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THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 4, 1941,

CHINA MAIL

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WINDSOR HOUSE

THE MYTH

If we peer into the cloudy back-. ground of to-day's events we see a people no, not a people, but

undetermined fraction of al people which has, first, pro- claimed its superiority' to all other proples, and, second, has sel ent

To impose its will upon them. What is there about the Germans,

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about the ruling Nuzi fracʻio11

them, that mukes then take

nch a perilog and make such ana

attempt!

The question may be arked in all calmness One would realiy

like to know the answer 10 F

hot contained in history. when

tells ነፍ that the Greeks. the

Halians. The Fuench. The Dutch,

the Spanish, the Portuguese and,

The British have more often shown

qualities of leadership than have

the tribes of the Central European

plants It is not to be deduend: from a study of races, for the nhabitants of pre-war Germany

were of Buxed blood, and no basIS |

can be found for the belief that)

they were "Aryans." or that an Aryan race has ever existed.

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VIEW FROM INDO-CHINA

Hitler Slowed Up

Why, then, this particufar oud burst? Its immediate causes may possibly be found in overcompen-

At the end of six weeks of the and division in Britain and the presumption of the North African sation for a feeling of inferiority. greatest military campagn 11 United States, lessen the likelihood foffensive, should be facilitated.

history, with the German Panzer of our intervention and perhaps (6) It Russia is defeated and Until about two generations ag divisions deep in Russia, the pave the way for a negotiated a secure base of supplies obtain- the GermHRUN were not a unitedivaning and the consequences of peace. The Hess flight may in ed, Germany can commence her the Nazi attack upon the Soviet some way be connected with this fattempt to organise Europe and people As a result they often

Union assume greater and great- ideological plan. had to endure the same kind offer significance.

unhappitress that they are now

An Eaşier Campaign

she can mobilise her full strength to turn it against Britain. Hitler could then offer Britain a nego- linted peace-on his terms

all-out launch an

assault, or continue indefinitely the present war of attrition..

Red Army First “Objective'

The reasons for the Nazi as- sault upon Russia, with the chan- inflicting

to-day's small!ees and the losses that any huge 112013

(3) A successful Russian cam- campaign necessarily imply, are nations. Once united, they set out,

paign was probably considered to of fundamental importance to

be more feasible in a military with much fervour to create in the future course of the war and

sense than successful assault to the understanding of what 1 dustrial,

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upon Britain, Preceding the at- COMBICreial

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German victory may mean. Why lack upon Russia there is said to tary strength. Their undoubled did Hitler, already dominant over have been Some disagreement mitet of the comment of Europe about the next military step be- delnevements went to their heads.

It is important to remember and engaged with the British Em-tween leaders of the Nazi party--that Hitler has one primary ob- pire it mortal combat in which Her probably not included jective in Russia-ünnihilation of fr had won nearly all the victor-and the German Army, with the the Red Army. If he succeeds in tes, uddenly divert his nuun

party favouring action against that, territory will automatically be at ributed Press to a real sense effort to an entirely new antagon Britain. The struggle between full into his hands. of supertorily than to a morbit¦ inler clearly precipitated the

themselves struggle; Stuli, obviously. Convince

willing to make nearly any COLA- that they are at least as good as cession to avoid war, The choir

other people.

In 1918 they were agajn humihat

Their present insurgence can

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passion to

In military striking power they have proved that they are not only as good as any land army

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yet brought against them, but:

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was

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a free chater, not one dictated by the stern rules of economie ntees- sity.

Question Of Supplies

which are now cut off.

Russia?

By Hanson W. Baldwin

won.

