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THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 17, 1939 -

MIRROR OF WORLD

OPINION

JAPAN AND ‘AXIS

throw off his yoke, might permit the establishment of a Communist Gov- ernment. That risk has at all times The original Anti-Comintern Pact

been apparent, It was one which it was an ideological agreement, which was desirable to avoid, but since Herr served little practical utility apart Hitler has left no alternative it has from giving Japan a certain amount

now to be faced. It is, consequently, of psychological satisfaction. Without too late now to threaten the Allies implementing the agreement with an with the terrors of the bogey be has additional understanding on military

conjured up. "N.C.D.N." joint action among the Axis partners, the Anti-Comintern Pact was really a useless and insignificant scrap of in- ternational document,

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NEW LIGHT ON VERSAILLES

It is this evaluation of the useful- ness of the Anti-Comintern Pact which prompts many observers - to that the Axis treaty has been abrogat- and autobiographers, there still re- ed in effect. The report that Japan mains something to be told about the An important has withdrawn from the Anti-Comin- Verseilles Conference. tern Pact and the Tokyo statement addition to a mass of information at jon other hand that Japan has merely present available on this subject will discontinued negotiations for the shortly be forthcoming in the United strengthening of the agreement really States. It is announced in Washing- amount to the same thing: They both ton that the Department of State is say that Japan is no longer an active now ready to start work on the pub- member of the Axis.

lication of the records of that confer- There may indeed be

notes of the some fine ence contained in the

the members hair-splitting difference between the conversations between

Woodrow Rome report and Admiral Nomura's of the Council of Four

Clemenceau, statement, but to those who are not Wilson, Lloyd George, interested in the decorative effects of and Orlando. At the meetings of this diplomatic usage

the Japanese For Council, usually held at Wilson's Paris eign Minister's declaration is a clear headquarters, notes of the talks were

down

These enough indication that Japan, for the taken

by secretaries. moment at least, wants to have notes have never yet been made pub- nothing to do with the Axis powers lic, although some extracts from them and is ready to let the dead Anti- have been included in official docu- Comintern Pact bury itself. -"China ments. Permission for their publica- Press."

tion in full by the State Department has been obtained from the Govern- ments concerned."Manchester Guar- dlan.'

In spite of all the revelations of biographers, believe journalists, historians,

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HITLER JITTERS

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LAWS AGAINST EATING

All this is a measure of his own desperation. He fears the outcome of che struggle with the. Allies, and, searching high and low for assistance to avoid defeat, has made the pil- The recent Nazi view that overeat- grimage to Canossa. He has humbled ing is a form of high treason recalls himself to the Kremlin, and now the fact that in England not so many. seeks to impress the world that for years ago overeating, if not high the salvation of Europe..from the treason, was legally a crime. Until menace which he has brought into it, July, 1856, it was technically unlaw- it is necessary to make peace with ful for a man to have more than two him. The threat may be expressed in courses at dinner and supper, although other terms. Unless Europe agrees to upon

specially festive occasions he

a new order of his determination, it might be permitted three. This runs the risk of another new order statute of Edward III's sumptuary of communistic dictation. Acceptance laws was not repealed until 1856. of his latest fait accompli is demand-

ed at the risk of

| plunging the whole.

of Europe into the furnace of ideolo- gical destruction. But against this it must be remem- bered that the Allies are equally determined to est- ablish a new order in Europe, one in... which perfildy shall be replaced with good faith, an ör- der in which it will be possible again for the nations to place some regard In the undertak ings of one to the other, an order: in: which the rule, of: law shall again prevail. Shall such ideals. be. aban-. doned for a per- · iod while Herr | Hitler seeks to · digest what he. has already... bit--- ten.

Sumptuary laws for the prevention

IF AMERICA

IS MENACED

Europe is too far away for the American man in the street to feel that anything that Hitler might do there is a direct chal- lenge to the jibdity of the United Blazak.. He is glad to see England and France resisting: Hitler- be- cause he hates everything that Hitler stands for, but he does not

feel called upon to intervene un- less-Hitlerism--threatens to dom- Inate the American continent as it threatened a few weeks ago to "dominate. England and France

and the rest of Europe.

From this It may be deduced that. If Germany shows the slightest sign of proving too much for the democracles, the United States will revise their position. They will not stand by and let Hitler take Europe, South Ameri- ca, and the rest of the world.

of gluttony and luxury and the re- gulation of diet are historically very old, and exist in form to-day in Italy, Germany, and Spain, where one-course meals are regularly com- manded by

the State Sumptuary laws were en- forced by Lycur- gus,⚫Solon, and others. Among the most severe were those of Zaleucus, the Locrian law- giver, who in 450 B. C. prohibited even the drinking of pure wine. The Lex Orchia severely limited the number of "guests and courses permitted at the feasts of the Ro- mans, while the 'dlet of the dif- ferent classes was

drastically regulated by Marcus Emilius. Scaurus, Cato the Censor, Julius Caesar, and others.

o ftv and! prepares himself for another on- slaught upon the security of Europe, If not of the whole world? Is it not better to face the evils with which he

In England severe sumptuary laws threatens Europe, and fight until they were enacted in the reigns of Edward are destroyed as they deserve to be? III, Edward IV, and Henry VIII. For A-Europe of Harr-Hitler's fashioning long a man dared not eat what he can be little worse than that en fancied. The poorer classes, for in- visioned by the Communists, and both stance, were forbidden to eat certain of them from a democratio point of foods and wheaten bread. That was | view aražą, intolerable. One of the reserved- for "their betters”

the or Allieds reluctance to take poor being permitted to eat only er Hitler was the coarse bread made from peasemeal ben bei defenfadia and other unattractive su

· substances. - -*** Germany.which would “Manchester Guardian,"«