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THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 21, 1941.

CHINA MAIL

-WINDSOR HOUSE

HITLER'S "CRUSADE"

The political aspects of Ger- many's campaign against Russia merit close attention. Less than a week after launching its aggres- sion, Berlin requested other Euro- pean states to dispatch "token forces" to the battlefield.

Swiftly the recruiting of "volun- teers" is under way (France, Spain, Portugal, Holland, Bel- glum, Norway); new declarations of war against the Soviet were made (Hungary, Finland, Slovakia, as well as Rumania); and in other cases rupture of diplomatic rela- tions with Moscow or ald for Germany were announced (Den- mmk, Sweden and the new “Cron- tra").

Obviously the Reich does not expect actual military assistance from these conquered or indepen- dent countries. The Nazis have suffered no crippling losses iti eur- lier campaigns and do not require man power. Such units as other territories or nations send can be absorbed only with great diffleul- ty into The precise German machine. AL very best these "oken forces" can do no more than serve as police in some oc- cupied areas, thereby releasing Some Nazi reserves, And it is unlikely that Berlin would trust them even as pofie in any but a few chosen unterlands.

But if it is plain that Germany has no need of such "allies" 111 the field of combat, it is equally plam that she desires ostenta tiously to rally them to her new "erenade" to "save Europe.“ The

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many has created whurt it believer is an unrivalled opper unity translate a thus far static "new order" of Reich-conquered 111 Re:ch-dominated states inta dynamic new order, bound by a common cause against a common enemy and by theoretical ties of "sacrifice in bloud." The collabor- ation of Germany's satellites has hitherto been of a passive, opp tunistic kind. If Hitler can now

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Capitulation Of The Spirit

enlist them under his baner This is the final article of a He has driven out Parliament. { The majority of the unfortun-

2 programme of active coopera

tion, he will, he reasons, bund them mo closely to Germany

for future eventualities.

It needs no great imagination to see the shrewdness of his plan and the advantages he hopes gain.

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series by E/LC' distinguished He has suppressed all civil liber-ate French people see in the mar- French dramatist, Henry Bern- ties. He has suppressed freedom shal an old man who, deep in his stein, carted by the Vichy gov-|of speech and of all expression, heart, sees and feels as they do, crament, and now a resident of He has imprisoned Daladier, who is for England, who hates America.

Blum, Reynaud and Mandel, poli- the Germans. tical leaders whose uncritical cal- This is a grave mistake. No Hitler wrote in "Mein Kampf"; laborator tu

or colleague he had better proof could be found than that the governments There is an old and a wide capitulate "contrive to feel not at day of the

which 'been for years, and up to the last a brief but remarkable manifesto war. He is keeping he published under his signature.. Spread fear and hatred of Com all bad, since they not infrequent-in strict seclusion other import-It appeared in the September 15, munism in Europe. Trading upon ly are intrusted by the victors ant political men. According to 1940, issue that, Germany thinks to mobilise with the office of slave overseer, a new edict, he can keep prison- Deux Mondes." behind itself previously reluctant which these characterless types ers shut up as long as he likes,

and masses of then exercise over their governments

own without trial.

The "Revue des Deux Mondes," to nation at that, generally more people in a dozen countries,

the oldest of our magazines -- it of collaborationists! heartlessly than any alien beast train cadres

hus been in existence 110 years the imposed by the enemy himself." The

chosen marshal has

- is addressed as

and to serious and to gain acceptance of

Through the turgid and cum- |"High Commissioner of Jewish conservative readers. whole of Hitlerism by means of!

Since the Xavier the Fuehrer | Affairs"

Vallat, a man armistice, its circulation has emphasis upon a single and tem- bersome style of

known for his cruelty and the dropped to a very small number porary part of that creed-war; there emerges a terrible truth.

The men of Vichy are called only member of Parliament who of copies, which is natural enough. on Stalinisın.

That is ever advocated racial persecution

giving these details to That it was culculated also to Nazis by their enemies.

