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THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 14, 1940.

CHINA MAIL Britain: A

WINDSOR HOUSE!

THE NAZI WAY

The notion that defence

of the "American way" begins only at "the

Ground

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A Rallying

For Attack

own liberty other Dominions of the British

water's edge" still immo-IN these days of autumn beauty militant cause which must grow, only to keep her

and tragic human struggle in order to live and must pre-afloat, but also to raise and sal- Commonwealth.

the

for the moment are wrecked and Or

In this cause altruism is, sunk. and has always been, in her own best interest

those in Great Britain naturally scrve itself by expansion. She is vage the liberties elsewhere which think and speak of their "island not fighting for an insular fortress** and of their duty of limited liberty: she is fighting for to the uttermost a general, a continental, we may "holding out"

occumenical liberty, behind the white cliffs which are even say an

which is far broader than her ensure her the shores, and will

of other

its walls.

bilises too large a body of

in public opinion United States. Some day, and the sooner the better, Americans will awake to implications of Nazi mili-is an old idea in Britain's national tary success which are against any odds, however great, now only vaguely felt by and to stand tenaciously even un- many.

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The idea of the stern defensive

history and Literature. To fight

der the darkest sky, is a favourite theme of Anglo-Saxon literature - a literature, by the way, which is too often forgotten or neglected, for it has in its themes and spirit the inmost essence of Britain's permanent national tem-. which the "new order" is per. But this "Anglo-Saxon tena-

Britain's enemies! imposed on much of Eu-city," as even

have called it is not the whole, rope, including countries or even the major part of the To hold which have not even been quality needed to-day.

out in an island fortress is indeed invaded by Nazi armies. a matter of stubborn gallantry, The "Christian Science Monitor's" Rome corres- pondent reports that among the various aims by which the Axis Powers would re-order Europe are (1) disarmament of the Danube States to a point where resistance to the "new order" would be im- possible for them, and (2) the revamping of their governments along totali- tarian lines to make pos- sible the "cooperation" | which the dictators de- mand.

Το understand the "Nazi way" one need only watch the methods by some of

What this means to the peoples in countries which come under the "new or- der" is tragically illustrat- ed in France. The French now have a totalitarian government. Even a pleb- iscite after the event

will not express the will of free Frenchmen. For the French people have been, for the moment at least, deprived of the wea- Who pons of freedom, will debate the questions to be voted on in a plebis- cite?

comfort and company

By Prof.

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As they see

matter, not the island alone is at stake: their fortune and their freedom also and equally engaged. Nor is it an exaggeration-It is only sober truth-to say that the issue goes further still. It also involves AND so, if Britons continue to the great Empire of India, in its gradual development, under the talk of an- Island fortress,

inspiration and shelter of the they must remember that it is British flag of freedom, towards not a fortress into which they retire, but a fortress from which also involves the African colonies, the goal of self-government: it reduce

which have also begun to grow, enemy and to spread the

of by the method and practice quests of liberty. Fortresses, indirect rule, towards the handl- old days (the days, for example, ing of their own affairs through of the Crusades) were not only their own native authorities. For

built or indeed primarily.

the British Commonwealth has defence: they were built as van been, and is, and one cannot but tage-grounds for attack and ad- believe that it will continue to vanced posts for the purpose of free states to aid her in the en-sallics. Britons are living in the be, a school and a home of liber- joyment of her own liberty. The age of a new Crusada Crusade ty in all its parts and the whole

of its extent-not only in cause of liberty is a generous for the vindication of the liberty Dominions, even if they stand

Ernest Barker they sally

Dr. Barker, holder of high degrees in litéṛature at Oxford and Cambridge Universities, is one of Britain's most lucid- political thinkers.

out to

the .con-

Scoret measures are being taken by the Admiralty to combat Hitler's "Night Hawks"-Ger- many's new motor-torpedo-boats which have been active in the Channel and it is believed that counter measures are ready, 'It was only recently that a solitary British motor-torpedo-boat húnt- ed six of Germany's M.T.B.% out of the Channel. Photo shows a German motor-torpedo-boat at speed. (Copyright, Fox),

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for

its

in the forefront on free self-gov- ernment, but also among that fifth of the human race which is called India, through all its far- flung colonies.

A GREAT partnership of free- dom stands around the is-

of land; and the soldiers

this partnership-soldiers who come from the American continent and from the far Southern Hemis- phere--stand by Britannia's side in defence of a cause which is theirs as well as hers.

