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MIRROR OF WORLD

OPINION

HIRELING SHEETS

There is now no "Berliner Tage-

EXACT TERMS

blatt" to speak up for the Liberal: Recently the House of Representa Germany of the would-be good neigh- tives refused to modify the Neutrality bours; the crippled shell and, shadow. Act by removing the embargo of Herr Wolff's great and courageous,

on

paper. (for there is no room for any arms, ammunition, and materials of relic of Liberalism under the Nazi war, as the President had asked. When system) died six months ago. In the. this refusal was made he commented place of that and other; examples of bitterly that the House of Representa- a free press are found 2,500; hireling tives had given important assistance His sheets, speaking with the one voleo to the Fascist dictatorships. of Dr. Goebbels's Ministry of Pro remarks were widely quoted, and to paganda. We know the tone of that those not familiar with the American voice, well enough.. by this time; it bawls "encircle-

any

ment," or other catchery, old or new, that it thinks will serve to discredit the past performances and present inter tions of this coun- try and our friends abroad. How far

NOTHING BETTER

Nothing, which is of human creation, la porfect, and the con- -céptionof democragy has been

subject to many changes; it still. evolves; but under prezent cir- cumstances no better förm ́is known to us. — Dr. Victor Nof, Bwles consul-general; in New

are the catch-cries | York.

believed? Not very

far, if one may

with but they are

situation they may have carried a suggestion that the House of Repre- sentatives, or Con- gress as a whole, has very little con- cern with Europe.

Such an inter- ence is completely

The of

erroneous. True, there are a few bitter-end advo- cates of keeping out of the affairs of the Old World, So few in number judge by the unfeigned fury which the authors of them denounce as to be of little importance. any efforts, by wireless or correspond- great majority of the members eace, to acquaint the German people Congress fully expect the United with plain facts as they are known to States to give tremendous assistance the outer world. Still, there is the to the democratic countries and little German Army as well as the Nazis, or none to the Fascist Powerg. They to reckon with and there is testimany contemplate this with approval; and, from returned visitors of weight and so far as can be judged, so does judgment that there are plenty of majority of American opinion. Where Germans who, even without encour they quarrel with the President is as agement from Hitler and his captains, to, the exact terms of this assistance.

of the "New York Times." still regard the destruction restored Poland as a national mission,

"Manchester Guardian."

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DEMOCRACY ON THE DEFENSIVE

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For his confession that he tried,

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THOSE BROKEN PLEDGES

The reports concerning the marine warfare carried on by Ger- many against British mercantile "with many others, to prepare the

that carried .on vessels, and

by way for a new age," Lord, Baldwin will His ad- British war vessels, against German obtain instant endorsement. civilian shipping again presents that dress at the banquet in New York of strange contrast in the mentality, be- the Congress on Education for Demo- tween the two nations. In accord- cracy is a frank confession in ance with international usage, Britain every passage that the effort made before sinking an enemy vessel seen has failed, at least temporarily, and that the passengers, if any, and crew democracy is facing the most formid- have reached safety before the vessel able challenge it has had to meet is attacked and sunk; the Germans since first it became a principle in That sit- merely sink them regardless of the the government of nations. amount of civilian loss of life which uation_calls for something more, as. may occur. The Athenia has been des- Lord Baldwin insists, than "letting cribed as the first Lusitania of the things slide" or holding up hands in present war, though it has not yet horror at the action of the totalitarian been announced whether a medal cele States. Democracy has to prove that brating the event has been struck. It it has ideals for which it is prepared, if called upon, to make the heaviest ís, in fact unlikely that such a one. will be, for the German Press is now sacrifice, knowing that it cannot con- seeking to find, some relationship be- tinue to exist, unless it can meet the tween the destruction of that ship and challenge of those forms of govern- the recall of Mr. Winston Churchill to ment that depend upon the complete the First Lordship of the Admiralty, sub-servience of the individual to It is suggested that he, with diabolie the will of the State, Democracies are cunning, and because of his inveter- content that other nations shall enjoy ate hatred of Germany, arranged the the rule of their choice, but they whole thing with a view to discredit- cannot be indifferent when the doc- ing Germany in the eyes of the peo- trine of the totalitarian State compels ple of the United States. All that can one nation to find elbow room at the be said of this monstrous tale is that cost of its neighbours. On that issue unconsciously it pays tribute to the depends, the freedom of mankind.

"Daily Telegraph.” organising, ability of the man who is attacked, for if within a few hours of his appointment he could devise and execute such a ghastly coup his com- mand of affairs, must be remarkable.. in the extreme.. If on the other hand, The Czechs themselves are almost realising as Herr Hitler did at least unanimous, in their resolve to recover a week before the outbreak of hostilit their independence. Nearly all, their ies, war with Poland was inevitable, internal dissensions have disappeared. and the star witness of this fact is The Czech Fascists alone, stand out as Signor Mussolini himself in his last abettors of alien domination. When signed broadcast, stating his reasons for the Munich : Agreement was holding aloof,--nothing could have there was a strong reaction against Dr. been simpler than for the Reich Ad- Benes, the President of the Czecho- miralty to have decided upon some- Slovak Republic But the Czecha thing of the sort, as a means of im- have now come to realise how tragic pressing upon the British people that Dry Bones's situation was, in Septem- the possibility of unrestricted sub- ber, That he has not compromised and marine warfare still existed. That is devoting his life to the cause of Den Fuehrer would have been break- Czech independence, just as he did ing another of his undertakings before that independence, began the mean nothing to a man whose

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CZECH RESOLVE

in power of something over ni? existence that came 19 an and at Mun-

years ich, makes him the leader of the Czech nation once, agilo. - Manchester Guardian,"

has been strewn with broken pledges,

"North China Daily News..!