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JAPAN AND THE Americans

AXIS PACT

By The Right Hon.

VISCOUNT SAMUEL

and Nazi Terrorism

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

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

between the Axis and fair" the failure to provent military and aggressive Ger- on Nazi terrorism (in- 79 $1.750 Japan are clear enough. The those outrages by the invading many, a West Asia and North cluding the massacre of

army against the Chinese popu-"Africa dominated by a military failure, as yet, of all three of Intion which shocked the civi- and aggressive Italy, and an 30,000 at Rotterdam) Hitler's methods of attack lised world; the futile attempt East Asia dominated by a mill- and the American re-

and aggressive Japan. on Great Britain-blockade, to overcome Chinese resistance tary destruction from the air, in- by, the mere intensification of Startled-and with good reason action to it.

violence. Hence the trend of she is forced to take thought The widespread and success- vasion-has compelled him Japan's policy towards Ger- for the morrow; and has to do ful use of torror by the Nazis All units of $1800 and ever in value to look about for some other many, where her army chiefs it very quickly. Now the

their training, opportunity for action. The derived

and United States is 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 ous field; Italy has been been taught to approve and sup, and power. Her navy, army, the attitude toward the war 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.

terests are the same as her own, last war Americans became pro-

stories. In addition, danger is loom- Militarism-in the long run al- and is withholding aid from the foundly auspicious of atrocity A debunking period ing from the United States ways, and sometimes in the short others.

run brings to ruin the country. Historians, German or other, set in and there was a wide- possibly also from Russia; it sets out to aggrandisc. have been accustomed to des- spread feeling that the United Japan may be a safeguard Arnold Toynbee, in his great events after Bismarck's day,

nli German diplomacy, al States' kind heart had been for Germany against both. work "A Study of History," "clumsy." It is so because it is un- played upon and a determina- gives it as one of the chief les- principled, and therefore can never tion that it must not happen On the other side, after half sons of human experience taken win confidence or obtain secure res again. To-day humanity is pay-

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tal, on 11th November, to Nizi, deeply enmeshed in China, and Japan; unless the reserve powers be the same as their own. This new Cesses of overzealous propa-

example. gandists from 1914 to 1918. · same moment, opportunities into play to bring back the real plainly,

Pact against open out within range which control of policy from the language of a treaty can, "Take no has left the United States the could not have been foreseen and soldiers' to the statesman. tice that henceforth Japan stops you

public from trying to stop Germany. This only country shows an astonishing meter. There is lised to condemn these practices, shing misunderstand-opinion might have been mobl- ing of American character,

reason to

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Tuesday, Nov. 12, 1940.

Wyndham St., Hongkong

Telephone: 20015 THE prefix "Special to the Telegraph

is used, by the "Hongkong Telegraph to Indicate news which is strictly copyright

cations Ordinance, 1930. Such

nows

are

very tempting. Franco has fallen: Holland is occupied by an enemy; there is a chance that, after the war, the future of Indo-China and of the Dutch East Indies might be open.

Dangers for Japan

no

to believe that this altempt

where

at intimidation will directly result in yet the Allies hardly dared, to any sudden or sensational change in release the truth about German

Hongkong on the date of publication by ing empires, whether they many and Italy can be of no help highly significant.

the United Press Associations, who [2-

or are peaceful serve all rights and forbid republications, be alther wholly or in part without previous arrangement.

ANOTHER TIME-TABLE

GOING ASTRAY ·

A fortnight ngo it appeared that the war would continue to move according to plan, but something has gone wrong with the calculations of Messrs. Hitler and Mussolini. The conquest of Greece, regarded as a necessary to- adjunct to the Axis drive wards the Suez, seems to be as far away as when Il Duce first

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not,

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China's

man

Endurance

In order to link

greatest

sent his soldiers across the Domination of continued for so many years, and not even a stenouraller, one of the torpedoed in violation of all the

Albanian frontier. Graziani too,

was expected to launch a simul-

taneous onslaught against Egypt,

the Army

of

won

Already the economic strain the American policy towards the

more likely to work that way thun regarded as propaganda. Strong empires, if they are upon the country in very heavy; war; but in the long run it seems atrocities for fear it would be

as one great in the direction that was intended. under the previsions of the Telecommuni- peaceful, are a source of stabi- it will increase

The Germans have been quick and forthright terms, was to seize the opportunity pro- bears the indication. "Up" is received in lity in the world: weak or fall. Power after another is anta- Mr. Sumner Welles' recent statement,

gonised and retaliates. Ger- in firm.

vided by the United States" may there.

