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THE CHINA MAIL, NÓVEMBER 8, 1939

MIRROR OF WORLD OPINION

WAR AIMS

A

expectation or

purpose of making peace but only of building up the morale of one people and breaking down that of others would have offer- ed such peace terms in a radio ora-

tion.

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STALINISM

The old talk about

What are the Allies to aim at? Europe in which armed force will no longer be arbiter, whether it is used on land, in the air, or on the sea. This

Only those who must fight in a Implies the creation of a League pos- sessed of an armed force greater than continuation of the war can say that be made on such that of any European Power. A Europe peace shall not again in which some form of Federal terms or with such a mentality. But Union will subordinate all the fierce those whose chief concern is to stay rivalries that now threaten to tear us out of war will easily understand the inability-already forecast — of Brit- to pieces and enable each people to

ain and France to find hope of develop its own culture and raise the

genuine peace in this speech.-"Chris- level of its common life, finding

tian Science Monitor." strength and help in its association with the rest of Europe. To the crea- tion of such a Europe the Allies would contribute not only by their leadership but by their own concessions, for it would obviously demand from them fires is repeated: if Stalinism refused their consent to a radical reconstruc- to pull chestnuts out of the fire for tion of the colonial system, as well as anybody it has not been slow to pull to large economic readjustments and them out for itself. Having secured the surrender of part of their national them it prepares to consume them. sovereignty. Such a Europe cannot Therefore the world war also must be be created at once. Its creation must liquidated. be a gradual and complicated process. So the propaganda runs and will run. But if that is our aim all our policy It will undoubtedly have its effect must be guided and governed by its on the doped and silenced peoples of spirit and its needs. There is no Germany and Russia, place in it for a Power that seeks It may even impress anxious and conquest and dominion. A confer threatened neutrals-those little chest- ence in which mutually suspicious nuts upon which the fire creeps. Few bargains of them will be able to avoid injury the

be old and suffering. All may

manoeuvres

seeking also

overnments dealt in

and

of arrangements kind, in a series of and stratagems, would not give it much help. The ideal meeting-place for a Peace Con- gress, as Mr. Har- old Nicolson argues in the "Nineteenth Century," would be Washington, and the Allies should make every effort to enlist the help United of the States, for whom this might well seem the sequel to their great achieve- ment in construct- ing their Federal Constitution. With such plans in view

for

ONE ANSWER

of The experience

mankind returns only one answer. Results can only be achieved through federal the application of the principle. Therefore, let a con- federation of Europe be establish- ed, an association of free nations open to all who are prepared to submit themselves to the public law, which such a confederation will administer and uphold. Let us highly resolve at the outset that our main war aim is to re- construct the shattered fortunes of Europe. upon the unassailable foundation of justice and peace.— Lord Davies.

to

chestnuts and

ΟΙ

excused out. any way Some may consent be bloodlessly conquered liquidated rather than to risk the march of desperate gangsters across their lands.

That being the prospect of propa- ganda at this turn- the ing point in struggle, what are our we doing, on side, to counter the flood of lies?

Nothing! Or so little that you can- not hear what is said by us.

Neutrals cannot hear US. What

of

or

a

the Allies would have no difficulty in they hear incessantly is the roar showing that they did not desire a Nazi news-giving, the screeching Versailles Peace, for they seek to pro- insinuating voices of Nazi spokesmen, vide a world in which all the legiti- the books and leaflets and personal in- mate demands of the unsatisfied Pow- tervention of Nazi agents and spies. ers would be met. If, then, the To set against all that, we have at world wants to know why Great Brit- great cost set up and must now re- No ain is at war, the answer is three- form or destroy-a Ministry of fold. She is fighting, as every threa- Information which is the slave of

which, when tened State must fight, for her own stupid censorship, and security. She is fighting, as a people reproached for its fiascos, whimpers that has drawn so freely on Europe that it can't invent news, and that if the censorship for light and culture, for fame and it did invent some, wealth, is in honour bound to fight, would suppress it.-"Daily Mirror." to guard Europe's liberties. And if to-day she can only defend Europe by using her reluctant strength upon the seven

we seas she is fighting,

"Japan, by her piratical freebooting hope, for this dream of a nobler in China, has brought herself into future when she can serve Europe by conflict with Great Britain, France using all her knowledge, experience, and the United States. Soviet Rus- and sympathy to aid the common sía, since Stalin hitched his wagon to purposes of mankind.-"Manchester Guardian."

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HITLER MENTALITY

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JAPAN'S POLICIES

Hitler's evil destiny, has come into conflict with the same Powers.

"What, then, would be more logi- cal than for Tokyo and Moscow to band together, even if only tempor- arily, in an attempt to ease the pres- feeling? Hitler Only a mentality without a sense sure which both are

has no scruples about allying himself of history would forget that only few months ago he described German- with the hated "Reds".then why not Polish relations as so satisfactory as Japan also? to rejoice all "true friends of peace" and recognised that "a state of 33,000,- produce advantages for both, Soviet an Russia would secure a peaceful Far 000 people will always strive for

declare Eastern front and be free for action outlet to the sea" and now that the fate of Poland is to be de- in Europe, while Japan, freed of the and Soviet "menace" that she has always termined entirely by Germany

feared, could devote her full attention Rússia.

"A bedfellowship of this kind would

Only a mentality lacking a sense of to resisting the pressure of the United stable States and Britain and securing that principle on which alone a peace can be founded could say that settlement of the China conflict with revision of Versailles by fear and she desires.

conditions force had brought stable and that results not methods are the main consideration.

Only a mentality with no serious

“Judging by all the signs, Far East- ern developments in the coming weeks are going to prove highly interesting."

"China Weekly Review."

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