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Telling Japan

HASTILY. Japan has now apolo- vised for the violation of Hongkong territory, has promised indemnilien- tion for the dead and wounded.

What happened in Tokyo svater- day to bring forth this quick mani- festation of penitence after the alment contemptuous way the affair treated An Tuesday d Wednesday?

WAS

We know that the Japanese War Office on Wednesday afternoon is- sued an entirely untruthful version of the incident, in which it claimed that only one plane had violated British territory and that only one bomb had been dropped. The com- munique, again untruthfully, claim- ed that a apology had also been made to His Excellency the Gov ernor in Hongkong.

Yesterday's apology comes front the Japanese Foreign office with a celerity that has been equalled only by the apology for the bombing and sinking of the U.S.S. Panty. decurred after the Japanese Por- eign Minister had received a visit from the British Ambassador. Sir Robert Craigie.

It

It emphasises the world that exists between Japan's civil admin. istration and its armed forer. No one believes that the Japanese Gov- ernment wanta these perpetual de- mands for apologies that have brought upon it the contempt of the civilised world. But the Japanese Government has far less control over its Army and Navy than has the Shanghini Municipal Council over its terrorists. It must go on apologising as its Irresponsible mili- larists go on eventing incidents, with the fear ever present that one day in the not-so-distant futura there will come an meilent that walt not be answerable by 2011- apology.

Despite the alacrity with which Japan has plugised in the present

At the

called Anti-Comintern P. et, which.

anti-

1 in reality an anti-Denev British, anti-French, anti-Ru..hin and anti-American combination.

in this

Communtat irritants, country, have constantly antagon ised

ted the Labour. Movement and

stood in the way of whole-hearted with the friendly co-operation Soviet Union. It would be an set thic of of practical wisdom, worthy successors of Lenin, now to d solve the Comintern, and many of its constituent parties, including. the British.

Of the internal record of the Soviet Union, part would have delighted Lenin, but part would have appolated him.

مقاله

HE audacious concep-

T tion of the series of Five-

Year Plana the planning away of unemployment, the liberation of the Soviet economy from the boom and slumps of the capitalist outer world. from: and of Soviet foreign trade dependence on capitallet eredita, all these are striking contributions to practical Socialist economica

But, on the other hand, there are dark shadows in the picture. In agri- culture and trans- part,

omb of Lenin

IFTEEN

years

ago,

Lenin died. To his Tomb, in the Red Square

of Moscow, pilgrims come from all over the Soviet Union, and from all the ends of the earth. In homely words, literally true, they come to see Lenin."

The Tomb is fashioned of great slabs of the most beautiful marble. from the Urals and the Ukraine. all red, though with rich variety of shade and grain. The roof is flat and all the outer surfaces are smooth, free of all ornamental fuss.

Two young soldiers of the Red Army stand on guard at the en- trance, and two

mere in the chamber within, a little below the level of the ground, where Lenin's body les embalmed, under a high glass case, it by a mellow golden light diffused from above.

Behind this perfectly propior- tioaed Mausoleum rises the high wall of the Kremlin. over which fles the Red Flag, floodlit at night. It is a magnificently theatrical scenie.

saw Lenin in August, 1932. I gazed into the peaceful face, tired bus content, and marvelled at the little shapely hands, folded on a cloth of purple and black.

A few days inter I-also heard Lenin. His voice was high-pitched and Insistent, peaking on gramophone record in the flat of Sokolnikar, the Ambassador whom Moscow sent to London in response to Arthur Henderson's Invitation In 1029, and whom Moscow sentenced, in 1937, to ten years' imprisonment, as a member of the so-called anti-Soviet Trotskylte contre."

ENIN was a very great man. In critical days his personal intervention changed the course of history. But for him there would have been no Union of Socialist Soviet Republics.

