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the tomb
The Fourth Instalment
Churchill's Memoirs
Deadly Changes In Germany
By this time
amothered by and iron. A new Desertion of edntrol over China became there- fore the main theme of Japanese policy.
that theru
Cemetery, Happy senior officers of the SA and SS, that the general assurance given to remedy this evident inequality / October 24, 1955, Sir John Simon,
treaty
firmed by 441 voles to 94 complete able apart from tkne and cir British interests, distinct expected.
to Chancellor
Amid the exaltation of
cumstance.
I viewed this attack upon thei
Plun.
be-
•
·
Was
United pro.
kuo,
it, und in
of
quired.
There was a Charler re-
fcol-
occupled with its own vehement natal
The French, although thair
being the German jilku political affairs still remained in military forces, though not yet feather-bed. constant flux and in'mation with-provided with the mass of train- I remember particularly the out particular significance, clunged reserves which only a succes- look of pain and aversion which tenaciously to the French army slon of annual conscripted quotas saw on the faces of members
In September, 1931, on a pre- as the centre and prop of the life could supply, may well have in all parts of the House when text of local disorders, the Japan- of France and of all her alliances. amounted to the equivalent or said, “Thank God for the French esa occupied. Mukden railway,
re-over a million ardant volunteers, army." Words were vain. This attitude carned them
and
Early in 1932 the Japanese creat- bukes both in Britain and in the partially "equipped,
However, the French had the ed the puppet State of Manchu With United States The opinions of many forms of the latest weapons hardihood to
Inaist the Press and public were in no coming along through the con- should be a delay of four year province of Jehol was annexed
A year later the Chines and partially-converteduttore the destruction of their On March 21, 1933, Hitler opened, woy founded upon reality; but vertible
factories to arm them.
heavy war material. The Bri-
March, 1993, Japan- in the Garrison Church at Pots-the adverse tide was strong.
Under the so-called National At the end of the World War, sh Government accepted this se troops, penetrating deeply into dam, hard by
of Government British public opin- France, Ikke Great Britain, had modification provided that the defenceless regions, had reached Grent, the First ton showed art
in an enormous mass of heavy ar-French
the the Great Wall of China. This Increasing
about agreement The remains of Mrs. KATE Frederick the
aside clination to cast
all care tillery, whereas the cannon MARY CRUISE GUIMARAES Reichstag of the Third Reich.
of destruction of their artillery was aggressive action corresponded to In the body of the church sat
had Germany. In vain the the German army about (mother of G.A. and L.A. Gut-
fact specified in a document for im- the growth of Japanese power in the Far East and her now naval marnes and Mrs. C.M. Gulmaraesthe representatives of the Reichs-French had pointed out correctly been blown to bits according to mediate signature,
Mr. MacDonald sought| Remedios) who died
April wehr, the symbol of the con- in a memorandum of July 21, 1931, treaty.
France bowed to this, and, on position on the oceans.
From the first shot the outrage 16th, 1946, will be reinterred at tinuity of German might, and the
China aroused the Catholic
that a universal by proposing to limit the calibre after compairing that Germany committed, upon at Versailles 20th April. The the now figures of resurgent Ger-limitation of armaments. Valley, today,
should of mobile artillery guns to 105-had shifted her ground in the the strongest hostility in the
4.2 Inches, follow the one-sided disarmament|mm, or cortege will pass the Monument many.
Existing course of the preceding weeks. United States. But the policy at 5.30 p.m.
On March 24 the majority of of Germany did not constitute a guns up to 0 Inches could be re- brought these draft proposals Isolation cut both ways. Had the the Helehstag, overbearing or
obligation. i
the certainly tained, but all replacements were before
Disarmament Con- United States been a member of over-aweing all opponents, con- was not an obligation enforce to be limited to 4.2 Inches.
ference, The result
un- the
the League of Nations, she could undoubtedly have led that Assem- CHINA, AMERICA
Hitler, from those of France, were to be | emergency powers
now Chancellor and bly into collective action against Hitler for four
having| Japan, of which the United States AND JAPAN
Yet when in 1832 the German protected by the maintenance of Master of all Germany, tho
to delegation the Disarmament the treaty restrictions
against already given orders on assuming would herself have been the prin- As had been foreshadowed, election the exultant column of
Conference categorically demand-GermTEN naval armaments until power to drive ahead boldly on cipal. Mandatory.
