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THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 10, 1941.

CHINA MAIL

WINDSOR HOUSE HATE AND FEAR

On April 20, 1940, the fifty-first birthday

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of

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Adolf Hitler, Rudolf Hess told the Fuehrer that the German people had but one request of fate: "That thou may long stand be- fore us, in good times as in bad, as a living symbol, that thou as hitherto may lead our lives and shape our beings." The stale- mate in the West had just been broken; then, little Denmark had been seized, and Nazi troops were bat- tling their way through Norway. The shape of things to come was still! obscured behind the im- posing facade of the Maginot line,

The German

people's

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VICHY

ADMY DARLIAU

CHOCCUPIED FRANCE

DANCE MACABRE

Gates

Churchill Speaks

SWEAT AND TEARS experiences, and emotions of each are sorgly needed Bu Winston

Churchill With a preface and notes by

to be

reader of the book,

In the raise

to

Their WAN

now by Great Hitam to protect the northwest- mn approaches to the British Isles from marauding German sub- marines and long-range bombers. post and preognises Great Bri- Everybody sees the need for these

ton's dilemma now, but in May, understood and 1938, only a handful of supporters

de hate of nearly three years ago agreed with Mr. Churchill's views. Yet in

that

toll. of wor." He added:

Queenstown

he

One request has been granted for another year. and the face of the world has been changed. The legions that marched at Hitler's word have scarred¦ શ continent from the Aretic circle to the Aegean: from Poland to the Channel. And as he celebrated his fifty-second birthday in tortured Greece, the once-thwart - BLOOD, ed artist, the erstwhile despised and

Take, for instatice, those stirring lonely Randolph S. Churchill,

sperehus delivered just before and starveling, may well have! THIS book was

after the Fall ut Free The whole been reflecting

spoken, hit by wind seemed to be trembling and that he bit. in Parhametit, before Bus, its foundations To many of us who had scaled Olympus it

4: h audences atel

radio knew how ties oplines

gravely serTOON the self with bombs and, sound the world. It is not history the day of doom bad arrived for broadcast, ; funtion was, it seemed as though shell, with tank and flame application of bindsight to events! For a little while it appeared in- in the sense that history is the the work as We had known it thrower. That is the sort. Rather 14 is an almost extem- estable that Great Britain, like Mr. Churchill declared that of symbolism that would parous evaluation and inter. Praner, must how to the German had the authority of the Admiralty appeal to the mind of in the past three eventful years by, chill know

pretation of the stirring panorama | war machine But Winston Chur- for saying that without those three Hitler, himself a symbol; he torian and a gaat water tadership of its country, offered sible, to feed this island in time

au eloquen, master of rhetorie, an man who, upon taking over the 'difficult,

his people, and the treaty ports "it would be very of Gothic wrath.

perhaps almost impus- uf free men. No

them nothing but "bloei. one can say

that!

The speeches were selected by trats and sweat" then esilled upon without this man

Randolph S Churchill, the Prime Mitens

! the Ministers, con, wher

everywhere

and Berehaven emarks themselves for their duties, and so clear the approaches to the Bris

brace shelter

the flotillas which world would have been the introduction, with understand-romport

keep i themselves ande filial prude,

that even spared its present agony, few publie men who would care

that "there are though the British Empires lasted, Lough Swilly is

tol and English Channels, and the base from The complex of forces to have

for a thousand years, men would, their speeches printed bay.

This

which the access to the without alteration within two or hour."

Mersey that moulded the conflict three

finest and the Clyde is covered. In a years of is too vast, too intricate,, Yet that is exnet y what has been, but the saddest and most tragie of submarines these are the essen-

their delivery." |

war against an enemy possessing Those were dark days, indeed, a numerous and powerful fleet of to be the product of

done, "except for the excidon of all perhaps was July 4, 1940, when tial bases from which the whole certain passuges which are no lon single brain or to function ger of much general interest and Churchill reported that it had been and protecting incoming convoys Commons Mi, operation of hunting submarines at the command of

occasional compressions to allow found necessary for British guns, is conducted." for the difference between the, to destroy single will. Yet, at his spoken and the written word. One; fleet of France,

part of the But Mr. Churchill not only un- instance, the mighty ter- not help regretting at times

