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HE Soviet invasion of non-aggression treaty with the Soviet Union very similar to Finland, I wrote. at that which the Army officers, the beginning of last urged on by Germany, wanted serve all rights and forbid republication. month, would have conse- to see concluded between the Soviet Union and Japan? And quences at least as great as have not the people of the those which followed the United States taken a stronger Nazi invasion of Czecho-line against the Russian attack on Finland than against any Slovakia.
other warlike development, in Europe since the last Great
War In Retrospect
IT
".
can be said with confidence that the war so far has gone much This was certainly no exag- War. better for the Allies than they had geration. Far away in Japan the And, since the American-
reason to expect, .....
.
d
The outstanding fact, which may newspapers have been discover- Japanese trade agreement comes have already determined the ultimate ing that there is a racial link to an end in a few days, and issue, is that the threatened German between the Japanese and the might so easily be replaced by one which kept further essential Blitzkrieg on land and in the air has Finnish peoples.
American supplies away from not even been attempted...
Only a few weeks ago there Japanese ports, is it not im-
The lightning stroke was the cen- tral feature of Nazi military strategy. But in order to give real hope of success the stroke hud to be delivered at once, before the enemy was able to assemble his immediate military "Fesources" lo" meet ́11,
Ašhitzarm
May End the War in China
was a strong move in favour of a Tokyo-Moscow agreement;
Against Poland-relatively weak, unable to receive material support from her Allies in the West, and her armies ill directed by the High Com-now there is a notable swing
back towards the democracies. mand-the lightning war went with
There is of course a abang,
in profound cleavage Japanese public opinion. Very roughly, the Court circles, the
The world then awaited with bated breath a repetition of the fatal stroke against France and Britain.
Day after day Dr. Goebbels warned
us that zero hour was at hand. Navy and the These warnings, however, proved to business men..
be no more than a development of the war of nerves.
In spite of Hitler's frantic anxiety
jwant a settle-
ment of the
for a swift and dramatic finale, tuis Chinese war in agree
thement with, Gren't. military chicis declined to take responsibility of scrliicing a million Britain, the United German lives in a frontal-uttack on States and France, while Army officers the formidable Maginot defences.
They knew that if this dangerous and a section of the gambie did not come off the German bureaucracy are or cause would be hopelessly compro-were-pro-Nazi and in
favour of still further.
mined,+
As on land, so in the air. All the adventures in China, unofficial German boasting of the while the Western havoc that was to be "wrought on Powers are too busy English towns, and the paralysis that elsewhere to object was to fall or English life, by in-
But that would pre- cessant large-scale air attacks, came
suppose pence with to nothing-not for reasons of human- Ity, as Field-Marshal Goering has Jocularly suggested, but because British and French bombing
says
VERNON BARTLETT
of three and a half million men, way towards solving the grave with another two and a half problem of transport.
million partially trained and
some three or four million ready ·
to go off to training camps when The Japanese hope of a
there is room for them.
Victory is therefore as remote as. Apart from these armies, ever. Their hope that un: ax=- there are according to the well rangement can be made with Informed Chungking corres. Wang Ching-wel which will save: pondent of the "New York their face, restore peace, and yet Times," well over a million and leave them with considerable a half men organised for guerilla control In China is not so brght warfare behind the Japanese as it was, for he wants more money and a more nearly Inde pendent Chinese army. than the "The question of exhausting Japanese generals dare to give the nation's man power,"
he him.
lines.
writes, "need not even be con-
Besides, it is not at all certain sidered for 20 years." But can that the British Government, theac men be armed? And
what about the oil that is essen- despite the partiality shown by tial for all the thousands of some of its members to aggres- lorries that bump. along that sors, would recognise Wang miracle of engineering,
the Ching-wel as the ruler of any Burma highway? And the part of China. By doing so it doings of Wang Ching-wel, the would not only thrust Chinng one important deserter from the Kai-shek into the arms of Mos the cow; it would also offend Nationalist camp since
American opinion "át a time. Japanese Invasion began?
when it must be most anxious..
The competition for arma-
ments has become so widespread to win American sympathy. and keen that, even if most avenues of supply had not been closed, China would have had to
Equatrons were stationed on the door the Soviet Union,..which alone portant that the Tokyo Govern, depend more and more upon her land, then, has made it almost
step of Germany's great Industrial areas and could give as good as Lon-supplies Chiang Kai-shek with ment should close its ears to own resources.
considerable war materials and the hotheads in the Army?
don got and "erlinps à little more.
The only land war now in pro-whose past disputes with Japan gress is being fought out in arette have immobilised hundreds of conditions between Finland and Ger- thousands of the best Japanese many's "pseudo-nfly Russia. -
troops along, the frontier that At this point we enter the realm of divide, Siberia from Manchukuo. speculation. No one can say yet whether the apparently unequal contest in the far North will bring Russia and Germany closer together
The Russian attack on Fin-
imperative for Japan to con- clude the Chinese, adventure,. but the difficulty of concluding it still remains. The British But she can supply enough and Americans cach refuse to be And so it comes about that machine-guns and rifles to keep drawn into negotiations which the campaign in favour of a her armies going, and such might involve other signatories settlement of the Sino-Japanese artillery as Chiang Kai-shek has to the Washington Nine-Power war with Anglo-American advice obtained from Russia and other treaty. The law remains al and help has become so strong countries has been carefully pre- though It has been flouted. And But, the Japanese now ask that probably it could be check- served for use in the 1940 nationalism in China, the fear of which drove the Japanese to in the war against the democracies themselves, had not Finland as ed only by one of those revolu- offensive.
tions the Japanese Army 80
raw their invasion, is developing, as or will
Despite the valuable increase their mutual
often organises against the materials that sho has lost to a result of it. suspicions,
It is certain that Russia did not ex-will Russia be, with no great margle Japanese politicians.
Japan sko still has certain ores, The other harnased members pert and had not provided against of essential war supplies, for un ad. But, as many a militarist such as wolfram, which the of the international trade union
ventura against Rumarin.or. Turkey so sturdy n defiance.
It is certain that, without prompt or Iraq and the regions of the Middle leader has discovered in the British, for example, should be of aggressors who have done so and substantial, ald, Finland cannot East in which Britain is specially. Past, it is infinitely easier to anxious to buy lest they should well for themselves since the be sent via Russia to Germany. Japliniese attack on Mancharia hope to withstand the Invaders for interested, and the more confident start a war than to end one..
will all the threatened countries of The Chinese National Govern- And there is apparently a newly in 1981 will see no encouraging many weeks.
It is equally certain that the longer South-Eastern Europe be in their ment can claim that it now has developed oilfield in the province light if they turn their oyes.
a fully-trabed conscript army of Kansu which should go some towards the East. she is able to hold out the less rendy ability to smash the adventure. '.