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Britain's Foreign__Markets
In a recent article
Great Britain's export trude The Economist pointed out that us "our preparn- tions for offensive action at a later date require the continuance of heavy imparts, we must maintain our exports to the highest possible level. The wisdom of necessity for muintaining exports to the highest level has been recognised from the carliest days of the war. In fact the Importance of the
rade export loomed so largely in the minds of Government officials and Industrialists that at one line the production of armaments suffered to an alarming extent. Whlic this attitude has changed very considerably under the Churchill regime, the two-fold object of maintaining the war effort at the highest possible pitch and of keeping u normal flow of exports is recog- nised as the great problem of the
moment.
It is true that Inroads on Britain's
foreign exchange resources during the first year of the war were pol heavy but the continuous and in- creasing delivery of orders for aero- abroad from planes and annaments must considerably widen the gap be- tween imports and exports unless the export trade is maintained at higher level than now reached. achieve this it is necessary that additional markets should be secured to replace those lost in Europe und that existing transport
facilities should be improved.
war.
To
With this in mind the decision to despatch a mission to the South American countries is welcome. The objeet of the mission is two-fold. On the one hand the representatives will endeavour to
to show that it is in the interest of the countries visited, as it is in the interest of the whole world, that Britain should win the
This
should not prove a dif- flcult 108k especially as the indis cretions of German agents have dur- ing the past few months been 'fre quently criticised and condemned. At the same time the British mission will, in collaboration with South American interests,' explore every avenue that might lead to a further development of economic relations,
Another mission, though dissimilar in character, is on its way to Initin. In this case the discussions which will be held at New Delhi' next month, will, include Empire countries only, Delegates from Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Southern Rhodesla, Burma, Hongkong,
Ceylon and Malaya will meet to devise the best methods for co-ordinating. the Empire's war effort. The Increased activity in the war zone in Egret and. the
Eastern Mediterranean calls for continual supplies from what is
the East миона Eastern group of Em- countries. These countries will, in fact, be responsible to an 1 increasing extent for the provision of all war materinks to that zone.
'CAN'T YOU STOP THAT NOISE OUTSIDE?”
We fight for ourselves and
The France of
N
to-morrow
OW that the position of France is crystallising. the first temptation of all Kwill haturally be indigna- tion at the men who, without popular demand or constitutions authority behind them, have betrayed our Ally.
But indignation is not enough. The right to anger depends upon understanding.
A handful of men, however
BY HAROLD
LASKI
by relying, as Franco and Hacha zelled, upon the armed might of their foreign opponents.
They are willing to purchase Im-
munity for their own privileges by selling France in chains to Hitler and Mussolini.
They rely upon the military force
privilege of Great Britain to organ- ise that liberation.
Granted that we hold frmi, the next year is going to see a new 1848 in Europe, upon an immensely more massive scale; and, this time, there will be no successful counter-rovo-
lution.
Granted that we hold firm-tha C civilsed freedom. But te hold firm, is now the busla condition of all
we in this country have to omarici- pate those democratic forces which
held down.
Important, cannot betray forty of the dictators to give them time capitallat democracy has es long millions, even in defeat, unless to organise an authority of com
pulsion they could not secure from there have been profound social the free consent of the French forces behind them which have made that betrayal possible.
Those social forces are unmistak-
able. They are the influences which In 1848. prevented the political re- volution from becoming a social revolution, and extabitshed Napo- Icon significantly enough precursor of Hitlerism-in power.
influences which They are the censed resistance to Prussia in 1870 and suppressed the Commune in one of the most bloody massacres of modern times.
Poisoned Wells
They are the influences which sought to inake Dreyfus their vic- tin and were prepared to poison the wells of French justice rather than admit his innocence.
In our own day, they are the in- Guences which used all their power to break the social democracy of
Етопи. the Popular
and avowedly preferred an accommodation with Hitler at the price ́even of the liber- ties of Western civilisation.
11.2
people.
They put France in pawn to Ger- and Italy that they may many atajntain their brief hour of power.
brief hour it will be. For Laval and his like, and Petain, who is no more than their Hindenburg, are, after all the men whose purpose and doctrines brought France to defeat
They have nothing in them that is capable of regenerating the soul France. They have been unablo ot to exact willing consent for their betrayal from any Frenchmen who are free openly to express their
minds.
