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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, JUNE 6, 1939.

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The Round Table

IF THE new appeal to the Demo. eracles by His Holiness the Pope is based upon fears that an alliance between Great Britain, France and

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Tested upon them till

they become a habit of the soul. That would seem to be the case with the Fuchrer and the Pence Treaties.

He has persuaded himself that Germany was foully tricked when she sought-the initiative came en- tirely from her an Armistice on the basis of President Wilson's Fourteen Points.

Poland to be an independent State with access to the sea.

"A general association of ng- tions" to be established so as to afford national guarantees of political independence and ter- ritorial integrity to great and small States alike.

PRINCIPLES FOR PEACE above were not the only formal pre- The Fourteen Points as epitomised sentation of President Wilson's prin- He studiously avoids all reference ciples for the basis of a just and dur- to the Notes which passed between July 4, nt Mount Vernon he had ery- able peace. Six months later, on the German Government and U.S.A. before the Germans realised

the stallised them into Four Principles. that nothing was to be gained

by They

hey were: manoeuvring and that it only re-(1) The destruction of every or- mained to take what was offered. bitrary Power anywhere that can Herr Hitler Ignores whatever is in-

convenient to his case.

Here is his specifle charge as pre- ferred in his carefully prepared speech at the rally of German ex- Servicemen yesterday:

WAR GUILT

"Germany never had any war nima, but the Treaty of Veranilles revealed that all the others then had war alma. The robbery of our colonies, the an- nihilation of our fleet, and the de struction of our trade in the world- these were the British aima in those days, and they haven't changed. "Germany's War Guilt was

that she frivolously neglected her arma ments before the war. If the en elrelement polley proven, the same ne before the war, there is one differ- ence to-day as far as Germany is con- cerned, namely that Germany's polles

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separately, secretly and of its single choice disturb the peace of the world.

very question, whether of ter sovereignty, economic political

Or

arrangement, must be settled on the basis of their free neceptance by the peoples imme- diately concerned,

(3) All nations to act on the same

principle of hor

honour and respect for the co

common Jaw of civilised

society, so that all promises and commit- ments may be sacredly observed, no selfish injuries may be wrought with impunity, and national trust may be established on the hand- some foundation of a national re- (4) The establishment of an Or-

spect for rights.

of Nations).

of defence has fundamentally changed.What we scck," said the President,

ADMISSION OF DEFEAT

"is the reign of law based on the

That is what Herr Hitler hos per- suaded himself. That is what Nazi Germany has been taught by years of intensive propaganda to believe. That is what some foolish people in

GRIN AND BEAR IT.

By Lichty

L'ulled

"Of course, I'm the head of the house-but I'm really only a figure hood,”

The MORNING

A

keen!

BRIGHT and October morning, The jumbled collection of

ganisation of Pence (le., a League tiny matted huts clustered round the gently dreaming waters of the lovely, cres- cent bay, could scarcely be termed a village.

en of the governed and sus-

mankind."

by the organised opinion of These Four Principles and the Five) Particulars he enunciated in Septem-

Had this isolated bay a

CATCH by

N. B.

England and Hongtong are inclined ber are anathena to Hitler, for they name, of ill-omen would it WHITESTONE

which

the

sub-

The lordly sweep of that hold and unearths the ancient lone, indented coast was, and to spy-glass. some extent is, mystical piracy. Stares anew. Hands the

to accept for no better reason than clash with Nazism in every detall. that they have heard it said so often. Wilsonian principles on

But they succinelly epitomise the be, despite its gleaming, Yet it is demonstrably untrue.

Who would suppose from the

Germans sued for an armistice lead. natural beauty. Fuchrer's words that Mr. Lansing, ing to a Pence. They were specific- President Wilson's Secretary of State, ally referred to by the Allies in their had been

at particular pains to make memorandum to President Wilson on it absolutely clear to the Germans Nov. 5, 1918, when they said: that their pressing request for an

The Allied Governments,

Whatever and whoever their im-rattling implement gruntingly Armistice was only acceptable at all

jeel to the qualifications which fol- mediate forebears, these daunt to his son, who also stares. on the basis of admitted defeat.

low declare their willingness less fishermen and women- "The only, Armistice he (Presi-

to make peace with the Govern lead blameless, arduous

☆ dent Wilson) would

and feel

justified

ment of Germany on the terms of even gallant lives. In submitting to the Ailles," Lan- sing wrote on Oct. 23, "is one which would leave them in a

in a position to enforce any arrangement that may be entered into and make a re- newal of hostilities impossible."

mpossible.

.

peace laid down in the President's address to Congress in January, 1018, and the principles of settic-

ment

The

qualifications there referred to

these qualiAcopped

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+ THE two commence an anim- ated discussion, quickly. join- ed by the startled Ah Hoi.