The British Government on Chiang Kai-shek has been the National Socialist party filled ed the removal of all restrictions 1935, when it was proposed that a nation-wide scale, both in the leader in the pagan upon their right to rearm they a new Naval Conference ould training camps and the factories,
their elected President of China past their
part showed no desire to torchlight procession a
the Bri- found much support in
meet. Military aircraft
were fell himself in a strong position. act with the United States alone; under the new Constitution, through the streets of Berlin. It is The Times spoke of prohibited to Germany for the
He did not even trouble to ac nor did they wish to be drawn but unhampered by its limita- had been long
dificult the timely redress of inequality," duration of the Agreement; but cept the quixotle offers pressed into antagonism with Japan fur➡ Bully tion of power. The excuse for foreigners,
those and
the Now Statesman of "the the three Allied Powers should upon him. With a gesture other than their obligations under
the reduce their own Air Forces to disdain he directed the German the League of Nations unqualified recognition of for abandoning the provisions who had not known the pangs of und
comprehend.
of the equality of 500 planes aploce.
Govemment to withdraw both│***** of this democratically design-defent, to
from the Conference and from Adolf Hitler had at last arrly-
in some British circles at the ed formula at the outset is
he was not alone. He
the League This meant that the 70,000,000
of ed; but
Nations. Such 10 of the Japanese Alliance and perhaps good enough in its had called from the depths of de- Germans ought to be allowed to French armed forces and the at was the fate of the MacDonald the consequential weakening of
and prepare for war There could be little feat the dark and savage furies rearen way.
the. British position with all its victors in the late tempt to establish equality
long-established interests in the point in pretence, and the latent in the most numerous, without the
All this while and on March
Far East. antics of the National As-most serviceable, ruthleas, con- fourful struggle being entitled to tween Germany and France with
il-starred race in make tradictory and
any objection. Equality strong aversion:
Government could Majesty's sembly in the last week or Europe. He had conjured up the of
status between victors and 23, 1988, I had the
to Parlame opportunity States remained intersely of saying
be blamed it in their gravd nitaire and economic two have been sufficient to fearful idol of an all-devouring vanquished; equality between
"I dare say that during
this internat
growing European, was the France of 39,000,000 and a Ger-
tar-ott problems. Europe and show that the Chinese have Moloch of which ho
embarrassments, u good many
they did noi that anxious month thers are double of nearly
Japan watched with steady gate seek a long way to go before priest and incarnation.
many people who have said
a prominent role at the side my scope to numberi It is not within
riso of German warlike I have been say understanding parliamentary describe the inconceivable, brut- The German Government were themacives, as
ing for several years
"Thank power. Disquietude was increas of the United States in the Far East without any hope of cor- methods and functions, while ality and villainy by which this emboldened by the British de God for the French army. ingly expressed in Scandinavian
ascribed it to the civil war, beyond doubt, apparatus of hatred and tyranny meanour. They
about Cher "When we read
countries and the States of the responding American support in
Europa. Littlo Entente and in some Bal- has reached a stage of crisis had been fashioned and was now the fundamental
China, however, was a mem more than justifying the de- to be perfected. It is necessary, inherent decadence imposed even many, when we watch with rurkan countries.
for the purpose of this sccount, upon a Nordle race by the dem-prise and distress the tumultuous
Deep, anxiety ruled in France, ber of the League, and although claration of a state of emer-only to present to the reader the ocratic and parliamentary form insurgence of ferocity and war where a large amount of know she had not paid her subscription
"Ill-treatment| new and fearful foot which had of society. With all Hitler's spirit, the pitiless
German preparations had come for what was no more than jus the still-unwitting national drive behind them, they of minorities, the denial of the ledge of Hitler's activities and of to that body, she appealed to It In many respects, there are broken upon
1991, was told, tice. On September 30, to hand. There was, parallels between conditions world:
a catalogue
the League called on Japan breaches of of HITLER, AND GERMANY ARM- their delegation gathered up its in China and those in Greece. ING.
papers and quitted the Disarma-
treaties of immense and formid-her troops from Manchuria. Russia does not want China
ment Conference. To coax them
In December a Commission was able_gravity; but when I asked to stand on her own feet any
theso deadly
became the prime! changes back then
my French friends why this mat-appointed to conduct, an inquiry place in Germany, political objective of the victori-
ter was not raised in the League on the spot. The Laugue of Na- more than she does Greece, were taking
of Nations, and Germany invited, tions entrusted the Chairmanshir and it is cheaper and safer the MacDonald-Baldwin Govern-ous Allies.
