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THE END OF THE WORLD
CONSCIENTIOUS objectors ap- pearing before the tribunals In Britain have revealed some strange religious beliefs and practices. One of the strangest is that of the body known 49 "Jehovah's Witnesses," and the Church of Scotland Home Board has thought it worth while to issue a pamphlet on the creed and practice of the sect.
WILL JAPAN STRIKE?
The arrival of the Australlans at Singapore was a thrilling event in itself. More than that. It was received with the same enthusiasm in the United States as throughout the British empiro and elsewhero. It was a won- derful symbol of the greatest thing in the world. That is, the steady emergence before our astonished eyes of unmatchable forces in the cause of freedom. We are thinking not only of the general movement of the English-speaking world in its entirety. We mean something still wider-the colossal
Mr Garvin says: "At need operation of the United States
the gallant outpost of Hong- with the whole British Com- kong would be defended to the monwealth. Together they re- present hundreds of millions of populations; a machine-power when they made their plots and still larger in proportion; and pacts, never conceived the possi- resources which are both unap. bility of this sequel. proachable in extent and inex- haustible in supply. With us in
Co-
last."
question of that as of submis- people. There would be no backing slon to the Axis. At need the down by Washington. This certainty gallant outpost of Hongkong, offers the only real, hope that Tokyo far from all other British bases though it lies, would be defended to the last.
The Fanatical School
be restrained may
from the mad plunge into unlimited ingolam.
Why mad? Not only because it would widen the war. Worse. It
would lengthen the war. And to a
degree that would exhaust utterly all Among the Japanese, as is Japan's resources, strained as they are well-known, there are wise already by the exponse, and loss of heads and moderate influences, the interminable attempt to subjugate all China. The southward gamble on Unfortunately there is no evi- the Nazi model would mean at long dence yet that they are likely inst the national suicide of modern to count. The control seems to Japan and could mean nothing else. Needless to say, there is no question have passed into the hands of yet of combined aetion between the the extreme nationalist school. United States and Britain. America's
parallel action is none the less signi- · Its ambitions are limitless. Its ficant. Hier fleet in the Puelfie is to fanatical vehemence is ignorant be equipped at once with dive and
bombers and fighters up to war-time blind. These unbridled strength. It does not mean challenge jingos imitate the Nazi techni- any more than our own measures in que. Though their devastating concert with Australia. But It does same resolve to meet a adventure in China has dragged challenge. on into its fourth year without attaining its object they still America's Momentum seek the subjection of 400
We cannot realise too vividly the millions of people. Eternity meaning of the American factor in would not be enough for that the whole war and the scale of its promisc. A gigantic effort of indus- trial output for war is now fully heart, and partly in action-as. Turn to the immediate facts job.
They have enforced a virtual planned. Its execution is about to a momentum that will stagger more and more they will come in the Far East. The critical
augression. America can outproduce China. In the next territory to in the long run the whole of Fuller's into action--are other hundreds situation was revealed in a flash suzerainly over French Indo-
by the arrival of the Australians that they try to manipulate Europe and Japan as well. It is of millions of mankind.
for the defence of Singapore and Thailand, whose frontier for what she intends to do before she Malaya. Our air-forces have been many hundreds of miles marches #nishes her own part of the job
with that
Burma, and with the might of her own tools. strengthened for stretches down to Malaya. Al- Add to that the flight British empire. This is what we call the great powerfully
same purpose. As to the ready Tokyo has moved consi- The long-range comparison with the est thing in the world. Only the our enemies and their confeder- great sea-basis we must, not at- derable naval forces into the resources of the Axis and Japan is Gulf of Sinm. Movements of in an overwhelming degree favour- ntes could have created it. The tempt to dwell in detail to-day troops towards Thailand arc great Ama Bill is now law. From Axis and Japan have brought it on other circumstances of na rumoured. about. By
The Ironic Miracle
Australia Is There
their Tripartite tural position, modern fortifica
Treaty they have done more for
Dreams And Fatality
abio
and economic
to the freedom of nations. The
his friend Mr Harry Hopkins, whose recent visit to Britain was historie though quiet, the President now knows all there is to be known about British circumstances, methods, needs,
We need bombers for counter-at-
a world-wide command of the seas.
