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THE CHINA MAIL, NOVEMBER 20, 1939.

MIRROR OF WORLD OPINION

TWO SCENES

SCENE I.

Hotel Kaiserhof, Berlin, 2:30 p.m. It is the late lunch hour. Many of the guests are already seated at table, but the whole staff is on

tip-toe. Whisperings here and there, a party at mind hurrying with its meal as that one table is asked whether it would particular table is required for a very special person.

the

he care's one way or the other what the world thinks of and feels about the war he started with the conquest of Poland. But by threatening small nations he is building blockades

own armies, and

have de- against his blockades ultimately will vastating effects upon his supply lines if in fact that is not already true.- "Manila Bulletin."

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THE SAME MAN

those

The man who flew to Berchtesgaden and then to Godesberg and then to same man Munich, however, is the

told Herr Hitler that who has now the peace on which the Third Reich has continued to count for victory is not in the British vocabulary. Peace based on the abuse of confidence in the pledged word, peace built on the

of Polish cities and on the ashes moral ruins of Czech democracy, peace balanced on the violently shifting of opportunism which could policy

to a marriage of National So- lead cialism and Bolshevism in Moscow, is regarded by peace that even now

Russo-German the

a few minutes Outside the hotel, later, a big Mercedes Benz auto draws up. An adjutant in uniform jumps out from the seat beside the chauffeur, gives the Hitler Salute, opens the sec- ond door and stands to attention while a man in black uniform steps out. It is the National Socialist For eign Secretary. He looks round, left and right, up and down, gives his own peculiar form of the Hitler Salute, and walks into the hotel followed by three of his suite also in uniform. All along the route, the same salutes and heel- clicking, which reach their final cre- scendo as the National Socialist digni- tary takes his place at the table special- ly reserved for him. Three or four wait- ers, all of whom have duly fluttered their "Heil Hitlers" in the breeze, await orders. The meal continues and so does this, with a heel-click every time the Minister so much as moves The approval voiced in the House an eyelid. The only break is for more and more resounding heel-clicks as a messenger, also in uniform, brings a special letter. Orders are given to an adjutant across the table, he rises, clicks his heels, gives the Hitler Salute and marches off.

The meal is over. The great person- age moves. The whole restaurant is Half of them rise and salute him. The Minister disappears in a halo of heel-clicks.

agog.

SCENE II.

oppor-

of the signers general aggression pact as tunity to divide Europe between them that peace, Mr. Chamberlain stated, London sees as surrender.

of

Commons and along London's darkened streets is an approval which does not ignore the possible costs of perseverance on the field Herr Hitler himself chose when he marched on Poland. No Briton so sanguine as to expect the Third Reich's reply to be confined to words; many expected the answer to come from the skies over blacked-out London. But No is No. And Berlin's apparently hopeful re- ference to intervention by the United States shows the Third Reich is be- ginning to understand.

the the

A restaurant near Buckingham

Millions the world over are hoping, Palace. The hour is 1:30 p.m. Every- body is busy eating and conversing. working and praying for peace. Those In walks a lady and gentleman. Where called upon to make sacrifices for it will they sit? No table is specially re-

are waiting to hear, in more specific served for them, but the Head Waiter terms than they have yet heard, what sees one free in a corner and suggests are the war and peace aims of that perhaps it would be suitable. Yes, Allies. They would like to see they agree. The guests settle down and blue-print for reconstruction, to con- with the architects of eat their lunch like any other normal sult frankly

"Christian human beings. Only a few whispers the world's to-morrow. and furtive glances from the rest of Science Monitor." the company suggest they cognised. It is the British Foreign Secretary and before one can say any-

Stalin becomes not the ally in arms thing he has taken his bowler hat and

The ties of of Hitler but a benevolent neutral, umbrella and has left. blood link Germans and English, said whose benevolence has to be stimulat- a heavy retaining the National Socialists not long ago. ed not merely by But what separates them!-"Christian fee, but by repeated and substantial Science Monitor."

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are re-

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STALIN THE “ALLY”

refreshers. It is true that the new Russo-German agreement provides that if the Allies do hot acquiesce in na- the subjugation and dismemberment

MENACING THE WEEK

The current crisis for small

tions of Europe results from no wrong of Poland, and call further hostilities collec- off, the partners in perfidy will consi-

which they individually

tively have com-

mitted. Their of-

loca-

fense is the com- bination of their geographic tions and their de- fensive weakness from resulting

sizes. their small

They simply hap- pen to be in the path of an aggres- sor and too weak to be able to lay down the law to the aggressor on

or

THE PUZZLE

In

The puzzle to which we should try to find the answer is this: How is it that, in a free and de- mocratic State, there can still be.

differences Immense such Income

and In opportunities, from those altogether apart

differences which reflect

and ability

character? - Bir Arthur Salter.

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der together what measures they will take. As long as Russian complaís- ance is necessary to Germany, while German complais- ance is no longer necessary to Rus sia, it may be con- jectured that Sta- lin will not read- ily be a party to any measures which in- volve his abandon- ment of a formal neutrality. That has already en-

even con-

It possibly may be temporarily con- abled him, without risk or conflict, to venient to trample on the weak sim- possess himself of rich prizes, among ply because they are in the way and which Estonia is added to half of Po- are weak, but it's cowardly. In the land. Nor is it to be overlooked that long run it will be costly. The strate the Moscow negotiations have failed

--with the consent and gy of a drive through the Netherlands, nivance of Stalin--to detach Turkey Belgium or Switzerland will not de-

from her undertakings to the Western cide the present war. Such strategy democracies. On the contrary, Tur-

ad- possibly might net a temporary vantage, but the ultimate result will key's adherence to them is proclaim- ed, and a Turkish military mission is be the crystallization of world senti- on its way to this country. It is an ment and a corresponding reinforcing honourable characteristic of the Turk of the behind-the-line reserves in to be faithful to his engagements, and material resources,

the virtue shines brighter than over

The Hitler attitude toward world against the background of treachery sentiment still is a puzzle. It is dif- in which to-day it finds. Its setting.— ficult to determine right now whether "Daily Telegraph."

THE CHINA MAIL, NOVEMBER 20, 1939.