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Britain's Lifeline

World slanging match

up to date

will have noticed.

November 15: President

Roose-

THE world is not at war protects uninst

there is a perpetual world the Angriff article. war of words these days, you veit speaks at a Press conference on the plight of the Jews in Germany-

"The news of the past few days- Here is a list of quotations taken) from statements, and speeches by from Germany has deeply shocked. world icaders

the past publle opinton in the United States. during twelve months. In perspective they I myself could scarcely believe that оссие in twentieth- could show a remarkable Increase in fre- such

such things century civilisation." quency and frankness:

Irsi 12. 1038: Article February

November 30: Count Clano makes oftetaily opproved Italian news-a speech In the Chamber of Deputies paper 11 Regime Fascista: "The declaring that the Italian Govern- tenalon between Great Britain and ment's policy would be based on the Italy is far more neute than is gener-protection of Italian interest and the nily supposed. Our opinion will not "natural aspirations" of the Italian change inti! London's foreign polley people.

The speech is greeted with shouts ccases to be directed by Mr. Eden.

December 0: The Lokalanzelger

In many speeches and on many occa from the deputies of "Tunisia" anti

tons he has shown his poisonous at- "Corsica." titude of mind towards Italy..

February 20: Mr. Eden resins, September speaks in

t

comments on Lord Baldwin's broad- ast appent on behalf of Jewish res "The

speech is the limit of men-

28: Dr. Goebbels cast b the Lustgarten, Berlin: fugees is a shameless provocation on the

part of Benes to plunge Europe inte daelous humanitarian hypocrisy...

n bloudy conflict. He places his His speech is a 100 per cent, expres- trust in Moscow or in the war- sion of Anglo-Saxon cant. Anglo- Saxco political insincerity, Anglo- Saxon exploitation of the lachryma- tory gland and Anglo-Saxon gutter

Feibel

and that he should not medule with our

EADERS MAY

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THE "Middle Sena" to Bri-mongers of Paris or London,

a lifeline, "Alone, he would never dare." tain means other

October Dr. Benes resigns, November

humanity. Herschel 7: bristling batteries of guns vitul marine communications.

must ask of Lord Baldwin that command the approach To France it means a piece of Grunszpan shoots Ernst vom

alfairs like a futtersnipe."

December 13 Mr. Chamberlain to Tunisia from the north- water across which she must third secretary at the German Em-

bring black troops from Africa, bassy in Paris.

November 8: Dr. Goebbels'a east.

hundreds and hundreds of thou-

paper, the Angriff, published photo- speaks at the Foreign Presa Asso- Churchill, Duff Cooper and ciation dinner: "I must deplore the sands of them.

Graphs of Now, Mussolini is a former Attlee grouped with pletures of recent attitude of the German Press. Jewish assassins, such as Grynsdal which, in one case, has not scrupled journalist-he a fellow-Je Was

and David Frankfurter, who shot Dr. to pour out its vituperation against What! you exclaim: fires in reporter of mine at the Cannes Gustic, leader of the German Nazis our most respected statesman, him- Africa? Of course there are: Conference and I feel sure he in Switzerland, in 1936. The states-elt only recently the Prime Minister shown much desire to understand Africa, you know, is just a cold sees the Mediterranean not only men were shown as "the men who of this country and in few cases has country with a hot sun.

in terms of shrunken geography provoked others to murder."

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is we do not know about the "Middle of the Earth," or the Middle Sen,

but in vivid pictures.

History, history, history; half

on

comparison we must return

more

By contemporary European standards the programme which

December 18: Mr. Harold Ickes, the Military Affairs Committee

Well, we began to talk of

U.S. Minister of the Interior, speaks

totalitarionism: "To seek a true of the U.S. House of Representa- the Mediterranean scene, this

to a perlod when man was unlettered, tives yesterday approved to strange and dangerous sen which the history of the world around stopped off at Malta long enough

was once most undoubtedly the tnose shores on which the tide to capture the island. com-

cradle of civilisation, and I be scarcely moves...

Then came Nelson, the end of benighted and bestial. Certain sec-

flons Congress for defence is

of Europe to-day make it pos Let us go back, back to the the Egyptian campaign, the sible for anthropologists to study gan to realise what a lot there paratively modest. The Com- mittee has approved President

beginning of things. Hundreds Battle of Trafalgar, and a long primitive man without a reconstruc- of thousands of years ago, what era of peace in the Mediter-tion of the social order on the basis Roosevelt's request for a total

we to-day call the Mediterranean ranean. My space is running of a human jawbone or a few im- was a marshy awamp, with huge out. Let us give the kaleido- plements used long ago. The intelli- humans How Big is the Sahara? tracts of forest land. Here scope a quick turn round. Here sence and culture of

people has been sunk tracelessly In appropriation, over and above the ordinary defence budget, of

WE unrolled a map and prehistoric man dwelt with the are the Moors, crossing the sen the thick darkness of pre-primitive to subdue Spain. Another twist: times. Witchcraft has been entkron- £105,000,000, of which £42,000,-

began to check up dis wild beasts. tances; how noar is this to that; Scientists tell us that these here are the Moors going backed, and modern dictators have sel 000 is to be expended by the

What is how far from shore to shore. men were veritable giants, and to Spain, but this time as hired themselves up as high priests of a middle of next year.

