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MIRROR VOF WORLD

OPINION

„THE DESIRE

WA....goot many of the Danzig: Ger- <mans; :resented the separation- fiom Germany, and had ne love for the ::::Poles, whom they regarded-aszan in-

ferior race. There were dunculties, and frictions arising out of the Polish use of the port for importing muni tions, especially when Poland was at war: with the: Soviet Union.

JAPAN'S ISOLATION

We cannot, truly call it a policy of isolation..when Japanese soldiers by the hundreds of thousands are main- tained in China, when the areas un- der the technical control of the Japan-

ese: armies of conquest: total many These difficulties were not insoluble, times the area of Japan. Neither can we call it isolation when Japanese The solution of most political рго- blems lies in goodwill, the desire to troops in unestimated large numbers co-operate, and the readiness rate are massing to attempt to defend the one's own interest and wishes no seized Chinese territory from Rus--

sian challengers, -higher than other peoples. It and

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"WRONG GUESS

The term isolation.ns used in re- ferring to the Abe cabinet's basic policy is an: invention; employed to cover a great embarrassment and to provide the watchful waiting spell swhile making up a new list of likely Complete victory without war is friends who may prove more true in still hoped for at Berchtesgaden pinh than were the "friends" on the though there is perhaps less confidence, recently discarded list. The chief now.. than there was a week, ago. task of the new Abe: government is to From an unusually reliable German be sufficiently middle-of-the-road in source we learn that Hitler has been an international sense to make the persuaded by the reports of Herr best impression with the largest num Wohltat and the arguments of Count ber of prospective friends.--"Manila Ciano to defer the conquest of the Bulletin.” Corridor and to content himself this autumn with a "peaceful settlement" of the Danzig question.-"New States- man And Nation."

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ANOTHER BASTION

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A TROUNCING

Not even the Nazis, seriously claim has given the Japanese

is vital to annex

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disturbing fact

Perhaps unwittingly, Herr Hitler army the Danzig, most-serious political trouncing Danzig has been outside the Reich has had in the past eight years, The and Prussia for far the greater of its history, and it stubbornly resisted anpexation to Prussin; The city's economic relations elways have, been” almost exclusively with

territories, which are now Russian or Polish, while for Germany Danzig was chiefly important military outpost. As for its present desire, one of its citizens summed

it up thus:

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lt is a post-graduato exercise now to point out ́the British mla- reading of the embargo or neu- trality debate. With a breath- taking boldness the United:Statsa... ham come back to the Far Eastern reckoning. The British now know, first, that there, bas.been no ham....... | stringing of the President in his

active foreign policy and, second.. ly, that there has been.no Ameri- can quitting of the Far East at the behest of the Japanese jug-. gernaut.-H. B. Elliston.

"Probably 70 per cent. of the. Dan- zigers would favour joining the Reich paaceably, but none would favour war for that purpose."

u Moreover, Danzig already is com- Its pletely under Nazi dominion. government is; entirely under Hitler's cl caminand.::Albert::Foerster, the Nazi fleader, is not -ever-a “Danziger but

Bavarian.

Consequently, Hitler's seizure of Danzig through the local Nazis can- not be for the sake of Danzig itself or covenaf :the Polish Corridor-to nel- *bother of which Germany has an im-

pressive claim, either historically or

that the man slat- ed for the War ...Office. is-a-died-in- the-wool jingoist, the belonging to faction::::controlled by Generals Itaga- ki and Nishio does not alter the situa- tion. Lieut.-Gen. Resukę. Isogai, who distinguished him- self in China in his 1936-37 by very undiplomatic thunders against the government to which he was ac- be credited, will

able only to obstruct the work of the new Cabinet. He will no longer, at least not for a time, be able to dictate policy, as did most of his predecessora in the past.

Japanese

Cabinet To China, the crisis denotes no change. The govern- ment remains committed to a contin- uation of the war by the means it has been employing in the past two- years,-"China Press."

........ DANZIG A PRETEXT

FOR MORE

Germany has shown her cards economically. It must be because and demanded through the:/medium Danzig is a defensive bastion of Po- of her Press the whole of Western land. The issue is not Danzig but Po- Poland. [land's independence.-- "New York

Times."

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SATHE DANGER IN THE VSOUTHEAST

It is possible that the Germans re- vealed their aims in the belief that they would be able to intimidate and Alterrories the pacific:States.

NAZIS "ACTIVE IN COLONIES

...On the other hand, those-respon- jan sible for German propaganda may have thought that by expanding their *y Those who::direct our policy, and (demands to the maximum they would play so decisive a part in deciding the be able to arouse warlike: ardour endurance-powers of the Peace Front, among the Germans. — “Kurier ahould realise that they have only to-Pornny, Warsaw. make one or two small slips and the whole edifice of south-eastern defence will be laid: bare. 3:-Jugoslavia-is-not- an essential: mem- #TUGS &ber of the Peace Front, but itȚis es- Reports reaching the Colonial Office sential to the Peace-Front that she show extensive plots in existence to remain neutral: We may have every organise mass-native-risings in form- 16 sympathy for Prince Paul, doing his # German colonies,Secret societies best to remain neutral in the most are being founded by "witch-doctor" difficult of circumstances? We may with full woodoo and jusju ritual and commend him, as he should be com which are subsidized by Berlin, Super- mended; in that efforts But we must stitious natives are, bounded into understand that we shall help him joining these.

German techniciang dine bean ntbeat/by leaving him incompromised, -

and by standing rock-arm on our de, supplying, "witch doctors, with scien- qua, clion, to resist mit attempts to weaken. Ufc, novelties with, plenty of sulphur, veitin defensive encirclement which our noise and, ballyhoo hich impress the

lariscărcations have brought into being, immorent, natives; ma

meeting if necessary force by force these novelties have some anti-Beitisty

feature.

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