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THE world is not at war-but d'Affaires in Berlin protests against.

The world

war of words these days, you will have noticed.

during

November 15: President Roose- velt peaks at a Press conference en

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 leaders

the past pubile opinion in the United States. myself could scaredly believe that twelve months. In perspective they show a remarkable increase in fre- such things could occur in twentieth-

and frankness:-

century civilisation, quency

February 12. officially approved Regime paper

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1938: Article Italian

In the Chamber of Deputies Fascista: "The declaring that the Italian Guvern tension between Great Britain and ment's policy would be based on the Italy is far more seate than is gener-protection of Italian interest and the ally supposed. Our opinion will not "natural aspirations" of the Italian change until London's foreign polley people.

The speech is greeled with shouts ceases to be directed by Mr. Eden.

from

the deputies of "Tunisia" and December 9: The Lokalanzeiger comments on Lord Baldwin's broad- Goebbels cast appeal on behalf of Jewish re- "The speech is the limit of men-

news-20: Count Clano makes

In many speeches an

and on many occa-!

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

February 20: Mr: Eden resigns.

28: Dr. September speaks in the Lustgarten, Berlin: fugees: "It is sa shameless provocation on the

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part of Benes to plunge Europe into dacious humanitarian hypocrisy.

his His speech is a 100 per cent, expres- EADERS MAY

bloody conflet. He places

or in Moscow

the trust in

war-slon of Anglo-Saxon cant. Angio- Saxon political insincerity, Anglo- call reading the

THE "Middle Sca" to Bri-mongers of Parks or London.

Saxon exploitation of the lachryma- "Alone, he would never dare," other day about the

tain meana a lifeline,

tory gland and Anglo-Saxon gutter October 5: Benes resigns.

Dr. November 7: Herschel Felbel humanity. bristling batteries of guns vital marine communications.

"We must ask of Lord Baldwin that command the approach To France it means a piece of Grunsapan shoots Ernst vom Rath, to Tunisia from the north water across which she must bring black troops from Africa, east.

hundreds and hundreds of thou- sands of them.

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our most

comparison

affairs lileo a gutterle with our In Paria. third secretary at the German Em-that he should not

December 13: Mr. Chamberlain bassy

November 8: Dr. Goebbels's paper, the Angriff, published photo-speaks at the Foreign Press Asso- The night I wrote that article

raphs of Churchill, Duff Cooper and ciation dinner: "I must deplore the of recent nilitude of the German Press, we pulled our chairs nearer to

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and David Frankfurter, who shot Dr. o pour out its vituperallon against What! you exclaim; fires in reporter of mine at the Cannes Gustloff, leader of the German Nazis our

the Prime Minister By contemporary European Africa? Of course there are. Conference-and I feel sure he in Switzerland, in 1930. The states- self only Pected statesman, him- shown much desire to understand standards the programme which 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

in terms of shrunken geography provoked others to murder."

November 14: British Charge our point of view."

December 18: Mr. Harold Ickes, Well, we began to talk of but in vivid pictures.

U.S. Minister of the Interior, speaks Symphony "The Great" in C Major...With "Bruno Walter" and the the Military Affairs Committee country with a hot sun.

of the U.S. House of Representa- the Mediterranean scene, this History, history, history; half

we must return to a when man was unlettered, was once most undoubtedly the trose shores on which the tide to capture the island.

Certain sec- tives yesterday approved to strange and dangerous sea which the history of the world around stopped off at Malta long enough "To seek a true Congress for defence is

cradle of civilisation, and I be scarcely moves.

Then came Nelson, the end of benighted and bestial. paratively modest. The Com- gan to realise what a lot there

Let us go back, back to the the Egyptian campaign, the tons of Europe to-day make it pos-

sible for anthropologists to

to study is we do not know about the beginning of things. Hundreds Battle of Trafalgar, and a long orimitive man without a reconstruc mittee hus approved President

"Middle of the Earth," or the 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

Middle Sen.

we to-day call the Mediterranean ranean. My space is running of a human jawbone or a few im

gence and culture of a humane appropriation, over and above

tracts of forest land. Here scope a quick turn round. Here people has been sunk tracelessly in the ordinary defence budget, of How Big is the Sahara? was a marshy swamp, with huge out. Let us give the kalcido-plements used long ago, The intell

the thick darkness of WE unrolled a map and prehistoric man dwelt with the are the Moors crossing the sea W

pre-primitive to subdue Spain. Another twist: times. Witchcraft has been enthron- began to check up dis- wild beasts.

