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THE world is not at war-but i d'Affaires in Berlin protests against November 15 President Roose- war of words these days, you velt speaks at a Press conference on will have noticed.

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 trom Germany har deeply shocked world leaders during the past public opinion in the United States, twelve months. In perspective they I myself could scarcely believe that show a remarkable increase in fre- such things could occur in twentieth-

century civilisation. quency and frankness:-

30: Count Clono mokes November in February

12, 1938: Article

Italian news-a specel in the Chamber of Deputies approved 11 Regime Fascistu: "The declaring that the Italian Govern- tension between Great Britain ond ment's polley would be based on the Italy Is

Is far more acute than is gener-protection of Italian interest and the supposed. Our opinion will not "natural aspirations" of the Italian change until London's foreigti polley people.

The speech is greeted with shouts

smcially

per

ccases to be directed by Mr. Eden.

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

sions he has shown his poisonous nt- "Corsica."

titude of mind towards Italy.

February

september

December 0: The Lokalanzeiger

20: Mr. Eden resigns, cominents on Lord Daldwin's broad-

28: Dr. Goebbels cast appeal on behalf of Jewish re-

in the Lustgarten. Berlin: Iugees:-

speaks in

"It is a shameless provocation on the

or in

"The speech is the limit of men-

part of Benes to plunge Europe Into dacious humanitarian hypocrisy.... a bloody conflict. He places his His speech is a 100 per cent, expres- (rust in Muscow

the war-lon of Anglo-Saxon eant. Anglo- Saxon political insincerity, Anglo- Saxon exploitation of the inchryma- tory Bland and Anglo-Saxon gutter humanity,

November

British Charge

we

shows

must ask of Lord Baldwin

on totalitarianism: "To seek a true

sible for

ism."

humane

no more than other nations, can

faith and of aut

THE "Middle Sea" to Bri-mongers et Paris er London.

a lifeline, "Alone, he would never dure."

October 5: Dr. Benes resigns. November 7: Herschel Felbel bristling batteries of guns vital marine communications. that command the approach To France it means a piece of Grunszpan shools Ernst vom Rath.

aates like a guttersnipe." to Tunisia from the north-water across which she must third secretary at the German Em that he should not meddle with car

bring black troops from Africa, bassy in Parls.

December 13; Mr. Chamberlain 5: Dr. Cochbels'a east.

hundreds and hundreds of thou-

paper, the Auftriff, published photo-speaks at the Foreign Press Asso-

ciation dinner:

"I must deplore the graphs of Churchill. Duff Cooper and recent attitude of the German Press, The night I wrote that article sands of them. we pulled our chairs nearer to

grouped with pictures, of Now, Mussolini is a former Attice

which, in one cast, has not scrupled Jewish assassins, such on Grynsdal journalist-he was a fellow- and David Frankfurter, who shot Dr. to pour out its vituperation against Czech Philharmonic Orchestra (Album-No. 248) No Safety In Isolation the fire and talked.

What you exclaim; fres in reporter of mine at the Cannes Gustioff, leader of the German Nazis our most respected statesman, him- By contemporary European Africa? Of course there are. Conference and I feel sure he in Switzerland, in 1936. The states-self caly recently the Prime Minister much desire to understand standards the programme which Africa, you know, is just a cold secs the Mediterranean not only men were shown as "the men who of this country and in few cases has

point of

of view." in terms of shrunken geography provoked others to murder."

November 14:

December 18: Mr. Harold Ickes, the Military Affairs Committee country with a hot sun.

Well, we began to talk of but in vivid pictures.

U.S. Minister of the Interior, speaks of the U.S. House of Representa- the Mediterranean scene, this

History, history, history; hulf

comparison we must return to tives yesterday approved to strange and dangerous sea which the history of the world around stopped off at Malta long enough

period

was when mann

unlettered, was once most undoubtedly the those shores on which the tide to capture the island. Congress for defence is com-cradle of civilisation, and I be scarcely moves.