Smoke it certainly is that dark, floating, ragged smudge and, unhappily, the nearer and the denser."

those of the Allies in order to "main- But there was no bad faith as re-ficient breeze the four miles to Useless to flee, they stand

stood.

the

enunciated in his subsequent AMID a din of raucous cheerful addresses."

bawlings the swaying junks are boarded and in the glittering The Germans

ans had begun by sug-concerned the Freedom of the Seas, sunlight and keen, salt-laden air spread her ideology to other lande.gesting "a mixed Commission" which on which the Allied Governments re- the entire and tiny fleet of five Rather should His Holiness the should arrange for the evacuation of and the interpretation of the phrase takes the waters, brown sails in

of served complete freedom of action, the occupied territories from which

A liner-or worse? The Pope oppose the real menace that is threatening Europe. So long as

their own armies were withdrawing, about the "restoration" of invaded gleaming silhouette against the crews upon the junks can make plundering and destroying

regions.

Mr. Wilson disliked both rising glow. they

no preparations even for the Hitler rules Germany, the pence of went, and they had proposed

but his objections "the world will be menaced, and no

their military advisers should meet that

were finally

With-a-favouring and suf-worst, even against their fears... reliance can be placed on any pledge. tain the actual standard of power on gards either one or the other on the the fishing ground are quickly their ground. All work is sus- ho may give.

both sides. They were politely but part of the British or French Gov-covered; the contented, hard-pended, all eyes straining under Everyone would welcome the con-

armiy-reminded of where they really ernments, and Germans were working, and self-sufficing little guarding hand into the blinding

neither tricked tor duped because on ference of nations proposed by His Between their first Note of Oct. 4, the two points mentioned the Allies bands prepare to cast the pre- light. Holiness, but suggestions of nego- tiations on "outstanding grievancca" need to be watched by the Demoern- cies with care, even with suspicion. For such phrases appear to imply that past aggressions have arisen from just grievances, and that they should not be re-opened.

An

international conference which does not place the destruc tion of Czecho-Slovakia and Albania at the head of its agenda of pro- blems for discussion would simply be condoning, instead of attempting to redress, injustices.

The real move towards future pence came from President Roose- velt. It was spurned by Germany and Italy. That is the reply Hitler and Mussolini have given-and would have given even if the appeal. from President Roosevelt had been from Pope Pius himself,

fissurance

Hitler's Reichstag speech is not so old that it should be forgotten in any future plans for conferences. Only two nations in the world to- day refuse to give an that they will not commit aggres- sion in the future. Can our states- nien be trusted to alt around a table with the dictators, especially when we remember what has happened at previous conferences of this nature

at Godesberg and Munich, for lit stance? The Democracles have gained nothing and lost much at the round-table.

All this talk of Injustice to Ger many at Versailles should be viewed in the light of history-as published elsewhere on this page. Hiller himself admits in "Main Kampf" that if Germany, and not the Allies, had won the Great War, there would be only one nation in Europe, to-day Germany, Hesteles as his speech to Gorman Ex-Servicemén yesterday indicated--to rectify that mistake. If there is a war and

mercy for the Democracies. than they showed the Germans at Ver- faillen.

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It

signed by Prince Max of Baden, and and the USA. had taken divergent cious nets, hoping that they

* * if their last of Oct, 27, in which they views. President Wilson was never have rightly timed the seasonal said, The German Government now given plenipotentiary powers by the

NOBODY aboard the junk awaits proposals for an which shall be a first step to a just it has never been explained why lads unfurl the giant net--that the mighty mast, dragging the

Armistice Allies to prescribe the basis either of prevalence of profitable shoals.

heard the shot. Its report Man, woman and half-grown was lost amid the crashing of Armistice or of the Peace. President has it in his Proclamations, described the Supreme War Council did not in- costly, cherished and pampered massive craft on to her scarred changed their form of Government

ent clude Point 5 among those to which essential of their calling. to what Herr Hiller would now call they required "qualineations." The Ah Hoi, the round-limbed,

though well-built side. a vile democracy. Lansing had wording is extravagantly Idealistic.

Without a cry, four. fright- bluntly warned them that the US.A. What Conference could conceivably brown-faced, bustling mother, desired no dealings with "the mill-be "free, open-minded and absolutely eyes gleaming under reeded hat, ened people are flung, struggling tary musters and the monarchical impartial" when Colonies were being strains her sturdy limbs. autocrats of Germany,"

and choking, into the water, distributed? Did the President en- visage the presence of Germans at the waters and laughs with deep sunk boat.

Her hawk-eyed husband scans thrown well away from the half- such a Conference? Certainly the Allies did not.

content, sighting the shoal of sporting, silvery fish. Only the are

tance.

