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SITUATION IN
The speech of President Roosevelt million pounds worth of her goods in the. Graf Spee and the Bismarck, Is without doubt the most momentous Halphong by the Japanese, and driven the Scharnhorst, and the speech of this century This is a serious matter and adds Gnolsenau Into Brest, where they The resonant tones in which it was to the growing resentment of the have been severely damaged, it is not voice was in keeping with the tenso behind the
who are wholly likely that they will risk any further 'dramatta..world... äituation
which appeasement In the Far East. They evoked it. As one listened one felt feel that in the Pacifio the that he embodied the mighty force of theirs, but they also admire the
quarrel the Western Continent,.
splendid resistance the Chinese, have There wn: none of the turgid put up during the past four years and,
fulminations of Hitler are not in the mood to see the Chin- hystericul whom he was answering, but the ese dominated by Japan. deep and forceful, logical and con- statesman who vincing notes of a realised the great', gravity of the world situation to-day.
DISCUSSIONS IN DUTCH INDIES
NEAR EAST
the Near Eust was the defection of The beginning of our troubles in
France. Instead of the combined Beliith and French fleet, armies and ale forces being present to defond that area, we have been faced with the problem of reorganisation by The earnestness and the sincerity The discussions with the author) which British forces alone have to of his words seemed to raise the ties of the Netherland East Indies discharge a duty that was already issue to sublime heights, and mude have reached a critical stage. It is heavy when France was in
the War. one feel the nobility of the cause of difffeult in know whether the econo It is not only the absence of the freedom and democracy,
mie demands are genuine or meant. French forces, however, that has If it was not a declaration of war, war. It is burd
to fail and co provide an excuse for
caused so much danger, but the pre- it was a prelude to one. The climax what incentive Japan can have to go ment in Syria which is favourable to sce, however, sence of a weak disorganised govern- was reached when he hurled deflance further.
la Hitler, and declared that a stufe
of national emergency, existed. The
free world must literally have re- celoed his
his firm
to
as he announced-TELEGRAPH" before the war
de thouwn not to tolerate
a Nazi-dictated peace, and the hearts
of those in Britain must have been
spoke those simple
upted as he
SATURDAY
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Germany and opposed to Britain.
Syria is in a state of chaos, and only slightly more so than it was Nowhere" was the symptom of the disease that wis attacking the heart of France more clearly evident than in this link. Weygand, shortly after the war, was sent cut to put things right, and might have proved a second Lyautey hut for the politlent intriques in Paris which caused his dismissal.
words of such tremendous import say the goods can be delivered to Britain, they must be delivered. They will be delivered." It was at this point of the speech that one realised. the full power of the spoken word, as against that of the same words in sant to have possession of Java, but vain and useless. cold print.
ASSURANCE OF. VICTORY
Obviously it would be very plea-
in
He returned in 1939, an old men It was felt in
the cost of gaining it-that is, if it in Syria that his return to France in gained would be far greater than June last year was a gesture of des- that incurred in securing Manchuria pair. His reputation of 1918 still
but not remained,
his genius. It was a footing in Indo-China. There cannot be the same enthusiasm
uino in Syria that Gamelin was tried In the midst of the greatest crisis Japan for war as there is in Ger- and found wanting, as far back in 1920 when the Druses revolted. It in her history,
to amid successes and many, whose set purpose has been failures, British people must have felt avenge defeat and whose sole aim is took Gamelin ten months, with an all over the world that this was an victory in battle. It is not oll or army of 100,000, to put down twelve thousand rebels armed with knives colonies the wants. It is assurance of final victory I ever
victory there was one.
and revenge. But Japan merely and swords,
more wealth, and is im- Intrigue and corruption were the wants The Anglo-Saxon
world has now poverishing herself in gain it and order of the day, partly because the solemnly declared that
the ocean has been doing this for four years. French had no clear policy in Syria highways are to be kept open, und. There must obviously be many in and partly because of the Internal os If to illustrate and prove the that country who would like to con- conditions in France. It would seem point, the destruction of the most solidate whatever gains they have to be the logical thing for Britain powerful Nazi battleship WU3
an-made in Indo-China and Munchurin to occupy Syrla by simply crossing To-day, To-morrow, Monday nounced some hours before the and come to terms with, U.S.A, in the frontler from Palestine. The
speech was made.
order to profit from the war' and so French In Syrla arc FIRST TIME AT REDUCED PRICES
obviously The war is obviously going to be a gain new wealth without at the divided in their allegiance, for many AN OUTSTANDING UNFORGETTABLE HUMAN PICTURE !
have already deserted in order to long one. The Allies control the same time losing the old.
