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THE CHINA MAIL, NOVEMBER 4, 1989

MIRROR OF WORLD OPINION

A NAZI DEFENCE.

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The purpose of the von Illbbentrop speech at Danzig is not perfectly clear. But it has the appearance of an up- peal for inside support for the war. It is an attempt to defend the Nast war programme, but it sounds like a defence for home consumption, in other words an appeal for the Nazi forces, specifically those in Danzig, to stand firm in support of what has been done and what is in prospect.

The natural assumption up to this point has been that no Naxi official should feel called upon to defend the war programme before the people. It the people were duly informed as the programme leading to war was un- |folded there should be no occasion now

to argue the case of War guilt.

As a defence of the Nazl programme the speech falls flat when viewed from the outside. Whether it is more effective as propaganda within the Reich, we have no way to determine. Press reports indicate its extensive use as propaganda at home, such exten- sive use that one hardly can escape the conviction that it was carefully planned for that purpose.

Certainly there would have been no peace plan connected with the speech. It would tend to destroy, rather than improve, the prospects of peace, if any existed."Manita Dulletin.

LIVING SPACE

BRITAIN'S BULWARK

A great deal has been heard about Britain's air force during the last year. and the strides it has made in increas- ing the production of aircraft and in the training of men. But far less has been said about what still remains the senior service, the Royal Navy. The command of the sou is no less vital to Britain than it has been in the past.

Without a victory at son no large invading force could roach and main- tain itself on British soil. But the tasks of the British Admiralty go far be- yond keeping invaders at bay. Upon it tall the manifold duties involved in keeping the sen safe for British ships to carry supplies in all waters, and in preventing enemy ships from running

the blockade. The great key ports like Gibraltar, Alexandria, and Singapore, have been provided not only with pro- tection against enemy attack but with reserves of fuel and ammunition,

Three or four years ago there was some uneasiness in Britain about the preparedness of the Navy for sudden eventualities, especially in the Medi- terranean. There is no such uneasiness to-day. So much concentrated work has been put into the re-equipment of the Navy that it can safely be said that it has never in the last twenty years been so fully provided for emer- gencies. New ships of every kind have been built, and other ships have been rettled.

The knowledge that Britain's forces are well prepared to defend its shores and its sea-borne supplies undoubtedly contributes to that quiet confidence

Herr Hitler seldom fails to stress with which the British people are fac- ing the war.-"Christian Science Moni- his people's need for living space.

tor." "Somehow 80 million German people must live," he declared in his Reich- stage speech last Friday. This may have been partly a protest against economic barriers. But, since he also demanded the return of Germany's "stolen"

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INSIDE GERMANY

Nothing is easier or more dangerous colonies, the Fuhrer could not dis- than to get a false impression of con- sociate the right to live from ter- ditions of the decay of moral are one ritorial ambition.

"Expand or

OX-

Even if

plode" is the Nazi and Fascist concep- tion of what the Duce has called "natural dynam- Jem." the economic need for such expansion is clearly proved, it cannot surely be secured by force of arms at the ex- pense of the free- dom of smaller na- tions. Lord Hali- fax stated in a broadcast talk be- fore the war that the British Govern- ment would be willing, in sult- able circumstances, to

IN

OPPORTUNITY FOR

THE PRESIDENT And yet, it is clear that the war situation has given President Roosevelt a great opportunity, which his opponents in his own party, and among the Republi- cans, will have real difficulty in turning. For a year or more, it has been a stock phrase of politi. cal writing to say that President Roosevelt wouldn't be renominat- ed or re-elected "unless we have a war." It was a standard assump- tion that the "don't swap horses" argument would be powerful, and President Roosevelt's great experience would tell in

his

favour at the 1940 polls if a war or a war crisis obtained then.- E. D. Canham.

course, was to tell of the stock fea- tures of propaganda everywhere. The other night a Ber- lin propagandist

in broadcasting French gave a most harrowing account of supposed con- ditions in Britain

of rising prices. of hoarding, of dis- content with this restriction and that. It was all- apparently "docu- mented" with the names of the Eng- lish newspapers

from which the "facts" were taken. The intention, of

consider the the French what a miserable broken problem of living space for countries reed they had ally. And we all re- burdened with an excessive popula- tion. It is obvious that the correct member over a long course of years atmosphere for such discussions can how often Soviet Russia and Fascist only be crouted when Germany has a Italy have been, to believe our wishful Government which can be trusted to thinkers, on the edge of collapse or abide by the decisions taken at the revolt. We need, therefore, to take conference table.-"Coylon Observer."

with caution many of the more opti- mistic (from our point of view) ac- "Revealing that Sir Robert Craigle, counts of the state of feeling in Ger- British Ambassador to Tokyo, pressed many about the war. It is much too for a solution of ponding Anglo-Ja- early to let Germany's internal stresses panose issues when interviewing Ad- Influence our judgment as to its length iniral

Foreign and; character. All the same, there is Nomura, Japanese Minister, on October 11, the Tokyo much in which leaks through about "Nichi Nichi" made an interesting ad- the state of Germany, that is of ex- mission on Monday of this week, ac- traordinary: interest. The two letters cording to a "Reuter" report. If Great.. we publish to-day give perhaps the Britain and America would be willing most illuminating commentary that to assist in the construction of a "New has yet appeared in this country on Order” in East Asia, the paper sald, how the ordinary German people have it was possible that. Admiral Nomura" reached to the war. They are shown in would be willing to give consideration uncertainty and, bewilderment. They to the question of re-opening the Yang- have responded more or less automati- -

cing, up of hatred tam and Fear Rivers to foreign ship- cally to the

against the Poles. After all, that is an ngig and the historic agitation, Corridor have stri n old... note. But war with the

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