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THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 2, 1941

CHINA MAIL

WINDSOR HOUSE

AMERICAN REACTIONS

The German invasion of Russia and the possi- ble appearance of Hitler's hordes on the Bering Sea is being watched with great anxiety in the United States. The attack renders more acute the dangers to the Western Hemisphere which Ameri- can strategists have al- ways feared. In event of a Hitler success, nothing is more likely than the en- try of Spain, active or pas- sive, on the Axis side which would put her Atlantic possessions at the disposal of the Nazis for the extension of the Battle of the Atlantic. With the increasing supineness of Vichy the offensive use of Dakar and Casablanca becomes

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another possibility. The physical threat to the United States looms larger.

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EVACUATION

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· STATIONARY OR VERY SLOW."

The Lesson Of The Occupied Countries

There is, too, the danger on the East and the pos- sibility that, should Hit- ler's gains become big enough, Japan would be encouraged to embroil herself in a piratical des- cent on the East Indies or upon the Maritime Pro-conduct of vinces of Siberia. The year before it had and a two-day a war,

Gestapo.

two days Recently, for

the, their heels and shouted "Heil.", Now the Dutch must impose the anti-Semitic regulations debated the The advantage of the latter system foul House of Commons

the war. Exactly is obvious in the earlier stages of brought across the frontier by the

but as war-weariness must surely be a the ability of the to ventilate its

debate on the same subject.

In grows there

handicap 0 each case the majority of the general public

grievances? speeches were critical.

But there

By Vernon Bartlett

order."

hated invaders.

officers came into a cafe all the Dutch ät neighbouring tables called for their checks and left. When the German authorities der creed that nobody must leave for a: quarter of an hour after the! arrival of a German soldier, all Dutch customers placed their watches on the table and left the moment the quarter of an hour had elapsed.