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to revive hopes he deprecated earlier when he warned small nations not to place a comfort- ing reliance in the League lest they be sadly disillusioned. Such a declaration has won over Mr. Churchill, most dangerous of the Government's critics. Mr. Chur-
Hong Kong, Tuesday, Sept. 13, 1938. chill's root objection to abandon- ing the League's policy of collec- tive security was that, so long as 'collective security stood on a pedestal it represented something about which a-group of powerful, small, independent European
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Whether Mr. Chamberlain has definitely secured the postpone- ment of the conflagration in countries gathered for safety from absorption or control by Europe, and for how long, is a Germany or Italy. They were, question that cannot be answer- therefore, assembled in a loose al- ed unequivocally as a result of liance with France and Britain. Herr Hitler's anxiously awaited To abandon that policy was to speech. The fireworks left off create the necessity for making a substitute. This could, of course, were of a magnitude small by be done economically or by allian comparison with the worst of ces; but both entail direct res- fears, to which fact the Prime ponsibilities, the consequences of Minister's clear statement that which might be much more diffi- cult to elude than were the res- no campaign against Czecho-ponsibilities under Article 16 of Slovakia could be embarked upon the League Covenant. With without the danger of France in Britain's position clear, European chancellries. have úndoubtedly tervening and later Great Britain,
done some earnest thinking, doubtless contributed, as a warn- which can scarcely be harmful ing conveyed at just the right from a British or a European moment. There were, however, standpoint.
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which might be termed cryptic together the possibility of war in and therefore concealing a special Europe overnight. It can only construction of Herr Hitler's own be suggested that it has become
less probable. and a potential danger. No one doubts Herr Hitler's expression of
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a desire for peace. But does. that merely mean that he does The Zulu-Shirt not want war, in the sense that
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his victorious "Drang nach Os- A recent order of the Mayor of ten," more triumphant than the Saragossa in Spain forbids the Kaiser even dreamed about, will inhabitants of the town to appear be better achieved without blood-publicly in shirtsleeves. In these shed. Ideological passions he days when every shirt is apt will fan as he fanned them yes- tell its story of the wearer's terday, racial prejudices he will politics, it might be thought that exploft. He is apparently pre- this was an attempt to insure or- pared to avoid war at any cost der, and forestall the possibility except at the price of his am- of a partisan "trailing his shirt, bition, which is to dominate as the Irishman trailed his coat Europe.
in the hope of provoking an op- ponent to tread on the tail of it. Economic encirclement of It is not so: the Mayor is concern- Ismall States hostile to Germany, ed with the sartorial effect, and and then economic strangulation associates the practice with "de- are Hitler's chosen instruments mocratic license." In his thrust to the east. That is It is a little difficult to follow his reasoning here, unless we sup- the policy he has already begun pose that he considers blackshirts with regard to Czecho-Slovakia, and brownshirts as not shirts in confirmed by his bid to win the the strict meaning of the word. confidence of Hungary, which The question then arises: When would short off another Czech is a shirt not a shirt? outlet as well as become his It is a hard conundrum, and granary. *****
the Mayor gives us but a sibylline How long such a state of affairs clue to his definition, when he can continue is an issue which adds, as reported, that it is a will remain as an insomnia-creat-habit that "could only be tolerat ing problem for both Whitehall ed by Zulus.” For who, besides and the Quai D'Orsay, Mr. Cham-His Worship, has even heard berlain appears to have gained a a Zulu shirt? Until he
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