In November the French, un.
ultimately summoned, of the Commission to the Earl of to subsidise native 'rebels' ment felt bound to enforce for
to explain her action and state Lytton, the worthy descendant of some time the severe reductions der savere and, constant British what WEA than
Russian and restrictions which the finan- pressure, proposed
precisely what she was doing, wifted fine. The whole back- employ
"The
was
answered that the British ground of the Manchurian affair troops. But there are differ-cial crisis had imposed upon our somewhat unfairly called
of
would deprecato
presented. The e was carefully, ences. The Greek Commun- already modest armaments, and Herriot Plan." The essence
clusions drawn were." steadfastly closed their eyes and this was the reconstitution of all normal protections of civilised Government
step
were plaint.Me Thus, while Mr. MacDonald with chukuo was the artificial creatio ists are plundering bandits, ears to the disquieting symptoms European defence forces as short society, the persecution of large such an alarming
service record of savagery in Europe.
armies with limited numbers of individuals solely on
Baldwin's full authority of the Japanese General Staff, and of race--when we
disarmament to the the wishes of the population had The Chinese In vehement efforts to procure numbers, admitting equality of the ground
and French, and practised it upon the played no part in are, Com-a disarmament of the victory status but not necessarily accept-see all that occurring in one of preached
learned and the most gifted, munists go, fairly well equal to that which had been en- ing equality of strength.
In fact and in principle, the the world, one cannot help by leaps and bounds, and the time
In February, 1933, the League behaved. Again, the Greek forced upon the vanquished by
the re
equality of status Treaty of Versailles, Mr. Mou-
tely feeling glad that the fierce pas for overt action approached. of Nations declared that the State impossible ultimately slons that are raging in Government,
its Donald and his Conservative and made it whatever
In justice to the Conservative of Manchukuo could not be re- Ger- Liberal colleagues pressed a series not to accept equality of strength.
any Party it must be mentioned that
cognised. Although faults, represents the ver-! of proposals forward in the This enabled the Allied Govern-many have not yet found
them at each of the Conferences of the were imposed upon Japan, nor diet of a general election League of Nations and through ments
to otter to Germany ather outlet but
National Union of Conservative any other action, taken, Japan, on fairly conducteri under close every other
"equality of rights in wus
system/selves,
And again in April:
Associations from 1932 onwards, March 27, 1983, withdrew from Western
In open.
which would supervision.
security
by proposed "The Germans demand equality resolutions for all nations."
such the League of Nations. Germany China there has never been
Under certain a proper election yet, and the
an illusory character the French organisation of armies and fleets. Henry Croft in favour of an im sides in the war; they now
this and
been told You niedlate
strengthening of towards each other power of the Kuomintang, siderable but should it be de- were reduced to accepting
a different On this cannot keep so great a nation in armaments to meet the growing mood. the party behind Chiang Kal-cided to increase it further, meaningless formula.
was shown-to-be-de- shek, is derived from or- and above all should it be the Germans consented to return in inferior position. What others danger from abroad were carried the The moral authority of
I have almost unanimously. to the Disarmament Conference, have, they must have?
void of any physical support at ganised force.
come military as well as This was hailed
notable never agreed. It is a most den- But the Parliamentary control a time when Its activity For these reasons it is diffi-economic, there is likely to be victory for peace,
gerous demand to make.
by the Government. Whips in the strength were most needed. cult for the Western Powersja demand for extremely closel Fanned by the breeze of popu-{ "Nothing in life is eternal, but House of Commons was at this
acquires full time so effective, and the three World Copyright reserved Re-
(To Be Continued) In general or the United] American controls over its larity, his Majesty's Government as surely as Germ her neigh-parties in the Government, a production; even partially, in any
now produced on March 16. military equality
gency,
to
with a unsurpassed. Communists
as
While
GERMANY
·
•
weakness and
UNDER took a haughty line.
channel that
admission of
provide
a
In July,
Goebbels' Diary will be found in Page Nine
the
or even
Mr.
