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EMPIRE IN ARMS
The
The Prime Minister has given due expression to the feelings awakened by the Empire's co-operation in the war. That liberty and decency-the girders of all civilization--are t stake is appreciated alike by the self- (overning Dominions and by all other acknowledge His communiiles tha Majesty's Jurisdiction. pudiation of Hillerism is joined in by every race and colour. Its over- throw is recognised as being vital to everything that makes life worth living. It is cardinal challenge that is offered by the Nazi power Whoever evades it "sinks to the rear and die slaves."
tic The quick intelligence of
real Dominions has grasped the nature of the crisis. They know that it is no mere question of European Interests that hangs in the scale. It is the issue of liberty or slavery for the New World and for the Antipodes that is being fought out on the plains and scan and in the skies of the Old Work! to-day.
Consultation must determine how most cach part of the Empire can effectually throw its weight into the struggle whether in the contribution of man-power or in the production of food or armaments. It was not until an advanced stage of the Great War that this discrimination was arrived at. With experience to guide us, we are more alert to-day to the penalties of waste and confusion. The present dellberations in London will fucilliate a wise allocation of functions, so that every party of the Empire may most effectually bear Its part in removal of the peril that overhangs all.
In 1014 we thought of the outer Empire mainly as a source of the manpower which was to welcome a reinforcement to our own undevelop- od strength in that regard. To-day, In the presence of a more mechanised warfare, we realize how the develop- ment of the Dominions has made Ulem not less efficient allies under those altered conditions. Their in- dustrial growth has rendered them capable of most valuable contribu- tlon to the equipment of a modern fighting force. The outbreak of war has already transformed some of the aspects of Imperial strategy. No- thing is more remarkable than the instant perception of Canada's altus- tion as the geographical centre for the preparation of air-power. The
Country
other and the Dominions alike are preparing to organise there the training of those squadrons which will ultimately overpower the utmost strength that an enemy can place in the field.
Mother
It is needless to speak of the gra- titude and admiration evoked by the engerness with which the Dominions range themselves by our side. Their efforts, will not only have a decisive effect on the struggle between bar- barium and civiliniloni They will raise the spiritual 'staturo of their own communities by the conscious». ness that they have played the part of principals In one "of the greatest: dramas of history.
"But what big teeth you have, Grandmainma 1"
The answer
"All the better to cat you with, my dear!"
to those who ask
What kind of war
W
-HAT kind of war is this? You hear that question on all sides. It is asked becauso the first month of war has dif- fered very substantially from' people's expectation.
It has run contrary to all the prophecies of wave after wave of German bombers seeking to lay waste the civilian popula- tions of France and Britain.
It has so far in the West-though not, let us always remember, in Poland been a military and naval war of the old kind, not the new kind of "total war" which was ex- pected.
And even on the Western Front there has been practically no aggressive German action through- out these weeks, while British troops have been moving to posi- tions in France.
Why has Hitler thrown away the military advantage he might have gained by a lightning attack on the West, while our troops were on the move?
The answer to that is, I believe. that Hitler is fighting this war as a politician, not as a soldier.-
He has been prepared to lose n possible-although by no means advantage certain milltary because it might have interfered with his political strategy.
The famous
ous dictum of Clause- witz, the Prussian philo- sopher, that war is
a con-
tinuation of the polleles of
of dip- lomacy by other means, has been carried a stage farther by Hitler.
To him diplomacy is a continua- tion of the policles of war by other means. Or rather these incans are Either weapon interchangeable. will be used as circumstance sug- gests
He believes, with Clausewitz, that "the political goal to the end
arianre is a means leading to
A means which will be used without
when--as scruple
LA Poland-it seems the most suit- able to him, but which will from time to time be replaced by
is this?
by FRANCIS WILLIAMS
political means if that seems the clear in our minds, as to its pur- more likely to bring results.
pose, and clear also as to what we Hitler, I suggest, realisca that ourselves mean when we talk of with France and Britain united peace and what conditions we re-
sceuro it. against him, and it is important to gard as necessary stress the word united, war as a
There is, of course, already a means to his end which is minority of opinion in Britain. which is in favour of stopping the German domination of Europe
To say that is not to may prove a weapon which will war now.
secrets to the break in his hand, though I do not give away any think there is any doubt he will enemy, who are aware of it.
This minority is made up of employ it if other means fall.
But for
for the moment ho in rely- oddly assorted groups.
political ing chiefly on the
weapon. And let no one under-estimate his skill in the use of that weapon.
His political weapon is "peace" talk
The first sortio in this campaign was made a week ago. It has been answered and answered with the right, firmness by M. Daladier in France and by Mr. Chamberlain and Mc. Attlee in Britain.
