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EMPIRE IN ARMS

The Prime Minister has given due expression to the feelings awakened by the Empire's co-operation in the war., That therty and decency-the girders of all civilisation--are at statte is appreciated alle by the self- governing Dominions and by all other communities that acknowledge His Majesty's Jurisdiction. The re- pudiation of Hierism is joined in by every race and colour. Its throw is recognised as being vital to everything that makes life worth living. It is a cardinal challenge that is offered by the Naz! power. Whoever evades It"sinks to the rear- and the slaves."

over.

The quick Intelligence of the Dominions has grasped the real nature of the crisis. They know that it is no mere question of European interests that hangs in the scale. It is the issue of liberty or slavery for the New World and for the Antipodes that is being fought out on the plains and seas and in the skies of the Old World to-day.

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Consultation must determine how most each part of the Empire effectually throw its weight into the struggle whether in the contribution of man-power or in the production of food or armaments.

"But what big teeth you have, Grandmaınma ! "

The answer

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'HAT kind of war is this? You hear that question on all sides. It is asked because the first month of war has dif- fered very substantially from people's expectation.

It has run contrary to all the prophecies of wave after wave of German bombers seeking to lay waste the civilian popula- tions of France and Britain.

It has so far in the West-though not, let us always remember, in Poland--been a military and naval war of the old kind, not the new kind of " total war" which was ex- pected,

And even on the Western Front there has been practically no aggressive German action through- out these weeks, while British troops have been moving to posi- tions in France.

Why has Hitler thrown away the military advantage he might have gained by a lightning attack on the West, while our troops were on the move?

The answer to that is, I believe, that Hitler is fighting this war as a politician, not as a soldier.

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He has been prepared to lose a possible-although by no means advantage certain — military because it might have interfered with his political strategy.

The famous dictum of ClauSC- witz, the Prussian military philo- sopher, that war is merely

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tinuation of the policies of lomacy by other means, has been carried a stage farther by Hitler.

To him diplomacy in a continua- tion of the policies of war by other means. Or rather those means are Either weapon Interchangeable. will be used as circumstance aug-

resta. it was not until

an advanced stage of the Creat War that this discrimination was arrived at. With experience to guide us, we are more alert to-day to the penalties of waste and confusion. The present deliberations in London will facilitate a wise allocation of functions, so that every party of the Empire máy most effectually bear its part in removal of the peril that overhangs ull.

In 1914 we thought of the outer Empire mainly as K source of the manpower which was so welcome a reinforcement to our own undevelop- ed strength in that regard. To-day, in the presence of a more mechanised warfare, we realise how the develop- ment of the Dominions has made them not less efficient alles under those altered conditions. Their in- dustrial growth has rendered them capable of most valuable contribu- tion to the equipment of a modern fighting force. The outbreak of war has already transformed some of the aspects of Imperial strategy. No- thing is more remarkable than the Instant perception of Canada's situa- tion as the geographical centre for the preparation of air-power. The other and the Mather Country Dominions alike are preparing to organise there the training of those squadrons which will ultimately overpower the utmost strength that un enemy, can place in the field.

It is needless to speak of tho gra- Uitude and admiration evoked by the cagerness with which the Dominiona range themselves by our side. Their efforts will not only have a decisive effect on the struggle between bar- barism and civilisation. They will ruise the spirituni - stature: cf their own communities' by the conscious- ness that they have played the part of principale In one of the greatest dramas of history,

Ile belleves, with Clausewitz, that "the political goal is the end and warfare is a means leading to. 1t."

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A means which, will be used without

when-as scruple Poland-it seems the most salt- able to him, but which will from time to time bo replaced by

"All the better to eat you with, my dear !!!

to those who ask

kind of war

is this?

by FRANCIS WILLIAMS

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political means if that seems the clear in our minds as to its pur- more likely to bring results.

poso, and clear also as to what we Hitler, I suggest, realises that ourselves mean when we talk of. with France and Britain united peace and what conditions we re- against him, and it is important to Fard as necessary to secure it. stress the word united, war as a There is, of course, aiready a minority of opinion in Britain 13 end-which means to bis German domination of Europe which is in favour of stopping the may prove a weapon which will war now. To say that in not to

secrets to break in hand, though I do not give away any think there is any doubt he will enemy, who are aware of it. employ it if other mcans fall.

This minority is made up of But for the moment he is rely- oddly assorted groups, 1xg

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on the political weapon. And let no one under-estimate his skill in the use of that weapon.

Ha political weapon is "peace" talk.

The first sortie in this campaign was made

a week ago." It has been answered and answered with the right armness by M. Daladier in France and by Mr. Chamberlain and Mr. Attlee in Britain,

But I conjectura that there will be further peace approaches

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from Hitler. Not because I think Hitler wants a genuine peace-a

based

international equity and secured by reciprocal guarantees which will be honoured. I do not think he does, though the German people may.

