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THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 11, 1940.
AN END TO SELF-DECEPTION
LORD HALIFAX ON LATEST NAZI AGGRESSION
London, To-day. THE EVENTS IN SCANDINAVIA must have ex- tinguished the last hopes of those few who had not before entirely despaired of the Nazi Government proving willing to co-operate to find a basis for reasonable peace, declared Lord Hali- fax in his speech in London yesterday.
"There is no one so far as I know in this country or in France who wants the war to continue for an unneces- sary day, but if we are to judge by plain facts we must conclude that even before this latest outrage those were deceiving themselves who thought that the pre- sent German Government would ever be disposed to make the kind of peace that could be justified before the conscience of the world." Dealing with the Allied aims, Lord Halifax said there was nothing either to dishonour or to impair the self- respect of a Germany prepared to take her place in good faith in the Euro- pean family of nations and extend to others the same right to live that she claimed for herself and no longer so acting elther within or without Ger- German many as to dishonour the name and to make the word of the German Government something the world could not trust.
HIDEOUS PHILOSOPHY But, while Nazism reigned "it is plain we are fighting a new and very hideous philosophy which repudiates every principle that underlies civil-
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TOOK OWN LIFE AT 107
of George Husan, aged 107, Chisinau, Bessarabig, decided that life was not worth while, so he ilt a stove, closed the chimney and smoked himself to death.
He is probably the first conten- arian in the world to commit suicide.
isation as we know it, and which has CORRESPONDENCE been imposed on a great people under the cloak of national renaissance by:
a gang of men completely devoid of scruples and imbued with a profound" lust for power.
"They have bean engaged in
Into ma turning the Gormans chines and in eliminating. all humane qualities fostered by the by the Christian family and Church, and that seems to me to be precisaly the mentality of the 'great destroyers of history that emerged from areas of Europe Im- pervious to the civilising influence of Rome."..
DEFENCE OF VALUES On the other hand the Allies stood for a positive creative force and for the defence of values without which there was no hope of human progress.
All the energies and efforts of Bri- tain and France were being increas- ingly directed without stint to the one end of victory and in Lord Halifax's judgment the mighty machine being created must in the end prove irresistable.
thus
Regarding South-Eastern Europe, he said he need not emphasise the abid- those ing interest, of the Allies in countries or their desire to see them preserve their liberty.
Lord Halifax impressed on his au- dience, the far reaching significance of the declaration after the sixth meet- ing of the Supreme War Council by which the British and French Gov- ernments undertook to continue joint uction after the war to effect the re- construction of international order en suring liberty and respect for law and
peace,
AMBULANCE
INSPECTION
I am not a little perturbed to learn St. the from Newspaper reports of John Ambulance Inspection that only the 850 members paraded before
on Grasett G.O.C., Major General
number Monday last, and that this
year exceeded that of the previous by 50.
If my idea of number is correct, 800 must have attended last year's function.
The reports. state further that 700 during the recruits were enrolled
year.
By the process of simple addition and allowing for ordinary casualties the number attending Monday's func- tion should have approximated between 1400 and 1500.
to
I am led to enquire what has be- come of the others and how this leak- age is accounted for.
A. A. C. MORANT.
ITALIANS IN LIBYA
London, To-day. There has been no modification of the terms of the Anglo-Italian Agree- ment relating to the number of Italian troops stationed in Libya, stated Mr. R. A. Butler, Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, in the House of Com-
mons yesterday,
SOLID FOUNDATION
Information exchanged between the He said the history of the last British and Italian Governments in twenty years might have been differ- conformity with the agreement was ent if a similar undertaking had been confidential and he was therefore not given after the last war. He envisag- in a position to make a statement.-~- ed a great conception behind the An-Reuter. glo-French co-operation.
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Life-saving classes for Royal Life- from which may spring true collective saving Society awards having_com- security, and I hope that others like menced in Hong Kong, all informa minded with France and ourselves tion concerning the formation upon the elements of European life classes and handbooks of instruction will be led to join what is becoming a will be available on application from close partnership for mutual benefit Sub. Inspector R. J. Hunt, local re- and mufual“ protection. British presentative of the Royal-Life-saving Wirel
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