There are, first, the complete pacifista. Ono. may, as I do, dis- agree with them, but one must honour their mincerity-To-them- anything-even Hitler domination
is
is preferable to war, which they cannot reconcile with their con- sciences.
But I conjecture that there will They would, if the ultimate test be further peaco approaches came, offer nothing but passive from Hitler. Not because I think resistance even to a Nazi invasion Hitler wants a genuine peace a of Britain, belloving that even
based peace
on international although their generation and the equity And
secured by reciprocal next and the next might bo zacri- guarantees which will be honoured. Liced, in the end their attitude of I do not think he does, though the non-violence would
group Then there is n German people may.
Tory within the
which is Party now in favour of calling off the war because they are convinced, on the evidenco of Stalin's suc- cesses to date, that a continuation of the war against Nazi Germany will mean the "Bolshevisation Europe, and they regard this as a more serious threat to their in-
Germany. terests than is Nazi
But because the sort of "peace proposals ho put forward a wock ago are the chosen weapon in the political war he is now conducting. Why does he use this weapon? Because he judges-and his whole political success is built on his Gair for judging and playing upon mass opinion—that this, more than anything else, may create disunity in our tanks.
And, indeed, it may unless we are
GRIN AND BEAR IT
By Lichty
POLIC
"No-l didn't get that other woman's numbor, but sho wat wearing a sailor straw, had ̋dyed hair, and of all things,
black not gloves.”
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Thirdly, there are the Com- munists, who, having originally hailed this as a war for freedom against Fascism, have now changed their minds on orders from Moscow. Instead of warning their followers against the Tory die- hards' desire for an imperialist peace, they denounce the stand' against Hitlerism as an imperialist
War.
This sudden somersault has been too much for the British commonsenEC of most of their adherents, including Mr. Harry Pollitt. their secretary, who has been sacked by the executive.
This is a break with precedent. If they were faithful to their Russian model, it should be the other way about. The secretary should liquidate the executive.
1
Joining with them as new com- rades in a "stop the war on Hit- ler's terms " cry are the Fascists. who have no public importance in this country except as an obnoxious noise at street corners.
And now there is Mr. Bernard Shaw. Mr. Shaw's sense of the theatro, which lends him to n dangerous over-simplification of International issues, plus kindly nature, which makes him anxious to trust everybody-first Mr. Chamberlain, then M. Stalin, and now Herr Hitler-have led him to produce a new theory.
Mr. Shaw's theory is that Hitler
his
has now discovered ho is not as wicked as he thought he was, and that he cannot bring himself to bomb innocent people, so that the war will stop anyway.
To this the short reply is that. the men and women of Warsaw and the peasants in the Folish fields bombed by the German ratdern would give Mr. Show all the evidence he neods of the quality of Hitler's mercy, if ho were not so unshakingly determined to show how clever he is by declaring that black is really white.
These are the main groups-for Mr. Shaw's rich variety of con- fucting opinions clearly entitle him to be counted as such-among the stop the war movement in
have some importance as the raw material of Hitler's cam- paign-intellectual cannon fodder in political
But their combined ability to isrupt British opinion is not large. Hitler has other facts in mind.
The first of these facts is the hatred of the British people for など。 The second is the tendency
of people all over the world to allow themselves to be bemused by words.
Hatred of war is deeply im- planted in the British people-it is. above all, deeply implanted in the Socialist Movement.
It
is a ne thing that it should be. But it is not enough to hate war. Hatred of war must be balanced by a constructive idea of the conditions necessary to any true and lasting peace.
Hitler, one presumes, in, hoping that if he talks sufficiently of pence he will mobilise in his ser- vice as unconscious allies in his political war all the hopes of common people for peace-thuse same hopes that led many people in Britain to acclaim the Munich settlement without recognising its true significance.
He hopes, no doubt, that if he talks sufficiently of peace, people will allow themselves to forget his broken promises of the past, and out of their desire for peace urge that there should be negotiation. even thou
though on a basis which leaves him with the spoils of past
aggression and with freedom to embark upon tresh aggressions in the future.
At the least he hopes to confuse the issue in the minds of our
people, to disrupt opinion and to weaken resolution.
His tactics can be answered only by a positive appreciation on our part of the kind of peace we want and the guarantees necessary to ensure it.
The causes of war go beyond Hitlerism, although that is the immediate menace.
There will be no real peace in the world until those principles of international equity, of common opportunity and of social justice which Labour has so long urged ara catablished,
Out of the tragedy of war we have
to create the opportunity for a new world to come to life.
To make pance on Hitler's terms would be to throw away that opportunity and to be bemused by the word peace into acquiescing in. (an unesìgy truce before a new War.