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ripe for consideration of some such scheme. It would meet with the wide support and ap- proyal of the peoples of the world and might prove a decisive fac- tor in bringing to a speedy end a war which even the most optimis- tic of Japanese generals think may well last another de cade or more.

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Munich's. Hymn of Hate

In their current anti-British campaign the Nazis are reviving old war-time hatreds and such slogans as "Gott strafe England!" Are they likely to revive the most celebrated anti-British bal- lad ever composed--the notorious. "Hymn of Hate," written just twenty-five years ago? Perhaps not, because its composer, Ernst Lissauer, was of Jewish extrac- tion. He died quite recently, and was said to have greatly regretted the song that became so widely known.

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His "Hymn of Hate Against England" ("Hassgesang gegen England") was first published→→→ appropriately enough, as it now seems-at Munich in 1914, and at once swept over the Kaiser's "The most terrible air attack Germany.. It was sung, declaim- of any war" is how the "News ed, and recited everywhere Chronicle" describes the recent theatres, streets, and houses Japanese air-raids on Chungking. and was included in school song- This is no exaggeration; even the books. The composer, a private bombings of Barcelona and Madrid) in the army, was decorated with by General Franco's totalitarian the Iron Cross.

It sizzled with hatred for this allies did not approach the recent Japanese demonstration of inhu-which stands by the grey flood, country-"the perfidious. Power man frightfulness.

single foe-England. Its famous refrain thundered---

While the Military Mind may craft, full of guile" and declar- full of envy, full of rage, full of see some value in such activity, ed that Germany had but one to the Layman little seems to be achieved beyond the infliction of death on hapless civilians in one of its most terrible forms. Both Spain and China have demons- trated that save for a temporary localised panic the morale of the No doubt it would come in very people is not shattered and in

We have all but a single hate. We love as one-we hate as one.. We have one' foe and one

alone-England!

subsequent bombings it actually handy with some Germans at stiffens; as Joad puts it, the present-but for those unfortun bombing merely provides "the

ate non-Aryan associations. fires of war with the fuel of in- dignation and desire for revenge." "Mein Kampf” in Eccles

Early in the present hostilities,

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China set the world a splendid, The members of the Eccles civilised example when her planes Library Committee appear to flew over Kyushu and dropped have been given a somewhat grim pamphlets over a wide area. holiday task for while the town These leaflets explained the na-council has approved the purchase. ture of the war and urged the of a copy of the "unexpurgated" people of Japan to call a halt to translation of Herr Hitler's it; most of the pamphlets were "Mein Kampf" it has been laid. confiscated but many got through upon members of the Library to those to whom they were ad-Committee to read the book and. dressed.

decide whether it is fit for issue It is only this form of bomb-to the general public. It just ing, and this alone, that can be possible that the word "unex- at all effective. There is no jus- purgated" may have conveyed a tification for the bombing of cit-slightly wrong impression,- but ies far behind the lines. For some apart from that it might be in- reason, no subsequent similar teresting to know what considera. raids were carried out. Possibly tions the members of the council. it was considered that a flight on are to keep in mind in coming to which no obvious material dama decision. Is there any fear, for age was inflicted on the enemy instance, that any youthful mem- did not justify the putting of bers of the Eccles community valuable aircraft into acute dan-who may read the book may be infected with "power politics" This may or may not be true; and become converts to Nazism? there is room for ample argu- Is there any fear that some may ment. But if a growing, though take the book even more serious strongly suppressed, discontent ly than the experts who have with war is now making itself studied it and fall into a state of evident in Japan, the frequent panic?

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appearance of Chinese planes over As we know, the "Index" in the major Japanese cities, drop- Germany is extensive and pecul- ping nothing more dangerous iar both in regard to daily papers than propaganda leaflets (in- and to political studies, but it has cluding, possibly, photographs of not been thought necessary at the slaughter at Chungking), present to confiscate.. the "An- might crystallize that discontent griff" in England, and the attitude into something more practical to "Mein Kampf" has not differ- from a peace point of view. ed much from that of Frederick

If that were achieved, even if of Prussia to Voltaire's terrible only on a small scale at first, it libel on him. You need not would be more than a mere milit-push it," he said to a bookseller ary gain. It would be propagan who inquired his wishes; "but sell da of the most useful and praise it by all means; I hope it will pay worthy sort, The time is now you well.”

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