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THE CHINA MAIL, NOVEMBER 16, 1939

MIRROR

OF WORLD OPINION

HITLER'S PROMISES The German people have no thought of invading any country. (Berlin, Mau 17, 1933.)

We do not want a war merely for the purpose of bringing to Germany people who simply do not want to be, or cannot be, Germans. (On the wire- less, May 27, 1933.)

When has the German people ever broken its word? (Berlin, November 10, 1933.)

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Officers, with Goering's collection inspire them, are stealing works of art. Shops are being looted, and a po- pulation already in desperate straits is......... deprived of all except the brend and water recently mentioned as proofs of German generosity. Flesh and blood, we read, is going just as cheap. Jun- lor officers and even N.C.O.'s power of life and death; and denun- clation by a spy is enough to ensure that the denounced disappears for ever from the haunts of men.

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acts

The assertion that the German Reich

In the horror which these revela- plans to coerce the Austrian State is tions will cause throughout the world absurd and cannot be substantiated or there is no taint of hypocrisy. Isolated proved. (Berlin, January 13, 1934.) crimes have been committed in other Germany has concluded a non-ag- wars by other races, but the civilised gression pact with Poland which is commander suppresses all such more than a valuable contribution to according to the law of nations. It has European peace, and she will adhere to remained for Germany to discover it unconditionally. (Berlin, May 21, that this code is as outmoded as Chris- 1935.)

tianity itself, and to establish another. Germany is the bulwark of the West To the old braggart motto, Deutsch- against Bolshevism, and, in combat- land ueber Alles, Hitler has added a ing it, will meet terror with terror, and corollary Vae victis! Woe to the con- violence with violence. (Berlin, Nov- quered! Nor need this surprise us, ember 29, 1935.)

for the most ruthless cruelty has long We have no territorial demands to been characteristic of a certain type of make in Europe. (Berlin, March 7, German mind. To Nietzsche the world was a jungle in which the strong, like beasts, struck down and devoured the weak; and the fact that Nietzeche died insane has not lessen- "Daily ed his influence on Hitler. Telegraph."

1936.)

The lie goes forth again that Ger- many to-morrow or the day after will fall upon Austria or Czecho-Slovakia. (Berlin, May 1, 1936.)

The Sudetenland is the last terri-

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INDIA'S FUTURE

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has arrived at vir- tually the same verdict. It deplores the Viceroy's fail- ure to fix a definite period for India's attainment of full Dominion Status of the same character as that enjoyed by the self-governing units of the Em- pire. It fears that

torial claim which I have to make in Europe . I have assured Mr. Cham- berlain, and I emphasise it now, that The Congress is not alone in its re- when this problem is solved Germany jection of the Viceroy's unsatisfactory has no

more territorial problems in promises. The ·Council of the Europe. (Berlin, September 26, 1938.) All-India National Liberal Federation

There is one pe- culiarity about the ruler of Germany. It is doubtful whe- ther his promises or his threats are more to be feared. He promised not to coerce Austria; he promised not to in- vade Czecho-Slo- vakia; after swal- lowing the Sude- ten Germans he promised to make no the Central Government must continue further territorial demands in Europe; for an indefinite period in its present he promised to keep his pact with Po- state of irresponsibility, as far remov- land. Could anything worse have ed as ever from the principles of de- happened to these States if all his mocracy for which India is expected promises had been threats?-"Man- to fight. As for the Congress, it sus- chester Guardian.

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The public must show itself worthy of its fighting man. can do its best by a firm display of patience and a cheerful sub- mission to the tasks imposed. We all know that great sacrifices will be required of us—J. B. Firth.

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pects the raising of the minority issue and the stress laid on communal dif- LONG BATTLE

ferences to be merely a screen for co- The only safe assumption is that the vering the Imperial Government's real battle against Hitlerism will be long intentions of continuing to keep India and hard, and will strain to the ut- in perpetual subjection. It is singular- unfortunate that this suspicion termost the resources of the British ly Empire. "Easy hopes or lies" are the should have been encouraged by the

Viceroy's maladroit statement at in most dangerous guides to policy war-time. Britain is resolved to have critical a stage as the present. Nation- none of them. Drawn with

alist India feels that it has offered the France into a struggle which she made des- hand of friendship to Britain and that Where pairing and sacrificial efforts to avold, the offer has been spurned. she is determined to continue it until there might have been a generous ges- the aggressor and his hateful system ture, there has been a conspicuous lack are overthrown. It is precisely

of statesmanship and vision. But, as kind of war now envisaged by Britain Mahatma Gandhi says, the door is stil that Nazi Germany has most cause to left open for satisfying the national demand and averting a real crisis. A dread. She specialises, not in a war of resources, but in the "Blitzkrieg" ray of hope and sunshine may yet the modern, mechanised version of the penetrate the gloomy forebodings oc- swift tribal foray; and indeed she fell casioned by the heavy rain at Wardha.

-"Ceylon Observer." upon her Polish neighbour with suddenness and savagery of a tribe of island head-hunters raiding a weaker people. But, severely as she mauled her victim in the space of a few days, she has yet to reckon with the might and staying-power of the West. These she has just reason to pense of China is no more improbable fear, and, for all its bombast, there is than the now fully accomplished So- a note of anxiety in recent Nazi pro- viet-German deal for the carving up paganda.-"Sydney Morning Herald."

of Poland. Certainly the United States would oppose any agreement which VAE VICTIS! Despatches from Helsingfors, based impaired China's sovereignty and in- on eye-witnesses' accounts of what is tegrity. Is it not just possible that the happening in Poland, tell a tragic Soviet outbursts against America- story. No generous mind can read

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NOT IMPOSSIBLE

"A Soviet-Japanese deal at the ex-

unmoved of outrages all the more ter- apart from their connection with the rible because systematic and obvious- European situation-are a propaganda ly approved by the German High smokescreen to cover some perfidious Command. Civilians and even chil- betrayal of China's struggle for her dren are being driven off to Germany national independence?”

to work like the Israelites in captivity. Weekly Reviewd."

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