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THE HONGKONG Telegraph, MONDAY, JUNE 26, 1939.

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Confidence

THE initiative in Europe has changed hands. To-day the

deeds are coming from the Democracies; the words from the Dictatorships.

Mussolini spoke at Turin yes- terday. His remarks will not much interest in Britain as the Anglo-Italian football match.

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A Raw Deal That Had

for Peace

HE proposition that with- out adequate supplies of raw materials for arma- ments по nation Cani carry on a war for any length of time is too obvious to require argument.

Mr. H. Morgenthau, the United States Secretary of Treasury, has recorded that in German

Now, through British August, 1914, the diplomacy and there is a growing confidence that peace will prevail.

Britain is rapidly reaching a position from which she will be able to see that peace is kept.

The Peace Front becomes more extensive, more powerful. Turkey is the most important member enrolled to date.

One big gap remains-Russia. This week there will be re- doubled efforts to close it,

Even more impressive than these moves [19 a sign of democratic determination is Britain's huge That--and that alone-has given heart to our friends.

rearmament.

No nation in all peace-time history has ever made a com- parable effort. On land we have Conscription. At sea we are

| launching a warship a week. In the air our margin of inferiority is fast disappearing at the rate of 100 new warplanes a week.

Britain, after nearly 20 years,

General Wangenheim sald to him: "If we do not get to Paris in 30 days we are beaten." Later -after the German defeat on the Marno-the General added: "We have made a mistake in not laying in supplies for a pro- tracted struggle. It is an error, however, which we shall not repeat."

IN face of this supreme importance of abund- anco of suitable raw materials to the successful con- duct of a war, the peace-loving nations of the world should realise that they hold what is possibly the one infallible means of creating and maintaining permanent peace. If the peace-loving democracies united in a refusal to supply row

materials to the war-like Powers, they could hamstring the war machines of those Powers; and aggression would become impos-

albic.

The English speaking peoples alone control something like 75 per cent. of the world's raw mate- rials, white none of the aggressor countries has more than a very

small quantity of these essentials.

There are 25 materiais con- sidered by experts essential to the manufacture of armamenta:

Aluminium Antimony

Cadmium

Chromium Coal

Cotton Copper

Fluoraper Graphite Iron-ore Lead-ore

Magnesite Manganese

Mien Molybdenum Nickel Petroleum Platinum Mercury Rubber Bulphur Tin Tungsten Wool Zinc

Of these the British Empire has an adequate supply of eighteen, America has twelve, Japan has only four, and no other country except Russia has more than four. while it is doubtful if Italy has an adequate supply of any of them

except mercury.

ia approaching a point at which her armed forces are strong enough to support her diplomacy.

Mussolini claims that the Axis-is-marching forward to

NO dictator country has give Europe "peace with

more than a small frac- tion of the oll required But justice."

Britain and

even for peace time needs. Ger- Franço

are right to guardmany's air strength has, of course. been greatly exaggerated, but if against a possible interpretation ahe actually had the number of of this phrase as "peace dictated planes credited to her, the argu- mont put forward bere would gain on Axia terms."

added forco—because even at their present - strength-ake, could not keep her air fects operating with- out imported'oil.

They are justified by experi- enco and by memory of the Duco's former deeds. Long be- fore the democracies began to rearm ho frequently glorified the Idea of war.

by

ALFRED

EDWARDS

Labour MP. for

Middlesbrough, E.

blockade, as her war time require- ments would be nearly twenty mil- lion tons a year.

Japan is at present waging war on China with materials largely supplied by the British Empire and United States. Without assistance from the English-speaking peoples Japan could not support the war for any length of time.

Why, then, should we not con- sider the question of controlling at least our own supplies of raw materials to aggressors and poten- tial aggressors?

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IT seems almost provi- dential that at least 75 per cent. of the mate- rials essential to war are controlled by the British Empire and the United States of America.

The present state of affairs in this matter of exporting raw mate- rials is as farcical as it is tragic. Two days before Hitler told us he was going to march into Czecho- Slovakia a cargo of four thousand tons of British copper left a Canadian port for a German port -and we might have been at war In a week!

The United States has recently taken a stand in refusing to allow certain materials to go abroad, But what was the position In America last year?

The President was sanding Notes to Japan protesting against the brutal murder of the Chinese people, while United States Indus- trialists were shipping cargoes of munitions to Japan to keep up the supply of murdered Chinese!

GERMANY, Italy, and Japan' could not have reached their present armed strength without supplies regularly and increasingly obtained.. from the British Empire and the United States.

