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Confidence
THE initiative in Europe has changed hands. To-day the deeds are coming from the Democracies; the words from the Dictatorships.
as
Mussolini spoke at Turin yes- terday. His remarks will not ♦♦♦ arousC
much interest in Britain as the Anglo-Italian football match.
Now, through British diplomacy and rearmament, there is a growing confidence that peace will prevail.
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Britain is rapidly reaching a position from which she will be able to see that peace is kept,
The Peace Front becomes more extensive, more powerful. Turkey is the most important member enrolled to date.
One big gap remains-Russia. This week there will be re- doubled efforts to close it.
Even more impressive than these
sign of democratic determination is Britain's
huge rearmament. That--and that alone has given heart to our friends.
moves
as
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No nation in all peace-time history has ever made a com- parable effort. On land we have Conscription. At sea we are launching a warship a week. In the air our margin of inferiority is fast disappearing at the rate of 100 new warplanes a week.
Britain, after nearly 20 years, is approaching a'point at which her armed forces are strong enough to support her diplomacy.
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HE proposition that with- out adequate supplies of raw materials for arma- ments no nation can carry on a war for any length of time is too obvious to require argument.
Mr. H. Morgenthau, United States Secretary Treasury, has recorded that in August, 1914, the German General Wangenheim said to him: "If we do not get to Paris in 30 days we are beaten." Later -after the German defeat on the Marne--the General added: "We have made a mistake in not laying in supplies for a pro- tracted struggle. It is an error. however, which we shall not repeat."
IN face of this supreme Importance of abund- ance of sultable raw materials to the successful con- duct of a war, the peace-loving nations of the world should realise that they hold what is possibly the one infalible means of creating and maintaining permanent peace. If the peace-loving democracies united in a refusal to supply raw materials to the war-like Powers, they could hamstring the war machines of those Powers; and aggression would become impos- sible.
The English speaking peoples alone control something ilke 75 per cent, of the world's raw mate- rials, while none of the aggressor countries has more than a very small quantity of these essentials. There are 25 materials con- sidered by experts essential to the manufacture of armaments:
Mica Molybdenuma Nickel Petroleum Platinumi Mercury Rubber Sulphur Tin
Aluminium
Antimony. Cadmium Chromium Coal
Cotton Copper
Fluorspar Graphite Iron-ore Lead-ore
Moguesito
Manganesa
Tungsten Wool Zinc
Of these the British Empire has an adequate supply of eighteen, only four, and no other country America has twelve, Japan has except Russia has more than four. while it is doubtful if Italy has an adequate supply of any of them. except mercury.
Mussolini claims that
tho Axis is marching forward to
NO dictator country has give Europe "peace with
more than a small frac- tion of the oil required Justice." But Britain and even for peace time needs. Ger-
inany's air strength has, of France
arc right to
course. guard been greatly exaggerated, but if Jagainst a possible interpretation she actually had the number of planes credited to her, the argu- of this phrase as "peace dictated mont put forward here would gain added force because even at their on Axls terms."
present strength the could not keep her air fleets operating with- out imported oli.
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Peace
by
ALFRED
EDWARDS
Labour MP. for
Middlesbrough, E.
blockade, as her war time require- ments would be nearly twenty mil- Mon tons a year.
Japan is at present waging war on China with materials largely supplied by the British Empire and United States. Without assistance from the Engilsh-speaking Japan could not support the war for any length of time.
the conquest of Czecho-Slova. kla. Why, then, should we con tinue to supply raw materials to Germany materials with which she builds up her armed forces in order to threaten helpless countries, and disturb the
safety of tho British
- Empire?
Is it not time we limited armaments by limiting the sup- ply of raw materials with which armaments are made?
No Number
LITTLE ring of silent, brooding people. Silent from fear of repri- sals, from apathy, from bit- ter experience?
Small street urchins, now as ever eager for excitement even at the expense of others, rush shouting to the fray.
Passers-by are attracted by the sharp, shrill crack of splitting timbers, by the clouds of acrid dust which rise and hover on the golden rellef and adjustment by peaceful morning air. Possibly the
IT is important to indi- cate that the door would at all times be left open for any nation seeking economic
means. No nation should be com- peoples--of-saving itself from economic pelled to resort to war as a means
Why, then, should we not con- sider the question of controlling at least our own supplies of raw materials to aggressors and poten- tial nggressors?
