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TOTAL SACRIFICE
who could justly be described as
to me by a person, who,
Germans?
by
MAURICE
WEBB
normal men, this unscrupulous figure has secured the degrada. tion of a great and cultured na- tion.
He has perverted a kindly and decent people-yes, the Germans are essentially that--by craftily harnessing the whole resources of their state to the most revolt-
ing tyranny in history.
The cruelties of the concen- tration camp and the purges are merely features of the monstr ous process by which ho has
On the other hand, I have usually sober and rea- to this sweeping assertion never yet met a candid person sonable in his judg-that the Germans are al-
together a vicious lot. a stupid person. Usually the ments, has been moved first thought of stupidity is to to intense anger by the tivation of an attitude of completed the pernicious devas-
And we stimulate the cul- conceal. It is the cunning per- son who is invariably the stupid devastation wrought by mind, which, if it persists, tatlon of the mind and spirit of person, for it is impossible to
out misleading and befogging one's own soul.
* * *
mislead and befog others with-Hitler's night raiders. will result in disastrous Germany's "little man."
policies when we face the Let us look at this de-
His offence against his own gigantic job of post-war re- people is greater by far than claration. It is of some construction.
anything he has done, or will be importance. For it is It is vital from every able to do, against us. Candour is the loveliest of typical of an attitude point of view that we should It would be well if we under- human qualities. Literally, the
distinguish between the or- stood this, word means "whiteness." us in which, under the savage dinary people of Germany
This talk about "chaining the well-laundered linen.
impact of the air war, is and those who control and Germans down" after the war The man of candour shows, increasingly prevalent.
lead them.
is dangerous folly, not only that he scorns to fool
Our struggle is just as others, but even more, that he When the war began, most much for their liberation as scorns to fool himself. Only of us in our judgments on it is for the retention of our
when that stage has been reach-
ed can we claim to have arrived the issues at stake drew a freedom.
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at the threshold of true manhood marked distinction between For what is this war all
the responsibilities of the about?
and true womanhood.
Only when that stage has been reached can we know deep and satisfying friendship with an- other human being.
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They are chained now. It is
me that they seem to relish their of little consequence to retort to chains, and fawn at the fect of
their captor.
Of course they do. In that we see the real evil of "Hitler- ism."
ordinary Germans and those Is it not to stop Hitler im-, of their Nazi rulers.]
posing on the civilised world BOOK TO READ Now it is not so. Under the monstrous system with the ruthlessness of the Ger- which he has degraded his
If you want to understand significant that candour is not are abandoning that dis-
Nevertheless, it is perhaps man war on our homes we own people?
the nature of Hitler's crime against the Germans you always esteemed as it should be. tinction.
Are not the ordinary folk should read n book which Mr That is because it disconcerts
of Germany the first pitiful Gollancz has just published at and frightens people; and we
The emotions which victims of that system? 89. Od. Ask your bookseller or must admit that some candid prompt this change are in-
library for "Little Man-This people, unfortunately, dispense evitable and natural. They and Rotterdam were brutal
The bombing of Coventry Now" by "X. Y. Z." with courtesy; which is a sad come to us all.
This book merits widespread mistake.
My own anger, when I see these happenings and the view that the only solution of beyond all reckoning. But attention, particularly by those who are coming round to the battered streets and smash- general savagery with which our problems is to wipe out all "He is a very direct creature," ed homes, is as comprehen- Hitler wages war are but a the Germans. I once heard a friend described, sive in its condemnation of minor part of his condemna- or later. The answer must in- and it was not by any means in- Germany as anyone's. evitably be in the negative be-tended as a compliment.
There have been moments cause it becomes more certain Had the critic been less abash-when I should have given every day that the "blood, tears, ed by my friend's candour, and complete assent to this pro- toil and sweat" promised us by more willing to appreciate a position: "There is no such Britain's dynamic Prime Minis-spirit of utter truthfulness, he ter was not a figure of speech found, a superb specimen of a
might have found in him, as thing as a good German." but a superb symbol of facts.
IS Hongkong doing its full share to win the war? That is a cogent question that all citi- zens must ask themselves sooner
man.
An English newspaper writer
Yes, clear sight is a quality to revere, and candour the certain recently asked his renders to put sign of the divinity that ch to themselves cach day the light the human soul so that question, "What-have-I-done-may-one-day-be-strong-and- this winter's day to help win luminous enough to behold the the war this summer?" Look- majesty of God. ing round at the daily life of Hongkong's citizens, inter- spersed as it is by fairly onerous Volunteer training, social efforts to raise funds for Britain and China, and a certain amount of For the first time since man- A.R.P. training, the chief im-kind began to use the ocean for
Increase in the cost of living, com-
Robert Power
LISTEN
tion.
UNDERSTAND!
It is not
a propaganda treatise. Nor is it a learned study by EL sociological psychological expert.
or
The Brotherhood of the Sea
It is a novel-an exquisitely THIS man's offence is told story of the lives of ordin- something in finitely ary German folk under the Im- more criminal and menacing to pact of the developing Nazi the world's security than the system. bombs he showers on civilians. There is nothing in it which The crime which calls for aition I have put before you. has any relation to this propo- BUT I now put for
ward a counter- reckoning and resistance is that But, just because it is the mov- proposition.
he has elevated the technique of ing tale of the prostitution of I submit that we miss the ters into a ruthless and gigantic of an intelligent race, it proves low-witted little gutter gangs--normal representative members- whole point of the desperate political system.
my contention. issue now being fought out
Through his warped genius, I recommend you to read it. if our judgment is restricted allied with that of cunning sub. You will look at the rank and file of the German nation with new sympathy and understand- ing.
