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“TELEGRAPH'' SATURDAY FEATURE

CURRENT COMMENT

By "Scrutineer"

There is one point in Hitler's speech in which he dismisses jemptuously the Libyan campaign.

con-

The specel of, the Nazi dicta- who are temporarily enjoying and tor, which was delivered at defending them. Munich, has been commented on by the newspapers both in Bri- tain and in the United States, but what impresses one about it is not so much its political and military content as the manner of its delivery.

Take such phrases as 'I am an

Ind Mussolini (it is strange how one

feels that that game is already be- coming insignificant) succeeded in

to Suez, it getting to Cairo and

would have been hailed, quite right-

POCKET CARTOON

"The trouble with Apronto is that he can never forget old

trade rivalries."

PLASH!

March 1. 1941.

By Walt Disney

GOOD GRAVY,

THOUGH!

"TELEGRAPH” SATURDAY FEATURE.

BEHIND THE HEADLINES

By John Blunt

a

Apart from Hitler's re- forecast. may now be made that newed threats to start his Germany will suffer a major super-blitzkrieg against the defeat. Should mass air attacks British Isles, together with be the German order of the day, the probability that his litter will assuredly discover armies will burst into action that his method reacts as in the Balkans, very little boomerang, and that British has happened during this air forces will hit Germany ly, as an epoch-making event. That tion where the opposition is weakest,

week to disturb our equani- harder and harder. was what Graziani's army was for just as the explosion breaks through mity. Those in control of It is undoubtedly a moment export', 'I am a specialist in but those forces were overwhelmed the weakest part of the crust. In the situation in the British of seriousness, and the extent armaments. I have used the and the threat removed. According 100% the attack was made on China. Isles are calmly and confi- of the ordeal cannot be gauged.

to 1tler's theory we should never and Korea and Formosa were added; power of the German nation for have treated the matter seriously, as to the Japanese Empire. In 1904 the dently awaiting the What can be said is that British this purpose (the provision of the flation armies were quile in- Treaty of Partsmouth marked the promised onslaught. The people will stand up to whatever armaments); I am resolved to capable of achieving what the Duce close of a successful campaign against steadiness of warriors and Hitler, in his desperate madness,

had boasted again and again they Russia. In 1037 China was con- use Europe for the same pur- could and would do. Like Hitler, we sidered to be ripe for conquest, but civilians alike calls forth the may decree. The one consolation pose, in fact I am doing so', 'I should have regarded these wild instead of breaking through, the four

is that each week brings us am grateful to fate that, if this dreams of a revived Roman Empire years arduous effort has only pro- as the imaginings of an overheated duced vast bulge. The exhausting

nearer the disintegration of the nature of this incident' has naturally struggle was necusary, it has brain.

Axis, and thus nearer the day created a distaste for prolonging ft. come during my lifetime and

Hitter in his speech says that

of reckoning. In 1940 France collapsed, and the while I am still feeling fresh and Mussolint was of greater use to him situation in Indo-China was obviously

non-belligerent than as an

that invited the attention of the vigorous', 'I am feeling more as a

active participant in the war, for expansionister Finally, the orphaned fresh than ever now and so on. then the myth of his power still re- state of the Netherlands East Indies II Mr Winston Churchill spoke in mined unexploded and he was able suggested an advance in that diree

and to keep our fleet, armies

hir tlon. Peaceful penetration,

In this strain we should be greatly force immobilised. Now, Instead of filtration, le sought, nccompanied by worried. We should feel that he was helping Hitler by doing nothing, the the special plea that Japan. Is the spoiled everything by heaven-sent leader for the creation no longer leading the people but had Duce has obviously become a megalomaniac, proving that he could do nothing in of the new order in Asia. This aller- nates with the threat of force if the We would ask ourselves whether the any case.

one

or

burden he had assumed had not Unfortunately for the Axis, Hitler and conceded.

claims of Japan are not recognised

proved much too heavy for his single cannot help Mussolini

מם

by doing

mind. What he did say was: "This nothing. He is compelled to act in GERMANS IN TOKYO Is England's greatest hour," not "my a field that he had hoped to avoid.

Still. It gives him

excuse for Everyone knows that this policy is greatest hour," and there we have all

putting off the evil day of the in- very largely, the result of the press the difference between the two con- vasion of Britain.

sure of the German advisers who cepts of life: On the one hand, a

In connection with this, the follow-crowd-the-Foreign Office, the Ad commonwealth of nations expressing

ing story is apposite. A London miralty and Army Headquarters in itself through J freely-elected teacher with his class evacuated from Tokyo. Also, through the press they leader, ant, on the other hand, London to the country said he was are establishing a strong fifth column leader, broastfully expressing himself, going to read to

them

the poem:

inovement.

reversal of

highest praise.

