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MIRROR OF WORLD OPINION

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FEDERAL EUROPE

NO DIFFERENCE tion of Germany—a course parallel to The situation is in fact no different the series of political concessions that now from what it was when Herr Hit- culminated at Munich, and rewarded ler embarked upon his ill-fated peace with as little gratitude and as little offensive. Nothing whatever has trans- good faith."The Times." pired to indicate that there has been any change whatever in the Hitlerian heart, or that he is willing to fors- We have to create a federal Europe wear future use of the military ma- if Europe is not to sink into disorder chine which he has created "for the and anarchy. Europe has developed purpose of imposing

own will a civilisation that has certain definite upon neighbouring states, if not upon virtues. Those virtues are threatened, the whole of Europe. That he may and unless Europe can defend them seek to wrest some advantage from that civilisation cannot survive. They the Belgian and Netherlands' com- cannot be defended by war alone. But munication may be taken for grant- the creation of a United States of ed, and the least that can be ex- Europe is an immense task, calling pected is that he will seek by some for great courage, imagination, inde- adroit move to throw the responsibi- pendence, and unselfishness in the lity for the continuance of the war men who mould our politics. If the upon Allied shoulders. He has already war degenerates into a mere struggle attempted to do so in the past and of rival States, or if it even seems so has failed egregiously, but that is no to degenerate, it will be impossible to reason why he should not try again. create either here or elsewhere the The earnest desire of King Leopold atmosphere in which men will set out and Queen Wilhelmina for an early on this vast task. For that reason the termination of the hostilities is per- poverty of our Government in ideas fectly well understood and sympathis or the gift for expressing them is a ed with, but it has been made quite great national misfortune. Mr. Chur- apparent that unless some scheme chill is a man of original and

inde- can be devised whereby the continual pendent mind, but his hands are full. fear of German aggression can be The manner in which the Prime banished for ever, peace will not be Minister has organised his War Cabi- obtainable. Horr Hitler cannot be net hardly suggests that he grasps the left with the fruits of his sudden on- nature of the task that is before him slaught on Poland. To permit that and his colleagues. There are many would be a definite encouragement thinkers and public men who are en- for further similar forays. in the future, which would always be a pro- bability so long as he is left in power. He can give no guarantees for future good behaviour which can possibly be

accepted, and the case for the Allies is that they owe it as much to the subjugated nations, to Belgium and Holland as much as to themselves Dorothy Lamour that this struggle shall not cease un- Grace Moore til a reasonable degree of security is again returned to Europe. "North

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gaged on the study of these problems, but there is little evidence so far that Ministers are making use of such studies or organising any investiga- tion and constructive discussion. Now

the future of Europe must turn on the way in which peace is made and the influences under which its problems are discussed. It is therefore most desirable that Ministers should go beyond the statements hitherto made and that they should let the world know what kind of Europe they would wish to substitute for the existing Europe we know to-day.-"Manches- as ter Guardian."

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his domination. If the German people

like to be governed in his way, that is no concern of ours; if they ever come to desire free- dom, they must take it for them- selves. We fight not to free the Germans, who (we are prepared to believe) are willing slaves, but the na- tions whom Hitler has enslaved by and force,

those who cannot enjoy the fruits of their native liberty SO long as his constant threat of aggression overhangs them.

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FUTURE OF EUROPE

Lord Halifax referred to the larger ideas for the future of Europe which

OUR STRUGGLE The war has arisen, because there exists in Europe a country the rulers of which have resolved to use force in order to achieve their political and economic ob- jects. These men reject all moral considerations and have no re- gard to treaties or obligations. They reject, in fact, the elemen- tary conditiona necessary to civiilsed existence. Το Europe from this state of things and thus gain security for its civilised life is the capital, pur- pose of our: struggle.—Major C. R. Attlee.

art engaging all serious minds. All nations, and parti- cularly our own, must prepare them- selves for conces- sions and sacrifices, since the tradi- tional idea of a Great Power and the traditional jen- lously for national rights, national property, and na- tional prestige must give way to a new conception of the fellowship of peo-. ples and the unity We have to satisfy nations that we for such sacrifices and

rescue

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It is equally monstrous to accuse of the world. Great Britain of jealousy of the social other progress made under Nazi rule, or of ready attempts to wreck the Four-Years that we mean to contribute all we can Plan. We are very well aware that to a new effort to lead Europe to a our own prosperity is inseparably closer union. But all these visions, as linked with the prosperity of all our Lord Halifax calls them, depend on neighbours. It is of the very essence the final defeat of the German spirit. of British economic doctrine that Different people have drawn different trade rivalry between nations is na- pictures of a Federal Europe; plans. tural and healthy; we have always and schemes are discussed, some fan- sought to develop it into trade co- tastically ambitious, all of them de- constructive thinking operation; and for six years our Gov- manding hard ernment and our mercantile leaders and a bold and revolutionary temper. The task of building up a co-opera- have been persistently seeking for

tive system will occupy years, though, any element in the totalitarian.com if we avoid the fatal mistake made mercial system with which it might at Paris lu 1919 of dissolving the inter- be possible to co-operate. If by op- Allied organisations that had done position to the Four-Years Plan Hitler such admirable work in the war, we means resistance to his attempts to can begin from this moment to prez force smaller nations within the con- pare for closer union between Great straints of the totalitarian economic Britain and France and between those system, that is quite another matter; States and others that may be willing we deny the right of the Germans to join them. But no large scheme to make their social progress at other for Europa is possible so long as there people's expense just as firmly as we is a Government with Germany's spirit deny their claim to see their and strength, determined and able to Lebensraum in äther people's territory, intimidate its neighbours and to use In the economic sphere we made con- the peoples of Europe, as it uses its cession after concession, from the own- subjecta, «for the service of its

abandonment of repara- pride and its ambitions.- tlow," In or to further the rehabilia- chester Guardian.

