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THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 9, 1940.

MIRROR OF WORLD

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A BALKAN FINLAND? done, for while the contraband smuggled Into Germany by such Long, long ago, when the Rome- means might not be great compared Berlin Axis was in the making, with what is being, stopped by the agreement was signed between aiplo- blockade, military necessity demands stream of such mats from the two capitals. Immedi- that every trickling ately German commentators pounced goods, exchange or information should on it and held it up as a new front be checked, lest in the sum total it re- against Communist Russia. But the presents more assistance to Germany Italians did not stress that angle; they than the Allies could wisely permit. read it rather as an instrument with The examination of U.S. mail con- which they could assert their ambi- signed to Germany in neutral bottoms tions in the Mediterranean area, pre- at ports to which the vessels have sumably at British and French ex- been diverted for the purpose of ex- amination of cargoes in connection

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ALLIED AIMS

While reviewing

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the war situation

How very long ago all that happen- with the blockade is, on the face of it, ed! Not as years are counted, per- no more than the logical completion haps, but on that even more important of the intention with which the diver- calendar which is made up of events, sion was first arranged The opening of 1940 is marked by the. "N.C.D.N." return of high diplomatic representa- tives from Rome to Moscow, from Moscow to Rome. It is a. reciprocal gesture. Perhaps the two represen- tatives are going home only to report to their governments. But Ivan Gorelchin, Soviet Envoy to Rome, is reported to have packed up all his ef- fects and left without even presenting in the House of Representatives at his credentials. And now the Italian Canberra, Mr. Menzies, the Common- Ambassador to Moscow, Augusto Ros- wealth Prime Minister, made some so, is reported heading for Rome.

timely observations on the Allied aims. Thus is sharply delineated the ironic "The rulers of Germany," he said, change of positions by Rome and Ber- "never understood the patience and lin vis-a-vis Russia. Those who hail- tenacity of the British and the flaming the German-Italian friendship spirit of patriotion of the French chiefly as a bulwark against Com- which could not be destroyed by Ger- munist Russia are now quiet about

man threats or propaganda. We had that aspect of it. And those who

not lightly entered the war and would once were quiet about it now have a not lightly abandon the cause for Russian menace all their own. But it which we had entered it. is not so much a Communist as an im- urgent and paramount aim was vic- perialist Russla that confronts Italy. tory, not for the humiliation of the Apparently what Italy is trying to tell German people, not for spoils, but for Moscow in terms best understood the future peace and happiness of among diplomats is that, if Russia simple men and women throughout moves on the Balkans, Italy will do all the world. Our people, while hating In Italian power to make that area in-

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the speeches made

to a southern Finland. Such an effort war, had also a great hatred of the

evil spirit that on Rome's part would certainly en- policy and racked the world. We gage the sympathy and probably the could not compromise on peace, jus- aid of the Allies, and it might engage tice, freedom and the sane settlement more of Russia's energies than that

of disputes. Either we had these or nation would care to expend in the

we had not. There must be justice immediate future.-"Christian Science and quiet living for the weak as well Monitor."

as for the strong. It was a great and humane cause. Our second aim was, after victory, a better Europe and a better world, the security for people of independent race and tradition, the It has to be remembered that in the revival of the peaceful associations of United States there is a very subštari- trade and commerce, the abandonment tial proportion of the population which of the mad.competition-in-armaments. Is either German descent or of German · and the prosperity in which Germany sympathy. Men and women,

per- would share. We wanted freedom and fectly good citizens of America have equity for the Germans as well as relatives still living in the Reich, and ourselves. We did not want to make other bonds still connecting them with a slave State out of Germany, but to the old world, which have not yet destroy the barbarous German philo- been eradicated by the flux of time. sophy which made others into slaves.” First and foremost they may be ex- We commend this stirring pronounce- cellent citizens of the United States, ment and would ask them to place it yet secondarily Germany is still the side by side with | home of their fore-

bears. It is only to be expected that they will do their utmost to assist their relations and friends to last out the stranglehold which the Allies are perfesting on German economic life. They are actuated by motives which can be fully understood, and with which dent from the desire expressed in so there must be considerable sympathy, many quarters that the Allled coun- There are, as well as these, German tries should define with greater de- agents, official as well as unofficial, cision what are sometimes called 'war' who are doing their utmost to circum- aims.”' In general terms Lord Hali- vent the Allied blockade. There can fax gives the answer. "We are fight- be no possible complaint that they ing in defence of freedom; we are should be doing so as long as they fighting for peace; we are meeting a commit no breach of American neu- challenge to our own security and trality. Nevertheless it does not mat- that of others; we are defending the ter how proper their conduct may be rights of all nations to live their own from the point of view of American lives. We are fighting against the domestic legality; the fact is that they substitution of brute force for law às are seeking to circumvent the Allied the arbiter between nations, against the blockade. It follows that Great Bri- violation of the sanctity "of treaties tain and France must take stepasito and disregard to the : pledged word. render nugatory the effect of these at". We have learned that there can be no tempts, and the only manner in which opportunity for Europe to cultivate the this can be done is by examination of arts of peace until Gerniany is brought neutral maila for contraband, and its to realise that... recurrent acts of seizure when discovered. It would be aggression will not be tolerat the height of fally if this were not "The Empire Review"

I don't believe that ten million Germans could break the Ma- ginot Line, nor will they break the British front. As far as | can see all that is left to Hitler Is to conduct a piratical guerilla war, and i have no doubt as to the outcome of that. . . —Col. Danya Reitz, South Africa.

on the same sub- ject by the Prime Minister and the Foreign Secretary. "What is the real purpose of our struggle?" asked Lord Halifax not long ago. "That many people are seek- ing an

answer to this question," he continued, "is evi-

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