It, in 1017, his opponents in Russla had prevailed, a general break-up. of that vast country would probably have followed, under weak and indecisive Liberal Governments, drifting into a wel- ter of reactionary chaos,

Lenin's greatness lay, not in hla theoretical argumentations, but in his practical genius as a man of

instance, it in possible that the in-A

cident is far from closed. Great Britain, it is believed in London, is preparing to follow its formal pro- test with the despatch of the blunt- est Note she has addressed to Japan since the conflict in China started nearly two years ago.

It will probably say in diplomatic language that Great Britain will not stand by if the irresponsible

who militarista

really control to de- Japan's polley continue liberately encroach further and further on our rights and violate our privilegea.

Britain, this time, may недо business.

Insofar Hongkong is concern- ed, wo would like to sco the Japanese puullety warned, as the Spanish In- surgenta were warmed by France, that any future acts of violence in our territory will be met with vlo lence. On the occasion of the first

Church Service

Banned

Com-

PROPOSED Holy munion service for Anglicana and Nonconformists, to be con- ducted by a woman minister, has been cancelled.

The minister was to have been the Rev. Hilda Peppmon, who has had charge of a Congregational Church at ; Newhaven.

The service was planned to take place at Ridley Hail, Cambridge, dur ing the conference of the Spelely for the Ministry or Women-an Inter- denominational body.

"NOT AUTHORISED" Ridley Hall is a Church of England theological college for the instruction of ardinus; tite chapet is Hcensed by the Bishop of Ely, but not con- secrated.

The Bishop of Ely said "The pro- posed service was not authorised by

violation of Hongkong territoryme, and I should not be able to

this warning was, we understand, conveyell to the Japanese commian- ders verbally. That, apparently, waa insuficient.

nuthorise . A service to be attend- ed by Anglicans and Free Church people would be Irregular trom the point of view of the Church of England."

by HUGH DALTON, M.P.

action. He was a brat-class poll- ticlan, a superb tactician, a con- structive Socialist of Immense courage and imaginative insight. His books are dull, but his acts were thrilling.

When he died, he had laid the foundations of the Ars: large-senie Socialist Commonwealth in the history of mankind,

be- queathed to the Rusatin people an unprecedented

to opportunity build. un these foundations, happy. free. prosperous, classless society of equals, and, by the force of their example and the visible success of their experiment, to con- vert the rest of the world to Socialism.

SINCE then fifteen years have passed. The unpre- cedented opportunity is still there, waiting to be realsed, Lenin. I think, would contemplate with mixed feelings the Boviet Union of to-day.

In its offelal foreign policy the Soviet Government is set admirable example to us all.

an Of

all the Great Powers it has been the most loyal member of the

League of Nallons, the most clear- sighted and outspoken supporter of the principle of Collective Becurity. Maxim Litvinov, the proponent of the Indivisibility of peace, has been an outstanding figure at Geneva. In March, 1938, after the seizure of Austria, he urged an international conference to determine ways and means or preventing the repelllion of nuch an event.

His proposal was rejected by Britain and France, and a repeti- tion came in September. We now await, with growing apprehension. the next repetition.

been

On the other hand, the unofficial foreign policy of the Comintern, for which the Soviet Government, not quite convincingly, denies respon- sibility, has

consistently stupid and vexatious.

Guided by doctrinaires ignorunt of political conditions abroad. It has multiplied il-judged maneuvres and fomented damaging division: within the Socialist and Trade Union movements in many coun- tries. It did much to help the triumph of Mussolini in Italy and of tier in Germany.

It has furnished a convenient pretext for the creation of the so-

particular. hiero la cidence of grave and persistent inuddie, often mis- enlled "sabotage,"

Moreover, in the last few years, there has becu increasing dimculty in obtain ing accurate, TAL- hand information. There has been a surprising and unex- plained decrease in facilities for viat

the Baviet Union. In London. ing Soviet visas were scarcely to be hnd last year. Nor are Soviet citizena vez permitted to travel freely abroad.

