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MIRROR OF WORLD OPINION

WAR OUTLOOK

effect upon a free people. It demons--

their duty by the knowledge that they

We have certainly no reason for dis- trates more forcibly than could any- satisfaction with the measure of suc- thing else how disastrous for the world So for cess that 1939 has given us. It has such submission would be.

from being terrorised, neither the banished, for as far at any rate as one can see ahead, the horrible nightmare fishermen, nor the lightship crews, nor the merchant seamen, have been or of a repetition of the slaughter of will be deterred from carrying on Ypres, Verdun, the Somme, and Pas- chendaele in the last war. At sea we have certainly done better than in the are liable to be murdered by Nazi sea same period of the last war, and it or air forces which, evading our own, we can keep up the same proportion are able to strike at them. And, for between the destruction of the U-boats the nation at large, their determina- and the losses of our merchant ship- the hateful spirit of Nazisin is mas- tion to carry through the war until ping, the future should have nothing

tered will only be strengthened.-"The worse in store for us than we are al-

Times." ready suffering.

THE CHAMBERLAIN GOVERNMENT

In spite of everything, British com- merce is safer at sea to-day than neu- tral commerce, and safer than it was when Nelson was winning his magni-

There is a fairly general feeling that ficent victories. The doubts that as changes are needed both in the men sail one are not about our ultimate who form the Government, and in the victory, but about when it will come. offices they hold. The Opposition are, One supposition was that Germany of course, permanently of this mind could not stand a long war, and that But the same opinion is very widely there might be an Internal German re- held even among those who recognise volution. But although there is plenty that the Government must be drawn of evidence of discontent among the from the Conservative Party and German people, there is no sign of its that Mr. Chamberlain is the best coming to a head;; nor, unless the leader of the Conservative Party and quarrel between Hitler and the Gen- the Government who is visible on eral Staff develops seriously, is there the horizon of practical politics. much prospect of any early success in Among the men, there are

too many

a German revolution. It is because it who hold office merely because of promises to deepen that rift between electoral services rendered long ago the Government and the army that and not because of any personal qua- the magnificent resistance of the Finns lities or any popular support they has not only moved the world to ad- now enjoy. And as for the structure miration, but has opened up a new of the Government, there is growing prospect of an earlier end to the war dissatisfaction (nowhere stronger than by the slow operations of block- than inside Government offices) with ade.-"Sunday Times."

NAZISM AT SEA

the existing curious hybrid between a peacetime Cabinet and a real War Cabinet. The present system ensures that some departments (the five whose heads sit in the War Cabinet) get their way while the rest are unre- presented.

If anything were needed to confirm

It does not ensure a balanced co- the Allies' conviction that the spirit of ordination. It does not lend itself to Nazism in the ascendant, in Germany the forging of policies.

and

or elsewhere, is incompatible, with the It is the essence of the theory of cause of liberty and justice for all democracy that the executive Govern- mankind, the German conduct of the ment is a flexible instrument of the war at sea would fully suffice. The national will and purpose, deriving its destruction of the liner Dunbar Castle strength from popular support may be no more than the latest exam- repaying the people in statesmanlike ple of the result of a policy of indis- leadership. We have had more follow- criminate and unnotified strewing of ing than leading from our Govern- mines on the high seas, careless of the ment for years past. In his speech at consequences to the non-combatant the Mansion House, the Prime Minis passengers and crews of ships using ter admitted that his Government had them. But the enormity even of that failed to enlighten the public on the method of war.

· BRITISH PUBLICITY

the

win

pro- techni-

Gilbert

nature of their duty in totalitarian war and sought to cxcuse himself on the plea that he had bad other things to attend to. is A Perhaps it

Mr. of

fare, long familiar to the enemies of Germany, pales be- brutality of the fore the calculated recent air attacks upon helpless Ash- ermen, and now even upon the Trinity House lightship tender,que employed by Sir

Parker and his bright young men engaged upon the wholly humanitar-In the last war is conspicuously lan task of reliev-

absent; there was no evident de- ing the crews

aire to force any crumb of Infor- mation on reporters. whose sole function is to mitigate for their fellow-sea- men the natural dangers of the sea. This is not the conduct of the civilised man, fighting his enemy for command of the sea. It is rath- er the blind and vindictive barbar- ism of the savage determined, like a mad dog, to-rend whatever is within `his reach;. Sb far as there is any cat-

The basic philosophy of British propaganda is "Leave it to Ger-

• Give many.

her

the

She'll wants. rope the war for us

on the

The paganda front.” ..

During the World War many writers of England's cleverest went directly into the Ministry of Information, where they cover- ed vast amounts of white paper. with stories on every phase of Britain's war activity and sent them broadcast. To-day there is a` commendable desire for under statement and direct policy of al- lowing Journalists themselves to tell the story. Unfortunately for this policy, there is a babel-of strange and contradictory tongues in the situation and no good song

nging clear-Bedale Beatty,

culation "behind these brutalities, it that of the bully

ing his opponents, in th they

by be reduc

-

measure Chamberlain's fal- lure, in spite of all his admirable · qualities, to reach the heights of a wartime leader that he thinks other things more important than his duty to guide the public on the high- road of strategy in a people's war. The Mansion House speech was charged with vig- our and resolution; It contained many things that should have been said four months ago. It struck the neces-

sary note in call-

ing for sacrifices

from the people.

But the citizen is still left in some doubt

vernment, see

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