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THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 16, 1941.

CHINA MAIL

WINDSOR HOUSE

SYRIA CONFLICT

Because all Germany's main energies are con- centrated against Russia,} the termination of the unhappy conflict in Syria will naturally attract less notice than would other- wise have been its due. Time alone will show whether the achievement of General Sir Henry

Maitland Wilson's forces has important con- sequences beyond the political sphere. Obvious- ly, the surrender of Gen- eral Dentz goes far to modify the strategic perit: to Suez arising from the; withdrawal from Crete,! an island which was con- sidered to be secure in ou hands. It appreciably re- duces the threat to Cyprus, for this time the advantage of near air bases will be with the de- fenders and not the at- tackers. It guarantecs the elimination of Syria as a threatening step- ping-stone to the Mosul. oil fields.

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French defence against restrained pressure lasted just over a month. The repercussions of the sur- render will be

felt articles by the distinguished they discussed ways of bringing tween Socialism and Commun- the Near French dramatist, Henry Bern- the war to an end immediately. isin. throughout

His career as a lawyer de- After the war of 1914 Paul Al-veloped. In 1921 he began to East, in Turkey, Pales-stein, exiled by the Vichy gov-

Hurd, journalist, published a draw closer to the moderate part- Trans-Jordan and On - tine,

October 9, 1934, King work entitled "Behind the Scenes ies;, he did it cleverly and soon Alexander I of Serbia, ally of the War, Revealed by the Soc- he was spoken of by them with the great desert to the and friend of France, andret Committees" (of the two great favour. He was minister

Barthou,

Minister south. Britain again has Louis

of houses of Parliament). This book for the first time in 1925. In Affairs in the cannot be found in France. The 1931 the President of the republic a solid front. The Arabs Foreign

were Doumergue Cabinet,

the shotbook-store editions were bought confided to M. Pierre Laval have clearly rejected the and killed by a Macedonian ter- up; the library coples were re-task of forming the Cabinet. The !ex-Socialist-fifteen years after Holy War the fanaticall catastrophe had begun..

It contains the report of his speech to the secret com“ Mufti of Jerusalem sought| The most important of all port-an extraordinary speech

made mittee- became Prime Minister in the secret and head of the Conservative+ to inflame, and both he folios is that of Foreign Affairs, by

and it was necessary to provide session of the Chamber of party.

on to Deputies

June 1, 1917. and the usurper Rashid immediately for a Ali el Gailani are fugi-Barthou. Several candidates were That was the period of danger- quired power he acquired a large,

Laval was ous mutinies in the army.

he

rorist. The era of violence and moved.

successor

Pierre suggested.

tives, repudiated by their chosen. It was learned that own people.

had the full support of Marshal Petain, Minister of War...

Who is this notorious Laval For the first time in this whom Marshal Petain, in 1934, earlier, made war the Germans have and perhaps even

his political associate? -been compelled to flee The man has always been from an area into which cloaked in mystery and he is not

well known, even in France.

X

Laval

By Henry Bernstein

Pierre Laval was born und grew holm.

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peace

At the same time that he ac

From fortune.

This is a brief but accurate sketch of the career of the min- ister backed by Marshai Petain to take charge of foreign affairs in October, 1934, that is, at a dark hour when internal strife and was disrupting the country when the German menace reap- peared on the border.

Marshal Petain has always

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they had penetrated. To-day Laval is fifty-eight

old. He has a distinctly the Speaker's stand he recom-spoken in the sharpest terms of Britain gains the inestim-years

alarming face and undeniable mended immediate

by French politicians, of their re- able gift of time, time to geniality. The calm and dignity threatening Parliament and

corruption. the cantations and their consolidate her future de- of his manner, the affability of country indirectly with a milltary And among them all the one he

his greeting have facilitated his uprising. In spite of his cautious chose as

Pierre a partner was fence of the Mosul oil career. He has been successful in phrases this appeal to defeatism Laval.

and social and revolt was interrupted sev- Mr. Laval was hardly a success fields, time to throw the arbitrating political small but efficient forces conct. He has sometimes ap-eral times by indignant protests in 1931 as President of the Coun-

peared to bẹ clairvoyant. The from the majority of the Assem-cil. He was considered a failure THESE FACTS MAKE

particularly in the field of foreign; which took Damascus to agreement drawn up at Stresa in bly.

1935 among England, France and Mr. Laval's apparent object affairs. So the Senate overtürn- other fronts where they Italy seemed to many sensible was to, obtain passports so that led his ministry as soon as Briand

It is are needed.

not people a guaranty against the French representatives could go who was a member of it, hád

rise of Nazism. This attempt to a "so-called" international con- died. likely the Nazis will quit failed, as have all the expansive ference, like that at Kienthal, Those who were ill-informed their struggle for Iraq's political schemes, of Layal. which was. to take place in Stock- were, therefore, surprised when Doumergue chose him in 1934 ps oil, but the short way is up in great poverty, which did

and now closed to them. The not crush him. He succeeded in To show Parliament the neces- Minister of Foreign Affairs,

French ex- still more surprised at the strong sity of letting the passing his examinations.for

the precious fluid that seemed law, and in 1911 he opened a concluding as quickly as possible Petain. At this time the govern

tremists go to Stockholm, and of support given him by Marshal almost in their grasp is small law office for workmen at a. peace with Gormany, Mr. Laval ment policy was strongly nation- snatched from their best Aubervillions, an industrial-cen- read to the Deputies an incredible alistic, and Doumergue, who had

tre near, Paris. He gave...........con- point of attack.

sultations for 2 francs, which, at report. This important and initiated ministerial broadcasts, that time, would be about 40 strictly secret report had been issued warnings of the Germant cents. His popularity, grew quick made by Generalissimo Petain to danger every week to the country The terms of the armisfy and, in 1914, he was elected the Minister of War. It had been at large. Already however, al- tice undoubtedly give the Deputy from the Seine. In the written two days before and dis- though the accusation was not

the openly cussed the day before at

made, people doubted Laval's firmness in regard to the British complete control Chamber of Deputies he sat

the extreme left of the Socialist Council of Ministers...

Generalissimo Petain had paint Nazis. ed a dark picture of the lack of In principle, he was to con-f discipline which was increasing in tinue the admirable work of his the ranks, and of the revolt of predecessor, Louis Barthou. With whole battalions.

the passage of years one secs

at

of the country. The road party (Communism had not yet to the conquest of Arabia been invented).

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and the road to India is The war broke out. Laval bo blocked. Most important came one of the two or three How did this ultra-confidential clearly that he set to work at HONG KONG * at the moment is that one "Kienthalians of the Chamber report of Gen, Fetain's get into once to destroy it

That was the name given to a the hands of Pierre Laval? No

prong of the Nazi pincers group of extreme pacifists whose one, save for Mr. Laval and, the reaching for Suez is delegates met the representatives person or persona, who gave it to

of the German Socialist party at him, has evor known, smashed.

Kienthal and Zimmerwald, Litle! After the French victory, Laval

Barthou, had planned an enclr-

clement of Germany which would have long delayed, if not pre-

vented," the vast Hitlerlan; do- (Continued on Pago.10).