THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 17, 1941.
CHINA MAIL
WINDSOR HOUSE
HITLER'S JIHAD
FOOD
PRICE
CONTROL
FREIGHTS INSURANCE EXCESS PROFITS
Within a few days of the fall of Athens war had! begun in a still older cradle of civilisation. The first shots in this war were fired when Iraqi| artillery in the historic valley of the Euphrates opened fire on the British air hase at Habbaniyah. The government that took this action is a pro-Axis government which seized power some six weeks ago by a coup d'etat. It is acting now as a creature of the Axis. The Berlin radio has been busy ever since broadcasting! news of efforts to enlist the support of all the Arab peoples in a "jihad." or holy war, against the British in the Near East. Two military and air mis- sions, Italian and Ger- man, have arrived in Baghdad with the con- nivance of Vichy's repre- sentative in Syria, where air bases have been plac| ed at German disposal. A new battle is beginning
fortune, For another, still, it must be up-hundred years past will cease to It is two years since
visit the United! posed because it leads to Presi- have meaning in the thoughts and for tremendous stakes. enabled me to
hopes of men. States, so that I know the present, dential dictatorship. This first phase of a fresh alertness of its public opinion only is the still, German drive for power at second hund. But, as I read its pacifist whom even Nazi behaviour
1 cannol help realising is aimed at the oil fields how much there is about of the countries has not converted from of Mosul, at the gates 01 attitude which distinguished our the doctrine that evil must not India, at the geographical heart of the whole British Empire.
arms
Gates
THE RISING FLOOD
We Must Fight First
signs,
own public opinion until the in- vasion of the Low Countries,
On the Right, there is the sense of the immensity of American conviction that the
power. the
with
The immediate danger, etators would not dare to risk attack upon it, the conviction that that Nazi intrigue and the America would not be beaten, the fresh prestige of German half-conscious desire somehow to in preserve the status quo by com- would succeed
դէ to 3:1 understanding persuading the Arabs of Hitler. Syria and Palestine to throw in their lot with the pro-Axis government! of Iraq was quickly set on one side. The Syrian Arabs are restless under! particular French control but have group, the Roosevelt programme
On the Left, there is the mas- | sive contusion which comes from the fact that though all strands of opinion hate what Fascism is,
his strand
a separate each
ostrum to cherish and would risk
the victory of Fascism rather than arquieser in the surrender of 's!
nostrum. For one
stall
And there voice of the
in Poland and the other occupied
be resisted with force.
014
is true of America even if at one
Europe.
And what is true of ourselves,
remove. Hitler will not rest con- with the domination of No one knows better than the men in the Kremlin that I think I know America and the destruction of Bolshevism is the Left well enough to under-only, for him, a postponed aim; stand both the motive and the the survival of the Russian ex- lie behind all perment depends quite literally intensity which
on a British victory. It may well these views, Certainly no
be that, were Britain to be defeat- for knows better than i do that the
Lo organisation of a nation for wared, there would be a pause
But it could entails the acceptance of risks to consolidation before he came liberal causes that are grave and grips with America.
nut be a long pause; for the whole Yet wish there wert profound.
our European | essence of his strategy must be a some way, out of experience of Nazism in action, of surprise attack before America is!
and adequately prepared to resist it.
In that vital sense. I think, I an making those who hate it ---
claim proud to think, that our ever good American must hate understand that without ut-
that in defending ourselves we are America. it a just defending claim; and I think, therefore, that the aid we receive from America
fundamentally, part of) is, quite the defence of America.
41
By Harold
J. Laski is illegitimate unless the Soviet
confirmed the postpone-other, it will
deflects attention away from at all even of thinking about the
ment for the duration of burning evils in the social their long-standing quar-economie landscape of rel with Britain about gious passion if he
more
to
war whose
I know well enough all
that
It is, indeed, an urgent thing for all the friends of democratic free- dom to realise that security from Hitlerism is ill essential pre- amble to the achievement of their objective. It was. I think, John Dewey who said that "it is business of ideu! right to take
the
For another. not responded to German Union supports it.
it is wrong because a British vic- blandishments. The
tury may mean the consolidation For un- Arabs have of British imperialism.
er defeat there will simply be Palestinian
because it for us in Europe no opportunity not du
and prospect of liberal causes in any
account. And if we were to be my rease to be merely ideal. America, period of which we have to take might unto itself in order that it can. defeated, both the United States That is our business now; and, and the Soviet Union would have compared to it, every other ob- jective is of less importance for Zionism. There was raw This
course quite literally no alternative but
the moment. Not until we begin material in both countries
to see that our way to victory is runs beyond all powers of to devole all their energies to de- fence and to subordinate to its offered for Nazi provocateurs to
has prediction
claims every other objective, how-clear, can we begin to remember our differences; for the present, For # trium- work on, but there were
that matter. than one
it is our identities strange ever important.
phant Nazism would present
One day, no doubt, the Labour also
in- restraining
the countries with paradox: none stranger both
Party will have to seek the defeat with problems
which fluences, here and
But un- of its present associates. than this spectacle of the sunie
We fre to-day presented: throughout the Moslem
and granted the area there would til the present danger has passed, greatest infidel of modern world, working in
that supreme end in common on Bri- times summoning Islam then be under its control, it would Mr. Churchill and Mr. Attlee have which all other ends depend. Not tain's favour. Iraq itself
a holy war, with the not be an unequal contest.
to understand this is to show a owes its independence to blood of fourteen nations the Left in Britain risks in stand-
ing squarely by Mr. Churchill in lack of proportion in the estima- tion of values which destroys Britain's victory in the on his hands.
this war. The answer simply is last war. British ties
Mr. Eden's statement that a refusal to do so means that utterly any title to statesmanship. To learn to put first things first is the beginning of democratic with the Arab kingdoms in the Commons makes there would rapidly be defeat; and defeat means look at the occu-
that the Left is wisdom; and the first thing, surely, farther south in the great the position of the British pied countries sandy peninsula are close. Government
abundantly annihilated by Gestapo methods. is to recognise that between Hitler No serious-minded person thinks and every form of free govern- The Moslem states of
clear. There is to be no that the Left has any chance in ment there is no possibility of It is becarise President. Roose- India are aiding Britain kid glove war permitting France until the shadow of mili-compromise.
tary defeat begins to encompass in the war. Thousands Germany to smuggle Hitler and his satellites. No seri-velt has so long recognised this
either, can that,
Britain, his ous-minded · person, of loyal Moslem troops troops into Iraq through believe that a victorious Britain, speeches, hardly less than his are serving in British Syria. The British GOV- maimed and scarred by this war, actions, are an encouragement be
have declared is then going to bend its energies yond measure. ernment
the us understand to forming a coalition for Into this struggle for their policy frequently overthrow of the Soviet Union. Battle of Britain, concentrated in high stakes which is now enough. They will attack For us of the Labour Party the the Atlantic, is a turning-point battle in which we are engaged is in the history of the world. If we 'beginning, Hitler can be German forces wherever quite simply and literally a battle win it, Hitler has shot his bolt, counted upon to throw they are to be encounte.- for the preservation of the oppor- and we shall go forward, I be- tunities through which, if pre-lève go straight forward, 'rapidly. ́every weapon at his com-ed. If Vichy cannot pre-served, we believe that we shall to victory. If we lose, it is the turn mand. He will stop at vent them from landing be able to proceed to the recon-of America and the Soviet Union. struction of our economic and I do not think we shall lose. But she cannot social life. But without the pre-to win will require a courage, a nothing to win that in Syria, struggle even to open-grieve if they are attack-servation of those opportunities resolution, and a scale of equip- we 'know that the things our ment far beyond anything we movement has striven for these have so "für used, ing the floodgates of reli-led in Syria. -
armies.
for us in
I think most of that the second
Page
A sufficient quantity of MILK daily is necessary for the maintenance health & energy
of
DAIRY
FARM
MILK
is milk in its most
L
beneficial form
It's Fresh from the Farm. It's still Fresh when you get it.
Pasteurised.
Certified T. B. Fice Every boule individual- ly sealed.
THESE FACTS MAKE
DAIRY FARM
MILK
WHAT IT IS
THE FINEST
& SAFEST IN HONG KONG