How far he has gone toward that goal, it is still, impossible to assess accurately. There seems little doubt that the Germans won a victory in the Bialystok- Minsk area in the first days of war, that the area west of the | Volga-perhaps the limit of Ger- an territorial ambitions-is nów threatened. But there is as yet no evidence that the Russian-

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Himmler and the army generals Army has suffered irreparable Hitler's campaigns in the Bal- for control of the militarised Įlosses. better. But what is the origin of kans were so swift that a mini-Schutztaffel and, in part, of Ger- For these incomplete accom-

mum of economic dislocation was man policy is also reflected by plishments

the Germans have this momentary superiority? It is caused; the Spanish wheat crop the invasion. It is a struggle paid considerably. There is, of not in courage, which all their this year promises to be extraor-which the army scens to have course, no accurate way of estim

dinarily good; there are leaks In

mating their casualties and mater- enemies have displayed. It is not the British blockade; in the Near (4) Against the possibility of ial losses as compared to

the in intellect, for the instruments of East she was almost within reach

a long war caused by United Russian, for it seems certain that of the oil, wheat, cotton and food-States intervention or protracted neither side has announced its stuffs of the Levant and Egypt, British endurance, Hitler decided complete Josses. On July 13, nearly all invented and perfected and above all thousands of tons to complete his organisation of after two weeks of fighting, the THESE FACTS

of supplies were cuming every

the "New Europe," of which he Red Army officially admitted the either in Britain or in the United year into Germany from Russia, has boasted, by eliminating the "loss" of 250,000 men and claim- It is not in organising or via Russian transport-supplies Red Army as threat to his rear, ed the Germans had lost, "at least" States. ability, as any one may see who Why, then, did Hitler go into by scizing the Ukraine, which he 1,000,000. The Germans,

has always coveted, thus extend-giving no figures for their own studies the British Commonwealth

There is a nexus of reasons of ing, his conquests to the Caucasus losses, claimed on July 11,

and perhaps seizing, control of the capture up until then of more of Nations or the peacetime in- both immediate and long-range Trans-Siberian Railroad, By so than 400,000 prisoners. Both sides

importance: dustries of the. United States. It

doing, he would obtain, a... rich claimed the destruction or capture (1) Hitler probably recognised, base of supplies immune from of enormous quantities of the is simply that for about nine as the writings of "Mein Kampf British assault, which, if it could enemy's 'planes, tanks, guns and

eventual be exploited, might not only ex material. years Nazi Germany has devoted clearly show, that an

showdown with Russia was inevi her entire energy, above the bare table. Ever since the war start tend the military endurance of needs of subsistence, to the manu-ed, at least fifty to seventy. Ger Germany, indefinitely and make man divisions have been main her practically invulnerable to facture of war. To be a superior tained along Germany's eastern blockade, but would also provide frontiers to guard that flanks at Russian expense-required for Germany with those supplies.. race, if that were ever possible, while the Reich, was engaged in the proper economic organisation Germans win decisively in Russia the Nazis would need a ten- other campaigns. Even during the of the "New Europe' This latter in another month or two, there Battle of Britain last Autumn, the point cannot be too much stress- thousand-year start. They had, Nazis were unable to go com- ed, for Hitler's dream is not only will have to be a period of rear- in fact, a six-year start,

pletely "all-out in the air be conquest, but organisation of these ganisation before they are ready cause perhaps one-fourth to one- What is the conclusion? We third of their air force was neu-conquests into the kind of world to start another major effort... The ing of troops, replacement of los- are not dealing with a race that tralised in the East, guarding he has so clearly envisaged in length of time required for shift-

"Mein Kampf.” against the possibility of a sur

ses, reorganisation of the air either inferior or superior. Wel

(5) If the Russian Army is de- forces, etc., will depend upon the Preprise attack from the Russian col- are dealing with a part of the ossus. Elimination of these forces cisively beaten and the Ukraine severity of the losses, but it seems would free. the German strength. Caucasus aren comes under Ger- likely that it will be Spring (un- population, of subdivision of (2) By his attack upon Com- man domination, conquest of the less the Russian armies survive Europe which has gone tempor- munist Russia physically and com- Near East and the Mediterranean the Winter) before Hitler is ready!

munism; ideologically, Hitler 'hop-area by a drive through Iran and to unleash his full strength again arly insane,

ed to spread ideological confusion Iraq, complemented by a strong in another campaign elsewhere,

Problem Of Reorganisation

This means that, even if the

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