A
the
to
ramove
the scientific and formidable nations] British, the German might grew of this puppet g the formation
he
upon
no sonctions
safeguards of in weapons" and equailty in the worthies as Lord Lloyd and Sirland Japan had been, a taked
45 a
wa have
Qur
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re
the times, and the evidence of 24 NOS
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in a
Station Incident Closed
and
States in particular to repeat application; a demand which 1938, what was called after its bours while her own grievances well as the Labour Opposition, so fanguage, strictly prohibited. in China the policy pursued Nanking in its dire straits author and inspirer, The Man-are still unredressed, and while sunk in lethargy and blindness, in Greece. At the outset could hardly resist.
Donald Plan." It accepted as its she is in the temper which we that the warnings of their fol
seen, so surely lowers in the country were China enjoyed. American But considerable as
starting-point the adoption of the have unhappily the French conception of short-ser- should we see ourselves within ineffective as were the signs of goodwill in an exceptional issues at stake are, it is im-vice armies in this
of measurable distance of the case degree. Modern China has portant not to exaggerate eight months service--and pro- newal of general European war." the Secret Service.
When one considers that the American them. Great is the Pacific: but coeded to prescribe exact figures
In dispute gone mainly to universities for its higher Americans are too often Pack for the troops of each country. facts were hardly
of ro-the actions The French army should be
responsible education, and the idealist fic-minded in a degree which cod from its peace-time estab-government of respectable men periods which recur in our his- professions of the students biasses their judgment. Just lishment of 500,000 men to 200,- and the public opinion which so tory, when the noble British na 35,- tended to be taken by their now they would do well to 000 and the Germans should, in-flocculently supported them are tion seems to fall from its high estate, loses all trace of sense or
Batavia, Apr" 18.. teachers at face value. They remember that it is in Europe, crease to parity at that figure, scarcely comprehensible. It was
purposo, and appears to cower Full satisfaction has now been 300.-talked like Westerners and not in the Far East, that the
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This was one of those awful
By Dick Turner frothing pious platitudes while given by the Indonesian Re-
nod?
foemen forge their arms.
public over the Jogjakarta rail- basest way station Incident the acceptance Netherlands East Indies In-
In this dark time the sentiments received
or passed unchallenged by the formation Service stated to- responsible leade
lenders
of the polit night. ' ;
ical pariles. In 1932 the, students There were no further im of the Oxford Union, under the pediments in the way of con- Inspiration of a Mr. Joad, passed tinuing the political negotiations their
ever-shamed
resolution: between: the Dutch: and Re- "That this House refuses to fight publicans, the statement added. for King and Country?"
The announcement was made It was easy to laugh off such after the release of a joint Dutch ari episode in England, but in Indonesian communiqua; which Germany, in Russia, in Italy, in reported that the leaders of the Japon, the idea of a decadent, de- two negotiating delegations met generate Britala look deep root Jogjakarta, the Indonesian and sw
swayed
during a friendly Raden Abdul Kadir "the" Ty Deputy Governor Cicneral of
many calculations.
passed the resolution dream that soon to
Little did the foolish boys who capital, today,
It said that, during they were destintoriously in the
conquer or fall ensuing war, and prove themselves the Dutch East Indies, was in- the anest generation over bred by formed that
Proper measures Britain. Leas ́excuse can be found would be taken ungainstả those for their elders, who had no responsible. for Chance of self-redemption in ac« | night's ~
orast Monday. Incidents,
when the Netherlands delegation members were reported to have been man-
tion.
Th
Dr.
A complete lack of concert be handled by Indonesians. tween the non-aggressive sad. Mohamed Room, Republican peace-loving States had also deva delegation leader, as deo re- eloped in the Far East. This ported to have asked Abdul Kadir story forms counterpart t to the about", the, domasas suffered by disastrous turn of events in delegation members so that they Europe, and arose from the same might be indemniféd/Router. paralysis of thought and
among the leaders of the former MORE ARMS FOR
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