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THE HONGKong Te legraPH, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1939.

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'called Anti-Comintern Post, which. ia in reality an anti-Geneva anti- British, anti-French, anti-Rus.Inn and anti-American combination.

Communist irritants, in this country, have constantly antagon- Ised the Labour Movement and rood in the way of whole-hearted friendly co-operation

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the Soviet Union. It would be an act of practical wisdom, worthy of the successors of Lenin, now to dis- solve the Comintern, nud many of its constituent partica, including. the Britfali.

Of the internal record of the Bories Uulon, part would have delighted Lenin, but part would have dis appointed him.

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HASTILY. Japan has my apolu. gisel for the violation of Hongkong erritory, has promistad indemnifica tion for the dead and wounİra,

What happened in Tokyo yester day to bring forth this quick mani- festation of penitence after the almost contemptuous way the affair treated n Tuesday and Wednesday?

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We now that the Japanese War Ollier on Wednesday afternooi is. sued an entirely untrathful version of the incident, in which it claimed that only one plane had violated British territory and that only one bomiz had been dropped. The com munique, again untruthfully, claim- es that an apology and also boun made 1 Hin Excellency the Goy- ernor in Hongkong.

Yesterday's apology comes from ih Japanese Foreign office with a celerity that has been equalled only by the apology for the Isambing and sinking of the U.S.S. Panay. It occurred after the Japanese For- eign Minister had received a visit from the British Ambassador, Sir Robert Craigi...

It emphasises the world that exists between Japan's civil admin- istration and its armed force. No one believes that the Japanese Gov ernment wants these perpetual de mands for apologies that have brought upon it the contempt of the But the Japanese civilised woril, Government hus far less control over its Army and Navy than has the Shanghai Municipal Couneil over its terrorists. It must go on apologising as its irresponsible mili- tarists go creating incidents,

with the fear ever present that one day in the not-so-distant future there will come an incilent that -W.JE not be answerable by

apology.

Despite the alacrity with which Japan hus apologised in the present instance, it is possible that the in-

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 Nole she has utdressed to Japan aince the conflict in China alarted nearly two years ago.

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

continue Japan's policy

to de liberately encroach further and further on our rights and violate our privilegeA.

Britain, this time, many mean business.

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THE audacious concep- tion of the series of Fivu Year Plans, the plauning away of unemployment, the liberation of the Bovial economy from the booms and situmps of the capitalist outer world, and of Boviet foreign trade from dependence on expitalist credits, all these are striking contributions to practical Socialist economics.

But, on the other hand, there are agri- dark shadows in the picture.

Tomb of

of Lenin

IFTEEN years ago, Lenin died. To his Tomb, in the Red Square

of Moscowy, pilgrims come from all over the Soviet Union, and from all the ends of the earth. In homely words, literally true, they come to ace 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 But and all the outer surfaces are smooth. free of all ornainental [155.

Two young soldiers of the Red Army staid on guard at the en- trance, and two more in the chamber within, a lttle below the level of the ground, where Lenin's body is embalmed, under a high. glass case, it by a mellow golden light used from above,

Behind this perfectly proper- tloned Mausoleum rises the high wall of the Kremlu, over which les the Red Flag, fondit at night. It is a magnificently theatrical

scene.

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I saw Lenin in August. 1932. gazed into the peaceful face, aired but content, and marvelled at the Ittle shapely hands, folded on cloth ef purple and black,

on

A few days later I also heard Lenin. His voice was high-pitched

speaking * and ́ ́ Insistent,

gramophone record in the flat of Sokolnikov, the Ambassador whom Moscow sent to London in response to Arthur Henderson's Invitation in 1929, and whom Moscow sentenced, in 1937, to ten years' imprisonment, as a member of the so-called "anti-Soviet Trotskyite centre."

ENIN was a very great Laurent day als personal intervention changed the But for him course of history. there would have been no Union of Socialist Sovici Republies.

il, in 1917. his opponents in Russia had prevailed. a general break-up of that vast country would

probably have followed, under weak and indecisive Liberal Governments, drifting into a wol- ter of reactionary chaos.

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

Church Service Banned

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

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

The service was planned to take place at Ridley Hall, Cambridge, dur- ing the conference of the Spelety fur the Ministry of Women-an inter- denominational body.

"NOT AUTHORISED" Ridley Hall is a Church of England theological college for the Instruction of ordinanda; the chapel is licensed by the Bishop of Ely, but not con- nerated.

Insofar at Hongkong is concern- ed, we would like to see the Japanese publicly warned, as the Spanish In- Hurgenta were warned by France, that any future acts of violence in our territory will be met with vio- lence. On iho occasion of the first violation of Hongkong territory this warning was, we understand, conveyed to the Japanese comman- dors vorhely. That, apparently, noint of view of the Church of was insufficient.

The Bishop of Ely sald "The pro- posed service was not authorland by me, and I should not be able to authorise it. A service to be attend- ed by Anglicans and Free Church people would be irregular from the England."

by HUGH DALTON, M.P.

nction. He was a tirat-class poll- Uelan, a superb tactiekan. a can- structive Sucklist of Immense courage and Imaginative Insight. Is books tire dull, but his acts were thrilling.