"He who makes many

spiritual and physical with- of source

trouble. afraid of him has himself many invite aggression

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

scene. Not only was the United last century and early in this. Japan may evoke in course of

States resolved to close its heart Afennwhile China herself shows not Japan would be glad to enlist time a combination against their friends in advance in case the country-political and economic, the slightest sign of surrender. Over-to atrocity stories; it removed outraged, bembed, devastated, its ships from war areas årld, so and perhaps ultimately military fun, opportunities should come. Be- which is desired by no one for the Chinese people display a power sides, to end the Chinese war is its own sake, and which would of sacrifice, un energy of resistance far na possible, evacuated its. the most urgent thing of all.

the respect and admiration of tries. With the one great neu- The Japanese believe that it is certainly not come about of it- should command, and does com- citizens from belligerent coun-

self, but which may be made in-

In Chiang Kai-shek they the friends of China--Russia, evitable by their own aggres- have a leader, uncowed and unyield-tral unrepresented on the seas, 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- foce posterity as one of the

submarine prolong the struggle. To bring monwealth, with China.

men of our time. In the far unde-leash unrestricted veloped west of their vast amorphous warfare upon the neutral and the Axis into the foreground

I feel sure that the necessity empire they are making an industrial belligerent ships which were might give pause to all three. for such an outcome would be and military effort which in the cir-left and to supplement it by in-

These are the pinin reasons, deplored by the public opinion cumstances is astonishing.

through Burma discriminate bombing in coastal 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

TAK UD for the German-Italian-Japan- nions. There is no feeling here are forced to depend for many vital need not fear any action which ese Pact.

of antagonism to Japan. We supplies, they have built very rapid-Eire or Portugal might take were happy in the alliance which mostly by voluntary labour and where their ships are bombed or

which was of no small service to

World. At the demand Japanese progress; and we were ronds in the wost difficult mountain laws of sea warfare, and the closed for the sinking of unprotected light- grateful for her effective co- of the Japanese It is not always realised how operation in the last war.

all military material. ships, whose only duty is to We transport

Those essential supplies, for whose save life, no longer affects the but indications are that he failed | the whole situation in the Paci- should all of us be glad if that make it was bulit 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 stinted sacrifice, were denied.

constitution of Japan.

who All would rejoice to see the Japanese Those wts of civilisation with civi-

the material "The Stunned' Mind" time owing to the devastating power is in the hands of the people once more advancing to sation itself, those

who think that 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 goes far deeper and is more frighten- The root of the problem, however, South African Air Force on the always to appoint, ns Ministers level of well-being along the their factories, mines, chips, railways, ing in its implications. To take a for the Army and Navy Depart- paths of peace. But the present the like, will consider China to be horrified by a story that German

skyscrapers, Industrial companies, Italian bases.

simple example, last fall we were all Hitler, states German reports, ments, superior officers on the divergence is not of our seeking pitifully barbarous in comparison airmen chased a Polish woman farm dissociated himself from Musso-active list of those services. It is Japan's own doing. It may

Into that mistake, if they know

Πειν, until lini's Greek adventure. In fact, Owing to the strong caprit de be seen to be the product ulti- Japan. But those who do not worker round and round.

she collapsed, riddled with bullets, 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

Istics of the Chinese people, and un-To-day machie-gunning of civilians the invasion of a country "with leaders of Army opinion-for system running loose from con- derstand even a little of the inner from the air

Goering's Lu

Luftwaffe the Navy has not been so asser- trol. which Germany had no quarrel" tive a veto upon acts of policy,

spirit and the strivings of modern is hardly by Goet

unless it China, will reach a very different

to an American, as was the Amenews unl happens It is, however, inconceivable that

and thereby a final control.