Britain's former derstood the strategic importance that the excisions were not more

ally. That,was an occasion and a of these ror was unloosed; his drastic and the compressions more

scene which is burned deep into very

ports; he foresaw the political difficulties were the

which One heard the memory. Had that been done the Minister's almost heartbroken re- words, the severe

Prime

prevent the British from using hoarse fevered eloquence, but it would have had more ap of the war with that sick, empty book might have had less value,

port of one of the turning points asked.

them now. Later in the debute he that whipped a people to peal for the casual render.

But the speeches are printeri in feeling with which one might hear that Southern Ireland or the Irish "But what guarantee have you frenzy and sent them out full even when they contain long, a man confess that he has slain bis Republic as they claim to be--and to kill and be killed. How passages of more

brother for the good of society. you do not contradict them-will Mr. Churchill spoke with a heavy not declare neutrality does he bear his guilt?litical test head. heart but a sure conviction that engaged in war with some power- If we are Can the adoring "Sieg, linesque notes on what was hap- the action he had taken, hateful ful nation? The first step certain-

each speech was delivered. These idence when he said: pening in the world at the time as it was, was

the only possiblely which such course, and he spoke with con- take would

an enemy might be to offer complete notes, printed on the page opposite

immunity of every kind to South- woke memories peculiar to the action, with confidence, to Parlia-neutral." As it was in the case of the opening of euch address, will,

"I leave the Judgment of ourern Ireland if she would remain ment. I leave it to the nation, and the Irish treaty ports so it was in But Hitler has thriven every generous emotion in

all of Great Britain was rejoicing. on hatred. Delusions of his Own and other Parilament gave its answer then because Neville Chamberlain had persecution-nurtured by nations; for his ruthless silence the

and there. After the first stunned won "peace in our time,"

Mr. want and lack of recogni- perversion of the timid statesman in recent years received nitude," in his speech of October house roured with Churchill did not rejoice. He call- cheers. Seldom had a British ed it a "disaster of the first mag- tion, kindled to flame by hopes for human brother-such an ovation. The reaction of 6, 1938. the defeat of the god of hood that were raising the British nation and the Unit- These speeches read together. his idolatry, the German their heads in the wake different. These speeches do more quality of his mind, the strength ed States wüs slower but no give an insight not only into the Empire, gradually-extend- of the last great war.

than reveal Churchill as the of his leadership, but they show shrewd leader

British pretty clearly how the crisis be- and people, the eloquent master fired loathing are sterile

more acute, how the of, of the apt phrase. They tempo of the war his brain and drove him themselves.

show

quickened. him ag But Hitler nosticator of coming

the keen prog- Above all, they make plain what events, the Mr. Churchill and the people hë on. At fifty-two he stands has taught an unwilling persistent Jeremiah who, better leads and represents are fighting on a unique eminence world that they can steel in the years before the war, saw must be few who

than any one else in Great Britain for with all their might. There not only feared for his a strong arm and beat where nazism was leading.

after reading these speeches can believe that a power and hated for his down opposition that is this ability of his to foresee the long us Winston Churchill guides better example, of is possible so power, but loathed for his inspired by less infernal future than in the speech he de- the destiny of the British Empire, savage assault upon the motives.

livered May 5, 1938, in the debate for if Some day he on the bill whereby Great Britain through all these addresses it is one thing shines clear minds of men; for his will face the bitter fruits handed over to Eire the treaty, the profound conviction that a calculated poisoning of of that lesson,

ports of Queenstown, Berehaven trure with nazism means the ulti- and Lough Swilly, These, bases mate death of freedom,“

Heil!" quite shut out the sullen murmur of hate that springs up wherever his army passes?

ed to embrace

peoples, systems

ม

races,

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domestic than

adormient is "hend-

Hate

and fear

1.

large

leave it to the world and history.” I leave it to the United States. the case of Munich, when almost

of the

come ever

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