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Lesson of the The Lament
Burma Road
foreign imports; and so they
PHILIP NOEL-BAKER, M.P., are for 90 per cent. of all their demands a courageous British oil.
They can only import these|| essential war requirements if
Of Hitt The Spout
By
DON CANTELL
AND SO IT CAME to
policy in the Far East No one in the British standing by our principles, they can pay for them that is pass that Hitt the Spout did if they can, export their pro- become greatly angered for Commonwealth of Na- and helping Chinn, has been, tions wants war with Japan, and still remains, our real hope, ducts and so get foreign ex his three henchmen, Gore
That is why the Government change..
the Bulge, Rib the Trumpet if it can be avoided. We was right to open the Burma. And their foreign exchange and Goeb the Gab. have enough enemies al Road; why it will be right to position is catastrophically bad. ready, and not enough al- take other menses which will War with us would automatic-Bulge lies.
make it harder for the mill- ally make it immensely worse. tarists of Japan to extend their
"O thou Bo-meddled mons- But no one who understands war,
Perhaps wo "cannot afford trosity with naught in thy head our cause can ever forget that
another enemy." But neither but the thought of food for thy the Japanese militarists were The question must be con extreme
But can this policy aucceed? can Japan. And even the most stomach, why didst thou say un-
And he said unto Gore the
the first aggressors; that they aidered against the background knows it. of her extremists to me that the birds of war of
struck the first and the heaviest of the present facts.
blows at the Covenant and the Kellogg Pact.
the Land of Eng were as fled- Japan has a population of 70 dare, in threats, demands, ag to battle. If they are as fled- "They go just as far as they gelings and could not go forth And we know that a just and Japan), the same as the popu
million (i.c.. Japanese in gression. And when we talk gelings thine own birdmen are lasting peace can never be res- lation of Great Britain and the appeasement and make conces as eggs. They have set upon
tored to Asin until the Japanese Dominions in 1914. invaders have withdrawn their
armies from the soil of China. MILLION KILLED
None of his can doubt that
the Japanese militarists will She has had more than a extend their aggression to million killed in this war in "British interests" in the East China since 1937-more than dircelly they feel strong enough the losses of the whole British to do so.
Empire between 1914 and 1918. As Mr Churchill wrote in August, 1939: "The victory of With infinitely less material Japan (over China) clearly resources, she has had as great spells the extirpation of all material losses as we had then. European and American in- terest in the Far Eust."
sions and friendly gestures we my followers with such fury encourage them to plunge far that I can no longer invade the ther in a course calculated to Land of Eng and likewise they end in war.
drop their eggs upon our land until I can no longer go forth from my hiding place."
events in recent months,
On June 16 this year, after
And turning unto. Rib the
12 months' negotiation, we Trumpet he said unto him. signed an agreement with Japan
"O thou son of Ananias, why which ended the illegal and didst thou advise me to ally my- grossly provocative Tientsin blockade.
self with Muss the Lin of the Land of It and say that he was It is not months, it is years, We made great concessions] great in battle? since she had a military victory which affected Chinese rights; Not long ago the Japanese
Chiang Kai-shek. Her and we hoped that a prolonged militarists formally allied them- armies control only a small part period of good understanding selves with the Axis Powers, "f the territory they claim to with Japan would follow, with whom we are at war. They have conquered. .
over
ITALY A MILLSTONE "The Great Gasist of the south has been as a millstone about my neck. Not only doth MODERATES OUT Apart from guerillas, Chiang
his ships of war hide in fear their Kai-shek has an army of at Can we keep them "non-belli- least
But on June 24 Japan de- and trembling within three millions, with manded, with violent threats, havens but his legions in the gerent"?
several millions more of trained the closing of the Burma Road. Land of Af Rica already cry
For sixteen days we refused the out for aid from me.
are open enemics, though "non- belligerent."
OUR REAL HOPE
reserves.
