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THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 26, 1941.

CHINA MAIL

WINDSOR HOUSE

COL. LINDBERGH

Colonel Lindbergh has been at it again, and much more disturbingly on this occasion for the Lease and Lend Bill ́has been passed and the pur- pose of his further inter- vention can only be to at- tempt to sabotage the bid for national unity and national effort.

Astoundingly, if Co- Ionel Lindbergh is at all sincere, he refuses to draw any moral distinc-] tion between regimes which invoke a reign of violence and those which] seek ways of peace and} freedom. Does right or wrong make no difference to the erstwhile hero ofj the air as long as he thinks himself secure?

The Lindbergh case seems to deal solely with material factors in its summing up of the supposed prospects in

Europe. There are moral factors, so-called impon- derables, which enter heavily into the equation, If suffering and destitu- tion are involved in a pro- longed British drive, what

I SEE

NOTHING.

BRAVE LITTLE ADOLF'!

Labour

of a Nazi victory under A number of American corres- the sugar-coating of a pondents have written to me re- "negotiated peace?" In cently asking

for an assessment of Labour's influence in the Chur~ the occupied countries it chili government. That is not an could be only a smoulder-easy matter to undertake. For, in the first place, much of that in- ing truce, a period of fluence is necessarily screened slave-labour efforts at from the public view; and, in the second, not a little of the essen- production, and ultimate tial work Labour Ministers have discovery that military accomplished and this is parti- cularly true of Mr. Attlee-re- domination cannot feed veals itself in the decisions of De-

not partments people.

Labour control.

are

directly

under

Certain general things may be said at once, The Labour Minis-

By

Vitality

Harold Laski