The Primo Minister. recently stated that the time was approach- ing when be hoped to discuss an agreement for the limitation of armaments. No sooner had ho mado this statement than the Munich agreement was torn to shreds and thrown in his faco by

Italian Shoes Of Fish-Skin

ANCONA, Italy, Patriotic Italian women soon will

the conquest of Czecho-Slova-

kia. Why, then, should we con- tinue to supply raw materials to Germany - materials with which she builds up her armed forces in order to threaten helpless countries, and disturb the safety of the British Empire?

Is it not time we limited armaments by limiting the sup- ply of raw materials with which armaments are made?

No Number

A LITTLE ring of silent, brooding people.

Silent from fear of repri- sals, from apathy, from bit- ter experience?

Small street urchins, now as ever eager for excitement even at the expense of others, rush shouting to the fray.

Passers-by are attracted by the sharp, shrill crack of IT is important to indi-splitting timbers, by the

cate that the door would

at all times be loft open for any nation seeking economic

clouds of acrid dust which rise and hover on the golden relief and adjustment by peaceful morning air. Possibly the

means. No nation should be com- pelled to resort to war as a means of saving itself from economic strangulation.”

It should be made clear that if a potential aggressor is willing to give an undertaking to renounce the savagery of war, then we will bo willing to give an undertaking to renounce the selfishness and greed of monopoly.

Let us in this way demonstrate that the civilised methods outlined in the Kellogg Pact-a pact which already bears the signatures of G4 nations, including Germany, Italy, Japan, England, and the United States can and will succeed.

The way will then be open for convening, with some reasonablo expectation of success, the World. Economic Conference proposed by the President of the United States.

WE must, however, make It clear that we will apply this economic boycott rather than permit any nation to make economic adjust- ments by war or the threat of war. We should act on these lines with- out delay for, unless we use our strategie economic advantages promptly, the loss of geographic strategical positions may impair the economic advantages we hold.

As I have already stated, an effective boycott on raw materials would so cripple the war machines of aggressive nations that war would become impossible.

But the maintenance of 'world. peace, or the mere absence of war, is by no means the sole beneßt which would result.

The Impossibility of successful war must inevitably lead to a general disarmament, and to a 'consequent vast release of wealth for constructive social services and the general well-being of mankind, The millennium might then be only "just round the corner "---11 men were wise enough to find their.. way to it.

Relief Boards Mis-named

HARTFORD, Conn.

So many persons misunderstood the

unusual quietude springs from a knowledge of their. defenceless and, strictly speaking, indefensible posi- tion.

A few blue-clad officials direct the operations; they have their orders. The red-faced, rather truculent looking fellow possibly thus masks his distaste and steels his heart, as surely he must. The thin, palish" one catches my enquiring eye-and quickly looks away. Not a job after their own hearts, evidently.

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And.

THE entire green and sparkling hill- side is strewn with the pitiful debris of what once were homes—not the homes of such as you, certainly, but equally as essential to the mourn ful dispossessed. Root rushes mats are torn apart by the seemingly stolid coolles; planics are shattered; household utensils sent rolling down. the incline to foregather dismally in a nestling hollow,

An old greyhead darts into her. half-demolished hut seeking to re- trieve a few decrepit pots and pans before it is too late.

That most courageous of creatures, the mother cat, distressfully wails at the indecent unvelling of her stil blind kittens which she had so the thought-so successfully hidden from the eyes of man,

A small sow of most distasteful proportions lumbers squealing from The clamour na best she may, pursued by a distracted owner. A variety of our dogs stand at safe distance, and but occasionally does one emit a half-hearted yelp.

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Believe it or not, a tiny, skewbald Szechuan pony is led away, snorting and baulking, his glaring eyes all but popping from his chunky little head. How did he get there?

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IN contrast to the uncanny silence of the majority, a buxom, fresh- faced, black-clad, tidy and youngish woman raises Cain in her vehement, raging protests against the desecra tion. No one interferes with her, either to solaco or to reprove; · her the clamour rings in vain upon raving

Actually she controla only some- thing like 30 per cent of her peace be wearing shoes made of fish-skin to functions of municipal Board of Re-morning air. time requirements, eli

save leather and help the campalm lef that the General Assembly voted Now not a plank is upright upon If she were allowed to subjugate for national self-sufficiency. A to change the name to Boards of Tax the scene of desolation; the entire Rumania, this would give her an range of these shoes, made from the Review. Legislators were, told that fifteen huts are prone. Dust, dirt, extra supply, of Taame six million skin of a certain large kind of fish, persons on relief had been applying itler. demolition and despair; allent tons of oil annually. But even then were a feature of the Fishery Fair to the boards of relief for grocery apathy and Irate, incoherent re-

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