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

tions of Europe

make It to-day

pos Let us go back, back to the the Egyptian campaign, the ins gan to realise what a lot there paratively modest. The Com-

anthropologists to study mittee has approved Presidents we do not know about the beginning of things. Hundreds Battle of Trafalgar, and a long primitive man without a reconstruc- "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 baals Roosevelt's request for a total Middle Sea.

we to-day call the Mediterranean ranean. My space is running of a human jawbone or a few im- was a marshy swamp, with huge out. Let us give the kaleido-plements used long ago. The Intelli-

and culture of gence and Sonata In A Major-For Violin and Plan0 ......... 3200 appropriation, over and above

How Big is the Sahara?

tracts of forest land. Here scope a quick turn round. Here people has been sunk tracelessly in the ordinary defence budget, af

WE unrolled a map and prehistoric man dwelt with the are the Moors crossing the set the thick darkness of pre-primitive £105,000,000, of which £42,000,-

began to check up dis- wild beasts.

to subdue Spain. Another twist: umes. Witchcraft has been enthron- 000 is to be expended by. the tances; how near is this to that; Scientists tell us that these here are the Moors going backed, ond modern dictators have set middle of next year. 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 n Then we realised that in these strong, like the Biblical Goliath. mercenaries to fight for France. ore cruel if more refined voodoo- December 31: The ometal Nazi chiefly noteworthy about this days of long-range guns, swift They hunted the animals for

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

while Mr. "I is only too obvious that these PERHAPS,

continual

invectives by loading but the object, which is to im- telegraphy, and silent-moving continued thus until Mother

submarines, distance was, in Nature took a hand.

Chamberlain stays in must be attributed to 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 défences 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 ing a sudden emergency.

place is so many thousands of notice how close Africa is to which cradled the civilisation January 2, 1939: Daladier visits Corsienn President Roosevelt, it will be

Corsica and is handed square miles means very little; Europe here. So near is it that we know.

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

was made of Ajaccio. He flourishes it, making look at geography from another with the naked eye seen the fought, but the sen 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 throat.

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 to be surrounded by the 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

the know it is "very big." but did Atlantic Ocean out of the the North to cross into Africa humanity. We cannot safely be in- engagement. Thanks to

different to international lawlessness anywhere." rapid development more especi- you know that it is bigger than swampy land where prehistoric and try to rule it, and twice

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

comments

President Down towards the south of and the waters rushed in. That ern shores. Three continents-agency from Chungking to Chengtu and return ally of the air weapon, no such

speech! "Roosevelt's respite for preparation could be the Sahara is Lake Tchad. 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

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

and Fascist Italy, even in the mouth Every Wed. & 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 Dy Of course, there were moun- war are great, but let us see to their

excepilonally defence forces of the Unitedly named place Timbuctoo.

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

To be, as the serials reassuringly All-French Route heads out of the swirling waters. the grave as well as the cradle j

Our say. continued in

next, States may be found somewhat some inadequate and there is

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. Only very recently and with

Didn't you know they were that this lake is approximately difficulty has it been brought the same area as Belgium, and mountains? They are: Malta:

and Cyprus, for instance. home to the people of Great Bri-it takes a motor-boat capable of inin that modern conditions doing 13 knots two days to cros

Island Stronghold the lake. I happen to know have shattered their age-long this because two French explor-

THER Mediterranean is- geographical immunity from at-

er friends of mine are starting

lands may be volcanic,! 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 presume upon the protection of distance alono. Such is the expanding range, speed and capacity of the

We in England regard the had wished him to invade Eng- aeroplane that if she is not yet

Mediterranean 48 a pleasant land, and as this was not con- accessible to the bomber to-day place for cruising, sun bathing, aldered feasible Napoleon had she may be to-morrow. She

or whence to escape the rigours decided to seize Egypt a8 K finds herself faced as never be-

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. 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- Mediterranean problem, as Italy ranean, and it was not safe; also the means of attack has grown

his wife would not accompany see it. the disposition to use them. The Duce once said that Italy him to Egypt; also there was a Technical and political con-aust regard herself as an island great storm which held up the siderations alike are compelling in the Mediterranean; thero sailing for several days. Then Napoleon her willy-nilly to abandon her you have the Italian side of the tito skica cleared.

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