The Awakening
We also have to discover the dynamic of the masses. We also have to organise the surrender to its claims of those vested interesta which have so long stood in the way of its expression.
this; I know that Attles and Green- I think Mr. Churchill understands
wood understand it.
The only way to release this dyna- mic is by immense and immediate steps to social justice.
They and they only will awaken in a full way the whole courage and determina- ton of the Perso
They and only will make it evident to the masses that, with vic- The masses of Frenchmen abroad unite to denounce this shameful tory, they have in truth nothing to capitu capitulation. We know that the lose but their chains and a world to great bulk of the Socialist Party of a period of acute danger, France denounces it. Wonudacity is the high road to salva that it is opposed by the trade unions.
ons. Herriot. Mandel, Reynaud. have stood adamant against it.
It is a betrayal imposed by Petain and Laval by means of foreign bayoneta. It has authority over Frenchmen only so long as those foreign bayonets can protect it.
Laval and Bennet and their like have always been in politica the commercial travellers of big bust-
It Will Come ness. They have suffered the exist- ence of political democracy so long
The day those foreign bayonets did not threaten the interests
the régime of are overthrown, of big business."
Petain and Laval will collapse. On They were prepared för ita sup-
that day a new Franca will be born. pression so soon as it appeared that
The France of the third republic political democracy sought to ex- tend itself beyond the political field. was beaten for the reasons that And immediately it was clear that have brought us so near to the to defeat Germany a wholesale abyss: Its leaders lacked the will transformation of the French eco-
LOAN YOU And they had therefore to build the organisation nomic and social system was neces- sary, fatal to the vested interests
eta necessary for victory. they represented, they were pre- to sacrifice France to those pared to vested interests,
For, in cadence, they have made Hitler Germany the executioner of French political democracy,
Same Old Model
If they have their way, the new pattern will be a way of life in which the great principles of 1780 will have no place. They have used the
a opportunity of temporary defeat to inaugurate the counter-revolu- tion.
the
to
We must throw overboard tion. tradition and routine; it is those that have, in the service of privi- made France the victim of zolentiesa conquerors. their
Whether it be the problem of India or of our relations with the Soviet Union, whether it be the profit-system or the mechanisms of Government, what we need now 18 large-scale and courageous experi- mentalism.
We are unable to mobilise our immense resources by coercion; we can mobilise them by consent.
And the way to consent in to con- vince the common people that ail they may hope to be depends upon victory.
New World Partners
They had separated the political
The way to persuade them to the life of France from the interests of the masses because they were not effort victory requires is to show. prepared to extend-as was shown them by acte now that their hopes by their hostility to the Blum have, as victory comes, the certainty
and Government to Republican of fuiniment.
That is what ne French Govern- of democracy. Spain-the frontiers of
They would not enlist its dynamic ment sought to do since the war in their service. They were pre- began that is what the Petain pared to
to oppose traditional France Laval Government neither can do to a new Germany: they were not nor wishes to do. To-day it in prepared to oppose a new France to Hitler's caretaker; to-morrow it will be the agent of the w worst type of a new Germany,
French reaction. They were prepared for a victory Frenc no other purpose than to
It on the
for traditional France
maintain the enslavement of model of 1914-18; they were not prepared either for the risks or the France first to the foreign tyrant, It is significant that so much of sacrifices involved in preparing a and, were he to win, later to the
forces of corrupt privilege. pattern of their coup d'état fol-victory for the new France. lows the previous Fascist models. Everi in those last weeks in
The France we in Britain fight which
now.to
to liberate
the France
of the The politicians of big business Raynaud Bought to infuse new ally themselves with reactionary energy into the organising effort, future.
a Franco already restions, at generals and Civil servants to over- the men of the old regime conspired
the fate that, has been" imposed turn. throw the right of a people to arm and opposed him at ever! Its will ge
They did not want victory on the upon it. new terms. for that victory meant,. and they knew it an economib and social revolution,ARIN
They refuse the opposition the opportunity of expression. They avade consultation with the organs established to legalise the exercise of power. They seek to break thi resistance of their opponenka withEN
That revolution will come It is the conton of ethan of France, and it will be the proud
It is a France, also, ready to co- operate in the struggle for victory. In aiding: Stwlaid ourselves. For we are bound in the future to go thrward as par ners to a new and a braver world.
