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JAPAN AND THE Americans

AXIS PACT

By The Right Hon.

VISCOUNT SAMUEL

and Nazi Terrorism

"News from the Out- post," which is "publish- ed by Americans in Bri-.. tain for Americans at

HE motives for the Pact Hence, in Japan, "the China Af- Ing-a Europe dominated by a home," has an article THE

between the Axis and fair"; the failure to prevent military and aggressive Geron Nazi terrorism (in- 79 $1,750 Japan nro clear enough. The those outrages by the invading many, a West Asia and North Icluding the massacre of

army against the Chinese popu» Africa dominated by a milltary failure, as yet, of all three of lation which shocked the clvi- and aggressive Italy, and an 30,000 at Rotterdam) Hitler's methods of attack Heed world; the futile attempt East Asia dominated by a mill- and the American re- on Great Britain-blockade, to overcome Chinese resistance tary and aggressive Japan." destruction from the air, in- by the mere intensification of Startled-und with good reason action to it.

violence. Hence the trend of she is forced to take thought. The widespread and success- vasion-hus compelled him Japan's policy towards Ger- for the morrow; and has to do ful use of terror by the Nazis. All units of $1500 and over in valus to look about for some other many where her army chiefs it very quickly. Now the

opportunity for action. The dorived their training, and United States la taking prompt has, it says, involuntarily and Mediterranean is one obvi- whose basic ideas they have action, and with a great strength unconsciously been assisted by power. Her navy, army, the attitude toward the war ous field; Italy has been been taught to approve and sup- and

port. Hence also the present and air programme is on a scale adopted by the American people brought in as the agent push into Indo-China, and the of vastness unprecedented In at, the beginning and continued there, and events are pend- prospective glances at the glit- history. She is giving, open aid until very recently. After the ing. The Pacific is another, tering prize of the Netherlands to those whose purposes and in- and the word is with Japan. Indies.

terests are the same as her own, last war Americans became pro- In addition, danger is loom- Militarism-in the long run af- and is withholding aid from thefoundly auspicious of atrocity stories. A debunking period ing from the United States ways, and sometimes in the short others.

run-brings to ruln the country Historians, German or other, set in and there was a wide- 27778/9-possibly also from Russia; it acts out to aggrandise. have been accustomed to des spread feeling that the United

Japan may be a safeguard Arnold Toynbee, in his great events after Benurak's

German diplomacy, al all

day, as States' kind heart had been for Germany against both. work "A Study of History,"

gives it as one of the chief les- psy.", and therefore

It is so because it is unplayed upon and a determina-

con never On the other side, after half secure re-tion that it must not happen a century of expansion without as a whole that "Militarism is sult; and because it is marked by a again. To-day humanity is pay- ALVES.-At French Convent Hospi-a check, Japan now finds herself suicide." So it may prove with spinability to realise that other ing a bitter price for the ex-

tal, on 11th November, to Nizi, deeply enmeshed in China, and Japan; unless the reserve powers be the same as their

people's minds and motives

need not This new own. wile of Eduardo M. Alves, desperate to get free.

cesses of overzealous propa- At the in the constitution are brought agreement 15 daughter.

example. It is gandists from 1914 to 1918. same moment. opportunities into play to bring back the real plainly, above all else, a Pact nguins!. open out within range which control of policy from the language of a treaty can, "Take no has left the United States the America. It says, as clearly as the The sweep of totalitarianism could not have been foreseen and soldiers to the statesmen.

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ANOTHER TIME-TABLE

GOING ASTRAY' '

are very

tempting. France has fallen; Holland is

occupied by an enemy; there is Dangers for

a chance that, after the war, the future of Indo-China and of the Dutch East Indies. might be open.

Japan Already the economic strain

cribe

where

tee that henceforth Jupnit stops you

public from trying to stop Germany." This only country shows an astonishing

shing misunderstand-opinion might have been mobi- Ing of American character. There

no reason to believe that this attempt lised to condemn these practices, at intimidation will directly result in yet the Allies hardly dared to any sudden or sensational change in release the truth about German the American policy towards ng atrocities for fear it would be war: but in the long run it seems

peaceful, are a source of stabi-

as one great in the direction that was intended. it will increase lity in the world; weak or fall- Power after another is anta- Mr. Sumner Welles' recent statement.

gonised and retaliates. Ger- in firm

and forthright terms, was

Strong empires,, if they are upon the country is very heavy more likely to work that way than regarded as propaganda.

ing empires, whether they many and Italy can be of no help highly significant,

peaceful are

be

China's

Endurance

Meanwhile China herself shows not

The Germans have been quick' to seize the opportunity pro- vided by the United States" or not, may there. "He who makes many source a

of trouble, afraid of him has himself many

spiritual and physical with- invite They

aggression or

drawal from the European to fear." The militarists of revolt--witness Turkey in the

scene. Not only was the United last century and early in this. Japan may evoke in course of timo a combination against their