And if the outcome of this war is to be a durable peace we
are under
By
Fleet commands the sea.
and Rumanian flags as well as have to understand the Ger- many ships which until recently mans.. pression left is the remarkably trading all the ships at sea un Sir Archibald Hurd were trading under the flag of Do not misunderstand me. I small impact that hostilities der the flags of the scapowers
the United States and have been am not suggesting that we of Europe have made on the Hongkong re- management.
one would have suffered incalculn. bought from that country by should pull our punches, sident.
When the Germans overran market for all that they have to is the best evidence that could ble harm. Britain is the bost British shipowners. The com-
ing and going of these vessels MAN'S RIGHTS the democracies of Norway, sell and also the best market for pulsory evacuation, inconvenience of Denmark, Holland and Belgium, all that they have to buy. To be furnished that the British oceantonal black-outs, and payment and seized the great commercial British people import each year
ON the contrary. My plea for a full recognition of of war taxation are about the sum ports of France, the owners of goods to the value of about one
What is most significant in the real nature of what it is we total ní the Colony's war kil practically all the shipping of thousand million pounds. Those that all these seamen, whether are fighting against is, in fact, Compare this for a moment with the those countries sought the hos-
goods are exchanged for manu of British or foreign nationality, a plea for the relentless prosecu- seven lean years in Germany when pitality of British harbours, factured articles and coal, the are willingly going about their tion of this vast undertaking on Hiller was squeezing his people dry hey placed their vessels will raw material which the British business on the great waters, which we are engaged. of money, labour and food to produce ingly at the service of the Isles can supply in almost un risking their lives by day and favour the restoration of some We are at war because we is to-day the world's most Ministry of Shipping in London.
by night. They realise that powerful land weapon, the German When Greece was attacked by limited quantities.
they are helping to maintain the thing which is just as essential tio world's heaviest Italy in October laat, most of bomb thrower, the Luftwaffe. Re- the ships of that country were supreme importance to neutral for their own countrymen but our own survival.
It is, therefore, a matter of freedom of the seas, not only to the world's future safety as call the social discipline and the also placed at the disposal of nations, and especially those of for all the peoples of the world.dinary people everywhere to live And that is the right of or- ruthless suppression of family and that British administration. South America, that the trade sentiment that went to build up the The losses of tonnago due to routes to the British Isica should
their lives according to their Nazi Party, the world's greatest Furth | enemy action were thus made be efficiently policed by the Columnlat and Propagandist ma ood by enemy action. The British Navy so that the stream the British Fleet, the ships of unexploited by power-seeking So behind the sure shield of own innate sense of decency, sinkings due to U-boata. mines of trallic can flow in both direc- all the great senpowers of and bombing aeroplanes were tions. If it censed, what other Europe, who look forward to the
tyrants. It is not suggested that we should neutralised in this remarkable market, would be available? The day when they will be released only in our own country and Those ordinary people are not ever seek to emulate the fents of the way--to the advantage of pro- Germans and Italians boast that from the yoke of their opprea under Hitler's heel. Germans by their own methods. We ducers and consumers through- they are self sufficient-that ex- sors,, are carrying the sea-borne
those European States now must bent their late-pointed tools out the world. in the democratic way, but to do this
what
Army, and
chine.
we must givo in service and kind until we are exhausted with giving-- and then we must give again.
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cept for oil fuel and some ores trade of the world. Their There are many millions of they need buy from no one. heroism, for many have already them in Germany. Their re- If the German war on ship but it is true that they buy from lives, merits the thanks of men our ultimate war aims as the That claim is not well founded, paid for their daring with their lease forms as largo a part of ping, not only British and Al- other countries as little as possi- and women of all nations since preservation of our own liberty. If Hiller'a spring-time threat even-lied but neutral, had been suc- ble-even under peace condi- but for their labours, sea-borne tuates and it must be attempted or cessful, traders
his last chance of winning the warenman
Th
everywhere tions.
is thrown away-Britain will suffer once talked of as a sailsfactory
trade would be at a standstill, with the result that the want
UNWORTHY :
I plead, therefore, for the a torment that will require all the celling for the Royal Air Force, we
and suffering would be univer-blackout of these unworthy, in- So traders in all countries are anl. salve her Empire can produce Hongkong people who think of two interested in the safety of the now talk of ten thousand a year.
Jaccurate, and highly dangerous money to fill in the gaps in her fight million dollars as a satisfactory high ships which are managed by tion of the skill, resourcefulness thing as a good German,"
I am moved to deep admira-notions, that "there is no such Ing equipment on land, sou and air for the Bomber Fund will have to the Ministry of Shipping in and courage of these senmen of raw materials from rich colonial think of that Agure lo sterling as the London. In addition to
If that become the basis of soils; personnel from her sturdy kin war continues.
the so many nations, members of our attitude to the war folk to take their place in the line.
great British merchant navy, the great brotherhood of the might as well call it off now. Krometne is in the war to the end this fleet now includes vessels sen. You, who Hongkong is fortunate in that only and, although she has given gener-under the French, Greek, Nor- words, will also, I am sure, feel another calamity. And all our rend theso For our peace-making will be money is asked of her at this time. Lously, she has not begun to give to wegian, Dutch, Danish, Belgian, that you owe them a debt of present labour will have been in This must be given lavishly. Where the full. Total war demanda total formarly ten thousand planes were sacrifice,
Polish, Lithuanian, Estonian gratitude.
vain.
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