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But because the sort of "peace -proposals " he put forward a week ago are the chosen weapon in the political war he is now conducting. Why does ho use this weapon? Because he judges and his whole political success is built on bis

fair for Judging and playing upon mass opinion that this, more than anything else, may create disunity

In our ranką.

And, indeed, it may unless we are

GRIN AND BEAR IT

By Lichty

POLICE

"No-1 didn't got that other woman's number, but sho wis wearing a sailor straw, had dyed hair, andtöfrall things

black net gloves."

There are, first, the complete pacifists. One may, as I do, dis- agree with them, but one must honour their sincerity. To them anything even Hitler domination-

is preferable to war, which they cannot reconcile with their con- sciences.

They would, if the ultimate teat came, offer nothing but passive Nazt tavasion resistance even to of Britain,. believing that even although their generation and the next and the next might be sacri- ficed. in the end their attitude of non-violence would prevail,

Then there is a small group within the Tory Party which is now in favour of calling off the war because they are convinced, on the evidenco of Stalin's suc- cesses to date, that a continuation of the war against Nazi Germany will mean the "Bolshevisation Europe, and they regard this as a more serious threat to their in- terests than is Nazi Germany.

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Thirdly, there are the Com- munists, who, having originally hailed this as a war for freedom against Fascism, have now changed their mds on orders from Moscow. Instead of warning thele- followers against the Tory dic- harda' desire for an imperialist peace, they donounce the stand against Hitlerism as an imperialist wor.

audden somersault. has been too much for the British commonsense of most of their adherents, including Mr. Harry Pollitt. their secretary, who has been sacked by the executive.

This is 1 break with precedent. If they were faithful to their Russtar model, it should be the other way about. The secretary should liquidate the executive,

Joining with them as new com- rades in a "stop the war on t ler's terms" cry are the Fascists. who have no public importance in this country except as on obnoxious noise at street corners.

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And now there la Mr. Bernard Shaw.

Mr. Bhaw's sense of

which leads him to. a dangerous over-simplification of

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plus his kindly nature, which makes him anxious to trust everybody-fra Mr. Chamberlain, then M. Stain. and now Herr liftler-have led him to produce a new theory,

has now discovered he is not as wicked as he thought he was, and that he cannot bring himself to borab innocent people, so that the war will stop anyway.

To this the short reply is that. the men and women of Warsaw and the peasants in the Polish. Aelds bombed by the German raiders would give Mr. Shaw all the evidence he needs of the quality of Hitler's mercy, if he were not so unshakingly determined to abow how clever he is by declaring that black is really white.

Those are the main groups—for Mr. Shaw's rich variety of apn- filleting opinions clearly entitie him to be counted as sucts-among the stop the war movement in Britain.

They have some importance as the raw material of Hitler's cam- paign-intellectual cannon fodder in his political war.

But their combined, ability to disrupt British opinion is not large.. Fitler. has other facts in mind.

The

Brst of these facts is the hatred of the British people for Tvar..

The accond in the tendency

of people all over the world to allow themselves to be bemused by words.

Hatred of war is deeply im- planted in the British people—it is, above all, deeply implanted in the Socialist Movement.

It is a fine thing that it should bc. But it is not enough to hate Hatred of war must be War. balanced by a constructive idea of the conditions necessary to any true and lasting peace.

Hitler, one presumes, fá hoping that if he talks suficiently of pence he will mobilise in hla ser- vice as unconscious ailles in his political war all the hopes of common people for peace-these same hopes that led many people in Britain to acclaim the Munich settlement without recognising its true significaner,

He hopes, no doubt, that if he talks sumciently of peace, people will allow themselves to torget his

ww broken promises of the past, and out of their desire for peace urge that there should be negotiation, aven

though on a basis whichi Icaves him with the spoils of past and with freedom to aggression embark upon fresh aggressions In the future.

At the least he hopes to contuse the Issue in the minds of our people, to Aisrupt opinion and to wenken resolution.

His tactics can be answered only by a positive appreciation on our part of the kind of peace we want and the quarantees necessary to enaurcit

The causes of war go beyond Hitlerism, although that is the immediate menace."

There will bo no real' peace in' the world until those principles of international equity, of common opportunity and of social justice which Labour has so long urgest are established,

Out of the tragedy of war wo have to create the opportunity for a new world to come to life..

To make peace on IIitler's terms. would be to throw away that. `opportunity and to be bemused by- the word pence into acquiesaing in-.. mis, pe an uneday truco before a new war,

Mr. Shaw's theory is that Hitler