Instead of insulting in the Chamber of Deputies. The show that the article in question impress the Russians by showing mistake.

them whatever horror one may unti-Semitic law of Vichy is based is not an act of propaganda and, them a "world" arrayed against

that the marshal wrote it to sat- feel for Nazism - it is actually

isfy his conscience. In order to them and thereby to create

flattering them.

stress this intention the author's condition of fear, demoralisation

be

name is printed on the cover in and revolt in the Soviet may

the same types as those of the be taken for granted. It may

other contributors, with the sim- designed also to play more strong-

ple designation, "of the French ly upon elements of opinion in

Academy." Britain and America. It is al ready being used in trying to ob- tain sympathy in Latin America, through Spanish influence.

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When, on December 13,

By Henry Bernstein

I am

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The Nazis are

gangsters, with the courage of gangsters.

They fought for twenty years, risking their lives to establish a totali- tarian regime — that is, national gangsterism. Their French imita-

The marshal writes: tors are last season's liberals. Most

"Liberalism, capitalism, collec- of them middle-aged or old men

tivism are imported products who are trying to save their rank | and All of these clements probably they will probably

their fortunes. Before long on that of Nuremberg and is om- which France, restored to herself

naturally rejects.

under- try to suve cially stamped with the name of enter into the Nazi scheme. But, their skins.

Adolf Hitler, Anti-Semitism has stands to-day that she was mis- the central and most important]

no roots in France, and never, I guided in trying to transplant to belleve, has a conquered country methods which were not made for her country Institutions and purpose is to folst the Nazi revo-

From this mediocre and igno- gone to such length. lution off upon what is left

her soll and, her climate" Europe under the guise of "unit-minious crowd only one powerful

Marshal Henri Philippe Petain figure emerges, that of the old

In other words, the marshal, ing" to destroy Communism, and Petain.

has performed acts of an even with one stroke of the pen, wipes more decisive character - turn- so to weld stronger chains around.

out the whole history of the Continent the better to organ- the marshal parted with M. Laval, tical refugees, and to his good tion. Or, more accurately he

1040, ing over to Hitler German poli- country since the French Revolu ise and to co-ordinate it for even I was unable to rejoice with many friend Franco Spanish political credits a foreign nation with all tual total assault upon the coun- important people here who seem-refugees, that they may be tor- the achievements and develop- tries already thoughtfully brand-ed to be well pleased. Marshal tured and killed. ed as. "Bolshevist allies."

Pétain had, merely estimated that The German victims have been ments of the last 150 years. In short, the whole manoeuvre M. Laval's unpopularity was on flung to their executioners by is a monumental and transparent the point of being extended to virtue of the most dishonourable The Rights' of Man? trick, contrived not so much to him. And immediately, in accord- armistice clause which was ever. Emancipation of the people? An defeat Russia a merely inciden-ance with his usual method, he signed. But Spain did not con- Importation. An importation the tal by-product if it is achieved broke his man of confidence. quer France, and no such contract harvest of our marvellous nine- The old gentleman doubtless exists between the two countries.teenth-century; political and social but to fit other nations more firm- ly and helplessly into the Nazi acted with the approbation, whe- It is, therefore, purely out of reforms, scientific discoveries and ther silent or affirmed, of Ger- kindness of heart that Marshal the immense contribution of our system. It may, in some shatter-

many, whose desire and obvious Petain has made a gift to Gen. arts literature, music, paint- ed, confused countries, blind

interest it is to build up Marshal Franco of his political enemies. ing, sculpture. I will not go on, frightened leader here or a be- Potain.

According to the most definite for the list of Froach treasures wildered group there. But peoples What adds to the extraordinary information, these measures were which Marshal Petain rejects who have had some experience of personality of the marshal is the all taken spontaneously and not, would be too long. I will only independence and democratic mystery which he has managed under pressure from the Nazis, mention that It is also in the

century modes of thought will not let the to maintain in regard to his real The latter have complete con- nineteenth

of colonial empire was built. new pretensions of Hitler as "de- character and his most profound tempt for the government

beliefs. But since the defeat, Vichy and believe that some day Marshal Petain's phrase, quoted fender, of Europe" forgo their

which made him a political lead their own law in all its purity above, concludes: homelands into the auxiliary er; Petain has deliberately lifted will rule France, whether it is.

and when she (France), weapons of a tyranny bent upon the vell which concealed his un- governed by a puppet government comes to examine the principles. world dominion.

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