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THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 8, 1941.

CHINA MAIL

WINDSOR HOUSE

SPRING: 1941

For most people in this world Spring has tender associations. For Adolf

Hitler it is otherwise. To him, when the hounds of Spring are on Winter's traces, when the Red Gods make their medicine anew, another sort of im- pulse comes. The sap of empire rises in him.

He

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must break another pro- mise, commit another

treachery, destroy nation's liberty.

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It comes as no surprise, therefore, that he has in- vaded Greece and Yugo- slavia---two small coun tries that have given him no offence, unless it is the unforgivable offence of re- fusing meek submission! to dishonour and slavery. Men, women and children in both countries will die because of what Spring, the time of blossoming, the season of tenderness and hope, means to Hitler and what he has made it mean to the German tion.

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Yesterday the children spent i fourteen hours in their air shelter a drep dug-out [I the bank where the primroses come up each year, fitted with wooden But Hitler has not con-

bunks. Poor brats, it's demoralis quered Spring. No Fifth become the peak period of

ing for them. Five o'clock has Column betrays the inex- day.

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orable processes of Nat- Evening and the day's work is

over. {};૧ Draw the curtains,

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BALKANS