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WORLD

MIRROR OF

OPINION

WHY?

"If the whole German nation were really united under the leadership of Hitler as claimed by the latter and his agents, then God alone knows the reason why an attempt was made on Hitler's life." "National Times," Hong Kong.

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VOLTE FACE

"Last week the Japanese press was filled with reports and articles, some of which were doubtless inspired by official sources, regarding pending negotiations with Great Britain and the United States. Now comes a sud- 'den about-face. In intimating

that the Japanese Government was about to enter into negotiations, Mr. Yaki- chiro Suma said, the Japanese press had created a "faise impression."'

"For some reason, which may only be guessed at now, the Japanese have changed their minds about opening negouations with Britain and Unued States. That they had such an inten-

tion was manuest.

"What has caused the sudden change? One might hazard a shrewd guess and say that Japan has decid- ed to try playing the game of bluff and manoeuvre that brought Hitler so many successes in Europe, and to play it in partnership with Stalinist Hussia, incidentally grupping what- ever incidental benents may accrue from the game.-"China Weekly Re- view."

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of the mind, no progress, no creation,

no

spiritual life is York Post."

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possible.-"New

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EMBARGO NO PROTECTION

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of

good

We didn't sell any munitions speak of during the first part the Great War for the very reason that we didn't manufacture much munitions then. And we didn't sell any great amount of aircraft for the same reason. But even if we had sold great quantities of the prohibit- ed articles, the fact remains that most sold the warring of the things we countries then are not prohibited to- day, and if war profits came to con- trol our foreign policy and ultimate- ly destroyed our neutrality in the last war, there is quite as much danger of this happening again, even with the arms embargo in effect. This is an obvious fact which

invalidates en-

tirely the chief argument of the sup- porters of the embargo. "The Texas Weekly."

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THE EXCEPTION

This exception undoubtedly in- volves something of a legal Action. Yet war was never declared against and if nothing has been the Poles employed in Poland beyond Russian

efforts to . "neutrality" and German "protect" a minority in the Corridor, there is ground for diplomatic de- clarations that it has not ceased to exist. Certainly the spirit that de- fended Warsaw lives on-and that was a large part of Poland. More- Nobody can object to Col. Charles over heads as well as hearts inform Lindbergh's telling his fellow coun- that Poland has not passed. If trymen that they should keep the Germany and Russia do not recon- United States out of this war. But stitute it as a buffer state-and as an there are some ways of taking that inducement for position and some others. Colonel France will sooner or later re-estab-- Lindbergh takes the way which lish the State.

LINDBERGH FORGETS

leaves the strong feeling that he leans over in his neutrality against the cause of Bri- tain and France,

An honoured name cannot digni- fy an irresponsible attitude in a great crisis of human af- fairs. We had

Q right to expect something better from a man of Lindbergh's re- putation than this talk of "simply one of the age- old quarrels of Europe." There is a touch of the = Pharisee in that phrase: "The greed, the fear and the intrigue of the European nations.".

us

peace-Britain and

What part then will the United

BROTHERHOOD'S AIMS States play? Non-

not

If only free men would rely on that which has not strength and la never free-on external power, but would be. lleve In what lɛ always powerful and free-in truth and the ex- pression of it. If only men would boldly and clearly speak out the truth that has already bean re- vealed to them of the brother- hood of all nations and the crim- nality of exclusive devotion to one's own nation, the dead false public opinion upon which all the power of governments and all the evil produced by them rests would

like drop off of itself dried skin, and would make way for the new living public opinion which only waits that dropping off of the old. husk that has con- fined it in order to assert its claims openly and with au- thority,

and to establish naw forms of life that are in har- mony with the consciences of men.-L. N. Tolstoy (1828-1910). In "Christianity and Patriotism" written in 1894.

Colonel Lind- bergh speaks as if the light of civili- sation could be al- together extin- guished in Europe, and still, if the United States can hold her skirts tight enough, it will make no difference to her.

recognition of con- quest has its uses, but it's a woefully negative instru- ment. It expresses fervent Ameri-

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can feeling against aggression. But that becomes rather unsatisfy- ing if the condi- tion which is not recognised con- tinues to exist and nothing is done about it. How far can America go in this applying .policy? How long can it afford to do nothing positive before - hand to stop aggression and afterward seek negatively to deny it?

If the sea-right up

to the three- mile limit -- were conquered by Ger- many or Japan, would non-recogni- tion suffice? And if the great' ma- jority of Americans feel they must furnish moral support and supplies to that he found a refuge, not so long those who resist aggression in war, ugo, in the European civilisation what is the obligation of the United which he now holds so cheaply. He is States to co-operate before war? At rather forgetful now. "Vancouver" "Dally Province.”

Perhaps it is hardly pleasant to have to remind Colonel Lindbergh

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DEFINITION OF DEMOCRACY

Democracy, as a system of govern- ment, a way of life, is justifled by its recognition that freedom of the mind is the prime necessity to the happiness of män. Without freedom

one time the American State, Depart- ment did not open any mail from the League of Nations. Will that form of non-recognition be revived after this war? Or will Americans who, almost unanimously, want to keep out of war and are unwilling to recognise ag- gression, recognise the value of the world and prevent aggression? "Christian Science Monitor?”