Then we realised that in these strong, like the Biblical Goliath. mercenaries to fight for Franco. cruel If more refined voodoo- December 31: The official Nazi chiefly noteworthy about this days of long-range guns, swift They hunted the animals for

paper, Voelkischer Beobachter, pays: while Mr. expenditure is not the amount sen or land 'planes, wireless their meat and their skins. Life They've Tried to Rule It

"It is only too obvious that these PERHAPS, silent-moving continued thus until Mother

invectives by leading continuat but the object, which is to im-telegraphy, and

Chamberlain stays in Americans must be attributed to submarines, distance was, in Nature took a hand, prove the effectiveness of the

terms of naval warfare, almost Look for a moment at the the Eternal City he will remem- Jewish pressure which has for a long left-hand corner of the map of ber the dangerous things that time been strangling the freedom of United States defences in meet eliminated.

To say that the area of this the Mediterranean. You will have happened in the place decision of the present Washington

regime." place is so many thousands of notice how close Africa is to which cradled the civilisation

January 2, 1930: Daladier visits" Corsica and is handed ♫ Corsican square miles means very little; Europe here. So near is it that we know.

Pirates and merchantmen vendetta dagger by the deputy mayor recalled, recently reminded Con- nothing but many figures. Now I have stood in Algeciras and

look at geography from another with the naked eye, seen the fought, but the sea was made of Ajaccio. He dourishes it, making gress that it was 14 months

January President Roosovelt angle and you will find how mosques and gleaming white safe again for commerce. Turks a gesture of cutting a

and Spaniards have ruled the

Congress: comparative after the entry of America înto staggering

aize houses of Tangier.

speaks

no more than other nations, can may be.

Then there came the day, Mediterranean, and also those was at the opening of war 'before she was

afford to be surrounded by the Ask yourself this question: countless centuries ago, when old Romans,

faith and of our Men have come down from enemies of our ready to take part in a major "How big is the Sahara?" You the barrier which kept the

the the North to cross into Africa hummity. We cannot safely be in- different to international lawlessness Hanoi-Kunming-Chungking-Chengtu Line

engagement. Thanks to the know it is "very big," but did Atlantic Ocean out of from Hanoi to Kunming

5: German omeini news rapid development more especi- you know that it is bigger than swampy land where prehistoric and try to rule it, and twice anywhere."

Europe?

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comments on President Every Sun.. Wed. & Fri. from Kunming to Chungking

Down towards the south of and the waters rushed in. That era shores. Three continents-agency

speech; "Roosevelt's Evory Wed. G Fri. .... from Chungking to Chongtu and return ally of the air weapon, no such

respite for preparation could be the Sahara is Lake Tehad. It is how the Mediterranean be- Europe, Africa, and Asia-meet Roosevelt's

accusations against Nazi Germany Every Mon., Wed, & Fri, from Chungking to Kunming

and Fascist Italy, even in the mouth counted on in a future war. In does not look very large on the came a sca, a very dangerous on the Mediterranean. Every Wod. & Fri..... from Kunming to Hanol

Its possibilities for peace or of a head of the State, did not change this new situation the existing map and is close to that queer- sea.

character 08 exceptionally Of course, there were moun- war are great, but let us see to their Kunming-Chengtu-Sian-Lanchow

defence forces of the Unitedly named place Timbuctoo.

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Those mountains are there to- of the civilisation we know. doubl Do you know, have you reason on insistence for imme-

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Didn't you know they were that this lake is approximately

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Only very recently and with difficulty has it been brought home to the people of Great Bri- tain that modern conditions have shattered their age-long geographical Immunity from at- tack. From being one of the least vulnerable islands Great Britain has become in, the course of a few years one of the most vul nerable countries in the world. The United States, though good deal farther away from probable centres of aggression, is no longer so far away that she can continue to

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presume

throat.

tains high enough to keep their it that this "Middle Sea" is not stupid and dirty untruths,"

To be, as the serials reassuringly

Island Stronghold OTHER Mediterranean is-

lands may be volcanic,

a motor-boat service ncross the thrown up long after the Atlan tic rushed in. One such Island lake next Sunday.

has recently come into the

Previously, travellers had to

reach Timbuctoo.

The

go through British Nigeria to news. I mean the island of new Pantellaria, an Italian strong- hold, a few minutes' flying from of bristling batteries Just another proof of what those

route is "all French."

Mr. Chamberlain found in Paris French guns I mentioned earlier. What pages of momentous this week: that our neighbours have suddenly become Empire- history!

conscious.

em-

Try to imagine a day when Mr. Chamberlain is in Rome, Napoleon Bonaparte was upon the protection of distance actually 16 miles from the barking at Toulon for Egypt. alone. Such Is the expanding Mediterranean. The port of The "Little Corporal" was in an range, speed and capacity of the Ostria is the nearest to Rome, evil mood. The Government We in England regard the had wished him to invade Eng- aeroplane that if she is not yet

Mediterranean 18 a pleasant land, and as this was not con- accessible to the bomber to-day place for cruising, sun bathing, sidered feasible Napoleon had she may be to-morrow. She or whance to escape the rigours decided to seize Egypt as a finds herself faced as never be of our winter. Even If the jumping-off ground for the in- foro with the risk of attack Premier was not conscious of it, vasion of India.

Napoleon was moody becausO from other continents. Concur.Signor Mussolini would quickly rently with the vast increase in call attention to the one big Nelson was in the Mediter- Mediterrancan problem, as Italy rancan, and it was not anfe; also the means of attack has grown

his wife would' not accompany seca it. the disposition to use them.

The Duce once said that Italy him to Egypt; also there was a Technical and political con must regard herself as an island great storm which held up the alderations alike are compelling in the Mediterranean::..there sailing for several days. Then hor willy-nilly to abandon her you have the Italian side of the the akies cleared Napoleon

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