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The China Mail Ninety-Third Year of Publication SA Wyndham Street, Hong Kong.les. And Mussolini is clearly get- ting no effective encouragement for Mediterranean adventures.

London's calculations on Spain may be so nearly correct as give success to the reversal traditional British policy. The new line, coupled with a firm mien in Washington, appears to be giving Herr Hitler food for thought. This certainly is the present aspect. Yet all who A MOMENT'S PAUSE (derstand the underlying mental

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The momentary 'pause notice-dis-ease of the day will recognise able in Europe since Mr. Cham- the necessity for continued alert- berlain's acceptance of inevitness and positive peacemaking. ability of a sharp change in Brit-

British Aid to France ish foreign policy does not en- title anyone to conclude that an In 1906, when the shadow of era of peace and quiet has been Germany was growing longer and ushered in. Fundamental con- darker over Europe, the French flicts have not been resolved. urged that Britain should have a There is much to support the large army, raised by compulsory thesis of Henry L. Stimson in his service, on a Continental scale. M. statement, supporting an "affir-Clemenceau went to London and mative" foreign policy for the saw the then Prime Minister, Sir United States. The revolution-Henry Campbell-Bannerman, who ary and explosive effects of Fas-referred him to the Secretary for cist foreign policies will not War. I told Clemenceau," Lord subside unless firmly resisted. Haldane wrote in his autobiogra- And no nation can rest easy in phy, that our position as the is a madly arming world..

land centre of a scattered Empire It seems quite plain too that made our strategical position any real independence in Ger- quite different from that of many's small neighbours is.. ab-France: A large navy, was what horrent to Berlin, and that the we required, and with it an army recent "punishment" of the Czech which that navy could transport people was intended to convey a to where it was wanted at the warning to all. If Hungary is shortest notice." The wheel has permitted to extend the line join- come full circle; once

more the ing the Polish and Hungarian French are pleading their need frontiers it is because Germany of military aid on a major scale is confident that Hungary can in the event of war; and again readily be cast out of a Ger* Britain is preparing, as she pre- many's planned path,

pared intensively between 1906 The wedge is being driven to- and 1914, a field force capable of wards the Russian Ukraine, and effective intervention in Europe. new Nazi conspiracies for re-Mr. Chamberlain's announcement gional “autonomy" may reason that the force now envisaged will ably be expected to appear in that comprise 32 divisions of Regulars territory and in Rumania. It and Territorials is the sequel to must be supposed that all Ger- the pledge of full co-operation man minorities in southern and with France. It carries British eastern European States will commitments no further than the henceforth be regarded as ad-Prime Minister has taken them, vance-guards of disintegration en-but it gives France an assurance gineered from Berlin, and that that a very substantial reinforce- German proposals for trading ment will be available to her in agreements might well be inter- the day of need. And in the de- preted as the hint to Nazi agitagree that the French are reassur- tors to begin open violence.ed, their potential enemies and Rumania has offended in those of Britain will be deterred Berlin's eyes no. less than from risking an aggressive war Czecho-Slovakia orginally did; war into which; apart from Rumania also has Germans the precise dimensions of the Ex- and. some other minorities peditionary Force, the whole of incorporated within the State by Britain's enormous resources the Peace treaty. And what would be thrown wherever they closer analogy to the late Czecho could be most effectively used. Slovak Republic could there be Immediately after the Munich than___ Yugoslavia? The Serb-crisis, the British War Office an- Croat-Slovene kingdom is in con-nounced that the Territorial struction almost 4 duplicate of troops would be remodelled into that other, now disappeared un-divisions re-equipped with every from $5.00 der German aggression. .Its stout ingredient necessary to the wag- independence is not less an offence ing of war on Continental lines. to the new. Germany; it also has With this force, Mr. Hore-Belisha fa German, or near-German, min- links six Regular divisións, mak- ority, it is predominantly Slay in ing an army which, when its sentiment; and it possesses desir- training and rearmamentare from $5.50 able natural wealth. There is no complete, will be reckoned pow- obvious hindrance to Herr Hit erful even when measured by the ler's using the strategic situation standards of the vast conscript of Vienna to claim the same armies of the Continent. The authority and political boundar- Army Estimates for 1989, totall- ies even as former German ing 4166 millone, an fhærease of territory" that the old Austria over £46 millions for the year,

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half. Yet present indications are Though the latest statements may that the A second ɛMunich!^> Italy not, hatiafy advocates of expected to develop over Spain sory service in Britain, has been postponed. One reason far to meet French. apparently is that the effects of and, it contents those the first dünich have not been so ters, including: Mr. Eden,

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