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WORLD

MIRROR OF

OPINION

HITLER'S PEACEL

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-and-Fränze Wowéhol a little for the strong moral support they, now re- It is one of Hitler's less savoury ceive in America. Their credit could habitaito" oaver -with insults the vic-not have survived Minänsä eruirender. tim whom he has trapped and On the Issues for which they strangled: When he hadṣtricked and fighting: America opinió la with enslaved the Czechs his first-care was the “Manchest? Guardian?! to try

to befoul them with abuse. Yesterday it was the Turn of the Poles, his latest victim-and his last. Year by year Hitler has larded Poland with his assurances-"Poland. will Ger- continue to exist (1933) mans and Poles must reconcile them- selves to the fact of each other's exis- tence (1934)

We recognise the Polish State as the home of a great patriotic nation (1935) will remain Poland (1936)

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OLD ADAGE

During the last world

war, the neutral Powers, with the exception of victimised Belgium, found the old adage true that war fosters merce, although the gains were more than offset by the post-war disloca- tion of world trade. Still, their posi- Poland tion of neutrality gave them immunity Danzig from the ravages of actual warfare. and Germany respect Polish rights Esthonia, which is of strategic value to the Soviet, has, perhaps, been over- (1938)

A people of 33,000,000 awed into submission; and her fate will always strive for an outlet to the and that of Poland will have a power- sea (1938) .” and so on. Just five ful-effect in the future alignment of months ago he assured Mr. Roosevelt the smaller States. Though they may that "all States borderingon Germany passionately desire to maintain their have received much more binding as- sovereignities and to remain at peace, surances" than any demanded of him. they are likely to become mere pawns.

Poland And yesterday?

is a state on the international- chess board. The which should never have existed. Her totalitarian "peace," if it ever materi- existence was always bound to lead to alises, will fail to last.-"Ceylon Ob- war. Nor is that 'all, Tris to his server." most contemptible trait he seeks to discredit Polish valour, naively ex- plaining that he does not want any legend of Polish heroism to entwine: itself with the memory of the defence of Warsaw, Modlin, and Hela. Uncon--

To the American people and the German- sciously he belittles the

world at large Colonel Charles Au- achievement by pouring contempt upon- the organisation and leadership of the gustus Lindbergh must remain an enl- been Polish State. But the chief offence of gma. Shy and publicity-hating, Co-

has always lonel Lindbergh its leaders seems to have been that they refused to grant passive submis the silent flying hero of the American sion to "revision," that is, to dictation, scene. Yet to-day one finds him stand- vocating in repeated radio speeches and this contention culminates in the ing before the American public, ad- charge that Poland was about to over that the United States must not re- run East Prussia, to conquer Ger-

peal its Neutrality Law which now many up to the Elbe; and to "an- nihilate the Reich." Will even a Ger- embodies the embargo provision.

As a flier, 'as a pioneer aeronautic · man believe that? This is offered as the reason why Poland "refused to engineer and as a scientist, Colonel Lindbergh deserves the respect-and discuss" the notorious offers of "ap-

the admiration-of-the world. As a peasment," one of which mysteriously

father who lost his son and a man escaped presentation in the Spring and-- the other of which was drafted, but who has been made the victim of sen- deliberately, withheld,..on the eve of sational journalist exploitation, he de- an elaborately planned and predeter- mined war."The Times."

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AMERICAN SENTIMENT

LINDBERGH

serves the world's sympathy,

But this sympathy and this admira¬ tion does not mean that the world is ready to give Colonel Lindbergh a blanket certificate qualifying him as an expert on international diplomacy His belief and his advocacy, like those of any lesser known individuals, must same ground -of be proved on the validity.

There can be no argument on Co- lonel Lindbergh's main point that America" must not be drawn into the war `in ́ ́ ́ ́ ́Europe. This is the "cat¿a

point of

PEACE AIMS "Werthall not wean: Germany** || dinal' ** from - Hitler. by aerial leaflets the Administra-~~-

The overwhelming volume of sup- port for Britain and France in the United States comes" out more clearly every day (only the vagaries of our heavy-footed con- sorship cam in jure it), but at the same time there is nỡ change in thesi desire of the great-† mass of Americans to keep out "of the war them-e selves. Without a "cash 'and carry" provision,

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unless they..pledge us to some. ?] thing........much more precise- and unmistakable. In the last 'war we had to wait for Wilson to draw up the Fourteen Points whief finally won the consent of confin--the Central Powers. Rosievelt is Ing the transport.cat: present in no position to repeat.'

thabuffice for us. But our success! of war materials

in winning that American co-m operation we so keenly mead will, even now, largely depend. -upon- our convincing the United States "that we have learnt what Wildon Was trying to teach us that tha the 1: most potent factor in Winning: a war in a statement of the kind of prawekwish which we propose to u

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