Whatever form the attack

Lake; may

from whatever quarter it may come, the certain

BALKANS

M

There has been considerable country exposed on a Blank it has always taken excessive care to pre-criticism of late concerning the tect.

incivility of some Government RUSSIA AND THE

servants. Unfortunately, the criticism is not founded unjustly. There are, of course, many of- The position of Russia in the Bal-ficials who aro courtesy personi- kans seems to count for less and less fied, but it is because they are Her dominant aim is to preserve her neutrality and seize what benefits she in the minority that they stand can while doing so, No free country out as shining and happy exam- would find itself more awkwardly ples amongst their contempor- placed than Russia if peace were de-aries.

and cared to-morrow. She knows,

that the present This streak of casual and, at Germany knows,

times, almost studied rudeness, pact is merely a convenience to Ger- many, and is the price Russia must pay to secure immunity from attack.is hard to explain. If a doctor or solicitor treated his patients

The numerous German divisions on

with a flock of sheep (the Fuchrer's "O to be in England." Could any It is they who are bringing about the borders of Russia are a powerful or clients in the off-hand manner own description in Mein Kampf of ane, he asked, tell him who wrote a

Japanese policy, inducement to the latter to think adopted by some. Government the German people) timidly but . The class thought for a while; although they cannot, as 'In Rumanin, along the right lines German lines, servants, he would soon be out then one bright youth shouted out contribute anything to its realisation If Russia were strong and unafraid, of practice. Unfortunately, the Hitler. There were yells of joy.

It it is unthinkable that she would have prosperity of those who serve us Japanese should come to terms with

hopefully following behind.

NAZI SYSTEM

No wonder 1iler's first business, as

the other.

When a German soldier at

the

SOUTHWARD AIMS

OF JAPAN

If the worst comes to the worst.

те

is the Germans who demand that the abandoned her stake in the Balkans.

War

was

Russia, that they should sacriflee Only recently, she said she had not is not in any way dependent upon

consulted when Hungary signed their affability to the public. Sughalien, demilitarise the Mongolian the Axis pact, and later she gave the he says in the same speech, was, to

and the Manchurian borders, and try impression that she was backing up I have sometimes thought that The Japanese are advancing their to make a graceful exit fremi China, aningonise the

Bulgaria. But it is obvious now that it is the inefficient man who Intellectuals. Ob-

claims, rather than their forces, fur- can have vlously, thoughtful men

ther south. Their ambition now is to

Germany's anxiety to achieve this she was willing to do this so long as adopts a cloak of gratuitous neither part or lot la the Nazi rc- control Oceania, an indefinite but at arrangement is balanced by her she not called upon to act. Elme. It is a bystem for the Fano- the same time n considerable aren in determination to involve Japan in From the Dallie to the Bincic Sea indifference to hide his short- Russia is chut in and ignored, and is comings. It is true that efficiency with Britain and America, content to face cost in Asia, where does not lend to promotion in ical leader and the hypnotised mas- the South Pacific.

Japan is to become the catspaw of con ses, and is based on brute force and

The average mailon, like the aver- Germany which, it must be repeated, she hopes to get concessions out of Government service, and this is coercion; domination on the one side, age individual, usually shapes

hia cannot as in the case of Italy render Japan in compensation for her loss

of of power in Europe. All she can de probably the solution to the and docility and hero-worship on future on his past. is ambitions any aid whatever in the event

achieved. Japan has on her hands for Germany to play on the ambitions since she can neither counter them, very particular sphere of life are based on what has already been such an issue being forced. It is easy to acquiesce In Germany's moves, question of why people in one the an unfinished war in China which of the armed forces of Japan, and to nor

restrict them. Bulgaria had shows beginning of the war fell morally factory, conclusive, results. The next won and to gloss over the dangers among the Powers backed up her

No signs

of producing salls point to the gilitering prizes to be special ties with: Russia, who alone should, at times, be so unhelpful. wounded into the hands of

As I suggest above, if my step in the nibbling process was in and the risks to be run.

claims in the past. Britain, too, at British, he was asked if there was Indo-China, and that hos not yet

one time was popular. It was sald butcher, baker or candlestick anything he wanted. "Yes," he sakl been satisfactorily settled. It looks VICTIMS OF NAZI that Gladstone's portrait used to be maker treated me with incivility, "a picture of mein Fuehrer and a as though it might become merely an ส

found in every peasant's house. I should immediately take away wale: was extension of the Ching campaign.

