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MIRROR OF WORLD OPINION

PEOPLE NEED THE

TRUTH

The spiritual need

for

of the world to-day than the human desire for daily bread.

DEMOCRACY IN THE DINING-ROOM

In principle the democratising of the truth has Army is established, but in practice become more vital in some countries some things still need doing in order to "scatter the rear of darkness thin." An effort is still being made to main- In fact, robbing the peoples of entire tain the exclusion of privates from nations of the truth and feeding them restaurants where the holders of com- Instead on lles and mass propaganda has resulted in actual physical starva- Licence-holders tion for millions.

missions

are refreshing themselves. are threatened by local military authorities with having their premises put out of bounds if this rule is not adhered to. In days a wide divergence when there was

the separation was of social habits

In-

In this age of ruthless dictators, whose very existence and control de- pends upon the constant spread of un- truths and misinformation among their peoples, denial of the right to truth doubtless wise and convenient. has produced far more horrible misery sistence un it to-day can be expected than would the loss of bread. The dire only from the kind of “milltary need of truth overshadows all else thority" who has survived his use-

fulness.-"The Observer." once it is lost to a people.

Despite human errors and fallings

of some, the vast majority of news- papers in the country have held the

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torch of truth high, They have all the maritime Powers, exerted every effort to convey accurate Germany, and reliable facts to the people. Even things not to turn adrift in open boats of sunken merchant in their individual editorial expres- the survivors slons-which are entirely apart from ships, was conceived in the name of the news columns-they have ex- humanity. The Hague Convention of the 1907, by which the same Powers, in- pressed their honest opinions in

not to light of their beliefs for the public cluding Germany, undertook welfare. They have constantly striven place submarine mines in the open to build their communities and the seas, to the danger of peaceful and nation, and in so doing merit public neutral shipping, without notification which would enable such shipping to confidence and support.

no

Well may we in America be thank- avoid the danger, was inspired by the Maritime International ful for a press which is free to print same motive. and defend the truth for its people.- law which, by prescribing that

more force may be used by a warship "Ocean Beach News," California.

against a merchant ship than is neces- sary to enforce compliance with the warship's orders, forbids armed forces Is to make war on non-combatants another expression of the conscience of mankind.—"The_Times."

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NAZI JUSTICE

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We all know from the general con- ditions of life in Nazi Germany that

DEMOCRACY IN WAR no respect is paid to individual rights. But few perhaps realise that the per-

Great Britain

still afford secutions of which we read are based on definite and reasoned interpreta- Cabinet crisis. Such changes are made tions of law and policy. They differ in totalitarian states. Only recently profoundly from the kind of violence we have heard reports of shifts in the that breaks out in an ill-governed Russian command. Germany has had country where the law is powerless to such shifts, undoubtedly to-day has protect the weak. An Oxford pam- grave questions of military policy to phlet has just been published, written decide. Does anyone believe that in by Mr. Walter Jones, giving a clear the dictatorships these problems are account of "The Nazi Conception of resolved more wisely? There is much Law." The safeguards of justice with less talk-although the underground д Von which we are familiar wero all adopt- discussion of the ousting of ed in the Weimar Constitution. Judges Blomberg or the end of a Von Fritsch were declared to be independent and goes on, for months. But is all the subject only to the law; punishments information and opinion which might could not be inflicted for any act un- differ from a dictator's opinion made less the act was designated by the law available to him?

NEUTRALITY

There are probably two main reasons why neutrality has be- come so popular, why the scope of the Anglo-French-German confilat

much mora has been restricted than had been anticl- pated. First, peoples do not want war. The mood in the belligerent countries is not one of elation or enthusiasm, but rather of grim

of the acceptance

Inevitable. Secondly, the actual or threaten- ed disappearance of so many small States carries its own warning to those which are re- maining neutral. In these days of the high-powered mechanical warfare, which only rich and in- countries dustrially developed

the effectively carry on, small State that tries to fish In troubled waters is almost certain to lose line, hook, and sinkar- W. H. Chamberlain.

Does he decide

examined and must

be justified?

con-

Is it not a fact that even in war talk has its value?

-In Britain to-day the question of whether to con- tinue a waiting war or to venture an attack, possibly in the Baltic or Bal- kans, must be very much under sideration. Much of the man in - the- street's opinion is only partially in- formed, is certainly inexpert. But on the

of question whether or not the people want active war it may the be vital for Government to be informed. Certainly

as punishable before it was commit- knowing that his every reason will be ted; criminal offen- ces could only be created by statute; the judge could not go beyond the lan- guage of a statute in trying an accused All these person.

have restrictions disappeared; some of them were for- mally abrogated by a law of June, 1935. "The modern judge is urged to take as his model the old German popular courts, whose func- tion was to express popular or racial rather than rational or technical notions of law." Popular feeling is thus given an overruling au- thority. But by po- pular feeling meant not what people feel but what support for military action in which they ought to feel and what they ought all the people must accept a new risk to feel is decided by the party and ul- is Important. The present discussion timately, of course, by the Fuehrer, in Britain may throw much light on a that. And it is almost sure to bring verdict in court in his favour to the Government vital information he may still be seized by the Gestapo on many issues in the war. and buried in a concentration camp, for it may be held that he is the sort

Hence

is

can

a⚫ man

obtains

an

Can the dictatorships hope for so of man whom the public ought to hate much? Do they even know whether.. "all or that he has the sort of personality their people would support an which the party cannot trust. This out" war?. We may soon see that de- virulent tyranny is defended as scien- mocracy has its uses even in war,- tifte "justice"Manchester Guardian.”-“Christian Science Monitor."

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THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 21, 1940