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THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 19, 1940

MIRROR OF

OF WORLD OPINION

PROPAGANDA -

BOOMERANG

Propaganda is admittedly a weapon which can be turned in almost any direction, unless most skilfully handled by those responsible for it. There have been many

spring, the war in Europe will enter on a more destructive phase. In a message to the Pope, the President urged more intensive parallel efforts for peace to prevent this calamity. While he has not suggested any new

by In

instances recently specific move for ending the war, it when Dr. Goebbels, the Reich Minis- is clear that something in the nature Pope a conference is intended. ter of Propaganda, has over-reached of himself. But surely there could be and President will, presumably, em- at their few better than his charges that in ploy all the moral forces Britain the people are starving, that command to bring about a settlement unemployment is rife, and that the among the belligerents. The same idea was contained In Mr. de Valera's general standard of living since the broadcast to America. The move is outbreak of the war has declined so certainly seasonable, and may prove severely that the working classes are not unwelcome to the Nazis.

But will the Allies agree to sit in a ferment of discontent. The best

round a Council table, and accept guide to such a statement is the

any guarantees of peace given comparison of the income per head the present rulers of Germany?

a recent statement in the House of of the population of the countries con-

Lords, the British Foreign Secretary cerned. In Britain this average is

laid down two prerequisites for such £112 a year. According to Nazi statis- a conference. They were the restora- tics, the equivalent figures in Germany tion of the status quo in Europe and

guarantee are 1,046 Reichsmarks, or, according a

that any settlement Mr. to the official German rate of

reached would be respected. +X-

Chamberlain and Viscount Halifax change, £81 a year. Nothing else is

have made no secret of their doubts needed to prove the absurdity of the

on the latter score. It seems unlikely German claims. But if it were, it is that the Allies will consent to parley provided in the official

obvious perjurer like German again with an

Hitler. Any peace move, sponsored "Statistisches Jahrbuch." There it is even under the highest of auspices is stated that the consumption of meat foredoomed to failure unless there is

per head of the German population a change of Government in Germany.

war caused

in 1937, before the shortage in this food, was 45.9 kilo- grammes. In the same issue will be found the statement that the consump- tion of meat per head in the British Isles was over the same period 65.1 | kilogrammes-or nearly half as much again. The figures produced by the Nazls themselves show the average Briton consumes about 80 per cent.

The experiences of the last four years have shown that no reliance can be placed on the pledged word of Hitler or his henchmen-"Ceylon Observer.”

MOUSE AND MOUNTAIN

The B.B.C. foreign news service is more sugar than the average German, catching up on Dr. Goebbels, whose 75 per cent. more fish, and between radio news had previously enjoyed a 25 and 30 per cent, more butter and monopoly in such news as South eggs. He also drinks more beer. The American and made inroads into the Gorman worker

has..no freedom of thought. He must keep his opinions to himself all the time, or take the consequences from the Gestapo which

Looks after his morals. Yet he has to work many more hours than the Bri- tish worker, and for much less pay. He is subject to all sorts of levies on his meagre pay in the Interests of social services, yet he has no means of knowing how the money thus collect- ed from him is spent. If he pre-

· NO NEUTRALS-

"The nationa of the world must get together and say, 'No- body can hereafter be neutral as respects the disturbance of the world's peace for an object which the world's opinion' cannot sanc- tion.' The world's peace ought to be disturbed if the fundamen- tal rights of humanity are Invad- ed, but it ought not to be dis- turbed for any other reason that 1 can think of. And America was established to indicate at any rate in 'one Government the fun- damental rights of man. America must hereafter be ready a member of the family ́of, nations to exert her whole force, moral and physical, to the assertion of those rights throughout the round globe."--President Wilson, in Oc- tober, 1917.

sumes to query as to expenditure, he knows, but

Indian vernacular as well. But the progress is slow, and output is miserably small compared to the huge sums spent on staffs engaged on research. Chatham House, its library out of reach' of writers in London, has now settled at Oxford, and in return for reading the world's press receives subsidy of £35,000, The B.B.C. has a staff of

а

over 350 engaged on "moni-

toring" the world's wireless. What this

costs, no one every day hun-

Thus

finds himself in a concentration camp, dreds of thousands of words are From these facts it can be judged taken down and summarized. which working class is suffering the the Government has now at its dis- more from this war. Whatever may

be the effects after the war, there can posal a complete record of what the world is saying and writing. But be little doubt that at the moment

when we turn from the research into the British are in clover, while the

the other peoples' propaganda to Germans, working blindly for an idea which few of them support, are promotion of our own, the picture is very different. Apart from the excel- being ground between the upper und the nether millstones. "N. C. D. lent German broadcasts, our enemy propaganda is so hush-hush that we News."

sometimes doubt if it actually exists. As for pamphlets and articles for neutral countries, it would be inter- esting to see a complete list both of the Ministry of Information's produc- tion to date, and of the staff occupied in this vital task. Many of our best writers -- such – Seton Watson and Arnold Toynbee, have been taken off “Part preparation for a new affort writing and put on to newspaper to bring about peace is Washington's reading. It sometimes looks as though verdict on President Roosevelt's re- the Government was positively afraid cant moves. The general opinion in of publicity and prefers to spend the United States: reems to be that money on arch just because it is unless hostilities – are ended by next, quite

and Tide,"

WILL PEACE MOVE SUCCEED?

Pa

Pa

THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 19, 1940

"BATTLING" WITH THE WEATHER-These members of the Auxiliary Territorial Service found the

(Copy- heavy fall of snow early last month a grand opportunity. Here they are in the thick of the battle. right, Fox).

DRAMATIC ACCOUNT OF BOARDING OF THE ALTMARK: NAZIS FIRE FROM ROCKS

BRITISH CASE FOR NORWAY

London, To-day.

The following statement has been issued by the Foreign Office:-

LONDON, TO-DAY.

A DRAMATIC ACCOUNT OF THE GRAPPLING OF H.M.S. COSSACK WITH THE GERMAN AUXI- LIARY WARSHIP “ALTMARK” AND THE EX- PLOITS OF THE BOARDING PARTY WERE GIVEN TO REUTER TO-DAY.