their own popu- of political commitments and of lations how disappointed political theories about the way they are with the way constructed. When arms are laid Britons are acting. But down at the end of the
war, it may well be prudent other peoples sense that devote our immediate energies to the promised attack on the practical needs of relief and reconstruction, and postpone any British outlying posses-attempt to build a more perman- sions is only a second-best ent political framework until substitute, in the eyes of to emerge. Axis engineers, for quick| conquest of the British: Isles.
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In 1919 we suffered from a plethora both
in which a new order should be
present
to
a
clearer perspective has, had time
use.
This is not to say that
But this does not mean that we the Axis cannot make a should refrain, so long as hostili- lot of trouble for the Brit-ties last, from looking, towards any goal beyond the end of them.. ish Empire. But the very As Mr. Churchill said last week, I intensity of the German "the road to victory may not be effort against Britain he quickly added that we have so long as we expect"; and though shows that Herr Hitler "no right to count on this,", it and his advisers know the prospect of a long war as an
would be equally wrong to that their best hope of argument for refusing indefinitely winning this war lies in The well-worn saying that
to consider the problems of peace. last direct rather than indir-time we won the War and lost the ect action against British peace contains a large measure of truth. The assumption that, once- power. Their best hope,he war is won, no further leader- obviously, is not material-ship or initiative will be required ising:
:
'cause we had not made adequate
preparations to equip ourselves
for war. To equip ourselves fo- peace is also a wise and 'necessary. precaution.
INVASION PORT
Victory Of
The Atlantic
Mr. Churchill last week permit- ted himself one further glimpse into the.
future the cloquent peroration in which he spoke of? the growing.community of interest": between this country and the United States. in the defence, of: freedom. But this common inter- est will end with victory in this.. war; at any rate in its present- form. Our Diplomatie Corres- pondent has.. drawn attention to the way in which German pro- paganda is already, trying to sow mischief by deliberately exagger- ating the scope and prospects of military cooperation, More dan- gerous still. is the small band of enthusiasts on both sides of the Atlantic which from time to time canvasses romantic schemes of world-wide political federation. Let us tell ourselves frankly that the United States have no inten- tion of concerning themselves in the political future of any Euro-· pean country or of cooperating in any, new political order outside the Western Hemisphere. Where we can count with confidence on the prospect of American colla-." boration and American generosity. after the war is in the field of economic and 'sociál ́ reconstruc- tion; and this is yet another rea son for thinking in the first in- stance in these terms,
from British statesmen, and no further effort or self-sacrifice from
The approach to the economic British people, is a dangerous form
needs of Europe cannot be made This is the point that complacency. We have suffered
in isolation from the needs of this of recent meetings and dip-much during the past months be-
country. The.. intensification war effort and the increasingly lomacy have emphasised.
complete mobilisation of our re- Together with revela-
sources render all the more im- perative a far-reaching pro- tions of surprisingly slight
gramme of social reconstruction in damage to British war re- One moral which seems clearly
Great Britain.
nf A problem
con- enormous dimensions will serves; and of increasing to emerge from the experience of aid to Britain from the will have to be applied to the con-
front us immediately on the ces the war is the qualification which
sation of hostilities. We cannot.
A. United States, the facts cept of neutrality in the crowde
simply slip back into peace. European continent. The smaller The victory of the Atlantic has effort in the shipyards, and
large part of the vast war machine i give ground for comfort, countries of: Europe will rightly been the outstanding naval event world-wide soupes dupply will come to a standstill almost though difficult days be and naturally want to continue to of the year and yet it has never could not be cut off.
over night for the production-of- paddle their own canoes. But as been officially announced: Few ahead.
It was a victory as important to vast quantities of aeroplanes and a. correspondent remarked in these details about it are known out our future as any pitched battle munitions of all kinds will sud-: columns a few days ago, they wil side the Admiralty; and the world ever fought between fleets on the denly lose its meaning, and pur- London does not imag-have henceforth to do so in con- at large is hardly aware of what surface, and nothing that has hap pose. The readaptation of the ine that its trial is over or voy. Nor is this merely a neces- has happened Nevertheless that pened since has undermined its whole machinery of production
sary-measure of common defence victory has played a considerable significance.
from its war-time programme. to.. even diminishing. Britain If Europe is to become once more bart in shaping the events of the
the needs of peace is an operation which will not brook, delay. But does not suppose that: alla prosperous as well as a peacefu immediate past and moulding the
The Magnetic Mines land, common economic planning mmediate future.