NO RETURN OF COLONIES which :I сап only suppose that

AVERTING WAR'S RENEWAL The Germans, therefore, could be under no illusions about the general

Ah Hol, her husband and sons character of the Armistice

fair swimmers. She, would be presented for their accep- Supreme War Council on Nov. morose, puffing meditatively his the shelter of the nearest un- the old grandfather is silent and breathless and bleeding, achloves They were neither tricked nor agreed to let the explosive Point 5 ou would make it "impossible" for Colonial Issue would cause infinite

They knew

would be such puss unchallenged, knowing that the old-type water-pipe.

harmed junk, hides clinging to He appears fascinated with the jolting, swaying stern. them to renew the war. They trouble when it had to be faced the horizon, gazing intently accepted because. they must.

Men and lads reach The President's Fourteen Points are

the As indeed it did. Only after he the Sudeten Germans In the

wreckage of their majestically too long to be quoted in extenso, but had threatened to quit the Confer-State of they may fairly be epitomised as ence and go home did the President, only agreed to with many deep mis- and climb painfully upon her

Czechoslovakia. It

was heaving, all-but-sunken craft, follows:

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seriously.

who had wanted the German Colonies

new

Open covenants and no secret placed under International control, on and on the strength of the sloping, slimy side. A second diplomacy in the future..

agree to the Mandate compromise. most unqualified assurances that the Absolute freedom of navigation I favour of their return to Germany. justify, but it explains, and though other shots go wide.

But. no single voice had been raised rights of the German minority would shot has meantime pierced the

be in peace and war outside ter-

fully safeguarded. That may not golden sail of a nearby junk; ritorial waters, except where to all-if Peace was to be secure

for reasons which seemed conclusive

this is no excuse it was fully shown acas are closed by international

A smoke-grey pinnace nears, action.

eight grotesque-

7 Removal as far as possible of uti.

economic barriers,

Africa,

in September and October that Herrmanned by Hitler would not scruple, to infringe

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are

Those who speak of the vindictive-n principle to secure a better frontier features and slovenly-dressed, 4 Adequate guarantees for the re-ignore the long agony through which

ness displayed in the Peace Treaties, for the Reich.

invaders. The truth of the matter is that no duction of national armaments. the world had passed. It was a

Unintelligible group even of completely disinterest-barked at the shivering, terrified

shouts $"A free, open-minded and also human Impossibility for the victors ed statesmen could have redrawn in

Intely impartial adjustment of so soon-to forgive and forget. Mr. all colonial claims," equal weight H. A. L. Fisher, one of the Intrest being given to the interests of of historians, has written: "For the peoples concerned.

more generous, open and elastic pro- 6 All Russian territory to be eva-ceeding, no Ailled statesman In the

cuated.

tense and passionate Parisian, atmos transferences of population from one 7 Complete restoration of Belgium phere was prepared." At any mani-State to another.

festation of a tendency to show n Were.

in full and free rovereignty.

1010 or could redraw to-day the mortals slithering upon the frontiers of Central Europe in such fallen wreck of their prized and 蟲 a way as to conform strictly with the cherished property.j

Wilsonian principle of self-determina-

tion unless they had recourse to large

Receiving no obedience to

their incomprehensible

and doubtless impossible orders, two All French territory to be re-more generous spirit there came sharp "cheated"? No. Could they have got astonishing agility considering then, the Germans under-sized sailorslept with. stored and the wrongs of 1871 reminders from home to harden their beller terms if they had fought on the malformation of their bow-

hearts and

and exact a just retribution. No. Were they offered a negotiated

righted.

9. Readjustment of Hallan frontiera

on lines of nationality.

10 Peoples of Austria-Hungary to have the chance of autonomous development.

Apparently the worst

rst crime of the Treaty? No. Was their offer to lay legged frames, upon the drifting Pence Treaties in the eyes of Herr down their arms on the basis of the junk; prod with vicious, gleam- he lays upon it, was the inclusion of was accepted by the Allies subject to trembling trio before them into

judging by the emphasis which Fourteen Points accepted? No, ing bayonet Hitler,

the shivering, 1,000,000 Germans under allen rule. "qualifications" and on the basis of contrary to the Wilsonian maxim of the Fourteen Points and the principles the waiting pinnace. have access to the sea and Bat-the other hand, draw attention to the utterances.. Were the Allies faithful all available portions of tho self-determination. Historians, on embodied in the later Presidential The whole crew now back at kan relationships to be settled fact that the Teraties only left 3 per

11 Rumania, Serbia and Montone

praio be encuated: Serble to

to their pledges? As faithful as the

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on historically established lines cent, of the peoples of the Continent temper of the times permitted. of allegiance, and nationality.

12. Autonomous development for all under foreign domination.

non-Turkish nationalities, and

the Dardanelles to be perman- ently free to all shipm

SAFEGUARDING. MINORITIES

murdered craft; shout incom-

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