Scientists tell us that these here are the Moors going backed, and modern dictators have set tances; how near is this to that; 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

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£105,000,000, of which £42,000,- 000 is to be expended by the middle of next year. What is

December 31: The oficial Nazi chiefly noteworthy about this

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

while thus until Mother

"It is only too obvious that these Mr."

continual invectives by leading but the object, which is to im-telegraphy, and silent-moving continued

Chamberlain stays in Americans must be attributed to submarines, distance was, in Nature took a hand. terms of naval warfare, almost Look for a moment at the the Eternal City he will remem-Jewish pressure which has for a long eliminated,

left-hand corner of the map of ber the dangerous things that time been strangling the freedom of To say that the area of this the Mediterranean. You will have happened in the place decision of the present Washington place is so many thousands of notice how close Africa is to which cradled the civilisation

visits Corsica and is handed Coralcan President Roosevelt, it will be

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 flourishes it, making

throat. gress that it was 14 months

angle and you will find how mosques und gleaming white safe again for commerce. Turks a gesture of cutting a t

January 4: President Roosevelt after the entry of America into staggering comparative size houses of Tangier,

and Spaniards have ruled the speaks at the opening of Congress: Then there came the day, Mediterranean, and also those "We, no more than other nations, can the last war before she was

Ask yourself this question: countless centuries ago, when old Romans. ready to take part in a major "How big is the Sahara? You the barrier which kept the Men have come down from enemies of our

out of Ocean to the know it is "very big," but did Atlantic

the the North to cross Into Africa humanity. We cannot safely be in- engagement. Thanks

different to International lawlessness you know that it is bigger than awampy land where prehistoric and try to rule it, and twice

anywhere." rapid development more especi

man chased wild horses, broke. Africa has crossed to the north- January 5: German official news Europe?

comments

President from Chungking to Chongtu and return ally of the air weapon, no such

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

sperch: "Roosevelt's respite for preparation could be the Sahara is Lake Tchad. It is how the Mediterranean be- Europe, Afrien, and Asia--meet Roosevelt's

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counted on in a future war. In does not look very large on the came a sen, a very dangerous on the Mediterranean.

and Fascist Italy, even in the mouth 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- Re

character as Of course, there were moun- war are great, but let us see to their

exceptionally defence forces of the Unitedly named place Timbuctoa.

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

To be, as the serials reassuringly All-French Route States may be found somewhat

heads out of the swirling waters. the grave as well as the cradle say. continued in our next, no inadequate and there is some

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

any idea of, the size of day. Very likely when you diate action.

Lake Tchad? I can tell you were cruising you visited them. that this lake is approximately

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lands may be volcanic,

of

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

tic rushed in. One such island Previously, travellers had to has recently come into the has become in the course of a

go through British Nigeria to nowa. I mean the island of few years one of the most vul-

reach Timbuctoo. The

new Pantellaria, an Italian strong- nerable countries in the world.

route is "all French."

hold, a few minutes' flying from The United States, though Just another proof of what those bristling batteries good deal farther away from Mr. Chamberlain found in Paris. French guns I mentioned earlier. probable centres of aggression, this week: that our neighbours What pages of momentous is no longer so far away that have suddenly become Empire history!

Try to imagine a day when she can continge to presume

Mr. Chamberlain is in Rome, Napoleon Bonaparte was upon the protection of distance actually 15 miles fron 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 08 a pleasant land, and ng 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 whence to escape the rigours decided to seize Egypt as finds herself faced as never be of our winter. Even if the jumping-off ground for the in- fore with the risk of attack Premier was not conscious of it, vasion of India. from other continents. Concur- Signor Mussolini would quickly Napoleon was moody because rently with the vast increase in call attention to the one big Nelson was in the Mediter the means of attack has grown

Mediterranean problem, as Italy rancan, and it was not safe; also his wife would not accompany sees 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 siderations alike are compelling in the Mediterranean; there Balling for several days. Then "Napoleon you have the Italian side of the the skies' cleared.

safled and as an afterthought| question in a nutshell.

her willy-hilly to abandon her dream of comfortable isolation,

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