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SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT

Japon has apparently decided on n change in policy and is contemplat- ing action which she feels will realise her aims. One naturally asks what are the prospects for her in this quest for hegemony in Asir, She starts off with a comparatively empty treasury and facing an em barge on essential materials-via- tim spirit and serap metal which hitherto she has been able to Import from the United States, Fifty-six per cent. of her requirements come from that country.

This seems to indicate that Japan's trade must inmediately suffer eclipse since her merchantships could hardly expect to trade with Europe, India

DEAR JOHN,

N

TOW that normal life is

about to be interrupted · and neither, of us can

be sure when or where we shall next meet, there are one or two things I feel I should like to say to you.

We are both fortunate that you are stil at school while the world in occupied in turning itself upside down. When the time comes for R

August 8, 1940..

LETTER

TO

MY SON

to right itself again, you will have ramshackle structure for which they

Our

Besides don't forget

talks about what Freedom is. It is by no means the same thing for you and me an it is for Clegg, the road- mender, or for the miners sons you +were in camp with last summer. There must be suffering and dark- ness first, but out of the new, dia- pensation, in the end, a new freedom will spring, and a better freedom. Revolution is always eruel, but it is seldom barren.

And the suffering and darkness are probably necessary now. We have earned them with our indo- lence. You know the tag about n Government it Then again, the whole character people, getting the

a tremendous part to play-however stand, seemed supremely comic and of warfare is changing. In the old deserves. I have never thought that irrelevant, Away went Peter, put- days soldiers manning the front line true; but if one were to judge the small, it will be tremendous, Secing tog up those ridiculous birds like were sustained with the knowledge democracies by

their rulers, one what a mess my generation seems tot of scandalised readers of that they were protecting their wives would certainly have to call them to have made of its job (although "Punch," and away went the social and children. To-day they have no effete. Complacent, unimaginative, the fact that 50 nations Joined in order! I haven't felt so carefree for such certainty. While they are busy indifferent to suffering at home or

in the line their wives and children outside-too comfortable, in fact. sanctions against Italy in 1035 shows thonths! .

near, we got 10 our goal of

how

abolishing war), we haven't the right to tell yours anything: you must find out for yourselves,

Historically, my generation doesn't matter in the slightest any more. We are the past. You are the fu-

But that is only one small bit of may be bombed to smithereens be-

Our rulers have foreseen nothing. it, and perhaps not a particularly hind their backs. That makes a tre-

One's personal emo- mendous psychological difference To-day France and ourselves are on America, Yesterday dying bit

and It's not a difference that favours calling tional releases are not important

China, Abyssinia, Spain, Czecho- that, the survival of war, seems to me these days. It

slovakia called on and got no black as things are for us now, and

answer. We are left to 6ght alone. whatever the immediate outcome,

now because we would not Bght to- gether when we find the chance and the prospects for the world are by no means hopeless,

let down all the other democracies: the duty. All the democracles have, the only thing they have done col- lectively is to suffer from a common atrophy of will.

THERE'S another thing, too, We have all heard people pro- Though we nrc engulfed in the

testing against the savage dis greatest war in history 1 feel posi- ture. The qualities you will most lively optimistic about possibilities regard of the "rules" of war- need in the next few years are self- of abolishing wars in

the future fare. been reliance nxt adaptability. The Seeing that I have sirendy

There aren't any rules of warfare: The decent people of this island world you are growing up into will through one war to end war, does war is a breakdown of rules. For a don't deserve such rulers though, be a very different world, and a tint sound mind? Some of the fac period of history (in the seven- perhaps, some of us who saw what hord one. It will demand discipline tors of current weakness in the de- teenth and eighteenth centuries pre- was happening and tried to say so of you, and service, and I know you mocracies may themselves actually eminently) monarchs waging war on were not faithful enough in our pro-

# f symptoms

belter order one another agreed on certain rules tesis: when normal channels of pub- will give them, because I have noted be

the beginning of a new spirit moving emerging. in you and your friends,

we didn't of war because it was necessary for lielty proved insufficient them, in the midst of their aggran- throw up our job and go out into the disements, to avoid a disturbance of streets and factories to agitate and J was born Just too soon to avokl

the social order from which they organise... expecting

ONE of the things that has so de- derived their privilege: upset it, and EL measure of certainty fron

social stability, pressed us has been the reluctaner they were gone. Ilfe-peace, even a degree of enjoyment seemed of the free demveracles to prepare a part of one's birthright. You wil theinselves for defence and (so far at least not make that mistake! And as the small ones were concerned) if by any chance. these things are to fight for their freedom when the added to you all the more precious time came. for not having been expected.

But revolutionary wars are dir-

war. Bitter' doesn't give

WELL, now-whatever hap- ferent-and this is a revolutionary pens--there is going to be a damn radical change. Good-bye to all bout upsetting the soclat order in that. And this it is that fills the democracies-In fact, he has ad- me with hope and even a kind

..