The new democratie, constitution exista only on paper, and the pressure of the letatorship on the individual scema nut to be relaxed. The Soviet Emblems to-day are not only a ham- mer and a nickle. but a gigabile question mark. What is really going on inside that clored community? And what is the direction of move- ment?

VET three dominant' im-

pressions reniain. Planned Socialism, even though the pinners have sometimes miscal cainted, und even though they have to work u very difficult condition, 1: has great accomplishments to credit.

The Soviet Dictatorship, whatever may be said in criticism of it, holds more possibillly of peaceful change Into more Democratic torms than do other contemporary Dictatorships,

And, inally, the Soviet Union. sharp distinction from these other Dictatorships, in a force for Peace in international relations. It plot no wars of aggression against its neigh- vours. It is a defensive, not an offen- sive, force.

For this reason, above all, it has been one of the most criminal follles of British foreign policy since 1931 nol to co-operate more closely with this most percuful Great Power. It in not vet quite too late-though the sande are fast ranging qut-tö ̈ repair this folly.

Finance Juggler No. 1

H

JALMAR HORACE GREELEY

SCHACHT has been Germany's neatest financial acrO- bat. He made his name in the 1923 collapse of the mark when it needed thousands of millions of marks to buy a single loaf of bread.

new

Schacht was made president of the Reichsbank, founded a

and announced that currency people would be given ouo new mark in

for exchange

overy 1,000,000,000,000 old ones.

In those days he was a democrat, a man of the Left. His first job had been tutoring the sons of a Jewish banker. From that he had risen slowly to be partner in the firm of

Jacób

well-

Goldschmidt, the known Jewish banker.

But as years went by, Schacht changed, As president of the Reichsbank he dropped his Liberal ideas and enjoyed picturing him- self as the mouthpiece of big finance.

In 1920 he resigned from the Reichsbank because The Hague conference decided to make Ger- many go on paying reparations.

nomies, too. He became Germany's economic dictator.

So the cx-democrat trimmed himself to suit the Nazis. He had been a keen freemason, but he resigned membership when the Naals started putting freemasons in concentration camps,

It has been Schacht's wizardry that has stopped Germany going bankrupt-I any " orthodox" country would have done years ago if it had been conducting itself as Nazi Germany has done. "to sit

He retired to his country estate at Guchten, near Berlin, still and raise pigs." He became fiercely anti-Socialist. The Nazis began to cast their eyes on him.

When they came to power In January, 1933, they called him back to his old job at the Reichsbank. They made him Minister of Eco-

GRIN AND BEAR IT

By Lichty

Lichts

1-13

"Out of hairpins again-low in thinder do you expect me to

clean my pipė?”

★

Schacht Invented the system of He likes to prospering on debts. owe everyboily something. Then he can threaten their-"We shan't. pay you back unless...

In that way many of the small countries of Europe have taken their orders from him.

He has clamped on Germany a rigid Dnancial control. There is

no free buying and selling of marks. as there is of pounds er francs, Bo Bchacht has been able to give Germany the advantage of being both on and off the gold standard.

But he has ridden uncasily. Ho bas never got on with the Nazi ex- tremists. Several times he ap- pealed for elemency towards tho Jews. He found world horror' at the pogroms prevented people from buying German goods.

☆ *

In November, 1937, the extreme Nazis managed to rob Schacht of Dr. the Ministry of Economics. Funk, a reai Nazi Party man, took: over the job.

Now Schacht, 63 years old, with his tail sturched collar, his shub nose, his parting in the middle of his hair, bia tooth-brush mous- tache, goes altogether.

Perhaps there is now a little Irony about the middle names his puasant

parents gave him. Horace Greeley was the American editor who originated the slogan, "Go West. Young Man!"

Hete Dr. Funk, 40 years old, an ex-journalist, stout and swarthy, footing's "Yes-man." steps eagerly Into Dr. Schacht's Bhues. W-St

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