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THE CHINA MAIL; MAY 15, 1940.

MIRROR

OF WORLD OPINION

BIT BY BIT

The Nazi plan "swallow your victims one by one" applied originally not to the weak only. The gobbling process was to continue, as the publication of Hitler's visionary map of Europe

HUNGARY LEANS

TOWARD ITALY

In all Europe, belligerents as, well as neutrals are increasingly 'recognis- ing the role played by the friendship between Italy and Hungary in Euro- pean polities. The dangers threaten- Very like the old Pan-German map ing Europe and Hungary, situated at a And the old plan.

shows.

Sing lullaby to noodles, while you annex living-room in bits. Then turn on the sleepy-sick and annex them.

A section of the English ruling class believed for years that Hitler, the con- fidence trickster of Europe, was their "bulwark against Bolshevism," and that a few shooting parties with Goer- ing and a little friendliness all round with stabbing gangsters would turn the Nazi regime into a tolerable imita- tion of a rather second-rate: public -school-with swastikas instead of ties.

Daily Mirror," London.

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NECESSARY PRECAUTION

crossroads forming three strategic lines of three Great Powers, have nowhere` received fuller recognition than from Mussolini. Italy is the country nearest her friend on whom she Hungary can rely in any hour of need.--"Pester Lloyd," Budapest.

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WHY DECAY

Civilizations don't decay, because they grow old but because they be- come militarized. In the long history of evolution, formidableness and vio- the lence always failed. It wasn't giant reptiles, invulnerable in armor- plated self-sufficiency, that survived. It was the meek puny little creature, the primitive mammal. Scribner's Commentator Magazine.

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LO! THE POOR INDIAN

The manner in which Herr Hitler has in turn flirted with Soviet Russia, and Italy is also something which has to be taken into account by the Ita- lians. At the commencement of the war all German affection went to Mos- cow, the Rome-Berlin Axis being in

Has any emblem in the world ever existence, which was all that could be said about it. Russia proving a dis- had thrust upon it, and in so short a appointment, the wayward attentions span of years, such widespreads igno- of Herr Hitler have again returned to miny" and reproach as the swastika? Rome, and while for purposes of his It was almost kind of Hitler and his own policy Signor Mussolini must associates to have adopted it, for when seek to create the impression that they vanish they will have left behind complete trust exists bewteen the two something that the other Germany can governments, he is unlikely to com- instantly disavow,

Some people who

mit himself too definitely until he is had a stouter claim to it than Hitler more certain than

he possibly can be at the moment of the Reich's loyalty to the Axis. There is, it is plain to see every reason why Signor Mussolini should move wari- ly, and from that point of view there may be reason for believing his state-. ment that there will be no modification of Italy's status in the near future. That does not, how- that

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when a change does come about the Al- lies are likely to have much.. preli- minary notice and common. prudence necessitates that

CRUSADE FOR DECENCY

"This is not a war in the sense of a clash of rival ambitions. We have no such ambitions: we are out to secure no new rights for ourselves: we want neither terri• tory nor privileges: but we do seek-not only for ourselves, but for all peoples both small or great the right to live lives in freedom and at peace, to develop Industry and commerce, to in- croase mutual trade, to raise the standard of life, free from the haunting dread that shadows our own time.

"This is not a war, it is a cru- sade for international decency. “We fight evil. things."

„”—Mr. An- thony Eden.

.... have

are. disavowing it already, shocked by the associations that It now en- dures. It is a very ancient symbol. It is known the world over, from Japan (if not from China) to Peru, and usually as an em- *blem of the sun-

god. In

there are

Arizona

Indians who have used it as their tribal mark for cen- turies, just as it is found on the monu- ments. of ancient Mexicans

and Peruvians. Those Indians, it is now reported, formally renounced their symbol; even signed a de-

have

every disposition possible should be they made against the possibility of the claration that it belongs to them no more. Yet their ships are not sunk situation deteriorating so grievously and bombed without warning, their be-kinsfolk are not in concentration

..

Word

that war in the Mediterranean comes inevitable.

It is perfectly un- camps, their neighbours have not been derstandable that irritation should be ravaged under the sign of the Crooked displayed in Italy over the British de Cross by one whose pledged cision, but only if Il Duce himself means nothing. Red men, says Ma- wishes should it lead to any change in caulay in a famous passage on the British relations with Italy or in Bri- Seven Years' War, scalped each other of on the shores of the Great Lakes in tain's attitude towards questions common interest to both countries. order that Frederick of Prussia might The situation in fine is that Great Bri- rob a neighbour whom he had promis- tain regards the behaviour of certain ed to defend. This time the red men Italian leaders and the Italian Press are not embroiled, but they know as definitely threatening war. It has what the Crooked Cross means in made several blunt representations to polley and practice, and they will bear Rome on the subject, which have fail its symbol no more, even though it ed to bring about any real improve was once their own. People talk of ment, and the Italians. cannot now Goebbels and his astute propaganda. complain if Great Britain, and ultim- What propaganda In the world has ately her Ally take all the necessary ever achieved a result like this, leav- steps to protect their position in the ing, in less than ten years of mastery, event of Il Duce deciding to enter into its own party symbol as a world-wide the war on the side of Germany. They emblem of reproach? - Never again most certainly not do intend to allow will the swastika live down its new themselves to be taken by surprise, associations of Infamy. That may yet and cannot, therefore, neglect any pre- be the one lasting change which Hitler Manchester – Guard- cautions against "further trouble. "North: China Daily News,"««Shanghai, fan."

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THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 15, 1940.