us and our cause than we could tion with sweeping fire, or naval
resources even at the outset. All this comes, skin-close to and plans. have done for ourselves. This contrast between intention and The combined factors make the frontiers and shores of Bur-
Singapore one of the redoubtable ma and Malaya. In Malaya and tack-and this is where the rapid in- effect is the Nazi Nemesis. It
fortresses of the world just as the East Indies are oil, rubber, crense of our offensive strength is the enemy. We may be remembered as the ironic
in far-reaching significance it is tin, and a wealth of other na most alarming to
tural resources. Small wonder need tanks and guns. Above all, we miracle of all political history second to none among the world's that the forward school of Jn. need more destroyers agutust sub- marines, and more merchant tonnage One moral speak for itself. strategical keys.
panese militarists are intoxic to replace the sinkings. Though the Whatever may be the perils of It concerns not only the ated by the dream of southward co-operation of the British Common- the deadlier struggle now open- Further East proper, but other conquest and expansion. They wealth, and the United States is the One of their strong points is ing for Britain and perhaps for vast spaces and populations. If imagine that it would give them greatest thing in the world, it de- the potencies, and treasures of pends upon maintaining at all costs prophecy, and, like many other the empire, they are surpassed it fell into hostile control the half the globe. When the con- In six months American production, peculiar people, they are keen by the rising inspirations. The present security of India as well flict in Europe and the Atlantic though still far from its peak, will students and expounders of the dangers to the island and the as Australia would disappear. is coming to its height they think reach proportions that Hitlerism and ocean-wide Commonwealth dur- With that would vanish the that their opportunity is now or Book of Daniel and of Revelation. in the coming months--and in- security of the Dutch part of the never. For aught we know they Britain Holds The Gap And, again like their prophesy directly to the foundations of East Indies and of all the rest may intend to synchronise their
Meanwhile Britain and the Do- the United States-will be the of that marvellous island-system. own open blow in the Further gravest, the most urgent, and Between the Indian Ocean and East with that of Hitler in the minions have to hold the gap. It is Balkans and with his intensified a grim gop. We have to face the perhaps, the most far-ranging the Pacific it ranges away for submarine campaign. That Is battle for Britain, the battle for the that they ever faced.
some thousands of miles. It in- why the British empire is now Atlantic and the Mediterranean, the cludes the Philippines. Ameri- ready for anything in the region
battle of Africa, the battle in the ca's political and economic in- of which Singapore and the Mu-ns; and perhaps, with thest, the terests in all this sphere are in- lay peninsula are the keys. comparably more important than
ing brethren, they stress
the
early coming of the millennium, to be ushered in by the destruc- tion of the world, and apparently by fire,
It is strange that this belief has not been weakened or upset by the frequency of the failure of such forcensts. For many centuries there may not have been a single generation in which the belief that the end of the world was at hand was not firmly held. The Early Christians cer-
its confederates never спа
overlake.
in the Far East. That mont- fold ordeal is unparalleled. We have the heart and sinew to face it.
Our Amerita, true to type like ourselves, will stake all at need upon our vic:
The Rising Cause But there is a shining and the Philippine group itself. To That Way Madness Lies sons are above le vu solved, kindling side to it. On every keep in the present friendly side the strength of freedom is hands Singapore and all the im- The same principle of immediate tory and her own. From now until
emergency. rising with encouragements, increase
day multiply. Every fresh revelation that the new
but we shall
Our mense region it guards, is nl- preparation against the gravest possi- nutumn we are the fighting trustees and most as vital to the United bilities upplies with the same force for every hope of the present world brings States as the possession of the to the United States. Mr Roosevelt's and of time to come. We shall be
unbending determination would be scarred and scathed, Panama Canal. We need hard-supported in actual emergency by the save the eternal Issue and enhance ly add, what everyone knows, overwhelming mass of the American for over the spirit of man." tainly believed it. Time and aids are more than equal to the that the fate of all Chilia hangs sea, air and on the same considerations. So again through the ages a great new hazards by
land. We fight for sane civili- does the whole question of catastrophe would turn people's
sation; for deepening humanity; America's future In the Pacific. that thoughts in
direction. Hallam tells us that in the for a sovereign reign of peace based on clement justice and in- tenth century an opinion pre-
violable law, This fight we vailed everywhere that the end
now
withstand.