It is an operation which cannot be menace of invasion. this and economic policy have become. It was brought about by. the A second important naval vic improvised on the spur of the mo- year has passed. But all imperative, The economic atomvigorous offensive of the Navy at tory about which: rather more: is ment Chaos will be the penalty the world can see that theism of the thirties was a prelude the very stant of the war against known publicly was achieved with of failure to plan this changes over to the military disasters of 1940, the German submarine campaign the nullifying of the effects of the advance; and this can only be boasts of Berlin were ut- and helps in part to explain them. Rapidly though the Admiralty magnetic mine: That goes to the done by an early review of the tered too soon; and that No system of political and military plans for establishing convoys credit of the scientists more than needs which will have the most guarantees can uphold indefinitely worked, they would not by them to the fighting: fleet, but its im urgent claim on our liberated re- the alternative to swallow-n structure which fails, to bring selves have defeated the U-boats.portance in the war at sea is just sources of production. It is, here decent and stable conditions of The German expectation was that as great as a defeat of the enemy
that the needs of Europe require ing them is to direct life to the European peoples. The some two million tons of shipping fleet, since it ensured free move to be examined in conjunction action: toward other ob-mirage of domination based on would be destroyed in the first ment for our warships as well as with our own. The work of re-
construction is one; and it is for. self-sufficiency must be replaced, month, and this appalling loss for our merchantmen. jectives:
and: throughout must in their estimation complete- A third naval development that main responsibility, for the de-
us to organise it. in: Germany,
To-day the Europe, by an economic organisa-ly: wreck: any plans we had for may fairly be classed as a victory fence of civilised Europe rests on tion: conceived: from a European the prosecution of the war In is the fleet's successful defiance of Britain. To-morrow "the initia- or, so far aşı mayr be; from a the result, the U-boats were: so air power to interfere with its tive for the building up.of a new world-wide point of view.
harried and hunted by our anti-operations. Not only the one Europe will rest on submarine flotillas that it took all dramatic encounter. between sea shoulders. Without slackening for their attention looking after their power and air:power during the a moment in our concentration on own safety, and they were unable withdrawal from Dunkirk marks the present task we must also to-concentrate on the merchant this victory: scores of incidents, look forward to the future task ships:
mostly already, forgotten by the if we are to undertake it with the rest It's because of noise, Mr. Churchill revealed that plans able to inflict in this first month evidence during the year that the
The total damage they were general publlo, have piled up the same success, of course. And he has were in hand for future recon-was: no more than 181,241. tons; fleet, though not untouchable, 1s
We have undertaken and 'in the course of those opera" unbreakable from the airy baen, except in one or two in- complained to the auth-struction.
to encourage the -building- up all tions we know from a statement. It is necessary -toli emphasise stances, the visible drama of hun- brities. One might think
in Parliament that they lost at these three aspects of the naval dreds of victims in one disaster. least six or seven vessels in three history of the past twelve months. It has been among, the fringes of he would complain to
weeks. The actual total was pro- for they have not the picturesque the fleet that the price has been "that there 'Itler" or at anti-aircraft batteries? bably higher. In the next four drama which imprints events on most heavily exacted 75 mine- feast desist from adding Not our Londoner. Evid-vas one day on which three U-deed, has given us a striking illus-31 destroyers, 14 submarines are weeks the hunting went on. There the public mind, The years in sweepers and patrol vessels lost, to the décibel dilemma ently, he regards them, as boats were destroyed; and by the tration of that "daily silent pres- part of the toll among the smaller that London authorities New Yorkers. and other clear, guarded: though the official excitement of the Battle of the here, of afty there, perhaps of a end of three months of war it was sure" of which Mahan wrote. The craft. A casualty list of a dozen must face: For, one might American cliff dwellers do statements were that the total Plate, of the destroyer attacks at hundred on occasion which would suppose there is only one their elevated trains They forty boats. That meant that half Altmark make "history" in the pence-time becomes, by
German loss was approaching Narvik, of the stopping of the shock public feeling to the core in way to lessen noise in Lion-make a noise which is part the available craft had been re- popular sense, but it has been the strange transmutation of values, [moved," that between: 1,500” and little-known, the almost unre- but an item of news in wur-time. don now, and that is by of the routine "You get 2,000 trained officers and men corded events at sea, that have But at the end of a year of war refraining from adding used to it in no time." But were lost to Germany, and that really affected the course of we may surely pauso for one mo- the din of anti-aircraft what a chap can't put up tion that the U-boat menace was
ver had shown beyond all ques-events,
ment to think upon not only the victories that have been achieved, fite to the din of bombs. with is, the other, fellow's not likely, in this war, to approach
the safety that has been entured, But that isn't the pro radio, or, as in the case of our sea communications were to the dimensions it reathed in 1017.
but also upon those thousands There has been a heavy «price who were in their deaths, as in blem at all: Who said any our Londoner, a neigh-remmin open; losses could be kept in men and in ships to pay for their lives, the silent, unseen things about bombs and bour's rooster.
within the limit at which they the sea security that hus- “been builders of both victory could' be replaced" by, strenuous achieveda Again there has not security,
"FINE AS FIRE"
There's a man in Lon- don, so it seems, who isn't getting a proper night's
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In one most important respect
Heavy Price
the
same
some
and