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pealing. Again, all these people in hai, for the Japanese have kept this Rather remarkably, extremes what proved to be after all reasona- city so insulated from its trading crisis have increased a feeling of bly safe foreign areas were left in hinterland that profits have not re- moderation on the part of most hold their fortified land fronts, feed a state of mind to sympathise with turned. On the contrary, the cur- Shanghai residents. The problems their machines and men, and hem he Chinese under airbombing in rency has depreciated, business has of home governments are compre- the two Axis Powers in by naval definitely unsafe Chinese territory. been stagnant, and the best anyone hended, and no drastic remedies are nctions within the confines of

could do was sit tight in hope of demanded. Shanghai has bought a the Western front, the Baltic and

a better time. Few newcomers have great deal of knowledge in the school Black Seas, and Rússia then, how-

continues. arrived. The town is sophisticated of experience at a high price, and ever frightful and barbaric be the There has been no "gold rush" since on the subject of war, but not har- perhaps the new "Shanghai mind" cost of such a war, the Axis Powers hostilities moved away from Shang- dened quite the contrary.

is a sound purchase. could not win.

"THEY COULD NOT WIN” "They could not win because they and, it should be could not impose a military decision. Germany that And all their totalitarian apparatus sh and French and warfare, heaped up more rapidly cold-bloodedly to and at greater cost than that of over their pos- their less prepared foes, might only East, can afford serve to exhaust them more rapidly. ia, even perhaps "It is comprehensible from this Near East, the strategic analysis that both the e Eastern Medi- German and Italian regimes should

as their

war fear, more than anything else, a he Atlantic, the general European war. If ever they a and the Per- provoke Britain and France actu- nch and British ally to fight however hard

imagine that may at present appear he British and their own initial advantages, so ensure the feed- imposingly overbearing in so-called of Anglo-French peace-time diplomacy, will begin to! ries with the dwindle rapidly while the initial disorganised ericas, the Domi-, disadvantages of the ndia, the vulner- and enfeebled Anglo-French de- and France can mocracies will equally rapidly begin lnerability from to be changed into growing advan- The French may tages.

to

avoy, lose Tuni- "Of the frightful cost to civil sn Corsica; Italy populations, ethical and

er may partition standards, human life

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economic and culture

Holland and on both sides, we cannot take ac- and North count here, But, viewed dispas- lves in (though sionately as a scientific

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but all this in fact.

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a 'decision.'

"It is terrible comment on our civilization that we should have to go.on, it can be conclude thus: in so-called peace, ly a stone might such as that through which we are London or the at present passing, all the elements Lyons, or Milan of the strategic lay-out in the New long as the 87,- Europe redound to the advantage of

French in Euro- Germany and Italy, either or both; r-they can draw for these two powers employ, those m overseas, can elements in a concerted diplomacy.

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