Thus Far...
The policy of Tokyo combines
Shelter Dialogue In Germany
By
"Yot vos dot?"
"Dot vos anodder bompf." "Soon dere vill American bompfa be."
"Ooncle Heinkelhunkel longer at Hamm resides."
"Vy vor dot?"
no.
of the world was approaching. wage is unconquerable in its nu- smooth words with ominous ac- Muny charters began with the lure the soul of civilisation de- tions. For a long time the in- pends on it-it is the rising creasing ambiguity has been un- words, "As the world is
cause of the world-it calls comfortable. While this actual drawing to its close." The belief
forth powers, both moral and situation continues or deterior- NATHANIEL GUBBINS ntes, Britain has nbstained persisted more or less widely to
can strictly from any act or word 6617OT vos dot?"
“V "Dot vos a bompf." the present age, rising and fall-concrete, which nothing
that might cut the trend of ing for no apparent reason. In
"All der time der iss bompfs." the middle part of the last
The new tyrannies, in a word, hope. Such as it is. Our prac-
tical business now is to provide "Der news in Der Pumpornic-
"Because there no Hamm iss.” century there was A strong are evoking the new democracies in earnest against the chance of kel Stinkenblatt say dot anodder
"Der Vossischer Sosaisher recrudescence of the conviction, whose fighting federation will the worst, and even against its British bottleship she has been and the last war and this seem to overpower the aggressors. We possible imminence. That is souk."
Zeitung say der no London tas.” "Dot would make forty-two "Der Sloshissher Koasisher have given it a renewed impetus. are nearing the crucial conflict what Mr Churchill's administra-
One incident towards the close of the whole war. Between now tion is now doing in a manner Britisch bottleships haf sonk Zeitung say dere no Englandt
188," of last century gave A serious and autumn the ultimate issue which repents its historic stamp been, must haf,"
"A lot of bottleships der
DOT
Frankenfurtenstein shock to the faithful and caused
will be plainly determined. We of courage and resolution.
Britisch haf must."
Schweinhundenblatt say dere no the Philistines to scoff. A
For India, as for Australia, "Vot vos dot?"
|Englandt iss, no Britisch Navy, prominent prophet made bold to here are closely confronted by
of front-line “Dot vas anodder bompf." no Britisch Army_las,” forecast the very year in which the sternest trials, the grimmest this policy is one
defence. It demands their ac- "A lot of bompfs der Britisch| the end of all things would come. tests, and by multiplied tasks tive participation in a special haf must." That roused considerable excite near and far. But look well at degree. At the same time it is "Der Reich Marshal ment, but it died down when it the other side. Britain and the a policy backed by the entire say dot on her Sherman soil no was, discovered that the prophet had taken a lease of a house for empire and the United States British empire. It has the solid bompfs vill drop"
Own distinctive and approval of the Government and
"Der Fuehrer say dot Inst Boveral years further on than in its that he had foretold as the end tremendous way are shap People of the United States. At August der var will over be."
a pinch it would have the whole "Der bompfs drop and der var ing to break the climax of attack support of their power. From not over tas,"
of time. The story may have been an invention, but it seems to have had its effect in damping down the ardour of the Boers.
..
"If dere no Britisch Army iss,. der Italians must from dem- Goering|selves_run."
by a world-wide epic of freedom now forward we shall not yield "Der Herr Doktor Goebbels such as was never seen nor sup- one single inch to Japanese pres- vill not 'new say von der var vill posed till now. The aggressors, Buro, There will bo as littlel over be."
"Himmel, vot vos dot?" "Dot vos
two, tree, six bompfs.".
"And dot?"
"Dot vos der ammunition works."
"Der newspapers haf not yet said dero no Britisch Air Force
188.