If therefore, men speak of the island fortress' and of 'holding also cut in that fortress, they think, and also speak, of the lar- ger and broader and deeper signi- ficance of the struggle. This for- tress is more than a fortress. It is also two other things. It is, in the first place, a vantage ground and an advanced post": from which Britons can go forth,

for and carry out their cause, the general advantage and the general victory of freedom every- where. It is; in the second place, a great and a general rallying- ground, for all who are on Bri Sairi's site, and who stand with her because they stand for them- selves in standing along with her. It is a rallying-ground twice over immediately for the peoples

for

of Europe who wish to redeem and enjoy their national liberty; but also and beyond that, the peoples of the whole British Commonwealth who are partners in an old and generous. tradition, A vantage ground which is also a rallying-ground, and which is the they the one because it is also but it is also, in its way, a matter cause as generous, as love, with ] of the human spirit-and of a negative attitude. It is the a bounty as boundless and deep now plan to use the fortress of other that is the true position

high a cause of which it may truly Britain, as the old Crusaders used of Britain. It is a

and Internal divisions which stopping of something from being

Britain made Nazi military vic-done rather than the doing of be said, without any rhetoric or their fortresses, in the way of a solemn privilege that

something: it opens a vista, long emotion,

vantage-ground or advanced post, should thus be more than Bri- The more I give to thee, But indeed it is already being tain, and that her cause should tory possible in France and indefinite, of not being beaten,

The more I have, for both are used in that way, and used not matter, as it matters to-day, not are being exploited by the but it shows no conclusive and can stir the positive end which

influite.

only by the British people (in only to herself but also to Europe, Nazis in other countries mind with a sense of accomplish- British liberty would be a poor the sense of the people who ac and a world beyond Europe.

ment and fruition.

and imperfect thing without sur-tually live in Britain), but also where their military

rounding and encompassing liber- by other peoples, Britain has the forces have never set foot.

ties the liberty of France and honour, in this hour, of not stand- Belgium and Holland and Nor-ing alone, bút of having with As in France, so in the

the liberty, even further her a company of friends. That not be there if Balkan States, are groups BRITAIN, is called to-day to way:

something greater than hold-ufield (for Europe at large is company would who believe their interests ing out. She is called to the Britain's neighbour), of Poland she was merely an island fortress. Czechoslovakia. Liberty to be defended. They are there carry ng on of a good

cause, and will be served by the ex-which is the cause of liberty, and can never be isolated or parcel because she is, and so long tension of the Nazi way. the expansion in liberty, of man's led, or treated as a national com- she remains the vantage-ground. unconquerable mind; and not only modity to be preserved by mea- for a great crusade to redeem the Sometimes these are

so, but she is also called to the sures of national protection. It cause of liberty. groups of the extreme carrying out of the cause, beyond is a common good to be shared common. The more Britain "left," sometimes of the her own shores, into Europe and in

even beyond, as a moving and shares liberty with others,

better dogs she defend "right." They include

liberty.

'ONSIDER who arc gathered persons who seek the es-

in that island, and how their tablishment of socialism silenced by censorship im-

gathering upon it lifts up the by a short cut; the dicta-posed from within, but THAT is an old lesson of Bri- cause, away and beyond the sim- tish history. Britain has de-ple.cause of the defence of an tor method. They include exploited from without. fended liberty in centuries be-Island fortress. There are French-

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others who seek safe-

in the United fore the twentieth, and against men who will not despair of the enemies other than Germany. Republic: there, are Poles - and guards against discon- States there are groups she defended it against Spain in Norwegians: there are Dutch and tented elements of their and individuals who the era of the Reformation; she Belgians. The soil is the bond defended it against France in the and the rallying ground of many own populations.

imagine their interests lie aays of Napoleon. But she has European countries; and if there Nazi military successes in the application of in- always defended liberty by seck-should be battle upon it, enhance the prestige of creasingly authoritarian ing to extend it, because she al- battle will be more than a battle only of Britain-it will be a battle of ways knew that she was such groups wherever concepts of government. truly free when others were also Europe and a war for the free-

free. She fought for Holland dom of Europe,

that

they exist, and increase Should Nazism break against Philip 11, as well as for Indeed, it will be even more

well as for England, when she than that: it will be a battle that

If Britain is true to her old the freedom of peoples in other

the power of these groups down the last resistance herself; she fought for Spain as to gain their ends through to it in Europe its influ- fought against Napoleon. goes beyond Europe, and involves terrorism. Thus the rule ence could no longer be tradition (but there is no "Ir" continents and another hends- over majorities by minori confined to Europe. Its about the matter, for she will phere. For British soil is a bund be true), sho" will and a rallying ground not only, ties is extended, and the intrigues already are felt certainly

fight this year, and next, and as for European countries, but also voice of the peoples is in Latin America.

long as there is need to fight, not for Canada and Australia and the

On board one of the Ger. motor-torpedo-boats.

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