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THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 16, 1941. ́

CHINA MAIL

WINDSOR HOUSE

"REPRISAL "

against

The Nazi fliers have fin- ally succeeded in hitting the monumental centres of British civilisation. They call this act a "rep- risal," and in one sense it! is. It is a reprisal, not for anything that the R.A.F. has so far done to Ger- man cities, but civilisation itself for dar- ing to exist. Britain is nearest and most defiant. She gets it first. Let those who believe in "compro- mise" be patient. This at- tack is directed at every nation and every individ- ual superior, in thought,| in deed, in hope, in faith, to the jealous tribe of bar- barians who have seized | Germany.

Britain is being pun- ished for having created, over many generations, the tradition of civil lib- erty: therefore the Com- mons Chamber of the Houses of Parliament is a military objective.

Britain is the mother of immortal dead, honour- ing her poets, her artists, her scientists, her philoso- phers more than her fight- ing men: therefore West- minster Abbey is a legiti- mate Nazi target.

The British Museum has housed the records of

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"He will find no peace, no rest, no halting place, no parley."— MR, CHURCHILL.

Nazi Theories

On Nordicism

The Nazi regime

all other

Germanen," throughout, "Ursprung der

endow all past civilisation, and Europe which has plunged

he, Party, would

the whole mil writes, "Nordic souls often may with the significance of a religion. shining among them the tons of simple men and women be combined with un-Nordic bod-To-day a new faith is awaken-

suffering has ies, and a decidedly un-Nordic ¦ ing," he declares, "the Myth of great souls of men who into suspense and

been built up on the fantastic soul may lurk in a purely good the Blood, the faith by which the helped set free the theories which makes the Ger-

Nordic body."

divine essence of man is defended The extent to which German through the Nordic the faith thoughts of all mankind:mans the superiors of

races,

racial ideas can go is to be found incorporated with the clearest in a Nazi world this can- The fact that these race theor-in a speech of Dr. Robert Ley, knowledge that the Nordic Blood not be tolerated.

ies have been the laughing stock opening the Brown House in the constitutes the Mystery which has of anthropologists and ethnolo- old market square in Cracow replaced and overcome the old These treasures are nogists from the beginning has "The higher the race, the greater | sacramen's."

its requirements

We Ger- Herr Hitler and his followers more exclusively British made no difference to Nazi pro-

pagandists. The reason for

this mans want to lead the world behave capitalised the German strain, than is the song of thelis obvious. These theories. like cause we deserve to be its lead- of loosely-defined mysticism, te, a blind faith fed on phrases re- nightingale, the love of those which Adolf Hitler's followers,"

ers have propounded 1}} other Then, take the remarks of 4garding Germany's mission in the parents for their children spheres, are merely means to an Nazi High Command leader to a world.

they gathering of Nazi instructors .it or sunset over the West-end to be abandoned once

have outlived their usefulness. Lodz: "The Czechs and Poles. ern Ocean. They belong to What is true of Nazi leadership every- all men of good will. They within Germany is true

where, as Hermann Rauschning belong to Americans,

wrote: "The secret of the union, people made up of almost of the elite is their lack of doc- trine. No allegiance to any sort every race on earth but

of philosophy brought member- the speaking an Anglo-Saxon ship of the actual ellte, but

simple fact of having 'fought for language, reading an

53 its power." Anglo-Saxon literature, deriving laws and institu- tions from Anglo-Saxon

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No "Pure Race"

By J. EMLYN WILLIAMS

are