States resolved to close itą heart Japan would be glad to enlist friends in advance in case the country political and economic the slightest sign of surrender. Over to atrocity stories; it removed

and perhaps ultimately military ra, opportunities should come.

outraged, bombed, devastated, its ships from war areas and, so- its own sake, and which would of sacrifice, an energy of resistance the most urgent thing of all certainly not come about of it. that should command, and does com- citizens from belligerent coun- The Japanese believe that it is self, but which may be made in- mankind. In Chiang Kai-shek they tries. With the one great new-

mand, the respect, ind admiration of the friends of China-Russia, evitable by their

own aggres- have a leader, uncowed and unyield-tral unrepresented on the sens, the United States, Great Britain sions a combination of Russia, ing, who can hardly fail to rank be- the Germans were free to un-

who, by aiding her resources, America, and the British Com- fore posterity me. In the for unde-leash unrestricted

as one of the greatest prolong the struggle. To bring monwealth, with China.

Be-

A fortnight ago it appeared sides, to end the Chinese war is which is desired by no one for the Chinese people display a power far as possible, evacuated. Its

that the war would continue to more according to plau, but something has gone wrong with the calculations of Messrs. Hitler and Mussolini. The conquest of Greece, regarded as a necessary adjunct to the Axis drive to wards the Suez, seems to be. as

far away as when Duce first

scnt his soldiers across the

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the Axis into the foreground I feel sure that the necessity veloped west of their vast amorphous warfare upon the neutral and might give pause to all three.

empire they are making an industrial belligerent ships which were for such an outcome would be and military effort which in the cir-left and to supplement it by in- These are the plain reasons, deplored by the public opinion cumstances is astonishing. on the one hand and the other, of Great Britain and the Domi- with the outer world, on which they waters. After all, the Germans In order to link up through Burma discriminate bombing in coastal for the German-Italian-Japan- nions. There is no feeling here are toreed to depend for many vital need not fear any action which of antagonism to Japan. We mostly by voluntary labour and when their ships are bombed or "they"have" built very rapid-Eire or Portugal might take were happy in the alliance which without the old et

ly, continued for so many years, and not evert a steamroller, one of the torpedoed in violation of all the

-ese-Puch-

Domination of

the Army

which was of no small service to longest and most difficult mountain laws of sea warfare, and the Japanese progress; and we were roads in the World. At the demand

Albanian frontier. Graziani too,: was expected to launch a simul- taneous onslaught against Egypt,

grateful for her effective co- of the Japanese it was closed for the sinking of unprotected light- It is not always realised how operation in the last war. We Those essential supplies, for whose save life, no longer affects the transport of all military material. ships, whose only duty is to but indications are that he failed the whole situation in the Paci- should all of us be glad if that sake it was built at the cost of un-ships of any powerful neutral. to "break cover" at the right fic is influenced by the strange friendship could be restored, and stated encrifler, were denied.

constitution of Japan. All would rejoice to see the Japanese Those who confuse the material "The Stunned Mind" time owing to the devastating power is in the hands of the people once more advancing to concomitants of civilisation with civi- raids by the R.A.F. and the Emperor, but he is required greater prosperity and a higher nations are to be valued merely by

sation itself, those who think that The root of the problem, however, always to appoint, as Ministers level of well-being along the their factories, mines, ships, railways,

goes for deeper and is more frighten- Ing in its impilcations. To take a for the Army and Navy Depart- paths of peace. But the present skyscrapers, industrial companies, and simple example, last fall we were all Hitler, states German reports, nents, superior officers on the divergence is not of our seeking. the like, will consider Chinu to be horrified by a story that German dissociated himself from Musso-active list of those services. It is Japan's own doing. It may with Japan. But those who do not

pitifully

barbarous in comparison airmen chased a Polish woman farm. worker round and round a feld, lini's Greek adventure. In fact, Owing to the strong caprit de bo scen to be the product ulti- fall into that mistake, If they know wack he apparently at first deplored corps, this in effect gives the mately of a bad constitutional something of the ancient character-machine-gunning, as they fiew, until the invasion of a country "with lenders of Army opinion--for system running loose from con- derstand even a little of the inner from the air by Goering's Luftwaffe Jatics of the Chinese people, and un-collapsed, riddled with bullets. machie-gunning of civilians which Germany had no quarrel" tive-a veto upon acts of policy,

the Navy has not been so asser- trol,

spirit and the strivings of modern is hardly China.

news considered

unless it It is, however, inconceivable that and thereby a final control.

