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THE CHINA MAIL, OCTQBER 5, 1940.

CHINA MAIL

WINDSOR HOUSE!

BRITAIN'S ALLIES

From time to time the orchestra of the B.B.C. plays the National An- thems of all the countries that are Allies of Great Britain. The recital may seem a melancholy one to those who think of these countries as conquered, the glories of their past obscured in their common tragedy. But it is prema- ture to speak of them as conquered when not only have they a powerful Ally undefeated but they themselves have Govern- ments making a real con- tribution to the war

The Polish Government is an actuality, issuing its orders to veteran troops ready for action.

A Czechoslovakian Gov- ernment has sprung into being again under Dr. Eduard Benes, with the nucleus of a representa tive Parliament around him, and thousands of trained men.

Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands com- mands the loyalty of the Dutch people and is the ruler of an unconquered empire overseas.

King Haakon of Nor- way has few soldiers with him in Britain, but he still receives the allegiance of the free Norwegian Mer- cantile Marine.

The position of the French General, Charles- de Gaulle, is different, but he commands French sai- lors and soldiers who are determined to fight on for the liberation of France.

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The Defence Of Christendom

Pershing- Lindbergh

in him revolts, Ha may say

Baltimore Evening, Sun:

It

seams to us that Congress and the Administration should examine seriously General Pershing's sug- gestion for aid to Great Brithin with a view to acting on it if it is. cupported by a consensus of ex- pert opinion.. ge Coloriel Lind- bergh. ...is distinctive in his calin assumption that the blotting out of the last democracy in Eu- rope can be a matter of indiffer- ence to the United States.

New York Times. Though Co- lonel Lindbergh scorns the idea "that only the British fleet protects us from invasion," the plain- fact is that. our whole new programme is built on the 'assunip- tion that: what happens to the British fleet is of vital importance to this country. A policy of complete aloofness on our part, resulting in the loss of the British fleet; may be the most risky and ultimately the costliest we could pursue. Every consideration recommends the policy. which General Pershing would have us follow.

Cleveland New: Colonel: Lind- bergh's Chicago broadcast brought him to the end of a circuitous journey through international af- fairs. He now stands four-square for the appeasement of Hitler. He, thus associates h's personal prestige, avith the "fifth column" in America. The News is bound to believe that this. is the fruit of ignorance, rather than design.

New York Daily News! pieces of evidence convince that the Pershing speech voiced the wishes of President. Roosevelt in this matter: ... We've been told over and over again: that our Navy should be doubled in size. So how can we spare out of a navy that's only half big enough?

Two us

If we have to fight Hitler some day, as we may, why should we accommodate him by sending out our warships within reach of his bombers based on his land air- fields, instead of compelling him to come over and fight us within reach of our land airfields

Minneapolis Morning Tribune: It would be far easier to share Co- lonel Lindbergh's certainty that this country, could. cooperate with a victorious Hitler, in the post-war order if there were only some slight scintilla of evidence in the pre-war, record to indicate that Hitler knows the meaning of co- operation.H

Chicago Tribune: What Colonel Lindbergh had to say was only the product of a deep faith in his own

that land;

whatever happens, America is strong enough, if need be, to stand alone and maintain its present way of life. Quite evi- dently, the Fershing who gallantly. resisted the effort to break up the American Army and refused to let it be scattered piecemeal" among the Allies in 1918 is not

Milwaukee Journal: Is General

It is

evident that some force is arrang- .. We have reached

Worcester Evening Gazette: To

It is no mean fighting force which these rulers control, but their presence under their own national |

Let me begin by saying bluntly, it was Christianity which had al-new despotism mocks at con- the Pershing who to-day advo leaders has a symbolic this war. is a crusade, It doesn't, ways taught that the home is the sideration for the weals, preaches cates the piecemeal dispersion: of value transcending the of course, mean that the Allies are centre of the universe. And so all that the only, right is the right of the American Navy,

all good and the Germans all through, the turbulence of their the stronger and that the only strength of their arms. evil. It doesn't even mean that the early, history, Englishmen struge moral law is the interest of one Pershing being used as a front by The peoples whose ter-Brilish can necessarily claim to be gled to preserve the home as a nation, something deep seated the interventionists?..

a Christian people. What is does little island of security. ritory the Nazis have oc mean is that the Christian And gradually they contrived to to himselfe that this is the nega-ing things cupied have not surren-civilisation of the West is in establish first the custom, and, as tion of all that the British Com-the propaganda stage.