Bulgaria having sold the pass, it my business. As far as Govern- Germany is in a dimeult position. would seem that the might of forty- ment is concerned, I must pay so

no legal status, no clear-cut treaty The Italian fleet has proved to be three million Italians is to be backed my tribute towards the salaries giving her possession of anything, utterly incompetent; Marshall Fetain by the power of eighty million Ger- move towards the south. and yet there is now this indefinite clings obstinately to the terms of the nions to crush seven million Grecks, of those who, at times, annoy

Armistice and refuses to yield to What an ignominious position for me intensely. Hitler's demands for the French fleet. Mussolini! Even in Sofia they sug-

* British airman or a seaman asking It is astonishing that the Japanese The only hope therefore is the rest changing the name of the for a photograph of the Prime Minis- newspapers should regard the

The question of the Colony's The relationship quite strengthening of the defences of Japanese ficct. Even if this did in- Boulevard Benito Mussolini to Bouls. volve war with the United States, Finito Mussolini and well they different. We honour.

primitive sanitary arrangements respect and Malaya as a provocative act, whlie accept leadership, but we retain our Japan concentrates forces in Hainan the Bain would obviously be to Ger- might. As the Prime Minister says, har again come to the forens

many and only the losses would be it will not require a Gibbon to write reason. The letter of the young air and Indo-China. In the one case, suffered by Japan.

nny volumes on the decline and fall it has done for years and years. man which appeared in The Times the object is clearly

the for tho

of the modern Roman Empire. That Possibly the olfactory sense of some months ago is more in keeping purpose of defence, and is

It is astonishing that the Japanese will be left for the satirist and the those who attend to our needs mere- with the sentiment of British people. ly n proclamation to the effect should allow themselves to become

theme is too has never been offended by the It is the country, its cause and that "what we have we hold." How the victims of Nazi polley which is caricaturist, for the ideals that matter, not the Individuals much more provocative and disturbing purely selfish, and which in every mean and treacherous for

stench which pervades the city to peace is this Japanese movement case has withered national life pen.

and Its environs in the early mouth! Obviously, there must be a wherever It has gained foothold, What the fate of Greece will bo it MAKE BEAUTY A DUTY !

limit to it, and that limit s been reached.

glass of water." The provided but no

one could find photograph of mein Fuehrer, and the poor soldier died unconsoled.

It was very touching, but can any one inngine a British soldier, a

ter?

APS

So far Japan has made no clean,

a delnite and decisive bite. She has

THREE SCHOOLS

OF THOUGHT

POLICY

Yard

an able

tho

now it is strange that the Japanese should is hard to prophesy, One thing is hours of the morning. I dis

think of embarking on a new car certain, and that is that the Italians agree with people who blandly paign against odds which are in- finitely greater than they have ever alone cannot beat them: whether dismiss the matter by referring yat faced, reoing that the experience German pressure will force them to to the paradoxical nature of

is difficult to say.. of the past four years has left them come to terms it is

Turkey intends to defe

defend

Hongkong's make-up. Tho maj- impoverished,

without any and Sir Frederick White says there has tangible audcens,

tegrity of

her

and to hold ority of the population is disease- territory, always been two schools of thought In

the Dardanelles. This means she ridden, as all must admit. The There are many in Japan who see will bar the way to the oilfields of foulness which stalks abroad ||COSMETIC SHOPPE Japan the military one secking to

Tran, so

so what benent liter will gain establish an empirò.on the mainland, the peril of this course, and who pro vnitseking Greece is not easy, touring the early hours of the and the naval enthusiasts seeking ex- test against the excessive power Dansion in the Southern Pacific. which the Nazis wield in the counsels see, except that by doing so Germany morning, especially during the There is a third school which would of state in Tokyo. The time is cer- emphasises the Incompetence and the hot season, must be one of the like to do both.

tainly not propiiious for any further contemptible nature of the Italian major causes of the pestilences Echemo of expansion, especially when forces and thereby Intereases the The fact of the matter is that it involves the scrapping of age-long prestige of German troops in Italian which add to our death roll, oven nation lends to expand in the direc- Russian policy which will leave the eyes.

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