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THE CHINA. MAIL, APRIL 28, 1941.
CHINA MAIL
“WINDSOR HOUSE
HITLER AND STALIN
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Amid the crash of Ger- man bombs, the pacific phrases of Russia's pact with Yugoslavia sounded thin and unreal. They lacked the dramatic im- pact of the revolutionary agreement between Soviet government. and its arch foe in Berlin which touched off the hor- rors that the world has experienced during the last nineteen months and, viewed in the light of the Kremlin's tortuous diplo- macy, will doubtless be subjected to many diver- gent interpretations. Yet it is impossible to avoid the conclusion that Com-¦ rade Stalin and Ger- many's Fuehrer have at last come to the parting! of the ways.
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The deterioration of Russo German relations has been progressive, al- though the progression has not been either order- ly or clear. Certainly, down to the fall of France there was every surface
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NASISM
-AND ALL HIS WORKS
The Plain Answer
We should
to the
this
to reinsure
indication of complete FOR reasons which are obvious and Dutch empires will not only not had the foresight to make the American Cabinet offeilds could be lost to American defence, but 'arrangements to continue the re-f agreement between not discuss the most searching
will be turned around and turned, sistance from Africa.
be lunatics to make the same mis- Moscow and Berlin. The question raised by opponents
the lend-lease bill. The question against us.
take-to carry our partisan sus-. complete success of Ger-is where the United States would
The idea is so repulsive that the find itself if in the coming months many's
shrinkpicion of Mr. Roosevelt will campaign
British resista ve the British¦ strongest among us
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A respons from facing it. the western front, follow-Istes is overwhelmed.
But it must be point where we renounced The events in France since unique opportunity ing on Russia's difficulties sible official could not answer that
question publicly without disclos.. faced. in Finland, apparently ng intitary information of the the French defeat should by this our own security,
time have made the most compla- produced the first seriousghest importance. doubts in Stalin's mind as Although
offlemnis cent realise that when an ally is
to exist. That is why it is su im- to the wisdom of his great cant discuss this question, it is defeated, he does not merely cease certain that they must "onsider it. diplomatic stroke.
For in adopting the policy of aid-¦perative not merely to aid Britain ing Britain, the American govern- but to have all possible means of The original agreementment would be lacking in states-entering into practical between Russia and Germanshup if it did not know what ments with Britam for all possible
It was going to do if the policy eventualities. many provided that the failed. But while officials cannot "will talk about these things, there is in two
substance no mystery which the
governments
responsible
constantly remain in con-rest of us cannol readily compre- sultation with one an- hend.
other in order to inform
each other regarding questions of common in-
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terest." Russia blandly This is a horrid subject to dis- But there is something informed the world that cus
positively terrifying about the in-
and she was not surprised by hocence unworldiness with the Axis pact which Ger-which many public men, who quite sincerely wish to aid Britain, have many, Italy and Japan failed to grasp. signed, for example, be- For there is at stake here not cause she had heard of it merely aid to Britain in the sense! in advance. But she de-of supplying the British resistance.
In the last analysis, there is nied that she had been stake also, should Britain fall, the dire possibility that the whole vast consulted over Hungary's!
power of the British and French adherence to the pact; she denied that she had been informed in advance of would seem evident that Germany's "mission of in- Stalin's fear of Hitler is struction" in Rumania.
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That such arrangements can be made we know, and not merely arrange because we have the explicit promise of the British govern- ment. That promise is worth good deal but what gives it its Anal validity is the fact that it is underwritten by the situation it- self. Marshal Petain has learned that he could not obtain, as he hoped, a chivalrous peace Hitler, and in so far as he has any power to bargain with Hitler, it is because the French Empire is be- yond Hitler's reach and the British resistance continues and American aid increases. The only protection of the French inside France is the unbroken force of Hitler's enemies outside of France.
When the opponents of the bill were testifying before the House Commutter, Col Lindbergh said that help to Britain would not be
By Walter Lippmann
from
Were the British Isles to be in- vaded or otherwise overwhelmed, in the the hope of the people
the. Islands would depend upon British Empire overseas and the United States. This would still protect them effective. However much we may in some measure hope he is mistaken, we dare no! against complete slavery to Hitler's Nothing elsż leave out of account the possibility undisputed power. that he may be right, Then Pre-could protect them at all, nothing, fáte. sident Hoover's Under-Secretary else could mitigate their of State, Mr. William R. Castle,What Hitler would do as undis- said this bill would make the Pre-puted muster of the British Isles sident "supreme in all military can be imagined from what he hus where. mattors, British as well as Ameri- done in isolated Poland can." Supposing that Mr. Cattle being beyond the reach of sea
tion, would it be an objection to
Terrible as it would be to make, bergh's defentism is proved cor- the decision, 'Britain would, if the
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The farther Germany pro- great enough to prevent were right, suppose that he were power or air power, he is undis- gressed in the Balkans, war between the two for not indulging in great exaggera-puted master. apparently, and the closer the time being. Russia this bill that in case Col. Lind- she approached to the may, however, furnish rect, the President of the United worst came, have to do the oppo- Dardanelles, the poorer material aid to Turkey, if States would have a powerful hold site of what Marshal Petain did on they would have to retreat over on British "military matters," the liaison between Hitler she has any to spare. And the British fleet, for example on seas and continue to resist. But British bases, on the Royal Alr unless the arrangements had been and Stalin became. By surely the Russian threat Force scattered all over the Bri- made in advance, this great opera- the time that Bulgaria must contain many Ger-tish Empire? What would not the tion might not be feasible.
British people give to-day if Mr. was to be sacrificed, Rus- man divisions which Churchill had had a hold on the forces similar, to that sia had become aroused to might otherwise be French
which Mr. Castle thinks Mr. Roo- the point of making a employed in active fight-sevelt could have, but ought not to
that strong protest to Bul- ing; surely Hitler must have, over the British forces? Is it necessary to argue
they would be of vital importance garia, and after the fact. have the uneasy feel it
result of our to this country? Is there any one serious aid to Britain, in the one Agreements of friendship ing that
event in his right mind who thinks it of with Turkey and with reverse may bring upon of a defent in Europe, the no congequence to us whether the arrangements exist by which Axis acquires By Conquest more Yugoslavia before those his head the Soviet we can salvage the better part of warships than we can build in ten Is there a member of the fleet and the merchant marine | years? countries were attacked Army. His Balkan cam-and much else beside, that is con- Congress who voted for the two- WOB de- ocean navy and yet does not see were a logical next step.paign has opened one clusive. When France
feated France, the collapse was that his vote was a tragic farce if And beyond? No one can front; it may easily open fontein because M. Reynaud and the British fleet is captured by prophesy, of course, but it another.
as
the Chamberlain government had the Axis?
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