1940-10-18 — Page 31

THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 18, 1940

CHINA MAIL

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CHAMPIONS OF CIVILISATION

It is said that some animals can lose a leg without knowing it. Is civilisation like that? Or is it awake to its peril? After Tuesday night's sav- age bombing of London one wonders. Other cities, other peoples have been subjected to this kind of crime the Chinese, the Ethiopians, the Span- iards, Poles, Finns, Nor- wegians, Dutch, Belgians, and French. Ruthless ag- gressors have spared no treasure of person or pos- session. Now they unleash on the greatest capitals of civilisation their boasted utmost of destruction. Will what remains of the civilised world be merely horrified or will it arouse itself to make sure that the new barbarism shall be turned back for good?

This struggle over Lon- don is the complete sym- bol of the largely unseen struggle of civilisation against barbarism. Every puot of the Royal Air Force, every bargee at the Thames docks, every

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PARRISH in the "Chicago Tribune.“

Democracy's Other Ally

she undoubtedly longs to do."

Admitting that this partial im- mobilisation of Japan is not un-

connected with the fact that the United States has been keeping its fleet based at Hawaii, Dr. Quo