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THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 17, 1940
MIRROR OF WORLD OPINION
PACIFIC POLICY ·
a victorious Nazi Germany insists upon setting up, in its conquered territories, governments of its own kidney.
a
A settlement-or even the carrying on of negotiations looking to a settle-
Think of it, you people of our cities ment with Russia is highly desirable for Japan right now; a bad settlement and towns and villages-government well might be preferable to unsettle- by uniform; government by the rub- ment. Every step in the direction of ber truncheon, the gun and the con- Russian-Japanese accord is a cause for centration camp; every newspaper worry for the western democracies, mere megaphone for some gutter-press the United States in particular when Goebbels of our own; Parliament abol- the United States is working or is be- ished, or made a mockery; political ing worked into the position of lea- opinion and trade union organisation with dership in the drive for restoration of suppressed; our legal system, order in the Far East. The trend of its time-honoured safeguards for in- current events in this part of the dividual right, turned into one more world is in the direction of increasing instrument of brutality; every child a responsibilities for Uncle Sam, res- potential spy upon its own parents; ponsibilities in connection with which police agents listening in every club, the situation as to the trade treaty is in every teashop, in every household; both cause and effect.
the free life of the mind, and every which men have No forward thinker who uses two lovely thing for eyes in connection with his thinking striven and struggled, crushed under can fail to connect the increase of the jackboot of Adolf Hitler's Gaulet- the U.S. naval forces in the Pacific ter. Mr. Herbert Morrison, M. P. and the increase of U.S. responsibilit- les in the Western Pacific.
The course of events in connection with the British-Japanese dispute in the Asama Maru case gives emphasis to the American task.
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AMERICA'S SYMPATHY
A vastly complicated set of forces and factors shapes Pacific develop-
During the last war great deal of ments contrary to the traditional and help was given by Americans for the the natural American sentiment as to sick and wounded both of the British avoidance of international involve- and French Armies. To-day, the de- I think, stronger. ments particularly this far from home. sire to help is, This shaping of events-contrary to Throughout the length and breadth of American sentiment and counter to the United States there is a very deep American planning-contains the ex- feeling that the British Empire and planation of the most recent criticism France are, in a sense, fighting and for those sacrifices great of the Roosevelt policy from isolation- making
America holds most ists, also explains the increasing sup- things which port of that same Roosevelt policy dear, a Democratic form of govern- from the school of forward thinkers ment, freedom of thought and liberty
America
The American who maintain that
cannot of conscience. escape major responsibilities growing Cross is still busy bringing help out of the current world chaos, Far the stricken Poles, and large Eastern chaos in particular.-"Manila have been raised to help them Bulletin."
Rumania and Hungary. Nevertheless citizens millions of our (American) are bound by very special ties of sym- to Britain. relationship pathy and
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SUPPOSE
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Red
to
sums
in
for
Many of them come over here part of the year; others during years made of active business life, have
To But suppose we made peace now? England their permanent home. How do we know that when his thousands more, the coast of Scotland "and the eastern shores of England, strength was renewed and our pre- parations
where survivors of torpedo and mine Hitler were dissipated,
at would not launch his Blitzkrieg out of disasters are brought ashore, are
or near places from which their fore- a clear sky, and crush us before we
to bring could start? What guarantees
bears came, and they want have
help to just those whom people to they are bound by, perhaps, closer tles than sympathy alone. There is an eagerness in America to help Britain, and it has found expression
we? This is a sim- ple question, but
none of the politi-
cal odds and ends in our own coun- try who want us to make peace now have ever suggest- ed a convincing
answer.
It is not that I overlook what this I war may mean. am no warmonger. I have spent a life- time struggling to help make a better life for the mass of to our people achieve for them a
·
THE GREAT OYSTER
This column starts itself to-day by simply quoting one of the first Press Association dispatches about the new Minister of In- formation:-
"One of Sir John Reith's first actions was to refuse to see ra- porters or to make any comment on his appointment."
What's the matter with the reporters were they unclean?
Let the Great Oyster apeak.— "Cassandra” in the “Dally Mirror."
in a representative American commit- tee which has been
New
Mr.
W.
formed in York with Winthrop Aldrich,
one
of America's lead-
ing financiers, as
its president. It is a very strong group,
cen-
United
sense of security at work and at home; which hopes to consolidate and
to tralise this feeling. This time no to get them a place in the sun, build better homes for them, better actual money will leave the
Do you States, but the funds collected will be schools for their children.
hospital think that I take lightly a horrible converted immediately into state of affairs in which much of this supplies of various kinds for the use constructive work must stop, and our both of military and civilian sick and energies be devoted to nothing more wounded. Surgical Instruments, band- inspiring than preventing our achieve ages, garments and other medical sup- frag- plies-all these are being distributed ments from being bombed to ments? No; I can take no pleasure where most needed at the direction of I should I am in no the American committee. in the thought of war: danger of overlooking what it may like to stress also that this effort has mean. But I do not overlook certain absolutely no political Implication. It other things either. I know that the is merely a spontaneous expression of Nazi regime is, as it always has been, a very sincere desire to help. The a wholly evil supplies sent will increase ́ ́as needs a poisonous growth, thing. A leopard of this kind cannot increase they will be greatly expand- change its spots it must dominate, or, ed to meet them, no matter how great die. And what would happen if it they may be. In any event, they did dominate, and if the threat of come to British friends with the most was drawing heartfelt good wishes of their Ameri-, military defeat, which very near to us last summer, became can donors-Bertram Cruger in "The a realised fact? The answer is that Lištener.” ***
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THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 17, 1940
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