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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- to dispatch "token pean states forces" to the battlefield.

Swiftly the recruiting of "volun- trers" is under way (France, Spain, Portugal. Helfand, Bel- gium, Norway), new declarations of war against the Soviet were made (ifungary, Finland, Slovaki, as well as Rumania); and in other cuses rupture of diplomatic rela- tion with Moscow raid fo Germany wire amouneed (Den- monk, Sweden atal the 1,0w "Cren

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a programi Qime cooper tion. he v.1. he parad them mere they to Germany for future eventualbes

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Thus 13

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the final article of a He has driven out Parliament. [ The majority of the unf»rtun- series by the distinguished · He has suppressed all civil liber-ate French people see in the mar- French dramatist. Hearp Bern-ics. He has suppressed freedom shad an old man who, deep in his stern, rated by the Vichy goo- (of speech and of all expression. heart, sees and feels as they do,

Ho *rument, and now a resident of ¦

has imprisoned Daladier, who is for England, who hates Blum, Reynaud and Mandel, poli- ; the Germans. tical leaders whose uncritical col- ; This is A grave mistake. No Hitler wrote in "Mein Kampf"; laborator

had better proof could be found than or culleague he That the Kovernments. which been for years, and up to the last, a brief but remarkable manifesto capitulate "contrive to feel not at day of the war. He is keeping he published under his signature, all bad, since they not infrequent- in strict seclusion other import. It appeared in the September 15, ty are intrusted by the victors ant political men. According to 1940, issue of the "Revue des with the office of slave overseer, a new edict, he can keep prison-, Deux Mondes." which these chaturterless typesers shut un as long as he likes,

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any ahen beast trai adres of collaborationists! heartlessly than

the imposed by the enemy himself.”

The marshal has chosen 25 and to gamm acceptance of

Through the turgid and cum- "iligh Commissioner of Jewish whole of Hitlerism by means of

Vallat, a Fuehrer Affairs Xavier

man emphasis upon a single and tem- bersome style of

known for his cruelty and the porary part of that creed-war, there emerges a terrible truth.

The men of Vichy

only member of Parliament who ever advocated racial persecution That it was calculated also to Nazis by their enemies,

In the Chamber of Deputies. The impress the Russians by showing a mistake,

anti-Semitic law of Vichy is based against them a "world" arrayed

the them and thereby to create condition of fear, demoralisation and revolt in the Soviet may bej be taken for granted. It may designed also to play more strong- in ly upon elements of opinion

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

All of these elements probably enter into the Nazi scheme. But the central and most important purpose is to foist the Nazi revo- of lution off upon what is left Europe under the guise of "unit- ing" to destroy Communism, and so to weld stronger chains around the Continent the better to organ ise and to co-ordinate it for even- tual total assault upon the coun trics already thoughtfully brand-| ed as "Bolshevist allies."

are called That is Instead of insulting them whatever horror one may feel for Nazism - it is actually flattering them.

The Nazis are

gangsters, with the courage of gangsters. They fought for twenty years, risking establish a totali- their lives to tarian regime that is, national gangsterism. Their French Imita- tors are last season's liberals. Most of them middle-aged or old men who are trying to save their rank and their fortunes.

Before long they will probably try to save their skins.

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By Henry Bernstein

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The "Revue des Deux Mondes," the oldest of our magazines - It has been in existence 110 years and is addressed to serious conservative readers. Since the

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has circulation armistice, dropped to a very small number of copies, which is natural enough.

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details to giving these show that the article in question is not an act of propaganda, and that the marshal wrote it to sat- isfy his conscience. In order to stress this intention the author's name is printed on the cover in the same types as those of the other contributors, with the sim- ple designation, "of the French Academy."

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stands to-day that she was mis- Anti-Semitism has no rools in France, and never, I guided in trying to transplant to

institutions her country believe, has a conquered country methods which were not made for From this mediocre and igno-gone to such length. minious crowd only one powerful

her soil and her climate" Marshal Henri Philippe Petain

In other words, the marshal, the old has performed figure emerges, that ol

acts of an even with one stroke of the pen, wipes Petain.

more decisive character - turn-

out the whole history of When, on December 13, 1040, ing over to Hitler German poli- country since the French Revolu- the marshal parted with M. Laval, tical refugees, and to his good tion. Or,

more accurately, het I was unable to rejoice with many friend Franco Spanish political credits a foreign nation with-äll, important people here who seem refugees, that they may be tor- the achievements and develop- ed to be well pleased. Marshal tured and killed.

ments of the last 150 years." Petain had merely estimated that The German victims have been

was on flung to their In short, the whole manoeuvre, M. Laval's unpopularity

executioners by

The Rights of Man? The is a monumental and transparent the point of being extended to virtue of the most dishonourable

to him. And immediately, in accord-armistice clause which was ever Emancipation of the people? An trick, contrived not so much

An importation the defeat Russia a merely inciden-ance with his usual method, he signed. But Spain did not con- importation,

quer France, and no such contract harvest of our marvellous nine- tal by-product if it is achieved-broke his man of confidence.

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- Idndness of heart that Marshal the immense contribution of our THE FINEST 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 According to the most definite for the Ust of French treasures frightened, leader here or a be- Petain. .wildered group there. But peoples What adds to the extraordinary information, these measures were which Marshal, Petain rojects & SAFEST ÎN 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

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

character and his most profound tempt., for the government of colonial empire was built. new pretensions of Hitler as der beliefs. But since the defent, Vichy and believe that some day Marshal Petain's phrase, quoted fender of Europa" forge their which made him a political lead their own law in all its purity above, concludes: homelands into auxiliary er, Petain has deliberately lifted will rule France, whether it is

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

or by a Gauleiter,

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