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THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 24, 1941.

CHINA MAIL

"WINDSOR HOUSE

TO CLEAR THE AIR

The United States powerfully reinforces its bases in the Pacific; Great Britain lands additional troops at Singapore-and Japan complains that this strengthening of the de- fences of their own ter- ritories by the American and British governments constitutes an act of "pro- vocation. This seems curious conclusion. But! it should not be dismiss- ed merely as intended for] home consumption Japan. Actually it veals the gulf between Japanese and Western thinking that makes peace in the Pacific pre-! carious.

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Let us recall that it was American initiative that an agreement was reached, in the Washing- ton Arms Conference of 1921-22, by which the chief naval Powers bound themselves not to fortify Į their insular possessions in the Western Pacific. Let us recall also that it was on Japanese inilia- tive that this same agree- ment was abrogated after fourteen years. Let us remember, too, that for

more than а de- cade the United States was so consistent in its adherence to the Pact of Paris, by which war was renounced as an instru- ment of national policy, that U.S. has also avoided the threat of war as such an instrument.

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No other soldiers of the last luntry. war left belund them a memory to accept, but it was not shirked. Su formidable or awe-inspiring as The new men accepted it as an in- those who collectively are known herent challenge as "Anzacs"

and have the

Yet between the Australian

fighting cap-1 Their contributions to final vic-as surely as they have won theille, there is nothing and New Zealand Army

their moral battle as neatly and efficiency each displays

acities of the two, between Corps.

The in bat. tory, spasmodic, though they were string of battles along the

tu choose. volume and when the war ended first, rapidly increased

Sea Each picks out the form of organ- in coast of Cyrenaica.

isation that best suits his own these volunteers had been in al- Most

national temperament. the men since the Summer of 1916. most continuous Retion in France fight in Egypt

Al-Jare though it was in Western Europe and nephews of the soldiers who

in Britain

prefer to be and are remember-years ago." that they achieved success, they went from Australia twenty-five not all. Al- ed for their spectacular failure at though a general age limit of 35 Gallipoli and it is upon that fal- was imposed hundreds with ex-

ness that would be considered in- be no lure that their historic renown perience in the last war managed subordination in a British Guards official most surely rests. From that foj- to slip past the recruiting officers, regiment, where orders are not ex-

about the legend of their invincibility.

hire also came another paradox: and the writer will always recali pected to be received with a grin the answer given to him at Suez In off-duty hours scenes Occur

that would shock a rigid militarist, to the depths of his conditioned soul,

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There should confusion in the Japanese mind American opposition to

Their courage and the wild un-officer of a newly arrived trans-

commanding! Japan's present policy. orthodoxy of their behaviour were port what on the voyage seemed But in the repeated pro-as startling to their allies as they most worthy of cominent, He said: tests

were to their enemies, and that the United

there The number of World War rib- were times indeed when the form- bons that suddenly appeared when States has made to Japan er were more frightened of them we were two days out of Sydney

and there was no turning back.'

in recent years the threat whom such things

than the latter. The British, to

of

order a superior officer may give While the Australian soldier cheerfully accepts and obeys any

him in the course of duty, he will do so with that kind of cheerful-

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During a visit to Gaza paid in Australian troops in training, order to see something of the was invited to the officers' mess. are of great

My two hosts each bought a round war has been con-moment, thought their social in-

of drinks. A third round was spicuously lacking. Wash- stincts deplorable, but for their

But even though both the Aus-offered to us by our waiter individual and collective bravery tralian and New Zealand pontin- private whose age was such that ington has not hesitated there was admiration so univergents included veterans, they are he was excused from the more. to use economic instru-sul and unrestrained that their mainly composed of young men active routine of camp life. My memory still is as dear to Lohdon nearly all of whom had had their hosts explained that in private ments in the form of as it is in the lands from which imaginations stirred by the glow-life the mess waiter was strictures on Japan and they came.

ing reminiscences of their fathers. employer and that during their They came to look for assistance to China. But

romance time of active service he was so Such was the dual legacy which and they found only the harsh Lupplementing their army pay the Japanese have be-a new generation of Anzac forces monotony of interminable train-that their incomes were the same

inherited from their fathers: to ing, the gruelling physical exer- as in peacetime. come convinced that live down the memory their cise that left them no exuberance America does not intend behaviour and to live up to the to use force, or even the imperishable record of the gal- threat of force, to sustain

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with which to torment civilian Now this sort of incident could populations, and discipline

that hardly happen in the New Zea- was not quite so lux as that which land contingent. If the Austral- their fabulous predecessors had ian view of the war is that it is the status quo in the States and Britain do not fully accepted the position; they social organism (minus its women) refused to endure. They cheer- merely a transference of the whole Pacific.

"groused" less than any troops 1 now propose to surrender have ever known.

from one spot to another, The Japanese, on the therefore becomes

the New Zealand view is essen- tant-

tially romantic. It would be no other hand, have made amount in the Japanese about the

There were no half measures exaggeration to say, for instance,

training. From the that many New Zealand units free use since 1931 of both mind to embracing the moment of arrival the two contin- particularly officers deliberately force and the threat of other alternative. What gents split up-the Australians seek collective discomfort.. that force as the chief instru- is regarded in the United New Zealanders to a camp out-only in that way can they per- the could easily be avoided because ments of policy. When States and in Britain as side Cairo-and each in its own suade themselves that they are these were resisted, as in an elementary act of self-traditions set out to learn the job

way and according to its own doing their bit. the case of China, there defence becomes for of desert fighting.

During desert manoeuvres läst, Those who live in different Spring they fought their first war. When they Japan an act of "provoca- hemispheres from these antipod-"action" with nothing but wooden

WHAT IT IS were not resisted, as in tion."

eans imagine them as neighbours. sticks, and bad they then been the case of French Indo-

But in fact more than 1,000, miles asked to go into: battle no man A clear definition by the of sea lie between these two among them would have had: China, there

THE FINEST was sur-American Government of national entities, whose habits, in- enough small, arms and ammuni render. It has become the

stincts and difference

inclinations differ tion to defend himself. Yet, hid- between widely.. axiomatic

Ing in scratched hollows on desert in Japanese "provocation" and self-

& SAFEST IN escarpments dug frantically by policy that these are the defence, and of the point quiet, shy and anxious to make a aimed across a gully behind which HONG

The New Zealand soldier is night, with their wooden sticks alternatives when the at which defence calls for what is called cultured. The Aus barbed wire, the New Zealand sol good. Impression. He Is usually were long strings of imaginary "new order" is under con- the use of force, would tralian, generous in intent, open diers were able to put as much sideration. The physical help to clear the air in in friendship, is almost exactly enthusiasm into their work as evidence that the United Tokyo,

the opposite.. The former believes might have been, expec that a modicum of discipline is well-equipped force.

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