judgment. Aimed at

thousands of he

not fully informed. There is frequent vacillation and

The British Navy, now without the case recently. So many French, would be hard put to it.to the Germanis in Northern France, so refugees were machine-gunned by Hitler has over fifteen divisions

inconsistency as civilian and

America maintain the cause of national free- in Rumania ready to seize the military ideas compete and

dom and International law in all crushed under German tanks on Bel- many women and children were clash; but of late years, the When the United States of the seas at once. To hold simultane- Army has proved in the end to America came to birth she found ously the Mediterranean against Italy, in rouds, that the stunned mind can hardly appreciate the horror in at the moment no open move by be the dominating force; and herself geographically on the and the Pacific against Japan-alone, its reni proportions.

and without any associate or ally- Germany to supplement Italian more once, within the Army, edge of world affairs, Now she would be a strenuous task indeed. Anesthetisation "of our nerves,” of nction by pressure through some group of head-strong is at the centre, or rather at one The next sign must come from the our reactions of pity and of anger." Rumania on Bulgaria or Turkey, junior officers has been able at of several centres. Surveying people of the United States. Their hegnt before 1939. The terrible toll. the Germans cannot afford to vital moments to set the course her own situation, the prospect opinions and their actions are the hub of human brutality has been fed by see their partner worsted at this. of State.

now offered to her is not invit-on which at this moment the wheel the Italians in Abyssinia and in

of history is turning.

Spain, by the Japanese in China, by stage. In the meantime, while

the Russians in Finland, and by the Germans in almost any other Euro- pean country you care to mention Norway, Poland.. Holland, Belgium, France, England, And with this erucifixion of the weak acros the frontlers has gone the crushing

of minorities nt home, the purges and

was

opportune moment to march for

ward, and though there appears

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- Rumanis using this respite as an manship and the virtue of res- opportunity to train parachutiststraint. Where, an army as such and other types of warfare.

is granted equal constitutional

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and

SAILOR WANTED TO WED FATHER COULDN'T AFFORD IT

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- over Britain, the story would have superior powers when it chooses bech somewhat different, but he not to push out its rival, the result sion to marry before he rejoins his ship. only failed in this, but has shown can hardly, fail to be disaster, himself to be very vulnerable, In spite

of his colossal strength. The Berlin-

now

The "crise" ended in smiles all round. ⠀ The sailor's father, who had refused his consent, shook

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ned.

the concentration camps in Germany. Fascist Italy, in Soviet Russia,

the slaughter in Franco. Spain, in

(His | failser. Samuel Ponle, of Playfair-street, Fulham, had with held consent on the ground that his son was always “stony broke" and always wriling - home for money, w

almost a

The more terror has been employed the less outcry It has aroused from what remains of the neutral world. Each crime prepares the way for the Rome-Tokyo treaty seems to have but he has falled to protect Germany hands with his son, and the

worst that is to come. In the same hardens the mind, to accept the next, been a gigantic smoke-screen to soften the effect of a whole series of from the RAF's terrine blows, magistrate gave his blessing and This was his only objection to the way gangsteriam in the United States threatened to become fallures which Hitler and Mussolini which are driving Berliners Into beamed on them,

marriage.

nt one permal institution. It took dre

ovacuation-to one!

The sailor was Able Seaman "Stand On Our Own Feet'"':n ment effort of will to realise that As the writing to their people. "voluntary

Tribune" palnied out knows what is happening to the Ruhr

The magistrate pointed out to the this creeping menace murt be, wiped recently: They have failed to end and north-western German cities. George Arthur Poole, who applied to

for consent to his father that Poole would be able to out. It will take on even greater the war by winter, Mussolini falled The past few days has cleared. the the magistrato to bring Italy in five minutes before European mirror sufficiently, to show marriage with Sylvia Amella Gold please himself in a month's time, and effort to meet the present menacen for to-day, we stand in terrible, dan- the end it look rather as if she got that Hitter has a gigantic task before ing, of Wandsworth Brkige road, gave his consent.

He told George: "You can't expect ger of losing for ever, that regard for In only a few hours afte the begin him, one that when looked at dis- S.W.

The reason for George's hurry was your father to keep your wife, Da human life and the elementary ide passionately, gives justifiable confi- Hitlar not only failed to invade dance 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

ef Western: affiliation, Britain, to write a freaty in London,

German

aland on your own feet,

the glory. domination and Injustice. Wednesday

hing!

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