Join seven seas, and will in due course be The hesitancy of Japan at the It is quite certain that the Germans the Free French Forces in the south. masters In the air, while Germany moment is based on this cold calcula- will not hesitate to go into Syria in must remain powerful on land. It may be, however, that the air force tion of the advantages and disadvan- force when it suits them. They al- wi.i ore decisive In this war and ages of war, but weariness seems to ready have the privilege of sending that Germany, cut off from oversea be more conspicuous in Japanese their planes there. resources, will ultimately be so wea- foreign policy than enthusiasm. kened that she must give way,
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LOSS OF HOOD
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If Crete falls to the Germans, then
That breaking point, however, is very far off. A further consideration blow to Britain. As she lay at an German invasion of Crete is not an The loss of the Hood was a tragic the next step will be Cyprus. The of President Roosevelt's speech puts
the things we are fighting for, and chor in Gibraltar before the war she experiment with a view to a descent those which we are fighting against, locked not only formidable but on Britain. nor is it a prelude; it la In the right perspective. One realis graceful The wide sweep of her
Her heavily.
ed as never before, that HitlerismTI, decks, all spick and span, and her the alternative which has cost them with its Gestapo, concentration huge gun turrets, with the deadly
plane,
camps, Quislings, Lavals and Darians, 15-inch guns protruding from tliem. It is clear that most of the aerial was something essentially evil and together with her business-like lines, forces they possess have been con- that the herole stand made by Bri- all gave the Impression of immense centrated on this campaigu, and that tuin and China against this form of power and specd.
the hundreds of troop-carrying. *ggression and tyranny was for a Yet one shot, which reached the invasion of Britain have been divert- planes which were to be used for the cause that lifted man into a higher magazine, apparently destroyed this ed for this purpose to Crete.
The floating fortress in the space of acrtial war on two fronts is clearly The President pleaded for a nobler minute, and a better world from which want
In favour of Germany, who can move One felt that there should be no her air fleet across the diameter of and tyranny would be expelled and room for lucky shots in a ship which the circle very quickly by land, while Justice and freedom would prevall had been designed by expert naval British forces have to proceed round and in which man would be signif- architects and had cost eight million the circumference via Gibraltar by cant-in short a democratic world; as pounds. One felt too that the guns. against a regimented Nazi world of nery of the Bismarck must have been oppression.
REACTION IN
of a very high order, so there was The whole position in the Near not an element in this tragic affair East is unpleasant, for Baghdad is that afforded consolation, for ob- not yet occupied, though it would viously there was no opportunity for have been on May when the Traqt- those acts of high conrage which are vevolt was collapsing had the German The reaction of the Japanese to almost commonplace in the Navy to- planes not arrived with numerous President Roosevelt's speech is that it day.
JAPAN
Nazi oficials,
only takes the United States nearer Before, however, we could get The result of this was that the to the brink of war, and, therefore, really down to gloom there came the rebels took fresh courage and con- the necessity to make a decision can news of the sinking of the Bismarckt, tinued the struggle,
be postponed. Meanwhile, America NAVY STILL SUPREME The whole of Iraqi and Iran ure is very angry over the seizure of ten
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1. Honshu
in a state of ferment, and these are The Atlantic Ocean seemed at the two countries from which about once to be alive with British naval 20 million tons of oil are drawn by ships, which had been keeping their means of pipe-lines to the const. silent watch over lis, sen routes.
It la Iran that the German They had one purpose and one only, and that was to track down and des- agents and Soviet representatives are Shikoku Kiushu; troy the newest German battleship, competing for the support of the Hokkaido. 2, One Elizabeth. 3. Fleet Admiral Luctjens. 4. Pope of Bismarck was watched and the
The skilful way in which the course wilder elements in the Persian army." Leo X on Henry VIII. 5. (a) bray enverging of the warships on those, likely to prevail in the near future, But Nazi pressure on Russia is (b) croak (c) bleat (d) peep or theep fel cow the serum. Berge polnis, the tenacity with which the for Russia has only one aim in lite IV of England.
was maintained, the ef- and that is to. avold a 7. Burnt sacrifice, ciency with which the aerial torpedo Germany.
pursuit (a) Deuteronomy (b) Deputy Adm
Ad- attack jutant General (e) Connecticut (d) completely restored confidence.
was made all the
these things Zoological Society (e) Board of Trade (f)
The Royal Navy was silil Royal
of Physicians, 9 was once more, deironstrated, for 10 system. Alaska.
The Maid's La- German ment (Lander), (b) Ode to a Sky- can sall the seas without permission in
lim turface warship Germany will, therefore, soon be lark (Shelley), (c) The Lady of of the British Fleet. That fact is concessions she needs out of Russia. a position to вquaeżo whatever Shalett (Tennyson), (d) The Little established. There can be no blade is certain that Germany will not Black Boy (Blake), (e) Rabbi Ben ade of Britain by Axis warships, allow Russia scope for expansion in Ezra (Browning).
Now that the British Navy has sunk those areas she already covets.
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Such a war would reveal nut Rus-
leh (4) Fellow of the Its control of the ocean high, slan might but Russian weakness,
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