When he died, he had lald the foundations of the Orst large-scale the Socialist Commonwealth in History of mankind. He be- queathed to the Russian people an to opportunity unprecedented build. of these foundations, happy, free. prosperous, classless society of equats, and. by the force of their example and the visible success of their experiment, to con- vert the rest of the world to Socialism,

›INCE then fifteen years have passed. The unpre- ecdented opportunity is still there, waiting to be realised. Lenin, i think, would contemplate with mixed feelings the Soviet Union of to-day.

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In its offelui foreign policy the n11 Soviet Government has set admirable example to us all." all the Great Powers It has been the most loyal member of the

League of Nations, the most clear- sighted and outspoken supporter of the principle of Collective Security. Maxim Litviny, the proponent of the Indivisibility of peace, has been an outstanding figure at Geneva. In March, 1038, after the seizure of Austria, he urged an international conference to determine ways and means of preventing the repetition. of such an event.

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

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On the other hand, the unoffels foreign polley of the Comintern, for which the Soviet Government, pot. qalte convincingly, dentes respon- sibility, has

consistently stupid and vexatious,

Gulded by doctrinalres ligorant of political conditions abroad, it h multiplied il-judged inanœuvres 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 Hitler in Germany."

It has furnished a convenient pretext for the creation of the 50-

culture and trans-

port. in particular. there evidence of grave and persistent inuddle, often min- enlled *Anjotnge."

Moreover. In the t few you, there has been inerea ing

culty in obtain

ncrucate, first. hand Information. There has been a surprising and unex- plained decrease in facillies for visit- ing the Soviet Union. In London. Soviet visas were neorcely to be had last year, Nor are Soviet citizens yet permitted to travel freely abroad

democratie constituttour The new exists only on paper, arul the procura of the Dictatorship on the individuai sering not to be relaxed. The Soviet emblems 19-day are not only a hand- iner and [4 sick, bul • gigantic What Is rlly poliz question mark.

mide that closed community? And what is the direction of move-

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YET tree dominant -

pressions remain.

Plamed Socialism, even though #e anuers have cametines misca- calated, and even though they have to work in very difeult conditions, A great accompilatumments to N. credit.

The Soviet Dictatorship, whatever may be sad in crittelam or holds more possibility of peaceful change into more Democytic forms than do other contemporary Dictatorships

And, nally, the Soviet Union. In harp distinction from these other Dictatorships, is a force for Peace in international relations. It plous no wars of aggression against its neigh- bours. It is a defensive, not an alten- sive, force.

For this reason, above all, it has been one of the most criminal follies of British foreign policy since 1931 not To co-operate more closely with this most peaceful Great Power. It is not yel quite too lute-though the sandeˆ are fast running out-to repair this

fully.

Finance Juggler No. 1

H

JALMAR GREELEY has

HORACE SCHACHT

bcen Germany's neatest financial acro- bat. He made his name in the 1023 collapse of the mark when it needed thousands of millions of marks to buy a single lonf of bread.

new

Schacht was made president ol the Reichsbank, founded a currency and announced that people would be given one new mark in exchange for every 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 rizen slowly to be partner in the firm of

Jacob

Goldschmidt, the known Jewish banker.

well-

But as years went by, Schacht changed. Aa president of the Relelisbank he dropped his Liberal ideas and enjoyed picturing him- self as the mouthpiece of bl Anance.

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

He retired to his country estate to sit at Guehlen, near Berlin, still and raise pigs." He became fiercely anti-Bocialist. 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

1-17

"Out of hairpine again-how in thunder do you expect me to -clean my pipe?"

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

So the ex-democrat trimmed himself to sult the Nazis. He had been a keen freemason, but he resigned his membership when the Nazis started putting freemasons In concentration camps.

It has been Schacht's wizardry that has stopped Germany going bankrupt

Ly "orthodox' country would have done years ago If it had been conducting itself as Nazi Germany has done.

Schacht invented the system of prospering on debts. He likes to owe everybody something. Then he can threaten them-

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 financial control. There a no free buying and selling of marks. as there is of pounds or franes. So Schacht has been able to give Germany the advantage of being both on and off the gold standard.

But he has ridden uneasily. He has never got on with the Nazi ex- tremists. Several times he ap- penicd for clemency towards the Jews. He found world Horror at the pogroms prevented people from buying German goods.

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

Now Schacht, 62 years old, with

рение his tall, starched collar, hils snub nose, his parting in the middle of his hair, his tooth-brush mous- tacho, goes altogether.

Perhaps there is now a tle Irony about the middle nameà his peasant parents gave him. Horace Greeley was the American editor who originated the slogan, “ão West, Young Man] "

Herr Dr. Funk, 49 years old, an ex-journalist, stout and swarthy,. Goering's" Yes-man," steps cngerly into Dr. Bahacht's shoes. W.S.