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MIRROR OF WORLD
OPINION
END OF HOPE
east would
non-
on Germany's
prove a very considerable menace to Germany, Continued surrender to the aggres- and would put the seal once and for sions of the Fascist dictators would all on the German relinquishment of mean the end of the hopes of civilis- their schemes in eastern Europe. Herr ed people of an expanding culture, Hitler when he agreed to the of decent relations among men of aggression pact with Russia may have different faiths, of Labour's effort to thought he was merely sowing the develop its independent power and wind, but the indications are that al- control its own fate, of the struggle ready he is beginning to reap the pre- to find a way to increase the mater- cursor of the whirlwind. He has sur- ial wealth of the people, of a more rendered his position in eastern Europe
effective representative and
demo-
and faces defeat in the west, a truly cracy. Culture would be bent, as it unenviable position.—“N.C.D.N.”
is in Germany, to the purposes of a military State. Jews would be per- secuted-perhaps largely exterminat- ed-over vast areas of the earth now relatively free from anti-Semitic terrorism. Labour would revert to wage-slavery
free in literal fact;
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FORCES AGAINST
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The forces against Hitler are less no easy to measure because they are not political expression of the interests of all above the surface. Nor can they the workers would be tolerated. The be so easily collected and organised in production and trade of the nations a concrete form. Nazism is an armed would be subjected to restrictions, and militant doctrine, and it has the aimed against one another, that would strength of a religion. But it is neces- ensure a declining world economy, a sarily in conflict with other faiths and lower standard of life, and a rever other ways of life. The dictators sion to the archaic methods of ex- despise Western Europe because they change of goods characteristic of think that liberalism-and liberalism, Germany to-day. And political de- in its widest sense, is the spirit and mocracy would be dead."The basis of the life of Western Europe Nation," New York.
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RUSSIA GRABBING
is decadent and effete. They see only democracies. the weaknesses of the Those weaknesses are manifest and nobody will deny their importance. But the attack of Nazism is not an at- tack on their weaknesses but on their
While Moscow seems to have been strength. The feeling for liberty, the able
belief in the dignity of man, the res- pect for civilised law, these are great moral and political principles that are directly challenged by Nazism. What is wrong with the democracies is not that they hold these truths but that in
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"Nazism is but a passing phase. "Like"all systems built-upon-force- it cannot endure—in the long roll of history it will count but as a spasm of acute pain. The suffer- ing will be bitter, the devastation wide. But what really matters is what follows after. Can we do better this time? Can we finally rld Europe of barriers of caste and creed and prejudice? frontiers and faiths, language and commerce serve to unite nations and not divide them? Can weŊ create a true unity' In Europe? Can we ast before it a common aim of 'service, can we inspire It with common ideals of freedom, toleration, and mercy?. This is what must be. While the Naz! system exists it cannot be, and so the Nazi system and all that it im- piles must go. - Mr. Anthony Eden.
the difficult art of politics their ap- plication is sadly imperfect. Nazism denies the truths themselves.. These truths belong to. the inheritance of Europe, and they are the bonds that unite
peoples diverse in race in a culture. common For they belong to the Christian
tradition of Europe which by teaching the un- derlying equality of all human in- dividuals gave a new meaning and a new sanction to the Greek ideal of has law. Hitler
the liberty. and Roman
sense for thus against him all that is vital in democracy both as a way of life, as a habit. "Manchester
to bend Ethonia, Latvia, and Lithuania to its will with compara- tive ease, it seems as though it will meet with some opposition from Fin- land, which, according to the latest advices, appears to be in no frame of mind abjectly to Flanagan and Allen. surrender. What M. Stalin re- quires from the Finns has not yet been officially announced, but it is obvious that he is bent on secur- ing Russia's naval position in the Baltic with a suf- ficiency of naval bases free from ice all the year round. That he has de- mands to make on Finland is obvious from the fact that he summoned the Finnish Foreign Minister to nego- tiate with him in Moscow. That the Finns are not so amenable to pres- sure, as the other Baltic states, is de- monstrated by the
fact that the For- eign Minister did not accept the sum- mons, and that another representative, believed to be more capable of deal- ing with the Kremlin was sent in his stead. Judging from what he has de- manded from the other Baltic States it seems as though M. Stalin will re- 'quire the” Finns' consent to the estab- lishment of naval bases on the north- ern shores of the Gulf of Finland, thereby giving control over from Petrograd to the Baltic Sea. He might also require some concessions with regard to the Aaland Islands as- suring command over the Gulf of Bothnia, for if he secures all this the Bolshevik dream of a powerful Russian" navy strongly placed in the Baltic may
“We have not the strength to do so; eventually be realised. How that will
ease Herr Hitler is a matter for some and, it is doubtful whether the Allies on, but it is apparent that no would welcome China who cannot
German Government would give them any material support. Regulesce in the growth "In spirit, we are actually fighting power within side by side with Britain; and France, regarded against the aggressors for world
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CHINA AND THE
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"It is unnecessary for China to join the Allies in the European war as urged by Mr. Eugene Chen.
"The question is not “Must China join the Allies or declare her neutra lity?", but "Has China the strength and resources to participate in the war in the West?"
own, security and peace."--"Ta Kung Pao",
naval Russia Hong Kong.
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