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THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 15, 1939

MIRROR OF WORLD

OPINION

BRITISH AIMS

TOO OFTEN

The Finns rightly refused to with- draw their troops from the frontier unless the Russians did the same; it cannot be supposed that Finland thinks of anything other than defence. wretchedness of ... the Russian case lies plainly in this from its last Note:-

The Finnish refusal to withdraw troops fifteen miles from the frontier proves the desire of the Finnish Gov- ernment to keep Lepingrad under the immediate threat of its Army.

It is tempting for the Opposition, and particularly for an Opposition like the Labour Opposition that has so great an affection for extensive paper schemes, to wish for a detailed pro- In fact, the gramme (which we could all set about at once to pull to pieces), but one wonders whether if Mr. Attlee were in Mr. Chamberlain's place, with a frightful war only just begun, he would be so rash to comply. There are

This of a country of under 4,000, 000 people! The picture of the giant directions in which as time goes on the menaced by the aggressive pigmy has Government could with profit be more been painted too often to be believed explicit. It could well profit, for in- any more. The dispute has taken a stance, and be much more out-spoken much prestige, and has done her best dangerous turn. Russia has · staked

about our ideas on the future of co- to arouse her own people. Finland, lonies. It would impress American although the Russian talk of British opinion rather more were greater em- and French influence behind her is a phasis lald on the removal of the propagandist invention, has the sym- pathy of the world, particularly of economic causes of international dis- the United States. Public subscrip- TECHAMADAUKAGUZEZNACZENDİKENEDETE content. But, much as we should be tions are being raised for her in interested to see them, we can hardly Sweden, Her people have greater blame the Government for not here political liberties than any country and now producing precise proposals bordering on Russia, and her Gov- for the Emitation of national sover- ernment has faced this campaign of eignties in a new European order. We abuse and threat with dignity and shall have to be a good deal near win- great restraint.-"Manchester Guardi- ning the war before we can venture an." beyond the broadest of first principles. But the discussion does good, for it is in its give and take that the Govern- ment has its best chance of laying the legend which the Nazis and the Com- munists foster in common-that we are Bghting for an "imperialist" end. It is a useful counter to ludicrous but widely circulated propaganda.— "Manchester Guardian,"

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ISOLATIONIST IMPERIALISM

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APPEALING TO THE

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Attempts to press Finland's case in the conference chambers of the tottery League of Nations cannot produce material assistance for the attacked Finng nor provide effective dis- ciplinary force against the invading Russians. If the League is forced into an effort to judge the case and deal with the offending party the effort can accomplish only one result: formal burial rites for the League.

There may be many who would in- sist that the League better be formally dead than theoretically alive but was actually ineffective. So they of this

ORDEAL OF

SACRIFICE

Colonel Lindbergh's statement that sooner or later the United States must "demand the freedom of this continent and its surrounding islands from the dictates of European power,"

quickly interpreted în the "sooner" sense. Senator Lundeen of Minnesota, one of the extremer iso- lationists, proposed that the United States seize as pay- ments for the war debts "surrounding islands" in the Caribbean that be- long to Great Bri- tain.

One of the chief desires of the democracies which are at war is not only to emerge victorious from this present struggle, but from this ordeal of sacrifice to come fitted to construct a better world. To do that it will be necessary to avoid repetition of the mistakes which have greatly contributed to the present lament- able state of affairs, and it will be Imperative to make sure for all time that, while Germany shall receive all that is her proper due, she shall never again be al- lowed to gain such a position from which she will be able to create such trouble as she has at present brought upon Europe.- Mr. Anthony Eden.

school of political thought would wel- come a show-down to have the nearly- dead officially buried.

If the future of the League must be appraised on the basis of past ac- complishments and present, usefulness, then early and theoretically honorable burial would be in order. But now is no op- portune time to Judge clearly the inary complicated points to be well

weigh-

ed in passing Anal sentence on the League of Na- tions or any body having funda-

We hope Cana- dian, English, Frerich and Latin- American friends whose territories might appear threatened by this isolationist imperi~ alism will not take it too seriously. They may note that American newspapers immediate- mental objectives such as those of the ly denounced the Lindbergh statement League. Conditions are not ripe now as "warmongering" or "Hitlerism" and for the organisation of a world body the Lundeen plan for conquest without having the functions which the a "shot fired" was compared to Mos- dreamers and designers of the Lea- cow's demands on Latvia and Finland, gue of Nations sought to assign to They must know that the vast majority that body. With world conditions of Americans would uphold Canada's what they are, it is utterly impossible right to "prefer the Crown of England to organise the League of Nations to American independence."

in a workable form.

Regret rather than anger will be the Pressure for the Finnish case be- the feeling of anyone who knows the fore the League nów might add a little history of similar proposals. The fact extra force to the crystallisation of Is that Colonel Lindbergh and Senator world sentiment dgainst the Russian Lundeen-experts in aviation and war-makers and their methods. How- farm-labour questions, respectively ever, that case is much that it does have gotten beyond their depth. They not require propaganda." Finland will not be followed by any important needs material help, help of the kind section of American opinion in such which the League of Nations never excursions into power politics has been able to give in a crisis- "Christian Science Monitor.".

"Manila Bulletin”