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THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 13, 1940

MIRROR

SWEDEN

OF WORLD OPINION

An ironical tone is adopted by the

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"Dagens Nyheter" in referring to the - Not since the days of the Walrus second confiscation of the Swedish and the Carpenter has the oyster tribe edition of Dr. Rauschning's book "Hit- been served quite such a dirty trick as ler Speaks." The paper says: "This is now reported from Holland. In the ceremonial: confiscation was carried oyster-beds of Zeeland, it is. announc- out to the accompaniment of bows ed, the recent weather has been so towards the south towards Nazism severe that 30 per cent, of the oysters But the Swedish people do not like to have been frozen to death. This see their leaders play the part of hum- news may be mentioned with im- ble. servants.".

punity because it is. Dutch oysters Concluding, the "Dagens Nyheter" that are affected; had it been the declares: "Criticism of the dictator- English natives of Whitstable and ships is an indispensable part of the Colchester the poor things would have democracies' spiritual defence, Opposi- to be frozen for fifteen days before tion must not be silenced in the name

our sapient censorship would pass any of neutrality.”

obituary notices for publication. And the same thing would, of course, apply. in cases of sunstroke among oysters of the English variety,

On the same subject the "Nyada- ligt Allenhanda" states: "Switzerland has ordered the confiscation of this book, and it will be interesting to ob- serve the behaviour of other Scandina- vian countries. It is natural that there should be opposition to the con- fiscation, but it cannot be denied that the book is unobjective and contains a libel on the head of a foreign. State. Further more, Germany regards Raus- chning as a traitor."

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But perhaps this reticence is all for the best. Humanitarians (particular- ly those who are rich enough to in- dulge a taste for oysters) might find themselves unspeakably harrowed if they were allowed to hear from day to day of what is happening in the oyster-beds. Far better preserve sil- ence and hope for the best-including a pious aspiration that the German oysters (if any) are also catching the is going.ne Two further pieces of German pro- worst of anything that paganda appear to be going awry. Mr. "Guardian Weekly." Sumner Welles describes as fantastic nonsense German charges that he and M. Paul Reynaud discussed a French map purporting to whittle down the territory of the Reich, while neutral comment on the White Paper, recent- ly issued by the Relch is just as tell- ing. Thus the Swedish newspaper

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to make Mr. Roo- sevelt the man who is pushing Europe into the war." It is more than likely that the German pro- paganda machine which apparently claims to have a monopoly of truth to the exclusion of all others, and that even despite Herr Hitler's opin- ion on the neces- sity of lying large while about

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well known, has again over- reached itself as it has done so fre- quently in past months and as it did 80 regularly during the last war. The Swedish Journal remarks

that German pro- paganda is more. intensive now but. no cleverer than then. If,

as it is expected, the United States-gov-: ernment,” ultimate- ly publishes its findings with re- gard to the propa-

It is being offered at 3 per cent. in-

SAYINGS OF THE WEEK terest and with a

It would be well for us to con.... sider whether the most deadly blow we could at this juncturë deal to Hitler would not be through Stalin.-Sir. Paul Dukes.

If we made it clear to Ger- many that we would never bomb undefended towns, whatever they did, we should condemn · large numbers of our divilian popula- tion to destruction and probably be compelled to make terms with the enemy-Professor A. Ber.. riedale Keith.

Must we periodically fight the bad Germans and then, after de- feating them at terrible... cost, help their good brethren to be- come strong and bad enough, to resume their interrupted cycle of aggression ?—Bir Erlo Phipps.

Anyone who has studied the proceedings of the Peace Confer- ence of 1918 is forced to the con- - olusion that our good friends the French, as a nation, understood the German mentailty as Englishmen never have done and can never hope to do—Mr. G. H. Keaton.

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The people of the United States should come out from under the bed and look around. Mise Dorothy Thompson.

The standard of life of the "middle classes cannot be main- tained after the wár-Sir Cyril Norwood,

redemption date of fifteen to nineteen years. The interest rate corresponds exactly to the pre- sent yield of exist- ing Government loans of similar duration. There can be no doubt that the £300,000,- 000 offered will be readily subscribed by private inves- tors, by commer- cial companies, and by the large inan- cial institutions. All these have re- cently found it hard to purchase Government Бес urities without promptly bidding up prices. This flotation is only a beginning, and on its success depends whether the State will be able to fin- ance its future war loans at a reason- able rate of inter-

est. It is important, however, that the Government should not repeat the blunder made dur-

ganda campaign, which the Germans "ing the last war of paying the same in- are actively prosecuting in the United terest for money created by the banks States, interesting revelations are to

as for genuine savings. Some expansion

be anticipated. What is so very strange is the fact that though the German of bank credit will probably be in- lie is so quickly pounced upon and evitable, but since the Government it- corrected by the Allies, the Reich ap- self will induce the expansion it ought pears unable to devise a new method not to offer more than a nominal inter- of making a more convincing approach est rate for the use of such money. It is to the people it is endeavouring to understood that the banks will be per- sway towards itself. The thick-skinned mitted to advance loans to subscribers vanity which leads them to belleve of the present Issue for the purpose that their methods must be best be of paying the second instalment of 90 cause they are Gérihan, and have the per cent. This may be a matter of tem- blessing of Herr Hitler and the facile porary accommodation, but it may also Dr. Goebbels, would indeed be tragic became a hack door to infation. The if it were not so amusing. It is all the first War Loan is small compared with more so when a newspaper in a na- those that must follow. Whatever may tion continually menaced by Germans have to be done in the future, this might hàn the courage to come outland loan, at least, should be strictly con- state that the White Paper has a Goeb, "fined to the gamuine savings that have North China Dally been allowed to accumulate for the

purpose ---Manchester' Guardian.

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