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THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 7, 1941.

CHINA MAIL

WINDSOR HOUSE

THE REASON WHY

There are many people who, with all the will in the world demanding a British victory in this war, still ask, what good it did for Yugoslavia to offer challenge to German might. The answer may perhaps be detected in a letter addressed to the "New York Times" by the Yugoslavian Minister to Washington, M. Constan- tin Fotich, who begins by pointing out that the Yugoslavs could have "bargained for their free-i dom with unscrupulous | aggressors."

They might have pre- served for a time, at least, a sembiance of indepen-¦ dent existence if they had| been prepared to "cooper ate" on the degrading terms that Hitler offered. | Why did they choose to resist, and what good didį their resistance do? In less than two weeks of fighting their army was 'forced to capitulate; their leading cities were des troyed; thousands of men, and of women and chil- dren too,

Official temperature has risen were killed or in Washington from the low point maimed; the rest will be reached when the German Army treated worse by the drive so quickly overwhelmed the Germans than if they had Yugoslavs and Greece, and ad- not resisted. How can we vanced to the Egyptian border say that their resistance

while the German Navy sent thousands more was worth while?

tons of shipping

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