will reach a very different happens to an American, as was the was not fully informed. There is frequent vacillation and

thousands of The British Navy, now without the case recently. So many Hitler has over fifteen divisions inconsistency as civilian and

French, would be hurd pul to

refugees were machine-gunned by it to the Germans in Northern France, so in Rumania ready to seize the military idens compete

inatatain the cause of national free- opportune moment to march for clash; but of late years the

dom and international law in al ward, and though there appears Army has proved in the end to America came to birth she found ously the Mediterrangan against Italy, can hardly appreciate the horror in When the United States of the seas at once. To hold simultane crushed under German tanks on Bol- at the moment no open move by be the dominating force; and herself geographically on the and the Pacife against Japan-alone, Its, real proportions. Germany to supplement Italian more once, within the Army, edge of world affairs. Now she would be a strenuous trek indeed.

and without any associate or ally action by pressure

through some

group

of head-strong is at the centro, or rather at one The next sign must come from the Rumania on Bulgaria or Turkey, junior officers has been able at of several centres. Surveying people of the United States. Their the Germans cannot afford to vital moments to set the course her own situation, the prospect on which at this moment the wheel opinions and their actions are the hub sce their partner worsted at this of State...

now offered to her is not invite of history is turning. stage. In the meantime, while

he

und

Italy is trying to extend her own Rare in history have been Empire, the German army is the instances of professional being maintained free of cost in soldiers with the gift of states-

Judgment. Aimed at America

SAILOR WANTED TO WED FATHER COULDN'T AFFORD IT

women and children ware

gian roads, that the stunned mind

by

Anathetisation of our nerves, of nur reactions of pity and of anger, began before 1939. The terrible toll the Italians in Abyssinia and in of human brutality has been fed by

Spain, by the Japanese In China,, the Russians in Finland, and by the Germans in almost any other Euro- scan country you care to mention Norway, Poland, Holland, Belgltim

And with this France, England. crucifixion of the weak across the frontlers has gone the 'crushing of minorities at home, the purges unid. the concentration camps In Germany; the slaughter in Franco Spain, In

Rumania using this respite as an manship and the virtue of res- opportunity to train parachutists traint. Where an army as such and other types of warfare. is granted equal constitutional,

if Hitler had succeeded in machine. powers with the civilians in the

A sailor, who will be twenty-one next month, asked gunning the R.A.F. out of the skies determination of policy and the magistrate at West London Police Court for permis-Fascist Italy, in Soviet Russia. over Britain, the story would have superior powers when it chooses been somewhat different, but he not to push out its rival, the result sion to marry before he rejoins his ship........

only falled in this, but has shown

himself to be very vulnerable, In

of his colossal strength,... Tho Berican hardly fail to be disaster. The "case" ended in smiles all Lis father... Bamuel Poole, at what remains of the neutral world,"

been

Playfair-street, Fulham, had with held consent on the ground that son was always "stony broke" and always writing home for money. This was his only objection to the marriage.

The more terror has been employed the less outery it has aroused from Each crime prepares the way for the next, hardens the mind to accept the worst that is to come. In the same, way gangsterism in the United States at one period threatened to, become. almont, a

normal institution

It took ingreal effort of

of will to ro

to realise that The magistrate pointed out to the this creeping menace must be wiped

"Stand On Our Own Feet'!

round. The sailor's father, who Rome-Tokyo treaty seems to have but he has failed to protect Germany hands with his son, and the had refused his consent, shook soften, the effect of a whole series of from the RAF's terrific blows, magistrate gave his blessing and

a gigantic smoke-screen to fallurcs which Hitler and Mussolini which are driving Berliners into beamed on them, phe

-evacuation--no. one are now admitting to their

The sailor was Able Seaman out knows what is happening to the Ruhr As the "Herald Tribune pointed out voluntary" recently

They

have failed to end and north-western German elles. George Arthur Poole, who appiled to the war by winter, Mussolini failed The past few days has cleared the the magistrate for consent to his father that Poole would be able to out. It will take an even kreater to bring Italy in five minutes before European mirror sufficiently to show marriage with Sylvia Amelia Gold-please himself in a month's time; and effort to meet the present menate," the end'; it looks rather as if she got that Hitler, has a glimantle task before ing, of Wandsworth Bridge-road, gave his consentintatapan do for to-day we stand in terrible dan- flit only a few hours after the begin him, one that when looked at dis-5.W.

He told George: "You can't expect ger of losing for over that regard for passionately, gives justifiable confl-The reason for Georgo's hurry was your father to keep your wife as human life and the elementary, de- Hitler not only failed to invade i dence in our ultimate victory against that he is rejoining his ship next well, you know, You must learn to cencies of conduct, which have been Bellain, to write. I treaty, in Dondon, German domination and Injustice, Wednesday,

atand on your own feat

the glory ofan eriorni, civilisation.i