Their job is Mercy
SPECIAL MESSAGE › from the Chairman of the War Organization of the British Red Cross and Order? of St. John.
It is difficult for us here, in England, to tell the people of the Colonial Empire how grateful we are for the wonderful effort they have made on behalf of the Bri- tish Red Cross and Order of St. John War Organisation in this country.
I know very well that many people think the Red Cross is merely a money-collecting agen- cy, and that what we give out to the press as to the way in which their money is spent very often does not reach them, May 1 therefore fell you à few things. which we have done since the beginning of the War to carry. out our great task of mercy, and relief of suffering.
We sent out to Franco some- thing between £30,000-£40,000 worth of medical comforts and storce.
We sent out 50 vehicles, including 20 Ambulances, fully equipped: we established large Stores al Dieppe and Boulogne: we established' a Con- valescent Home for Meers, and another for Nurses, and equipped and staffed them.
We sent to Finland £12,000 worth of medical supplies. Two aeroplanes. were sent the moment Finlan asked us for help, with stocks of chloro- form. Inoculation serum and essen-" tial drugs.
We rent more than £12,000 worth of medical stores to Norway in the same way, the moment they asked
*15.
In both cases difficulties of trans- port were very grent.
+
We have a large Department which deals entirely with the dispatch of parcels of food, clothing and necessaries to pri- soners of war in enemy hands. In the last war we spent close
ол £4,000,000 this work
on
alone.
We have another Inrge Depart- ment which concerns itself with Inquiries by people for their wounded and missing relatives. This work is. of such immense value that it alone would almost justify the existence of the Red Cross. At the present moment it is dealing with thousands of letters a a day from anxious people secking information concerning their wounded and missing relatives.
We also offer help to relatives in. visiting dangerously wounded or sick soldiers in
in hospital. This was done first in France, and is now carried on in England, often entailing find- for ing temporary accommodation people in the vicinity-of-hospitals.
In May came the tragic collapse of Belglum, the return of the BEF and later the collapse of France.
we had at Boulogne, Everything we
and all our Ambulances fell into the hands of the enemy. We hoped that we might have rescued the stores at Dieppe, and our staff, at, great risk to themselves, went back time. after time getting the stores out and away to the West Coast, but such was the rush to save human lives, we, at the last moment, had to abandon them.
We have lost everything we put Into France, and all that has to be. replaced. 缩
Our trained stretcher-bearers and V.A.D.B 'worked day and night to remove the sick and wounded from the ships, and take them to trains and hos- pitals.
Then the wounded began to pour the Arst hack to England, and in days of the Dunkirk evacuation we £30,000 worth of were asked for
de... hospital comforts which we livered to hospitals all over England. We have constant demands on us to help with hospital stores and. clothing, sailors who have been shipwrecked and, in many cases, wounded by enemy action. All our existing County Organisations are told to find at once all that is needed for that work.
The Ministry of Health, in whose charge the wounded are now, have called upon us to find 10,000 beds at very short notice. They will help with the
cost of
these equipping hospitals, which may amount to .បទ many as 200, all over the British Isles, but it will cost the British Red Cross and St. John War Organisa- tlón huge sums to staff and maintain. them,
We have
ve undertaken
to
for the War Office and Ministry of Health, anything up to 200 Am-
bulances, and we are well on the way
to doing so. A large number of these Ambulances are belog supplied through the generosity of the Do- minions, Colonies and British Com- munities in all parts of the world; 60 of them have been promised by Canadian 50 by America: and we have now another offer from America of anything up to 200 We of course? have
to them
We, the War
ir Organisation of the British Red Cross and Order of St. John, are determined come whit may to carry out our duties to the sick and wounded, and fistiky othe confidence which the public, have so generally placed in us,