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THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 17, 1941.

CHINA MAIL

WINDSOR HOUSE

TOTAL OCCUPATION

Poland, which was the first state in Europe, to feel the crushing weight of the Nazi military machine, is also the first to undergo the painful process of induction into the new order in Europe. The Polish people have been the laboratory in which Germany tried out and perfected all its methods for dealing with subject peoples. The Ger- man-occupied area of Poland is therefore im- portant as an example of what these peoples have to expect from German domination. Though news from Poland is in frequent, and comes largely through round-

German all-out

“HE WHO SUPS WITH THE DEVIL."

Country In Peril

argument. With

about channels or half told and censored stories in the German press, total occupation, like total war, is beginning to take on a definite pattern. Осси- pation by the Nazis, like attack by the Army, is an affair. The former life of the conquered country is blotted out. In its place are ghettos for the Jews, concentration camps and forced labour for loyal

of interest is not clearly apparent to! Poles, and bribes for those FOR the Americas the decisive vaded is no longer a matter

has the all its people, the President phase of the war has begun academic who follow the Nazi lead with Marshal Petain's announce French government at Martinique wisely stood by his commitment Guadeloupe and French not to become a belligerent in a ment that France and the French and and turn against their colonial empire are to be put, re- Guiana the Axis now possesses an foreign war. But what confronts the Western Hemi-us now is not a foreign war, and fellows, while German gardless of what the French people outpost in

of sphere. Nor is it any longer a not a British war, and not, let us may think, at the disposal

What minorities are a favoured Hitler. The French empire extends question for academic argument still hope, any total war,

to whether the Axis can confronts us is a threat which race, apart from the rest. around the world from Martinique as

to North Africa Lo Syria to threaten the Americas with what bears more directly upon our own The every-day patterns Madagascar to Indo-China, It Mr. Hoover called the other night vital interests than upon those of)

When the Britain. For the defence of the of existence, the friendly occupies positions of the greatest "military aggression,"

importance in the Caribbean, in Axis is at Casablanca and Dakar, Western Hemisphere is first, last- relationships between in- the Atlantic Ocean, in the Mediter- the base for the aggression will and always an American problem the have been established, and with as even the blindest among us dividuals, the pride in ranean, in the Red Sea, in

to realise if they would! Indian Ocean, and in the Pacific.what is now inevitably bound to ought country and in tradition until

a year

ago the French follow as regards Spain and For- pause to consider how easily

collaborate are being ruthlessly des-

was a strong and active factor in the Atlantic, the question of the with Hitler troyed, and in their place the defence and the security of all defence of the Western Hemi-Latin-America, come the rule of force and the oceans and of the two Ameri- sphere is posed directly and imme-

cas which He in the midst of the diately. terror, the plot and coun-

Marshal Until

Petain oceans.

the Darlan - Hitler terplot which ends either accepted with bombing and revolt negotiations the on the one hand, or a fir- passive and neutral. ing squad on the other.

Now it is to be incorporated into The German newspapers the war-making machine of the tell of the construction of with the delivery of Syria as

Axis, beginning, it would appear, new buildings, theatres, base for the invasion of the Mos barracks for the German lem world. What is to be done in the Far East has already been these many months: French Indo-China is to be joined

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empire, with its strategic positions, tugal and their islands far out into British Petain could

at the expense of

was for the most

South

The United States is now in grave French empire peril. It is not the imaginary least peril, which our misguided isola-

part at

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Pacific Singapore,

By WALTER LIPPMANN

land war

in

We are, therefore, in great peril

with and we are faced

grave decisions upon which depends, not in some remote future time but now and immediately, the defence- of the Western Hemisphere. That the President realises this is evident from his statement which followed Marshal Petain's fateful' declaration. That he has realised what was in the making has been evident for some time from his refusal to be drawn into the rela- tively minor, and thoroughly con fused: argument about convogh from the fact that he proposes to make his next formal declaration. of polity in the presence of the diplomatic representatives of the

American republics.

occupation forces, post-prepared offices, roads, railroads, with Japan for the domination of draining of land, and the the establishment of "order" Malay, the Netherlands Indies, tlonists harp upon, of being invol Australia, and the Philippines. on the German pattern. What is to be done in the Atlantic ved in a bloody

What he has not fully realised; the strategic No matter how far they and in the Western Hemisphere Europe. It is the real peril of

in the being stripped of

of the has just been. disclosed

of, positions which are vital to our considering the gravity go in their methods of "Temps," the official organ.

our own defences and repression, however, the Vichy, when it speaks of "the defence. The peril is so real and situation, is how necessary it is to

the so actual that it seems inconceiv- fortify of geographical position" Germans are unlikely to French empire facing the con-able that the government will not strengthen the confidence of the Western Hemi-make it plain or that the people people by passing from business as

usual labour as usual, old incom do more than heighten tinents of the

can fail to realise it.

petent friends

as usual, and the feeling of racial con-

politics, as usual, to a state of fulk emergency. Whatever the actions

sphere."

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For with what has now develop

sciousness among the The Vichy surrender is describ-

ed by the German foreign ministryed the question before us is no required by the events, they will Poles. Tens of thousands Berlin as a blow to the United longer whether we shall engage be supported with confidence only of Poles have lived in exile States, It is a blow to the United ourselves a little more or a little if they are clearly explained and or died fighting for in-States. From the point of view of less in a semi-pahilanthropic, sen- only if the nation is convinced that the American republics It is by all timentally-idealistic crusade to aid the effort at home is equal to the dependence before the odds the most serious development Britain. The question before us it risks and the dangers which

question which confronted threaten it from abroad. World War, and the his- of the war. It is in fact the most the

serious threat to the independ-Jefferson before the Louisiana

confronted Monroe For what will unite the Ameri+ tory of repression in ence and security of the Western Purchase,

when Europe was planning to can people is not fine words, but oscurred: Hemisphere that has Europe has always been capoleon III invaded Mexico conquer Latin-America, confront a clear and indisputable realisd that eventually it brought on the eve of the Civil War. For ed Lincoln when Louis Napoleon tion of their own, vital interests. invaded Mexico. It is the plain And what will put an end to the bitter retribution to the by the action of the Vichy govern question of American security, of disputes, the delays, the confusion, country that practiced it. what Col. Lindbergh has been whether this hemisphere is to be and the indiscipline to the hesita For total occupation, like pleased to call an intra-European opened to the Axis powers and of tions of business men, the strikes.

war, is now "facing the continents how the independence of the of the workers, the shilly shally total warfare, is some-of the Western Hemisphere," American republics is to be deing with priorities, taxes, and thing which may win vic- Every French officer who adheres to Vichy, every French" diplomat tories, but it stirs up such who adheres to Vichy and every great hatreds that there gum ship and aeroplane they can is no way back for command is now under the orders

of the Axis: "nations who have once

The question of whether adopted it as a policy.western Hemisphere can be

ment Hitler, hitherto confined to

fended.

Until now there has been ground for argument as to how far the support of Britain is a vital inter-

inflation, and to the partisan politics, is. a declaration of emer gency-long overdue and fully warranted by the situation under which it will then be the pare

est of the United States, and on mount duty of every person to nut the sound principle that a the reinforcement, of American

nocracy must not engage itself power shoud of every other con completely where its own vithl sideration,

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