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MIRROR OF WORLD

OPINION

DEMOCRACY WILL

SURVIVE

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Not yet. That is the answer to a school of observers who now see the last nail driven in the coffin of Euro- pean democracy in Europe, with the signing of, the German-dictated mistice terms by the Bordeaux gov- ernment. Not yet, because the col- lapse of active French resistance on the mainland does not necessarily imply that French resistance against the Rome-Berlin Axis in the colonies will automatically die. Not yet, cer- tainly, because Great Britain, senior member of the anti-Hitler partner- ship, is still very much alive with all her vigor primed to the requirements exacted by an immediate threat to her very existence.

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Meanwhile, the United States fully awakened to the dangers of an Axis victory. President Roosevelt has already translated his words into action by giving the Allies the fullest material aid and has embarked the U.S. government on a titanic haval building programme unequalled in American annals; he has called for huge appropriations for the greatest started air armada of all time and calling more men to the colours; he has changed the single-party plexion of his cabinet by appointing Stimson and Knox as War and Navy

All Secretaries, respectively.

these are veritable straws in the wind which indicate unerringly the direction of American policy.

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America will not likely send troops to Britain, but it is highly certain that when the threatened Nazi inva- sion becomes a fact, she will do lot more than what she is doing now in aid of the Allies. It is now evident that it is not merely Europe's war for if the Axis Powers are not stopped, the war will be brought to the doorstep of the United States.

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THE HULL PROGRAMME

While Britain has lost her chief ally by the capitulation of France, looming large is the possibility, that two other Powers will rally to her United side: Soviet Russia and the States.

Soviet Russia has always been the bugbear in the whole European diplo-

With the possibilities of the Soviet matic muddle. The world was pro- fighting on the side of the Allies, the foundly scandalized when she sud-

French living abroad rendering every denly jumped over the fence while possible assistance in man-power and negotiating with the Allies and signed resources and the United States giv- with Germany a non-aggression and ing its unlimited aid in warplanes trade pact.

What kind of child, it and ammunition, it is fatuous to was asked, would come of this in-

say that democracy's days are num- credible union between Communism

bered. There are still

that signs and Naziism? The world has long human freedom and civilisation with since been forced into the realization survive."China Press." that Soviet diplomacy is essentially realistic, and quickly taking advantage of of the equally realistic attitude

signed the Germány, the Kremlin

Opponents of Secretary Hull's re- pact. One ostensible aim was behind the Soviet move; to weaken ciprocal trade policy have urged that the then solid position of Italy in the the programme be put on ice until the Rome-Berlin Axis and thereby streng end of the war, on the grounds that the discriminatory restrictions im- then her fences in the Balkans.

The Soviet took a tolerant view of posed by the Allies on their foreign agreements with Germany's successive victories so long trade vitiate any as she was allowed to execute her them, and that conditions are long-cherished plan of hegemony in so abnormal that agreements with the the Baltic and so long as her sphere non-belligerents can be of little use. As- of influence along the Balkan borders A report of the Foreign Policy was not imperilled from any quarter, sociation on "Six Years of American But the entry of Italy into the fray Tariff Bargaining," after surveying rippled the placidity of the Berlin- the record of the programme up to the Moscow rapprochement and Russia saw outbreak of hostilities, discussess the imminent peril at her door. Stalin's sort of policy suitable to the United counter-move was more swift and States during the present war.

It is noted that, despite the depre- convincing than was anticipated. He marched his troops into Latvia and ciation of French, British and Cana- Esthonia and inspired the lightning dian foreign exchange, there formation of a pro-Soviet govern- been only ment in Lithuania, bringing veritable "Jitters" to East Prussia.

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Since, further,

a moderate increase in imports from these countries, far less indeed than the gain in their purchases here. The view is expressed that the These swift moves have served only present policy of generalising" trade to put accent on the ideological con- concessions extending their benefits to flict between Nazi Germany and So- all other countries that do likewise- viet Russia in their deadly struggle while perhaps not always safeguard- for supremacy in the European scene. ing American trade against discrimina- Totally lacking in the fundamentals tion, is decidedly preferable to the al- that go into the making of a per- ternative policy of retaliation and manent, indestructible

the commercial warfare. union, Soviet-German combination is, It has always been, an artificial crea- ture born of common immediate exi- gencies. Russia has lately grown suspicious of the intentions of Ger- mány and Italy, who are regiment- ing all their diplomatic efforts to swing the Rumanian government into their camp. To this irritating move, Stalin has replied with no less than 100 divisions on her borders from the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea. Not to be outdone, Italy is reported to have mined the Greek waters to control shipping in the Black Sea.

Amid such confusion, Great Bri- tain is bringing diplomatic effort to bear on the present perplexed mental- ity of the Kremlin. A more realistic grasp of the situation would enable her to use Germany's own weapon by drawing Russia to her side and leav-

wits ing Germany to her own

in Scandinavia. With Soviet Russia as an ally, Britain could easily isolate Norway from Germany, The former could attack the eastern border of Norway from Sweden with the latter bombarding the west coast from the North Sea. After Norway, Denmark could be taken by a concerted drive. Then a three-pronged directed attack on Germany proper could be initiat- ed: on East Prussia from Lithuania, from Sweden across the Baltic Sea, and from Denmark by land opera- tions.

this country clearly favours the Allies "on grounds of general policy, it may be inadvisable to hamper the Allies by interfering too strenuously with their wartime commercial practices."

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As to the post-war period, it is, of course, impossible to foresee the con- ditions that will then prevail. policy of "fighting fire with fire" by means of bilateral bargaining for ex- clusive preferences would not only reduce

our important triangulat trade, in which exports to one country offset imports from another, but would probably force far-reaching govern-. mental control over all activities con- nected with foreign trade.

The Allies have expressed the de- as possible to sire to return as soon the relatively free-trade relations of the past. But even should this not be practicable at once, the retention of the American trade programme will be important as aʼrallying point for those who are seeking to level international barriers. It will indicate that "the United States intends to continue pro- moting the expansion of international commerce and that it will play a part in the process of post-war economic Abandonment of re- reconstruction. ciprocal trade, on the other hand, would clear the fleld for an intensified drive for self-sufficiency in the future, with all that this implies." This is a sober and realistic point of view.—“N. Y. Times."