THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 11, 1941.

CHINA MAIL

WINDSOR HOUSE

IMPLICATIONS

Mater

JAPANESE ARMY APPROPRIATIONS

NOTICE.

Owing to the growing tense international situa- tion, the budget for the next financial year 1942/3 will be compiled with the greatest stress laid on the tightening of Japan's war footing.

New demands are to be limited to items indis- pensable to the expecta- tion of national policy.

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TIGHTENING UP THE (CIVILIAN) BELT.

Two interesting state- ments have followed the action of President Roose- velt in accepting respon- sibility for the guardian- ship of Iceland. Mr. Churchill, in the House of Commons, has pointed to' the logical outcome of that step: close Anglo- American cooperation in the defence of the island and

the mutual advan. tages to be derived from Anglo-American naval co- operation in keeping the dangerous waters of the North Atlantic open to supplies from the United States to her forces in Iceland and from the United States to Britain.i Mr. Willkie, in Washing- ton, following an inter- view with President Roosevelt, indicated that his influence had been brought to bear to break down resistances to the full implications of the lend-lease policy. Effec- tive aid or none at all, is Mr. Willkie's doctrine, and it involves measures to ensure the mainten- ance of free sea-lanes. The positions of Mr. Will- kie and President Roose- velt are, of course, from all practical considera- tions, vitally different. Mr. Willkie is a free-lance.

world there are, it now, than he has of Nazifying, all the time, responsibility The heavy

hints and rumours in circulation | Britain.

Far from believing that even of decisions from which

that peace is possible within a

Hitler cannot be beaten, Britain there can be no retreat is

very short time. Hitler, we are!

But we do not think it will the President's. There is, told, is just about to tell us that is now convinced to a man that

take so very long. We believe however, a good deal to so far as he is concerned he has he can be

that although Hitler, by careful be said for the insistence won all he wants and that

massing of his forces at selected, He is

A year ago Britain was in influential sections of him the war is at an end.

less places, can still pull off a dram-l.

the! even prepared, so the story goes,

two, we have The British with their atic coup or confident. the American Press that

to give up some of his gains in

We be- Mr. Willkie's forthright the interests of peace, and Bri-backs to the stand is more typically tain, it is hinted, may agree to armed, except for a magnificent lieve he has shot his bolt. representative of the some such deal, realising that the though small Air Force, and

atti-complete defeat of Hitler is now average American tude to the problems of impossible. the hour.

We Have

Measure

All over the

Hitler Don't believe it. ardently desire a peace of

for completely.

may

that

of kind. It is the one thing that could save him. But he has no more chance of getting away with

In a recent issue "Collier's Weekly" he succeeded in one and the same paragraph in de- molishing the defeatism

of the isolationists and in splendid phrase in the charting a bolder course campaign

only

that

for the administration, the productive can be when he wrote:

strong and only the I give to America a practi- cal, specific plan. Furnish to strong can be free-comes

Britain to-day and to-morrow with even greater pertin-

and the next day, for her des- perate need; ships

in our docks, the ships in our coastwise trade-until

the

beaten and beaten

wall, almost

His

THE

the treasure,

the lives necessary achieve that.

measure of him now. un-

and

to

We

an believe that the tide is on the

unbeatable Navy, with character-turn. istic stubbornness refused to be- lieve that defeat was possible.

they With grim determination set out to rearm themselves. They

By John Gordon

I Why are we so confident? will tell you frankly. The Battle of the Atlantic has been a rough affair for us. But the losses are going down. We are getting the upper hand slowly but surely. The destruction or the immobil- isation of those three great ships on which Hitler gambled so much as ocean raiders, Bismarck, Gnei- senau, and Scharnhorst have sav- ed the day for us. The smaller, raiders, the U. Boats and the sea bombers, are lesser menaces and in due course, they will be mop-

made many blunders. They went ped up. about the job slowly. They took

The Mediterranean situation, Crete, is not so bad as it was in the week France fell, in spite of Hitler all that has happened.

will never reach the Suez Canal. He will never succeed in closing the Mediterranean. ́.

Hitler's greatest danger, the real reason why he is filling the world with phoney peace stories is a very simple one. Thanks to American aid, and to the fact that

the ships ence now because of the many hard knocks on sea and on complicated a little by the loss of

it fact that the failure of land in the process. They had hurts, the impounded ships of the Administration to to watch their cities being laid other nations, the ships we are building. Give to her destroy Crush the forces hamper-in ruins, and the populations be- ers, and, if necessary, see that ing and delaying producing scarred and torn. those ships, loaded with ever-increasing production of tion has made the impor- But they set, their jaws grimly American factories and farms, tance of production great- and held on. Their determina- deliver their cargoes safely tu

It is his tion never faltered. Sentimen- the ports of western and norther than ever. ern England." Thus England judgment that if America tality went out of their nature as will purge itself of fear the months of horror piled up, Here is the reply to Col. fear of defeat, fear that and they became like steel. Lindbergh's assumption Great Britain cannot win,

Now we have reached the stage that Britain cannot pos- fear of war, fear of peace, when if any Government propos- sibly win and that ald for fear of change it willed a peace with Germany-if Britain is therefore futile. help carry

war such a Government were possible Here also is the call to against Hitlerism to vic which it isn't-it would be hurl courageous leadership in tory. place of hesitation.

will survive..

Mr.

the

ed from power in an hour. Every man, woman and child in Bri-

shall not end until Hitler is

his bombers have not succeeded in slowing up production in Bri- tain, in spite of all their efforts, the Air Force of Britain is now almost equal in strength to Ger-

the full tide many's. And production has not yet begun to flow olther in Britain or America. That time is approaching.

of

Hitler gambled that Air Power

would win him this war Air Power is going to defeat him in- why he is so anxious to get peace

in stead. He knows that and that is

Willkie coupled his plea Only defeatism, delay tan is determined that this war for delivering the cargoes and timidity can bring the dust, no matter how long it with a plea for maximum disaster. The bold and taires, no matter what sacrifices back to the wall at this moment. industrial production. His courageous cannot lose.

talk going. It is he who has his

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