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THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 2, 1941

CHINA MAIL

WINDSOR HOUSE B

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

GOV'T

OBSERVATORY

Yestes

"

EVACUATION

FUSS

STATIONARY OR VERY SLOW."

The Lesson Of The

Occupied Countries

Recently, for

two

days the, their heels and

as

shouted "Heil.", Now the Dutch must impose the anti-Semitic regulations House of Commons. debated the The advantage of the latter system foul conduct of the war. Exactly a is obvious in the earlier stages of brought across the frontier by the year before it had and a two-day debate on the same subject.

In each case the majority of the speeches were critical.

a war, but grows there handicap in general public grievances?

war-weariness Gestapo. must surely be a the ability of the to ventilate its

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- vinces of Siberia. The American reaction to the

In the seventeenth century books of every kind were printed Russo-Japanese pact has

in Holland because there could be been shrewd and scepti-

found a freedom of expression there which was denied in 'neigh- cal. It is this kind of

But there was this all-impor- And how much the ordinary

bouring states. Now there is that humble little man will have to broad consideration that tant difference.

of thought horrible persecution A year ago,

do with the winning of the war which must sooner or later lead led President Roosevelt to members wanted the Prime Min- is illustrated by the history of

to the collapse of Hitler's "new states Mr. Chamberlain-:o go; the slave

in the twelve declare so sombrely the ister

have elapsed since every mernber wants the months that other day that the Ameri- Prime Minister Mr. Churchill the first "neutrals", Denmark and

There is a certain Norway, were invaded because, can public does not yet to stay!

amount of disquiet, as is inevitable, they were geographically a nui- appreciate the extreme because the war faces us every sance to Hitler. seriousness of the war day with new problems and there

now

must be a time-lag between their appearance and their solution. In

government

barriers

and its implications con-

Take, for example, the case of cerning life in the United foreign policy there is a reluctance the Dutch. I choose them because to adopt ruthless methods, and to in so many ways they had points States. At the same time coordinate diplomacy with pro- in common with the Germans and American commentators paganda. In home policy there is a reluctance to break down the are almost unanimous in barriers between Local and reporting that the people national are ripe for a new deci- similar on their smaller scale to those which exist in the United sive exercise of leader- States between state and federal legislatures, and which so hamper- ship. The recent set- ed the war against, the earlier and backs to Britain in the lesser gangsters of Chicago, Mediterranean have be- wildered them. They are But

а few hours before we.. mct in the House of

angry at the Nazi ad- commons, the Nazi deputies had

vances; they want Ameri-

By Vernon Bartlett

.

order."

And these quiet sober-minded Dutch, like the people in all the other slave states, are developing the spirit of revolt. Probably you know--but possibly you do not- of the various ruses adopted to remind the Germans that they are hated invaders. When German officers came into a cafe all the Dutch at neighbouring tables called for their checks and left. When the German authorities de- 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.

Years ago the Nazis in Austria made ridiculous the ban on uni- forms imposed by the govern

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met in the Reichstag. We criticised, with moderation and probably can aid to be more prompt with effect; the Nazis clicked because Nazi leaders had always stockings. The Dutch learned the and sure, but they are

referred to them as fellow Nordics, lesson and are angering their mas- worthy to be treated more or less ters by wearing flowers or rib- also rather more open to

as equals. Even after, the invasion bons which are in some way..re isolationist and appease-situation on the Russian and the ruthless, unforgettable miniscent of the House of Orange ment influence. Any set- front is difficult to assess bombardment of Rotterdam, Hol- and their exiled Queen.

land was promised. that her cus- back to Britain is food for with certainty, but that is toms and institutions would be the Lindberghs and favourable in itself inas-respected. But within a few Mr. Eden tells of two British months her. Parliament was closed prisoners of war who escaped Wheelers, who are always much as it demonstrates down, the country was so denuded from East Prussia through Poland, saying that the battle is clearly that Germany is of its great wealth that Amster Hungary and Yugoslavia: to dam bas had to go back to horse- Greece. They could speak no already won and all that not by any means having drawn tramcars a rigid curfew word of any language but Eng

everywhere they remains is to retire be- things all her own way, was imposed between, 10 p.m. and lish and yet on their way as

4 a.m., and in many other ways were helped- hind American barriers. In any case, there is no the slavery has become obvious friends. Mr. Churchill has pro- raised besides blood, sweat, toil But again the commen- reason for the United and obnoxious.”

and tears "our fair share of mis- tators agree that the Pre- States to mark time. For

takes, shortcomings and dis- Almost more, hated than the appointment!" We know that sident, with his immense her, as for us, the respite physical restrictions are the some neutral governments, if not, sagacity, will at the pro- in the Western Theatre, restrictions on freedom of the ex-neutral peoples have succumbed per time resolve latent is no time for sitting back pression of thought. There had to the doubts and disquiets and on our heels in contem-been no religious or racial ine on the side with the big battalions HONG KONG canalise the mass feeling plative study. It should Spaniards were driven out in never sought to disguise unple

after a struggle by the sont truths, commands support of Americans in decisive serve as an inspiration to people against military might in Parliament and in the country action.

press our own efforts to which has few parallels in his- such as Hitler himself will never tory, but may find another parallel win by falso promises and At the moment, the the limit of our resources. when Nazi rula begins to crack misleading lies,

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