IT seems almost provi- dential that at least 75 per cent. of the matc- rls essential to war are controlled by the British Empire and the United States of America,
The present state of affairs in this matter of exporting raw mate- rials is as farcical as it is tragic. Two days before Hitler told us he was going to march into Czecho- Slovakia a cargo of four thousand tons of British copper laft Canadian port for a German port -and we might have been at war In a week!
A
The United States has recently taken a stand in refusing to allow certain materials to go abroad. But what was the position in America last year?'
The President was nending Notes to Japan protesting against the brutal murder of the Chinese people, while United States Indus- Lilalisia were shipping cargoes of munitions to Japan to keep up the supply of murdered Chinese!
GERMANY, Italy and Japan could not have reached their present armed strength without suppites regularly and increasingly obtained from the British Empire and the United States.
The Prime Minister recently -stated that the time was approach. ing when he hoped to discuss an agreement for the limitation of Armaments. No sooner had he made this statement than the Munich agreement was torn to shreds and thrown in his face by
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strangulation.
It should be made clear that if a
potential aggressor is willing to give an undertaking to renounce the savagery of war, then we will bo willing to give an undertaking to renounce the selfishness and greed of monopoly.
Let us in this way demonstrate that the civilised methods outlined in the Kellogg Pact-a pact which already bears the signatures of 04 nations, including Germany, Italy, Japan, England, and the United States--can and will aucceed.
The way will then be open for convening, with some reasonable expectation of success, the World. Economic Conference proposed by the President of the United States,
WE must, however, make it clear that we will apply this economic boycott rather than permit any nation to make economic adjust- ments by war or the threat of war. We should act on these lines with- out delay for, unless we use our strategie economic advantages promptly, the loss of geographic strategical positions may impair the economic advantages we hold.
As I have already stated, an effective boycott on raw materials would so cripple the war machines of aggressive nations that war would become impossible.
But the maintenance of world peace, or the mere absenes at war, 10 by no means the sole beneft which would result.
to
The Impossibility of successful war must inevitably lead general disarmament, and, to n consequent vast release of wealth for constructive social services and the general well-being of mankind. The millennium might then be only just round the corner "-11 men were wise enough to find their way to it,
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unusual quietude springs from a knowledge of their. defenceless and, strictly speaking, indefensible posi- tion.
A few blue-clad officials' direct. the operations; they have their orders. The red-faced, rather truculent looking fellow possibly thus masks his distaste and atcels his heart, as surely he must. The thin, palish catches my enquiring eye-and [quickly looks away. Not a job after their own hearts, evidently.
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THE entire green and sparing hind
side is strewn with the pitiful tiebels of what once were homes not the homes of such as you, certainly, but equally as essential to the mourn- ful dispossessed. Roof rushes and mats are torn apart by the seemingly stolid coolles; planks are shattered; household utensils sent rolling down the incline to foregather dismally in n nestling hollow.
An old greyhead darts into her half-demolished hut seeking to re- trievo a few decrepit pols and pans. before it is too late,
That most courageous of creatures, the mother cat, distressfully walls at the Indecent unveiling of her still blind kittens which she had so she thought-so successfully hidden from. the eyes of man.
A small bow of most distasteful proportions lumbers squealing from the clamour an
un best she may, pursued
by a distracted owner. A variety of our dogs stand at a safe distance, and but occasionally does one emit n. half-hearted yelp..
Believe it or not, a tiny, skewbald Szechuan pony is led away, snorting and baulking, his glaring eyes all but popping from his chunky little head. How did he get there?
TN contrast to the uncanny silence. of the majority, a buxom, fresh- faced, black-clad, tidy and youngish woman raises, Cain in her vehement, rnging protests against the desecra- tion. No
one interferes with her, either to solace or to reprove; her
nir.
So many persons misunderstood the taving clamour rings in vain upon the
They are justified by experi- enco and by momory of the Actually she controls only some- Duec's former deeds. Long be-time requirements.
thing like 30 per cent. of her peace be wearing shoes made of fish-skin to functions of municipal Board of Re-morning
save leather and help the campaign lef that the General Assembly voted the scene of desolation; the entire Now not a a plank is upright upon foro the democracies began to' If she were allowed to subjugate for national elf-sufletency.TM A to change the name to Boards of Tax
Rumania, this would give her an range of these shoes, made from the Review. Legislators were told that Afteen huts are prone, Dust, dirt, rearm he frequently glorified extra supply of some six million stin of a certain large kind of fish, persons on relief had been applying litter, demolition and despair; allent the idea of war.
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