*THE CHINA MAIL, NOVEMBER 25, 1939

NAZIS MASSACRE IN AUSTRIA REVOLT

ELUDING 240,000 Black Guards and a Gestapo net of spies, whole Austrian regiments, fully equipped, have cross- ed into Yugoslavia and Italy rather than fight for Hitler.

This is only one of Berlin's worries. Two of the big- gest aeroplane factories in Germany are reported to have been destroyed by fire. Sabotage is suspected.

HOW A U-BOAT MET ITS END

Daily

Austrian soldiers desert lines on the from the Nazi front

the tell Front. Western

They French: "We were forced to be Hit- ler's soldiers."

where ex- Styria and the Tyrol,

von Schuschnigg, Chancellor Kurt prisoner of the Nazis, was born, are resis- the main centres of military tance.

11 at Infantry Regiment No. Innsbruck and Infantry Regiment

reported No. 27 at Graz are have been executed for mutiny.

4 (Deuts- The crack regiment No.

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The story of the destruction of one of the first of the Ger- man U-boats accounted for by the British Navy, pieced chmeister) was removed from Vienna together from scraps of in- to Wiener Neustadt. There it suffer- when officers and the garri- formation which have reached heavy losses

soldiers

the of Nazi leader Buerckel told ficers of the Viennese garrison: which actually "Everyone who is not willing to die is now for Hitler is a traitor. And the pun-

ishment for traitors is death."

Austrian troops

the Western Front do not form their own divisions but are mixed with "reliable" Nazi troops.

ed the relatives of Kent son. members of the crews of the destroyers scored this success, available.

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Somewhere out in the Atlantic British merchant ship suddenly found herself, late in the afternoon, under attack from a U-boat. Promptly she sent, out an SOS by her wireless, shot from the submarine having failed to put this out of action.

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Navel vessels 120 miles away picked up the message and proceeded at high speed towards the position given by the merchant ship. No signals were sent out from the warships.

two hours of about At the end nothing was in sight, but the leading ship became aware that she was ap- proaching an area in which a sub- marine was submerged.

The U-boat was changing course, Her move- but that did not matter. ments could now be detected.

The hunters took stations for op-

erations, and soon the exact position of the submarine was ascertained by the leader,

FOUR DEPTH CHARGES

Im- She

In a few minutes she was mediately over the U-boat. released two depth charges, and then a third. But it was not until the fourth charge was released that she knew for certain that she had got her prey.

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ITALY SNUBS HIMMLER

By calling up fewer Austrian

expected Hitler servists than was hoped to prevent the spread of "Aus- But his plan trian dissatisfaction." went awry.

Barbed wire fences on the

the stream frontier cannot stop Austrian deserters to Italy.

Italian

of

That is why Himmler, chief of the Italian Gestapo, went to consult his colleague in Bolzano. He asked him Ger- to extradite all deserters and

Ger- mans who refuse to return to many when called up.

Meanwhile,

The Italian flatly declined this pro- posal.

Hitler's pro-Moscow policy has added to Catholic bitterness "Hitler will pro- against the Nazis.

tect you from the Bolshevists" was a slogan which won Hitler many adher- ents before the Anschluss (union of Austria with Germany.)

Most of the Catholic churches are closed. The remainder are over- crowded. Priests defy all threats by preaching against Hitler.

ABBOT ARRESTED

The Abbot of Melk, famous Aus- trian abbay; has been arrested for

the against

"unholy preaching

alliance."

dropped This charge must have

submarine, fair and square on the which was probably rising in damaged state at the time, for there was a great underwater flash and huge volume of water rose in the air.

Only a small number of the sabo- on the Soon oil began to appear surface of the sea. and gradually tage acts of Austrian workers become The guilty are shot the known abroad. where

exploded,

or' imprisoned. then that the

widen out at the spot

fourth depth charge had and the crew knew

U-boat had been destroyed.

There was a long search for pos- sible survivors, but none could be found.

CONVOY SEES

A U-BOAT SUNK

to con-

"Hell So-called

trains" leave Austria taking prisoners centration camps in the Reich. In the Styrian Boehler Werke, one of the biggest industrial concerns in Austria, S.S. men with fixed bayonets had to force women workers to go on Many Austrian with their work.

discharged for policemen have been

compa- refusing to act against their triots.

pro-

Posters bearing a Goering clamation beginning with "Germans! have been, torn Men and Women!" down during the black-outs.

The master of the British cargo boat | circled round.

which has One destroyer

dropped a depth Dromore, 4,096 tons,

of Constantza, | charge, and the force of the explosion arrived at the port

was so tremendous that the chief-en- he states that

watched. British

sub-gineer of the Dromore rushed destroyers sinking a German

deck shouting that the ship had been marine.

guarding a torpedoed.

the The. destroyers were

Meanwhile the skipper of

a sub- convoy which included the Dromore.

the bulk of They detected the presence of two | Dromore saw

marine driven up out of the water by submarines:

The convoy was immediately order-the explosion. Then it plunged help-

to heave-to while the destroyers lessly back again to the sea bed.

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