But growing detestation of war, vertised that it is one of the things of joy, though I suppose we are

What a situation! And yet do you bred from their experience of the he is after. When we have got it know, at this moment

when our sufferings and futility of the last one into our heads that this war is only about to see the end of many country is in acute per 1 don't feel (and coupled with the tremendous th emlitary manifestation of a vast things that I personally trea- despondent, I actually feel excited. change in outlook brought about by social, economic and political up- sure. even clated. So much that has been the growing ease of communications, Weaval that is shaking and remould- rutten for so long and seemed to be which

We have often agreed that this is makes national boundaries ing the whole world we shall feel

Letter about It-and we shall stop" war of ideas, but so far all the Indestructibly entrenched is about to fuck silly) has set in motion some taking nonsense about “rules." (And ideas have been on the other side.

thing historie.

be consigned to the rubbish heap. The very pace of this catastrophe is

reassurance,

after all, even the Nazis have been That is why the other side has out- Peoples hare begun to question ruthless to a plan.)

marshalled us at every point in the whether national sovereignty is any

gome. There has been no inspira- astonishing rupidity longer the stupremely important thing sufferings more terrible and wide- little conviction.

Our country is about to, undergo tion here and, since Munich, too things that seemed part of the regli- il was. Hence their half-hearted- for pattern of our lives hove sudden ness about its defence. I say "be to it since the Black Death, but spread than any that have happened

With what

Well, now it is the people's turn. datter ourselves that What we need to urm ourselves with for a walk on the hills yesterday. was caught, only 43 partially even If all of us and of our order in this country Lo-day is not only how beautifully careful formed, ilmest sub-conscious lea, went down In ruin Freedom would guns but brooms. And when both we have always been in this little This gave brute force its chance perish

ly become meaningless. I took Peter gun," because it was, at the time it don't let us

You know

feudal corner of England to conform But the tendency is good.

with

code and to keep the social Peter on the bush going through the pheasant woods? Well, yesterday when i got to the woods something went snup, and I let him off.

the from

earth. Freedam the

guns and

brooms have done will not oblige the Dictators by their job, you and your friends can The small Powers have been doing any such thing. It is of for get busy on the site that has been

building a new uglat midway in a tremendous too deep and sturdy a growth for cleared and start political movement-but the end of that-and my generation, though we world.

seo, the movement, don't you

i have talked and written so much I hope you' do well in the swin- Federation. What, for the moment, about preserving it (and, to do us ming next Saturday, or Australia on anything like the Suddenly the plicasants, and his has proved a decisive weakness con- justice, have even done our spot of -same-scalc.—Japan mure_than_any_Lordship._and_the_whole_claborate,tains-the-seeds-of-strength-and-fighting-for-it)-are-curtainly_not_its.

Your affectionate

FATHER. other nation depends on trade for her Internal economy. Unlike China she is not self-supporting and she cannot divert the materials she re- quires from China, now so bitterly hostile.

in

Japan's greatest anxiety must be her precarious position Chinn, where she can neither complete her task of conquest, nor gracefully withdraw from the unhappy adven- ture. The more anxiety she displays in trying to conellate China the more she acknowledgea her own weakness. Jupau cannot hope to win over China to her side after the way she has mercilessly and ruth- lessly destroyed her eltics, and rendered millions homeless.

11 is the business of statesmen to envisage the future, and the wisest of them are those who take into their purview the numerous factors which are at work moulding that future. If an important element is omitted, then the policy which is followed Jends not to good fortune but disas- ter. The factor which Japan cannot ignore in the estimate they make is the policy of the United States. So far they know that the United States will not view with Indifferences any alteration in the status quo of the Netherlands. Mr. Cordell Bull the Secretary of State, has made that statement and has not retracted it.

There is no reason to suppose that Germany or Italy would allow Japan to retain any conquests if they were successful in Europe, and certainly she could not hold them if they were not successful. What must give Japan

further use for fear is the

cause fact that Germany's much vaunted on Great Britain has not erialised, and so much was. the situation changed that such an at- tempt at Tanding would now be almost welcomed in the British as it

Will America Come In?.

THE

HE American Institute of Public Opinion has over the past months been taking a census of American opinion on the question: Do you think the United States will go into the war in Europe or do you think we will stay out of the war?

The trend of American opinion has been as follows:

1039 October

1910 February

May

115. wil IES. well!

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The questions for the May result were asked after May 14, the day of the German break-through at Sedan,

Since the Norwegian cam- paign and the beginning of the Low Countries offensive there has been a sharp drop in the number of Americans who feel confident of an ultimate Allied victory.

Eight months ago 82 per cent, thought the Allies would win, 7 per cent, thought that Germany would win and 11 per cent. held no opinion. In the first week of June, 55 per cent. thought, the 'Allies would win, 17 per'cent. that Germany would win and 28 per cent. held no opinion.

would give the army of the Empire Germany's inadequate stocks of an opportunity which it really seeks petrol, and at the same line making Britain's sen power is unquestioned her ports untenable. That alr force and is growing stronger, and at the is not only superior in skill and DI end of the war will be of enormous courage, but also in quality strength; for quite clearly the Italian machines. These machines are being fleet cannot destroy it and the Ger- added 10 monthly by the enormous FAR EAST FLYING training schOOL LTD,mans have not the means of doing output in Britain, the U

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