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THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 14, 1939.

WORLD

MIRROR OF

OPINION

INCOME TAX

sums of money

In war, large needed; and, it is essential that Hong Kong Government increase Colony's taxes.

u settlement was made on the basis of the existing situation, the United States would be forever stigmatized ás the nation responsible for the parti- tion and death of Poland. If a set- the tlement is not made and if war con- tinues, the United States would jeo-

are the

The Income Tax, which has been proposed, can be said to be one of the pardize her position as a mediator i

a favourable occasion should arise in most excellent of tax systems.

the future which justifies the use of her good office,

The Chinese community will accept Government's decision; nevertheless, we hope that the burdens of those who just manage to keep their heads above the water will not be unjustly | increased. "National Times,' Hong

Kong.

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For the moment, the United States must continue to stay on the sideline in the European conflict. It will useless for her to offer her service as o mediator until Britain and France have indicated that they are in a re- and ceptive mood to consider peace until Chancellor Hitler has displayed some genuineness that he wants call off his war.-"China Press."

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That declaration forms at once statement of our war aims and of our peace aims; this is the fight to end con- ditions in which peace was to be en- forced by the sacrifice of Poland to the While Britain and France are pre- arrogant rapacity of her neighbour, paring to prosecute the

war to the and to secure "a return to decency in bitter end, Germany, with the aid of international relations," As the Prime Soviet Russla, is similarly preparing. Minister said in his broadcast to the These two countries are busy dividing German people on Sept. 4, "Hitler's eastern Europe and the Balkans into word is for us not worth the paper it "spheres of interest." Esthonia and is written on." That is why Britain Latvia have

and France wil not enter into any peace negotiations with him.

If it could only reach the ears and eyes of those whom it is most likely to benefit-- the German public whom Britain seeks to undeceive -its effect might It be prodigious. will at least avail to disperse any hope that treach- erous peace mines would ambush the Allies. A very striking parallel with the present British declaration may be found in the annals of the Great War, and it will be salutary

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CISSY-COLOURED TIT-BITS.

This is not exclusively a "war- riors' war.” This is not a war for so-called exparts. We are all In this war. And the millions who take part in it must know the facts about it.

They do not want cissy-colour. ed tit-bits, vaguely descriptive snacks, and repetitive lectures on aspects of 'Nothing Much. They want facts and sense.

If, in place of facts, they get a dull sound of wobbling by night, they will shrewdly ask:

entered into "mutual assistance pacts" with Moscow by which they have surrendered their independence. In the case of Es- thonia, the pact provides for the o f establishment Soviet naval bases and garrisons on Esthonian terri- tory. As a result. Soviet Russia has gained control of the eastern Baltic and the Gulf of Finland. When Li- thuania and Fin- land send their tribute-bearers to Moscow, Soviet Russia and Ger- many between them will have complete mastery

"How can we hope to win if bemused bunglers stifle the effort we-are all making-the effort we shall continue to make until Hit- ler's war ends

of with the and Hitlerism?”......W. M..

of the Baltic Sea.

to recall the circumstances. When Rumania is in a state of jitters, the German Chancellor made fearing a Soviet grab of Bessarabia. the first approaches in 1918 Hungary, as a result of the Soviet the United States, suggest- grab of eastern Poland, is being in- ing to President Wilson that an arm- exorably drawn into the Soviet- istice might be arranged, the Presi- German power orbit. The Turkish dent's reply was to inquire with whom foreign minister is in Moscow to sign he was asked to negotiate. If it was a treaty presumably to reserve the with the German High Command he Black Sea as an exclusively Soviet- would have nothing to do with the Turkish sphere of interest and

per- proposal. No peace was possible haps to provide for the closure of the which rested on the word of the mill- Dardanelles to warships. of other tary rulers of Germany Mr. Lloyd powers. In the current diplomatic George in his Memoirs tells the sequel. manoeuvring going on in eastern Wilson's declaration had the effect of Europe and the Balkans Winston "a bombshell on German public opin- Churchill affects to see a struggle be- ion and set all Berlin talking about tween Soviet Russia and Germany, the possible abdication of the Kaiser." with the former blocking Hitler's In less than a month the Kaiser had drang nach osten programme. Probably abdicated and fled. "No peace with so -- and certainly a comfort to Bri- Hitler" must remain one of the car- tain and France.-"China Weekly Re- dinal and steadfast maxims of the view." democracies through all the swaying vicissitudes of the war.-"Daily Tele- graph."

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Whereas capital investment in liberated China would produce as stimulating results upon American

The United States would be con- economic life as "the earlier invest- spicuously stepping out of bounds if ments made in the United States did she should join Chancellor Hitler's upon the European ... From present “neutrals” in harping upon the idea of indications, however, there is every | peace : and mediation. Her action likelihood that the government which would no doubt be taken by the Allied will emerge In China after the war Powers as an attempt to support will represent an effective Industrial Chancellor. Hitler:in his effort to ob- democracy?... A complete or even tain peace at the point of a bayonet.

partial victory for China will go far toward making it one of the most A peace-maker's job is a thankless stable, reliable nations in the world one in any event and it would be es- to-day... But after the war, when pecially thankless if the United States China is independent and free, its should pick this inopportune moment capacity to absorb capital investment to Join Herr Hitler in his peace talks. If will be unprecedented.—“Amerasia.'"

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