In spite of the great superi- demand; and nothing happened. "Oh thou who doth call thy-
There are two possible ority of their weapons, the policies. “Appeasement"
Only July 10, however, we self great in matters of state, on Japanese armies are completely sent our Ambassador in Tokyo say unto me, what state is this the one hand; and, on the other, ogged-they cannot go on or instructions which were equi that thou hath brought about?” atanding by our principles and ouck, and the losses in their valent helping the victim of aggres- Feur còntinually increase. sion.,
to giving way. Our But although the countenance I action was defended by the of Rib the Trumpet did become Economieally, their position argument that, if we stood firm, red in colour he replied not.
"Moderates," Admirni
on
In the last nine years, we is even worse. They can only the have tried them both, in vary- run their war with foreign im Yonai and Mr Arita, would be And so Hitt the Spout turned ing degrees.
ports--oil, minerals, cotton, driven from power, and re- in his fury, upon Goeb the Gab Experience has shown that wool and so on.
placed by "Extremists" "appensement" has.
whof and he said unto him, For some vital minerals they wanted war." always brought us nearer war; that are absolutely dependent
"O thou misshapen offspring On July 12 the "Times" cor- of the rking of darkness, why respondent reported demands hath thou said unto the people in Tokyo for "a new Govern- that the Land of Eng was no ment with a stronger foreign more? Now they clamour policy." Nothing had been about me suying, 'If the Land heard of these demands before of Eng hath been conquered we made our concession; but from where cometh the birds they followed it within twenty of war that drop their eggs-upon four hours.
Che SNAPSHOT GUILD
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On July 14 the agreement for "Thy lies hath placed me the closing of the Burma Road upon the spot from which there was signed. On July 18 the is no return."
"Moderates" fell from power. They had been unceremoniously
And gazing once, more upon
ejected by the militarists of the his henchmen he cried out in
anguish saying,
and Navy
Japanese Army General Staffs; and they were hath turned against me.
"The cross which is doubled Some- replaced by the two most ex-one hath placed a mine in Mein treme and most anti-British of
Japanese politicians, Prince Kampf."
Konoye and Mr Matsuoka.
NEARER WAR
clearly we stand by her side, the less the risk that we shall be Within a few days Mr Mat- attacked.
suoka celebrated our concession It was both wise and right by arresting eleven British sub to open, the Burma Road. jects without excuse. One of
them, Mr Melville Cox, died It would be wise and right to while he was in the hands of follow the United States' exam- the Tokyo police.
ple and to give Chinu a loan- perhaps for the purchase of oil Since then Prince Konuye in Burma. and Mr Matsuoka have invaded
Indo-China; they have signed It would be wise and right to their alliance with the Axis; buy up for our own require- and Mr Matsuoka says that, if ments the oil, copper and the Germany and Italy wore being other war essentials which beaten, Japan would have to be United Kingdom, Dominion and "prepared to help them." Colonial companies have been
selling to Japan.
If in clear that we are far nearer war than we were be Core July 10.
RISK INVOLVED In such a policy lies the best It is also clear that the an- hope that we shall avoid war in nouncement of the opening of the Pacific, and that peace with the Burma Road, and the justice shall roturn to Asia, United States' loan to China No doubt every policy in- have done something to stop volves a risk, but we shall do the drift.
well to remember that the suc Before the announcement, the cess of Chinese resistance is, Tokyo Press was threatening in both morally and materially, a the extreme. After it, the vital British interest.
Times" carried this handline: As Mr Churchill wrote in "Reopening of the Burma Rond. 1939:- Cautious tono in Japan.”
"It would be far better, if the The conclusion is plain. The worst happened, to abandon military lenders of Japan know temporarily our concessions and the grave risks of extending interests in China and suffer all their commitments before China the loss entailed thereby, rather has been beaton.
than to fail to aid and comfort the Chinese in their agonising The more help that China but over more hopeful struggle receives from abroad, the more for right and freedom."
.
December 28, 1940..
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