1941-04-26 — Page 7

THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 26, 1941.

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THE ROAD TO VICTORY

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The campa i g n Greece, bitter as the out- come may be, has shown the world not excluding the Germans, that man for man the Imperial and British troops will never bend the knee to the Ger- It has been cal- culated that the Allied forces have been opposed! by forces with a superior- ity of not only three to one in numbers, but by far greater strength in tanks,, aeroplanes, etc., which means that though, as Mr. Churchill said, "wars! are not won by retreats,! however brave and mas- terly." the British nation can look to victory when the odds are somewhat

more even

It is well to remember this when set-backs come and disappointment fol- lows so closely ON the heels of elation.

The potential strength of the democracies is in! calculable and certainly vastly superior to any- thing the German people can put into the field.

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THE NEW XERXES

Preaching Hatred In

After conquest comes

conver→

The question is how ston So thinks any nation with

long will it take

before

a crusading complex and Ger- inany has the complex Once her

second phase of the battle for:

France

"the years the locusts foe was beaten she entered on this have eaten" to use Amery's words, are trieved?

Mr. France. She must eunvert and ing French sailor. who clutched

re-

i who had led her astray, they were

It is not only the United States and Britain who have allowed precious years to slide away heeded; but bitter as the that followed the deleat the thought may be to-day, it; French erined to

Isten, they no longer believed in is not fruitless if it brings themselves so why not believe in the Germans. They judged them- realisation that the

selves su severely that there seem- effort must be continueded to be no room in their hearts with renewed determina-for hating their tion, energy and unity.

war

Defeatism, even if un- voiced, is the heaviest spoke in Britain's produc- tion wheel and, converse- ly, the most powerful wea- pon in support of Hitler's bag of tricks.

waver and to

I which

way.

conquerors. IL was hard to listen to men and life women from every walk of saying to me, a foreigner:

for

got Then

when the French tired of heroic phrases they ex- pressed their contempt of these placards by writing on them ob- scene words common to all langu- ages. There are penalties tampering with this propaganda "I am ashamed to be French. and French police must enforce But policemen and sub- I want to leave France. I want the law.

street way guards are on the to be French no longer."

after curfew hours when other men are at home: it is a significant fact that the posters near the police stations and in the ways are the most defaced.

This was the dangerous moment.

That moment has passed. 1 am glad that I stayed in France. I am glad that I lived five months in Paris under the Germans and

I

could hold out for their sakos.

sub-

These are the three chosen by the victors their point home.

martyrs

to drive

In September of last year the Germans opened a free exhibition

of what they called the horrors of Freemasonry and Semitism. Loug Swastika banners clothed every pillar at the entrance of the Petit

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passerby not to She must keep them there: keep who begged the them to worship Hitler's twisted forget Oran "N'oubliez pas Oran," cross held up before their eyes: kerping alive the memory of the

The Freemasons had been dis- France must forget the false gods British attack on the French fleet solved, the Grand Lodges and Brush gods.

there. Immediately the word their furnishings and documents The furniture from In the first humiliating weeks! Orag was torn off or obliterated, | assembled.

Kaving only the phrase: "Do not the lodges looked drab and sadly forget." An ambiguous phrase theatrical in the light of day. The could be taken another grand masters' thrones, the trea-

and swords. aprons, the en blems were all Skeletons placed in exposed. dark corners fascinated the troops of school children who were to stare and wonder. brought

books from the lodges Visitors' were shown, their pages turned to where were written the signatures of former Premiers Blum, Dula- men accused of dier and other the fall of France. One exhibition booth was devoted to Philippe Egalite, once King of France, and another to the Rothschild family, Freemasons all. At every turn printed propaganda told the French that Freemasonry and their had lost them The Germans have discovered Semitism three convenient French martyrs, country. Fortunately, President saw the French spirit revive.

victims am glad I stood in the food queues

of England, and have

People who entered the exposi- Roosevelt fully appreci- and heard the women ask me for trotted them out for the new cult.

tlon, frankly curious and with ates the necessity of get- news of England and whether she

First comes Napoleon Bona solemn faces, remained to snicker at the obvious propaganda. They ting supplies to Britain too. And I liked it when the but-! parte; he also had a plan for a

not express themselves even faster than United cher (there still was meat to be united Europe. His idea has been dared

had in those days) wiped his taken over by Hitler. The French very openly, at almost every ex- States factories can pro- hand on his apron and shook mine are reminded by newspaper and hibit there were evil-looking little idle and with an eaves-i on the day after Election Day and poster that the sun of Napoleon men, said:

went down on St. Helena, that dropping air. Agents keeping their THESE FACTS MAKE British isle of her Empire, on fingers on the French pulse. Industry is making "Congratulations, Madame, we which England has always boast-

On the whole, the French were great strides, but at the have Roosevelt!"

ed the sun never sets. Hitler on his fist visit to Paris, stood for a cynical and amused at the whole moment Congress is

they came to Germany at first chose to pay long while in emotional contem-thing-until debating the legality of France

and there they the compliment of soft plation before Napoleon's tomb, last room of all, disposing of existing understand her. to believe in her.

words.

France She begged

to and remarked afterward that it did not smile. On one side of the was not magnificent enough, the exit door was a heroic statue of equipment, such as ships But she soon dropped this wooing French should have given him a Joan of Arc with fresh laurels at her feet. Above her, head was a anchored in American and decided that instead of make more decent burial,

sign, it said: "Holy Joan of Arc, ports. The question of easier to make her hate England. Germany next made use of the who drove out the enemy. Come Soldier, that great once again to the rescue of transportation is one of The German press had long tried

last war. His France!" And there was no mis- to wean France from the doc- sacrifice of the

as to which enemy Was paramount importance trines of England, now the Ger- grave is never without German take

Beside the statue were and, though anxiety to man dictated press in Paris took flowers, and German soldiers end- meant.

lessly photograph other German copies of English charges agains'

and their order for get things moving as effi- up the cry.

soldiers standing beside it in de- Joan, The citizens of Paris showed a vout or military attitudes. The execution, ciently and as fast as hu-

certain aversion to these papers, conquering army on June 14 did man ingenuity can make many people said to me: not march through the Arc de On the other side of the door Triomphe and over the grave as stood the tricolour, gold-fringed them, the slow prelimin- "T never read

a paper any the French expected them to do, and also laureled; the flag which ary grinding of democra- more, what is the use, they all they skirted it. And Hitler has is allowed to be flown nowhere in knelt too before the Unknown occupied France. And a sign_said:; tic wheels cannot be hur- come from Borlin."

Soldier.

"Frenchmen, pausé. Before leav-| ried. When once they But though they avolded the

ing this building salute your flag!" The third and most glorious is are set into motion, their papers they could not escape the

Not a Frenchman saluted; they written word of Joseph Gabbels' Joan of Arc, greatest pride of the

She drove the hurried past, anger in their faces impetus is, however, wing- gospel. Every wall was pasted French nation. ed by the united efforts of with poster propaganda against English from France and was re-at the use the Nazis were malt

England. Every subway station viled and burned by them. There-ing of the French flag. German a free people.

displayed a drawing of a drown- fore she is dear to Hitler's heart. propaganda had missed fire sysin.

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