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FOU

In Chungking

AT a period when everybody in the Occident is feel- mitments.

ing, or accusing the other man of feeling, ex- some precision the treme nervousness, it pleases me to recall the calm guerilla infiltration atmosphere of a conversation which I had only a few weeks ago with Gen. Chiang Kai-shek and his wife along the Yangtse at their capital, Chungking.

BOGGED IN THE YANGTSE

VALLEY

"line." Not only dominated by th

communications, are safest), but

They told me with every appear- had known in the recent past; they smaller towns in ance of coolness and conviction that showed neither the ignorance of the panese-controlled they expected to win their long strug- Abyssinian nor the care-free indis- green with green gle in the end, and with their forces cipline of the Spanish Republican, outwards. This m intact.

They were working full pressure, yet

been recaptured b tionalists and, whe they had time to draw conclusions for

centres of the No me from the failure of their enemy to

tration connected It astounded me to find so basic a advance after the capture of Canton self-assurance in a town like Chung- and Hankow; for that is the summing- wireless with the

The guerilla са king; once a minor Chinese city on up of the present position in the Sino-

ceeded the fall of the broken and mist-laden country Japanese war that for all their su-

to date, the saving above the banks of the Yangtse, periority in material and martial ex-

gradually brought where even to-day the visitor to Gov- perience the invaders are bogged in

Chinese to Japane ernment offices must be carried from the Yangtse valley below the gorges. the 10:1 that they building to building, along grassy SAVED BY THEIR GUERILLA

1:1 which Chungk paths, in a chair; and which, in May,

to be to-day. On had to stand the most terrible bomb-

Though they support about 1,000, has meant a lowe ing raids in modern history. Yet 000 troops in China proper and an- the war to China neither the town nor its rulers had other 1,000,000 equally divided be- the cost to Japan, lost a jot of confidence.

tween Manchukuo and the organised longer import Philosophically they had profited reserve in Japan, they have made no except aircraft, by the horror of that experience, progress in the past six months either needs export more Their defensive preparations against beyond their lines or behind them. purely defensive the next raid were so good that they Why?

cholia of the tro lost only nine dead and brought down Much has been made of the enor- brunt of such ingl two Japanese aircraft within sight of mous length of the lines that the reflected in many their intended victims.

Japanese Army must protect. But the that has reached

TACTICS

the

Their confidence was better found- 2,000 miles that is the lowest com- a notorious increa: ed, I thought, than that of any of putation of their China front is only ways a Japanese the defensive organisations which I the beginning of their defensive com- army.

The world outside knows that Czechoslovakia has disappeared and that. in its place there exists what has been described as the Protec- torate of Bohemia-Moravia, over which a Protector rules as the per- sonal representative of the German Reich Chancellor and Fuehrer.

Czech Life Under Nazi Protector

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conservative--was followed the establ

This new situation began on March get out at all. 15 last when the German troops oc- cupied the country. It startled the But once in Prague, what a dif- all-national party, world, because it was so patent a ferent city presents itself to the per- innocuous, but wh breach of all that Adolf Hitler and son who knew it in earlier days! vented from functi his close associates had publicly de- The buildings remain. The Hrad- cause of the activi clared. It clearly revealed that Na- cany still stands out magnificently Fascists, whose réc tional Socialist foreign policy had above the Vltava, the Charles Bridge, cate what the exte set its course toward an imperialism, the Old Town Square, and the charm- cialists have enfor which would achieve its end at what- ing baroque palaces of the Mala The activities of th ever costs.

Strand have not lost their ancient to be either the re Nowadays, less than three months beauty.

ment from the Ger after the military occupation, there But the real Prague-that which are such that they

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is all-too-reliable evidence that the constitutes the life and atmosphere the Germans shoul Germans are out to run this territory of this city-is being crushed. For- to intervene still as if it were merely a part of the merly, one came here for a breath grounds that the Third Reich. The goal is the absolute of democratic air after a sojourn in cannot maintain in uniformity of the Czechs on a Na- totalitarian states, to an island of Apart from poli tional Socialist basis, with the Ger- freedom in which European literature of culture and of mans playing the part of the over- was still to be obtained and where thing is being don lord in the grand manner which most fundamental issues could be openly land as fast as po civilized people had begun to think discussed.

ments of Adolf H

was a thing of the past in Europe. To-day, Prague is as much a Ger- Constantin von N The first evidence that this is a man city as force can make it. Now, have all emphasiz protectorate of the Third Reich is con- there are only the whisperings round Moravia would be veyed to the foreigner when he at- cafe tables or in private homes, the protectorate than. tempts to enter the country. For fears of arrest by the Gestapo (se- republic because merly, the Czechoslovak, upon the cret police), and the heavy hand of freedom it would presentation of a proper passport, political and racial reaction

every- Yet what is hap would issue a visa. But

now the where.

of culture? It w prospective visitor is questioned in

that German would such a way as to indicate that he The new political orientation began language, side by would do better to travel elsewhere. last September, after the Munich that German and For Czechs, it is a long, tedious pro- Agreement. It had developed to such would appear in t cess to obtain the necessary papers for a degree before March 15 that there that was merely leaving the country, and they con- were but two parties in Parliament German censor is sider themselves fortunate if they and only one of these-the so-called where.

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