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6472-Angio American March.

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Scottish March.

5473-Marche Lorraine.

Belphegor.

5474-Stars and Stripes for ever.

Colonel Bogey.

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941-Songs of Ireland.

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942-Bongs of Scotland.

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844-Songs of Wales.

DB 779-Songs of the Sea.

9080-Pomp and Circumstance Maroh No. 1.

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MIRROR OF WORLD

OPINION

NO ALTERNATIVE

If you remove from the history of Britain and of the United States, of

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and quiet" refutation given them by the Prime Minister?.

For neutral States perhaps it is as

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France and Italy, of the Netherlands well that the lles should be promptly and the Swiss all that has been done followed by replies. Germany hears to establish the rights of man by Chris- nothing of the answer. Our own peo- tian prophets, liberal thinkers, and ple have surely ceased to pay the by rebel movements, what would be smallest attention to the grotesque left? And this belief in liberty is the fables of the gangster.

Unless, indeed, we can extract a basis of the life of Western Europe. What kind of life does Nazism offer little grim humour out of them; won- in its place? Let anybody consider dering, for example, how long Hitler what life le like in Scandinavia and will be "sorry for France," how long he Switzerland as described by Sir Ernest will be content to announce that Rus- Simon in his recent book "The Smaller sia is properly and permanently Bol- Democracies" and compare it with the shevik; and whether, next time, he will declare himself the World Protector life of Nazi Germany with its mass of the Jews and offer them a spiritual drill of mind and manners, its con-

centration camps and its silenced home in Nazidom."Daily Mirror."

thinkers, its homes and streets haunt- ed by spies and eavesdroppers. Then let him consider what it would mean to the peoples of those States to be submerged in the Nazi system. Let him measure their loss in dignity, in free- dom, in happiness, in their respect for themselves and for their nation. All of these States are formally neutral, but their history and their system of life forbid indifference. A world with so

its blood, and

80 much of

the

habit of freedom in its life, will not easily submit to a tyrant however ruthless his power. "Manchester Guardian,"

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HIGH COST OF WAR

Modern warfare is no inexpensive pastime although Hitler and his colles- gues think lightly of it in comparison with the achievement of their am- bition. The time has passed when a few thousand men could be flung into action and wage a victorious war by feeding on the hapless countryside and the share of spoils.. With millions of much of the passion for freedom in men to be mobilised, vast organisa- tions to be maintained, and the utilisa- tion of munitions and other resources in rapid and incalculable quantities as conditions require, the financial side is of a magnitude incomprehensible to the man-in-the-street accustomed to ENDURING PEACE

dealing in tens or hundreds of pounds. One great constructive measure to But in the resistance to the colossal which all the war-torn peoples will movement of aggression which has look forward as the corner-stone of a developed in Europe, the British Gov- more enduring peace is, without any ernment has shown that no price is question, an effective degree, of too high to defeat it and maintain the disarmament. The burden of common decencies of life and rights armaments has proved doubly destruc- of liberty and freedom to which every tive, for it not only depresses stand- people is entitled to enjoy. The first ards of living, but also creates national War Emergency Budget has passed distrusts which act as an incitement to all stages in Parliament and has re- war. To be effective, disarmament ceived the Royal Assent. It provides

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must be general. The future peace- makers must avoid the

of mistake Versailles by which unilateral disarmament gave Germany tional grievance, which Hitler ex- ploited for his own malign purposes. Another fun-

а na-

damental aim of the Allies must be

remove,...when framing of

JAPAN'S AIMS Japan, too; has reaffirmed her policy of "non-Intervention” or independence." General Abe, the moderate Prime Minister, de- clares that Japan is confining her interests to China, as long as no foreign Powar adopts an obetruc- tionist.attitude there. As token of her own goodwill.---obo -- has. abandoned the blockade of Hong, Kong and, at a conference in Shanghal, did not raise the de- manda she had previously made. that all foreign soldiers. should leave China. Whether this aban- donment was due to Mr. Cordell Hull's statement that the United States would resist any. further encroachment on foreign rights in China, or whether it represents the new mildness of Japanese,” polloy, is not yet clear, but there In every sign that Japan, tiad down now for months to an im- movable front-line, and forever suspicious of Russia, wants to '- "ilquidate" the Chinese episode asė: soon as possible, if only becausa. the new wartime opportunities. for International trade would re- habilitate her economically- Prof. 8. H. Roberts.

for an estimat- ed. revenue of £995,000,000

an

of

and expenditure £1,933,000,000 over an inde- finite period for If this sum is in- adequate further credits must be voted. This reveals not only the na- tion's determina- tion to carry its intentions to the but utmost limit,

also the financial resources available against the extent of Germany's ef- fort, The budgetary estimate represents one of the largest ever voted for war purposes by any nation at the " be-- ginning of hostili- ties; but it is by no means the largest. It is indicative of the probable cost Lof the war and the

to the peace terms takes place, any genuine economic griev- ances on the part of the world's "Have-not" na- tions. Fuller pro- vision will have to be furnished for in- ternational

access materials, to raw and the system of autarchy, which Germany forced on the world, modified so as to open up again the channels sacrifice which the nation must be pre- of international trade. Economic pared to save. Britain entered the last action, however, must go hand in hand war with “an ordinary budget of a with the devising of stronger guaran- little over £200,000,000 and, with sup- tees for political stability. The system plementary estimate for war pur of power politics, which has invariably poses, £569,000,000: B-1810, with an led to war, must be replaced by that ordinary budget of £500,000,000, the of collective security. The vallant total with supplementary estimates for endeavour, of the League to establish war purposes with in the £2,000,000,- collective security failed, largely be- 000 ̊ category, and by, the last year of cause, its members were not prepared the war, while the to sacrifice:national sovereignty, and stood at 2842,000,UDO {'some sacrifion of national sovereignty of £2,977,000, isementialias the basis of aɖrlew ore. At present, it,

**"! Only by putting the international war. Is before the national Interest can- day, In

me fashion,lat the end of the

a new and better) world; Sydney: Morning Herald.”

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