deadly danger of being ex-early as 1879, the law that no man monwealth has stood for or all dered, and their will is tinguished, perhaps for centuries. can be arrested without trial. They that he has himself valued in the talk now about making friends

After all it was still represented in leaders

Christianity could not tolerate the thought that history of his native land. which gave us the way of life we who refuse to relinquish are accustomed to. What do we value most in it? For one thing, hope.

freedom. Very early in our his- Nor is their persistence tory we boasted that an English- cheering only to the peo-man's home was his castle. Now Iple who are in subjection

By Lord Elton

with Hitler is to weaken our.na- How, it may be asked, can we tional effort and to sow confusion

our people... speak of this war as a crusade, and disunity among or think of ourselves, with all our Colonel Lindbergh's sincerity is manifest failings, as crusaders? Is not to be questioned. But in a time there not a danger that the new of national peril, honesty, is not paganism which has assaulted us, enough. His speech, could not have false though if be, is nevertheless served Hitler's purpose any bet- a faith; a faith which demands and ter if it had been prepared in Ber

lin. receives self-sacrifice and devo- St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Colonel to Germany; it is encour the Home Guard as mere-

tion from its adherents, a faith aging also to the people of ly francs-tireurs, but this

contrast to General Porshing's Britain, who are fortified identification cannot be any moment a knock at the door fiercely held by millions of de- Lindbergh's address was in sharp

might mean that husband, father voted young warriors, while our in the knowledge that maintained. The franc-or son was hauled away to an unrown Christianity has become limp plea for an act of war. Some of known fate. To Englishmen that and tepid, a half-hearted and self-his opinions may draw dissent, but how can anyone deny his their goal is also the goal tireur of the Franco-Prus- moant slavery, and long before the questioning affair which can no statements that the problems of of Poland, Czechoslovakia, sian war wore no uniform. cruel right of imprisonment with one out with the same burn-Europe cannot be solved by

out trial was wrested from theing devotion and assurance?

America, that historic forces. are Norway, the Netherlands, The Home Guard, on the rulers of other lands, it had been

at work on the continent, which no No, all that I have said of our outside influence can halt, that and France, to which other hand, wears battle abolished here.

shortcomings and much more American opinion is definitely- must be added Denmark dress, though some of its

may be true, and yet this struggle against Involvement? This. is stark It was Christianity too, which remains, a crusade. It is the cause realism, perhaps unpalatable to and Belgium.

members are compelled to

first proached the eternal and which makes the crusade. Very many of the unthinking, be content with armlets equal significance of every human few Individuals, and no nations,

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THE HOME GUARD until uniforms are ready, soul, and so in due time brought are fully worthy to wear the cross

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democracy, which; for all its short as their emblem: Nevertheless, if we have thought too much of com- It is a citizen army: But comings, is the practical recognit righteous causes had always to fort, too little of duty, too much tion in politics of the belief that walt for the completely worthy of showy sophistication, too little all men are equal, in the sight of champion, few of them indeed of the solid qualities by which a And nation lives and: without which it. God. Small wonder that the new would have survived. creeds of force and racial ascen- the fires of suffering through dies, nevertheless it is to the sim- dancy which have devastated which, we must pots will doubt pla virtues, the traditional vir- Europe have found the Christian less purge us of much dross. It tuos, the Christian virtues that we midgin their first and most for was the Christian feeling deep turn now--courage, unselfishness, buried in the nation which tool discipline kindness. For the vic That Instinctive code, which us into the struggle, and as the toy for which we look beyond maken, tho, ordinary Briton turn struggle has proceeded, that latent this dark horizon is not only a away, in horror from certain formis Instinct has become more con- material triumph, or only a of cruelty, oppression, and via-scious, and we have come to see triumpli, over ideas. It is also a lence), Has Its roots in Christian over more clearly what is at stake, spiritual victory, a victory over teaching, When he reads that the Lotus admit that of recent years ourselves.

Britain's Home Guard, it does not mean that which now has more than Britain has gone militaris

million and a quarter tio. Readiness to fight in volunteers, is something defence of right and jus unusual in the history of tice is not militarism. It armies.

represents an attitude re- The Germans have luctantly come to but made many attempts to solidly maintained in the present the members of democracies,

midable foc