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THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 28, 1940

The China Mail

HONG KONG, FRIDAY, JUNE 28, 1940

BRITAIN'S HOME DEFENCE

An interesting article, written some submarines, aeroplanes or parachute time ago, long before the possibility troops to contend with. It was Great Britain that finally caused Napoleon's of France surrendering to German do- downfall,

mination was conceived of, stressed the

necessity for remembering at all times that Britain's most urgent need was home defence. Home defence has, in fact, always been regarded as more important tactically than any military engagement in distant countries.

France has usually been described as Great Britain's first line of defence, but, if so, the second line-her own coasts-is of equal importance in a to- tal war. It is, therefore, satisfactory to know at this critical moment that Bri- tish strategy is traditionally designed to fight the decisive battle, if need be, in British waters. With the capitula- tion of France that stage of the war

seems to have come within extremely

close range.

Only in the case of Belgium and France did Great Britain assume large military commitments; but it has for- tunately never been left out of sight that the last bulwark of the Allied front, Great Britain, her soil, her fight- ing strength, her armament potential, must be kept intact at all costs. The idea is that as long as Great Britain stands, the war cannot be lost, but, on the contrary, there is every prospect of winning it.

This view is based on the fact that the European Continent 'cannot be ruled for any length of time unless the dominant continental power disposes of the sea power necessary to main- tain contact with the world overseas. A prominent German recently stated that the Balkan countries are econo- mically the lungs of Germany. Now that Germany has occupied the greater part of Europe, the Balkans are no longer enough. This fact cannot be over-estimated. The larger the portion of territory captured by Germany, the greater her need for supplies. The Balkans, while perhaps able to satisfy a comparatively small customer can- not cope with any over-large demand. Actually the great overseas sources of wealth are the lungs of Europe; and these sources are largely in the pos- session of Great Britain, Belgium the Netherlands and lastly France. To- day France has unhappily to be put last on the list, as the fate of her over- seas possessions is not fully known though there are indications that they will not tamely submit to domination, The wealth of the United States is directed rather to Britain than to Ger- many. So long as Britain stands, she can, therefore isolate the Continent of Europe from the rest if the world by her fleet.

The war has, unexpectedly enough, taken a turn which recalls not so much the war of 1914-18 as the Napo- leonic wars. Napoleon was master of the Continent. All the Allles were de- feated and subjected except Britain, which alone continued to. fight-and that under conditions which, measured against contemporary facts, were ex- tremely difficult and appeared often desperate, even though there were no

A similar situation may have been in the mind of Mr. Duff Cooper when he said recently that Germany would not have won the war even if she won the battle for France. The British war potential and the British will to re- sistance is something like a great im- defence line. Whatever penetrable may happen England will fight on. She took twenty years to bear down Napo- leon, but to-day the final victory will come quicker as Hitler has no stay- ing power.

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HITLER'S AIM

It is not a mere defeat of England and the Empire to which the Nazis aspire, no "brief eclipse from which we shall emerge with strength renewed.” Defeat in the sense in which France suffered it in 1870, or even Germany in 1918, is not the Nazi object. Destruc- tion of the Empire, total and terrible,, is intended to be the preliminary to the conquest of the world and the ex- tinction of the light of freedom. His Majesty has truly told us that that would mean "the destruction of the world as we have known it, and the descent of darkness on it ruins." To many there must have come bitter re- gret for the "years that the locusts have eaten," the years when we might have prepared the pass of civilisation against the enemy. Let us remember, however, that whatever the blunders we have made, whatever inability we have shown to recognise the danger in advance, the attitude, from which

those deficiencies arose was born

of

the love of peace, of faith in those very things for which we now fight. We suffered are suffering, as men have before, for our belief if the good, in the essential nobility of mankind. We have followed a dream and it may seem at the moment to be dissipated by a bitter light of disillusionment, baseness and cruelty and hatred.

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But this is the moment, as never before, to hold firmly to those faiths, to cling to that dream with renewed hope in its ultimate reality. The shock of the present distress must not lead us to lose sight of the ideals for which

we have entered on the war. There are in reality better feelings in man- kind than ruthless destruction and brutality. Right can never be com- pletely trampled down; it transcends death and horror, And right is on our side, at a time when, perhaps, no lesser justification could save us. "There, in unmistakable "opposition, lie the one another." forces which confront Lift itself can have no meaning but in the firm conviction that right must triumph. "But confidence is not Emotions must now be- enough.' come motives, and motives be turned to action, before we can overcome

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those who deny every decent aspira- tion that has built modern civilisation. We must justify our faith with works and stiffen the resolution that sacrifice is too great if our ideals survive. Let us take heart in the in- exhaustible resources, not only ma- terial but spiritual, of our vast Com- monwealth of Nations-in the store of sturdy courage, and the tradition in our race of ability to summon unseen strength in the overcoming of adver- sity. Then, if ever a nation might in the hour of trial, we may borrow the words of a great idealist who never "despaired of the State" and say with him, "with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in

...to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace."